“…The dried tuber of this herb, called “banxia” in Chinese, is the major part of the plant used for medicine. P. ternata has broad pharmacological and clinical properties such as, wound healing, cough soothing, anti-spasmodic, anti-tumoral, and lipid-lowering effects (Wang et al, 2009 ; Wu et al, 2013 ; Ji et al, 2014 ; Mao and He, 2020 ). P. ternata is abundant in secondary metabolites (i.e., alkaloids, iridoids, iridoid glycosides, anthraquinones, anthraquinone glycosides, sterols, amino acids, and fatty acids), as well as their derivatives (Oshio et al, 1978 ; Ge and Hao, 2009 ; Sun et al, 2018 ).…”