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Dicentrine Stephania* Equivalent plant: Stephania viridiflavens
English Name
Stephania dicentrinifera
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Malaria.
Hirsute Euchresta*
English Name
Euchresta strigillosa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms, eliminate food stagnation.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis, oxyuria disease, child gan accumulation.
Potato
English Name
Solanum tuberosum
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Ileus, constipation, scab and lichen.
Acutangular Scopolia
English Name
Scopolia acutangula [Syn. Anisodus acutangulus ]
Latin Name
root, leaf or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, scab and lai, intractable lichen, eczema, poisonous snake bite.
Cholla Equivalent plant: Opuntia vulgaris
English Name
Opuntia dillenii
Latin Name
root and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Malign sore, scab and lichen.
Chinese Stephania
English Name
Stephania sinica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Red and white dysentery, amenorrhea, toxin swelling, taeniasis.
Shortstamen Stephania*
English Name
Stephania brachyandra
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scab sore, yellow-water sore, sore toxin.
Setose Abelmoschus
English Name
Abelmoschus manihot
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, check dysentery, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, cough.
Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage
English Name
Chrysosplenium alternifolium
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, clear heat and calm liver, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, scalds.
Cowberry Leaf
English Name
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, disinhibit damp, rectify qi.
Potential Indication
Dysentery abdominal pain, foot lichen.
Ricepaperplant
English Name
Tetrapanax papyriferus
Latin Name
stem marrow
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, dispel phlegm, disinhibit urine, promote vomiting.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, scrofula, cough of phlegm asthma, edema, inhibited urination, food poisoning.
Sevenlobed Ya m U s e d p a r t : rhizome
English Name
Dioscorea septemloba
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, disperse distention, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Welling abscess and toxin of clove, innominate toxin swelling, lymphrnoditis.
Catchweed Bedstraw
English Name
Galium aparine
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, disperse swelling, kill worms, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, worm accumulation, bleeding due to external injury, centipede bite.
Common Rush
English Name
Juncus effusus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, disperse swelling, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Tympanites, pain in stomach duct, pain in sinews and bones, epidemic parotitis, sores, painful wound from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury.
Lilac Pink Equivalent plant: Dianthus chinensis , Dianthus versicolor
English Name
Dianthus superbus
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Mammary welling abscess, innominate toxin swelling, knocks and falls.
Punctated Microsorium*
English Name
Microsorium punctatum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, eliminate damp, dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, diarrhea, nipple moth, malaria, wind-damp impediment pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], swollen welling abscess and clove sores, scrofula, poisonous snake bites, eczema, foot lichen.
Ivy Glorybind
English Name
Calystegia hederacea
Latin Name
herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, eliminate damp, quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain of sores, scrofula, diarrhea, dysentery, eczema, gan accumulation, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder.
False Simon Poplar
English Name
Populus pseudo-simonii
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, engender flesh, check dysentery, stanch bleeding, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Effusion of back from welling abscess and flat abscess, enduring sores, acute heart pain, dysentery with pus and blood, chronic diarrhea, stirring fetus with bleeding, emission, Vaginal discharge.
Drug Sweetflag
English Name
Acorus calamus
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, engender flesh, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Tinea capitis, sore and boil, hemorrhoids and fistulas, burns and scalds, miasmic malaria, tympanites.
Civet
English Name
Viverra zibetha
Latin Name
secretion with a musky odor secreted from anal scent glands
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, joint bones.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, fracture.
Sumatra Snowbell Equivalent plant: Styrax tonkinensis
English Name
Styrax benzoin
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, kill worms, relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, swelling of sores, eczema titillation.
Wrinkled Gianthyssop
English Name
Agastache rugosus
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, kill worms, relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Lichen sore, goose-foot wind, scalds.
Manyflower Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia myriantha
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Acute throat wind, pain in stomach duct, knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
Common Elsholtzia
English Name
Elsholtzia ciliata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, relieve pain, open orifices and arouse spirit.
Potential Indication
Welling abscess and flat abscess with clove sores, swelling pain in throat, summerheat stroke with vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain and clouded spirit, local anesthesia.
Japanese Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia japonica
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, stanch bleeding, close sores.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, ulcerating sores.
Chinese Orthodon
English Name
Mosla chinensis [Syn. Orthodon chinensis ]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, bleeding due to external injury.
Chinese Cedrela*
English Name
Cedrela sinensis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin, suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Snake bite, pertussis.
Hemp-agrimony
English Name
Eupatorium cannabinum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cholera with vomiting.
Mango Bark
English Name
Mangifera indica
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, chronic tympanitis.
Longtube Rabdosia
English Name
Rabdosia longituba
Latin Name
root, leaf or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Papules, pox.
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