棕榈的综合利用和开发

The Many Uses and Exploitation of Trachycarpus fortunei

棕榈[Trachycarpusfortunei (Hook .)H .Wendl.]是中国最普遍、应用最广的棕榈科植物之一,也是能够广泛地生长在亚热带和温带最耐寒的棕榈科植物。在中国棕榈是重要的经济植物,棕榈的每一部分都能利用,新鲜花可以吃,种子用作饲料,树干能建房。近来研究表明,棕榈的种子、叶、茎、根、花中含多种化学成分,作者及合作者已经开发出止血药“血安”和植物蜡。棕榈仍然具有很大潜力,棕榈种子和叶中含有多酚、黄酮、甾体皂苷等生物活性成分,有可能开发出治疗心血管病和肿瘤的药物。

One of the most useful and widely grown palms in China is the windmill palm,Trachycarpus fotunei. The windmill palm,one of the hardiest of all palms,can be grown widely in subtropical and warm-temperate regions. Except as an ornamental plant,the windmill palm is olso important economic plant. It appears that virtually every part of this palm has been used for one purpose or another by the Chinese. The fresh flowers,for example,are eaten,and the seeds are used as animal fodder.The trunks are used as house pillars. Recently research on this palm shown that its seeds,leaves,stems,roots and flowers cantain many chemical components. Author and cooperative scientists have exploitated the haemostatic drug“Xuean” and plant wax. The windmill palm has great potentialities,polyphenols,flavonoids and steroidal saponin from the seeds and leaves might be exploitated medicinal drugs of curing heart and vascular diseases and tumor.