[Effects of different amount of ginger juice on prepared products of Rhizoma Pinelliae].

Rhizoma Pinelliae were diged in Ginger juice of different propertion, the total alkaloid contents of these products were all higher than the raw Rhizoma Pinelliae, and related to the actions of anti-tumous cell. The contents of beta-sitosterol of these products were related to the amount of Ginger juice which is added in Pinelliae Rhizoma, but only the content of beta-sitosterol of the Pinelliae product which is prepared by same amount of Ginger juice was slight higher than the raw Rhizoma Pinelliae. The stimulations of five kinds of products on mice have no obvious relation to the amounts of Ginger juice which were added in Rhizoma Pinelliae, but the stimulation of the Pinellia product which was prepared by same amount of Ginger juice was the lowest of all products on mice. Dependent on above experiment results, we suggest that Rhizoma Pinelliae processed by Ginger juice should be prepared by same amount of Ginger juice with Rhizoma Pinelliae.