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Chinese Pistache
English Name
Pistacia chinensis
Latin Name
leaf and bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain and suppress cough.
Potential Indication
NA
Balsampear
English Name
Momordica charantia
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain, clear heat.
Potential Indication
NA
Wintersweet Bud
English Name
Chimonanthus fragrans [Syn. Chimonanthus praecox]
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain, promote vomiting.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis, bronchitis, pertussis, chronic sores, poisonous snake bite, malaria.
Kidney Bean
English Name
Phaseolus vulgaris
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle pain.
Potential Indication
Various pain.
Watermelon
English Name
Citrullus vulgaris [Syn. Citrullus lanatus ]
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To settle tetany, calm, effuse sweat and abate fever.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, headache and generalized pain, fright epilepsy.
Hindu Lotus Leaf
English Name
Nelumbo nucifera
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soften hardness and dissipate binds, dispel phlegm, disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Goiter and tuberculosis, scrofula, bleeding, painful swollen testes, phlegm-rheum and edema, prevention of cataracts.
Straw Mushroom
English Name
Volvariella volvacea
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soften hardness and dissipate binds, disperse phlegm and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Goiter and carcinoma of neck, thyroid enlargement, laryngitis, bronchitis.
Sweet Wormwood Equivalent plant: Artemisia apiacea
English Name
Artemisia annua
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soften hardness and dissipate binds, transform phlegm and disperse accumulation, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Goiter and carcinoma of neck, scrofula, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, food accumulation, worm accumulation, distention and oppression in stomach duct and abdomen, nosebleed(epistaxis).
Narrowraceme Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum atriplex
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soften hardness, dispel phlegm, disinhibit urine, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Scrofula, goiter and carcinoma of neck, hypertension.
Tubeflower Dutchmanspipe
English Name
Aristolochia tubiflora
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe channels and quicken network vessels, rectify qi and transform phlegm, disinhibit damp and transform turbidity.
Potential Indication
Pain in lumbus and legs, incessant urinary turbidity, numbness in limbs, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, abundant phlegm and shortness of breath.
Pale Persicaria
English Name
Polygonum nodosum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe depressed liver qi, open stomach qi, dissipate lung qi.
Potential Indication
Dysphagia-occlusion, scrofula.
Narrowleaf Euphorbia
English Name
Euphorbia esula var. cyparissoides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe liver and harmonize stomach, disinhibit water and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, edema, inhibited urination, child mounting qi, poisoning of mushrooms .
Oilpalm
English Name
Elaeis guineensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe liver and resolve depression, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and rib-side due to liver qi depression, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Nitidleaf Croton
English Name
Croton oblongifolius [Syn. Croton laevigatus ]
Latin Name
leaf, root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe liver, harmonize stomach and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Globus hystericus, liver stomach qi pain, inappetence, dizziness, scrofula.
Common Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia absinthium
Latin Name
leaf and stem with flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe liver, move qi , relieve pain, expel worms.
Potential Indication
Chest and rib-side pain, distending pain in stomach duct, mounting qi , abdominal pain due to worm accumulation.
Common Indianmulberry
English Name
Morinda umbellata
Latin Name
root or bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe liver, rectify qi, loosen center, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in chest and rib-side, distending pain in breast, dysmenorrhea, pain in stomach duct, pain in chest and abdomen.
Fordi Phlegmariurus
English Name
Phlegmariurus fordii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe sinews and free network vessels, clear heat and disinhibit damp, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, numbness of limbs, knocks and falls, urinary tract infection, calculus of urinary system, edema, dysentery, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, infant mouth sore, fire eye, lichen, bleeding due to external injury.
Stringy Stonecrop
English Name
Sedum sarmentosum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe sinews and quicken blood, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Painful swelling from knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, hemorrhoids.
Blushred Rabdosia
English Name
Rabdosia rubescens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe sinews and quicken blood, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stasis swelling from knocks and falls, fracture.
NA
English Name
Philonotis fontana
Latin Name
plant body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe sinews and quicken blood, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling, poisonous snake bite, welling abscess and boil, eczema.
Crispateleaf Ardisia
English Name
Ardisia crispa
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe sinews and quicken network vessels, harmonize stomach and transform damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, aching and weightiness of limbs, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, vomiting and diarrhea with cramp, beriberi.
Vetchleaf Sophora
English Name
Sophora viciifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe stagnation and move qi .
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation with abdominal pain and diarrhea, itchy skin, burns and scalds.
Olive
English Name
Canarium album
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe stagnation and move qi, fortify stomach and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Blood stasis and abdominal pain, menstrual disorder, no thought of food and drink.
Caudate Milkwort
English Name
Polygala caudata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and brighten eyes, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Red eyes and eye screen, tearing in wind, wind-damp pain, knocks and falls.
Fig
English Name
Ficus carica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and drain heat, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, headache, swelling pain in throat, lung heat cough, jaundice, diarrhea, heat strangury, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, poisonous snake bite.
Beggarticks
English Name
Bidens bipinnata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and rectify qi, dispel damp and transform stasis.
Potential Indication
Common cold, measles papules, asthma, stomachache, rheumatism, edema, sprain and contusion, fracture, dislocation.
Simple Pronephrium
English Name
Pronephrium simplex [Syn. Meniscium simplex ]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and rectify qi, dispel damp and transform stasis.
Potential Indication
Common cold, measles papules, asthma, stomachache, rheumatism, edema, sprain and contusion, fracture, dislocation.
Garden Sorrel Leaf
English Name
Rumex acetosa
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and resolve exterior, clear heat and resolve toxin, rectify qi and transform phlegm, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Common cold, ardent fever with headache, lung heat cough asthma, pertussis, diarrhea, dysentery, ancylostomiasis, filariasis, wind-damp pain, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, eczema, scab and lichen, burns and scalds, bleeding due to external injury.
Vesper Iris
English Name
Iris dichotoma
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To soothe wind and resolve exterior, relieve cough and dispel phlegm, clear heat and resolve toxin, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Common cold, ardent fever with headache, lung heat cough asthma, abdominal pain and diarrhea, malaria, wind-damp impediment pain, filariasis, leptospirosis, swelling pain in throat, red eyes, eye screen, welling abscess of ear, erysipelas, swollen welling abscess, mammary welling abscess, measles papules, wind papules, eczema, scab and lichen, scalds.
Winter Daphne Flower
English Name
Daphne odora
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, disperse swelling and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, hematuria, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, taxation damage and lumbago, chest and rib-side pain, pain in stomach duct, sores.
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