Plant Details

Accepted name:: Houttuynia cordata Thunb. [Saururaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ban bhande	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
chameleon-plant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
dokudami	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
fishwort	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
ganaune jhar	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
gande	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
gane	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
heartleaf houttuynia	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
heartleaf houttuynia herb	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
herba houttuynia cordatae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
herba houttuyniae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
honya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
houttuynia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
houttuynia herb	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
houttuyniae herba	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
ji cai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
kalancha	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kalme	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kukurpaile	Other	Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
siahamang	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
simdalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tsi	Other	Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
yagmomil	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
yu sing cao	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
yu xing cao	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
yuxingcao	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
ödleblad	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
ジュウヤク	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
魚腥草	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
鱼腥草	Other	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
aerial parts	fresh or dried aerial parts	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
aerial part	dried aerial part	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Whole plant		Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
Whole plant		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
herb in flowering	dried herb in flowering	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
whole plant except the roots		Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990)
aboveground parts		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
aerial parts	fresh or dried aerial parts	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
terrestrial plant parts	terrestrial plant parts, flowering	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006)
whole plant		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
terrestrial part		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
aerial part		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 8 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Houttuynia cordata var. plena Makino J. Jap. Bot. 6: 38 (1929).
Houttuynia cordata f. polypetaloidea T.Yamaz. J. Jap. Bot. 61: 310 (1986).
Houttuynia cordata var. variegata Makino J. Jap. Bot. 6: 38 (1929).
Houttuynia cordata f. viridis J.Ohara J. Phytogeogr. Taxon. 33: 72 (1985).
Houttuynia emeiensis Z.Y.Zhu & S.L.Zhang Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 21: 1 (2001).
Houttuynia foetida G.Don in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 37 (1830).
Polypara cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 61 (1790).
Polypara cordata (Thunb.) H.Buek Gen. Sp. Candoll. 4: 310 (1874).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Houttuynia cordata	Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Houttuynia cordata Thunb	Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu, 2018)
Houttuynia cordata Thunb.	A Check-list of the Korean Cultivated Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015) Medicinal plants in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Houttuynia cordata Thunberg	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Plants and People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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