Plant Details

Accepted name:: Frangula alnus Mill. [Rhamnaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Frangula alnus subsp. alnus

Frangula alnus subsp. baetica (Willk. & E.Rev.) Rivas Goday ex Devesa

Frangula alnus subsp. pontica (Boiss.) P.H.Davis & Yalt.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alder buck	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
alder buckthorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
alder dogwood	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
alno nero	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
alqueshra almoqadassa	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
amieiro preto	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
amselbaum	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
arrow-wood	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
arrowwood	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
awsag aswad	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
barut ağacı	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
bird cherry	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
black alder	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
black alder bark	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
black dog wood	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
black dogwood	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bois noir	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
bois à poudre	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
bourdaine	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
brakved	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brechwegdorn	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
buckthorn	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
buckthorn bark	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
casca de amiero	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
corteccia difrangola	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
cortex frangulae	Other, Pharmaceutical	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
cortex frangulae alni	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
cortex rhamni frangulae	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
corteza de arraclau	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
cortezade frangula	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
dog wood	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
faulbaum	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
faulbaumrinde	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)
frangola	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
frangula	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
frangula bark	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Rhamnus frangula, cort. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
frangula extract	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
frangulae cortex	Other	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994) EMA Com. Monog.: Rhamnus frangula, cort. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
gelbholzrinde	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
glatter wegdorn	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
glossy buckthorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
grindholz	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
krusinnik	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kulit frangula	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
kutyabengekéreg	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
pulverholz	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
pulverholzrinde	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
purging buckthorn	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
quishrul awsagel aswad	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
rhamnus frangula	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
rhamnusbast	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
schwarzholz	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
seyah-tusseh	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
shagrat hhabb esh shung	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
siâhtouseh	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
spillbaum	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
sporkenhoutbast	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
vuilboombast	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
zapfenholz	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
zweckenholz	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
écorce de bourdaine	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
écorce defrangule	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
écorce d’aune noir	Other	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
药绿柴	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
stem bark, branch bark		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
stem bark		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
cortex		EMA Com. Monog.: Rhamnus frangula, cort. (2006)
Bark		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
bark	extract, dry extract, powder, tincture	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
bark, fruit		Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
stem bark and branch	dried bark of the stem and branch	WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
bark		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bark	dried, whole or fragmented bark	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
bark	dried, whole or fragmented bark of the stems and branches	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
wood	vegetal drug, fluid extract, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
bark	Dried, whole or fragmented bark of the stems and branches	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)

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

Rhamnus frangula L. Sp. Pl.: 193 (1753).
Frangula dodonei Ard. ex Soldano Boll. Mus. Civico Storia Nat. Verona 18: 341 (1991 publ. 1994), nom. superfl.
Frangula vulgaris Hill Fl. Germ. Excurs. 2: 488 (1832), nom. superfl.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Frangula alnus	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009)
Frangula alnus (L.) Mill.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Frangula alnus Ard.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Frangula alnus Mill.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Frangula alnus Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Rhamnus frangula	Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Rhamnus frangula L.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Rhamnus frangula, cort. (2006) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monographs Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Rhamnus frangula Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Rhamnus frangula Linné	E-Kommission: Approved Status (1984-1994)

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