我国木通品种甚多,据任氏报告有二十余种,市售者多系东北出产的马兜铃科植物Aristolochia manchuriensis Komarov(以下简称东北木通),而真正的木通科植物 Akebiaquinata Decne.反而少见.本草纲目记载木通有利尿、消肿、通经及催生等作用,其品种究属何科不易确定.外国的本草文献亦曾提及马兜铃植物有催生堕胎作用.蒋伯诚等氏报告,谓东北木通对心脏有非常类似洋地黄的作用.此为值得注意的事,因从马兜铃科植物中提得强心配糖体一事,尚未看见报告.由于该氏等对心脏方面的实验限于蟾蜍 There are many types of wood-leaf in China. According to Ren Shi’s report, there are more than twenty species. Most of the commercial plants are Aristolochia manchuriensis Komarov, a plant of the Aristolochia family in the northeast, and the real plant Akebiaquinata Decne However, it is rare. The Compendium of Materia Medica records the effects of urinary diuresis, detumescence, pass-through and birth, and its variety is difficult to determine. The foreign herbal literature has also mentioned that aristolochic plants have abortions. Jiang Bocheng et al. Reported that the northeastern wood through the heart is very similar to the role of digitalis. This is noteworthy thing, because of the Aristolochia plants from the heart to raise glycosides, has not seen the report. The experiment is limited to