Abstract
Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Labiatae), growing wild in China, is a perennial herb (Fig. 1), 30 to 80 cm high, and the root of this plant, called Tan-shen in Chinese and Tan-jin in Japanese, is an ancient Chinese drug, ranked as a super-grade medicine in “Shen-nung-pen-tsao-ching”, the oldest classical Chinese herbal. It has been widely used in China for the treatment of coronary diseases and for relieving angina pectoris and chest congestion. Various quinoid diterpenes (tan-shinones) [tanshinone II (Okamura et al. 1961), cryptotanshinone (Takiura 1941) and related orange-red pigments (Onitsuka et al. 1983 and refs. therein)] were isolated from the root of this plant and Chinese pharmacologists suggested that tanshinones were the active principles (Chen 1981).
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Miyasaka, H., Nasu, M., Yoneda, K. (1989). Salvia miltiorrhiza: In Vitro Production of Cryptotanshinone and Ferruginol. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants II. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73617-9_23
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