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Asiatic Pennywort
English Name
Centella asiatica
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and moisten dryness, nourish blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and disperse swelling, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation lung wilting, cough and hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting, diarrhea with hematochezia, knocks and falls, sore toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, scalds.
Poongaoil Pongamia
English Name
Pongamia pinnata
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and supplement kidney, boost qi and fortify spleen.
Potential Indication
Spleen-kidney vacuity, steaming bone tidal fever, pain in joints, no thought of food and drink.
Largeleaf Spicebush Branch-leaf
English Name
Lindera umbellata [Syn. Lindera erythrocarpa ]
Latin Name
branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and supplement kidney, clear liver and brighten eyes, fortify spleen and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Limp aching lumbus and knees due to kidney vacuity, impotence, dim vision, eye screen, edema, scant urine.
Chinese Golden Larch
English Name
Pseudolarix amabilis
Latin Name
root cortex and bark near root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and moisten dryness, clear lung and downbear fire.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity fever, cough with blood ejection, lung wilting, pulmonary welling abscess, swelling pain in throat, diabetes mellitus, constipation.
Coconut Oil
English Name
Cocos nucifera
Latin Name
oil
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and moisten dryness, nourish blood and extinguish wind.
Potential Indication
Insomnia and vexation, febrile diseases tetanic reversal, vacuity taxation blood ejection, retching counterflow, dysentery, scalds, heat sore, hepatitis, child indigestion.
Wayaka Yambean Seed
English Name
Pachyrhizus erosus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and supplement blood, quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Menstrual disorder [= menoxenia].
Tung Oil
English Name
Aleurites cordata [Syn. Aleurites fordii]
Latin Name
seed oil
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and supplement kidney, clear lung and moisten dryness, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Taxation damage and sinew bone pain, impotence, stomachache, innominate toxin swelling, knife wound.
Thickfruit Millettia
English Name
Millettia pachycarpa
Latin Name
seed or fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich yin and supplement vacuity, fortify spleen and promote digestion, promote lactation, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Vacuity detriment and emaciation weakness, spleen-stomach vacuity, indigestion, postpartum scant milk, edema, inhibited urination [=dysuria].
Dalmatian Pyrethrum Equivalent plant: Chrysanthemum coccineum
English Name
Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium
Latin Name
capitulum and whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich and nourish blood vessel, harmonize spleen and stomach.
Potential Indication
Vacuity detriment, flooding, malaria.
Peru Balmtree Resin
English Name
Myroxylon pereirae
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich and nourish, resolve heat, disinhibit urine, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-heat vexation and thirst, edema, beriberi.
Rocket Consolida
English Name
Consolida ajacis [Syn. Delphinium ajacis]
Latin Name
root and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich and supplement, check vomiting and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Vacuity with dizziness, taxation damage cough, blood ejection, hemoptysis, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, toxin swelling.
Oriental Buckthorn
English Name
Rhamnus crenata
Latin Name
root or root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich and supplement, enrich and invigorate, boost liver, fortify spleen.
Potential Indication
Weakness during convalescence, gan accumulation, senile vacuity weakness, septicemia, chronic hepatitis, duodenal ulcer, rheumatic arthritis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, infertility.
SmallleafKnema
English Name
Kleinhovia hospita
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrich liver and nourish kidney, relieve cough and calm asthma, resolve toxin and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Tinnitus, dizziness and dim vision, emission, profuse menstruation, vaginal discharge, enduring cough with bloody phlegm, asthma, nephritis, inhibited urination, tonsillitis, parotitis, swelling toxin of clove sore.
Lopseed
English Name
Phryma leptostachya
Latin Name
herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To enrish yin and nourish blood, engender liquid, moisten intestines.
Potential Indication
Dizzy head and vision due to insufficiency of liver-kidney and blood vacuity essence depletion,aching lumbus and tinnitus, premature graying in beard and hair, insomnia and frequent dreaming, fluid damage and thirst, diabetes mellitus, intestinal dry and constipation.
Japanese Pieris
English Name
Pieris japonica
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel pus, resolve toxin, expel water, quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, burns and scalds, knocks and falls, bubo, hepatitis, ascites ulcer.
Peach
English Name
Prunus persica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel roundworm.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis.
Apple
English Name
Malus pumila
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel roundworm.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis.
Hairy Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia vestita
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel stasis and break accumulation.
Potential Indication
Amenorrhea, concretion and conglomeration, accumulation-gathering, fistula.
Common Antiaris
English Name
Antiaris toxicaria [Syn. Ambora toxicaria]
Latin Name
juice and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel tapeworm.
Potential Indication
Taeniasis.
Red Lady-bug
English Name
Huechys sanguinea
Latin Name
dried body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel water and dispel phlegm, break accumulation and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Edema distention fullness, a ccumulation from phlegm, food accumulation, worm accumulation, pain in heart and abdomen, chronic trachitis, cough, asthma, scab and lichen, hemorrhoids and fistulas, scrofula, bone tuberculosis, epididymis tubercle.
NA
English Name
Chorda filum
Latin Name
frond
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel water and disperse swelling, break blood and disperse concretion.
Potential Indication
Edema, phlegm-rheum, accumulation and distention-fullness, urinary and fecal stoppage, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, intractable impediment, wart.
Chinese Honeylocust Root-bark
English Name
Gleditsia sinensis [Syn. Gleditsia horrida]
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel water and disperse swelling, disinhibit urine and free stool, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Edema distention fullness, urinary and fecal stoppage, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Mung Bean Blister Beetle
English Name
Lytta caraganae
Latin Name
dried body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel water, resolve toxin, dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Edema, scrofula, mammary welling abscess, hemorrhoids, scab sore.
Daghestan Sweetclover Root
English Name
Melilotus suaveolens
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and dissipate cold, dissipate stasis and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, externally contracted wind-cold, cough and asthma, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, toothache, swelling pain of sore and boil, scalds, snake or insect bites.
Paniculate Hydrangea
English Name
Hydrangea paniculata
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and dissipate cold, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, urticaria, toxin swelling.
Japanese Ardisia Root
English Name
Ardisia japonica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and dissipate cold, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold,pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, urticaria, toxin swelling.
Amber, Succinus
English Name
Succinus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, tetanus, swollen welling abscess, malign sore, scab sore, bleeding due to external injury.
Amber, Succinus
English Name
Succinus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hemiplegia, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Manyprickle Acanthopanax Root-bark
English Name
Acanthopanax senticosus [Syn. Eleutherococcus senticosus ]
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, free channels and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, blood stasis lumbago.
Obtuseleaf Achyranthes
English Name
Achyranthes aspera var. indica
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free network vessels, resolve toxin and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, lumbago, wound swelling from knocks and falls, thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger’s disease), pulmonary welling abscess, spontaneous external bleeding, swelling toxin of clove sore.
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