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Smilax is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. [1] They are climbing flowering plants , many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family Smilacaceae , native throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Smilax tonduzii F.W.Apt Smilax vanilliodora F.W.Apt Smilax officinalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Smilacaceae , native to southern Central America and northwest South America; Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. [ 1 ]
Guilinggao (Chinese: 龜苓膏; pinyin: Guīlínggāo), literal translated as tortoise jelly (though not technically correct) or turtle powder, is a jelly-like Chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert.
Smilax glabra, sarsaparilla, [2] is a plant species in the genus Smilax.It is native to China, the Himalayas, and Indochina. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]S. glabra is a traditional medicine in Chinese herbology, whence it is also known as tufuling (土茯苓) or chinaroot, china-root, and china root (a name it shares with the related S. china).
The following is a list of traditional Chinese medicines.There are roughly 13,000 medicinals used in China and over 100,000 medicinal prescriptions recorded in the ancient literature. [1]
Several species of plants, of the genus Smilax, including: Smilax ornata, also known as Honduran or Jamaican sarsaparilla; Smilax aristolochiifolia, known as Mexican sarsaparilla; Smilax aspera, a flowering vine found in southern Europe, Africa and south Asia; Smilax glyciphylla, sweet sarsaparilla, native to Eastern Australia
Smilax medica can refer to: Smilax medica G.Kirchn., a synonym of Smilax tamnoides L. Smilax medica M.Martens & Galeotti, a synonym of Smilax bona-nox L.
In Europe, apothecaries stocked herbal ingredients as traditional medicines. In the Latin names for plants created by Linnaeus, the word officinalis indicates that a plant was used in this way. For example, the marsh mallow has the classification Althaea officinalis, as it was traditionally used as an emollient to soothe ulcers. [2]