Editing Erysimum (section)

== Ethnobotanical uses of ''Erysimum'' ==
''Erysimum'' species have a long history of use in traditional medicine. In ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' by [[Pliny the Elder]] ({{circa|77}}), ''Erysimum'' is classified as a medicinal rather than a food plant. ''[[Erysimum cheiri]]'' is described as a medicinal herb in ''[[De Materia Medica]]'' by [[Pedanius Dioscorides]] ({{circa|70}}), which was the predominant European medical [[Pharmacopoeia|pharmacopeia]] for more than 1,500 years. Other [[Middle Ages|medieval]] descriptions of medicinal herbs and their uses, including the ''Dispensatorium des Cordus'' by [[Valerius Cordus]] (1542), ''Bocks Kräuterbuch'' by [[Hieronymus Bock]] (1577), and Tabernaemontanus' ''Neuw Kreuterbuch'' by [[Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus]] (1588), also discuss applications of ''[[Erysimum cheiri|E. cheiri]]''. In traditional Chinese medicine, ''[[Erysimum cheiranthoides]]'' has been used to treat heart disease and other ailments.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Plantae Medicinales Chinae Boreali-Orientalis|last=Zhu|first=YC|publisher=Heilongjiang Science and Technology Publishing House|year=1989|location=Harbin}}</ref> Although medical uses of ''Erysimum'' became uncommon in [[Europe]] after the [[Middle Ages]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jaretzky|first1=R.|last2=Wilcke|first2=M.|date=1932|title=Die herzwirksamen Glykoside von Cheiranthus Cheiri und verwandten Arten|journal=Archiv der Pharmazie|volume=270|issue=2|pages=81–94|doi=10.1002/ardp.19322700202|s2cid=93704423|issn=0365-6233}}</ref> ''Erysimum diffusum,'' as well as purified erysimin and erysimoside, have been applied more recently as Ukrainian ethnobotanical treatments.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Makarevich|first1=I. F.|last2=Zhernoklev|first2=K. V.|last3=Slyusarskaya|first3=T. V.|last4=Yarmolenko|first4=G. N.|date=May 1994|title=Cardenolide-containing plants of the family Cruciferae|journal=Chemistry of Natural Compounds|volume=30|issue=3|pages=275–289|doi=10.1007/bf00629957|bibcode=1994CNatC..30..275M |s2cid=13763922|issn=0009-3130}}</ref>