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Ligusticum
Also called Licorice Root, Privet, Wild Lovage, Lovages
Ligusticum (lovage, licorice-root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.
The roots of several species are used as medicinal herbs. L. sinense (in older literature L. wallichi or L. chuanxiong) is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in Chinese herbology, where it is called chuānxiōng (川芎); in English, Szechwan lovage. Chinese Ligusticum root contains alkaloids that have been shown in studies to inhibit TNF-alpha production and TNF-alpha-mediated NF-kappaB activation. One study conducted in Japan showed the active compounds found in Ligusticum sinense have both anti-inflammatory and pain-reducing effects, exerting its anti-inflammatory benefits in the early and the late stages of processes in the inflammatory pathology.
Celeryleaf licorice-root · Canadian licorice-root · Gray's licorice-root · Porter's licorice-root · Scots Lovage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ligusticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
