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Denseflower Loosestrife
English Name
Lysimachia congestiflora
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of soreness of the lumbar and knee joints with weakness inthe legs, amenorrhea with mass formation in the abdomen, dizziness due to hyperactivity of the liver.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the progress of experimental arthritis in animals, and antiphlogistic and antioncotic.2. Its decoction or infusion induce concentration of gravid or ungravid uterus in experimental animals.3. Its decoction exerts a transient hypotensive and diuretic effect.
Dzungaria Hogfennel*
English Name
Peucedanum morisonii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of spitting of blood, epistaxis, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic bleeding, amenorrhea with blood stasis, arthralgia, traumatic swelling and pain.
Potential Indication
1. Hemostatic. 2. Bacteriostatic in vitro. 3. Antitussive and expectorant.
Nepal Camphortree
English Name
Cinnamomum glanduliferum
Latin Name
fruit or wood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of tuberculosis of lymph nodes without ulceration.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Avens Root
English Name
Geum japonicum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of unprocessed Fructus Hordei Germinatus: Anorexia due to diminished function of the spleen , galactostasis.Fructus Hordei Germinatus (stir-fried): Indigestion, weaning a baby.Fructurs Hordei Germinatus (charred): Retention of undigested food with epigastric distension and pain.
Potential Indication
Its decoction promotes the secretion of pepsin and gastric juice.
Fresh Common Ginger
English Name
Zingiber officinale
Latin Name
fresh rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of various febrile diseases, diarrhea, impetigo, liver and gallbladder diseases, debility during convalescence.
Potential Indication
NA
Rock Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia rupestris
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of vertigo, tinnitus, weakness in the loins and knees, premature whitening of hair and impaired eyesight due to deficiency of yin of the liver and kidney.
Potential Indication
1. Its component oleanolic acid can prevent and relieve cyclophosphamide-induced leukocytopenia in mice.2. Enhancing the anoxia tolerance of mice under atmospheric pressure.3. Increasing coronary flow in rabbits in vitro.4. Relaxing adrenaline-induced vasocontricyion in rabbits in vitro.5. Lowering the level of blood lipid.
Balsamiferous Blumea
English Name
Blumea balsamifera
Latin Name
Branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of: 1. Amenorrhea or abdominal and epigastric masses caused by blood stagnation. Gadfly (Mengchong) is used with Leech (Shuizhi), Cockroach (Chechong), Peach seed (Taoren) and Rhubarb (Dahuang) in the formula Dahuang Zhechong Wan. 2. Pain due to external injury. Gadfly (Mengchong) is used with Frankincense (Ruxiang), Myrrh (Moyao) and Peach seed (Taoren).
Potential Indication
NA
Miquel Linden Equivalent plant: Tilia japonica
English Name
Tilia miqueliana
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment haematemesis, epistaxis and hematuria due to heat in the blood, febrile diseases with thirst, jaundice, urinary infection with difficult painful urination, edema in acute nephritis.
Potential Indication
1. Its aqueous infusion exerts a significant diuretic effect in experimental animals. 2. Shortening clotting time and bleeding time, and decreasing the permeability of blood vessels. 3. Inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus dysenteriae.
Narrowleaf Angelica
English Name
Angelica anomala
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of abdominal colic, lumbago due to deficiency of the kidney, vomiting and eqigastric pain due to cold of the stomach.
Potential Indication
NA
Scabrous Cowparsnip
English Name
Heracleum scabridum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding, hematurial hemorrhoidal bleeding, postpartum blood stasis, lochiorrhea.
Potential Indication
NA
Largeflower Wildginger
English Name
Asarum maximum
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of accumulation of cold-damp in the spleen and the stomach manifested by epigastric distension, fullness and pain accompanied by vomiting, malaria with paroxysms of chills and fever.
Potential Indication
NA
Lily Magnolia Buds Equivalent plant: Magnolia liliflora, Magnolia sprengeri , Magnolia biondii , Magnolia denudata
English Name
Magnolia liliflora
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of accumulation of damp in the spleen and the stomach marked by epigastric strffiness, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension and constipation due to retention of undigested food, cough and dyspnea caused by retanied damp.
Potential Indication
1. Broad-spectrum antibacterial.2. Magnocurarine, one of the active components, can relaxstriated muscles.3. Its decoction stimulates the smooth muscles of intestines and bronchii in rabbits in vitro.4. Magnocuraine may also lower blood pressure and accelerate heart rate.
Caulescent Wildginger Equivalent plant: Asarum fukienense
English Name
Asarum caulescens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of accumulation of damp in the spleen and the stomach marked by epigastric strffiness, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension and constipation due to retention of undigested food, cough and dyspnea caused by retanied damp.
Potential Indication
1. Broad-spectrum antibacterial.2. Magnocurarine, one of the active components, can relaxstriated muscles.3. Its decoction stimulates the smooth muscles of intestines and bronchii in rabbits in vitro.4. Magnocuraine may also lower blood pressure and accelerate heart rate.
Buchtorm Libanotis
English Name
Libanotis buchtormensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of accumulation of damp in the spleen and the stomach marked by epigastric stuffieness and anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea in deficiency cold syndrome of the spleen and the stomach, pernicious vomiting of pregnancy, threatened abortion.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction lower thab 1% concentration stimulates and that higher than 1% or the saturated solution of its volatile oil inhibits the intestines of guinea-pigs in vitro.2. Its volatile oil acts as stomachic tonic and exaggerates the diacharge of flatus.
Vaginate Hemlockparsley
English Name
Conioselinum vaginatum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of aching and weakness of the loins and knees, asthma and cough of deficiency-cold type, seminal emission, impotence.
Potential Indication
It contains about 50% of fatty oil, exerting antitussive effect.
Narrowleaf Spicebush
English Name
Lindera angustifolia
Latin Name
root or branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of aching and weakness of the loins and knees, consumptive fever, dizziness and blurred visiidn, nebula, edema.
Potential Indication
NA
Siebold Wildginger Equivalent plant: Asarum heterotropoides var mandshuricum , Asarum sieboldii var seoulensis
English Name
Asarum sieboldii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute and chronic cough, cough in phthisis, whooping cough, external use: for pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, oxyruiasis, pudendal itching.Radix Stemonae (stir-fried with honey) Cough in phthisis.
Potential Indication
1. Relieving cough in common cold. Stemona root (Baibu) is used with Schizonepeta (Jingjie), Platycodon root (Jiegeng) and Aster root (Ziwan). 2. Relieving whooping cough. Stemona root (Baibu) is used with Glehnia root (Beishashen), Tendrilled fritillary bulb (Chuanbeimu) and Swallowwort rhizome (Baiqian). 3. Relieving cough due to tuberculosis. Stemona root (Baibu) is used with Ophiopogon root (Maidong) and Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang). 4. Lice of the head or body. The herb is made into a 20% tincture, or a 50% decoction used as an external wash.5. Pinworm. The 30-ml 100% decoction as an enema before sleep, daily for five days.
Capitellate Hedyotis
English Name
Hedyotis capitellata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute appendicitis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, rheumatic arthralgia, traumatic swelling and pain.
Potential Indication
Its decoction possess bacteriostatic effect on Staphylococcus aureus and B-streptococcus..
Dahurian Angelica
English Name
Angelica dahurica [Syn. Angelica porphyrocaulis]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute appendicitis, pulmonary abscess and skin infection. Recently also for pancreatitis, tonsillitis, P. viloso also used to influenza, while P. scabiosaefolia for snake bite. Treatment of postpartum abdominal pain and menorrhalgia due to blood stasis, chest pain, etc. Treatment of vexation, insomnia, insanity.
Potential Indication
1. Two active components, patrinene and isopatrinene, possess sedative effect. 2. To promote regeneration of hepatic cells and portal circulation, protect hepatic cells from degernation and improve hepatic function.
Chinese Juniper
English Name
Sabina chinensis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute dysentery and diarrhea, morbid leukorrhea, inflammation of the eye, nebula.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the growth of dysentery bacillus and staphylococcus.2. Antitussive and expectorant.3. Aesculin, one of its active components, prolongs the hypnotic effect of hexobarbital in mice.4. Aescuktin, another active component, exerts an antihistaminic effect and relaxes smooth muscles of guinea-pig's trachea in vitro.5. Analgesic. The effect of aescuktin is stronger than that of aspirin but weaker than codeine.
NA
English Name
Smyrnium olusatrum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute dysentery, icteric hepatitis conjunctivitis, ulcers, boils, carbuncles, toothache due to fire in the stomach.
Potential Indication
Berberine is the main active component with an action similar to Rhizoma Coptidis. Another active component, isotetrandrine, is an anticarcinogenic agent.
Officinal Asparagus
English Name
Asparagus officinalis
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute or chronic cough and asthma with copious expectoration, hemoptysis in consumptive diseases.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the growth of some gram-negative bacteria and influenzae virus in vitro. 2. Its benzene and methyl alcohol extract exert an expectorant effect.
Forbes Wildginger
English Name
Asarum forbesii
Latin Name
rhizome and root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute urinary infection or urolithiasis with difficult painful urination, jaundice with dark urine, hepatic or biliary calculus, carbuncles, sores, venomous snake bite.
Potential Indication
Increasing biliary secretion.
Camphortree
English Name
Cinnamomum camphora
Latin Name
wood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of acute urinary infection, urolithiasis, acute jaundice, painful swelling in sores and carbuncies, traumatic injuries.
Potential Indication
NA
Remote Lemongrass
English Name
Cymbopogon distans
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of afternoon fever and night sweating in consumptive diseases, cough, hemoptysis and epistaxis due to heat in the lung, diabetes caused by internal heat.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction, infusion, tincture and injection exert a hypotensive effect on anesthetized or unanesthetized animals.2. Antipyretic. Reducing vaccine-induced fever in rabbits.3. Its extract lowers serum cholesterol level in rabbits,4. Its decoction reduces blood sugar level in rabbits5. An active component, betaine, possesses a lipocaic effect.
Laxleaf Sweetroot
English Name
Osmorhiza aristata var. laxa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of amenorrhea and mass formation in the abdomen caused by blood stasis, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis.
Potential Indication
NA
Littleconical Rabdosia
English Name
Rabdosia coetsa
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of amenorrhea due to blood stasis, difficult labour, missed labour, retention of placenta.
Potential Indication
NA
Spring Knotweed
English Name
Polygonum persicaria
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of amenorrhea with mass formation in the abdomen, galactostasis, carbuncles and sores, arthralgia with numbness and muscular contracture.
Potential Indication
Raising the level of white blood cells.
Yunnan Pleurospermum
English Name
Pleurospermum rivulorum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of amenorrhea with mass formation in the abdomen, galactostasis, carbuncles and sores, arthralgia with numbness and muscular contracture.
Potential Indication
Raising the level of white blood cells.
White Cowparsnip*
English Name
Heracleum rapula
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of amenorrhea with mass formation in the abdomen, galactostasis, carbuncles and sores, arthralgia with numbness and muscular contracture.
Potential Indication
Raising the level of white blood cells.
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