Enormous Potential for Development Liriope platyphylla Wang et Tang as a Therapeutic Drug on the Human Chronic Disease

Liriope platyphylla Wang et Tang (L. platyphylla) is named Liriope muscari with Binomial name and called big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass and monkey grass with common name [1]. It is widely used as one of the 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Oriental medicine; the species is one member of low, herbaceous flowing plats, which grows commonly in the shady forests of East Asia including China, Korea and Japan at elevation of 100 to 1400 m. Also, it typically grows 30-45 cm tall and have grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single seeded berries on spike in the fall [1,2]. Their roots are long fibrous with terminal tubers. Its flower is showy form which an erect spikes with tiered whorls of dense, white to violet-purple flowers rising above the leaves as like grape hya‐ cinth. This flower differents into blackish berries which can maintain their status into winter season (Fig. 1A). Furthermore, L. platyphylla bear a strong likeness to L. spicata (creeping lily‐ turf) which is the most common species in this genus. Although the prominent flower spike extending above the leaves is alike, the leaves of L. platyphylla were wider and longer than those of L. spicata [3,4].