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Biancaea sappan is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to tropical Asia. Common names in English include sappanwood and Indian redwood. [2] It was previously ascribed to the genus Caesalpinia. [3] Sappanwood is related to brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata), and was itself called brasilwood in the Middle ...
The generic name honours the botanist, physician, and philosopher Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603). [ 3 ] The genus also had a synonym of Poinciana ; it was named after a common name for the one species which was placed in now named Delonix regia , after Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy , who was the French governor of the Caribbean island of ...
Caesalpinia, as traditionally circumscribed, was paraphyletic, so it was recently recircumscribed to produce many new genera: [9] Caesalpinioideae Cassieae ( outgroup )
Caesalpinia sect. Sappania DC. 1825 Biancaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae . It includes seven species, which range from Yemen to south Asia, Indochina, Malesia, China, Korea, and Japan. [ 1 ]
The 14th edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) (日本薬局方 Nihon yakkyokuhō) lists 165 herbal ingredients that are approved to be used in kampo remedies. [2] Tsumura (ツムラ) is the leading maker [3] making 128 of the 148 kampo medicines. The "count" column shows in how many of these 128 formulae the herb is found.
The homoisoflavonoids portulacanones A, B, C and D can be found in Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, Caryophyllales, Portulacaceae). [7]The 3,4-dihydroxyhomoisoflavans sappanol, episappanol, 3'-deoxysappanol, 3'-O-methylsappanol and 3'-O-methylepisappanol can be found in Caesalpinia sappan.
Brazilin is a naturally occurring, homoisoflavonoid, red dye obtained from the wood of Paubrasilia echinata, Biancaea sappan, Caesalpinia violacea, and Haematoxylum brasiletto (also known as Natural Red 24 and CI 75280). [1] Brazilin has been used since at least the Middle Ages to dye fabric, and
Cassia fistula, for example, is used in Ayurvedic medicine. [citation needed] There exists some culinary use for cassias. The fruit of some species is edible. In Central America, its pods are stewed into a molasses-like syrup, taken as a sweetener and for its nutritional and medicinal effects. Some have toxins in their seeds, however.