Recently, it has been recognized effectiveness and functionality of aromatherapy, a natural holistic approach to therapy using essential oils and other plant extracts. Many common essential oils have been used for such as perfume materials, flavor...
The Japanese journal of pharmacognosy 66(1) 1-16 Feb 2012
The effects of growth stage, top-pinching, and drying temperature on the saponin constituents of Achyranthes roots were examined. No marked difference in saponin constituents was observed either between the two original plants, Achyranthes fauriei...
Doui Misato, Anjiki Naoko, Ina Sayuri, Yoshimitsu Michiyo, Kawahara Nobuo, Goda Yukihiro, Kakiuchi Nobuko, Mikage Masayuki
The Japanese journal of pharmacognosy 65(2) 103-107 Aug 2011
In recent years, decocting machines have come into practical use. These machines can provide one month's packages of decoction at one operation. Thus, patients can have their Kampo formula decocted by pharmacists with stable quality. However, it i...
Matsumoto Teruki, Anjiki Naoko, Arifuku Kazunori, Kawahara Nobuo, Goda Yukihiro
Japanese journal of food chemistry 18(1) 43-47 Apr 2011
As a part of development of profiling anlysis for raw material in the health foods, sixteen kinds of Setsucha products purchased from the Japanese market were performed principal component analysis (PCA) based on the bucket integration of ^1H NMR ...
The Japanese journal of pharmacognosy 65(1) 25-32 Feb 2011
The crude drug identification tests which use a 1-butanol/water/acetic acid solvent system for TLC in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia were examined. Comparison of TLC chromatograms from 7 laboratories, using commercially available TLC plates purchased ...