Aristolochia
"Aristolochia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A plant genus of the family ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. Species of this genus have been used in traditional medicine but they contain aristolochic acid which is associated with nephropathy. These are sometimes called 'snakeroot' but that name is also used with a number of other plants such as POLYGALA; SANICULA; ASARUM; ARISTOLOCHIA; AGERATINA; and others.
| Descriptor ID |
D030022
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.940.800.575.100.096.211
|
| Concept/Terms |
Dutchman's Pipe- Dutchman's Pipe
- Dutchman Pipe
- Dutchman's Pipes
- Dutchmans Pipe
- Pipe, Dutchman's
- Pipes, Dutchman's
- Birthwort
- Birthworts
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Aristolochia".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Aristolochia".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Aristolochia" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Aristolochia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Aristolochia" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.