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Mongolian Snakegourd Seed
English Name
Trichosanthes kirilowii
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls.
Chinese Waxgourd Seed
English Name
Benincasa hispida
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stasis swelling from knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess.
Tea Seed
English Name
Camellia sinensis [Syn. Thea sinensis]
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis and settle pain, stanch bleeding, close sores and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, internal damage stasis pain, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, incessant bleeding, scrofula, ulcer of lower limb, hemorrhoids.
Muriculate Eucheuma Frond
English Name
Eucheuma muricatum
Latin Name
frond
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis and settle pain, stanch bleeding, disperse welling abscess and expel pus.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, wind-damp pain, stomachache, welling abscess and boil, bleeding due to external injury.
Sweet Osmanthus
English Name
Osmanthus fragrans
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis blood, strengthen lumbus and knees.
Potential Indication
Taxation damage, aching in lumbus and knees.
Crescent-shaped Euphorbia
English Name
Euphorbia lunulata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, dispel wind, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, damp-heat jaundice, strangury-turbidity, edema, dysentery, leukorrhea, pain in stomach duct, headache, swelling pain in throat, mammary welling abscess, innominate toxin swelling, scrofula.
Whitebackleaf Mallotus
English Name
Mallotus apelta
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp edema, innominate toxin swelling, lai lichen.
Extensed Wingfruitvine
English Name
Myriopteron extensum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, difficult delivery, retention of placenta, flooding, strangury syndrome, vaginal discharge.
Flannel Mullein
English Name
Verbascum thapsus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, disperse swelling, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], prolapse of uterus, hemorrhoids, wind-damp pain, diarrhea, dysentery.
Asian White Birch Bark Equivalent plant: Betula platyphylla var japonica
English Name
Betula platyphylla var. japonica
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding, quiet heart and spirit, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematochezia, hematuria, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls, palpitation, insomnia, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, burns and scalds, poisonous insect stings.
NA
English Name
Babylonia lutosa
Latin Name
meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat, eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, rheumatic arthritis, damp-heat diarrhea.
Aquatic Morning Glory
English Name
Ipomoea aquatica
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat, relieve pain, clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, lung heat cough, tuberculosis and coughing of blood, hepatitis, wind-damp pain in sinews and bones, toothache, red eyes, eye screen.
Coconut Root-bark
English Name
Cocos nucifera
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat, suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, headache and generalized pain, cough.
Chaulmoogratree Seed
English Name
Hydnocarpus anthelminticus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, disinhibit damp and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, hepatitis, nephritis, enteritis, dysentery, knocks and falls.
Fleecy Milk-cap
English Name
Lactarius vellereus
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold, headache, nasal congestion, dysentery, eczema, eczema leukoplakia.
Hemp Fimble Flower*
English Name
Cannabis sativa
Latin Name
male-flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, disinhibit urine, relieve pain, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, strangury, white turbidity, urinary stoppage, infective hepatitis, wind swelling, clove sore, erysipelas, tooth decay, gum swelling.
Japanese Polypody
English Name
Polypodium niponicum
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, dissipate cold, eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Acute rheumatic arthritis, chronic rheumatic arthritis.
Sunn Crotalaria
English Name
Crotalaria juncea
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, dissipate heat, eliminate damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Allergic rhinitis, nervous headache, rheumatic arthritis, pain in limbs, sciatica, eczema, itchy skin, chronic sinus infections, otitis media, parotitis, common cold, head wind, dizziness, deep-source nasal congestion, red eyes, eye screen, wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity and numbness, wind lai, clove sore, scab and lichen, itchy skin, hemorrhoids, dysentery.
Oval Kumquat Equivalent plant: Fortunella crassifolia , Fortunella japonica
English Name
Fortunella margarita
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, dissipate stasis, resolve toxin, relieve pain, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Ulcer of uterine cervix, carcinoma of uterine cervix, carcinoma of thyroid, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, ulcer of lower limb, hemorrhoids, eczema, snake or insect bites, painful swelling from knocks and falls, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, decayed toothache, intractable lichen, trichomoniasis, brandy nose.
Bailan Flower
English Name
Michelia alba
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, kill worms, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, stomachache, burns and scalds, toxin swelling of sores, shank sore, scab and lichen, itchy skin, poisonous insect stings.
Bitter Citrus
English Name
Citrus aurantium var. amara
Latin Name
dried flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, move qi and dissipate cold, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, headache, wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, dysentery, enteritis, knocks and falls, toxin swelling of sores, urticaria, scrofula.
Medicinal Citron Equivalent plant: Citrus wilsonii
English Name
Citrus medica
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, relieve itch, disperse welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-damp damage center, vomiting and diarrhea, nasal congestion and runny nose, wind papule itching of skin, scab and lichen, swollen welling abscess.
Goose Tail-meat
English Name
Anser cygnoides domestica
Latin Name
tail meat
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, relieve pain, clear heat, harmonize stomach.
Potential Indication
Common cold, painful joints due to rheumatalgia, lumbago, vomiting in pregnancy, cancer of esophagus, carcinoma of stomach, malaria.
Common Physochlaina
English Name
Physochlaina physaloides
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Leprosy, elephantiasis, skin diseases.
Fish Pelargonium
English Name
Pelargonium hortorum
Latin Name
flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, eliminate damp, transform stagnation, dissipate stasis, disperse swelling, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with cough, generalized pain, diarrhea, painful joints due to rheumatalgia, menstrual block, knocks and falls, welling abscess and clove sore, scrofula, damp toxin with pruritus.
NA
English Name
Chondria armata [Syn. Lophura armata ]
Latin Name
frond
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, kill worms, relieve itch, disperse welling abscess and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Neurodermatitis , psoriasis, body lichen, swollen welling abscess of sore and boil.
Fragrant Snowbell
English Name
Styrax obassia
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, quicken blood, engender hairs.
Potential Indication
Numbness in limbs, itchy body, shedding of eyebrow and hair, amenorrhea.
Wengujin Culcuma*
English Name
Curcuma wengujin
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, quicken blood, relieve pain, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, bleeding from hemorrhoids.
Sandalwood
English Name
Santalum album
Latin Name
heartwood
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, quicken blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Decumbent Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis decumbens [Syn. Corydalis amabilis ]
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, quicken blood, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Incised wound, sore toxin, stomachache.
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