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Cultivated Citrus*
English Name
Citrus cultivars
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, abdominal pain and diarrhea, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, red eyes with gall.
Lemonlike Citrus Leaf
English Name
Citrus limonia
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, clear lung and relieve cough, disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, lumbago, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, lung heat cough, sand strangury, inhibited urination.
Lemonlike Citrus Root
English Name
Citrus limonia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, dispel wind and eliminate damp, fortify spleen and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, pain in stomach duct, indigestion, diarrhea, toxin swelling of sores.
Amplexifolious Glorybower
English Name
Clerodendrum serratum var. amplexifolium
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and legs.
Liberian Coffee
English Name
Coffea liberica
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, dispel wind and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, itchy skin.
Deltoid Goldthread
English Name
Coptis deltoidea
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, dispel wind and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, lichen sore.
Omei Mountain Goldthread
English Name
Coptis omeiensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, disperse swelling and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Stasis pain in chest and abdomen, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess and sores, intestinal welling abscess, red eyes with gall.
Kwangsi Turmeric
English Name
Curcuma kwangsiensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, disperse swelling and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, wind-damp impediment pain, bleeding due to external injury.
Hairy Datura Flower
English Name
Datura innoxia
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Malaria, painful wound from knocks and falls.
Hairy Datura Leaf
English Name
Datura innoxia
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, joint sinews and bones, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Sinew and bone wound, sprain, blood stasis swelling and pain, wind-damp impediment pain, lumbago, profuse menstruation, flooding and spotting.
Jimsonweed Seed*
English Name
Datura stramonium
Latin Name
seed or fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, move qi and relieve depression, clear heart and cool blood, course liver and disinhibit gallbladder.
Potential Indication
Pain in chest and abdomen and rib-side, dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, concretion and conglomeration with mass, febrile diseases clouded spirit, mania and withdrawal, fright epilepsy, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, blood strangury, sand strangury, jaundice.
Ｈooked Dendrobium
English Name
Dendrobium aduncum
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Mammary welling abscess, knocks and falls, pain in sinews and bones, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore, edema due to heart disease.
Iron-sheet Denrdobium
English Name
Dendrobium officinale
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Stomach duck pain, abdominal pain, red eyes with gall, sores.
Loddiges Dendrobium
English Name
Dendrobium loddigesii
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, headache, toothache, wind-damp pain, mammary welling abscess, swollen hard breast.
Versicolorous Pink
English Name
Dianthus versicolor
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and relieve pain, transform stasis and stanch bleeding, disperse accumulation and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, flooding, profuse menstruation, incessant red and white vaginal discharge, snake bite, scorpion sting, centipede bite.
Japanese Yam
English Name
Dioscorea japonica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and settle pain, joint bones and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, wind-damp bone pain, menstrual disorder, scrofula, welling abscess and flat abscess.
Draco Yellowvine*
English Name
Daemonorops draco
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and soothe sinews, dispel stasis and engender flesh, nourish qi blood.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], menstrual block, vaginal discharge, postpartum arthralgia, tuberculosis and coughing of blood, dizzy head and insomnia, anemia.
Rock-ginger Fern
English Name
Pseudodrynaria coronans
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, sprain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, scalds, poisonous snake bite, zoster, indigestion.
Small Ephedra
English Name
Ephedra minuta
Latin Name
herbaceous twigs
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, rectify qi and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Coughing of blood, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [= metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], menstrual disorder [= menoxenia], dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, postpartum abdominal pain, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, sand distention and abdominal pain, heat toxin blood dysentery, water diarrhea, pain in joints, painful swelling from knocks and falls, sore and boil, zoster, bleeding due to external injury.
Officinal Evodia
English Name
Evodia rutaecarpa var. officinalis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and stanch bleeding, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, flooding, nosebleed(epistaxis), coughing of blood, intestinal wind bleeding, dysentery, wind-damp impediment pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, knocks and falls.
European Pyrola
English Name
Pyrola rotundifolia
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, hematuria, flooding and spotting, knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling, sores.
Japanese Pyrola
English Name
Pyrola japonica
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction and stanch bleeding, disperse swelling and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, burns and scalds, cracking of hands and feet, splitting of anus.
Purpleback Pyrola
English Name
Pyrola atropurpurea
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction and stanch bleeding, interrupt malaria, check dysentery, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, blood ejection, flooding and spotting, malaria, blood dysentery, swelling toxin of wellingabscess and sore, pudendal itch, Vaginal discharge.
Redflower Pyrola
English Name
Pyrola incarnata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction and stanch bleeding, regulate menstruation and free milk, clear heat and resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, blood ejection, intestinal wind bleeding, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, menstrual disorder, galactostasis, jaundice, throat pain, red eyes with gall, urinary tract infection, mouth sore, nose sores, swelling toxin of welling abscess and boil, burns and scalds.
Tibet Pyrola*
English Name
Pyrola calliantha var. tibetana
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction, check diarrhea, close sores.
Potential Indication
Damp toxin of scab sore, toothache, sore and boil in children.
Panniform Pyrrosia
English Name
Pyrrosia drakeana
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction, inhibit acid, strengthen bones, stanch bleeding, brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Stomach duck pain, stomach reflux, acid vomiting, rachitis in children, various hemorrhage, eye screen, gan sore pox toxin.
Peking Pyrrosia Frond
English Name
Pyrrosia davidii
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote astriction, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, diarrhea.
Petioled Pyrrosia Frond
English Name
Pyrrosia petiolosa
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and check discharge, kill worms, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Vaginal discharge, scab sore, elephantiasis.
Shearer’s Pyrrosia Frond
English Name
Pyrrosia sheareri
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and check drain, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea, furunculosis, lai sore, knocks and falls.
Stilted Pyrr osia
English Name
Pyrrosia gralla
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and check drain, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Chronic dysentery, flooding and spotting.
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