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Ernest Milkvetch*
English Name
Astragalus ernestii
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and disperse food, rough essence and arrest emission, disperse concretion and transform stone.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, food stagnation, vomiting nausea, diarrhea and dysentery, child gan accumulation, emission, enuresis, frequent urination, calculus of urinary system, gallstones, amenorrhea with concretion and conglomeration, throat impediment with nipple moth, gan of teeth and gum, mouth sore.
Golden-wing Milkvetch*
English Name
Astragalus chrysopterus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and eliminate damp, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, acute gastroenteritis, hepatitis, cough and hemoptysis, pain in joints, knocks and falls.
Mongolian Milkvetch
English Name
Astragalus mongholicus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and harmonize center, relieve cough and transform phlegm, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, chronic dysentery, cough.
Chinese Atractylodes
English Name
Atractylodes chinensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and harmonize stomach, disinhibit water and precipitate qi, free milk, quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, diarrhea, water-damp fullness, inhibited urination, beriberi, jaundice, cough and qi counterflow, stirring fetus in pregnancy, edema in pregnancy, postpartum scant milk.
Japanese Atractylodes
English Name
Atractylodes japonica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and harmonize stomach, moisten lung and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
weakness during convalescence, spleen vacuity diarrhea, inappetence, cough.
Delicate Jew’s Ear*
English Name
Auricularia delicata
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and harmonize stomach, regulate qi and resolve depression, relieve pain and quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Distending pain in chest and rib-side, distending pain in stomach duct, vomiting and diarrhea, contusion in chest and rib-side, forking qi with pain, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
Japanese White Birch Bark
English Name
Betula platyphylla
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and harmonize stomach.
Potential Indication
Distention fullness in stomach duct and abdomen, indigestion, fatigued spirit, hemorrhoids.
Linearleaf Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum angustissimum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and nourish stomach, engender liquid and boost lung, supplement kidney and rough essence.
Potential Indication
Reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, incessant chronic diarrhea, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, kidney vacuity and emission, vaginal discharge, frequent urination, vacuity heat and diabetes mellitus.
Narrowbambooleaf Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum marginatum var. stenophyllum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and nourish stomach, moisten lung and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Stomach reflux, scant breast milk, beriberi, lung heat dry cough, dry stool.
Wenchuan Thorowax*
English Name
Bupleurum wenchuanense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and nourish stomach, quiet spirit, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Vacuity and hypodynamia, indigestion, insomnia, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, carcinoma in digestive tract.
Bambooleaf Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum marginatum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and percolate damp, eliminate impediment and check diarrhea, clear heat and expel pus.
Potential Indication
Edema, beriberi, inhibited urination, damp impediment and hypertonicity, spleen vacuity diarrhea, pulmonary welling abscess, intestinal welling abscess, flat wart.
Bigleaf Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum longiradiatum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and promote digestion, calm liver and raise spirit.
Potential Indication
Non-digestion of food accumulation, torpid intake, scant breast milk, hypertension, fatigued spirit and desire to sleep.
Chaishou Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum chaishoui
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and promote digestion, clear heat and disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Stomach reflux, abdominal pain, diarrhea, prolapse of rectum.
Goldenyellow Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum aureum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and promote digestion, dispel wind and outthrust papules, rectify qi and transform phlegm, resolve toxin, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Weakness of rigth qi , fatigued spirit and hypodynamia, torpid intake, indigestion, blood vacuity, rickets, hypertension, hyperlipemia, chronic hepatitis, night sweating, urinary incontinence, edema, non-eruption of measles, urticaria, carcinoma.
Red Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum scorzonerifolium
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and stomach, disinhibit liver and gallbladder, quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Hepatitis, ulcer in gastrointestinal tract, indigestion, gan accumulation, insomnia.
Siberia Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum sibiricum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and stomach, supplement qi and blood, moisten dryness and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with marked emaciation, wind stroke with hemiplegia, phlegm-rheum and glomus accumulation.
Smallleaf Black Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum smithii var. parvifolium
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement center, nourish blood and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity and marked emaciation, amenorrhea, hematochezia, blood dysentery, incised wound.
Yinchow Thorowax
English Name
Bupleurum yinchowense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement lung, boost qi and engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Spleen-stomach vacuity, reduced food intake and sloppy stool, lassitude in limbs, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating, qi-blood depletion.
Japanese Beautyberry
English Name
Callicarpa japonica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement lung, dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, child gan accumulation, tuberculosis with cough, impotence, flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge, beriberi with edema, wind-damp bone pain, intestinal wind, dysentery, sore, hemorrhoids and fistulas, malaria, intestinal parasitic disease.
Bush Redpepper
English Name
Capsicum frutescens
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To fortify spleen and supplement lung, move qi and disinhibit damp, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity edema, reduced food intake with fatigue, tuberculosis with cough, vaginal discharge, night sweating, postpartum scant milk, wind-damp impediment pain, edema, cirrhosis with ascites, hepatitis, knocks and falls.
Nakedstamen Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum gymnandrum
Latin Name
root, leaf and flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus.
Chinese Coriaria
English Name
Coriaria sinica [Syn. Coriaria nepalensis]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and boost blood, rectify qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Vexation and thirst, hiccough, stomachache, scrofula, swelling of clove, toothache, bleeding due to external injury.
Roce Pelargonium
English Name
Pelargonium graveolens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and eliminate vexation, resolve liquor and arouse spleen.
Potential Indication
NA
Regel Threewingnut
English Name
Tripterygium regelii
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid, moisten intestines, quicken blood, disperse accumulation.
Potential Indication
Scant fluid and thirst, intestinal dry and constipation, amenorrhea, accumulation-gathering.
Common Threewingnut
English Name
Tripterygium wilfordii
Latin Name
root, leaf and flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid, outthrust papules, upbear yang and check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Angina pectoris, hypertension, headache due to externally contracted wind-heat, rigidity of neck, thirst, diabetes mellitus, non-eruption of measles, heat dysentery, diarrhea, deafness in early stage, optic nerve atrophy, retinitis.
Largeleaf Spicebush Root-bark
English Name
Lindera umbellata [Syn. Lindera erythrocarpa ]
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and boost qi, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Lung vacuity cough, prolapse of uterus, dizziness, headache, emission, leukorrhea, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, knocks and falls, fracture with wound sinew.
Assam Tea
English Name
Camellia sinensis var. assamica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and clear heat, cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Steaming bone tidal fever due to yin vacuity, night sweating, tuberculosis with cough, blood ejection due to blood heat, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematochezia, flooding and spotting.
Fennel Stem and Leaf
English Name
Foeniculum vulgare
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and clear heat, cool blood and supplement blood, lower blood sugar levels.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus, dermatitis, rheumatism, diphtheria, acute tonsillitis, febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, steaming bone taxation fever, warm disease macular eruption, blood ejection due to blood heat, spontaneous external bleeding due to blood heat, flooding and spotting due to blood heat, hematuria due to blood heat, hematochezia due to blood heat, anemia with yellow complexion, palpitation and dizziness, blood depletion and amenorrhea.
Jatamans Valeriana
English Name
Valeriana jatamansii [Syn. Valeriana wallichii ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and clear heat, eliminate vexation and allay thirst, free strangury.
Potential Indication
Febrile diseases fluid damage, sand strangury, stone strangury, hypovitaminosis C, gum hemorrhage, hepatitis.
Dill Fruit
English Name
Anethum graveolens
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and downbear fire, stanch bleeding and disperse stasis.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity fever, taxation damage hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, postpartum blood stasis, blood dizziness, knocks and falls, pain of blood stasis.
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