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Wilson Yarrow
English Name
Achillea wilsoniana
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of food manifested as epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, no appetite, gurgling sound and diarrhea. Medicated leaven (Shenqu) is used with Hawthorn fruit (Shanzha) and Germinated barley (Maiya).
Potential Indication
NA
Unequalhair Paoshan Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum nagarum var. heterotrichum [Syn. Aconitum bullatifolium]
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of sticky phlegm difficult to expectorate, goitre, scrofula, masses in the abdomen, gastric pain with acid regurgitation.
Potential Indication
NA
Bitter Nightshade Fruit
English Name
Solanum dulcamara
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of sticky phlegm difficult to expectorate, goitre, scrofula, masses in the abdomen, gastric pain with acid regurgitation.
Potential Indication
NA
Stinking Polecat, Wood Witch
English Name
Phallus impudicus
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of undigested food with abdominal distension and foul breath, weakness of the spleen and the stomach with anorexia. Fructus Oryzae Germinatus (stir-fried):Anorexia.Fructus Oryzae Germinatus (charred): Retention of undigested food.
Potential Indication
NA
Torreya*
English Name
Torreya grandis
Latin Name
branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of undigested food with abdominal distension and foul breath, weakness of the spleen and the stomach with anorexia.Fructus Setariae Germinatus (stir-fried):Anorexia.Fructus Setariae Germinatus (charred): Retention of undigested food.
Potential Indication
Digestant
Puberulent Mo nkshood
English Name
Aconitum barbatum var. puberulum [Syn. Aconitum ochranthum]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of retention of undigested food, dysentery with tenesmus.
Potential Indication
NA
Shinyleaf yellowhorn
English Name
Xanthoceras sorbifolia
Latin Name
stem or branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic and rheumatoid arthralgia, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, abdominal colic caused by cold, anaethesia.
Potential Indication
NA
Fortune diarrhea
English Name
Paulownia fortunei
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic and rheumatoid arthralgia, precordial and abdominal pain with cold sensation, abdominal colic caused by cold, anaethesia.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Pachysandra
English Name
Pachysandra terminalis
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic arthritis with pain in the lower back and knees, headache due to attack of cold on the Shaoyin Channel characterized by association of headache with precordial pain and cold legs.
Potential Indication
NA
Divaricate Strophanthus Seed
English Name
Strophanthus divaricatus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic or rheumatoid arthralgia with flaccidity of extremities, retarded walking and lack of strength in children, edema.
Potential Indication
NA
NA
English Name
Telekia speciosa
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic or rheumatoid arthralgia with numbness of the limbs, muscle contracture and limitation of motion, fish bone stuck in the throat.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the growth of Stanphylococcus aureus and Shigella dysenteriae.2. Protoanemonin antagonizes histamine-induced bronchospasm and ileospam of guinea-pigs in vitro.
Climbing Groundsel
English Name
Senecio scandens [Syn. Senecio chinensis]
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatic or rheumatoid arthrits with muscular contracture and severe joint pain, fever recurring daily in the afternoon, fever in infants with malnutrition.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting experimental arthritis in mice and decreasing capillary permeability.2. Anti-allergric.3. Inducing transient hypotensive effect.
Yellowhair Aralia
English Name
Aralia decaisneaa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatism, especially the intractable cases and those with wandering arthralgia, numbness of the extremities and muscular spasm, also for apoplexy complicated by distortion of face and hemiplegia. Treatment of infantile convulsion, tetanus and convulsion after apoplexy. Treatment of itching induced by scabies, tinea infection and urticaria. Treatment of leprosy, scrofula, and aevere skin infections.
Potential Indication
1. Analgesic, sedative. 2. Hypotensive owing to its vasodilative effect.
Chinese Eupatorium
English Name
Eupatorium chinense
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with muscular contracture and joint pain, carbuncle with ulceration.
Potential Indication
NA
Kamchatka Bugbane
English Name
Cimicifuga simplex
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of scrotal hernia with pain and cold extremities, dysmenorrhea with lower abdominal pain and cold sensation, distending pain in the epigastrium with anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea, hydrocele of tunica vaginalis.Fructus Foeniculi (processed with salt): Scrotal hernia with pain and cold extremities, dysmenorrhea with abdominal pain caused by cold.
Potential Indication
1. An active component, anisaldehyde, in creases the effect of streptomycin on experimental tuberculosis in mice.2. Accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, and promoting eliminating of flatus.3. Eliminating phlegm.
Linden Viburnum
English Name
Viburnum dilatatum
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of seminal emission, spermatorrhea, excessive leukorrhea, frequent urination.
Potential Indication
NA
Watt Tupistra
English Name
Tupistra wattii [Syn. Campylandra wattii]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of skin inflammation with yellowish watery discharge, eczema, rubella, tinea, scabies, acute rheumatic arthritis, jaundice with dark urine.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the growth of pathogenic fungi. 2. Its infusion lowers vaccine-induced fever in rabbits. 3. Dictamnine, one of its active components, increase the myocardial tone of frogs.
Great Burdock Fruit
English Name
Arctium lappa
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of sore throat, colitis, dysentery, rheumatic arthralgia.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Clave Fern
English Name
Onychium japonicum [Syn. Tricomanes japonicum]
Latin Name
whole herb or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of sores, carbuncles, swelling and pain due to mastitis, galactostasis, tuberculosis of lypmhaden, pyogenic infection. It can be used as antheimintic.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Orixa
English Name
Orixa japonica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of spitting of blood, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, abnormal uterine bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Scabrous Doellingeria
English Name
Doellingeria scaber [Syn. Aster scaber]
Latin Name
rhizome and whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of spontaneous perspiration due to deficiency of vital energy, night sweat due to yin-deficiency, or pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic hepatitis and neurasthenia with hectic fever of yin-deficiency type
Potential Indication
1. Antisudorific. 2. Insecticidal. 3. Stomachic
Whiteflower Caesalpinia
English Name
Caesalpinia minax
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of stagnation of qi and blood with pectoral pain, palpitation and shortness of breath, uneasiness in mind.
Potential Indication
NA
Purple Tephrosia
English Name
Tephrosia purpurea
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of stagnation of qi due to accumulation of damp marked by epigastric and abdominal distension, difficult evacuation of the feces, edema of the legs and oliguria.
Potential Indication
Its decoction exerts an effect of enhancing the intestinal tensity and decreasing the extent of intestinal contraction in rabbits in vitro, which can be counteracted by atropine.
Common Waterhyacinth
English Name
Eichhornia crassipes
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of stagnation of the liver qi characterized by distending pain in the chest, hypochondria and epigastrium, indigestion, feeling of stuffiness in the chest and epigastrium, abdominal colic, distending pain in the breast, menstrual disorders, amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea.
Potential Indication
NA
Ch inese Astilbe
English Name
Astilbe chinensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of stroke with gurgling in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth, and impairment of speech, upward invasion of phlegm causing headache accompanied with dizziness, heaviness of the body, restlessness, fidgetness, nausea and cold extremities, or migraine, sore throat, tetanus, external use for scrofula, venomous snake bite.
Potential Indication
NA
Chive-like
English Name
Allium schoenoprasum
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of taeniasis, ancylostomiasis, ascariasis, intestinal parasitosis with abdominal pain or with infantile malnutrition.
Potential Indication
1. Its proteolytic enzyme is a taeniacidal agent. 2. Its alcoholic extract is an ascaricide.
Great Burdock Root
English Name
Arctium lappa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of thirst due to impairment to yin or deficiency of body fluid, loss of appetite with nausea, fever in deficiency conditions after a severe disease, impaired vision.
Potential Indication
1. Dendrobine, one of its components, exerts the effects of raising the level of blood sugar, hypotensive, antipyretic and analgesic.2. Its infusion is cardio-inhibitory.3. Low dosage causes excitation while high dosage causes inhibition of the intestine of rabbits in vitro.
Pepper Mint
English Name
Mentha piperita
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of tinnitus and forgetfulness, amenorrhea, inadequate secretion of milk, urinary infection, urolithiasis.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Goldenrod
English Name
Solidago virgaurea var. leiocarpa [Syn. Solidago decurrens]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of toothache due to caries, sores, ulcers, mastitis, scrofula, ringworm, tinea unguium.
Potential Indication
NA
Tali Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis taliensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of toothache due to caries, sores, ulcers, mastitis, scrofula, ringworm, tinea unguium.
Potential Indication
NA
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