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Bloodroot: Pharmacognosy Insights

This presentation summarizes the plant Sanguinaria canadensis, also known as bloodroot. It describes the plant's local names, family, morphology, geography, ecology, cultivation, collection, constituents including key alkaloids like sanguinarine, and traditional and current medicinal uses. Traditional medicinal uses included treatment of rheumatism, asthma, and fevers. While traditional uses are now abandoned due to toxicity, current uses include expectorants, cough syrups, and toothpastes exploiting its antibacterial properties. The presentation was delivered to Dr. Shrabanti Dev at Khulna University in Bangladesh.

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Bloodroot: Pharmacognosy Insights

This presentation summarizes the plant Sanguinaria canadensis, also known as bloodroot. It describes the plant's local names, family, morphology, geography, ecology, cultivation, collection, constituents including key alkaloids like sanguinarine, and traditional and current medicinal uses. Traditional medicinal uses included treatment of rheumatism, asthma, and fevers. While traditional uses are now abandoned due to toxicity, current uses include expectorants, cough syrups, and toothpastes exploiting its antibacterial properties. The presentation was delivered to Dr. Shrabanti Dev at Khulna University in Bangladesh.

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Greetings

PHARM 2101

PHARMACOGNOSY III 1st December 2015

A Presentation on
Sanguinaria canadensis

Presented to:
Dr. Shrabanti Dev, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Discipline,Khulna university, Khulna.
Presented By: Fahim Shahriar Ahsraf (091112)
Local name
English: Bloodroot, Red Root, Red Paint, Indian
Plant.

Native American: Poughkone

Family: Papaveraceae

Morphology
Rhizome
Stem
Basal Leaves
Flower
Geography
Indigenous to eastern and central Canada and US
More common in inland than on coastal plain
Infrequently Cultured where it is gathered as medicine
Ecology and Cultivation
Best Grows in shaded,cool, moist open hardwood grooves, well drained woodland slopes
Slightly Grows on Strongly basic soils
Flowers do not have nectar, self pollination occurs
The seed attracts different insects
Insects carry the seeds within ground for better survival
Seeds collected as horticulture supplies

Mutated form as ‘’Penoy Flower’’ and ‘’Double Bloodroot’’


which is sterile and must be cultivated from rhizome
Collection
Uproot from soil

removal of dirts by shaking

removal of non red roots

Keep in a shaded, cool place and not letting the root to dry out

Wash the roots with a high-pressure stream of water from a hose or with a root washer.

Dry Roots in direct sunlight(Long Term Drying)

Dry roots at about 95°F, with high air-flow, for approximately three to seven days.
Constituents

Benzophenanthridine alkaloids

Sanguinarine
chelerythrine

protopine
Uses
Traditional Medicinal Use in treatment of rheumatism,asthma, bronchitis, laryngitis, fevers
etc. It was given orally and topically.

Traditional uses are abandoned now because of it’s toxic properties now.
At present day there is a huge use of it in Medicine.it is presnt in dozens of commercial
preparations usually as Expectorrents, Cough Syrups and tinctures.

Bloodroot contains Bactericidal and bacteriostatic properties against plague forming


organisms.

Sanguinarine is used as anti-plaque, anti-gingivitis and toothpastes


Thank you

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