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Boor’s Mustard
English Name
Thlaspi arvense
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
NA
Floatingleaf Pondweed
English Name
Potamogeton natans
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To effuse sweat, fortify spleen, quiet spirit, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Headache, prevention of hair loss in early stage.
Chinese Milkvetch Seed
English Name
Astragalus sinicus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate damp and resolve cold phlegm, downbear counterflow and check vomiting, disperse glomus and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, vomiting nausea, glomus in chest, dizziness, headache, vexation and agitation in night, goiters with phlegm node, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Chinese Thermopsis
English Name
Thermopsis chinensis
Latin Name
root or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate damp, resolve toxin, free joints.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat with strangury turbidity, vaginal discharge, swollen welling abscess, scrofula, scab and lichen, syphilis, mercurial poisoning.
Toothedfruit Dock
English Name
Rumex dentatus
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat and dry damp, astringe intestines and stanch bleeding, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Chronic dysentery, chronic diarrhea, duodenal ulcer, intestinal wind bleeding, flooding and spotting, vaginal discharge, emission, white turbidity, ascariasis.
Bignay Chinalaurel
English Name
Antidesma bunius
Latin Name
root, leaf and fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat and dry damp, astringe intestines and stanch bleeding, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Chronic dysentery, chronic diarrhea, intestinal wind bleeding, flooding and spotting, vaginal discharge, emission, white turbidity, gan accumulation, ascariasis, sore and lichen.
Cowlily
English Name
Nuphar pumilum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat in blood, lower vacuity heat.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus, malaria, tidal fever with night sweat, child gan accumulation with fever, cough and hemoptysis or dyspnea, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding.
Common Yam Equivalent plant: Dioscorea japonica
English Name
Dioscorea batatas [Syn. Dioscorea opposita ]
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat vexation, resolve liquor jaundice.
Potential Indication
Icterohepatitis, red eyes, lacquer sore, burns and scalds.
Nitraria*
English Name
Nitraria tangutorum
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat, engender liquid, dispel stasis, promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus, jaundice, dysphagia-occlusion and stomach reflux, amenorrhea, scant breast milk, swollen welling abscess, chronic pharyngolaryngitis.
Chinese Date Equivalent plant: Ziziphus jujuba var inermis
English Name
Ziziphus jujuba
Latin Name
ripe fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate heat, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Bee sting, insect bites.
Common Onion
English Name
Allium cepa
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation and disinhibit urine, quicken blood and disperse swelling, dispel wind-damp.
Potential Indication
Urinary tract infection, cystitis, sprain from knocks and falls, wind-damp bone pain.
Bling-your-eye-tree
English Name
Excoecaria agallocha
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Burns and scalds, throat pain, diarrhea, dysentery.
Medicinal Rhubarb Equivalent plant: Rheum palmatum, Rheum tanguticum
English Name
Rheum officinale
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation and relieve pain, moisten skin and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Gastric ulcer, oral ulcer, cervical erosion, zoster, psoriasis, skin chap and pain, clavus, wound, carcinoma.
Apisin
English Name
Apis cerana
Latin Name
apisin
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Crossostephium Root
English Name
Crossostephium chinense
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Pharyngolaryngitis, carcinoma of esophagus, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Mongolian Jerusalemsage
English Name
Phlomis mongolica
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation, clear heat and resolve toxin, clear lung and disinhibit throat, moisten intestines and free stool. [5509]
Potential Indication
Dry cough lesser phlegm, aphonia due to throat pain, headache, steaming bone tidal fever, nosebleed, red eyes, toothache, heat bind constipation, hemorrhoids and fistulas.[5509]
Fragrant Albizia*
English Name
Albizzia odoratissima
Latin Name
root and bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate inflammation.
Potential Indication
Cholecystitis, hepatitis, appendicitis, otitis media.
Bambusa Hypocrella*
English Name
Hypocrella bambusae
Latin Name
stroma
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate macula and resolve toxin, close sores.
Potential Indication
White patch wind, snake bite.
Winterberry Euonymus
English Name
Euonymus bungeanus
Latin Name
root, bark, fruit, or branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. For acute and chronic bronchitis.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Umbrellaleaf Equivalent plant: Diphylleia grayi
English Name
Diphylleia sinensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate vexation and heat, engender liquid and allay thirst, clear lung and transform phlegm, free intestines and stomach.
Potential Indication
Phlegm fire cough, swelling pain in throat.
Stiffleaf Juniper Fruit
English Name
Juniperus rigida
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To eliminate wind-damp, stanch bleeding and relieve pain, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, quiet spirit and calm, fortify spleen and stomach.
Potential Indication
Taxation damage pain in lumbus and legs, bleeding due to external injury, menstrual disorder, prolapse of uterus, vaginal discharge, mental disease, epilepsy, hemiplegia, impotence, dizziness and dim vision.
North Viet-Nam Gambirplant
English Name
Uncaria homomalla
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender blood and harmonize blood, regulate menstruation and promote pregnancy. wind-damp impediment pain, vacuity detriment sterility, emission, white turbidity, menstrual disorder, red and white vaginal discharge.
Potential Indication
NA
Paniculate Swallowwort
English Name
Cynanchum paniculatum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender flesh and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Enduring sores, scab sore.
Glaucousback Threewingnut
English Name
Tripterygium hypoglaucum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, arouse liquor, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Heat vexation in chest, drunkenness, inhibited urination.
Redflower Magnoliavine
English Name
Schisandra rubriflora
Latin Name
rattan
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, dispel summerheat, quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Stomach heat fluid damage, summerheat stroke with vexation and thirst, inappetence, glomus distention in stomach duct and abdomen, lung heat dry cough, vomiting in pregnancy.
Yellowmouth Dutchmanspipe
English Name
Aristolochia heterophylla
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, enrich yin and remove heat.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with fever, vacuity asthma, febrile diseases fluid damage, thirst with dry throat, turbid vaginal discharge.
Mongolian Ammopiptanthus Equivalent plant: Piptanthus nanus
English Name
Ammopiptanthus mongolicus [Syn. Piptanthus mongolicus]
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, expel phlegm and precipitate qi.
Potential Indication
Sand qi abdominal pain, cholera, dysentery.
Paraguay Tea
English Name
Ilex paraguariensis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, fortify stomach and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Thirst, inappetence.
Twoflower Jerusalemcherry
English Name
Solanum capsicastrum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, harmonize stomach and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Vexation and thirst, vomiting and diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal pain.
Garden Balsum Flower
English Name
Impatiens balsamina
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To engender liquid and allay thirst, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Diabetes mellitus, hypertension.
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