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Japanese Stauntonvine
English Name
Stauntonia hexaphylla
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of high fever with impaired consciousness, convulsions, arthralgia, numbness of the limbs, hemiplegia, cough and asthma due to heat in the lung, edema ano oliguria, hypertension.
Potential Indication
1. Relaxing bronchial spasm in rats or rabbits.2. Intravenous injection of alcoholic infusion (0.1g/kg) lowers blood pressure in anesthetized dogs.3. Sedative and anticonvulsive.4. Lumbrifebrine, one of its active components, is ab antipyretic.
Snakebubble Raspberry
English Name
Rubus cochinchinensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of high fever with impaired consciousness, convulsions, arthralgia, numbness of the limbs, hemiplegia, cough and asthma due to heat in the lung, edema ano oliguria, hypertension.
Potential Indication
1. Relaxing bronchial spasm in rats or rabbits.2. Intravenous injection of alcoholic infusion (0.1g/kg) lowers blood pressure in anesthetized dogs.3. Sedative and anticonvulsive.4. Lumbrifebrine, one of its active components, is ab antipyretic.
Chinese Aspen
English Name
Populus adenopoda
Latin Name
root cortex, bark or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hmatemesis, hemafecia, hemoptysis and metrorrhagia of asthenia-cold type.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Ivy Equivalent plant: Hedera rhombea
English Name
Hedera nepalensis var. sinensis
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hmatemesis, hemafecia, hemoptysis and metrorrhagia of asthenia-cold type.
Potential Indication
NA
Silkworm Feculae
English Name
Bombyx mori
Latin Name
silkworm dried feces
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hydrothorax and ascites with constipation and oliguria, carbuncles, sores, scrofula.
Potential Indication
NA
Hempleaf Nettle Equivalent plant: Urtica dioica
English Name
Urtica cannabina
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hyperactivity of liver yang due to deficient yin of the liver and kidneys manifested as dizziness, distension and pain in the head and blurred vision. Tortoise plastron (Guiban) is used with White peony root (Baishao), Cyathula root (Niuxi), Sea-ear sh
Potential Indication
NA
Henry Magnoliavine
English Name
Schisandra henryi
Latin Name
rattan and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hyperactivity of liver yang due to deficient yin of the liver and kidneys manifested as dizziness, distension and pain in the head and blurred vision. Tortoise plastron (Guiban) is used with White peony root (Baishao), Cyathula root (Niuxi), Sea-ear sh
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Alangium Equivalent plant: Alangium platanifolium
English Name
Alangium chinense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hyperactivity of liver yang due to deficient yin of the liver and kidneys manifested as dizziness, distension and pain in the head and blurred vision. Tortoise plastron (Guiban) is used with White peony root (Baishao), Cyathula root (Niuxi), Sea-ear sh
Potential Indication
NA
Climbing Fig
English Name
Ficus pumila
Latin Name
leafy stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hypofunction of the spleen with lassitude and anorexia, debility and deficiency of qi and yin marked by spontaneous sweating and thirst during convalescence dry cough due to dryness of the lung.
Potential Indication
NA
Siebold Greenbrier Equivalent plant: Smilax stans
English Name
Smilax sieboldii
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence and seminal emission, mass in the abdomen, scrofula, traumatic injuries, external use for carbuncles and boils.
Potential Indication
NA
Robert Cranesbill
English Name
Geranium robertianum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, enuresis, dyspnea in deficiency syndrome of the kidney, mass in the abdomen, traumatic injuries, external use for carbuncles and boils.
Potential Indication
Exerting gonadotropic effect, ie., prolonging estruation and increasing the weight of ovary and uterus in female mice and that of prostate, seminal vesicl and musculi levator ani in male mice.
Yunnan Gaultheria
English Name
Gaultheria yunnanensis
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, seminal emission, aching of the loins and knee, enuresis, frequent urination, morbid leukorrhea.
Potential Indication
NA
Curious Kadsura
English Name
Kadsura heteroclita [Syn. Uvaria heteroclita]
Latin Name
root or lianoid stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, seminal emission, dripping of urine after urination, enuresis, frequent urination, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, blurred vision and tinnitus, threatened abortion due to hypofunction of the kidney, diarrhea due to hypofunction of the spleen and the kidney, external use for vitiligo.
Potential Indication
1. Cardiotonic. 2. Promoting lymphocyte-blastogenesis.
Camphortree Leaf
English Name
Cinnamomum camphora
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, seminal emission, dripping of urine after urination, enuresis, frequent urination, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, blurred vision and tinnitus, threatened abortion due to hypofunction of the kidney, diarrhea due to hypofunction of the spleen and the kidney, external use for vitiligo.
Potential Indication
1. Cardiotonic. 2. Promoting lymphocyte-blastogenesis.
Foochow Yam Equivalent plant: Dioscorea spongiosa
English Name
Dioscorea futschauensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, seminal emission, enuresis, frequent urination, aching of the loins and knees with cold sensation, asthma in deficiency syndromes of the kidney, diarrhea occurring before dawn daily. External use for vitiligo and alpecia areata.
Potential Indication
1. Corylifolinin ( isobavachalcone ) dilates coronary artery significantly. 2. Promoting phagocytosis of macrophage. 3. Exciting the intestinal smooth muscles in vivo or in vitro, and relaxing the uterus of guinea-pigs in vitro.
Chinaroot Greenbrier
English Name
Smilax china [Syn. Smilax japonica ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, seminal emission, weakness of the limbs, rheumatic or rheumatoid arthralgia with numbness and muscle contracture, climacteric hypertension.
Potential Indication
1. Dilating coronary artery and increasing coronary flow.2. Acting as androgenic hormone, such as increasing the weight of prostate, seminal vesicle and musculi levator ani in mice.3. Enhancing lymphocyte-blastogenesis rate.
Common Javatea
English Name
Orthosiphon wulfenioides [Syn. Coleus wulfenioides]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, or frigidity and infertility, emaciation, lassitude, aversion to cold, dizziness, tinnitus, impairment of hearing, back pain accompanied by cold seasation, and weakness of the limbs, abnormal uterine bleeding and leukorrhea, chronic cores difficult to heal.
Potential Indication
NA
Babylon Weeping Willow Branch
English Name
Salix babylonica
Latin Name
branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of infantile convulsion, nebula, inflammation of the throat, boils, cuaneous itching.
Potential Indication
NA
Oriental Bittersweet Leaf
English Name
Celastrus orbiculatus [Syn. Celastrus articulatus ]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of infantile convulsion, twitching, spasm, apoplectic hemiplegia, tetanus, chronic arthritis, headache or migraine, sores, scrofula.
Potential Indication
1. Anti-convulsive and sedative.2. Exerting significant and prolong hypotensive effect.3. Buthotoxin can induce respiratory paralysis, salivation and convulsion.
Angled Bittersweet
English Name
Celastrus angulatus
Latin Name
root or root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of infectious icteric hepatitis, sores with exudation and itching.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction or its volatile oil, and active components such as chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and hydroxyacetophenone are chologogues.2. Protecting the liver of experimental animals from the damage of CCl4.3. Decreasing the level of blood lipids and alleviating artherosclerosis and lipidosis in rabbits.4. Increasing the coronary flow of rabbits in vitro.5. Its volatile oil inhibits the growth of Shigella dysenteriae, Hemolytic streptococcus and various dermatomyces in vitro.6. Anticoagulative.
Tall Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum sinomontanum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of inflammation in the eye with pain, photophobia and lacrimination, headache, dizziness, blurred vision and constipation.
Potential Indication
1. Oral adminstration of the hearbal powder can inhibit the rising of serum cholesterol and formation of atherosclerosis in rabbits.2. Its tincture and infusion can inhibit the myocardium of toad in vitro, and contract th eblood vessels of lower limbs.3. Its infusion can lower the blood pressure in dogs, cats and rabbits.4. Chrysophanol, one of the active components, is a laxative.5. Bacteriostatic.
Australian Cowplant
English Name
Gymnema sylvestre
Latin Name
root or twig
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of inflammation of the eye, tarsitis, pterygium, corneals opacity, skin ulceration with purulent discharge or exudation, pruritus.
Potential Indication
NA
Champac Michelia
English Name
Michelia champaca
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep and cardiac palpitation, cough and asthma in deficiency syndromes of the lung, infertility.
Potential Indication
NA
Threeflower Clematis
English Name
Clematis terniflora [Syn. Clematis maximowicziana]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, excessive sweating due to debility, thirst due to consumption of body fluid.
Potential Indication
The chief components are jujuboside A and B. 1. Intraperitoneal injection its decoction ( 2.5-5.0g/kg ) exerts sedative and hypnotic effects in rats. 2. Intravenous injection of its decoction exerts significant and proloned hypotensive effect in anesthetized dogs. 3. Occasionally causing heart block. 4. Inducing hysterospasm.
David Falsepanax
English Name
Nothopanax davidii
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, excessive sweating due to debility, thirst due to consumption of body fluid.
Potential Indication
The chief components are jujuboside A and B. 1. Intraperitoneal injection its decoction ( 2.5-5.0g/kg ) exerts sedative and hypnotic effects in rats. 2. Intravenous injection of its decoction exerts significant and proloned hypotensive effect in anesthetized dogs. 3. Occasionally causing heart block. 4. Inducing hysterospasm.
NA
English Name
Lycopodium casuarinoides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, general aching in blood deficiency, rheumatic arthralgia, external use for itching.
Potential Indication
1. Decreasing the level of blood lipids and inhibiting the formation of atherosclerosis.2. Oral admintration of its decoction increases the level of blood sugar in rabbits.
Easter Heraldtrumpet
English Name
Beaumontia grandiflora
Latin Name
root and leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of intractable phlegm with cough, vertigo, stroke with phlegm in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth,and hemiplegia, epilepsy and convulsions, tetanus. External use of the crude drug for boils, sores, snake and insect bite.
Potential Indication
1. Its aqueous infusion or alcohol extract exerts an anticonvulsive effect in mice.2. Oral administration of its decoction can eliminate phlegm in mice.
Chinese Tinospora*
English Name
Tinospora sinensis
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of intractable phlegm with cough, vertigo, stroke with phlegm in the throat, deviation of the eye and the mouth,and hemiplegia, epilepsy and convulsions, tetanus. External use of the crude drug for boils, sores, snake and insect bite.
Potential Indication
NA
Philippine Flemingia
English Name
Flemingia philippinensis [Syn. Moghania philippinensis]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of jaundice
Potential Indication
NA
Philippine Flemingia
English Name
Moghania philippinensis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of jaundice caused by damp-heat, epigastric pain with impairment of appetite, edema with oliguria.
Potential Indication
NA
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