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Yellow Ouratea*
English Name
Ouratea flava
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, disinhibit damp and turbidity, disperse swelling toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, strangury with pain, white turbidity, leukorrhea, damp sore.
Yellow Oxytropis
English Name
Oxytropis campestris
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, disinhibit joints, lower blood pressure, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Hypertension, aching pain in joints, numbness in joints.
Yellow Pitcherplant
English Name
Sarracenia flava
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, disinhibit sinews and bones.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, knocks and falls.
Yellow Prairie-clover
English Name
Petalostemum purpureum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, disinhibit throat.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling pain in throat.
Yellow wing
English Name
Glutinous rice wine
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, disperse sore toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, wind-damp impediment pain, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, eczema of skin, snake or insect bites.
Yellow-flowering Pea
English Name
Crotalaria retusa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, dissipate cold and relieve pain, disperse swollen welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, hypertonicity of limbs, aching pain in joints, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore.
Yellow-hairy Calyx Kudzuvine
English Name
Pueraria calycina
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Distention fullness in chest and diaphragm, dysphagia-occlusion, cough and heavy head (flower), knocks and falls, flat abscess (leaf).
Yellow-heart Pricklyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum flavum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, expel stasis blood.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and knees, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum persistent flow of lochia.
Yellow-red Kopsia*
English Name
Kopsia flavida
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, check dysentery and diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity and numbness, aching sinews and bones, diarrhea and dysentery.
Yellowbow Dendrobium
English Name
Dendrobium chrysotoxum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind-damp, free channels and network vessels, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, lassitude in lumbus and knees, hemiplegia, hypertension, malaria, jaundice, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, wind papules, damp sore, animal and insect bites.
Western Sage
English Name
Artemisia ludoviciana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in joints.
Wetland StJohn’swort*
English Name
Hypericum uliginosum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, wind papules.
Wheelstamentree
English Name
Trochodendron aralioides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain.
Whiplash Star-of-Bethlehem
English Name
Ornithogalum caudatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp sore toxin.
White Ash
English Name
Fraxinus americana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate evil.
Potential Indication
Toothache, headache, deep-source nasal congestion.
White Bryony
English Name
Bryonia alba
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, calm liver and extinguish wind.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, sciatica, knocks and falls, fracture,bleeding due to external injury, hypertension, hemicrania [ = hemilateral headache], infant fright wind, prolapse of rectum.
White Bur Sage
English Name
Ambrosia dumosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, calm liver and settle fright, disperse accumulation and free stool, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, postpartum wind tetany, infant fright wind, sequel of poliomyelitis, hypertension, indigestion, fecal stoppage, urticaria, knocks and falls, snake or insect bites.
White Falsehellebore
English Name
Veratrum album
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, clear heat and remove damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, jaundice, parotitis, phthisis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, strangury-turbidity, tympanites, menstrual block, taxation damage and coughing of blood, clove sore and swollen welling abscess.
White Flax
English Name
Linum album
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, cool blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, aching in lumbus and knees, throat impediment, swollen welling abscess, knocks and falls.
White Fuliga*
English Name
Fuligo candida
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, dispel damp and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain from arthritis, swelling in joints, paralytic and pruritus.
White Gambirplant
English Name
Uncaria sessilifructus [Syn. Nauclea sessilifructus ]
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, disperse swelling and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in joints, numbness in limbs, knocks and falls, cough and asthma, heat strangury, poisonous snake bite.
White Henna*
English Name
Lawsonia alba
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp bone pain, stomachache, toothache, throat impediment, scrofula, burns and scalds.
White Hyacinth Bean
English Name
Semen Lablab Album
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls.
white Indian Bread
English Name
Poriae Alba
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, headache, stomachache, lumbago, knocks and falls.
White Linden*
English Name
Tilia alburnum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, stomachache, dysmenorrhea, painful swelling from knocks and falls.
White Lotus, Egyptian Lotus
English Name
Nymphaea lotus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp lumbago, knocks and falls.
White Lupin
English Name
Lupinus albus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, chest pain.
White Mangrove
English Name
Laguncularia racemosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and free network vessels, warm center and relieve pain, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache, diarrhea, wind-cold impediment pain, cold pain in stomach duct and abdomen, knocks and falls.
White Milkweed
English Name
Asclepias albicans
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and kill worms, close sores and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Scab and lichen with itching sores, bleeding due to external injury, cracking of hands and feet.
White Mullein
English Name
Verbascum lychnites
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and move qi , fortify spleen and disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Abdominal distention and pain, summerheat-damp vomiting and diarrhea, pain in joints, edema, innominate toxin swelling.
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