Plant Details

Accepted name:: Fagopyrum esculentum Moench [Polygonaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alforfón	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bakwit	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
blé noir	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bouquette	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bovete	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bra bo	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
brank	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
buchweizen	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
buckwheat	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
buckwheat herb	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
chiao mai	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
common buckwheat	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
dra bo	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
echter buchweizen	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
faggina	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fagopiro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fagopyri herba	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
fagopyri semen	Pharmaceutical	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
fagopyrum	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
fagopyrum esculentum	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
grano saraceno	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
grano sarraceno	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grano turco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grečicha kul'turnaja	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grečicha posevnaja	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
heidekorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese buckwheat	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jìng cháng cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kaadu godhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kotu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kutu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
liú zhù cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
lù tí huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
memil	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
notch-seeded buckwheat	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
ogal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ogala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ouga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
phaapar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
phaphra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qiao mai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
qiáo mài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
renouée	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rootin	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
sa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sarasin	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sarrasin	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
shari-mam	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
ugal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
བྲ་བོ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
净肠草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
流注草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
荞麦	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
荞麦叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
荞麦秸	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蕎麥	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
鹿蹄花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
aerial flowering parts		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
Leaf, Leaf with flower, Seed, Herb	Dry leaf juice, Dry leaf	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
mature seed	dried mature seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
leaf, frond		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fruit		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
leaves, flower, seed, root	juice, oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
herb		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
aerial parts	whole or cut aerial parts	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
aerial parts	whole or cut aerial parts	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
flowering aerial parts	Whole or fragmented aerial parts, collected in the early flowering period prior to fruiting and dried immediately	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 29 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Fagopyrum sagittatum Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 2: 435 (1792), opus utique oppr.
Polygonum fagopyrum L. Sp. Pl.: 364 (1753).
Fagopyrum cereale Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3: 10 (1837).
Fagopyrum dryandrii Fenzl Linnaea 24: 232 (1851).
Fagopyrum emarginatum Moench Suppl. Meth.: 100 (1802).
Fagopyrum esculentum subsp. ancestralis Ohnishi Fagopyrum 15: 20 (1998).
Fagopyrum esculentum var. emarginatum (Roth) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 286 (1866).
Fagopyrum esculentum var. pyramidatum (Loisel.) Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 143 (1856).
Fagopyrum esculentum var. vulgare Alef. Landw. Fl.: 286 (1866).
Fagopyrum fagopyrum (L.) H.Karst. Deut. Fl.: 522 (1881), not validly publ.
Fagopyrum macropterum Fenzl Index Seminum (WU, Vindobonensis) 1849-1850(Adv. Bot.): 8 (1851), nom. nud.
Fagopyrum macropterum var. emarginatum (Roth) Fenzl Index Seminum (WU, Vindobonensis) 1849-1850(Adv. Bot.): 8 (1851).
Fagopyrum macropterum var. obtusum Fenzl Index Seminum (WU, Vindobonensis) 1849-1850(Adv. Bot.): 8 (1851).
Fagopyrum polygonum Macloskie Torreya 5: 198 (1905), nom. superfl.
Fagopyrum sarracenicum Dumort. Fl. Belg.: 18 (1827).
Fagopyrum vulgare Hill ex Druce Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 439 (1913 publ. 1914), not validly publ.
Fagopyrum vulgare T.Nees Gen. Fl. Germ.: 53 (1834), nom. superfl.
Helxine fagopyrum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 553 (1891).
Kunokale carneum Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3: 12 (1837).
Phegopyrum emarginatum (Roth) Peterm. Pflanzenreich: 740 (1841-1845).
Phegopyrum esculentum (Moench) Peterm. Fl. Bienitz: 92 (1841), nom. superfl.
Polygonum cereale Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 259 (1796), nom. superfl.
Polygonum dioicum Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 143 (1856), not validly publ.
Polygonum elegans Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 143 (1856), not validly publ.
Polygonum emarginatum Roth Catal. Bot. 1: 48 (1797).
Polygonum gracile Meisn. in G.Gussone, Enum. Pl. Inarim.: 143 (1855), not validly publ.
Polygonum macropterum Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 142 (1856), not validly publ.
Polygonum nepalense Fenzl Linnaea 24: 318 (1851), nom. illeg.
Polygonum pyramidatum Loisel. Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 411 (1827).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Fagopyrom sagittatum Gilib.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Fagopyrum esculentum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) 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)
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) 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)
Fagopyrum sagittatum	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fagopyrum sagittatum Gillb.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Polygonum fagopyrum L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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