Plant Details

Accepted name:: Reynoutria japonica Houtt. [Polygonaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bān gēn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bān zhàng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
crimson beauty	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cốt khí củ	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
donkey rhubarb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
dà yè shé zǒng guǎn	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fuzhang	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
german sausage	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
giant knotweed	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
giant knotweed rhizome	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
hu jhang	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
hu zhang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
hu zhang ye	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
huzhang	Other	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
huáng dì yú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hǔ zhàng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
itadori	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese bamboo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese fleece flower	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese fleeceflower	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese knotweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese polygonum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanischer flügelknöterich	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jīn suǒ wáng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kontiki bamboo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
kǔ zhàng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mexican bamboo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mexican-bamboo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
parkslide	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
peashooter plant	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pokok sembelit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pokok semuluh	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
polygoni cuspidati radix	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
polygoni cuspidati rhizoma et radix	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizoma et radix polygoni cuspidati	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rhizoma polygoni cuspidati	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
rosenslide	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sally rhubarb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
se-bunku	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
tǔ dà huáng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xiong shen	Other	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014)
zǐ jīn lóng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
土大黃	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
土川七	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
大葉蛇總管	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
斑杖	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
斑根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
紫金龙	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
苦杖	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
虎杖	Other	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
虎杖叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金鎖王	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃地榆	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃藥子	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome, root	dried root and rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
rhizome and root	rhizome and root	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Root		Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014)
Rhizome		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Radix & Rhizome		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Whole plant		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
rhizome and root	dried rhizome and root	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
rhizoma, root stock		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
root & rhizome, leaf		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
rhizome, root	dried root and rhizome	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
rhizome and root		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 35 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 98: 369 (1988).
Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc. Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(3): 208 (1846).
Polygonum reynoutria Makino Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 15: 84 (1901).
Fallopia japonica f. colorans (Makino) Yonek. Fl. Japan 2a: 139 (2006).
Fallopia japonica var. hachidyoensis (Makino) Yonek. & H.Ohashi J. Jap. Bot. 72: 158 (1997).
Fallopia japonica var. uzenensis (Honda) Yonek. & H.Ohashi J. Jap. Bot. 72: 158 (1997).
Pleuropterus cuspidatus (Siebold & Zucc.) H.Gross Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 114 (1919).
Pleuropterus zuccarinii (Small) Small in N.L.Britton & A.Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2, 1: 676 (1913).
Polygonum cuspidatum var. hachidyoense (Makino) Satomi Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 71 (1953).
Polygonum cuspidatum f. roseum (Satomi) Satomi J. Phytogeogr. Taxon. 31: 30 (1983).
Polygonum cuspidatum var. spectabile Noter Rev. Hort. Belge Étrangère 35: 232 (1909).
Polygonum cuspidatum var. terminale (Honda) Ohwi J. Jap. Bot. 33: 221 (1958).
Polygonum cuspidatum var. uzenense (Honda) Noda Fl. Echigo Prov. 2: 195 (1969).
Polygonum hachidyoense Makino J. Jap. Bot. 5: 21 (1928).
Polygonum japonicum (Houtt.) S.L.Welsh Utah Fl., ed. 4: 594 (2008), nom. illeg.
Polygonum pictum Jacques J. Soc. Imp. Centr. Hort. 7: 626 (1861).
Polygonum reynoutria f. colorans Makino in Y.Iinuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 3, 2: 58 (1910).
Polygonum sieboldii de Vriese ex L.H.Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. 3: 1393 (1901), nom. superfl.
Polygonum zuccarinii Small Mem. Dept. Bot. Columbia Coll. 1: 158 (1895).
Reynoutria hachidyoensis (Makino) Nakai Kwagaku-no-Nogyo 14(5): 81 (1933).
Reynoutria hachidyoensis var. terminalis Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 49: 695 (1935).
Reynoutria hachijoensis Nakai ex Jôtani Kwagaku-no-Nogyo 13(5): 24 (1932).
Reynoutria hastata (Honda) Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 14: 741 (1938).
Reynoutria henryi Nakai Rigakkwai 24: 294 (1926).
Reynoutria japonica var. elata Nakai Index Seminum (TI, Tokyo) 1919-1920: 35 (1920).
Reynoutria japonica var. hastata Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 140 (1938).
Reynoutria japonica f. hastata (Honda) Hiyama J. Jap. Bot. 36: 95 (1961).
Reynoutria japonica var. humilis Nakai Rigakkwai 24: 293 (1926).
Reynoutria japonica f. rosea Satomi J. Geobot. 11: 52 (1962).
Reynoutria japonica var. spectabilis (Noter) Moldenke Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68: 675 (1941).
Reynoutria japonica var. terminalis (Honda) Kitag. in Y.Satake & al., Wild Fl. Jap. Herb. Pl. 2: 24 (1982).
Reynoutria japonica var. uzenensis Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 46: 675 (1932).
Reynoutria uzenensis (Honda) Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 49: 791 (1935).
Reynoutria yabeana Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 46: 675 (1932).
Tiniaria japonica (Houtt.) Hedberg Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 40: 399 (1946).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decraene	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Polygohum cuspidatum Sieb. Et Zucc.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Polygonum cuspidatum	Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu et al., 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. & Zucc.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. Zucc.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. et Zucc.	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb.et Zucc.	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold et Zuccarini	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Polygonum reynoutria Makino	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Polygonumcuspidatum	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Reynoutria japonica Houtt.	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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