Abstract
Clerodendron trichotomum Thunb. (Fig. 1), whose Japanese name is kusagi, meaning bad-smelling tree, belongs to the Verbenaceae and grows wild in fields and mountains in Japan and China. It has a stalk of more than 3 m in height and a wide egg-shaped leaf. It blossoms in August, has many white flowers with five red sepals, and the fruits assume a sky-blue pigment when they ripen in October. Formerly, the blue pigment of the fruit was used to color clothes in sky-blue and its extract was used as a herbal medicine. Clerodendrine A, B and clerodenronine A, B are contained in the leaf, and clerodron and clerodon triterpenoids are contained in the root. These substances are effective in the treatment of hypertension, rheumatism, diarrhea, etc.
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Ichi, T., Shimizu, T., Yoshihira, K. (1996). Clerodendron trichotomum Thunb.: Blue Pigment Production for Food Color. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IX. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08618-6_8
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