Strategies for cross-sectional and longitudinal quality evaluation of cultivated area and the herbal medicine.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14969
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Natural medicines
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Sasaki Yohei 金沢大学, 薬学系, 准教授 (10366833)
• Research Collaborator: ANDO Hirokazu ; TSUJINO Mai ; ITO Kosuke
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 薬用植物栽培 / 生薬国産化 / 漢方生薬

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Herbal medicines are required to have stable quality. Herbal medicine inevitably has the property that there is variance in quality because of growing environment and processing conditions. I examined the possibility of comparing variations in the quality of herbal medicine between production areas (crossing) and between years (longitudinal). At the same time, I attempted to set the elements and numerical values of the quality evaluation that is an indicator of classification. The four important herbal medicines (Angelicae Acutilobae Radix, Paeoniae Radix, Rehmanniae Radix, Ephedrae Herba) currently being cultivated at the Medicinal Plant Garden in Kanazawa University were surveyed.

Free Research Field

薬用植物学、生薬学