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White Poppy*
English Name
Papaver album
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and open orifices.
Potential Indication
Deafness.
White Pummelo*
English Name
Citrus grandis f. hakunikuju
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, dissipate cold and relieve pain, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in joints, toothache, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, neuralgia.
white seed of Oriental Sesame
English Name
Semen Sesami
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, dissipate cold and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, hypertonicity of limbs, knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling.
White Snakeroot
English Name
Eupatorium urticaefolium
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, free network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, headache.
White-flowerButterbur*
English Name
Petasites albus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, move qi and dissipate blood, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, amenorrhea, headache, lumbago, mounting qi , dysentery, intestinal wind bleeding, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, burns and scalds, poisonous snake bite.
White-punctated Combretum*
English Name
Combretum albopunctatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, relieve pain and check tetany.
Potential Indication
Common cold, headache, toothache, distending pain in stomach duct, diarrhea, wind-damp impediment pain, paralysis, tetanus, fright wi nd, wind papules, eczema, swe lling of sores.
Whiteflower Lagopsis
English Name
Marrubium supinum [Syn. Lagopsis supina ]
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in joints.
Whiteflower Rostellularia
English Name
Justicia procumbens var. leucantha
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp, warm channels and dissipate cold, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, pain in joints, head wind headache, wind stroke with hemiplegia, cold pain in heart and abdomen, cold mounting with pain, knocks and falls, blood stasis swelling and pain, swelling toxin of flat abscess, anesthesia.
Whitehairy Beautyberry
English Name
Callicarpa candicans
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and overcome damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, hypertonicity of limbs, weakness of legs.
Whiteleaf Aglaia*
English Name
Aglaia leucophylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, boost kidney and strengthen sinews.
Potential Indication
Neuralgia, recurrent neuritis, chronic ischiatitis, neurasthenia, depression, schizophrenia, senile dementia, wind-damp lumbago, numbness in limbs, impotence, child gan accumulation, facial paralysis, sequel of poliomyelitis.
Whiteleaf Japanese Magnolia
English Name
Magnolia obovata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, clear heat and disinhibit damp, expel worms.
Potential Indication
Wind impediment, beriberi, static blood from knocks and falls, dysentery, lung heat cough, mouth sore, toothache, dribbling urination, ascariasis.
Whiteleaf Nepeta
English Name
Nepeta leucophylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pattern, painful swelling from knocks and falls, lung heat cough, dribbling urination, mouth sore, toothache, dysentery, leg qi , ascariasis.
Whiteleaf Rabdosia*
English Name
Isodon leucophyllus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Rheumatism numbness, lumbar and rib-side pain, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, knocks and falls, welling abscess and flat abscess, clove sore, goose-foot wind, ashen nail.
Whitepilose Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon albopilosus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, dissipate cold and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache, cough, vomiting and diarrhea, pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, knocks and falls, toothache.
Whitespot Betony
English Name
Stachys sylvatica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, free network vessels and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Impediment pain, hemiplegia, knocks and falls.
Whitethorn*
English Name
Nitraria schoberi
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, kill worms and relieve itch, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
White patch wind, skin diseases, oxyuria disease, ascariasis.
Whittaker Sundew*
English Name
Drosera whittakeri
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken blood, relieve cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, lumbago, chronic cough and asthma.
widely distributed in nature
English Name
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, disperse accumulation and free stool, downbear fire, relieve pain, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain in sinew and bone, sciatica, fracture, food accumulation abdominal distention, constipation, red eyes, toothache, headache, inhibited urination, strangury-turbidity.
Wightiana Chaulmoogratree Seed*
English Name
Hydnocarpus wightiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, eliminate inflammation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs.
Wild Angelica
English Name
Angelica sylvestris
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind impediment, paralysis, leprosy, scab and lichen, malign sore.
Wild Bleedingheart
English Name
Dicentra eximia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, quicken blood and relieve pain, disinhibit urine and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Armpit welling abscess, enlargement of testes, dysmenorrhea.
Wild Buckwheat Rhizome
English Name
Rhizoma Fagopyri Cymosi
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind stroke, numbness in limbs, hypertonicity, paralysis, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, swelling pain in throat.
Wild Cabbage
English Name
Brassica oleracea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and quicken network vessels, stanch bleeding, resolve liquor.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation blood ejection, wind-damp pain in sinew and bone.
Wild Gourd
English Name
Citrullus colocynthis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve cough, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Wind damage and common cold, cough, heat inpediment, cystitis, innominate toxin swelling, toothache.
Wild Gromwell*
English Name
Lithospermum ruderale
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve itch, resolve toxin and kill worms, suppress cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Eczema, urticaria, ascariasis, cough of phlegm asthma, leptochroa.
Wild Leek
English Name
Allium ampeloprasum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve itch, transform phlegm and relieve cough, expel roundworm.
Potential Indication
Wind papule itching, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, ascariasis.
Wild Pea
English Name
Lathyrus sylvestris
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Skin lichen.
Wild Rum-cherry
English Name
Prunus serotina
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, clear heat and disinhibit damp, promote contraction and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, toothache, diarrhea, dysentery, flooding, hematochezia, tuberculosis and hemoptysis.
Wildcelery Variety
English Name
Apium graveolens var. dulce
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, clear heat and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat generalized pain, wind-damp impediment pain, edema in lower limb, inhibited urination.
Wildginger-leaf Morning Glory*
English Name
Ipomoea asarifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and relieve pain, clear heat and disinhibit water.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic pain in joints, damp-heat pain in limbs, edema, inhibited urination, beriberi with edema.
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