Steinmetz:Laminaria

General Index (総索引)

Medicinal Effect (薬効一覧)

Laminaria cloustoni

Also known as (or relevant to) Laminaria cloustoni Laminaria digitata (and other species) Family Laminariaceae English Names Laminaria Sweet Tangle Sugar Sea-beet Natural Habitat near the coasts of the North Atlantic Ocean especially Helgoland; found in India in salt lakes and deep seas: Laminaria saccharina (this species is also growing on the coast of China Korea and Manchuria) Part(s) Used Stipites Laminariae

Constituent(s) laminarin laminar-acids algin (mucilage) mannite iodine salts tannin Action used for chirurgic purposes; Laminaria saccharina is used internally against goitre