S. japonica is included in a scarcely known medical treatise De Morbis venereis by Jean Astruc from 1740, which is a published ethnopharmacological survey on Chinese remedies for veneral disease carried out in Beijing in the 1730s.
Drobnik 2016
Scientific Name:
Styphnolobium japonicum, syn. Sophora japonica
Family Name:
Fabaceae
Common Name:
Sophora japonica, Japanese sophora
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Traditional and Folk Use
Sophora japonica flowers are an ingredient of a traditional tea, "five-flower-tea," used by parents in Hong Kong to treat 'hot Qi' ailments related to allergy and infection in their children.
Kong 2006
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH BY: Oren Rabinowitz, MSc
October 2020
LATEST UPDATES BY: Antonia Kaz
March 2023