Ligusticum (lovage,[Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan .]
Species
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Ligusticum ajanense
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Ligusticum albanicum
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Ligusticum apiifolium
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Ligusticum brachylobum
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Ligusticum calderi
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Ligusticum californicum
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Ligusticum canadense
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Ligusticum canbyi - Canby's licorice root, ʔayut
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Ligusticum filicinum
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Ligusticum gingidium
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Ligusticum grayi - oshala, Gray's lovage
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Ligusticum holopetalum
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Ligusticum hultenii
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Ligusticum huteri
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Ligusticum ibukicola
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Ligusticum monnieri
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Ligusticum mutellina – alpine lovage
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Ligusticum porteri – oshá
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Ligusticum scoticum – Scots lovage
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Ligusticum striatum
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Ligusticum tenuifolium – Idaho lovage
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Ligusticum verticillatum – northern lovage
Former species
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Ligusticum mutellinoides – small alpine lovage, is a synonym of Neogaya (L.) Meisn.
Moved to Conioselinum
In 2003, Pimenov moved a number of species to
Conioselinum as he found them closer related to
C. tataricum (the type species of
C.) than to
L. scoticum (the type species of
L.).
Another change
C. anthriscoides ←
L. sinense was made in 2015, as the
C. sinomedicum name assigned in 2003 was illegitimate.<
[ & 2015. Nomenclatural correction for a Chinese species of Conioselinum (Umbelliferae). Skvortsovia 2(1): 28-34. PDF]
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L. acuminatum → C. acuminatum
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L. filifolium → C. nematophyllum
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L. gmelinii → C. chinense
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L. pteridophyllum → C. pteridophyllum ≡ L. pteridophylla, L. reptans
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L. pseudoangelica → C. pseudoangelica = L. glaucifolium
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L. sinense → heterotypic C. anthriscoides = L. chuanxiong,
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gaoben 藁本; Szechuan lovage, Szechwan lovage, chuanxiong, chuan xiong 川芎
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L. smithii → C. smithii = L. longilobum (≡ L. longiloba), L. jeholense
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C. sinchianum = L. moniliforme
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L. tenuisectum → C. tenuisectum
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L. vaginatum → heterotypic C. tataricum
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L. tenuissimum → C. tenuissimum ≡ Angelica tenuissima = L. multifidum
Uses
The roots of several species are used as medicinal herbs.
L. sinense (in older literature
L. wallichi or
L. chuanxiong) is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in Chinese herbology, where it is called
chuānxiōng (); in English, Szechwan lovage.
Chinese
Ligusticum root contains alkaloids that have been shown in studies to inhibit
TNF-alpha production and TNF-alpha-mediated
NF-kappaB activation.
One study conducted in Japan showed the active compounds found in
Ligusticum sinense have both anti-inflammatory and pain-reducing effects, exerting its anti-inflammatory benefits in the early and the late stages of processes in the inflammatory pathology.
L. porteri (osha) is used in Western herbal medicine.
Both Ligusticum sinense and L. jeholens essential oils contain natural antimicrobial and antioxidant agents.[Jihua Wang, Liang Xu, Ling Yang, Zhilong Liu and Ligang Zhou "Composition, Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oils from Ligusticum sinense and L. jeholense (Umbelliferae) from China" Rec. Nat. Prod. 5:4 (2011) 314-318 Records of Natural Products]
