Description

Salvia bowleyana is a traditional Chinese medicinal plant with a broad range of therapeutic effects. Both species have become potential models for medicinal plants due to their high contents of medicinal components, including tanshinone Ⅰ, tanshinone ⅡA, β-sitosterol, caffeic acid, rosmarinic acid (RA), methyl rosmarinate, salvianolic acid A, salvianolic acid B (sal B), salvianolic acid C and methylene tanshinquinone. Sal B is the predominant active cardioprotective agent, offering protection against cardiomyocyte damage, cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and myocardial infarction.

Scientific classitication

Family: Lamiaceae

Genus: Salvia

Common Name

Nan Dan Shen

Reference

Zheng, X., Chen, D., Chen, B., Liang, L., Huang, Z., Fan, W., Chen, J., He, W., Chen, H., Huang, L., Chen, Y., Zhu, J. and Xue, T. (2021), Insights into salvianolic acid B biosynthesis from chromosome‐scale assembly of the Salvia bowleyana genome. J Integr Plant Biol. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13085