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Siberian Elm
English Name
Ulmus pumila
Latin Name
branch
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain lung and calm asthma, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough asthma, water-rheum collecting lung, distention fullness and rapid asthma, edema, beriberi, inhibited urination.
Jew’s Ear Equivalent plant: Auricularia delicata
English Name
Auricularia auricula
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain lung and calm asthma, move water and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-drool and congesting lung, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, distention fullness in chest and rib-side, edema in chest and abdomen, inhibited urination.
Integripetal Rhodiola
English Name
Rhodiola sacra
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain lung and disperse phlegm, clear heat and disinhibit damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, damp-heat diarrhea dysentery, jaundice, dribbling pain of urination, insomnia and vexation, mammary welling abscess, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Northeast Spineginseng*, Tall Oplopanax
English Name
Oplopanax elatus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation and cold accumulation, expel water and disperse swelling, dispel phlegm and disinhibit throat, Colombia Croton*, Almizclillo. Isolated compounds: 4892, 5 793, consume sore and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Distention fullness and sudden pain in chest and a bdomen, fecal stoppage, diarrhea and dysentery, edema and enlarged abdomen, phlegm-rheum asthma fullness, throat wind, throat impediment, concretion and conglomeration, welling abscess and flat abscess, malign sore and scab lichen.
Kirilow Rhodiola
English Name
Rhodiola kirilowii
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation and expel water, dissipate binds and disperse swelling, resolve snake toxin, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, urinary and fecal st oppage, hypertension, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, painful swelling from clove sore, eczema, scab and lichen, poisonous snake bite.
Ginseng
English Name
Panax ginseng [Syn. Panax schinseng]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation and expel water, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Swollen welling abscess and clove sores, sore and scab, foot lichen, eczema, snake bite, vaginitis.
American Ginseng
English Name
Panax quinquefolium
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation and expel water, reduce phlegm.
Potential Indication
Edema, distention fullness in stomach duct, phlegm-rheum, cough and counterflow with asthma and fullness, infective hepatitis, shcizophrenia, epilepsy.
Smoothfruit Ventilago
English Name
Ventilago leiocarpa
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation and free stool, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Constipation, malignant tumor (therioma), nervous system diseases, cardiovascular diseases.
Muscicolous Woodbetony
English Name
Pedicularis muscicola
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain precipitation, attack toxin.
Potential Indication
Replete body and constipation, skin intractable ulcer, swelling toxin of limbs.
Ammbergris
English Name
Physeter catodon
Latin Name
dried secretion in intestines of sperm whales
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water and expel rheum, break accumulation and free stool.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, flowing rheum in chest, concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, epilepsy, cough and asthma, urinar y and fecal stoppage.
Kaempfer Dutchmanspipe
English Name
Aristolochia kaempferi
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water and expel rheum, dissipate binds and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Edema, seeper in chest and abdomen, phlegm-rheum, inhibited urine and stool, swollen welling abscess, scrofula.
Yellow Ya m U s e d p a r t: rhizome
English Name
Dioscorea panthaica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water and expel rheum, relieve cough and dispel phlegm, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, hydrothorax, cough with profuse phlegm, chronic bronchitis, malaria, scalp infection, infection of skin, tinea capitis, neurodermatitis, induce abortion, toothache.
Oiltea Camellia
English Name
Camellia oleifera
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water and expel rheum, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Edema distention fullness, phlegm-rheum rapid asthma, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Manyraceme Sweetvetch
English Name
Hedysarum polybotrys
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water and free stool, disperse accumulation and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Edema distention fullness, inhibited urine and stool, phlegm-rheum and accumulation-gathering, qi counterflow with cough and asthma, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, ascariasis, taeniasis.
Ginseng Buds
English Name
Panax ginseng [Syn. Panax schinseng ]
Latin Name
bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To drain water retension.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites (hydroperitoneum), effusion in thorax.
Pardleather-like Mushroom
English Name
Lentinus lepideus
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To draw out pus and relieve itch, relieve cough and calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Beriberi, swelling pain of scrotum, cough of phlegm asthma, goose-foot wind, sore and boil.
Apple of Peru
English Name
Nicandra physaloides
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To draw out toxin and disperse swelling, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Scrofula, sore and lichen, welling abscess and flat abscess, knocks and falls.
Alplne Thermopsis
English Name
Thermopsis alpina
Latin Name
flower and fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To draw out toxin and engender flesh, stanch bleeding, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury.
Anteater scales Preparata
English Name
Squama manitis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To draw out toxin, dispel stasis, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Medullitis, pain wind, wind-damp pain (external use with high toxicity).
Anteater scales Preparata
English Name
Squama manitis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dry damp and check discharge, move qi and quicken blood .
Potential Indication
Vaginal discharge, postpartum persistent flow of lochia.
Beautiful Sweetgum Leaf
English Name
Liquidambar formosana [Syn. Liquidambar taiwaniana]
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and outthrust pus, track wind, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, scrofula, leprosy, sore and papules with intractable lichen, postpartum scant milk, retention of afterbirth.
Yunnan Sarcococca
English Name
Sarcococca coriacea [Syn. Sarcococca wallichii ]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and relieve pain, promote astriction and check drain.
Potential Indication
Painful swelling from knocks and falls, sore and boil, toxin swelling, ophthalmia, gum erosion, hemorrhoids, diarrhea.
Common Jasminorange Equivalent plant: Murraya paniculata var exotica
English Name
Murraya paniculata [Syn. Chalcas paniculata]
Latin Name
leaf and branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Head wind, knocks and falls.
Slenderstalk Dicranostigma
English Name
Dicranostigma franchetianum [Syn. Dicranostigma leptopodum]
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and resolve toxin, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, toxin of clove sore, hemorrhoids, chancre.
Chinese Milkvetch
English Name
Astragalus sinicus
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and resolve toxin, stanch bleeding and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, intractable lichen, malign sore, bleeding due to external injury, gan of teeth and gum, burns and scalds.
Ovate Catalpa
English Name
Catalpa ovata
Latin Name
wood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and transform stasis, antiallergic.
Potential Indication
Anaphylactic diseases (hay fever, pollinosis, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis).
Indian Damnacanthus
English Name
Damnacanthus indicus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls.
Japanese Coniogramme
English Name
Coniogramme japonica [Syn. Hemionitis japonica]
Latin Name
rhizome or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate binds and disperse goiter, clear heat and resolve toxin, cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Goiter and tuberculosis, throat impediment, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, poisonous snake bite, carcinoma, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, pertussis, lung heat cough.
Gongbo Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum kongboense
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate binds and disperse swelling, attack toxin and cure sores.
Potential Indication
Swollen welling abscess, mammary welling abscess, scrofula, hemorrhoids and fistulas, dry lichen, bald sores.
Likiang Monkshood*
English Name
Aconitum forrestii [Syn. Aconitum likiangense ]
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate binds and relieve pain, check discharge.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi , leukorrhea, innominate toxin swelling.
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