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Chinese Coriaria Leaf
English Name
Coriaria sinica [Syn. Coriaria nepalensis]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm kidney and harmonize center, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cold mounting, stomach cold with retching counterflow, abdominal pain, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia.
Toad Skin
English Name
Bufo bufo gargarizans, Bufo melanostictus
Latin Name
skin
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm kidney and invigorate yang , regulate menstruation and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Impotence, limp aching lumbus and knees, vaginal discharge, menstrual disorder, wind-damp impediment, bleeding due to external injury.
Cochinhina Momordica Root
English Name
Momordica cochinchinensis
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm kidney and invigorate yang , dispel wind, dry damp, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Impotence, scrotal damp itch, vaginal discharge, pudendal itch, trichomoniasis, eczema, infertility due to uterus cold, wind-damp impediment pain, scab and lichen, damp sore.
Common Four-o’clock Leaf
English Name
Mirabilis jalapa
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm kidney and invigorate yang , dispel wind and overcome damp, quicken blood and free menstruation.
Potential Indication
Impotence, weakness in lumbus and knees, wind-damp impediment pain, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, uterus cold and abdominal pain, cold rheum cough.
Indigobush Amorpha
English Name
Amorpha fruticosa
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm kidney, warm spleen.
Potential Indication
Kidney vacuity lumbar cold, impotence, spleen vacuity cold dysentery.
Field Groundsel
English Name
Senecio oryzetorum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm lung and transform rheum, dissipate cold and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-rheum cough asthma, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, intestinal wind blood dysentery, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, cold mounting with abdominal pain, toothache, bad breath.
Wight’s StJohn’swort Equivalent plant: Hypericum elodeoides
English Name
Hypericum wightianum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm lung, suppress cough, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, pertussis, tuberculosis, senile cough and asthma, scab and lichen.
Worm-killed Bitterleaf
English Name
Vernonia anthelmintica
Latin Name
fruit or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm spleen and kidney, increase appetite,move qi, dissipate cold, resolve toxin of fish and meat.
Potential Indication
Sand foulness retching, cold pain in abdomen, cold mounting, glomus fullness.
Caper Euphorbia Latex
English Name
Euphorbia lathyris
Latin Name
white juice in stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm spleen and stomach, warm liver and kidney, dispel cold and relieve pain, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, aching cold in lumbus and knees, cold mounting with abdominal pain, cold-damp impediment pain, dysmenorrhea, blood dysentery, intestinal wind, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Decurrent Archangelica
English Name
Archangelica decurrens
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm spleen, check diarrhea, warm kidney, reduce urine, secure essence.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity cold, vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in abdomen, drooling, enuresis due to kidney vacuity, frequent urination, emission, white turbidity.
Stellate Cladonia
English Name
Cladonia stellaris [Syn. Cladonia alpestris]
Latin Name
branch-like body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach and center, move qi and relieve pain, dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Running piglet, beriberi, edema, scab and lichen, bleeding due to external injury.
Negundo Chastetree Seed*
English Name
Vitex negundo
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach and dissipate cold, disperse food and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stomachache with distention and oppression, dysphagia-occlusion and stomach reflux, abdominal pain and diarrhea, rheumatism, cold pain of joints.
Longleaf Debregeasia
English Name
Debregeasia longifolia
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach and eliminate accumulation, soften hardness and dissipate binds, dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Child food accumulation, goiter and carcinoma of neck, phlegm node, wind-damp bone pain.
Rosthorn Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon rosthornii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach, check vomiting.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in heart and abdomen.
Common Marsharigold
English Name
Caltha palustris
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach, dispel wind, dissipate cold, move qi, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea.
Chinese Trumpetcreeper Stem-leaf
English Name
Campsis grandiflora
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach, dissipate cold, dry damp.
Potential Indication
Qi pain, stomachache, abdominal pain, stomach cold pain, indigestion, malaria.
Dog Heart
English Name
Canis familiaris
Latin Name
heart
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm stomach, dissipate cold, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Qi pain in heart and stomach, stomach cold, food damage vomiting and diarrhea.
Wild poplar
English Name
Populus davidiana
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of abdomen pain due to intestinal worms, sores, uterine bleeding (drug carbonizing).
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Arborvitae Branch
English Name
Thuja orientalis
Latin Name
branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of acute and chronic bronchitis.
Potential Indication
NA
Indian Python
English Name
Python molurus bivittatus
Latin Name
meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, pricking pain in the chest and hypochondriac regions arthralgia.
Potential Indication
NA
NA
English Name
Milingtonia hortensis
Latin Name
bark or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of anasarca with constipation and oliguria, dyspnea and cough caused by retained fluid, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis, ascariasis, taeniasis.
Potential Indication
1. One of its components, pharbitin, is purgative.2. Large dosage may induc hyperemia of kidney and cause hematuria.3. Killing Ascaris suis in vitro.
Creeping Rockfoil
English Name
Saxifraga stolonifera
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of anasarca with constipation and oliguria, dyspnea and cough caused by retained fluid, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis, ascariasis, taeniasis.
Potential Indication
1. One of its components, pharbitin, is purgative.2. Large dosage may induc hyperemia of kidney and cause hematuria.3. Killing Ascaris suis in vitro.
Common Papermulberry
English Name
Broussonetia papyrifera
Latin Name
branch
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of chronic bronchitis with cough and asthma.
Potential Indication
1. Oral administration of its eemulsion (0.52-1.73g.kg) exerts a strong expectorant effect in mice.2. Oral administration of its volatile oil (1.04g/kg) exerts a significant antitussive effect in mice with cough induced by inhalation of concentrated ammonia.3. Increasing the hypnotic effect of pentobarital sodium in mice.
Chinese Honeylocust Leaf
English Name
Gleditsia sinensis [Syn. Gleditsia horrida]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of chronic bronchitis.
Potential Indication
NA
South China Honeyloeust
English Name
Gleditsia fera
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of chronic rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis with numbeness and contracture, hemiplegia in stroke, convulsion, tetanus, leprosy, scabies ringworm.
Potential Indication
NA
Korean Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum coreanum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of constipation with retention of dry feces and abdominal pain caused by excessive heat , appendicitis. External use of Natrii Sulfas: Mastitis, painful swollen hemorrhoids.
Potential Indication
It contain mainly Na2SO4.10 H2O which is a potent purgative.
Reddish Jackinthepulpit Equivalent plant: Pinellia pedatisecta, Arisaema heterophyllum , Arisaema amurense
English Name
Arisaema consanguineum
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of cough and dyspnea caused by heat in the lung, vomiting, fever and thirst caused by heat in the stomach.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.2. Its saponins exert an expectorant effect.3. Inhibiting the influenza virus.
Giant Typhonium
English Name
Typhoniun giganteum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of cough and expectroation in influenza or upper respiratory infection, measles, rubella, sore throat, mumps, erysipelas, carbuncles and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Its extract exerts a significant and prolonged effect of lowering blood sugar in rats.2. Mildly diuretic and laxative.3. An active component, arctiin, can induce tonic convulsion, feeble respiration and eventually paralysis in frogs, mice and rabbits.
Black Falsehellebore Equivalent plant: Veratrum grandiflorum
English Name
Veratrum nigrum
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treament of depression with fidgetness, epigastric pain due to stagnation of qi of the liver and stomach, globus hystericus, scrofula, ulcers.
Potential Indication
NA
Silvervine Actinidia
English Name
Actinidia polygama
Latin Name
branchlet-leaf
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.
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