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Branchy Tamarisk
English Name
Tamarix ramosissima
Latin Name
tender branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, interrupt malaria, resolve toxin, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Malaria, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, throat impediment, edema, heat strangury, diphtheria, bilharziosis, dysentery, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering.
Terminalia chebula var tomentella
English Name
Terminalia chebula var. tomentella
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in lumbus and knees, pain in heart and abdomen, dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Sharpleaf Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum acutifolium
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, rectify qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in lumbus and knees, pain in heart and abdomen, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, flooding and spotting, concretion and conglomeration, knocks and falls.
Fortune Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum fortunei
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, rectify qi and transform damp.
Potential Indication
Dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, chronic hepatitis, liver spleen enlargement, food accumulation abdominal distention, cold-damp diarrhea, mounting qi , beriberi, knocks and falls, burns and scalds.
Baikal Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum baicalense
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, mastitis, knocks and falls, urinary tract infection, welling abscess and boil, snake bite.
Gold-enthread Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum glandulosissimum
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding and settle pain, downbear qi , break foul.
Potential Indication
Chest and rib-side pain, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, bleeding due to external injury.
Highland Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum cultratum
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, bleeding due to external injury, mouth sore, burns and scalds.
Maidenhair Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum flavum
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and dissipate stasis, strengthen sinews and bones, regulate menstruation, disperse gan .
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, pain in sinews and bones, menstrual disorder [= menoxenia], child gan accumulation.
Whiteflower Trillium*
English Name
Trillium kamtschaticum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and free menstruation (raw), transform stasis and stanch bleeding (scorch-fry).
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, knocks and falls, abdominal pain, asthma (raw), blood ejection, hematuria, hematochezia, prolapse of rectum (scorch-fry).
Ledebour Globeflower
English Name
Trollius ledebourii
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To quicken blood and free menstruation, disinhibit urine and remove stone, supplement kidney and fortify brain.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder , menstrual block, scant breast milk, edema, urethral stone, dizziness and tinnitus, premature graying in beard and hair, cough and asthma, scab sore, white patch wind.
Biond Magnolia
English Name
Magnolia biondii [Syn. Magnolia fargesii]
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, free network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in deep tissues, neuralgia, swelling pain from fracture, hypertension, hemiplegia, sequel of poliomyelitis, sciatica, rheumatic arthritis, knocks and falls.
Sprenger Magnolia
English Name
Magnolia sprengeri
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and regulate center, harmonize stomach and arouse spleen.
Potential Indication
Abdominal pain glomus distention, food stagnation in torpid stomach, dysphagia-occlusion, vomiting, cold dysentery, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
Yulan Magnolia
English Name
Magnolia denudata [Syn. Magnolia heptapata]
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Food stagnation, qi bind pain, welling abscess and flat abscess, clove sore, scab and lichen, snake bite, dog bite.
Twolobed Officinal Mangolia
English Name
Magnolia biloba
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and check diarrhea, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, gastrointestinal flatulence.
Chinese Mahonia
English Name
Mahonia fortunei
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, dispel wind and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, dysmenorrhea, swelling toxin of welling abscess and boil, eczema.
Chinese Mahonia Leaf
English Name
Mahonia fortunei
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, disinhibit damp and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Hematochezia, blood dysentery, jaundice, prolapse of rectum, hemorrhoids, throat impediment.
Japanese Mahonia
English Name
Mahonia japonica
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, fortify spleen and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in chest and stomach duct, diarrhea and tenesmus, non-digestion of food accumu lation, no thought of food and drink.
Japanese Mahonia Fruit
English Name
Mahonia japonica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in stomach duct, rumbling intestines and diarrhea, tenesmus, liver gallbladder pain.
Japanese Mahonia Leaf
English Name
Mahonia japonica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi, quicken blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation abdominal distention, abdominal pain, stomachache, pain in sinews and bones, dysmenorrhea, knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling.
Subtriplinerved Mahonia
English Name
Mahonia gracilipes
Latin Name
root and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move stagnation and transform damp, stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, dispel wind and relieve itch, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-stagnation obstructing internally, diarrhea, dysentery, enteritis, child gan accumulation, flooding and spotting, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, hematochezia, bleeding due to external injury, itchy skin, eczema, wind papules, foot lichen, swollen welling abscess, poisonous snake bite.
Peachform Mango
English Name
Mangifera persiciformis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move water and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Ascites, white turbidity, swollen welling abscess, malign sore.
Littleleaf Common Jasminorange
English Name
Murraya paniculata var. exotica
Latin Name
leaf and branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To normalize qi and loosen chest, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, headache, mounting qi, abdominal pain, rheumatic pain in legs.
Spoonleaf Nardostachys
English Name
Nardostachys jatamansi
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To normalize qi and relieve pain, warm kidney and disperse cold.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in chest and abdomen, qi counterflow with rapid asthma, bladder vacuity cold, enuresis and frequent urination, mounting qi , dysmenorrhea.
Forbes Notopterygium
English Name
Notopterygium forbesii [Syn. Notopterygium franchetii]
Latin Name
rhizome or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish yin and clear lung, boost stomach and engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Dry cough due to lung dryness, vacuity taxation hemoptysis, stomach yin insufficiency, fluid damage and thirst.
Hubei Liriope
English Name
Liriope spicata var. prolifera
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish yin and moisten dryness, engender liquid and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Lung stomach yin damage, dry cough, dry throat, diabetes mellitus due to internal heat.
Common Ophiorrhiza
English Name
Ophiorrhiza mungos
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish yin and moisten lung, supplement spleen and boost qi, enrich kidney and replenish essence.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity taxation cough, lung heat dry cough, fatigue hypodynamia due to spleen vacuity, reduced food intake with dry mouth, diabetes mellitus, limp aching lumbus and knees due to kidney yin vacuity, impotence and emission, tinnitus and dim vision, premature graying in beard and hair, vacuity and marked emaciation, wind lai lichen.
Common Prickly Pear
English Name
Opuntia vulgaris
Latin Name
root and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish yin and moisten lung, cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung vacuity taxation cough, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], intestinal wind bleeding, hemorrhoids and fistulas, prolapse of rectum, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, poisonous snake bites, scalds, knife wound.
Obovate Peony
English Name
Paeonia obovata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish blood and dispel wind, moisten dryness and free stool.
Potential Indication
Leprosy, dry cracked skin, itchy skin, hair loss, sores eczema, intestinal dry and constipation.
Veitch Peony
English Name
Paeonia veitchii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish blood and free milk, resolve toxin, engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Anemia and amenorrhea, postpartum scant milk, enduring sores.
Tibet Paris
English Name
Paris polyphylla var. pseudothibetica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To nourish blood and quiet spirit, soften hardness and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Heat vexation and insomnia, disquieted heart spirit, scrofula.
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