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Leprous Tree
English Name
Jatropha curcas
Latin Name
bark and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve heat, relieve cough, expel roundworms[5509].
Potential Indication
NA
Kurz Alangium
English Name
Alangium kurzii
Latin Name
lateral root or fibril
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve heat, resolve toxin, free stool[5509].
Potential Indication
Constipation, numbing wind (leprosy)[5509].
Creeping Skyflower Leaf
English Name
Duranta repens
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve liquor toxin, eliminate vexation and allay thirst, check vomiting, disinhibit urine and free stool.
Potential Indication
Drunkenness, vexation and thirst, vomiting, inhibited urine and stool.
Gmelin Sealavender Herb
English Name
Limonium gmelinii
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve liquor toxin, settle pain.
Potential Indication
NA
Foursplit Rhodiola
English Name
Rhodiola quadrifida
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve spasm and relieve pain, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, cholecystitis, acute gastroenteritis, chronic gastroenteritis, innominate toxin swelling.
Common Gold-hair Moss*
English Name
Polytrichum commune
Latin Name
frond
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve spasm and relieve pain, inhibit secretion.
Potential Indication
Gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, colic of gastrointestinal tract, cholecystalgia, renal colic, vomiting nausea, night sweating, drooling.
Picrorhiza Equivalent plant: Picrorhiza scrophulariaeflora
English Name
Picrorhiza kurrooa
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve spasm and relieve pain, quiet heart and settle epilepsy.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and abdomen, wind-damp impediment pain, decayed toothache due to wind, painful wound from knocks and falls, incessant asthma and cough, prolapse of rectum due to diarrhea, mania and withdrawal, fright epilepsy, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Leatherleaf Mahonia Fruit Equivalent plant: Mahonia japonica
English Name
Mahonia bealei
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve spasm and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, cholecystalgia, acute gastroenteritis, chronic gastroenteritis.
Manaplant Alhagi Sweet Secretion
English Name
Alhagi pseudalhagi
Latin Name
sweet secretion
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve spasm, dispel phlegm. [5509]
Potential Indication
Spasm, abundant phlegm, menstrual disorder. [5509]
Carp Skin
English Name
Cyprinus carpio
Latin Name
skin
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve summerheat and transform damp, repel foulness and harmonize center.
Potential Indication
Nausea and vomiting, bad breath, drooling, distended head and oppression in chest, sweet-greasy in mouth, summerheat-damp exterior syndrome.
Viscidhairy Knotweed
English Name
Polygonum viscosum
Latin Name
branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve tetany and settle pain, constrain sweat and astringe intestines.
Potential Indication
Various pains, mental manic agitation, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, anthrax, bleeding due to external injury, body lichen.
Dye-maker’s False Puffboll
English Name
Pisolithus tinctorius
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and cure sores, dispel wind and relieve pain, relieve itch, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, itchy skin, snake or insect bites.
Yunnan Galangal
English Name
Alpinia blepharocalyx
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and cure sores, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, purulence due to bone welling abscess, intractable lichen, scrotal eczema, tinea capitis.
Sweet Pepper Equivalent plant: Capsicum frutescens
English Name
Capsicum annuum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and cure sores.
Potential Indication
Ant-fistula, bee-fistula, scrofula, malign sore.
Roseapple
English Name
Syzygium jambos
Latin Name
pericarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Heat toxin swollen welling abscess, mammary welling abscess, aphonia due to lung heat, damp-heat dysentery, strangury-turbidity and vaginal discharge, wind-damp impediment pain, carcinoma of stomach, carcinoma of esophagus, mastocarcinoma, knocks and falls.
Corn Gromwell
English Name
Lithospermum arvense
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, dispel phlegm and promote vomiting.
Potential Indication
Malign sore, scab and lichen.
Petrofracted Pepper
English Name
Piper retrofractum
Latin Name
frult
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, dispel wind and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Swollen welling abscess, damp toxin, scab and lai, sore toxin.
Cubeba Pepper
English Name
Piper cubeba
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, dispel wind-damp, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Welling abscess and flat abscess, clove sore, effusion of back, mammary welling abscess, hemorrhoids, eczema, erysipelas, wind-damp impediment pain, hypertension.
Clove Tree
English Name
Syzygium aromaticum [Syn. Eugenia caryophyllata]
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, eliminate putridity and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Fistula.
Armate-leaf Pricklyash*
English Name
Zanthoxylum armatum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To resolve toxin and disperse swelling, kill worms and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Sore and welling abscess, mounting qi , ascariasis, trichuriasis.
Largeleaf Gambirplant
English Name
Uncaria macrophylla
Latin Name
hooked stem-branch
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi, dispel cold, relieve pain, resolve binds.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi pain, painful swollen testes, premenstrual abdominal pain, postpartum abdominal pain.
Oriental Stephania
English Name
Stephania cepharantha
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and disperse cold, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Sand and painful distention in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, beriberi with edema, wind-cold common cold, menstrual disorder, consumption damage and cough.
Glossy Privet Fruit
English Name
Ligustrum lucidum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and disperse food, promote contraction and stanch bleeding, clear heat and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation stomachache, gastri c ulcer, duodenal ulcer, child gan accumulation, dysentery, incessant postpartum bleeding, infant fright wind, facial paralysis.
Suberect Spatholobus
English Name
Spatholobus suberectus
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and downbear counterflow, regulate center and increase appetite, dry damp and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach qi stagnation and damp obstruction, lung qi block, cough with profuse phlegm, mammary welling abscess, indigestion, vomiting.
Tonkin Sophora Root
English Name
Sophora subprostrata [Syn. Sophora tonkinensis]
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and quicken blood, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi, qi pain in heart and stomach, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, innominate toxin swelling, clove sore.
Manyflower Fissistimga
English Name
Fissistigma polyanthum
Latin Name
root and rattan
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, enteritis and diarrhea, abdominal distention, abdominal pain, swelling pain in throat.
Seville Orange Young Fruit Equivalent plant: Citrus wilsonii , Poncirus trifoliata
English Name
Citrus aurantium
Latin Name
young fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and relieve pain, harmonize stomach and arouse spleen.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, distention fullness in chest and abdomen, headache, hysteria, beriberi.
Tangut Anisodus
English Name
Anisodus tanguticus [Syn. Scopolia tangutica ]
Latin Name
root and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi, strangury, lumbago.
Citron Daylily
English Name
Hemerocallis citrina
Latin Name
bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To rectify qi and harmonize stomach, dispel wind and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, wind-cold cough.
Farges Holboellia
English Name
Holboellia fargesii
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate center and increase appetite, boost lung and quiet heart, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Inappetence, inhibited urination, edema, urethral stone.
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