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Threeleaf Akebia
English Name
Akebia trifoliata
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis, diarrhea.
Threeleaf Akebia Root
English Name
Akebia trifoliata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms, disperse accumulation, precipitate qi, move water, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Wormccumulation, food stagnation, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, diarrhea and tenesmus, beriberi, edema, malaria.
Cape of Good Hope Aloe Dried Juice
English Name
Aloe ferox
Latin Name
solid residue obtained by evaporating liquid which drains from leaves
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms, promote lactation, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis, ascariasis, bilharziosis, ancylostomiasis, oxyuria disease, postpartum scant milk, postpartum edema, pertussis, hemorrhoids.
Chinese Aloe Dried Juice
English Name
Aloe vera var. chinensis
Latin Name
solid residue obtained by evaporating liquid which drains from leaves
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis, oxyuria disease.
Small Piptanthus*
English Name
Piptanthus nanus
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis, taeniasis, oxyuria disease.
HainanAmonum
English Name
Amomum longiligulare
Latin Name
ripe fruit or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Oxyuria disease, ascariasis.
Locklebur-like Amomum
English Name
Amomum xanthioides
Latin Name
ripe fruit or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Oxyuria disease.
Yun Hogfennel
English Name
Peucedanum rubricaule
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis.
Nanling Hogfennel
English Name
Peucedanum longshengens
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis.
Shortlobe Ligusticum
English Name
Ligusticum brachylobum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To extinguish wind and check tetany, calm liver and subdue yang , dispel wind and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Convulsion, child convulsion, spasm in limbs, facial muscle spasm, trigeminal neuralgia, numbness in limbs, acute fright wind, chronic fright wind, tetanus, dizziness, headache, hemiplegia, hypertension, wind-damp impediment pain.
Whiteflower Hogfennel
English Name
Peucedanum praeruptorum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To extinguish wind and check tetany, clear heat and calm liver.
Potential Indication
Infant fright wind and night crying, exuberant heat stirring wind, epilepsy of pregnancy, liver yang dizziness, liver fire headache.
Soft-hair Cowparsnip
English Name
Heracleum lanatum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To extinguish wind and check tetany.
Potential Indication
Difficult delivery, child fright epilepsy, infant night crying.
Siberian Phlojodicarpus
English Name
Phlojodicarpus sibiricus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To extinguish wind and harmonize blood.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints, wrenching and contusion.
Chinese Eaglewood
English Name
Aquilaria sinensis
Latin Name
resinous wood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To extinguish wind and settle fright.
Potential Indication
Rabid dog bite.
Hairyleaf Aralia
English Name
Aralia dasyphylla
Latin Name
bast
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify and move spleen, check dysentery and promote astriction.
Potential Indication
Accumulation with abdominal distention, diarrhea, enduring dysentery, profuse menstruation, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis].
Farges Aralia
English Name
Aralia fargesii
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and assisting movement, promote lactation, quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, indigestion, scant breast milk, neurasthenia.
Amur Jackinthepulpit
English Name
Arisaema amurense
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and boost qi , downbear counterflow and check vomiting.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, vomiting and hiccough.
Diversileaf Jackinthepulpit
English Name
Arisaema heterophyllum
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and boost qi .
Potential Indication
Weakness during convalescence, child gan accumulation, tinea capitis.
Indian Dutchmanspipe*
English Name
Aristolochia indica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and boost kidney, harmonize blood and dispel wind, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation cough, dizzy head and tinnitus, limp aching lumbus and knees, qi vacuity, vaginal discharge, child gan accumulation, pox without coming out, mammary welling abscess, pain wind, knocks and falls.
Maxima Dutchmanspipe*
English Name
Aristolochia maxima
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and boost lung, quicken lood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, yin vacuity cough, night sweating, blood stasis and dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorder, knocks and falls.
Northern Dutchmanspipe
English Name
Aristolochia contorta
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and boost stomach, supplement kidney and secure essence.
Potential Indication
Center vacuity with stomachache, inappetence, kidney vacuity and emission.
Northern Dutchmanspipe Root
English Name
Aristolochia contorta
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and check diarrhea, nourish lung and enrich kidney, resolve toxin and close sores.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity diarrhea, kidney vacuity and emission, vaginal discharge, frequent urination, vacuity taxation cough, diabetes mellitus, ulcerating sores, burns and scalds.
Triangular Dutchmanspipe*
English Name
Aristolochia triangularis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and check diarrhea, transform phlegm and quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Cholera, spleen vacuity diarrhea, indigestion, phlegm-damp cough, insomnia and frequent dreaming.
Celery Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia apiacea
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disinhibit damp, move qi and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea, dysentery, stomachache, pain in rib-side, wind-damp pain, menstrual disorder, swollen welling abscess, fracture.
Mongolian Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia mongolica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disinhibit damp, rectify qi and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Edema, stomachache, distention fullness in chest and abdomen, cough and asthma, child milk accumulation, sore and boil.
Mugwort
English Name
Artemisia vulgaris
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disinhibit damp, supplement kidney and rough essence.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, diarrhea and dysentery, vomiting of sour matter, kidney vacuity lumbago, emission, diabetes mellitus, leukorrhea, white turbidity, frequent urination.
Redfoot Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia rubripes
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disinhibit water, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Diaphragm food, edema, sore toxin.
Fukien Wildginger
English Name
Asarum fukienense
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disperse accumulation, precipitate qi and loosen intestines, resolve toxin and close sores.
Potential Indication
Gastrointestinal accumulation, diarrhea, dysentery, intestine gripping sand, white turbidity, vaginal discharge, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, zoster, erysipelas, effusion of back from welling abscess and flat abscess, scrofula, burns and scalds.
Manchurian Wildginger
English Name
Asarum heterotropoides var. mandshuricum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disperse food, nourish heart and quiet spirit, clear heat and disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Gastritis, indigestion, palpitation and insomnia, damp-heat jaundice, cholecystitis, edema, inhibited urination, inhibited voidings of reddish urine.
Seoul Siebold Wildginger
English Name
Asarum sieboldii var. seoulensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disperse food, quicken blood and transform stasis.
Potential Indication
Food stagnation, meat-type food accumulation, distending pain in stomach duct, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, lacquer sore, frostbite.
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