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Common Teak
English Name
Tectona grandis
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, strengthen sinews and bones.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, limp aching lumbus and knees, palpitation and shortness of breath, edema in lower limb.
Shandong Hypodematium
English Name
Hypodematium sinense
Latin Name
whole herb or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, supplement liver and kidney, disperse swollen welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, aching in lumbus and knees, dizziness, frequent urination, swelling and pain of sore and welling abscess.
Kirilow Groundsel Herb
English Name
Tephroseris kirilowii [Syn. Senecio integrifolius var. fauriei]
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, supplement liver and kidney, quicken blood and relieve pain, quiet fetus, promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain in lumbus and legs, knocks and falls, hypertension, stirring fetus disquieted, breast milk stoppage.
Hairypod Fishvane
English Name
Derris eriocarpa
Latin Name
lianoid stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, supplement liver and kidney, strengthen lumbus and knees, resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Aching pain in lumbus and back, knee pain and legs weakness, dysentery, flooding and spotting, leukorrhea, child gan accumulation, concretion and conglomeration, snake bite.
Suffrutescent Securinega
English Name
Securinega suffruticosa
Latin Name
root and twig
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, quicken blood and vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and knees, limp wilting sinew and bone, infant retardation of walking, vacuity and marked emaciation, knocks and falls, fracture, edema, beriberi, damp itchy in genitals.
Indian Bread
English Name
Poria cocos
Latin Name
sclerotium
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, supplement liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones, quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, cerebral and cardiovascular diseases, wind-damp impediment pain, limp aching lumbus and knees, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
Medicinal Indianmulberry
English Name
Morinda officinalis
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, warm center and dissipate cold, kill worms and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Rheumatism numbness, pain in joints, leprosy, stomachache, common cold, influenza, intestinal parasitic disease.
Liaodong Aralia
English Name
Aralia elata
Latin Name
root cortex or bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, warm center and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, cold pain in stomach duct.
Spine Date Seed
English Name
Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, warm channels and relieve pain, disperse concretion and conglomeration.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke with hemiplegia, wind-cold-damp impediment, lumbago, mounting qi , concretion conglomeration accumulation and gathering, qi dysentery.
Desertliving Asparagus*
English Name
Asparagus gobicus
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in joints, kidney vacuity lumbago.
Littleflower Plumbagella
English Name
Plumbagella micrantha
Latin Name
herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-heat, clear head and eyes.
Potential Indication
Externally contracted wind-heat, dizziness and headache, migraine, gum swelling and pain, red eyes with gall, delacrimation, wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity of limbs.
Common Carpesium
English Name
Carpesium abrotanoides
Latin Name
root, stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-heat, clear liver fire, brighten eyes and eliminate eye screens.
Potential Indication
Red eyes with gall, eye screen, dizziness and dim vision, hypertension, nosebleed(epistaxis), wind-heat itching of skin, sore and lichen.
Tangut Clematis
English Name
Clematis tangutica
Latin Name
whole herb or stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-heat, disperse swelling toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, headache, cough, wind toxin swollen face, swelling pain in th roat, gingiva painful swelling, wind-damp impediment pain, concretion and conglomeration, welling abscess and boil, hemorrhoids, prolapse of rectum.
Common Quince
English Name
Cydonia oblonga
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-phlegm.
Potential Indication
Seasonal diaphragm qi.
Mushroom Equivalent plant: Agaricus bisporus
English Name
Agaricus campestris
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, abate fever, disinhibit urine, quicken blood, resolve toxin, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, wind-damp bone pain, infant fright wind, inhibited urination, diarrhea, mounting qi, amenorrhea, knocks and falls, heat toxin sores, eczema.
Nanchuan Bugbane*
English Name
Cimicifuga nanchuanensis
Latin Name
rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, brighten eyes, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Wind papules, red eyes with gall, inhibited urination [=dysuria].
Shield Floatingheart
English Name
Nymphoides peltatum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, calm liver, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Dizziness, tinnitus, dribbling urination.
Chinese Tamarisk Equivalent plant: Tamarix ramosissima
English Name
Tamarix chinensis
Latin Name
tender branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat and resolve exterior.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache, wind-damp impediment pain.
Graceful Jessamine
English Name
Gelsemium elegans
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat, disinhibit damp, cool blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Common cold with cough, headache and dizziness, infection of urinary system, chyluria, vaginal discharge, jaundice, wind-heat impediment pain, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, profuse menstruation, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, knocks and falls, clove sore and swollen boil, toxin swelling from hemorrhoids, scalds.
Cuspidate Mnium Herb
English Name
Mnium cuspidatum
Latin Name
plant body
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind, clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and legs, knocks and falls, dribbling and inhibited voidings of urination, scrofula, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, ulcer of lower limb.
Willowleaf Magnolia*
English Name
Magnolia salicifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, free stool, promote vomiting.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, constipation, food accumulation and distending pain in stomach duct.
Willowleaf Sarcococca
English Name
Sarcococca saligna
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, harmonize blood and vanquish toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls.
Willowweedleaf Skullcap
English Name
Scutellaria epilobifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, kill worms and relieve itch, resolve toxin and close sores.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, toothache, knee joint pain, scab and lichen, eczema, trichomoniasis, scalds, wound, enduring sores, bilharziosis, cough and asthma.
Wilson Plumyew
English Name
Cephalotaxus wilsoniana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Common cold, headache, hypertension.
Winged Jurinea *
English Name
Jurinea alata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, move qi and disperse food.
Potential Indication
Malaria, wind-damp impediment pain, hypertension, food accumulation, child gan accumulation, knocks a nd falls.
Winged Physochlaina*
English Name
Physochlaina alaica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, headache, toothache, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, fracture, swelling of sores.
Wingfruit Milkvetch*
English Name
Astragalus pterocarpus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain in stomach duct, wound swelling from knocks and falls, fracture, bleeding due to external injury.
Winter Daffodil
English Name
Sternbergia lutea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, quicken blood and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, paralysis in limbs, decayed toothache, static blood pain due to injury.
Winter Lemongrass*
English Name
Cymbopogon winterianus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, quicken blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Bleeding of digestive tract, bleeding from hemorrhoids, acute enteritis, infection from wounds, gastrointestinal ulcer, common cold with fever, head wind headache, toothache, wind-damp impediment pain, abdominal pain, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, abdominal lump glomus, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, snake bite.
Wolfs-milk Slime
English Name
Lycogala epidendrum
Latin Name
sporocarp
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, quicken blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, stomachache, common cold, swelling pain in throat, red and white dysentery, malaria, child gan accumulation, eye screen, scrofula, eczema, scab sore.
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