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Capitate Cyathula
English Name
Cyathula capitata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of chronic ulcer, eczema, itch, scalded by boiling water or fire,traumatic bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Ailanthus-like Pricklyash Bark
English Name
Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of chyluria, turbid urine mixed with whitish substance or whitish discharge from urethra, excessive leukorrhea, rheumatic arthralgia with limitation of motion and pain in the loins and knees.
Potential Indication
NA
Slenderstyle Acanthopanax Root-bark Equivalent plant: Acanthopanax sessiliflorus , Acanthopanax senticosus
English Name
Acanthopanax gracilistylus
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).
Potential Indication
1. Aconitine is a physiologically active component, and becomes aconine after hydrolized. The toxicity of aconine is lower than aconitine.2. The prepared products may dilate the blood vessels of lower limbs and coronary artery, and increase coronary flow.3. Aconine and hypaconitine are analgesics and sedatives.4. Acclerating the metabolism of lipids and cholesterol.5. LD50 of aconitine is 0.295mg/kg in mice hypodermally and that of the decoction of prepared aconite is 17.42g/kg in mice orally.6. Its components, higenamine and coryneine chloride exert a significant cardiotonic effect.
Chinese Atropanthe
English Name
Scopolia sinensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).
Potential Indication
1. Aconitine is a physiologically active component, and becomes aconine after hydrolized. The toxicity of aconine is lower than aconitine.2. The prepared products may dilate the blood vessels of lower limbs and coronary artery, and increase coronary flow.3. Aconine and hypaconitine are analgesics and sedatives.4. Acclerating the metabolism of lipids and cholesterol.5. LD50 of aconitine is 0.295mg/kg in mice hypodermally and that of the decoction of prepared aconite is 17.42g/kg in mice orally.6. Its components, higenamine and coryneine chloride exert a significant cardiotonic effect.
Shellfish Pricklyash Root
English Name
Zanthoxylum dissitum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).
Potential Indication
NA
Geniculate Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum geniculatum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).
Potential Indication
NA
Flatspine Pricklyash Bark
English Name
Zanthoxylum simulans
Latin Name
root cortex or stem cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collapse with cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, frigidity, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea or edema accompanied by aversion to cold and cold extremities, colds in patients with yang deficiency, chronic arthritis due to attack of cold and damp (marked by persistent severe joint pain, fixed in place and accompanied by heaviness sensation and numbness).
Potential Indication
NA
Flatspine Pricklyash Root
English Name
Zanthoxylum simulans
Latin Name
root cortex. or stem cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of collpase tendency due to asthenia, cool limbs and weak pulse. Qi cannot control blood, uterine bleeding, cardiac failure and cardiogenic shock.
Potential Indication
NA
Hance Pepper
English Name
Piper hancei
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of common cold with wind-cold syndrome (marked by chilliness and mild fever, headache, stuffed and running nose, general aching, but no sweating), edema in acute nephritis, bronchial asthma.Herba Ephedrae (processed with honey) Cough in common cold at later stage when chilliness has been absent.
Potential Indication
1. Its effects on cardiovascular system are similar to epinephrine in many aspects, but persist seven to ten times longer. The myocardial contractility and cardiac output are augmented and cardiac, cerebral and muscular blood flows are increased.2. Its bronchodilative effect is less prominent but more sustained than epinephrine.3. Mydriatic upon local application to the eye.4. Antipyretic, diaphoretic and diuretic.
Yunnan Larkspur
English Name
Delphinium yunnanense
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of common cold, epigastric pain with cold feeling, amenorrhea due to cold in blood, arthralgia, edema, cardiac palpitation, gastrointestinal neurosis with a feeling of masses of gas rushing up through the chest to the throat from the lower abdomen.
Potential Indication
NA
Spinyleaf Prickleyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum dimorphophyllum var. spinifolum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of common cold, headache, measles rubella, sores at theearly stage.Carbonized Herba Schizonepetae Hematochezia, abnormal uterine bleeding, fainting after delivery due to excessive bleeding.
Potential Indication
1. Mils antipyretic effect.2. Oral use of its decoction can promote the secretion of sweat glands and improve cutaneous blood circulation
Matarique (in Mexico)
English Name
Psacalium peltatum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of conjuntivitis and blepharitis marginalis with impaired vision and photophobia.
Potential Indication
NA
Javan Bishopwood
English Name
Bischofia javanica [Syn. Bischofia trifoliata ]
Latin Name
root, bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of constipation and indigestion due to accumulation of cold; ascites and edema with oliguria and constipation; inflammation of the throat.
Potential Indication
NA
Fragrant Glorybower
English Name
Clerodendron fragrans
Latin Name
root and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of constipation with retention of dry feces and abdominal pain caused by excessive heat.External use of Natrii Sulfas Exsiccatus: Sore throat, ulcers of the mouth and tongue, swelling and pain of the gums, conjuctivitis, carbuncles, erysipelas.
Potential Indication
NA
Chun’s Spicebush
English Name
Lindera chunii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of constipation with retention of dry feces and abdominal pain caused by excessive heat.External use of Natrii Sulfas Exsiccatus: Sore throat, ulcers of the mouth and tongue, swelling and pain of the gums, conjuctivitis, carbuncles, erysipelas.
Potential Indication
NA
Assam Crotalaria Seed
English Name
Crotalaria assamica
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of consumptive diseases, impotence, cold sperm, lassitude in the loins and legs due to deficiency of the kidney-yang, etc.
Potential Indication
NA
Shortstalk Monkshood Equivalent plant: Aconitum nagarum var lasiandrum
English Name
Aconitum brachypodum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of consumptive fever and night sweating due to deficiency of yin, vertigo, tremors, weakness of legs, forgetfulness.
Potential Indication
NA
Smallflower Magnoliavine*
English Name
Schisandra micrantha
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and asthma accompanied by stuffiness in the chest and profuse expectoration, constipation due to deficiency of blood and fluid.
Potential Indication
NA
Henry’s Monachosorum
English Name
Monachosorum henryi
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and asthma caused by heat in the lung, anasarca with oliguria.
Potential Indication
Its extract is hypotensive, cardio-inhibitory and vasoconstrictive, and excites the intestines and uterus in experimental animals.
Incurvedspur Snapweed
English Name
Impatiens siculifer
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and asthma with copious phlegm, dizziness and palpitation caused by wind-phlegm and phlegm retention, headache due to adverse rising of phlegm.
Potential Indication
NA
Oriental Sweetgum Resin
English Name
Liquidambar orientalis
Latin Name
balsam from trunk
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of dry cough, phthisical cough, thirst due to impairment of body fluid, fidgetness and insomnia, diabetes caused by internal heat, constipation, diphtheria.
Potential Indication
1. Relieving leucopenia in mice induced by cyclophosphamide and radiation sickness in dogs.2. Increasing anoxia tolerance in experimental animals under atmospheric pressure.3. Increasing coronary flow and improving myocardial contractility in guinea-pigs.4. Decreasing the level of blood sugar.
Delacay Honeylocust
English Name
Gleditsia delavayi
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of edema or retained fluid with abdominal distension, oliguria and constipation, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, external use for ringworm and verrucous vegetations.
Potential Indication
1. Its purgative effect is as three times as castor oil.2. Its fresh preparation may inhibit the progress of acute lymphatic leukemia, acute and chronic granulocytic leukemia and acute monocytic leukemia.
Muskmelon Fruit Pedicel
English Name
Cucumis melo
Latin Name
fruit pedicel
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of heat in the lung with cough, sticky and bloody sputum, and distress in the chest.
Potential Indication
NA
Hairstyle Poisonnut
English Name
Strychnos nitida
Latin Name
fruit and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of heat in the lung with dry cough, cough with scanty sticky sputum in phthisis with deficiency of yin , deficiency of both qi and yin with feverishness and thirst.
Potential Indication
NA
Fistular Onion
English Name
Allium fistulosum
Latin Name
fresh bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic bleeding, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, pricking pain in the epigastrium, traumatic swelling and pain, dysuria with difficult painful passage of bloody urine.
Potential Indication
1. Strengthening the tone and promoting rhythmical contraction of uterus in animals and human. 2. Its decoction lowers blood pressure and shortens blood clotting time.
Shallot
English Name
Allium ascalonicum
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, abnormal uterine bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Twoanther Mosla
English Name
Mosla dianthera
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, abnormal uterine bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Tibet Berneuxine
English Name
Berneuxia thibetica
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of hoarseness of voice, dry cough, and sore, dry throat due to heat in the lung, constipation with headache and blood-shot eyes.
Potential Indication
NA
Tarragon
English Name
Artemisia dracunculus
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of palpitaton, insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, scrofula, mall formation in the abdomen, spontaneous sweating and night sweating, seminal emission, abnormal uterine bleeding, excessive leukorrhea, epigastric pain with acid regurgitaton.CONCHA OSTREAE (CALCINED): Spontaneous sweating, night sweating, seminal emission, abnormal uterine bleeding, excessive leukorrhea, epigastric pain with acid regurgitation.
Potential Indication
Its extract inhibits the growth of poliovirus in vivo.
Small Centipeda
English Name
Centipeda minima
Latin Name
herb with flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of rheumatoid arthritis with pain and cold sensation in the loins and knees, muscular contracture and numbness of the lower extremities.
Potential Indication
NA
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