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Chinese Cricket
English Name
Gryllulus chinensis
Latin Name
dried body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and calm asthma, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Asthma, chronic bronchitis, stomachache, wind-damp pain, scrofula, cold suppurative sore, knocks and falls.
Indian Glorybower
English Name
Clerodendron indicum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and calm asthma, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Asthma, chronic bronchitis, stomachache, wind-damp pain, scrofula, cold suppurative sore, knocks and falls.
Common Houndstongue
English Name
Cynoglossum officinale
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and calm asthma, relieve pain and draw out pus.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, impediment pain, beriberi, prolapse of rectum.
Bearded Tooth Carpophore
English Name
Hericium erinaceus [Syn. Hydnum erinaceus ]
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and calm asthma, relieve pain and settle tetany.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma without phlegm, cold pain in heart and Datura stramonium .
Fiveleaf Gynostemma
English Name
Gynostemma pentaphyllum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and dispel phlegm, dissipate binds, expel water, draw out toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-rheum cough asthma, edema, scrofula, scab and lichen, innominate toxin swelling.
Sword Jackbean Equivalent plant: Canavalia ensiformis
English Name
Canavalia gladiata
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and dispel phlegm, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Trachitis, child aphonia, scrofula in early stage, clove sore of nose.
Bunge Pricklyash Root
English Name
Zanthoxylum bungeanum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and dispel wind.
Potential Indication
Pertussis, acute bronchitis, pharyngolaryngitis.
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English Name
Parasilurus asotus
Latin Name
meat or whole fish
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and settle asthma, resolve toxin and disinhibit damp, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Common cold, cough, asthma, pertussis, tuberculosis, diarrhea, enteritis, malaria, swelling toxin of sore and boil, rheumatic arthritis, toothache, knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
Japanese Metaplexis
English Name
Metaplexis japonica
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough and transform phlegm, dispel wind and dissipate cold.
Potential Indication
Cough with profuse phlegm, asthma, wind-cold common cold, pain in sinews and bones, vaginal discharge, welling abscess and open sore.
Tricuspid Cudrania
English Name
Cudrania tricuspidata
Latin Name
wood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To suppress cough, dispel phlegm, quicken blood, disinhibit urine, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Chronic trachitis, hepatitis, acute nephritis, chronic nephritis, tuberculosis and hemoptysis, blood ejection, dysentery, hypertension, mounting qi, taxation damage and strength desertion, aching sinews and bones, toxin swelling.
Ceylon Houndstongue
English Name
Cynoglossum zeylanicum
Latin Name
root and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and quicken blood, soothe channels and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity, postpartum vacuity weakness, dizziness, menstrual disorder, wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs.
Ochotsk Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis ochotensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and quicken blood, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity and general weakness, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], wind-damp impediment pain, poliomyelitis, knocks and falls.
Marginate Microlepia
English Name
Microlepia marginata
Latin Name
tender leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity and general weakness, taxation damage and sinew bone pain, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, persistent flow of lochia, wind-damp impediment pain, bleeding, knocks and falls.
Indian Azalea Leaf
English Name
Rhododendron simsii
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood, disinhibit urine, lower blood pressure, relieve cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity of women, hypertension, cough with profuse phlegm.
Cherokee Rose Leaf
English Name
Rosa laevigata
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood, quicken blood, free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Septicemia, menstrual disorder, blood vacuity, anemia due to malnutrition, anemia due to bleeding, anemia with yellow complexion, numbness and paralysis, wind-damp impediment pain.
Chinese Tallowtree Leaf
English Name
Sapium sebiferum
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood, quicken blood, strengthen lumbus and knees.
Potential Indication
Blood vaculty, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, postpartum vacuity weakness, aching in lumbus and legs, fracture due to knocks and falls.
Indian Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria indica
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement brain and dispel wind, allay thirst, disperse glomus.
Potential Indication
Head wind dizziness, brain leak, diabetes mellitus, glomus qi.
Japanese Cayratia
English Name
Cayratia japonica
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and boost qi , nourish blood and quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, lack of strength and sloppy stool, visceral agitation.
Common Lantana
English Name
Lantana camara
Latin Name
leaf or branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and boost qi , eliminate vexation and allay thirst, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea and dysentery, vexation and thirst, retching with counterflow, cough, stomachache, goose-mouth sore, sore and welling abscess, scalds.
Cochinhina Momordica Seed
English Name
Momordica cochinchinensis
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and boost qi , engender liquid and allay thirst .
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity diarrhea, distention fullness in chest and abdomen, diabetes mellitus, frequent urination, phlegm asthma, fistula.
Gluey Litse
English Name
Litsea glutinosa
Latin Name
bark and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and boost qi, relax tension and relieve pain, moisten lung and relieve cough, drain fire and resolve toxin, regulate function A, spleen-stomach vacuity, fatigue hypodynamia, palpitation and shortness of breath, cough with profuse phlegm, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, acute spasm in limbs, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction can inhibit intestinal smooth muscles of rabbins in vitro, but glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid have no this effect.2. Possessing an adrenocorticomimetic effect.3. Its extract and glycyrrhizin exerts a detoxifying effect.4. Antitussive and antiasthmatic. 5. Glycyrrhizin has anti-inflammatory effect similar to hydrocortisone.
Chinese Azalea
English Name
Rhododendron molle
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and boost qi, fortify spleen and check diarrhea, reduce urine, constrain sweat, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea due to spleen-stamach vacuity cold, cholera with vomiting of sour matter, diabetes mellitus with profuse urination, spontaneous sweating, variola, hemorrhoids.
Cushaw Seed
English Name
Cucurbita moschata
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement center and harmonize blood, boost qi and engender liquid, loosen intestines and stomach, free stool.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity edema, constipation, toxin swelling of sores.
Kamalatree
English Name
Mallotus philippinensis
Latin Name
pericarpial glandular hairs
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement essence and boost qi, free milk, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vacuity detriment and taxation damage, impotence, emission, vaginal discharge, scant breast milk, erysipelas, scrofula, clove sore, snake or insect bites.
Philippine Mallotus*
English Name
Mallotus philippinensis
Latin Name
pericarpial glandular hairs
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement fire and reinforce yang, return fire to its source, dissipate cold and relieve pain, quicken blood and free menstruation.
Potential Indication
Impotence, uterus cold, cold pain in lumbus and knees, kidney vacuity asthma, yang vacuity dizziness, red eyes and sore pharynx, cold pain in heart and abdomen, vacuity cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold mounting, running piglet, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Manynerve Embelia
English Name
Embelia oblongifolia
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement kidney and boost essence, engender flesh and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation, impotence, emission, incised wound and bleeding.
Broad Buckler-fern
English Name
Dryopteris austriaca
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement kidney and boost essence, free channels and quicken network vessels, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Kidney vacuity dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and frequent dreaming, impotence and emission, wind-damp impediment pain, wind stroke with hemiplegia, numbness in limbs, erythematous lupus, chorionitis, dermatomyositis, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, poisonous snake bite.
Japanese Argimonia Rhizome
English Name
Agrimonia pilosa var. japonica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement kidney and boost essence, strengthen lumbus and knees, relieve pain due to impediment.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with kidney depletion, impotence, limp aching lumbus and knees, damp impediment pain.
Serrate-leaf Myrsine
English Name
Myrsine semiserrata
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement kidney and boost essence, warm lung and settle asthma, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Enduring cough and asthma, bronchitis, lumbago and limp leg, frequent urination, enuresis, impotence, emission, intestinal dry and constipation, stone strangury, sores and scrofula.
Bignose Rhiancanthus
English Name
Rhinacanthus nasutus
Latin Name
branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement kidney and disinhibit water, rectify qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Kidney vacuity lumbago, edema, spasmodic abdominal pain of gastrointestinal tract, mounting qi (hernia), painful swollen testes.
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