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Medicinal Plant Garden
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A medicinal herb garden that grows more than 250 species of medicinal plants for research and education.
AboutAbout the lab
Growing medicinal plants for research and education
As a facility attached to the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyushu University, the Medicinal Plant Garden grows more than 250 species of medicinal plants for use in research and education.
It is located on the Hospital Campus in Higashi Ward, Fukuoka, and consists of a display garden and experimental fields.
In addition to plants that are the source of crude drugs used in Kampo medicine, the garden also grows and studies designated plants whose cultivation is restricted by law.
The garden teaches undergraduate and graduate students how to cultivate medicinal plants, and is also used as a training facility for Kampo and crude drug certified pharmacists.
Key terms
- Source Plant
- Source plant: a plant that serves as the raw material for a crude drug
- Designated Plant
- Designated plant: a plant whose cultivation is restricted by law. The garden grows plants such as the opium poppy, hemp, and the coca plant
- Non-psychoactive Cannabis
- Non-psychoactive cannabis: a cannabis variety that contains no hallucinogenic compounds and also has excellent fiber quality
ResearchResearch themes
The Medicinal Plant Garden grows the source plants of crude drugs used in Kampo medicine and designated plants whose cultivation is restricted by law, and engages in research, education, and contributions to society. Its research on cannabis continues as a joint project with the Department of Pharmacognosy in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
*Illustrative imageSource plants of crude drugs used in Kampo medicine
The garden grows the source plants of crude drugs commonly used in Kampo medicine, such as Pinellia tuber (hange), Angelica root (toki), licorice (kanzo), and Scutellaria root (ogon). For Angelica root, it grows many varieties, including Hokkaido-toki, Tokachi-toki, Hosoba-toki, and Hyuga-toki.
*Illustrative imageCultivation and research of designated plants
The garden has facilities for cultivating designated plants whose cultivation is restricted by law. It studies the opium poppy and Papaver setigerum (source plants of opium), the coca plant (a source plant of narcotics), and hemp (the source plant of cannabis).
*Illustrative imageResearch on non-psychoactive cannabis
The garden began its cannabis research when it was founded, and identified and stabilized a type of cannabis that contains no hallucinogenic compounds. This variety is registered as a plant variety under the name "Tochigishiro." The research is still ongoing as a joint project with the Department of Pharmacognosy.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Medicinal Plant Garden consist of the director and the deputy director.As of 2026
- ProfessorNaoya Matsunaga
- Associate ProfessorSeiichi Sakamoto
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Medicinal plants in Switzerland in 2026 June 25” Rajasekhar1961 / CC0 (cropped)
- Source plants of crude drugs used in Kampo medicine: “Medicinal herbs garden hospital” User:Mattes / Public domain (cropped)
- Cultivation and research of designated plants: “Herb garden at Hardwick Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1444243” Kate Jewell / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Research on non-psychoactive cannabis: “Hemp plants-cannabis sativa-single 1” Nabokov / Public domain (cropped)
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