Plant Details

Accepted name:: Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson [Apiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Cnidium monnieri var. monnieri

Cnidium monnieri var. formosanum (Y.Yabe) Kitag.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cnidi fructus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
cnidii fructus	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
cnidii monnieris fructus	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
cnidium	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cnidium fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
cnidium monnieri fruit	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
common cnidium	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
common cnidium fruit	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fructus cnidii	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
muraa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
she chuang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
she chuang zi	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)
she chuang zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
shechuangzi	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
snowparsley	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ジャショウシ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
蛇床子	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fruit	dried fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
ripe fruit	dried ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
fruit, seed, aerial parts	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
fruit		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
seed, oil		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fruit	dried ripe fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fruit	fruit	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006)
fruit		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
fruit		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
fruit		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Selinum monnieri L. Cent. Pl. I: 9 (1755).
Cicuta monnieri (L.) Crantz Cl. Umbell. Emend.: 98 (1767).
Ligusticum monnieri (L.) Calest. Webbia 1: 211 (1905).
Pinasgelon monnieri (L.) Raf. Good Book: 52 (1840).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Cnidium monieri (L.) Cuss	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Cnidium monnieri	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cuss	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cuss.	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson Ex Juss.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson ex Juss.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson var. monnieri	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Cnidium monnieri Cusson	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Selinum monnieri L.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Selinum monnieri Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images