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Common Pheasant
English Name
Phasianus colchicus
Latin Name
meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, promote contraction and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Phlegm cough, hematochezia, blood dysentery, night sweating, sore.
Winged Yam
English Name
Dioscorea alata
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, rectify qi and harmonize stomach, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, abdominal distention, 12847, 15655, 15882. diarrhea.
Littlefruit Lyonia
English Name
Lyonia ovalifolia var. elliptica
Latin Name
branch-leaf, root or fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Externally contracted wind-heat cough, phlegm-heat cough, cough with profuse phlegm, scrofula, swollen welling abscess, mammary welling abscess, pulmonary welling abscess.
Deltoid Yam
English Name
Dioscorea deltoidea
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough and transform phlegm, soothe liver and move qi.
Potential Indication
Cough with profuse phlegm, mounting qi, edema, scrofula.
Chinese Chestnut
English Name
Castanea mollissima
Latin Name
kernel
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough, dispel phlegm, calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Chronic trachitis.
Singharanut
English Name
Trapa bispinosa
Latin Name
pulp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve cough, dispel phlegm.
Potential Indication
Acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis.
Sweet Potato
English Name
Ipomoea batatas [Syn. Convolvulus batatas]
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve itch, close sores, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, lacquer sore, enduring sores.
Hispid Fig
English Name
Ficus simplicissima
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve pain and disperse swelling, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Headache, toothache, stomachache, postoperative pain, painful wound from knocks and falls, appendicitis, enteritis, pulmonary abscess, sore swollen throat, swelling welling abscess and sore and boil.
Spinyfruit Pricklyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum echinocarpum
Latin Name
root, root cortex or stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve pain, arrest diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Abdominal pain, diarrhea.
Smallcalyx Woodbetony
English Name
Pedicularis decora
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To relieve pain, astringe intestines, suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Pain in heart and abdomen, chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, dry cough without phlegm.
Acuteleaf Ash Bark
English Name
Fraxinus szaboana [Syn. Fraxinus chinensis var. acuminata]
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, warm channels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Hematochezia, hematuria, flooding and spotting, abdominal pain due to stagnation, amenorrhea.
Unibract Fritillary
English Name
Fritillaria unibracteata
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury.
Frog Orchid
English Name
Coeloglossum viride [Syn. Coeloglossum viride var. bracteatum]
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, clear heat and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, pain in chest and back, wind-heat headache, swelling pain in joints.
Junc-like Sandwort
English Name
Arenaria juncea
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, clear heat and resolve toxin, disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Taxation damage and pain, knocks and falls, leprosy, innominate toxin swelling, scab and lichen, infant mouth sore, burns and scalds, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, urinary stoppage.
Oldham Gypsophila
English Name
Gypsophila oldhamiana
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, pain in sinews and bones, swelling pain in joints, dysmenorrhea, flooding and spotting.
Yellow Daylily
English Name
Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, dissipate binds and disperse swelling, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Postpartum persistent flow of lochia, blood stasis and abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, intestinal wind bleeding, blood dysentery, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, swollen welling abscess, erysipelas, mammary welling abscess, constipation.
Chinese Seabuckthorn*
English Name
Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. sinensis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, dissipate depression and open binds.
Potential Indication
Anxiety and depression, glomus and oppression in chest and diaphragm, blood ejection, cold damage mania, fright palpitation, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Big Anisetree*
English Name
Illicium majus
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, free strangury and transform turbid, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Blood stasis and dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, aberratio mensium, concretion and conglomeration with mass, heat strangury, blood strangury, white turbidity, leukorrhea, impediment pain into network vessels, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, nipple moth, diphtheria.
Tangle Thallus
English Name
Ecklonia kurome
Latin Name
dried thallus
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, move water and disperse swelling, resolve toxin and eliminate welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, edema in body and face, knocks and falls, incised wound.
Narrowbract Goldenray
English Name
Ligularia intermedia
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, regulate menstruation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Chest impediment and angina, vexation, heart palpitation, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], menstrual pain, menstrual block, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, flooding and spotting, liver spleen enlargement, arthralgia, mounting qi (hernia), swelling of sores.
Siberian Goldenray
English Name
Ligularia sibirica
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels, eliminate wind-damp, relieve pain due to impediment.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, weakness in sinews and bones.
Toothleaf Goldenray
English Name
Ligularia dentata
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and transform stasis, supplement kidney and strengthen bones, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, kidney vacuity lumbago, wind-damp bone pain.
Medicinal Ligusticum
English Name
Cnidium officinale [Syn. Ligusticum officinale ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, disinhibit qi, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Chest and rib-side pain, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, neuralgia, gastrointestinal spasm, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Chinese Lycoris
English Name
Lycoris chinensis
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, disinhibit urine, expel worms.
Potential Indication
Atherosclerosis, pain of hot urine and inhibited urination, intestinal parasitic disease.
Szechwan Chinaberry Bark
English Name
Melia toosendan
Latin Name
dried stem or root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, dispel wind, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Postpartum blood stasis, abdominal lump glomus, red and white vaginal discharge, wind-damp pain in sinew and bone, migraine.
Chinese Mulberry
English Name
Morus cathayana
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, disperse swelling, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, static blood swelling pain.
Japanese Mulberry
English Name
Morus australis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
painful wound from knocks and falls, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, sand, stomachache, clove sore, swollen welling abscess.
Mongolian Mulberry
English Name
Morus mongolica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, dissipate stasis, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Stasis stagnation pain in stomach duct and abdomen, knocks and falls.
Corymbose Hedyotis
English Name
Hedyotis corymbosa [Syn. Oldenlandia corymbosa]
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, moisten intestines.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, intestinal dry and constipation.
Delavay Peony
English Name
Paeonia delavayi
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood, relieve pain, eliminate inflammation.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints, toothache, bald sores.
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