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Threeflower Gentian
English Name
Gentiana triflora
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten intestines and free stool, free menstruation.
Potential Indication
Constipation, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Common Heron’s Bill
English Name
Erodium stephanianum
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten intestines and free stool, resolve toxin and close sores, lower blood pressure, lower blood-fat.
Potential Indication
Intestinal dry and constipation, burns and scalds, coronary heart disease.
Meadow Cranesbill
English Name
Geranium pratense
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Habitual constipation, abdominal pain.
Nepal Cranesbill
English Name
Geranium nepalense
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Intestinal dry and constipation, habitual constipation.
Siberian Cranesbill
English Name
Geranium sibiricum
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and disinhibit throat, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Deep-lying heat sore pharynx, aphonia, red eyes, vexation and fullness, cough and counterflow, dysentery, jaundice, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, burns and scalds.
Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza glabra
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and engender liquid, downbear fire and transform phlegm, constrain sweat, check dysentery.
Potential Indication
Phlegm cough, throat impediment, jaundice, night sweating, dysentery, intractable lichen, welling abscess, head wind white scaling.
Roundfruit Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza squamulosa
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and engender liquid, rectify qi and harmonize stomach.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus, retching counterflow, qi bind in chest and diaphragm.
Hirsute Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza aspera
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and precipitate qi, allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough asthma, vomiting of sour matter, vexation and thirst.
Inflated Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza inflata
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and precipitate qi, relieve cough and dispel phlegm.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, consumption cough and hemoptysis.
Yellow Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza kansuensis
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and precipitate qi, relieve cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Cough, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, consumption cough and hemoptysis, chronic bronchitis, infection of upper respiratory tract, tuberculosis.
Yunnan Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough, dissipate stasis and relieve pain, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis and hemoptysis, lung heat cough, chest and rib-side pain, stomachache, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, wind-damp pain.
Barbados Cotton
English Name
Gossypium barbadense]
Latin Name
tomentum of seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity lung dryness, tuberculosis with cough, cough with inhibited phlegm, phlegm containing blood, scab and lichen with itching.
Upland Cotton
English Name
Gossypium hirsutum [Syn. Gossypium mexicanum]
Latin Name
tomentum of seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough, moisten skin, check discharge.
Potential Indication
Lung heat enduring cough, Vaginal discharge.
Dry Silene
English Name
Silene jenisseensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough, move qi and fortify stomach, clear heat and disinhibit damp, cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, jaundice, swelling pain from hemorrhoids, knocks and falls, hemoptysis, menstrual disorder, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, dizziness, emission.
Japanese Ivy
English Name
Hedera rhombea
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, hemoptysis, yin vacuity consumption fever, inhibited urination, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, clove sore tubercle, burns and scalds.
Small Yellow Daylily
English Name
Hemerocallis minor
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Dry cough, postpartum blood stasis.
Largeseed Hemsleya
English Name
Hemsleya macrosperma
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Lung disease, pertussis, vacuity heat cough.
Shorthair Cowparsnip
English Name
Heracleum moellendorffii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and settle asthma, engender liquid and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Lung heat dry cough, fluid damage and thirst.
Yungning Cowparsnip
English Name
Heracleum yungningense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and suppress cough, suppress cough, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Cough, edema, wind-damp pain, hypertension.
Yunnan Seabuckthorn*
English Name
Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. yunnanensis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and suppress cough, transform phlegm and precipitate qi.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation cough, fullness and oppression in heart and abdomen.
Elodia StJohn’swort
English Name
Hypericum elodeoides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and transform phlegm, eliminate vexation and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Cough and counterflow, vexation and thirst.
Kudincha Holly
English Name
Ilex kudingcha
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and transform phlegm, free network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis and hemoptysis, chronic trachitis, chronic pharyngitis, mounting qi pain, menstrual disorder, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls.
Glabrous Holly*
English Name
Ilex pubescens var. glaber
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung and transform phlegm, nourish yin and harmonize stomach, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, vomiting nausea, reduced food intake with dry mouth, anemia, dizziness, leukorrhea, clove toxin sores.
Chinese Inula
English Name
Inula britannica var. chinensis
Latin Name
capitulum
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung, relieve cough and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough, pertussis, tuberculosis, senile cough and asthma, ascariasis, oxyuria disease, scab and lichen, eczema, cootie.
Linearleaf Inula
English Name
Inula linariaefolia
Latin Name
capitulum
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten lung, transform phlegm, suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation cough, blood ejection, asthma.
Racemose Inula
English Name
Inula racemosa
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten skin, disperse swollen welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Cracking, deafness, otitis media, dysphagia-occlusion and stomach reflux, drug poisoning, swollen welling abscess, scab and lichen.
British Inula Herb
English Name
Inula britannica
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and disperse accumulation, re solve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi (hernia), child gan accumulation, nipple moth, mumps, scab and lai, yellow-water sore, ascariasis.
Salt-loving Iris
English Name
Iris halophila
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and dissipate stasis, relieve cough, check discharge.
Potential Indication
Liver depression and qi pain, knocks and falls, concretion and conglomeration, Vaginal discharge.
Undaria
English Name
Undaria pinnatifida
Latin Name
dried thallus
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, free menstruation and relieve pain, disperse swelling and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Pain in heart and abdomen, wind-damp impediment pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, stasis pain from knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, intestinal welling abscess, enduring sores.
Pear-like Puff-ball
English Name
Lycoperdon pyriforme
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Cerebral ischemia, postpartum pain, acute icterohepatitis, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, chest and rib-side stabbing pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, headache, wind-damp impediment pain.
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