Plant Details

Accepted name:: Isatis tinctoria L. [Brassicaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 3

Isatis tinctoria subsp. athoa (Boiss.) Papan.

Isatis tinctoria subsp. parchalensis A.P.Khokhr.

Isatis tinctoria subsp. tinctoria

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ban lan gen	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Value Chains of Herbal Med. (Booker et al., 2012)
ch'ing tai	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
daecheong	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dyer's woad	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
dyer’s woad	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
dà lán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
färberwaid	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
glastum	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hierba pastel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
indigo woad	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
indigo woad root	Other	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
isatidis radix	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
isatis	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
isatis root	Other	British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
katm	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
pastel des teinturiers	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pastel-dos-tintureiros	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
qīng dài	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
song lan	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sōng lán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
teinturière	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tien hua	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
vasmeh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
vejde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
woad	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
كتم	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
وسمه	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
大蓝	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大青叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
菘蓝	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
青黛	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root		British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
Leaf		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Root, Root with Rhizome, Leaf, Whole plant	Dry leaf	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
stem, leaf	Ground up stem, ground up stem leaf	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leaves, aerial parts, root		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
root, leaf, whole plant, root with rhizome	dry leaf	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
root	Dried root, collected in autumn	European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Isatis tinctoria	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Isatis tinctoria L.	British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Value Chains of Herbal Med. (Booker et al., 2012) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Isatis tinctoria Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Isatis tinctoria Linné	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)

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