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Brooklet Anemone
English Name
Anemone rivularis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, check diarrhea, resolve toxin and close sores.
Potential Indication
Internal bleeding, water diarrhea, scalds.
Robust Silene*
English Name
Silene firma
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, clear heat, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Lung heat hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, bloody stool, bleeding hemorrhoids, bleeding due to external injury, fever, infant fright wind, damp-heat jaundice, strangury, edema, burns and scalds.
Japanese Croomia
English Name
Croomia japonica
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, close sores.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, nosebleed(epistaxis), hematuria, bleeding of digestive tract, heaven-borne sore, scalds.
Marshy Betony
English Name
Stachys palustris
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, close sores.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis and hemoptysis, bleeding of digestive tract, bleeding due to external injury, shank sore.
Linear Stonecrop
English Name
Sedum lineare [Syn. Sedum obtuso-lineare ]
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, disinhibit damp heat, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], hepatitis, oxyuria disease.
Doederlein’s Spikemoss
English Name
Selaginella doederleinii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, disinhibit urine, brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hemoptysis, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, red eyes and eye screen.
Edible Tulip
English Name
Tulipa edulis
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, dissipate stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, knocks and falls, wind-damp pain, welling abscess and flat abscess with clove sore, snake or insect bites.
Largeflower Purslane
English Name
Portulaca grandiflora
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, engender flesh, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Incised wound and bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, enduring sores.
Golden Buckwheat Root
English Name
Fagopyrum cymosum [Syn. Polygonum cymosum ]
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, free strangury.
Potential Indication
Spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematochezia, bleeding from hemorrhoids, blood dysentery, dribbling pain of urination.
Common Devilpepper Stem and Leaf
English Name
Rauvolfia verticillata
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Terrene leech bite.
Pentagonous Ardisia
English Name
Ardisia quinquegona
Latin Name
stem, leaf or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, moisten dryness.
Potential Indication
Nosebleed(epistaxis), dry stool.
Autumn Lycoris
English Name
Lycoris squamigera
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, move stasis.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, flooding, knocks and falls, wind impediment, lumbago, welling abscess toxin, swelling of clove.
White Pearlweed
English Name
Lysimachia candida
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, quicken blood, transform rheum, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Flooding, blood strangury, prolapse of rectum with bleeding, vaginal discharge, amenorrhea.
Japanese Butterbur
English Name
Petasites japonicus
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Nosebleed(epistaxis), stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea.
Dwarf Many-flowered May-apple
English Name
Dysosma difformis
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Stomach and esophagus hemorrhage, bleeding due to external injury, frostbite flowing water and pus.
Japanese Staphania
English Name
Stephania japonica
Latin Name
root or stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury.
Lovely Hemsleya Equivalent plant: Hemsleya macrosperma
English Name
Hemsleya amabilis
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury.
Indian Aeginetia
English Name
Aeginetia indica
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding, bleeding due to external injury.
Arrowshaped Tinospora Equivalent plant: Tinospora capillipes
English Name
Tinospora sagittata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis.
Medicinal Kopsia
English Name
Kopsia officinalis
Latin Name
fruit and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Incessant intestinal wind bleeding.
Bridalwreath Spiraea Equivalent plant: Spiraea thunbergii
English Name
Spiraea prunifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Coral Ardisia
English Name
Ardisia crenata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Precipitate blood of large intestine, hemoptysis, flooding.
Avicenna’s Pricklyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum avicennae
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart and disinhibit urine, dispel phlegm and settle asthma, settle pain, dispel stasis.
Potential Indication
Congestive cardiac failure, cough and asthma, epilepsy, painful swelling from knocks and falls, amenorrhea due to blood stasis.
Dockleaved Knotweed
English Name
Polygonum lapathifolium
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart and disinhibit urine, harmonize stomach and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Cardiac failure, palpitation, edema, spleen-stomach disharmony, non-digestion of food accumulation.
NA
English Name
Reboulia hemisphaerica
Latin Name
thallus
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart and disinhibit urine, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Edema due to heart disease, hepatitis, dysmenorrhea, toxin swelling of sores, mouth sore, burns and scalds, zoster, psoriasis.
Macropodous Daphniphyllum
English Name
Daphniphyllum macropodum
Latin Name
leaf and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart and disinhibit urine, upbear yang and effuse exterior.
Potential Indication
Edema due to heart disease, arrhythmia, non-eruption of macula, knocks and falls.
Japanese Ampelopsis
English Name
Ampelopsis japonica [Syn. Paullinia japonica]
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart and disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Cardiac failure, edema due to heart disease.
Chinese Narcissus Bulb
English Name
Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart, anesthetize.
Potential Indication
Flooding, cough harmful to lung.
Dyetree Leaf
English Name
Platycarya strobilacea
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart, disinhibit urine and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Cardiac failure, paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, paroxysmal fibrillation.
Japanese Rose Root
English Name
Rosa multiflora
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart, disinhibit urine, calm.
Potential Indication
Cardiac insufficiency, atrial fibrillation, congestive cardiac failure, edema due to heart disease, CNS depression.
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