Polygonati Rhizoma（黄精），具有丰富的民族文化内涵，是一种具有药食同源的传统中药。在中国的多民族医疗体系中，黄精长期被用作滋补品，同时也可用于治疗早白发、血气不足、糖尿病、高血压等疾病。与此同时，黄精在中国、印度、韩国等亚洲国家也经常被用作食物，可以满足饥饿感并提供许多健康益处。 本文系统地审查了黄精的民族药理学、植物学、植物化学、药理学和相关应用研究，并提供了黄精的综合应用参考，包括基础研究、产品开发和临床应用。本文还提炼了黄精的民族应用特色，例如丰富的植物资源、特殊的化学成分和抗隐蔽饥饿特性。这为其未来的高价值和高内涵发展奠定了基础。 本研究系统收集了从PubMed、ScienceDirect、Google Scholar、Web of Science、Geen Medical、中国知网等电子科学数据库以及草药医学经典著作等文献资源，综合分析上述文献之后，确认了黄精在中国等亚洲国家的民族医疗系统中已经使用了几千年。本文总结了包括官方品种在内的12种可用于黄精的物种，为黄精提供了丰富的植物资源。黄精中的化学成分被分为营养成分和活性成分。前者不仅包含非淀粉多糖和果寡糖，占黄精总分量的约50%，被认为是世界上高品质的食品，还包含无机元素和矿物质元素。我们总共列出了199种活性成分，其中包括皂苷、类黄酮、生物碱等。这些成分使黄精具有抗隐蔽饥饿特性。研究表明，黄精具有广泛的药理活性，例如免疫调节、血糖调节、降脂、抗氧化、抗肿瘤、抗菌等。它已被广泛用于医药、食品、化妆品、花园等领域。 作为同源药材的经典药材，PR被广泛应用于传统的民族医疗体系中。它包含丰富的潜在植物资源、化学成分和药理活性。本文还建议，在食品行业中使用高应用价值的PR，有潜力成为高品质粗粮。探索PR的粮食化和工业化发展方式有助于充分发展PR的经济价值。版权所有©2023。Elsevier B.V.出版。

Polygonati Rhizoma (PR), which contains rich national cultural connotations, is a traditional Chinese medicine with homology of medicine and food. It has been used for a long time as a tonic in China's multi-ethnic medical system, and is also used to treat diseases such as premature graying hair, deficiency of blood and essence, diabetes, hypertension, etc. Meanwhile, PR is often used as food in China, India, South Korea and other Asian countries, which can satisfy hunger and provide many health benefits.This paper systematically reviewed the ethnopharmacology, botany, phytochemistry, pharmacology and related applications research of PR, and provided a reference for the comprehensive applications of PR, including basic research, product development and clinical applications. This paper also refined the national application characteristics of PR, such as rich plant resources, special chemical components and anti-hidden hungry, which laid a foundation for its high value and high connotation development in the future.The literature information was collected systematically from the electronic scientific databases, including PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Geen Medical, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, as well as other literature sources, such as classic books of herbal medicine.A comprehensive analysis of the above literature confirmed that PR has been used in the ethnic medicine system of Asian countries such as China for thousands of years. In this paper, 12 species including official species that can be used as PR are summarized, which provide rich plant resources for PR. The chemical components in PR are divided into nutritional components and active components. The former not only contains non-starch polysaccharides and fructo-oligosaccharides, which account for about 50% in PR and are recognized as high-quality diet in the world, but also contains inorganic elements and mineral elements. And a total of 199 kinds active ingredients, including saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, etc., were sorted out by us. The above ingredients make PR have a special property of anti-hidden hunger. Studies have shown that PR has a wide range of pharmacological activities, such as immune regulation, blood glucose regulation, lipid-lowering, antioxidant, anti-tumor, antibacterial, etc. It has been widely used in medicine, food, cosmetics, gardens and other fields.PR, as a classic medicinal material of the same origin, is widely used in the traditional ethnic medicine system. It contains abundant potential plant resources, chemical components and pharmacological activities. This paper also suggests that PR with high application value in food industry, has the potential to become a high-quality coarse grain. Exploring the way of grain and industrialization of PR is beneficial to fully develop the economic value of PR.Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.