There are several berberine-containing plants that can serve as useful alternatives, including Chinese coptis, yellowroot, or Oregon grape root.
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Berberine is under investigation to determine whether it may have applications as a drug in treating arrhythmia, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cancer.
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Due to berberine's strong yellow color, " Berberis " species were used to dye wool, leather, and wood.
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Research into the toxicology and pharmacology of goldenseal has focused on berberine and hydrastine, which are antimicrobial, chloretic and each have a variety of other properties helping immunity.
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Famous for the bitter taste that it produces, it is used in Chinese herbal medicine along with the related compound berberine for treating digestive disorders caused by bacterial infections.
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He is credited with isolating salicin from willow bark ( 1828 ) and the discovery of berberine ( from the root bark of " Berberis vulgaris " ).
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Methoctramine has been shown to competitively antagonize muscarinic receptors, thus preventing them from binding to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine ( and other agonists, such as bethanechol or berberine ).
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Other species of poppies, numbering in the hundreds, do not contain morphine or codeine in useful amounts, but may contain non-narcotic alkaloids like protopine, sanguinarine or berberine.
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Fagarine, N-methylisocoridine, eskimminianine, ?-fagarine, fagarine-2, magnoflorinne, nitidine, cheleritrinne, berberine, palmatine and candicine have been isolated from foliage and wood.
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Berberine was supposedly used in China as a folk medicine by Shennong around 3000 BC . This first recorded use of Berberine is described in the ancient Chinese medical book The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic.
