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Verdigris
English Name
Aerugo
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, scrotal eczema, knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling, nosebleed(epistaxis), flooding and spotting.
Verecun Plum*
English Name
Prunus verecunda
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, sprain in joints, intercostal neuralgia, wind stroke paralysis, early stage of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Vermeil-sulphureous Laetiporus*
English Name
Laetiporus sulphureus var. miniatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain.
Vermilion Rhododendron
English Name
Rhododendron cinnabarinum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, flooding, vaginal discharge, haryngolaryngitis, mammary welling abscess, knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
Veronica anagallis-aquatica L.
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and stanch bleeding, soothe sinews and joint bones, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, wind-damp impediment pain, hemiplegia, mounting qi , dysmenorrhea, profuse menstruation, postpartum abdominal pain, incessant bleeding, acute infectious hepatitis, chronic nephritis, erythematous lupus, fracture, medullitis, bone tuberculosis, epididymis tubercle, sore toxin, psoriasis, neurodermatitis.
Veronicastrum sibiricum (L.) Pennell
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, wind papules, amenorrhea, blood ejection, knocks and falls.
Verrucatespot Euonymus
English Name
Euonymus verrucosides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, knocks and falls, swelling pain from fracture.
Verticillate Bushmint*
English Name
Hyptis verticillata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], red eyes with gall, mammary welling abscess, innominate toxin swelling.
Very-hard Agave*
English Name
Agave rigidissima
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls.
Vested Acronychia*
English Name
Acronychia vestita
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, rectify qi and relieve pain, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling pain in joints, knocks and falls, stomachache, distention fullness in chest and abdomen, acute bacillary dysentery, chronic bacillary dysentery, acute enteritis, chronic enteritis, scrofula, sore and boil.
Vetiver
English Name
Vetiveria zizanioides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, regulate qi and relieve pain, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, stomachache, abdominal pain, edema, strangury syndrome.
Viatic Nightshade*
English Name
Solanum viarum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough and calm asthma, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold common cold, wind-cold-damp impediment, lumbago, stomachache, abdominal pain, toothach e, vacuity cold cough asthma, leukorrhea, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, mounting qi , stasis swelling from knocks and falls.
Viet Nam Croton*
English Name
Croton tonkinensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough and transform phlegm, dispel stasis and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, scrofula, chronic bronchitis, wind-damp impediment pain, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, knocks and falls, boil.
Villous Rangooncreeper*
English Name
Quisqualis indica var. villosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough and transform phlegm, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, cough of phlegm asthma, fracture due to knocks and falls, swollen sore of welling abscess and boil, galactostasis.
Violet Monkshood*
English Name
Aconitum violaceum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Painful joints due to rheumatalgia, knocks and falls, poisonous insect stings.
Violet Morningglory*
English Name
Ipomoea violacea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, aching pain in lumbus muscle, neuralgia, hypertension, urticaria, asthma.
Viper’s-glass
English Name
Scorzonera humilis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, cold pain in lumbus and knees, headache, toothache.
Virescent Larkspur
English Name
Delphinium virescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp bone pain, painful wound from knocks and falls, mounting qi .
Virginia Chain Fern
English Name
Woodwardia virginica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain wind.
Virginia Witch Hazel
English Name
Hamamelis virginiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and cure sores.
Potential Indication
Wind impediment, joint running wind, cholera cramp, gum swelling and pain.
Viridian Common Perilla*
English Name
Perilla frutescens f. viridis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling toxin of clove sore, throat impediment, snake bite, dog bite, blood ejection, hemoptysis, flooding and spotting.
Viscid Primrose*
English Name
Primula viscosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling of sores and boils, zoster,eczema, knocks and falls, snake or insect bites.
Viscid Wormwood*
English Name
Artemisia cana ssp. viscidula
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, sprain and contusion, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, measles papules, prolapse of uterus.
Volcanic Peperomia*
English Name
Peperomia vulcanica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache, wind-damp impediment pain, diarrhea and abdomen pain, mounting qi [=hernia], leg qi , swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, knife wound.
Volga Adonis
English Name
Adonis wolgensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Scab and lai , lichen, suppurative sore.
Voluble Rosewood*
English Name
Dalbergia volubilis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, resolve toxin and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Rheumatic arthritis, leukoplakia of vulva.
Wabu Fritillary*
English Name
Fritillaria wabuensia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, soothe sinews and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, pain in lumbus and legs, numbness of limbs, sprain from knocks and falls, sequel of poliomyelitis.
Wagner Windmill Palm
English Name
Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, soothe sinews and quicken blood, brighten eyes, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, night sweating, conjunctivitis, night blindness, burns and scalds, toxin swelling of sores.
Wallich Cowparsnip*
English Name
Heracleum wallichii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, soothe sinews and quicken blood, relieve cough and transform phlegm, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, limp aching lumbus and knees, painful wound from knocks and falls, taxation damage cough, flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge, postpartum blood qi vacuity.
Wallich Crestpetal-tree
English Name
Lophopetalum wallichii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, soothe sinews and quicken blood, relieve cough, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, aching pain in joints, arthritis, dysmenorrhea, skin numbness, weakness in limbs, jaundice, cough, knocks and falls, sores, zoster, scalds.
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