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Yellowflag Iris
English Name
Iris pseudacorus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, dispel phlegm and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, taxation damage and lumbago, knocks and falls, cough and asthma.
Yellowflower Coleus
English Name
Coleus xanthanthus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, disperse accumulation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, food accumulation abdominal distention, dysphagia-occlusion, beriberi.
Yellowflower Hornpoppy*
English Name
Glaucium davum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, relieve pain due to impediment.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, aching sinews in limb joints, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels.
Yellowhair Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum chrysotrichum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp numbness, pain in stomach duct, abdomen and rib-side, knocks and falls, fracture, angitis, parotitis.
Yellowish Erysimum*
English Name
Erysimum ochroleucum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free menstruation and quicken blood, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, menstrual disorder, knocks and falls, fracture, bleeding due to external injury.
Yellowish Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon flavidus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, lower blood pressure, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, malaria, wind-damp impediment, numbness in limbs, hemiplegia, migraine, dysentery, hemorrhoids, welling abscess and flat abscess, scab sore.
Yellowish Swainsonia*
English Name
Swainsonia luteola
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, move qi , disinhibit urine and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and knees, scab sore, lichen, eczema.
Yellowish Swertia*
English Name
Swertia punicea var. lutescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Knocks and falls, migraine, intractable lichen.
Yellowjuice Garcinia
English Name
Garcinia xanthochymus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain from arthritis, painful swelling from knocks and falls, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, swollen welling abscess, erysipelas, goose-foot wind, snake or insect bites.
Yellowleaf Sophora
English Name
Sophora chrysophylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, relieve itch, strengthen sinews and bones, boost liver and kidney.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, head wind headache, wind papules [=rubella], weekness in legs and knees, kidney vacuity lumbar pain, impotence with emission.
Yellowroot
English Name
Xanthorhiza simplicissima
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, relieve pain, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat toothache, wind-damp impediment pain, sore welling abscess and lichen lai.
Yuko Citrus*
English Name
Citrus yuko
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, relieve pain, settle fright.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, stomachache, epilepsy, infant fright wind, knocks and falls.
Yunnan Amentotaxus
English Name
Amentotaxus yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in joints.
Yunnan Cuttongue tree
English Name
Walsura yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain in lumbus and legs.
Yunnan Dodder
English Name
Cuscuta reflexa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, resolve heat toxin.
Potential Indication
Painful joints due to rheumatalgia, snake bite, lacquer sore.
Yunnan Gambirplant
English Name
Uncaria yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, resolve heat toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, rheumatic arthritis.
Yunnan Gingerlily
English Name
Hedychium yunnanense
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, stanch bleeding and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, wind-damp impediment pain, fracture due to knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, burns and scalds, poisonous snake bite.
Yunnan Hemlock
English Name
Tsuga dumosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, mouth sore, gingiva ulcerating, ear sore, eczema, scab and lichen, trichomonas vaginalis.
Yunnan Landflower Mushroom*
English Name
Albatrellus confluens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, tetrodon poisoning, scab and lichen, postauricular sore.
Yunnan Parakmeria
English Name
Parakmeria yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Painful joints due to rheumatalgia, knocks and falls.
Yunnan Torreya
English Name
Torreya yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, soothe sinews and quicken blood, free menstruation and check discharge.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp-heat impediment, systremma, menstrual disorder, Vaginal discharge.
Yunnan Yew
English Name
Taxus yunnanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, edema, otitis media, eczema.
Yunnanwest Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum bulleyanum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, numbness in limbs, knocks and falls, taxation damage hypodynamia.
Zambesi Croton*
English Name
Croton zambesicus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen lumbus and knees, supplement kidney and invigorate yang , relieve cough and calm asthma, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, aching in lumbus and knees, impotence, cough and asthma, dysmenorrhea, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Zerumbet Ginger
English Name
Zingiber zerumbet
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, limp wilting sinew and bone, lumbago and limp leg, postpartum scant milk.
Zhejiang Swertia*
English Name
Swertia hickinii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, hypertonicity and pain, limp wilting sinew and bone, inability of legs and knees, pain in heart and abdomen, mounting qi [=hernia], knocks and falls, fracture, vacuity and edema.
Zonal Geranium
English Name
Pelargonium zonale
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and relieve pain, regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Sequel of poliomyelitis, rheumatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, painful swelling from knocks and falls, menstrual disorder.
Zuiho Machilus
English Name
Machilus zuihoensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Angina pectoris, arrhythmia, hypertension, wind-damp impediment pain, aching in lumbus and knees, stomachache, scant breast milk, knocks and falls, toxin swelling of sores, frostbite.
Fortune Eupatorium Equivalent plant: Eupatorium formosanum
English Name
Eupatorium fortunei
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, relieve cough, disperse swelling, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, aching in lumbus and legs, cough, hemoptysis, stomachache, stirring fetus disquieted, sore and boil, hypertension.
Fragrant Citrus
English Name
Citrus junos
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Pulmonary infection, intestinal infection, urinary tract infection, infant diarrhea, acute dysentery, wind-damp impediment pain, lassitude in lumbus and knees, profuse menstruation, enduring cough.
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