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Cornus officinalis Sieb, et Zucc. (Japanese: San-shu-yu; Cornaeeae) is a deciduous medium-sized tree, brought to Japan as a medicinal plant in the eighteenth century from China via Korea, and is cultivated as a garden tree because of its yellow flower (Fig. 1) and red fruit (Fig. 2). The fruit (common name: cornus fruit) has also been used as an astringent, a tonic, and a hemostatic in these countries, particularly often as one of the ingredients in traditional prescriptions such as Hachimi-gan and Rokumi-gan in Japanese (the Chinese terms areba-wei-wan and liu-wei-wan) which are popular tonics for preventing and improving symptoms of aging, including pollakiuria and cataract.
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Yazaki, K., Okuda, T. (1993). Cornus officinalis: In Vitro Culture and the Production of Gallotannins. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IV. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77004-3_7
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