(n.) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria (P. officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip.
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Motherwort
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(n.) A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.
(n.) The mugwort. See Mugwort.
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(1) The urinary excretion of allantoin, creatine and creatinine and glucose tolerance were stimulated by motherwort.
(2) , motherwort was treated as an article of superior quality.
(3) A search in ancient Chinese medicinal literature and modern phytochemical references indicates that the therapeutic value of Leonurus artemisia (I-mu ts'ao, the Chinese motherwort) might reside in a uterotonic principle present in leaves.
(4) At the same time the effect of chinese herbs, Radix Salviae Miltorrhixae, red flower and Motherwort on CA and 5-HT of these rats was also observed.
(5) Chronic ingestion of methanol extract of the above-ground part of motherwort (Leonurus sibiricus L) in drinking water at the concentration of 0.5% enhanced the development of both pregnancy-dependent mammary tumours (PDMT) and mammary cancers originated from PDMT.
(6) The effect of motherwort (Leorunus Heterophyllus Sweet, MW) on blood hyperviscosity was investigated in 105 patients.
(7) The cause of discrepancy of the effects of motherwort on mammary cancers due to their origins is not clear at present.
(8) Since time immemorial the Chinese people have used various parts of motherwort to meet different physical needs.
(9) The changes of the monoamines were not so evident in those rats treated with Radix Salviae Miltorrhixae, red flower and motherwort even though they had also ligation of BCCA.
(10) The incidence of uterine adenomyosis was also inhibited in mice given motherwort.
(11) This article deals with the ethnobotanical aspects of the Chinese motherwort.
(12) The aqueous extracts of ledum, motherwort, celandine, black currant, cowberry and bilberry inactivated TBE virus practically completely, and those of St. John's wort, pot marigold, tansy, chamomile, milfoil, and inula only partially.
(13) Evidently, in their search for food, the ancient people found that the four nutlets contained in the dry and spinose calyx of the Chinese motherwort resemble the seasame seed in size and oil content.
(14) Studied in vivo, the extracts of motherwort, ledum, tansy and black currant induced resistance of mice to TBE virus infection assessed by the increased survival rate of the animals and significant prolongation of the average longevity.