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Opium
English Name
Papaver somniferum
Latin Name
latex from unripe capsules
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, relieve pain, relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, neurodermatitis, toothache.
Peach Juvenile Branch Equivalent plant: Prunus davidiana
English Name
Prunus persica
Latin Name
branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, resolve epidemic toxin, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Febrile infectious diseases, generalized pain, vexation and agitation, thirst, edema, painful swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury.
Japanese Spicebush
English Name
Lindera obtusiloba
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, resolve exterior, outthrust papules, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, headache, itchy eye, cough, swelling pain in throat, measles papules, wind papules, swollen welling abscess, sore and scab, throat pain, conjunctivitis, child measles, spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, postpartum blood dizziness.
Olibanum
English Name
Boswellia carterii
Latin Name
balsam
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, resolve toxin, harmonize stomach, moisten skin.
Potential Indication
Common cold, eye diseases, stomachache, sore and boil, cracking.
Japanese Aralia Equivalent plant: Aralia dasyphylla
English Name
Aralia chinensis
Latin Name
bast
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, settle pain, eliminate damp, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, pain wind, nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection.
Denseflower Libanotis
English Name
Libanotis condensata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, bleeding due to external injury.
Creeping Ninenode
English Name
Psychotria serpens
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel windand eliminate damp, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, wilting-weakness in limbs, knocks and falls, swelling pain in throat.
Reticulate Leafflower*
English Name
Phyllanthus reticulatus
Latin Name
root, stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation and gan.
Potential Indication
Child gan accumulation.
Difengpi Anisetree Equivalent plant: Illicium majus
English Name
Illicium difengpi
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation and kill worms, clear heat and resolve t oxin, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Hepatitis, food accumulation, lung heat cough, ascaria sis, edema.
Sharpleaf Sabia
English Name
Sabia swinhoei
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation and move water.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, abdominal pain.
Nippon Yam Equivalent plant: Dioscorea nipponica ssp rosthornii
English Name
Dioscorea nipponica
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation and transform stagnation, free bowels and drain heat.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation, distention fullness in stomach duct and abdomen, abdominal pain and diarrhea, heat bind constipation.
Hancock Swallowwort
English Name
Cynanchum hancockianum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation, disinhibit diaphragm, precipitate heat toxin.
Potential Indication
Rheumatism numbness, damp-heat itchy sore, clove sore, menstruant’s morbidity.
Gigantic Angelica
English Name
Angelica gigas
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation, expel roundworm.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation, ascariasis.
Asian Pigeonwings
English Name
Clitoria ternatea
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse accumulation, transform stasis, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation, carcinoma of esophagus, carcinoma of stomach, ovarian carcinoma.
Amur Corydalis Equivalent plant: Corydalis repens
English Name
Corydalis ambigua var. amurensis [Syn. Corydalis ambigua]
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse damp, break blood.
Potential Indication
Scrotal wind.
Toothedpetal Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis remota [Syn. Corydalis bulbosa var. typica ]
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and assisting movement, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Spleen weakness and functional weakness, reduced food intake with abdominal distention, qi stagnation and pain in stomach duct.
Pine Mushroom
English Name
Tricholoma matsutake [Syn. Armillaria matsutake]
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and check diarrhea, clear heat and resolve toxin, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, gastroenteritis, malaria, poisonous snake bite.
Peppery Milky
English Name
Lactarius piperatus [Syn. Agaricus piperatus ]
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and harmonize center, disinhibit gallbladder, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, inhibited urination, cholecystitis, arthritis.
Khingan Fir
English Name
Abies nephrolepis
Latin Name
leaf and bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and precipitate qi, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Indigestion of overnight food, cold pain in heart and abdomen, cough, swollen welling abscess and toxin of clove.
Greater Celandine
English Name
Chelidonium majus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and promote lactation, dispel damp and free network vessels, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Stomachache, dysentery, inhibited urine and stool, wind impediment, foot rot.
Chinese Wisteria Seed
English Name
Wisteria sinensis
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and transform accumulation, dispel stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Meat-type food accumulation, indigestion, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, hypertension.
Chinese Bretschneidera
English Name
Bretschneidera sinensis
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and transform accumulation, terminate lactation.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation, abdominal distention and diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, inappetence, galactostasis, distending pain in breast.
English Walnut Exocarp
English Name
Juglans regia
Latin Name
exocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food and transform stagnation, move water and free stool.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation abdominal distention, edema, ascites, constipation.
Honey
English Name
Apis cerana
Latin Name
honey
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food distention, downbear qi and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Food stagnation, distending pain in stomach duct, constipation, accumulation and diarrhea, phlegm congestion cough asthma.
Black Henbane Leaf
English Name
Hyoscyamus niger
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food, disinhibit water, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, abdominal distention, dysentery, gan accumulation, hypertension.
Dyebark Evodia
English Name
Evodia meliifolia
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food, precipitate qi, transform phlegm, stanch bleeding, allay thirst, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Indigestion, food accumulation distention and fullness, hyperchlorhydria, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, phlegm-heat cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, diabetes mellitus, strangury-turbidity, sores, stasis swelling due to injury, scalds, frostbite.
Black Henbane Seed
English Name
Hyoscyamus niger
Latin Name
ripe seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse food, transform phlegm, arouse liquor.
Potential Indication
Food stagnation, inappetence, drunkenness.
Largeflower Jasmine*
English Name
Jasminum grandiflorum
Latin Name
flower bud
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse phlegm, soften hardness, disinhibit water, abate swelling.
Potential Indication
Goiter and carcinomas of neck, scrofula, bulging mounting, leg qi puffy swelling.
Denticulate Vladimiria
English Name
Vladimiria denticulata
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and dispel damp.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinaberry-tree Fruit
English Name
Melia azedarach
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disperse swelling and draw out toxin, drain precipitation and free stagnation.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, throat impediment, scrofula, dry stool.
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