Plant Details

Accepted name:: Buddleja officinalis Maxim. [Scrophulariaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
buddleia	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buddleia flower bud	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
buddleja	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
buddlejae flos	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
butterfly bush	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
flos buddleijae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
flos buddlejae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
läkebuddleja	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mi meng hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mimenghua	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) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
mật bông hoa	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
pale butterflybush	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
pale butterflybush flower	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
pole butterflybush	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
密蒙花	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) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
蜜蒙花	Other	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flower	dried flower bud and its inflorescence	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
inflorescence	dried flower bud and inflorescence	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Flower		Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014)
Flower		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Flower		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
flower bud and inflorescence	dried flower bud and inflorescence	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
flower		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Branch, leaf		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
flower	dried flower bud and its inflorescence	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
flower bud		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
flower bud and inflorescence		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Buddleja acutifolia f. albiflora (H.Lév.) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 15: 310 (1934).
Buddleja mairei f. albiflora H.Lév. Cat. Pl. Yun-Nan: 171 (1916).
Buddleja officinalis f. albiflora (H.Lév.) Rehder J. Arnold Arbor. 18: 276 (1937).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Beddleia officinalis Maximowicz	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Buddleia officinalis	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Buddleia officinalis Maxim.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Buddleia officinalis Maximowicz	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Buddleja officinalis	Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Buddleja officinalis Maxim.	Ethnobot. of Dye Pl. in Dong Communities of China (Liu et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) 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) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Buddleja officinalis Maximowicz	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

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