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wood of Burmacoast padauk
English Name
lignum pterocarpi indici
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, relieve cough and transform phlegm, calm asthma.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp with painful swollen joints, pain in lumbus and legs, asthma and cough, scrofula, scab and lichen.
Wood Sage
English Name
Teucrium scorodonia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling pain in throat, scrofula, mammary welling abscess, sore and boil, eczema, innominate toxin swelling, poisonous snake bite.
Woodland Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum nemorum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, knocks and falls.
Woodland Sunflower
English Name
Helianthus strumosus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp Pain, stomachache, knocks and falls, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, knife wound, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Woodland Wormwood
English Name
Artemisia sylvatica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
NA
Woods Lcaquertree
English Name
Rhus sylvestris
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and remove damp, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, dysentery, diarrhea.
Woody Fleabane
English Name
Inula viscosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, disinhibit damp and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, wind-damp bone pain, abdominal pain and diarrhea, wind papules, eczema.
Woolly Gambirplant*
English Name
Uncaria lanosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, dispel damp and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, nasal congestion, headache (especially in forehead and superciliary region), toothache, infections, acute mastitis, sores, excessive leukorrhea, stomachache.
Woolly Morning Glory
English Name
Argyreia speciosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, disperse accumulation and fortify stomach, quicken blood and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, food accumulation and qi stagnation, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, stasis swelling from knocks and falls, wind papules, snake bite.
Woolly Seseli*
English Name
Seseli ericephalum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, overcome damp and relieve pain, resolve spasm, relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Migraine, headache and generalized pain, common cold, rheumatoid arthritis, externally contracted wind-cold, wind-damp impediment pain, aching pain in joints, abdominal pain and diarrhea, intestinal wind bleeding, tetanus, wind papule itching, sores.
Woollyfruit Rabdosia*
English Name
Isodon lasiocarpus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, relieve cough and calm asthma, rectify qi and disperse food with relieving pain.
Potential Indication
Wind damage and common cold, cough, asthma, stomachache with acid regurgitation, indigestion, food accumulation diarrhea, chol ecystitis, gallstones, mounting qi [=hernia].
Wrinkledleaf Pyrola
English Name
Pyrola rugosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, relieve cough and transform phlegm, move qi and quicken blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Common cold with cough, malaria, stomachache, mounting qi , wind-damp impediment pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Wrinkleleaf Magnolia*
English Name
Magnolia praecocissima
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve exterior, transform phlegm and relieve cough, rectify qi and disperse accumulation, di ssipate stasis and di sperse swe lling.
Potential Indication
Common cold with cough, food stagnation with torpid intake, food accumulation abdominal pain, mounting qi (hernia), painful swelling from knocks and falls.
Wru Croton*
English Name
Croton urucurana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve summerheat, disinhibit damp and disperse swelling, cool blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, summerheat stroke and anidrosis, lung heat cough asthma, pulmonary welling abscess, heat toxin dysentery, edema, wind-damp pain, taxation damage, blood ejection, hematochezia, mammary welling abscess, innominate toxin swelling, wind papules, eczema, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, poisonous snake bite, bee sting.
Wych Elm
English Name
Ulmus glabra
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve tetany, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Tetanus, epilepsy, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess and scrofula, prolapse of rectum, prolapse of uterus.
Xanthorrhiza Turmeric*
English Name
Curcuma xanthorrhiza
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve tetany, transform phlegm and dissipate binds, resolve toxin and disinhibit throat.
Potential Indication
Epilepsy, fright wind and convulsion, swelling pain in throat, acute infection of upper respiratory tract, epidemic parotitis, diabetes mellitus, temporomandibular lymphrnoditis, facial paralysis, itchy skin.
Ya-Yaa (Thai name)
English Name
Asystasia intrusa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve toxin, engender hairs.
Potential Indication
Wind sore.
Yeddo Spruce
English Name
Picea jezoensis var. jezoensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and resolve toxin, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Sore toxin, skin lichen, edema.
Yeddo Spruce
English Name
Picea jezoensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and settle fright, check tetany.
Potential Indication
Infant fright wind, convulsion with cold limbs.
Yellow Adonis
English Name
Adonis vernalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and soothe liver, quicken blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, dizziness and headache, pain in lumbus and legs, bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls, fracture.
Yellow Barberry
English Name
Berberis tschonoskiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform damp, disperse swelling and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, yellow swelling, malaria, wind-damp bone pain, contusion from knocks and falls.
Yellow Bugle
English Name
Ajuga chamaepitys
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform damp, relieve pain and itch.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, toothache, lumbago, pain after operation, dysmenorrhea, mastitis, infection of skin, eczema, neurodermatitis, urticaria, infective dermatitis, zoster, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls.
Yellow Cedar
English Name
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform phlegm, disinhibit damp and eliminate impediment, dispel phlegm, resolve toxin, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Common cold, cough and abundant phlegm, wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, swelling and toxin of sore and welling abscess.
Yellow Concave-top Alga*
English Name
Laurencia nipponica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform phlegm, free channels and network vessels, resolve toxin and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke with congesting phlegm, deviated eyes and mouth, migraine, tetanus, poisonous snake bite, scrofula, swollen welling abscess.
Yellow Gentian
English Name
Gentiana lutea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform phlegm, quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Infant fright wind, wind-damp impediment pain, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, diphtheria, knocks and falls, fracture, poisonous snake bite, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, red eyes, stomatitis, liver spleen enlargement.
Yellow Groundsel*
English Name
Senecio flavus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and transform phlegm, settle fright epilepsy, dissipate cold and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke with congesting phlegm, deviated eyes and mouth, epilepsy, migraine, headache, wind-phlegm dizziness,tetanus, infant fright wind, wind-damp impediment pain, sores scab and lichen, damp itchy skin.
Yellow Hardpeel Puff-ball*
English Name
Scleroderma citrinum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind quicken blood, resolve toxin and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Common cold, cough, wind-damp pain, knocks and falls, welling abscess and boil, menstrual disorder [= menoxenia].
Yellow Hornpoppy*
English Name
Glaucium flavum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, boost kidney and fortify spleen, resolve snake toxin, resolve dog toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, kidney vacuity lumbago, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, wrenching and contusion from knocks and falls, food accumulation, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, child gan accumulation, snake bite, dog bite.
Yellow Lupin
English Name
Lupinus luteus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, clear damp heat, relieve pain due to impediment.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, aching pain in joints, late afternoon tidal fever, child gan accumulation with fever.
Yellow Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum anthora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, clear heat and cool blood, quicken blood and relieve pain, drain precipitation.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, pain in lumbus and legs, steaming bone taxation fever, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, painful bind in lesser-abdomen, swollen welling abscess.
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