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Japanese Cryptotaenia
English Name
Cryptotaenia japonica
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, static blood swelling pain, bleeding due to external injury.
Indian Heliotrope
English Name
Heliotropium indicum
Latin Name
whole herb or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, blood stasis swelling and pain, spontaneous external bleeding, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore.
Apricot Root
English Name
Prunus armeniaca
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, transform accumulation, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Child gan accumulation, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, throat impediment, nipple moth, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, snake or insect bites.
Fevervine Fruit
English Name
Paederia scandens
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind and brighten eyes, precipitate qi and move blood.
Potential Indication
Headache, itchy body, red eyes and eye screen, convulsion, fullness in chest, cough and counterflow, concretion and conglomeration, difficult lactation, welling abscess and flat abscess, scrofula.
Vanilla
English Name
Vanilla planifolia
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind and clear heat, downbear qi and disperse phlegm.
Potential Indication
Common cold, cough, phlegm asthma, head wind dizziness.
Shorttube Lycoris Equivalent plant: Lycoris chinensis
English Name
Lycoris radiata [Syn. Amaryllis radiata]
Latin Name
bulb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind and eliminate damp, fortify stomach and relieve pain, resolve toxin and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, wind-damp bone pain, qi stagnation stomachache, food accumulation, sand distention and vomiting diarrhea, dysentery, asthma, malaria, sore and boil, wind papules, eczema, intractable lichen, burns and scalds.
Ergot
English Name
Claviceps purpurea
Latin Name
sclerotium
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-cold, quicken network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, paralysis, painful wound from knocks and falls, tetanus.
Vinegar
English Name
Vinegar
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-cold, relieve stuffed nose.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, headache, nasal congestion and runny nose, nasitis, nasosinusitis.
Japanese Creeper
English Name
Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Latin Name
root and stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-heat, clear head and eyes, allay vexation and thirst.
Potential Indication
Headache, toothache, sore pharynx, lip sore, tinnitus, red eyes, hemoptysis, summerheat-heat and vexation and thirst.
Oldworld Arrowhead Corm
English Name
Sagittaria sagittifolia
Latin Name
corm
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-heat, clear head and eyes, disinhibit pharynx and larynx, outthrust papules, resolve depression.
Potential Indication
Chronic urticaria, infection of upper respiratory tract, sarcoma, wind-heat exterior syndrome, headache and red eyes, swelling pain in throat, non-eruption of measles, dormant papules with pruritus, liver depression and rib-side pain, abdominal distention.
Common Crapemyrtle Flower
English Name
Lagerstroemia indica
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-heat, clear head and eyes, eliminate vexation and allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Headache, toothache, red eyes, otitis media, febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, dysentery.
Bird Rape
English Name
Brassica campestris [Syn. Brassica campestris var. oleifera ]
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-heat, dispel wind-damp, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Influenza, pertussis, non-eruption of measles, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, wind-damp bone pain, sand qi abdominal pain, enduring dysentery, stomachache, leukorrhea, eczema, pudendal itch, knocks and falls.
Malabartree Euphorbia
English Name
Euphorbia tirucalli
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate wind-heat, eliminate screen.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat red eye, tearing in wind, eye screen.
Pricklyfruit Licorice
English Name
Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi and disperse phlegm, calm asthma, moisten intestines.
Potential Indication
Phlegm congestion and qi counterflow, cough and asthma, intestinal dry and constipation.
Black Locust Flower
English Name
Robinia pseudoacacia
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi and transform phlegm, relieve cough and calm asthma, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma and fullness due to external contraction cough, intestinal dry and constipation.
Bugbane Equivalent plant: Cimicifuga dahurica, Cimicifuga heracleifolia
English Name
Cimicifuga foetida
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi , disperse phlegm, move water.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough, phlegm congestion and qi counterflow, glomus fullness in chest and diaphragm, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, painful swelling from clove sore.
Chinaberry-tree Flower
English Name
Melia azedarach
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi , disperse phlegm, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Stasis of lung qi , cough with profuse phlegm, fullness in chest and rapid asthma.
Common Poinsettia
English Name
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi, transform phlegm, calm asthma, moisten intestines.
Potential Indication
Phlegm congestion and qi counterflow, cough and asthma, intestinal dry and constipation.
NA
English Name
Excoecaria cochinchinensis var. viridis
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear counterflow and precipitate qi.
Potential Indication
Hiccough.
Chinese Pyrola Equivalent plant: Pyrola decorata, Pyrola japonica, Pyrola incarnata, Pyrola rotundifolia , Pyrola atropurpurea, Pyrola calliantha var tibetana
English Name
Pyrola calliantha [Syn. Pyrola rotundifolia ssp. chinensis]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear fire, transform phlegm and calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-heat cough, ringing in head.
Heartleaf Houttuynia
English Name
Houttuynia cordata
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi and transform phlegm, dispel wind and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, stomachache, crane’s knee wind, edema.
Cushaw
English Name
Cucurbita moschata
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To downbear qi , disperse phlegm, move water, check vomiting.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough, glomus fullness in chest and diaphragm, cough and asthma, abundant phlegm, vomiting and eructation, hard glomus below heart.
Obovateleaf Lemmaphyllum*
English Name
Lemmaphyllum microphyllum var. obovatum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain fire and relieve dysphoria, clear heat and disinhibit urine, eliminate heat in blood, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Acute icterohepatitis, febrile diseases, vexation, melancholia, restlessness, stagnation of damp-heat in liver and gall, fever, jaundice, short voidings of reddish urine, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, dysentery with hematochezia and hematuria.
Chinese Pothos
English Name
Pothos chinensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain fire and resolve toxin, disinhibit damp, fortify spleen.
Potential Indication
Acute icterohepatitis, chronic liver diseases, damp-heat jaundice, dysentery, gastritis, indigestion, acute conjunctivitis, toothache, mouth sore, swelling pain of sores.
Galanga Galangal
English Name
Alpinia galanga
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain fire and resolve toxin, dry damp and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Mough and tongue sores, goose-mouth sore, damp-erosion of sores, pudendal itch.
Spiked Gingerlily
English Name
Hedychium spicatum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain fire and resolve toxin, free stool.
Potential Indication
Liver fire and red eyes, dizziness, lung heat cough asthma, repletion heat constipation, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore, erythematous lupus.
Axillary Southem Wildjujube
English Name
Choerospondias axillaris
Latin Name
Fresh fruit or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain fire, dispel damp and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, tuberculosis, epidemic meningitis, acute conjunctivitis, trachoma, fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, suppurative hematochezia, tenesmus, jaundice, yellow thick foul leukorrhagia, swelling pain in knees and feet, urinary tract infection, boil, sore, ulcer, eczema, mouth sore, hemorrhoids, burns, scalds, exuberance of fire with tidal fever, tidal fever with night sweat, emission.
Delavay Stephania
English Name
Stephania delavayi [Syn. Stephania epigaea ]
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain heat and free intestines, cool blood and resolve toxin, expel stasis and free menstruation.
Potential Indication
Repletion heat constipation, accumulation with abdominal pain, damp-heat jaundice, acute icterohepatitis, red eyes, swollen throat, intestinal welling abscess and abdominal pain, bleeding of digestive tract, chronic diarrhea, indigestion, acute appendicitis, acute peritonitis, ileus, cholecystitis, gallstones, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, knocks and falls, burns and scalds.
Pericarp
English Name
Citrus junos
Latin Name
pericarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain heat and move stagnation, free stool, disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Heat bind and accumulation, constipation w ith abdominal pain, edema distention fullness.
Chinese Wampee Root
English Name
Clausena lansium
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain heat, relieve constipation, disinhibit urine, cool liver and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, gum hemorrhage, spleen vacuity diarrhea, painful wound from knocks and falls, hemorrhoids.
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