“…Pinelliae Rhizoma, the tuber of Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit., named “Banxia” in Chinese, is widely used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments such as cough, vomiting, inflammation, epilepsy, cervical cancer and traumatic injury (Ji, Huang, Wang, & Zhang, ). Modern pharmacological studies have revealed that P. ternata tuber (PT) has multiple activities, including sedative–hypnotic (Wu et al, ), anticarcinogenic (Li et al, ), antiasthmatic (Kim et al, ), antiemetic (Kurata et al, ) and anti‐inflammatory (Lee et al, ) activities.…”