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Odoriferous Rosewood
English Name
Lignum Dalbergiae odoriferae Rosewood
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate digestive system, increase appetite.
Potential Indication
NA
Redflower Sweetvetch
English Name
Hedysarum multijugum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate menstruation and check discharge.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder, red and white vaginal discharge.
Hazel Sterculia
English Name
Sterculia foetida
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate menstruation and stanch bleeding, dissipate stasis and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, menstrual disorder, postpartum galactostasis, knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, swelling toxin of sore and boil, poisonous snake bite.
Malabanut
English Name
Adhatoda vasica
Latin Name
branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate menstruation and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Profuse menstruation, painful swelling from knocks and falls, fracture, bleeding due to external injury.
Chuchuhuasc Mayten*
English Name
Maytenus chuchuhuasca
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate menstruation, stanch bleeding, dispel phlegm, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder , menstrual block, concretion and conglomeration, flooding, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, cough and abundant phlegm, sores.
Roundwingfruit Cyclocarya
English Name
Cyclocarya paliurus
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate menstruation, suppress cough, dispel damp.
Potential Indication
Cough, menstrual disorder, red and white vaginal discharge.
Chinese Soapberry Leaf
English Name
Sapindus mukorossi
Latin Name
branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate qi and relieve pain, break blood and free menstruation, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Concretion and conglomeration, pain in heart and abdomen, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, retention of lochia, mounting qi , joint running impediment pain, swelling of sores, painful wound from knocks and falls, burns and scalds, poisonous snake bite.
Tomentose Wrightia
English Name
Wrightia tomentosa
Latin Name
root or stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To regulate qi, soothe liver, harmonize stomach.
Potential Indication
Oppression in chest due to glomus, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting, reduced food intake.
Smallflower Acanthus*
English Name
Acanthus ebracteatus
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, clear heat and resolve phlegm.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma
Purple Bauhinia
English Name
Bauhinia purpurea
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, dispel wind and eliminate damp, disperse swelling and relieve pain, disinhibit urine, resolve snake toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, chronic rheumatic arthritis, swelling pain in throat, stomachache, urethral stone, periodontitis, edema, poisonous snake bite.
Japanese Stauntonvine Fruit
English Name
Stauntonia hexaphylla
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, dispel wind and eliminate damp, free channels and relieve pain, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchitis, rheumatic arthritis, headache, knocks and falls, diarrhea, qi pain in heart and stomach, abdominal pain, water diarrhea.
Davurian Buckthorn
English Name
Rhamnus davurica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, dispel wind-damp, resolve depression.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, inhibited urination, numbness in limbs, aching pain in joints.
Small Bugbane
English Name
Cimicifuga acerina
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, fortify spleen and boost kidney, rectify qi and harmonize blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, vacuity taxation with emaciation, neurasthenia, kidney vacuity, limp aching lumbus and knees, impotence, seminal efflux, frequent urination, chronic hepatitis, chronic diarrhea, blood loss, vaginal discharge, scant breast milk, knocks and falls.
Boor’s Mustard Seed
English Name
Thlaspi arvense
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma, free menstruation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, bronchitis, menstrual disorder, flooding and spotting.
Edible Abelmoschus
English Name
Hibiscus esculentus
Latin Name
root, leaf, flower or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, enduring cough and asthma.
Elegant Stephania
English Name
Stephania elegans
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, clear heat and resolve toxin, dispel damp and free network vessels, regulate menstruation and stanch bleeding, expel worms.
Potential Indication
Headache, red eyes, cough with profuse phlegm, malaria, scrofula, vaginal discharge, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, swollen welling abscess, poisonous snake bite.
Hernandialeaf Stephania
English Name
Stephania hernandifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, loosen chest and disinhibit qi.
Potential Indication
Cough of phlegm asthma, taxation damage, senile vacuity weakness headache.
Shortclustered Plantainlily
English Name
Hosta sieboldiana
Latin Name
root or flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Cough of phlegm asthma, dry stool.
Common Nasturtium
English Name
Tropaeolum majus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, open orifices, kill worms and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Cough of phlegm asthma, wind stroke clenched jaw, phlegm-drool and congesting lung, clouded spirit with loss of speech, epilepsy, throat impediment, urinary and fecal stoppage, swollen welling abscess, scab and lichen.
Royle Euphorbia Latex
English Name
Euphorbia royleana
Latin Name
stem-leaf or white juice in stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Cough, taxation damage and blood ejection, hematochezia, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, pain in sinews and bones, sprain and contusion.
American Agave
English Name
Agave americana
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Cough with profuse phlegm, swelling of sore welling abscess and boil, bleeding from hemorrhoids, scalds, poisonous snake bite.
NA
English Name
Oppopanax chironium
Latin Name
stem and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scab sore, copper coin lichen.
Yellow Bird’s-nest
English Name
Monotropa hypopitys
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, warm center, disinhibit urine, hasten delivery.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, abundant phlegm, hiccough, diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal distention, edema, inhibited urination, scab and lichen.
Javan Waterdropwort Flower
English Name
Oenanthe javanica
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and dispel phlegm, warm stomach and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, stomach cold abdominal pain.
Largehead Atractylodes
English Name
Atractylodes macrocephala [Syn. Atractylis macrocephala ]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and settle asthma, engender liquid and allay thirst, quicken blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, lung qi distention, internal bleeding.
Ginseng Reed
English Name
Panax ginseng [Syn. Panax schinseng ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, disinhibit damp and disperse swelling, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, wind-damp impediment pain, postpartum vacuity taxation, edema, inhibited urination, indigestion, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, eczema, urticaria.
Sickle Alfalfa
English Name
Medicago falcata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, dispel wind and free network vessels, regulate menstruation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, wind-damp impediment pain, lumbago, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, fracture.
Heterophylla Falsestarwort
English Name
Pseudostellaria heterophylla
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, dispel wind.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough, phthisis.
Woodland Beakchervil
English Name
Anthriscus sylvestris
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, engender liquid and allay thirst, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, cough, throat pain, diphtheria, enteritis, diarrhea, eczema, heat vexation and thirst.
Ox Blood
English Name
Bos taurus domesticus, Bubalus bubalis
Latin Name
blood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, fortify stomach and disperse food, quicken blood and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Cough with profuse phlegm, pulmonary welling abscess, indigestion, food accumulati on abdominal pain, stomachache, enteritis, amenorrhea, stasis swelling from knocks and falls.
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