Actaea racemosa, the Glossary
Actaea racemosa, the black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, rattle-top, or fairy candle (syn. Cimicifuga racemosa), is a species of flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae.[1]
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63 relations: Actaea simplex, Adulterant, Adverse effect, Award of Garden Merit, Berberidaceae, Caffeic acid, Cancer Research UK, Carboxylic acid, Carl Linnaeus, Caulophyllum thalictroides, Causality, Cimicifugeae, Clinical trial, Dietary supplement, Endometrium, Evidence-based medicine, Extract, Family (biology), Ferulic acid, Flower, Flowering plant, Follicle (fruit), Formononetin, Fruit, Gnat, Gynaecology, Gynoecium, Hepatitis, Herbaceous plant, Herbal medicine, Inflorescence, Isoflavone, Leaf, List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments, Liver failure, Liver function tests, Menopause, Meta-analysis, Multilocus sequence typing, Native species, Nausea, Perennial, Petal, Phenylpropanoid, Phylogenetic tree, Phytochemical, Phytoestrogen, Raceme, Ranunculaceae, Rhizome, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- Actaea (plant)
Actaea simplex
Actaea simplex, the baneberry or bugbane, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Actaea racemosa and Actaea simplex are Actaea (plant).
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Adulterant
An adulterant is caused by the act of adulteration, a practice of secretly mixing a substance with another.
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Adverse effect
An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery.
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Award of Garden Merit
The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
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Berberidaceae
The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family.
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Caffeic acid
Caffeic acid is an organic compound with the formula.
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Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world's largest independent cancer research organisation.
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Carboxylic acid
In organic chemistry, a carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group attached to an R-group.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caulophyllum thalictroides
Caulophyllum thalictroides, the blue cohosh, is a species of flowering plant in the Berberidaceae (barberry) family.
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Causality
Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause.
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Cimicifugeae
The Cimicifugeae are a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, based on the now obsolete genus Cimicifuga (sometimes called "bugbane" or "cohosh").
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Clinical trial
Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel vaccines, drugs, dietary choices, dietary supplements, and medical devices) and known interventions that warrant further study and comparison.
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Dietary supplement
A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.
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Endometrium
The endometrium is the inner epithelial layer, along with its mucous membrane, of the mammalian uterus.
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Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
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An extract (essence) is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol, oil or water.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Ferulic acid
Ferulic acid is a hydroxycinnamic acid derivative and a phenolic compound.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Follicle (fruit)
In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.
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Formononetin
Formononetin is an O-methylated isoflavone.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Gnat
A gnat is any of many species of tiny flying insects in the dipterid suborder Nematocera, especially those in the families Mycetophilidae, Anisopodidae and Sciaridae.
Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs.
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Gynoecium
Gynoecium (gynoecia) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
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Hepatitis
Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
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Inflorescence
An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
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Isoflavone
Isoflavones are substituted derivatives of isoflavone, a type of naturally occurring isoflavonoids, many of which act as phytoestrogens in mammals.
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Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments
This is a non-exhaustive list of alternative treatments that have been promoted to treat or prevent cancer in humans but which lack scientific and medical evidence of effectiveness.
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Liver failure
Liver failure is the inability of the liver to perform its normal synthetic and metabolic functions as part of normal physiology.
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Liver function tests
Liver function tests (LFTs or LFs), also referred to as a hepatic panel, are groups of blood tests that provide information about the state of a patient's liver.
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Menopause
Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of reproduction.
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Meta-analysis is the statistical combination of the results of multiple studies addressing a similar research question.
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Multilocus sequence typing
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a technique in molecular biology for the typing of multiple loci, using DNA sequences of internal fragments of multiple housekeeping genes to characterize isolates of microbial species.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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Nausea
Nausea is a diffuse sensation of unease and discomfort, sometimes perceived as an urge to vomit.
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Perennial
In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.
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Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
Phenylpropanoid
The phenylpropanoids are a diverse family of organic compounds that are biosynthesized by plants from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine in the shikimic acid pathway.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Phytochemical
Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, generally to help them resist fungi, bacteria and plant virus infections, and also consumption by insects and other animals.
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Phytoestrogen
A phytoestrogen is a plant-derived xenoestrogen (a type of estrogen produced by organisms other than humans) not generated within the endocrine system, but consumed by eating plants or manufactured foods.
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Raceme
A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.
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Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.
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Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.
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Root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.
Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
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Saponin
Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of), also selectively referred to as triterpene glycosides, are bitter-tasting usually toxic plant-derived organic chemicals that have a foamy quality when agitated in water.
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Seed
In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa).
Sepal
A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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Stamen
The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
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Taxon (journal)
Taxon is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plant taxonomy.
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Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.
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Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.
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Trends (journals)
Trends is a series of 16 review journals in a range of areas of biology and chemistry published under its Cell Press imprint by Elsevier.
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Triterpene
Triterpenes are a class of terpenes composed of six isoprene units with the molecular formula C30H48; they may also be thought of as consisting of three terpene units.
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See also
Actaea (plant)
- Actaea (plant)
- Actaea arizonica
- Actaea asiatica
- Actaea elata
- Actaea japonica
- Actaea matsumurae
- Actaea pachypoda
- Actaea podocarpa
- Actaea racemosa
- Actaea rubifolia
- Actaea rubra
- Actaea simplex
- Actaea spicata
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaea_racemosa
Also known as ATC code G02CX04, ATCvet code QG02CX04, Black Cohosh, Black baneberry, Black bugbane, Black cohash, Bugwort, Cimicifuga racemosa, Fairy candle, Remifemin.
, Root, Royal Horticultural Society, Saponin, Seed, Sepal, Species, Stamen, Synonym (taxonomy), Taxon (journal), Thomas Nuttall, Traditional medicine, Trends (journals), Triterpene.