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ArticleJournal of natural medicines2014

Interaction of gypsum and the rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides plays an important role in anti-allergic effects of byakkokakeishito in mice.

Toshiaki Makino, Yusaku Shiraki, Hajime Mizukami

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Article in Journal of natural medicines, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Toshiaki MakinoDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Nagoya City University, 3-1 Tanabe-Dori, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, 4678603, Japan, makino@phar.nagoya-cu.ac.jp.
Yusaku Shiraki
Hajime Mizukami
Nagoya City University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gypsum is a crude mineral drug used in the formulas of Japanese kampo medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. The present study aimed to evaluate the anti-allergic effect of byakkokakeishito extract (BKT), which consists of gypsum (natural hydrous calcium sulfate), Anemarrhena Rhizome (rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides), Cinnamon Bark (bark of trunk of Cinnamomum cassia), Oriza Seed (seed of Oryza sativa), and Glycyrrhiza (root and stolon of Glycyrrhiza uralensis), and to clarify the role of gypsum in the formula. We prepared BKT by boiling a mixture of various quantities of gypsum and fixed amounts of the other four crude drugs in water. We evaluated the anti-allergic activity of the formulations using three different murine models of allergy: contact dermatitis induced by painting hapten onto skin; allergic dermatitis-like symptoms induced by cutaneous injection of mite-antigen; and skin passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) reaction using ovalbumin as antigen. The calcium content in the various BKT samples was dose-dependently increased up to 60 g/day of human dosage. BKT significantly suppressed the allergic symptoms in the three different experimental models. The effect of BKT was augmented by increasing the gypsum dosage only in the PCA reaction model. The extract prepared from a mixture of Anemarrhena Rhizome and gypsum exhibited an effect comparable to that of BKT. BKT exhibits an anti-allergic effect in several animal models, which may provide experimental evidence for the clinical use of BKT in allergic diseases. Gypsum may augment the anti-allergic activity of BKT, presumably through increasing intestinal absorption of Anemarrhena Rhizome-derived active constituents.

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AnemarrhenaAnimalsAnti-Allergic AgentsCalcium SulfateDermatitis, AtopicDermatitis, ContactFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CPassive Cutaneous AnaphylaxisPlant ExtractsRhizomeAnti-Allergic AgentsbyakkokakeishitoCalcium SulfatePlant Extracts

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PMID24554438
PMCPMC4353874
OpenAlexW1997844397

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