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Common Crapemyrtle Root
English Name
Lagerstroemia indica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen heart, promote vomiting, drain precipitation, anesthetize (juice), resolve heat (seed), promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Scrofula (juice), dysentery (seed).
Poisonous Buttercup
English Name
Ranunculus sceleratus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen lumbus and knees, dispel wind-damp, disinhibit joints.
Potential Indication
Kidney vacuity lumbar pain and back rigidity, inability of legs and knees, wind-damp impediment pain, frequent urination, emission, excessive leukorrhea.
Smallflower Yam
English Name
Dioscorea parviflora
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To strengthen sinews and lumbus.
Potential Indication
NA
Gamboge Tree Resin
English Name
Garcinia morella
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and blood, dispel wind and eliminate impediment, fortify spleen and stomach.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, vacuity detriment.
Chinese Aucuba
English Name
Aucuba chinensis ssp. omeiensis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and blood, fortify spleen and stomach, engender liquid and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity during convalescence, gan accumulation, edema, spleen vacuity diarrhea, wind-damp impediment pain.
Chinese Honeylocust Thorn
English Name
Gleditsia sinensis [Syn. Gleditsia horrida]
Latin Name
thorn
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and blood, strengthen sinews and bones, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Vacuity of qi and blood, lung vacuity cough, palpitation and night sweating, wind-damp impediment pain, strangury, edema.
Hispid Yam
English Name
Dioscorea hispida
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and clear lung, boost wits and nourish heart, promote contraction and stanch bleeding, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and general weakness, aversion of cold during convalescence, shortness of breath and hypodynamia, lung heat cough, hemoptysis, leukorrhea, diarrhea, knocks and falls, burns and scalds, neurosis, altitude stress.
Castorbean Seed
English Name
Ricinus communis
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and disinhibit water, dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones.
Potential Indication
Edema, inhibited urination, aching in lumbus and knees, slowness to work.
Hanbury Garcinia*
English Name
Garcinia hanburyi
Latin Name
resin
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and quiet spirit, strengthen essence and enrich kidney, dispel wind and quicken blood, dispel damp and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Neurasthenia, rheumatic arthritis, hepatitis, diabetes mellitus, gastrospasm, constipation, bleeding due to external injury.
Maire Alstonia
English Name
Alstonia mairei
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and reinforce yang , suppress cough, free network vessels, abate fever.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and general weakness, fatigued spirit and lassitude, impotence, vacuity cough, wind-cold-damp impediment, diabetes mellitus, hypertension.
Shiny Peperomia
English Name
Peperomia pellucida
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and blood, boost heart and liver.
Potential Indication
Qi-blood depletion, heart-spleen vacuity, fatigue hypodynamia, palpitation and insomnia.
Crownofhorns Euphorbia
English Name
Euphorbia milii
Latin Name
Stem-leaf and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and fortify spleen, eliminate vexation and allay thirst, check dysentery and diarrhea .
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, reduced food intake, fatigue hypodynamia, vexation and thirst, diarrhea.
Conicum Conocephalus*
English Name
Conocephalum conicum
Latin Name
thallus
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and nourish blood, moisten lung and engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Blood vaculty, spontaneous sweating, scant breast milk, lung vacuity cough, neurasthenia, mounting qi .
Dawn Redwood
English Name
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Latin Name
leaf and fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and nourish blood, moisten lung and relieve cough, stanch bleeding, lower blood pressure, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and blood depletion, lung vacuity enduring cough, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, blood dysentery, bleeding from hemorrhoids, flooding and spotting, hypertension, eyeground hemorrhage, carcinoma of uterine cervix, carcinoma of vagina, painful wound from knocks and falls.
Szechwan Adonis
English Name
Adonis sutchuenensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi and nourish yin, clear fire and engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity, yin depletion and effulgent fire, cough and asthma with phlegm-blood, vacuity heat and vexation fatigue, diabetes mellitus due to internal heat, thirst with dry throat.
Creeping Acroptilon
English Name
Acroptilon repens
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement qi, nourish blood, boost essence.
Potential Indication
Vacuity detriment, marked emaciation, steaming bone taxation fever, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, night sweating, emission, impotence, qi -blood depletion, infertility, scant breast milk.
Manyleaf Paris Equivalent plant: Paris polyphylla var chinensis, Paris polyphylla var Yunnanensis , Paris polyphylla var pseudothibetica , Paris polyphylla var stenophylla
English Name
Paris polyphylla
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement yin, boost liver and kidney, strengthen lumbus and legs.
Potential Indication
Liver kidney vacuity, weakness in lumbus and knees.
Ermans Birch
English Name
Betula ermanii
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and enrich yin, boost essence and replenish marrow.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity with yellow complexion, dizziness and palpitation, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], incessant flooding and spotting, liver-kidney yin depletion, tidal fever with night sweat, impotence and emission, sterility and infertility, limp aching lumbus and knees, tinnitus and deafness, dizzy head and vision, premature graying in beard and hair, diabetes mellitus, constipation, kidney vacuity hasty asthma.
Queen Crapemyrtle
English Name
Lagerstroemia speciosa
Latin Name
root and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and quicken blood, free channels and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
blood vacuity, septicemia, menstrual disorder, numbness and paralysis, aching in lumbus and legs.
Tuberose
English Name
Polianthes tuberosa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To supplement blood and quicken blood, regulate menstruation and relieve pain, moisten dryness and lubricate intestines.
Potential Indication
Blood vaculty, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, intestinal dry and constipation.
Tamarind Fruit
English Name
Tamarindus indica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Poisoning from almonds.
Vermiculate Thamnolia Thallus
English Name
Thamnolia vermicularis
Latin Name
lichen body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stubborn lichen with sore toxin.
Hindu Lotus Petiole
English Name
Nelumbo nucifera
Latin Name
dried petiole and pedicel
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To return yang and treat collapse, supplement fire and reinforce yang.
Potential Indication
Yan g -collapse vacuity desertion, cold limbs and faint pulse, impotence, uterus cold, cold pain in heart and abdomen, vacuity cold chronic diarrhea and dysentery, yin cold edema, yang vacuity external contraction, wind-cold-damp impediment, yin flat abscess and sores.
Daghestan Sweetclover
English Name
Melilotus suaveolens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To secure qi and rough essence, constrain lung, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea, hematochezia, emission, genital sweating, cough, hemoptysis, toothache, bleeding due to external injury, enduring sores.
Puncturevine Caltrap Shoot*
English Name
Tribulus terrestris
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To secure essence and reduce urine, astringe intestines and check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Emission, enuresis and frequent urination, flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.
Hindu Lotus Leaf-base
English Name
Nelumbo nucifera
Latin Name
leaf-base
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To secure teeth.
Potential Indication
Toothache.
Cablin Potchouli
English Name
Pogostemon cablin [Syn. Mentha cablin ]
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle fright, harmonize stomach, resolve toxin and outthrust papules, engender flesh and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, epilepsy, child indigestion, measles papules, sore and boil, bleeding due to external injury.
Japanese Apricot Kernel
English Name
Prunus mume
Latin Name
kernel
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain and calm.
Potential Indication
Various pains.
White Sweetclover
English Name
Melilotus albus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain and relieve cough, disinhibit urine and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Pain in sensory nerve endings, pain from ulcer in digestive tract, stomachache, abdominal pain, enteritis, dysentery, chronic bronchitis, pertussis, cough, jaundice, edema, ascites, scab and lichen with swelling of sores, snake or insect bites.
Ginseng Leaf
English Name
Panax ginseng [Syn. Panax schinseng ]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain and resolve tetany.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and abdomen, toothache, cough and asthma.
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