''Urceola micrantha'' is a plant species in the genus ''
Urceola''. It is a shrub widespread across much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas.
In Taïwan, it is used in
folk medicine as an
analgesic
An analgesic drug, also called simply an analgesic (American English), analgaesic (British English), pain reliever, or painkiller, is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve relief from pain (that is, analgesia or pain management). It ...
,
antiphlogistic and
spasmolytic agent.
[Proanthocyanidins – a final frontier in flavonoid research? Richard A. Dixon, De-Yu Xie and Shashi B. Sharma, New Phytologist (2005) 165: 9–28 ]
The species contains
proanthocyanidin B2,
proanthocyanidin A1 and
proanthocyanidin A2
Procyanidin A2 is an A type proanthocyanidin.
It is found in avocado, chestnut, cranberry juice concentrate, lychee fruit pericarp, peanut
The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monke ...
.
References
Apocyneae
Flora of Asia
Medicinal plants
Plants described in 1837
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