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Roof Iris
English Name
Iris tectorum
Latin Name
leaf or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, disperse swelling and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, angina pectoris, stabbing pain in chest and abdomen, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Officinal Ervatamia*
English Name
Ervatamia officinalis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, free network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, fracture, lumbar and ack pain.
Indian Lettuce
English Name
Lactuca indica
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Blood amassment yellowing, blood stasis, flooding and spotting, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, galloping gan of teeth and gum, poisonous insect stings.
Tenacious Condorvine
English Name
Marsdenia tenacissima
Latin Name
stem, root or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Postpartum blood dizziness, concretion and conglomeration, jaundice, yellow sweating, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, itching in genital region, swelling of welling abscess, welling abscess and flat abscess with swelling sore.
Asiatic Moonseed Root
English Name
Menispermum dauricum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, blood ejection, bleeding due to external injury, poisonous snake bite.
Bloodflower Milkweed
English Name
Asclepias curassavica
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Static blood, flooding and spotting, carcinoma of uterine cervix.
Vetchleaf Sophora Root
English Name
Sophora viciifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and joint bones.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, fracture.
Decumbent Bugle
English Name
Ajuga decumbens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and relieve pain, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, bleeding due to external injury, bleeding from dental extraction, painful swelling from knocks and falls, wind-damp bone pain.
Ciliate Bugle
English Name
Ajuga ciliata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding and relieve pain, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, clear heat and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Painful wound from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, red and white vaginal discharge, damp-heat dysentery, welling abscess.
Thin Evodia
English Name
Evodia lepta [Syn. Ilex lepta ]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To stanch bleeding, allay thirst, resolve toxin and cure sores.
Potential Indication
Hematochezia, hematuria, flooding, diabetes mellitus, stomach reflux, gan disease, swollen welling abscess.
Bambooleaf Pricklyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum planispinum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, promote astriction and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Erysipelas, lai, mouth sore, lacquer sore, knocks and falls.
Nickernut Caesalpinia
English Name
Caesalpinia crista
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder, syphilis, swelling of sores.
Hen’s Egg Shell
English Name
Gallus gallus domesticus
Latin Name
egg shell
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, sore and boil, snake bite.
Nervate Twayblade
English Name
Liparis nervosa
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, stanch bleeding and settle pain, dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Welling abscess and flat abscess with clove sores, cough and hemoptysis, bleeding of digestive tract, knocks and falls, scalds, wind-damp bone pain, wind-fire toothache.
Lemon Equivalent plant: Citrus limonia
English Name
Citrus limon
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Arthritis.
Manyflower Garcinia
English Name
Garcinia multiflora
Latin Name
bark or fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Mouth-level nape sore, hemorrhoids and fistulas.
Elephant Bone
English Name
Elephas maximus
Latin Name
bone
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Pulmonary welling abscess, asthma, swollen welling abscess, scalds, poisonous bee stings.
Opium Poppy
English Name
Papaver somniferum
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Snake bite.
Peanut
English Name
Arachis hypogaea
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
sore and boil with swelling of clove.
Chinese Galangal
English Name
Alpinia chinensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Swelling of sores.
Sharpspur Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis suaveolens [Syn. Corydalis sheareri]
Latin Name
whole herb or tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, parotitis.
Bloodred Iris
English Name
Iris sanguinea
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, scab and lichen.
Common Anisodus
English Name
Anisodus luridus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and dissipate binds, dispel wind and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scrofula, innominate toxin swelling,wind-damp bone pain, scab and lichen, malign sore.
Tangut Przewalskia
English Name
Przewalskia tangutica
Latin Name
root and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and dissipate binds, disperse accumulation and disinhibit water, kill worms and disperse gan .
Potential Indication
Welling abscess and flat abscess, clove sore, effusion of back, scrofula, malign sore, concretion and accumulation, ascites, edema, child gan accumulation, tetanus, chronic cough and asthma.
Common Euscaphis
English Name
Euscaphis japonica
Latin Name
fruit or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and draw out pus, kill worms, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Sores with welling abscess and flat abscess, scab and lichen, pelvic inflammation, flooding.
Ignat Poisonnut Seed
English Name
Strychnos ignatii
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and eliminate damp, dispel wind-heat.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, edema, heat strangury, urethral stone, wind papules, damp sore, swollen boil.
Carp
English Name
Cyprinus carpio
Latin Name
meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and eliminate damp, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, swelling pain in throat, knocks and falls, welling abscess and boil, itchy papules, bleeding due to external injury.
Chinese Nardostachys Equivalent plant: Nardostachys jatamansi
English Name
Nardostachys chinensis
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and eliminate inflammation, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Pneumonia, pulmonary welling abscess, strangury, mounting qi, wind-fire toothache, welling abscess and clove sore, zoster, itchy skin.
Fleshfingered Citron
English Name
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Poisonous insect stings, frostbite.
Papaya Fruit
English Name
Carica papaya
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Stomach heat vomiting, diarrhea with pus blood, ulcer of lower limb.
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