{{Short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_alt = | image_caption = | genus = Alisma | species = orientale | authority = (Sam.) Juz. 1933 | synonyms = ''Alisma plantago-aquatica subsp. orientale'' (Sam.) Sam. }}
'''''Alisma orientale''''', commonly known as '''Asian water plantain'''<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |title=English Names for Korean Native Plants |publisher=Korea National Arboretum |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |location=Pocheon |pages=346 |access-date=25 January 2016 |via=Korea Forest Service |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |archivedate=25 May 2017 }}</ref> is a flowering plant species in the genus ''Alisma'' found in Asia.
''Alisma orientale'' is sometimes treated as a variety of ''Alisma plantago-aquatica'' (''Alisma plantago-aquatica'' var. ''orientale'').<ref>{{GRIN | ''Alisma plantago-aquatica'' var. ''orientale'' | 402443 | accessdate = June 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{GRIN | accessdate=June 3, 2012 }}</ref> The rhizomes of ''A. orientale'' have been used as a traditional Chinese medicine, ''ze xie''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Schedule 1 Chinese Herbal Medicines | work=Chinese Medicine Bill | url=http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr98-99/english/bills/c012_e.htm | publisher=Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | quote=Rhizoma Alismatis ({{lang|zh-HK|澤瀉}}) Tuber of ''Alisma orientalis'' (Sam.) Juzep. | accessdate=June 3, 2012 }}</ref> However, it may have serious side effects or even toxic effects such as hepatotoxicity.<ref>{{cite journal | journal=Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics |date=October 2006 | volume=24 | issue=8 | pages=1179–86 | title=Traditional Chinese medicine causing hepatotoxicity in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection: a 1-year prospective study | author=Yuen, M.-F. | author2=Tam, S. | author3=Fung, J. | author4=Wong, D. K.-H. | author5=Wong, B. C.-Y. | author6=Lai, C.-L. | name-list-style=amp | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.03111.x | pmid=17014576 | doi-access=free }}</ref> The rhizome of the plant is also a herb used in kampo Japanese medicine.
The seed contains cis-aconitic anhydride ethyl ester and cis-2,4,5-trihydroxycinnamic acid.<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 22816308 | volume=7 | issue=6 | title=Cis-aconitic anhydride ethyl ester and phenolic compounds from the seeds of Alisma orientale | year=2012 | journal=Nat Prod Commun | pages=785–7 | author=Zhao M, Chen JY, Xu LJ, Goedecke T, Zhang XQ, Duan JA, Che CT }}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}} * Flora U.R.S.S. 1:281. 1933
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orientale Category:Freshwater plants Category:Flora of China Category:Flora of Japan Category:Plants used in traditional Chinese medicine Category:Plants described in 1933
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