Berberis, Barberry Lycium (classical name)Barberry root:–Xiao Bo (TCM)–Daruharidra (Ayurveda)–Skyer pa  སྐྱེར་པ  (Tibetan)Bark:–Skyer shun  སྐྱེར་ཤུན  (Tibetan)Stem:–Maramancal (Siddha)Concentrated Extract of Bark/Stem:–Rasanjana (Ayurveda)–Rasaut (Unani)–Skyer ba’i khan ta  སྐྱེར་པའི་ཁཎྜ (Tibetan)Fruit:–Zarishk (fruit, Unani)Seed:–Skyer ba’i ‘bru  སྐྱེར་པའི་འབྲུ  (Tibetan) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Cube, 1501 New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 B. vulgarisFlora von Deutschland, Kohler, 1886 Barberry extract as available on the Indian Market (Adam, 2006) Barberry Wood (Adam, 2019) Botanical name: Berberis spp. B. vulgaris (standard species of West and Unani) B. asiatica, B. lycium, B. asiatica (Indian Barberry, Ayurveda, Tibet) B. amurensis, B. soulieana (Chinese Barberry, TCM) B. concinna, B. dictophylla (Tibet) B. nepalensis (Nepal) B. chitria, B. tinctoria and B. umbellata have also reportedly been used in India.Other species include B. orthobotrys (Pakistan), B. croatica (Croatia), B. calliobotiys (Iran), B. libanotica (Syria, Lebanon)The Chinese Pharmacopoeia lists B. soulieana “and other species of the same genus” as the source for Barberry bark.In Tibetan Medicine, several types of Berberis are used: Skyer pa  སྐྱེར་པ : B. aristata Skyer pa dkar po (‘White’ variety)  སྐྱེར་པདཀར་པོ : B. aristata, B. lycium Skyer pa nag po (‘Black’ variety)  སྐྱེར་པནག་པོ : B. concinna; B. angulosa and B. mucrifolia (in Nepal) Parts used: 1. Root, Root-Bark2. Concentrated extract formed by boiling down…

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