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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Schisandra chinensis

Common Name
Tyosen-Gomisi; Wu Wei Zi

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Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Antitussive Japan* ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Asthma China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Bactericide Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Cough China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Dysentery China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Ejaculation China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Hyperglycemia Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Hypertension Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.
Insomnia China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Night-Sweat China Lost Crops of the Incas.
Tonic Japan* ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Tonic Malaya (Import) *
Tumor(Lung) China Yey, S.D.J. 1973. Anticancer Chinese Herbal Medicines. Maerican Journal of Chinese Medicine 1(2): 271-274.
Vasodilator Elsewhere Lost Crops of the Incas.