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Crab-craw Orchis*
English Name
Schlumbergera truncata
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney, stanch bleeding and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Impotence and emission, neurasthenia, backache, aching in lumbus and knees, enduring cough and vacuity asthma, taxation damage hemoptysis.
Incised Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis incisa
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, boost essence and blood, fortify spleen and disperse food, resolve toxin and cure sores.
Potential Indication
Aching in lumbus and knees, impotence and emission, dizziness and tinnitus, palpitation and insomnia, inappetence, child gan sore, postpartum scant milk, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, poisonous snake bite.
Cassave Aerial Parts
English Name
Manihot esculenta
Latin Name
leaf or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis, phlegm containing blood, night sweating, blood vaculty, lumbago.
Greyblue Pericampylus
English Name
Pericampylus glaucus
Latin Name
vine or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost kidney.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis, phlegm containing blood, night sweating, blood vaculty, lumbago.
Greyblue Spicebush Leaf
English Name
Lindera glauca
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and boost spleen, dispel wind and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation, lung vacuity enduring cough, flooding, vaginal discharge, scant breast milk, wind-damp bone pain, pain wind, hemiplegia, hypertension, knocks and falls.
Common Pathenium
English Name
Parthenium hysterophorus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement lung and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Lung vacuity cough.
Lance Coreopsis
English Name
Coreopsis lanceolata
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement original qi greatly, restore pulse and stem desertion, supplement spleen and boost lung, engender liquid, quiet spirit, lower blood sugar levels.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and verging on desertion, cold limbs and faint pulse, reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, fluid damage and thirst, diabetes mellitus due to internal heat, enduring illness qi vacuity, fright palpitation and insomnia, impotence, uterus cold, cardiac failure.
Toad Gall
English Name
Bufo bufo gargarizans, Bufo melanostictus
Latin Name
gall
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement original qi greatly, engender liquid and quiet spirit, strengthen heart and lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Qi -blood depletion, vacuity taxation with profuse sweating, vacuity desertion failure, hypotension.
root of Morinda officinalis
English Name
Radix Morindae officinalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement original qi greatly, supplement spleen and boost lung, engender liquid and allay thirst, quiet spirit and boost wits.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and verging on desertion, spleen vacuity and fatigued body, inappetence, vomiting, diarrhea, lung vacuity and shortness of breath, cough, hasty asthma, vacuity and profuse sweating, fluid damage and thirst, diabetes mellitus, insomnia and frequent dreaming, fright palpitation and amnesia, anemia with yellow complexion, kidney vacuity impotence, frequent urination, qi -blood fluids vacuity depletion.
Broadbean Leaf
English Name
Vicia faba
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and blood, strengthen sinews and bones, soothe channels and network vessels.
Potential Indication
Qi -blood depletion, menstrual disorder, anemia and amenorrhea, wind-damp pain, knocks and falls, taxation damage in lumbar muscle.
Flowery Stonebean-orchis
English Name
Bulbophyllum odoratissimum [Syn. Stelis odoratissimum]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and boost qi, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity and food distention, stomachache, lassitude in limbs, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, senile nocturia, blood ejection from knocks and falls.
Caudate Sweetleaf Leaf
English Name
Symplocos caudata
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and boost kidney, quicken blood and strengthen sinews.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity diarrhea, lassitude in lumbar and knees, knocks and falls.
Yunnan Pholidota
English Name
Pholidota yunnanensis
Latin Name
Pseudobulb or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and boost kidney.
Potential Indication
Paralysis, spleen vacuity diarrhea, kidney vacuity and emission, pain in lumbus and legs, numbness in limbs.
Bluntleaf Dock
English Name
Rumex obtusifolius
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and check diarrhea, boost kidney and secure essence, nourish heart and quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Chronic diarrhea, inappetence, emission, restlessness, fright palpitation, insomnia, flooding and spotting, excessive leukorrhea.
Sisal Hemp-plant
English Name
Agave sisalana
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and fortify stomach, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Edema, edema in pregnancy, damp impediment, beriberi, postpartum scant milk, habitual abortion, tuberculosis and vacuity, distention fullness in stomach duct, intestinal wind, bleeding from hemorrhoids, scab and lichen.
Leatherleaf Mahonia Leaf Equivalent plant: Mahonia fortunei, Mahonia japonica
English Name
Mahonia bealei
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement spleen and warm stomach, warm kidney and invigorate yang , replenish essence .
Potential Indication
Distention fullness in stomach duct and abdomen, edema, lumbago and limp leg, impotence, cold malaria, enduring vanquished sore.
Bigflower Rhodiola
English Name
Rhodiola crenulata [Syn. Rhodiola euryphylla]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement stomach and spleen, boost lung and kidney.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity diarrhea, lung vacuity enduring cough, kidney vacuity and emission, diabetes mellitus.
Fewflower Lysionotus
English Name
Lysionotus pauciflorus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement stomach and spleen, clear heat and resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Malign sore and swelling toxin, intestinal parasitic disease.
Sasak Stephania*
English Name
Stephania sasakii
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement stomach and spleen, relax tension and relieve pain, moisten lung and relieve cough, moisten intestines and free stool, moisten skin and engender flesh, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and abdomen, lung heat dry cough, intestinal dry and constipation, red eyes, mouth sore, enduring sores, wind papule itching, burns and scalds, cracking of hands and feet.
Tianshan Mountain Mountainash
English Name
Sorbus tianschanica
Latin Name
branchlet and fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity and boost essence, clear heat and allay thirst, dispel wind and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with fever, vexation and thirst, sore red eyes and clouded vision, eye screen, night blindness, flooding, vaginal discharge, heat toxin sores.
Japanese Hop
English Name
Humulus japonicus [Syn. Humulus scandens]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity and boost kidney, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Exterior vacuity and common cold, dizziness and dim vision, lassitude in limbs, emission, impotence, cough with blood ejection, vacuity cold and abdominal pain, menstrual disorder, swelling of sores, fracture.
Cultivated Scarlet Caterpillar Fungus*
English Name
Cordyceps militaris cv
Latin Name
sclerotium and stroma
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity and boost kidney, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
wind-cold common cold, diarrhea and dysentery, kidney vacuity dizziness.
Scarlet Caterpillar Fung us Equivalent plant: REN GONG YONG CHONG CAO
English Name
Cordyceps militaris
Latin Name
sclerotium and stroma
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity and fortify spleen, free network vessels and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Taxation fatigue and hypodynamia, prolapse of uterus, child gan accumulation, spleen vacuity edema, sparse vaginal discharge, wind-damp impediment pain, lumbago, menstrual disorder , dysmenorrhea, knocks and falls.
Coriaceousleaf Actinidia
English Name
Actinidia rubricaulis var. coriacea
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity and stanch bleeding, relieve cough and settle asthma.
Potential Indication
Dizziness, cough, asthma, blood ejection, hemoptysis.
Common Tritonia
English Name
Tritonia crocosmaeflora
Latin Name
corm
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity detriment, boost lung and stomach, nourish blood, engender liquid and moisten dryness, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation detriment, stomach reflux and dysphagia-occlusion, diabetes mellitus, anemia and constipation, qi vacuity and dysentery, jaundice.
Pink Plumepoppy
English Name
Macleaya cordata
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity, dispel stasis, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with emaciation and weakness, painful swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding due to tympanites.
Hypoglaucous Collett Yam Equivalent plant: Dioscorea gracillima , Dioscorea tokoro
English Name
Dioscorea hypoglauca [Syn. Dioscorea collettii var. hypoglauca]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity, moisten dryness, harmonize stomach, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with emaciation and weakness, diab etes mellitus, heartache, stomach reflux, vomiting, mouth sore, lacquer sore, spider bite.
Bastardtoadflaxlike Swallowwort
English Name
Cynanchum thesioides
Latin Name
whole herb and fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vacuity, relieve cough and dispel phlegm, stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Weakness during convalescence, inappetence, vacuity taxation cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, hematuria, aberratio mensium, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, concretion and conglomeration, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, swollen welling abscess, hemorrhoids, poisonous snake bite.
Common Knotgrass
English Name
Polygonum aviculare
Latin Name
dried aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement vital Qi and promote the production of body fluid. For insufficiency of spleen-yin, spleen-energy, lung-yin and lung-energy manifested as poor appetite, fatigue, thirst and general debilityduring convalescence, for dryness of lung with non-productive cough, febrile diseases with consumption of body fluid and thirst, especially for insufficiency of yin and vital energy in children and spontaneous perspiration in debilitated persons.
Potential Indication
NA
High Mallow
English Name
Malva sylvestris
Latin Name
flower, leaf and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and calm asthma, clear liver and brighten eyes, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, pertussis, infant night crying, red eyes with gall, liver heat and dizziness, headache, dysentery, sore and boil.
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