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Haoryanther Paoshan Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum nagarum var. lasiandrum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp-heat impediment, strangury, erysipelas, toxin swelling from hemorrhoids, intestinal wind bleeding, swelling pain due to external injury, fracture.
Manyroot Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum karakolicum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and eliminate inflammation.
Potential Indication
Vaginal discharge, welling abscess and boil, mastitis.
Yadong Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum balfourii
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp, soothe liver and quicken network vessels, disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, hypertonicity of limbs, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, amenorrhea, galactostasis, edema distention fullness, eczema.
Circinate Hemsley Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum hemsleyanium var. circinacum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain.
Grassleaf Sweetflag
English Name
Acorus gramineus
Latin Name
Rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, bleeding due to external injury, nervous headache, stomachache, toothache, mastitis, epidemic parotitis.
Chinese Buckeye
English Name
Aesculus chinensis
Latin Name
ripe fruit without shell
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind, dredge the meridians, activate the circulation of vital energy and blood, strengthen the tendons and bones, relieve pain. For arthralgia of wind-cold-dampness type, weakness and soreness of the waist and lower extremities, especially those with deficiency-cold syndrome, and also for trauma. Wallichii is also used for angina pectoris, cerebral thrombosis and embolism, and Puberulum for biliary colic and stomachache.
Potential Indication
NA
Horsechestnut
English Name
Aesculus hippocastanum
Latin Name
ripe fruit without shell
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind, normalize qi, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Sand qi, mounting qi, swollen welling abscess.
Bispore Mushroom*
English Name
Agaricus bisporus
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel wind, resolve summerheat, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind damage common cold, summerheat stroke with sand, knocks and falls, burns and scalds.
Austral Akebia
English Name
Akebia trifoliata var. australis
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms and treat lichen.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis, oxyuria disease, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, scab and lichen with itching.
Austral Akebia Root
English Name
Akebia trifoliata var. australis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To expel worms, astringe intestines, check discharge.
Potential Indication
Ascariasis, taeniasis, enduring diarrhea, enduring dysentery, red and white vaginal discharge.
NA
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dry damp and disperse phlegm, precipitate qi and eliminate fullness, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Amebic dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea, food accumulation and qi stagnation, abdominal distention and constipation, phlegm-rheum cough asthma.
Prepared Anteater scales
English Name
Squama Manitis Praeparata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dry damp and fortify spleen, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, food accumulation abdominal distention, gingiva painful swelling, wind-damp impediment pain, eczema shank sore, swelling toxin of clove sore, painful swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, snake or insect bites.
Prepared Anteater scales
English Name
Squama Manitis Praeparata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dry damp and transform phlegm, rectify qi , disperse food.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, vomiting and hiccough, non-digestion of food accumulation, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen.
Japanese Agrimonia Root
English Name
Agrimonia pilosa var. japonica
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dry damp, warm stomach, fortify spleen.
Potential Indication
Stomach cold abdominal pain, distention fullness in stomach duct, dysphagia-occlusion, belching, stomach reflux, cold-damp vomiting and diarrhea.
Tetraphyllous Paris
English Name
Paris tetraphylla
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior and clear heat, resolve toxin, dry damp.
Potential Indication
Common cold, malaria, swelling of clove, hemorrhoids, eczema.
Incarnate Gloeostereum
English Name
Gloeostereum incarnatum
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior and dispel summerheat, disinhibit damp and harmonize center, stanch bleeding and disperse swelling, dissipate wind and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, yin summerheat and headache, nausea, pain in stomach duct, white dysentery, edema, spontaneous external bleeding, bleeding from hemorrhoids, sore and boil, pudendal itch, eczema, bleeding due to external injury, snake or insect bites.
Chinese Cinquefoil
English Name
Potentilla chinensis
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior and dissipate cold, dispel wind and eliminate damp, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, headache, toothache, wind-damp impediment pain, sinew and bone numbness, wound swelling from knocks and falls.
Bistort
English Name
Polygonum bistorta
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior and dissipate wind, transform damp and harmonize center, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, vomiting, diarrhea, wind-damp numbness pain, eczema titillation, leg qi damp-erosion, bleeding knife wound.
Carp Gall
English Name
Cyprinus carpio
Latin Name
gall
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior and outthrust papules, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, child measles, heat toxin macula, swelling pain in throat, swollen welling abscess and sores, yang brightness headache, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of rectum, flooding and spotting, Vaginal discharge.
Marsh Horsetail
English Name
Equisetum palustre
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior, dispel wind, relieve pain, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Common cold, headache, cough, wind-damp impediment pain, wind water edema.
Basil Fruit
English Name
Ocimum basilicum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse exterior, free yang , resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, yin cold abdominal pain, inhibited urine and stool, dysentery, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation.
Rosary Ear-leaf Muscus*
English Name
Frullania tamarisci ssp. moniliata [Syn. Frullania moniliata]
Latin Name
frond
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and disinhibit water, clear heat and resolve toxin, relieve pain and itch.
Potential Indication
Common cold without sweating, jaundice, strangury, edema, eyelid laceration, mounting qi , scab and lai, syphilis.
Siberian Knotweed*
English Name
Polygonum sibiricum [Syn. Persicaria sibirica ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and eliminate summerheat, move water and dissipate damp, warm stomach and regulate center.
Potential Indication
Fever, aversion of cold, headache, absence of sweating, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, edema and inhibited urination, beriberi.
Obtuseleaf Senna* Equivalent plant: Cassia tora
English Name
Cassia obtusifolia
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and outthrust papules, disinhibit urine and free strangury, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Non-eruption of measles, edema, inhibited urination, heat strangury, toxin swelling of sores, poisonous snake bite.
Pale Butterflybush
English Name
Buddleja officinalis
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and remove damp, disperse food, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, wind-cold-damp impediment, food damage diarrhea, intestinal parasitic disease.
Coffee Senna Seed
English Name
Cassia occidentalis
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and resolve exterior, diffuse lung and calm asthma, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold exterior repletion syndrome, headache without sweating, headache and generalized pain, cough, fever, fever and aversion to wind, absence of sweating, congesting lung, non-diffusion of lung qi, cough and asthma, bronchial asthma, wind water edema, nasal congestion, allergic rhinitis, inhibited urination, wind-damp impediment pain, muscle numbness, wind papule itching, yin flat abscess and phlegm node.
Inflatedfruit Senna
English Name
Cassia sophera
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and resolve exterior, dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Common cold, headache, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, cough and asthma, knocks and falls, flooding and spotting.
Feather Cockscomb
English Name
Celosia argentea
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and resolve exterior, outthrust papules and relieve itch, disinhibit water and disperse edema, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat exterior syndrome, non-eruption of measles, dormant papules with pruritus, edema, dribbling urinary block, sore and lichen, erysipelas, scalds.
Roborowsk Sage
English Name
Salvia roborowskii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and resolve summerheat, transform damp and disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Summer common cold, summerheat stroke, diarrhea, inhibited urination, edema, eczema, welling abscess.
Common Selfheal
English Name
Prunella vulgaris
Latin Name
spike
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat and resolve summerheat, transform damp and harmonize center, move water and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Summer externally contracted wind-cold, headache without sweating, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, inhibited urination, edema.
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