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Siberian Motherwort
English Name
Leonurus sibiricus
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, dissipate stasis and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, anesthetize and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct, wind-damp impediment pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, sore and welling abscess, snake or insect bites, local anesthesia.
Flixweed Tansymustard Seed
English Name
Descurainia sophia
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, fortify spleen and suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain in lumbus and legs, stasis pain from knocks and falls, qi pain in heart and stomach, bronchitis, common cold, cough.
Virginia Pepperweed Seed
English Name
Lepidium virginicum
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, nourish heart and quiet spirit, disperse accumulation, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation and blood stasis, chest pain, palmus and breathe hard, neurasthenia, insomnia, bronchitis, food stagnation and abdominal fullness, diarrhea, mounting qi (hernia), burns and scalds.
Jehol Ligusticum
English Name
Ligusticum jeholense
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve depression, harmonize blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Liver stomach qi pain, reduced food intake with nausea and vomiting, menstrual disorder, painful wound from knocks and falls.
Longflower Lily
English Name
Lilium longiflorum
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve depression, regulate menstruation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
women’s diseases, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, liver depression and qi pain, distending pain in chest and rib-side, distending pain in stomach duct, indigestion, glomus and oppression in chest and stomach duct, cold mounting with abdominal pain, painful swollen breast.
Low Lily
English Name
Lilium pumilum [Syn. Lilium tenuifolium]
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, disperse accumulation, dispel wind-damp, dissipate stasis and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Qi pain in heart and stomach, mounting qi, child gan accumulation, food accumulation distention and fullness, swollen liver and spleen due to bilharziosis, wind-damp impediment pain, beriberi, knocks and falls, fracture, otitis media, nasosinusitis.
Broadleaf Liriope*
English Name
Liriope platyphylla
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct and rib-side, mounting pain, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, tinea capitis, frostbite (kibe).
Common Arnebia
English Name
Arnebia guttata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, ileus, enteritis and diarrhea.
Sinkiang-Tibet Arnebia
English Name
Arnebia euchroma
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation stomachache, abdominal pain, mounting pain, wind-damp bone pain, dysmenorrhea.
Largeflower-like Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera macranthoides
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi , quicken blood, quiet spirit, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Sudden pain in heart and abdomen, mounting qi .
Yellowhair Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera fulvotomentosa
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi , quicken blood, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, fracture.
Glaucousback Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera hypoglauca
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Qi stagnation and distention in stomach duct, stomachache, abdominal pain, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, summerheat-damp diarrhea, swelling of welling abscess and boil, poisonous snake bite, hypertension.
Shortbraet Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera similis
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, resolve toxin, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Pain in stomach duct, abdominal pain due to summerheat damage, dysentery, diarrhea, swollen welling abscess and sores, eczema, blood ejection, hemoptysis, bleeding due to external injury.
South-western Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera bournei
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and relieve pain, warm center and supplement blood.
Potential Indication
Blood vacuity, withered-yellow facial complexion, pain in heart and stomach.
Wild Honeysuckle
English Name
Lonicera confusa
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi- blood, disperse swelling toxin, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Yellow swelling, pain wind, flooding, painful swelling from knocks and falls, toothache, scrofula, welling abscess, eczema, dermatitis.
Singkwa Towelgourd
English Name
Luffa acutangula
Latin Name
dried vascular bundles of ripe fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi, precipitate qi, relieve pain, disperse distention, free milk.
Potential Indication
Galactostasis.
Barbary Wolfberry Fruit
English Name
Lycium barbarum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi, regulate center, fortify stomach.
Potential Indication
Glomus, abdominal distention and pain, vomiting, diarrhea.
Barbary Wolfberry Root-bark*
English Name
Lycium barbarum
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move blood and quicken network vessels, dispel wind and relieve pain, supplement kidney and strengthen bones.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, kindey vacuity toothache, lumbago, chronic diarrhea.
Cernuous Clubmoss
English Name
Lycopodium cernuum
Latin Name
whole plant
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood (root), cool blood and stanch bleeding (flower).
Potential Indication
Cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, mounting qi, concretion and conglomeration (root), intestinal wind bleeding (flower).
Twoedged Loosestrife
English Name
Lythrum anceps
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To move qi and quicken blood, cool blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, lump glomus, dysentery, throat pain, lung heat cough, tuberculosis and hemoptysis, blood ejection, bleeding from hemorrhoids, sores clove boil, mammary welling abscess, epidemic parotitis, skin lichen, snake or insect bites, scalds, frostbite.
Moliniform Dendrobium*
English Name
Dendrobium moniliforme
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To joint sinews and bones, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Sinew and bone wound, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Chinese Pink
English Name
Dianthus chinensis
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill snails.
Potential Indication
NA
Narrowleaf Dittary*
English Name
Dictamnus angustifolius
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill tapeworm. Agrimonia bud (Hecaoya) is taken with warm boiled water in the morning before breakfast. The tapeworm should be discharged within five to six hours.
Potential Indication
NA
Grecian Foxglove
English Name
Digitalis lanata
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms (stem), upbear yang and resolve exterior (root).
Potential Indication
Impotence, common cold (root).
NA
English Name
Dioscorea spongiosa
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and disperse accumulation.
Potential Indication
Abdominal pain due to worm accumulation.
Mountain Yam
English Name
Dioscorea tokoro
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and relieve diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis, ascariasis, oxyuria disease.
Thinnest Ya m U s e d p a r t: rhizome
English Name
Dioscorea gracillima
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and relieve diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis, ascariasis, oxyuria disease.
Rosthorn Yam
English Name
Dioscorea nipponica ssp. rosthornii
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and relieve itch, close sores.
Potential Indication
Scab and lichen, frostbite.
Japanese Umbrellaleaf
English Name
Diphylleia grayi
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and relieve itch, decay wart and mole.
Potential Indication
Neurodermatitis, psoriasis, tinea capitis, goose-foot wind, foot lichen, wart.
Japanese Teasel
English Name
Dipsacus japonicus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Psoriasis, chronic eczema.
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