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Florida Waltheria
English Name
Waltheria americana
Latin Name
root and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and stanch bleeding, clear heat and disinhibit urine, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Flooding, wound swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, damp-heat strangury pain, leukorrhea, infant diarrhea, hemorrhoids and fistulas, red eyes with gall, burns and scalds, poisonous insect stings.
Littleleaf Stephania
English Name
Stephania succifera
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and stanch bleeding, disperse swelling and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, blood dysentery, flooding, postpartum persistent flow of lochia, knocks and falls.
Climbing Fumitory
English Name
Adlumia cirrhosa [Syn. Adlumia fungosa]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To transform stasis and stanch bleeding, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, painful swelling from knocks and falls, scrofula, scab and lichen.
Japanese Scopolia
English Name
Scopolia japonica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To upbear yang and raise fall.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity qi fall, enduring diarrhea, prolapse of rectum.
Gigantic Corydalis*
English Name
Corydalis gigantea
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To war m yang and disinhibit water, dispel wind and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Congestive cardiac failure, rheumatic heart disease, paroxysmal tachycardia, edema.
Chinese Thistle
English Name
Cirsium chinense
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm yang and dissipate cold, rectify qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cold mounting with abdominal pain, kidney vacuity lumbago, vomiting with stomach cold, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, septicemia.
Lychee
English Name
Litchi chinensis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm yang, disinhibit urine, raise spirit.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Waxmyrtle
English Name
Myrica rubra
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and boost qi.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus.
Alligator Alternanthera
English Name
Alternanthera philoxeroides
Latin Name
fresh aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, break phlegm and disinhibit orifices, free network vessels and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Vomiting with stomach cold, pain in heart and abdomen, lung cold cough, impediment pain, throat impediment, flowing phlegm, knocks and falls.
Wheat
English Name
Triticum aestivum [Syn. Triticum vulgare ]
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, kill worms and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, wind-cold-damp impediment, knocks and falls, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation.
Common Tulip Root
English Name
Tulipa gesneriana
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, move qi and relieve pain, warm kidney.
Potential Indication
Stomach cold with retching counterflow, distention fullness, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, rumbling intestines and diarrhea, cold mounting with abdominal pain, cold-damp dribbling urination and turbid urine.
Nanmu
English Name
Phoebe nanmu
Latin Name
wood branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, move qi and relieve pain, calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, glomus fullness, asthma.
Chinese Floweringquince
English Name
Chaenomeles sinensis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, headache.
Red-knees Fruit
English Name
Polygonum hydropiper
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, move qi and relieve pain, transform damp and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in stomach duct, cold-damp diarrhea, wind-damp impediment pain, mounting qi , toothache, edema.
Black Pepper
English Name
Piper nigrum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, precipitate qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, toothache, deep-source nasal congestion, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris.
India Mustard Seed
English Name
Brassica juncea
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, precipitate qi and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Stomach cold and qi stagnation, distending pain in stomach duct, vomiting, diarrhea, wind-damp pain, frostbite.
Coralhead Plant
English Name
Abrus precatorius
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, precipitate qi, disperse phlegm.
Potential Indication
Vomiting with stomach cold, abdominal pain and diarrhea, inappetence, convulsion, epilepsy and profuse phlegm.
Sandal Beadtree
English Name
Adenanthera pavonina
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and dissipate cold, return yang and free vessels, warm lung and transform rheum.
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, yang -collapse reversal flow, cold rheum asthma cough, cold-damp impediment pain.
Indigoplant Fruit
English Name
Polygonum tinctorium
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and downbear counterflow, warm kidney and invigorate yang .
Potential Indication
Stomach cold with retching counterflow, hiccough, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, reduced food intake and diarrhea, kidney vacuity impotence, vacuity cold in lumbus and knees, yin flat abscess.
Chinese Wampee Leaf
English Name
Clausena lansium
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To warm center and fortify stomach, dispel cold and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stomach cold pain, distention fullness in stomach duct.
Prepared Manyinflorescenced Sweetvetch Root
English Name
Radix Hedysari Preparata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, rough essence and stem desertion.
Potential Indication
Dizziness and tinnitus, aching in lumbus and knees, impotence and emission, enuresis and frequent urination, flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge, vacuity and profuse sweating, vacuity desertion due to great sweating, diabetes mellitus due to internal heat, dysmenorrhea.
Yerbadetajo
English Name
Eclipta prostrata [Syn. Eclipta alba]
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, secure essence and reduce urine, quiet fetus, brighten eyes, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Impotence and emission, dribbling urination, enuresis and frequent urination, limp aching lumbus and knees, tinnitus and dim vision, fetal spotting due to kidney vacuity, stirring fetus in pregnancy, diarrhea due to spleen-kidney vacuity, white patch wind.
Indian Nightshade
English Name
Solanum indicum
Latin Name
fruit, seed and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, fortify spleen and stomach, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
liver kidney vacuity, dizzy head and vision, sleepless and amnesia, premature graying in beard and hair, impotence, emission, limp aching lumbus and knees, spleen vacuity and functional weakness, distention fullness in stomach duct, inappetence, diarrhea, postpartum scant milk, fish mouth sore toxin.
Trifoliate-orange Root-bark
English Name
Poncirus trifoliata
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, joint bones, check flooding and spotting.
Potential Indication
Limp aching lumbus and knees, wind-damp impediment pain, flooding and spotting, profuse menstruation, fetal bleeding, knocks and falls.
Puncturevine Caltrap Root
English Name
Tribulus terrestris
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Lumbar and back pain, limp aching inability of legs and knees, hypertension.
Papaya Leaf
English Name
Carica papaya
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Aching in lumbus and knees, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, concretion and conglomeration, retention of placenta , heat strangury, blood strangury, knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess and malign sore, swelling pain in throat.
Prickly Sowthistle
English Name
Sonchus asper [Syn. Sonchus oleraceus var. asper ]
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, secure essence qi, check dysentery and diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Liver kidney vacuity, premature graying in beard and hair, weakness in sinews and bones, chronic diarrhea, dream emission, incessant vaginal discharge, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.
Common Snapdragon
English Name
Antirrhinum majus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement liver, quiet heart, constrain sweat, engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Neurasthenia, vacuity vexation and insomnia, fright palpitation, arrhythmia, frequent dreaming, vacuity and profuse sweating, fluid damage and thirst.
Tithymalus-like Pedilanthus
English Name
Pedilanthus tithymaloides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney, clear heat and relieve cough, dissipate stasis and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with cough, kidney vacuity lumbar pain, pain in throat, painful swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury.
Chrusanthemum-like Groundsel
English Name
Senecio chrysanthemoides
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation cough, child gan accumulation, abdominal distention with edema, sw elling toxin of sore and welling abscess.
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