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Central Asia Gentian
English Name
Gentiana kaufmanniana
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lower cholesterol, disinhibit water and percolate damp, drain heat and free strangury, lower blood sugar levels.
Potential Indication
Hyperlipemia, inhibited urination, heat strangury with inhibited pain, edema distention fullness, diarrhea, phlegm-rheum dizziness, emission.
Dahuria Gentian
English Name
Gentiana dahurica
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lower cholesterol, enrich yin and nourish blood, moisten intestines and free stool, interrupt malaria, dispel wind, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Backache, neurasthenia, hyperlipemia, neurosis, insomnia, dizziness due to anemia, palpitation, limp aching lumbus and knees due to liver kidney yin vacuity, premature graying in beard and hair, tinnitus, emission, intestinal dry and constipation, enduring malaria, wind papule itching, sore and welling abscess, scrofula, hemorrhoids.
Straw-coloured Gentian
English Name
Gentiana straminea
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lower cholesterol, quicken blood and dissipate stasis, dispel wind and free network vessels, clear heat and disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Hyperlipemia, impediment pain in joints, damp-heat jaundice, toxic jaundice, child jaundice, amenorrhea, hepatitis, appendicitis, candida vaginitis, concretion and conglomeration, cough with profuse phlegm, burns and scalds, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Thickstem Gentian
English Name
Gentiana crassicaulis
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lower cholesterol, warm kidney, dispel cold, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Hyperlipemia, kidney vacuity cold, cold pain in lesser-abdomen, mounting qi , beriberi.
Tianshan Mountain Gentian
English Name
Gentiana tianschanica
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lower vacuity heat, eliminate gan fever, clear heat and dry damp, drain fire and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Steaming bone tidal fever due to yin vacuity, night sweating, child gan accumulation, indigestion, abdominal distention and emaciation, dysentery, fever, gastrointestinal damp-heat diarrhea, hemorrhoids.
Tibet Gentian
English Name
Gentiana tibetica
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lubricate intestines and precipitate accumulation.
Potential Indication
Ileus due to roundworm, mazischesis, scalds.
Tubeflower Gentian
English Name
Gentiana siphonantha
Latin Name
dried root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To lubricate intestines, moisten skin.
Potential Indication
Dry stool, sore and scab, burns.
Headflower Gentian
English Name
Gentiana cephalantha
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten dryness and lubricate intestines, precipitate qi, disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Desiccation of liquid and intestine dryness, food accumulation and qi stagnation, abdominal distention and constipation, edema, beriberi, inhibited urination.
Linearleaf Gentian
English Name
Gentiana manshurica
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten dryness, lubricate intestines, free stool.
Potential Indication
Blood and liquid depletion, intestinal dry and constipation.
Rigescent Gentian
English Name
Gentiana rigescens
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To moisten dryness, nourish blood, dispel wind.
Potential Indication
Dry cough due to lung dryness, vacuity constipation, joints wind, wind impediment.
Welted Thistle
English Name
Carduus acanthoides
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement vacuity, clear heat and disinhibit damp, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation, dizziness due to anemia, edema, ascites, dysentery, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Sharpleaf Senna Leaf
English Name
Cassia acutifolia
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement vacuity, disinhibit urine and abate jaundice, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity and abdominal distention, indigestion, edema, jaundice, wind-damp impediment pain.
Blue Ceratostigma, Blue Bluesnow
English Name
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and warm stomach, supplement lung and relieve cough, break blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Stomach cold and hiccough, spleen vacuity diarrhea, chronic dysentery, lung vacuity cold cough, flat abscess.
South Chrysanthemum
English Name
Chrysanthemum segetum
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen, boost qi, secure essence.
Potential Indication
Food stagnation and diarrhea, constipation, beriberi, emission.
Boreal Wild Chrysanthemum
English Name
Chrysanthemum boreale
Latin Name
whole herb and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen, disinhibit damp, regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Strangury, vaginal discharge, menstrual disorder, child gan accumulation.
Cowparsnipleaf Bugbane
English Name
Cimicifuga heracleifolia
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen, disperse gan .
Potential Indication
Fatigue hypodynamia due to spleen-stomach vacuity, reduced food intake, child gan accumulation.
Medicinal Cinchona
English Name
Cinchona officinalis
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen, engender liquid, quicken blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake and diarrhea, fluid damage and thirst, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Redbark Cinchona
English Name
Cinchona succirubra
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen, supplement blood, clear heat (root), free menstruation and promote lactation, stanch bleeding, resolve toxin (fruit).
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, anemia and scant milk, mouth sore, tongue sores (root), menstrual disorder, galactostasis, bleeding from hemorrhoids, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, snake bite (fruit).
Saline Cistanche
English Name
Cistanche salsa
Latin Name
fleshy stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and disperse accumulation, resolve toxin and transform damp.
Potential Indication
Non-digestion of food accumulation, abdominal fullness with glomus a nd congestion, abdominal pain and diarrhea, welling abscess and sores, damp sore.
Trifoliate-orange Unripe Fruit
English Name
Poncirus trifoliata
Latin Name
unripe fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and disperse food, disinhibit urine and quiet spirit, eliminate inflammation.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, abdominal distention, edema, cystitis, tuberculosis, cough, insomnia, leprosy.
Trifoliate-orange Young Fruit
English Name
Poncirus trifoliata
Latin Name
young fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and disperse food, move qi and dissipate stasis, lower cholesterol.
Potential Indication
Hyperlipemia, myocardiac ischemia, angina pectoris, meat-type food accumulation, distention fullness in stomach duct, abdominal pain and diarrhea, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, mounting qi .
Wilson Orange Young Fruit
English Name
Citrus wilsonii
Latin Name
young fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and disperse food, move qi and transform phlegm .
Potential Indication
Mounting qi, food stagnation, cough, testitis.
Pomelo
English Name
Citrus decumana
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and harmonize center, quicken blood and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, Kersan disease with hypertonicity and pain, carcinoma.
Satsuma
English Name
Citrus unshiu
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and rectify qi .
Potential Indication
Distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, knocks and falls, scab and lichen.
Tankan Citrus
English Name
Citrus tankan
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach and rectify qi, resolve toxin and kill worms, lower blood-fat.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake with abdominal distention, wound, ulcer, trichomoniasis, hyperlipemia.
Tankan Citrus Pericarp
English Name
Citrus tankan
Latin Name
pericarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify stomach, disperse food, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation distention and fullness, enteritis and diarrhea.
Lemonlike Citrus
English Name
Citrus limonia
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To free channels and network vessels, joint sinews and bones, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Painful swelling from knocks and falls, fracture, bleeding due to external injury, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin, poisonous snake bites.
Lemonlike Citrus Pericarp
English Name
Citrus limonia
Latin Name
pericarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To free channels and quicken blood, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain due to external injury, fracture, malaria.
Wilson Citron
English Name
Citrus wilsonii
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To free channels and quicken network vessels, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, deadlimb, hemiplegia, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, knocks and falls.
Red Orange
English Name
Citrus erythrosa
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To free menstruation, disperse swelling, relieve pain, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Concretion and conglomeration, chest impediment, amenorrhea, menstrual disorder, postpartum stasis stagnation abdominal pain, knocks and falls, swelling pain in joints, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation.
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