- Rehmannia glutinosa
Taxobox
name = "Rehmannia glutinosa"
image_width = 240px
regnum =Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Lamiales
familia =Phrymaceae
genus = "Rehmannia "
species = "R. glutinosa"
binomial = "Rehmannia glutinosa"
binomial_authority = (Gaertn. )Steud. [cite web|url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?30911 |title=Rehmannia glutinosa information from NPGS/GRIN |accessdate=2008-02-11 ]"Rehmannia glutinosa" is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in
traditional Chinese medicine , where it has the name "dìhuáng" () or "gān dìhuáng" ().One of the traditional uses in traditional Chinese medicine for "Rehmannia glutinosa" has been in the area of "
tinnitus " andhearing loss . It turns out that the plant, in fact, seems to have efficacy in the scavenging offree radical s which causenoise related hearing loss. [ cite journal|title=Protective effect of Rehmannia glutinosa on the cisplatin-induced damage of HEI-OC1 auditory cells through scavenging free radicals|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology |date=|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T8D-4JN72C3-4&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=819b933cb2e0b4712994e2b5e371a57e|format=|accessdate=2008-02-16|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2006.03.024 ]"A number of constituents such as
iridoid s,phenethyl alcohol glycosides,glycoside s, cyclopentanoidmonoterpene s, and norcarotenoid s, have been reported from the fresh or processed roots of R. glutinosa." [ cite journal|title=Remophilanetriol: A New Eremophilane from the Roots of Rehmannia glutinosa|journal=Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society|date=|first=|last=|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=http://journal.kcsnet.or.kr/main/j_search/j_bkcs_archives_view2.htm?code=B050832&qpage=j_bkcs&spage=j_bkcs_01|format=|accessdate=2008-02-16 ]ee also
*Chinese herbology 50 fundamental herbs
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