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Grecian Laurel Fruit
English Name
Laurus nobilis
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of jaundice caused by damp-heat, heat stroke with diarrhea, urolithiasis and hematuria, carbuncles and boils, traumatic injuries.
Potential Indication
NA
African Myrsine
English Name
Myrsine africana
Latin Name
root or herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of jaundice caused by damp-heat, swelling and itching of the vulva with excessive leukorrhea, prolonged erection of the penis with spontaneous emission, eczema accompanied by itching, blood-shot eyes, impairment of hearing, pain in the costal regions and bitter taste in the mouth, convulsion.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Wingnut
English Name
Pterocarya stenoptera
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of jaundice with oliguria caused by damp-heat, acute and chronic hepatitis, carbuncles and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Its amino acid protect the liver of rats and mice from CCl4 damage.2. Inhibiting the growth of Staphyloccus aureus, (a0 and (B) streptococcus and Shigella flexneri in vitro.
Yellowfruit Nightshade
English Name
Solanum xanthocarpum
Latin Name
root, fruit and seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of joint pain in rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis, epigastric pain with cold sensation, or abdominal colic due to cold, also used as an analgesic in anaesthesis.
Potential Indication
is no white core in the relatively large and solid root and the taste becomes slightly numb. After removal, dry in the air appropriately, cut into slices, and dry.
Nude Fern
English Name
Psilotum nudum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of joint pain in rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis, epigastric pain with cold sensation, or abdominal colic due to cold, also used as an analgesic in anaesthesis.
Potential Indication
NA
Lalang Grass Leaf
English Name
Imperata cylindrica var. major
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of leprosy, both internal and external use, external use for scabies, tinea and syphilitic skin lesion.
Potential Indication
Chaulmoogric oil inhibits the growth of Bacillus tuberculosis and other acid-fast bacillus in vitro, its effect is as 100 times as that of phenol.
Yellow Poplar
English Name
Liriodendron tulipifera
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of lingering of turbid damp in the spleen and stomach manifested by stuffiness in the epigastrium and vomiting, summer-damp affection marked by lassitude and stuffiness in the chest, cold-damp affection in summer time marked by abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, sinusitis with headache.
Potential Indication
NA
Hairy Pepper
English Name
Piper puberulum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of lingering of turbid damp in the spleen and stomach manifested by stuffiness in the epigastrium and vomiting, summer-damp affection marked by lassitude and stuffiness in the chest, cold-damp affection in summer time marked by abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, sinusitis with headache.
Potential Indication
NA
Korean Spruce
English Name
Picea koraiensis
Latin Name
Branch-leaf and bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of listlessness, cardiac papitation, insomnia and night sweating in debility or in convalescence, hemoptysis in phthisis.
Potential Indication
NA
Nagai Podocarpus Root
English Name
Myrica nagi [Syn. Podocarpus nagi ]
Latin Name
root or bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of loss of appetite due to accumulation of turbid damp in the spleen and stomach, feeling of suffocation in the chest with anorexia at the early stage of damp-warm syndromes, nausea, vomiting, distension and pain in the chest and abdomen caused by cold-dainp, indigestion with retention of food.
Potential Indication
NA
Simon Poplar
English Name
Populus simonii
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of loss of consciousness in stroke and epilepsy, sore throat, dyspnea and cough with phlegm difficult to spit out, constipation, external use for subcutaneous pyogenic infections.
Potential Indication
NA
Prinos-like Salacia
English Name
Salacia prinoides [Syn. Salacia chinensis]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of loss of consciousness in stroke and epilepsy, sore throat, dyspnea and cough with phlegm difficult to spit out, constipation, external use for subcutaneous pyogenic infections.
Potential Indication
NA
Oriental Variegated Coralbean Bark
English Name
Erythrina variegata var. orientalis
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of maculation in epidemic diseases, spitting of blood, epistaxis, inflammation of the eye, pain in the chest and costal regions, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, mass formation in the abdomen, traumatic injuries, boils and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Paeoniflorin, one of its active components, has a strong antispastic effect and also analgesic, sedative, anticonvulsive, antibacterial and anti-imflammatory effects. 2. Dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary flow and improving myocardial oxygen supply. 3. Inhibiting platelets aggregation.
Stone Mallotus*
English Name
Mallotus repandus var. chrysocarpus
Latin Name
root,stem,leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of mass in the abdomen, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, distension and pain due to stagnation of undigested food, carcinoma of cervix at early stage.
Potential Indication
1. Its volatile oil and its components curcumenol, curdione and B-elemene destroy directly the Ehrlich-Ascites tumor and leukemia615 in mice. 2. Promoting phagocytosis of monocytes. 3. Dilating peripheral blood vessels, inhibiting aggregation of thrombocytes and thrombosis, and improving microcirculation.
Blackfruit Greenbrier
English Name
Smilax glauco-china
Latin Name
rhizome or tender leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of mass in the abdomen, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, distension and pain due to stagnation of undigested food, carcinoma of cervix at early stage.
Potential Indication
Its volatile oil and its components curcumenol, curdione and B-elemene destroy directly the Ehrlich-Ascites tumor and leukemia615 in mice.
Smilax bockii
English Name
Smilax bockii
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of mass in the abdomen, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, distension and pain due to stagnation of undigested food, carcinoma of cervix at early stage.
Potential Indication
NA
Oxtail Greenbrier
English Name
Smilax riparia
Latin Name
rhizome and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of mass in the abdomen, goitre with pain, epigastric pain and distension due to indigestion.
Potential Indication
NA
Broad-pinna Colysis
English Name
Colysis pothifolia [Syn. Hemionitis pothifolia]
Latin Name
rhizome or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of mastitis, chronic lymphadenitis, tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes, hypertrophic rhinitis.
Potential Indication
NA
Creeping Ceratostigma, Creeping Bluesnow
English Name
Ceratostigma minus
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of measles without adequate eruption, rheumatic arthralgia.
Potential Indication
1. Bacteriostatic.2. Antipyretic.
Siberian Veronicastrum
English Name
Veronicastrum sibiricum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain with mass formation, pricking pain in the chest and costal regions, swelling and pain due to traumatic injury, headache, rheumatic arthralgia.
Potential Indication
1. Its active component, tetramethylpyrazine, can dilate the coronary artery and increase the coronary flow.2. Its aqueous solution and alcoholic infusion can lower blood pressure.3. Its alkaloids, ferulic acid and cnidilide are antispasmodics.4. Inhibiting the egrowth of intestinal gram-negative bacteria and skinfungi.
Squirrel’s Foot Fern
English Name
Davallia mariesii
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema with oliguria, dizziness and palpitation caused by retained fluid, diminished function of the spleen marked by anorexia, loose stools or diarrhea, restlessness and insomnia.
Potential Indication
NA
Szechwan Sabia
English Name
Sabia schumanniana
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema with oliguria, urinary infection with difficult painful urination, diarrhea caused by summer-damp, cough caused by phlegm-heat, spitting of blood, epistaxis, carbuncles and sores.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Sinopodophyllm
English Name
Podophyllum emodii
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema, dysuria with difficult painful urination, diarrhea caused by summer-damp, inflammation of the eye, cough caused by phlegm-heat.
Potential Indication
1. Diuretic. 2. Expectorant and antitussive.
Chinese Incarvillea
English Name
Incarvillea sinensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema, jaundice with dark urine, acute rheumatic arthritis, carbuncles, boils, appendicitis.
Potential Indication
Decoction inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella flexneri and Bacillus typhoid in vitro.
Champion Bauhinia
English Name
Bauhinia championii
Latin Name
root or stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema, stranguria oliguria, arthralgia, amenorrhea, lack of lactation.
Potential Indication
NA
Lobelia Falsehellebore*
English Name
Veratrum album var. lobelianum [Syn. Veratrum lobelianum]
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of edema. Calabash gourd (Hulu) is used with herbs which promote water metabolism, such as Benincasa peel (Dongguapi).
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Snailseed Stem
English Name
Cocculus trilobus [Syn. Cocculus sarmentosus]
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric and hypochondriac distension and pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, oliguria, snake and insect-bite.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Fordia
English Name
Fordia cauliflora
Latin Name
root, leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric distension and diasrrhea, edema, particularly edema of the legs with lameness, rheumatic arthralgia, common cold, night blindess.
Potential Indication
NA
Mengzi Peperomia*
English Name
Peperomia duclouxii
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric pain accompanied by cold sensation, retention of undigested food with abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, excessive alcohol drinking.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Sassafras
English Name
Sassafras tzumu
Latin Name
root, stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric pain accompanied by cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis, ascariasis. External use for itching in eczema.
Potential Indication
1. Anthelmintic, more effective on Ascaris suis.2. An active component, geraniol, exerts a sedative effect in rats.
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