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Human Placenta
English Name
Homo sapiens
Latin Name
human placenta
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough, relieve pain, draw out pus.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, wind-damp impediment pain, boil and lichen, malign sore, rabid dog bite.
China Winterberry Currant
English Name
Ribes fasciculatum var. chinense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough, settle pain, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Cough, migraine, abdominal pain, dysentery.
European Grape
English Name
Vitis vinifera
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough, supplement vacuity.
Potential Indication
Spasmodic cough, trachitis, vacuity weakness, inhibited urination.
Shorthorned Epimedium Root
English Name
Epimedium brevicornum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough, transform phlegm, calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Chronic trachitis.
Japanese Raisin Tree Root
English Name
Hovenia dulcis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Cough, scrofula, infection of upper respiratory tract.
Spineless Agave
English Name
Agave americana var. marginata [Syn. Agave americana var. variegata]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To track wind and dissipate cold, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Numbness in limbs, hemiplegia.
Dried Chinese Woodfrog
English Name
Rana temporaria chensinensis, Rana amurensis
Latin Name
dried body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform concretion and disperse accumulation, kill worms, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Concretion and conglomeration, lump glomus, worm accumulation, meat-type food accumulation, cold pain in heart and abdomen, malaria, dysentery.
Peashrub*
English Name
Caragana chamlagu
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform damp and disinhibit water, break stasis and dissipate binds, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vomiting diarrhea with abdominal pain, edema, inhibited urination [=dysuria], concretion and accumulation with glomus distention, swollen welling abscess and sores, scrofula.
Amygdalate Apricot Seed
English Name
Prunus amygdalus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform damp and move qi , warm center and check vomiting, increase appetite and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach qi stagnation due to damp obstructing middle-jiao, vomiting with stomach cold, vomiting of milk in infants with stomach cold.
Diffuse Erysimum
English Name
Erysimum diffusum
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform damp and repel foulness.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach damp turbidity, fullness and oppression in chest and stomach duct, retching counterflow and abdominal pain, bad breath and slimy tongue fur.
Cow Milk
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus, Bubalus bubalis
Latin Name
milk
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform damp aromaticly, increase appetite and check vomiting, effuse exterior and resolve summerheat.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-damp lassitude, oppression in chest, vomiting diarrhea with abdominal pain, deep-source nasal congestion and headache.
Oxhide Gelatin
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus
Latin Name
gelatin made from hide of ox
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform damp, move qi , relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Oppression in chest and abdomen distention, summerheat stroke, cough, prostatitis, Vaginal discharge.
Yunnan Rhodiola
English Name
Rhodiola yunnanesis
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and calm asthma, move qi and dissipate binds, disinhibit water and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Qi counterflow with cough and asthma, oppression in chest and qi bind, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, pain in heart and abdomen, clouded spirit, strangury syndrome.
Goat Milk
English Name
Capra hircus, Ovis aries
Latin Name
milk
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm.
Goat Hide
English Name
Capra hircus, Ovis aries
Latin Name
hide
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and disinhibit damp, dispel stasis and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, child gan accumulation, diarrhea and dysentery, wind-damp impediment pain, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, toothache, prolapse of rectum, wound swelling from knocks and falls, poisonous snake bites.
Sericeous Cinquefoil
English Name
Potentilla reptans var. sericophylla
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and dissipate binds, dispel stasis and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, swelling pain in throat, scrofula, goiter and tuberculosis, swollen welling abscess, clove sore, poisonous snake bite, knocks and falls, pain in joints.
Chinese Wolfberry Leaf
English Name
Lycium chinense
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and dissipate binds, dispel stasis and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, swollen welling abscess, clove sore, pneumonia, parotitis, poisonous snake bite, scrofula, knocks and falls.
Ox Kidney
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus, Bubalus bubalis
Latin Name
kidney
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and expel rheum, dissipate binds and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, fullness in chest and rib-side pain, numbness in limbs, swelling pain in joints, damp phlegm streaming sore, swelling toxin of flat abscess.
Ox Liver
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus, Bubalus bubalis
Latin Name
liver
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and open orifices, dispel damp and fortify stomach, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Stupor due to phlegm reversal, wind stroke, epilepsy, fright palpitation and amnesia, tinnitus and deafness, food accumulation abdominal pain, diarrhea and dysentery, wind-damp pain, eczema, scab sore.
Chicken
English Name
Gallus gallus domesticus
Latin Name
meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and open orifices, quiet spirit, diffuse damp and arouse spleen, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Febrile diseases clouded spirit, epilepsy, qi -block deafness, heavy dreams and amnesia, oppression in chest and abdomen distention, inappetence, wind-damp impediment pain, welling abscess and flat abscess, scab and lichen.
Concentrated Beef Extract
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus
Latin Name
beef extract
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and open orifices, transform damp and move qi , dispel wind and eliminate impediment, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Febrile diseases clouded spirit, phlegm reversal, amnesia, tinnitus, deafness, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, food-denying dysentery, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, scab and lichen with welling abscess and flat abscess.
Japanese Plum
English Name
Prunus salicina
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and relieve cough, quicken blood and dispel wind, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Cough and abundant phlegm, pertussis, vaginal discharge, stomachache, wind-damp impediment pain, infant fright wind, knocks and falls.
Woolly Lespedeza
English Name
Lespedeza tomentosa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm and soften hardness, clear heat and disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Goiter and tuberculosis, beriberi, edema, strangury, swelling pain in throat, cough, diarrhea.
Japanese Metaplexis Seed
English Name
Metaplexis japonica
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm, disinhibit diaphragm, disperse food, check vomiting.
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation in chest and diaphragm, cough with profuse phlegm, non-digestion of food accumulation, nausea and vomiting, drunkenness.
Chinese Peashrub Root
English Name
Caragana sinica
Latin Name
root and root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform phlegm, free network vessels, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Cough and abundant phlegm, wind-damp impediment pain, uterine bleeding.
Spine Date
English Name
Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stagnation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Abdominal pain, iron or wood intake .
Purple Bergenia
English Name
Bergenia purpurascens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and disperse concretion, anticancer.
Potential Indication
carcinoma.
Eelgrass
English Name
Vallisneria spiralis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and disperse concretion, clear heat and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Concretion and conglomeration, pain in rib-side, jaundice, ascites, damp-heat impediment, amenorrhea, menstrual disorder, welling abscess and flat abscess with clove sore, knocks and falls.
English Walnut Leaf
English Name
Juglans regia
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wound swelling from knocks and falls.
Chinese Hibiscus Leaf
English Name
Hibiscus rosa- sinensis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and stanch bleeding, boost qi and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, postpartum abdominal pain, vaginal discharge, jaundice, edema, qi vacuity and hypodynamia.
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