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Typhonium giganteum Engl
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain, quicken blood and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, qi pain in heart and stomach, taxation damage and blood ejection, amenorrhea, menstrual disorder, knocks and falls, swelling toxin of incised wound.
Typical Licorice*
English Name
Glycyrrhiza glabra var. typica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain, regulate menstruation, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with cough, wind-damp impediment pain, distending pain in stomach duct and abdomen, menstrual disorder, clove sore, snake bite.
U?a de Gato (Cat’s Claw)
English Name
Uncaria tomentosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints due to rheumatalgia, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, centipede bite.
Ucahub, Baboen
English Name
Virola surinamensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and quicken blood, disinhibit urine, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, amenorrhea, mounting qi , painful swollen testes, distention oppression in stomach duct, inhibited urination, vaginal discharge, snake or insect bites.
Uganda Padritree*
English Name
Stereospermum kunthianum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, painful wound from knocks and falls, pain in lumbus and leg.
Ukrainian Narrowleaf Narcissus*
English Name
Narcissus angustifolius
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, move qi and relieve pain, soothe sinews and quicken network vessels.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, stomachache, abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, knocks and falls, chronic pain in lumbus and legs.
Umbellate Pepper*
English Name
Piper umbellatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and dispel stasis, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, painful swelling from knocks and falls, clove sore scrofula,
Umbellate Rapanea*
English Name
Rapanea umbellata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and disperse swelling, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp bone pain, rheumatism numbness, knocks and falls, burns and scalds.
Umbels Heath
English Name
Erica umbellata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and disperse swelling, move qi and relieve pain, transform stagnation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold-damp impediment, stomachache, dysmenorrhea, knocks and falls, wind-cold cough, mounting qi.
Uncaria macrophyllaWall
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp bone pain, beriberi, edema, hemorrhoids, prolapse of rectum, itchy papules, scab sore, chronic medullitis.
Uncinate Tailgrape*
English Name
Artabotrys uncinatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and disperse welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, menstrual block, mammary welling abscess, knocks and falls, fracture.
Undulate-leaf Quassiawood*
English Name
Hannoa undulata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and dissipate stasis, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, knocks and falls, fracture, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, pneumonia, acute appendicitis, bacillary dysentery, cholecystitis, abscess, stomatitis.
Unequal Brake
English Name
Pteris inaequalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and dissipate stasis, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, abdominal pain and diarrhea, inhibited urination [=dysuria], bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls, poisonous snake bites.
Unfortunate Glorybower
English Name
Clerodendron infortunatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and dissipate stasis, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, taxation damage in lumbar muscle, hemiplegia, bleeding due to external injury.
Unguiculate Hemsley Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum hemsleyanum var. leueanthus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free menstruation, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold and headache, cough, wind-damp impediment pain, aching in lumbus and legs, damp-heat jaundice, edema, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, menstrual block, postpartum wind pain, painful swelling from knocks and falls, pain in stomach duct, swelling pain in throat, gum swelling and pain.
Upland Cress
English Name
Barbarea vulgaris
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free menstruation, transform stasis and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Lumbago, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea.
Upland White Aster
English Name
Aster ptarmicoides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free network vessels, disperse swelling and relieve pain, resolve toxin and kill worms (high toxicity).
Potential Indication
Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic arthritis, glomerulonephritis, nephropathy syndrome, erythematous lupus, dryness in eyes and mouth, Behcet’s syndrome, psoriasis, eczema, leprosy, scab sore, intractable lichen.
Ural’s Lichen
English Name
Umbilicaria proboscidea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free network vessels, relieve cough and calm asthma, clear heat and resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, kidney vacuity lumbago, knocks and falls, intestinal pain due to qi disorder, wind-fire toothache, cough, asthma, scab and lichen, ascariasis, oxyuria disease, provention of influenza.
Ussuri Falsehellebore
English Name
Veratrum nigrum var. ussuriense
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free network vessels, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, hypertonicity of sinews and bones, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, painful wound from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, mammary welling abscess, suppurative infection.
Ussuri Poplar
English Name
Populus ussuriensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and free network vessels, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, expel worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment, pain in lumbus and legs, deviated eyes and mouth, knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess and sores, taeniasis, eczema, intractable lichen, snake or dog bite.
Utilizable Hopea*
English Name
Hopea utilis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, swelling pain from fracture, amenorrhea, ulcerating sores, tinea capitis, pudendal itch.
Vaginate Stonebean-orchis*
English Name
Bulbophyllum vaginatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, stanch bleeding and settle pain.
Potential Indication
Taxation damage pain in lumbus and legs, menstrual disorder, leukorrhea, incised wound and bleeding, dizziness.
Valdiv Barberry
English Name
Berberis valdiviana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
NA
Valerian
English Name
Radix Seu Rhizoma Valerianae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain in sinew and bone, paralysis, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, knocks and falls.
Vanillae Oil
English Name
Oleum Vanillae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, wind-fire toothache, knocks and falls, fracture, swelling of welling abscess, welling abscess and flat abscess with swelling sore, mouth sore, swelling hemorrhoids, sore and lichen.
Variable Rosewood*
English Name
Dalbergia variabilis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, wind-fire toothache, knocks and falls, fracture, swelling of welling abscess, welling abscess and flat abscess with swelling sore, mouth sore, swelling hemorrhoids, sore and lichen.
Variegated Cowlily
English Name
Nuphar variegatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, relieve cough and dispel phlegm.
Potential Indication
Pain in joints, rheumatic endocarditis, sciatica, chronic bronchitis, chronic trachitis, wind-cold-damp impediment, indigestion, taxation detriment and sprain, malaria, swollen welling abscess.
Vaseyana Big Sagebrush*
English Name
Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, relieve cough and dispel phlegm.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, cough.
Veined Argyreia
English Name
Argyreia nervosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, relieve cough, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp pain, pain in stomach duct and abdomen, cough, knocks and falls, clove sore and swollen boil, poisonous snake bite.
Veinfruit Seabuckthorn
English Name
Hippophae neurocarpa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To dispel wind and eliminate damp, quicken blood and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs, knocks and falls, amenorrhea, dysentery, welling abscess and flat abscess, poisonous snake bite.
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