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Linearstripe Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon lophanthoides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and secure astriction, boost qi and engender liquid, quiet heart and spirit.
Potential Indication
Enduring cough and vacuity asthma, dream emission, frequent urination and enuresis, incessant chronic diarrhea, spontaneous sweating and night sweating, fluid damage and thirst, palpitation and insomnia.
Broadleaf Devilpepper
English Name
Rauwolfia latifrons
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, retching blood, spontaneous external bleeding, gum hemorrhage, bloody urine, bloody stool, flooding and spotting, purpuric dermatosis, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, poisonous snake bites, burns.
Hainan Devilpepper
English Name
Rauvolfia verticillata var. hainanensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis, hematochezia.
East China Globethistle
English Name
Echinops grijsii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding, bleeding due to external injury.
Sinkiang Globethistle
English Name
Echinops ritro
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction and stem desertion, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Enteritis, dysentery, prolapse of rectum, emission, knocks and falls.
Sorrel Rhubarb
English Name
Rheum palmatum
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote contraction, disinhibit urine. [5509]
Potential Indication
Headache. [5509]
Tangut Rhubarb
English Name
Rheum tanguticum
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote lactation, kill worms, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Postpartum scant milk, lichen sore, swelling pain in joints.
Madder
English Name
Rubia tinctorum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Postpartum scant milk.
Nepal Dock
English Name
Rumex nepalensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote vomiting and expel phlegm drool, clear heat and resolve toxin, contract damp and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scab and lichen, shank sore, burns and scalds, cracking from frostbite.
Przewalsk Sage
English Name
Salvia przewalskii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote vomiting, dispel wind and transform phlegm, lower blood pressure, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke with congesting phlegm, epilepsy, malaria, scab and lichen, malign sore.
Whiteflower Danshen
English Name
Salvia miltiorrhiza f. alba
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote vomiting, drain precipitation, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scab sore, head louse, knocks and falls.
Cudweed-like Saussurea
English Name
Saussurea gnaphaloides
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote vomiting, eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke, epilepsy, throat impediment, indigestion of overnight food, distending pain in stomach duct, damp-heat jaundice, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis.
Medusa Saussurea
English Name
Saussurea medusa
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To promote vomiting, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain wind in limbs, cholera.
Orange Magnoliavine
English Name
Schisandra sphenanthera
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and disinhibit water, dispel wind and resolve toxin, fortify spleen and boost kidney.
Potential Indication
Edema distention fullness, wind toxin and beriberi, jaundice edema, kidney vacuity lumbago, enuresis, wind impediment and hypertonicity of sinews, postpartum wind tetany, clenched jaw, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, drug poisoning, food poisoning.
Likiang Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria likiangensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, cool blood and stanch bleeding, nourish heart and quiet spirit, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, menstrual block, persistent flow with abdominal pain, concretion and conglomeration, chest impediment and angina, arthralgia, mounting qi (hernia), flooding and spotting, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hacking of blood, blood vacuity and numbness in limbs, sleepless, amnesia, fright palpitation, fearful throbbing, mammary welling abscess, swelling of sores, stasis swelling from knocks and falls.
Rehder Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria rehderiana
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, disinhibit damp and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Chest impediment and angina, menstrual disorder, menstrual pain, vaginal protrusion (prolapse of uterus), flooding and spotting, red and white vaginal discharge, malign sore and swelling toxin.
St Johnswortleaf Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria hypericifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, dispel wind and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea with concretion and conglomeration, retention of placenta, impediment pain in joints, hematuria, blood strangury, knocks and falls.
Viscidhair Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria viscidula
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, dispel wind and eliminate damp, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, wind-damp lumbago, swollen welling abscess and malign sore, innominate toxin swelling, scrofula, frostbite, poisonous snake bite.
Yunnan Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria amoena
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, stabbing pain in chest and abdomen, swelling pain due to external injury.
Aizoon St onecrop
English Name
Sedum aizoon
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Fracture, knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain.
Cushion-shaped Spikemoss
English Name
Selaginella pulvinata
Latin Name
dried whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, wind-damp lumbago.
Hairstalk St Paulswort
English Name
Siegesbeckia orientalis var. glabrescens [Syn. Siegesbeckia glabrescens ]
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, free network vessels and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wound swelling from knocks and falls, fracture, pain in joints, toothache, malign sore and swelling toxin, hemorrhoids, zoster, psoriasis.
Glandularstalk St Paulswort
English Name
Siegesbeckia orientalis var. pubescens [Syn. Siegesbeckia pubescens ]
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, lump glomus, knocks and falls, intestinal dry and constipation.
Sheathstipe Greenbrier
English Name
Smilax stans [Syn. Smilax vaginata var. stans ]
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel stasis, regulate menstruation and relieve pain, nourish blood and quiet spirit, cool blood and disperse welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Angina pectoris, cerebral atherosclerosis, diffusive intravascular clotting, thrombophlebitis, hepatitis, acute surgical infection, mastitis, erysipelas, otitis media, tonsillitis, bone marrow infection, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, pain in heart and abdomen, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, heat impediment swelling and pain, knocks and falls, heat entering construction-blood, vexation and agitation, insomnia and vexation, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, zoster, neurodermatitis, psoriasis.
Japanese Spiraea
English Name
Spiraea japonica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dispel wind.
Potential Indication
Pain in sinews and bones.
Thunberg Spiraea
English Name
Spiraea thunbergii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and disperse swelling, strengthen heart, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp, scab and lichen, knocks and falls, swelling of sores, cardiac failure, rheumatic arthritis.
Sessile Stemona
English Name
Stemona sessilifolia
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, dispel damp and disinhibit urine, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, strangury, edema, fever due to external contraction, malaria, dysentery, sore pharynx, swollen welling abscess and clove sores.
Greenyellow Stephania
English Name
Stephania viridiflavens
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain.
Wallich Poisonnut
English Name
Strychnos wallichiana
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, dispel wind and relieve pain, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture, amenorrhea, wind-damp impediment pain, clove boil, scab and lichen, itchy skin, poisonous snake bite.
Tonkin Snowbell
English Name
Styrax tonkinensis
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, free menstruation and milk, disperse welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea due to blood stasis, concretion and conglomeration, wind-damp impediment pain, galactostasis, swollen welling abscess, scrofula.
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