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Lunate Peltate Sundew
English Name
Drosera peltata var. lunata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric pain with distension due to cold in the stomach or due to stagnation of qi in the liver and stomach, impotence and aching of the loins and knees in deficiency syndromes of kidney.
Potential Indication
NA
Finet Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum finetianum
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric pain, costal and hypochondriac pains due tostagnancy of qi of the liver, angina pectoris, traumatic injuries and bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Hylomecon
English Name
Hylomecon japonica
Latin Name
root and rhizome
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epigastric pain, costal and hypochondriac pains due tostagnancy of qi of the liver, angina pectoris, traumatic injuries and bleeding.
Potential Indication
Shortening the plasma recalcification time in rabbits.
Luzon Viburnum*
English Name
Viburnum luzonicum
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of epistaxis, spitting of blood, hematuria, hematochezia, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic bleeding, carbuncles and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction can lower blood pressure2. Inhibiting the growth of (a)-streptococcus3. Shortening the bleeding time.4. Anti-inflammatory5. Diuretic.
Wildhairdaisy
English Name
Saussurea japonica
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of eruptive epidemic diseases, spitting of blood and epistaxis due to heat in the blood chest pain and hemoptysis, ulcers in the mouth, mumps, pharyngitis, karyngitis, infantile convulsion.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting leukemia7212 and many other other tumors in experimental animals2. Enhancing the fuction of reticuloendothelial system in healthy mice and promoting phagocytosis of macrophage in mice with cancer.3. It may cause abdominal pain, diarrhea or bloody stools.
Common St Paulswort Equivalent plant: Siegesbeckia orientalis var pubescens, Siegesbeckia orientalis var glabrescens
English Name
Siegesbeckia orientalis
Latin Name
aerial parts
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of excessive menstrual discharge, hemorrhage from hysteromyoma, hematuria, epistaxis, gingival bleeding, traumatic bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
Conespike Flemingia
English Name
Flemingia strobilifera
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of exogenous heat invading at the nutritive and blood levels manifested as dry mouth and deep red tongue proper with scanty coating. Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) is used with Scrophularia (Xuanshen), Rhinoceros horn (Xijiao) and Ophiopogon root
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction exerts a protective effect on experimental hepatitis of mice induced by carbon tetrachloride.2. Gastric feeding or injection of its decoction, water infusion or alcoholic extract can lower the blood sugar level in rabbits (this result is controversial in the recent years).3. Intravenous injection of its extract exerts a hypertensive and diuretic effect in rabbits and dogs.4. Its alcoholic extract shortens the blood coagulation time in rabbits.5. Its water infusion inhibits the growth of some pathogenic fungi.
Arrowshaft Poplar
English Name
Populus nigra var. thevestina
Latin Name
bark or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of febrile diseases due to exogenous affection with high fever and dire thirst, asthma and cough caused by heat in the lung, headache and toothache caused by exuberant fire in the stomach.
Potential Indication
1. Its decoction can lower milk- or vaccine-induced fever in rabbits, but pure calcium sulfate does not possess this effect.2. Its decoction can also quench thirst in rats.
Flatshoot Mistletoe Equivalent plant: Viscum articulactum
English Name
Viscum articulatum
Latin Name
branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of febrile diseases with impairment of yin manifested by deep red tongue and dire thirst, or with eruptions, constipation due to impairment of body fluid, phthisis with cough, conjunctivitis, sore throat, scrofula, diphtheria, boils and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Its alcoholic extract and its component methoxycinnamic acid can lower the typhoid vaccine-induced fever in rabbits.2. Its water or alcoholic infusion and decoction exert a mild hypotensive effect on anesthetized animals3. Lowering the level of blood sugar.4. Its infusion inhibits the growth of some dermatomyces.
Chinese Silkvine Root-bark
English Name
Periploca sepium
Latin Name
root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of febrile diseases with restlessness, jaundice with dark urine, hematuria with difficult painful urination, hemoptysis and epistaxis caused by heat in the blood, inflammation of the eye, boils and sores, external use for sprains and bruises.Fructus Gardeniae (charred): Hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria and abnormal uterine bleeding caused by heat in the blood.
Potential Indication
1. The active components such as crocin, crocetin, genipin, or alcoholic extract protect the liver from carbon tetrachloride and increasing biliary secretion. Oral use of its decoction induce gallbladder contraction.2. Oral or intraperitoneal use of its decoction and alcoholic extract exerts a sustained hypotensive effect in anaesthetized and un-anaesthetized animals.3. Hemostatic.
White Mistletoe
English Name
Viscum album
Latin Name
stem and branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of feeling of stuffiness and distension in the chest and epigastrium with loss of appetite.
Potential Indication
NA
Whiteflower Leadword
English Name
Plumbago zeylanica
Latin Name
whole herb and root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of festering wound difficult to heal up, skin diseases with watery discharge, ulcers in the mouth, tranmatic injury with pain and bleeding.
Potential Indication
To arrest exudation, promote the growth of new tissue, and cure wounds.
Smallleaf Jointfir
English Name
Gnetum parvifolium [Syn. Gnetum indicum ]
Latin Name
stem, leaf or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever and eruptions in epidemic diseases, cough and asthma due to heat in the lung, inflammation of the throat, mnmps, erysipelas, carbuncle.
Potential Indication
NA
Oldham Fissistigma
English Name
Fissistigma oldhamii [Syn. Melodorum oldhamii]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever caused by summer heat, afternoon fever in deficiency of yin or in consumptive diseases, malaria with chills and fever, jaundice.
Potential Indication
1. Artemisinine from its volatile oil is an effective antimalarial agent on mice, monkey, chicken and human malaria. The malarial parasite will disappear in blood after oral administration of 100mg/kg for 3 days in mice and 200mg/kg for2-3 days in monkey. The therapeutic effect of artemisinie is similar to that of chloroquine.2. Antipyretic.
Diversifolious Hemiphragma
English Name
Hemiphragma heterophyllum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever due to deficiency of yin, consumptive fever, dizziness, tremor or fainting due to deficiency of yin, amenorrhea, mass in the abdomen, chronic malaria with splenomegaly.
Potential Indication
NA
Forrest Silkvine
English Name
Periploca forrestii
Latin Name
root or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever due to deficiency of yin, consumptive fever, dizziness, tremor or fainting due to deficiency of yin, amenorrhea, mass in the abdomen, chronic malaria with splenomegaly.
Potential Indication
NA
Glaucescent Fissistigma
English Name
Fissistigma glaucescens [Syn. Melodorum glaucescens]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever in febrile disease, diarrhea and abdominal pain, headache, toothache.
Potential Indication
NA
Field Bindweed
English Name
Convolvulus arvensis
Latin Name
herb and flower
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever with constipation, retention of the feces and abdominal pain, dysentery with inadequate discharge from the bowels, jaundice caused by damp-heat, haematemesis, epistaxis, inflammation of eye and swelling of the throat due to heat in the blood, appendicitis with abdominal pain, boils, sores and abscess, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injuries, hemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract. External use for scalds and burns.Radixet Rhizoma Rhei (stir-fried with wine) Inflammation of the eye, swelling of the throat and painful swelling of the gums. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (prepared) Boils, sores and abscess. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (carbonized) Hemorrhage with blood stasis due to heat in the blood.
Potential Indication
1. Sennoside A is the component for purgation.2. Promoting biliary secretion and enhancing the amount of bilirubin and bile acid.3. Rhein and Emodin exert bacteriostatic effect by inhibting the synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein in bacteria4. Emodin is a component for hypotensive5. Oral use of its extract reduces the raio of serum cholesterol and total phospholipid in rabbits with hypercholesterolemia.6. Chrysophanol, an other active component, exerts a hemostatic effect.
Globular Pepper
English Name
Piper mullesua
Latin Name
whole plant
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever with constipation, retention of the feces and abdominal pain, dysentery with inadequate discharge from the bowels, jaundice caused by damp-heat, haematemesis, epistaxis, inflammation of eye and swelling of the throat due to heat in the blood, appendicitis with abdominal pain, boils, sores and abscess, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injuries, hemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract. External use for scalds and burns.Radixet Rhizoma Rhei (stir-fried with wine) Inflammation of the eye, swelling of the throat and painful swelling of the gums. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (prepared) Boils, sores and abscess. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (carbonized) Hemorrhage with blood stasis due to heat in the blood.
Potential Indication
1. Sennoside A is the component for purgation.2. Promoting biliary secretion and enhancing the amount of bilirubin and bile acid.3. Rhein and Emodin exert bacteriostatic effect by inhibting the synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein in bacteria4. Emodin is a component for hypotensive5. Oral use of its extract reduces the raio of serum cholesterol and total phospholipid in rabbits with hypercholesterolemia.6. Chrysophanol, an other active component, exerts a hemostatic effect.
Tangut Daphne Equivalent plant: Daphne retusa
English Name
Daphne tangutica
Latin Name
stem bark and root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever with constipation, retention of the feces and abdominal pain, dysentery with inadequate discharge from the bowels, jaundice caused by damp-heat, haematemesis, epistaxis, inflammation of eye and swelling of the throat due to heat in the blood, appendicitis with abdominal pain, boils, sores and abscess, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injuries, hemorrhage from the upper gastrointestinal tract. External use for scalds and burns.Radixet Rhizoma Rhei (stir-fried with wine) Inflammation of the eye, swelling of the throat and painful swelling of the gums. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (prepared) Boils, sores and abscess. Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (carbonized) Hemorrhage with blood stasis due to heat in the blood.
Potential Indication
1. Sennoside A is the component for purgation.2. Promoting biliary secretion and enhancing the amount of bilirubin and bile acid.3. Rhein and Emodin exert bacteriostatic effect by inhibting the synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein in bacteria4. Emodin is a component for hypotensive5. Oral use of its extract reduces the raio of serum cholesterol and total phospholipid in rabbits with hypercholesterolemia.6. Chrysophanol, an other active component, exerts a hemostatic effect.
Beautiful Sweetgum
English Name
Liquidambar formosana [Syn. Liquidambar taiwaniana]
Latin Name
inflorescence
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of fever, headache and stiffness of th nape in exogenous affections, thirst, diabetes, measles with inadequate eruption, acute dysentery or diarrhea, stiff and painful nape in hypertension.
Potential Indication
NA
Wooly Dutchmanspipe
English Name
Aristolochia mollissima
Latin Name
rhizome or whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of gastric spasm and pain, asthma and cough, mania.
Potential Indication
1. Antisudorific, saliva antisecretory and mydriatic.2. Relaxing the smooth muscles.3. Increasing heart rate and exciting the respiratory center.
Hookedspine Bittersweet
English Name
Celastrus flagellaris
Latin Name
root, fruit or stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of goiter, scrofula, swelling and pain of the testis, edema.
Potential Indication
1. Prevent and treat hypothyroidism caused by deficiency of iodine.2. Its aqueous infusion can lower blood pressure and inhibit the growth of trichophyton.3. Causing atrophy of mammary gland and decreasing milk secretion.
Glabrous Sarcandra
English Name
Sarcandra glabra [Syn. Chloranthus glaber]
Latin Name
leaf and branchlet
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache accompanied by retching and cold limbs, abdominal colic, weakness and edema of the legs, abdominal pain during menstruation, epigastric distension and pain with vomiting and acid regurgitation, diarrhea occurring before dawn daily, hypertension. External use for ulcers in the mouth.
Potential Indication
1. Its volatile oil containing evoden inhibits the abnormal fermentation in the intestine.2. Evodin, evodiamine and rutaecarpine, are active components for analgesic.3. Oral administration or injection can lower blood pressure in normal animals or those with renal hypertension.
Interrupted Clubmoss
English Name
Lycopodium annotinum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache and dizziness, blurred vision due to nebula, optic atrophy and night blindness.
Potential Indication
1. Improves eyesight.2. Haemostatic.
Whorlleaf Litse
English Name
Litsea verticillata
Latin Name
stem-leaf or root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache and dizziness, costal and abdomina pain, spasmodic pain of the limbs, anemia, menstrual disorders, spontaneous sweating and night sweating.
Potential Indication
1. Dilating the coronary artery and blood vessels of hind legs in dogs. 2. Lowering blood pressure transiently. 3. Inhibiting the intestines in rabbits in vitro. 4. Its component paeoniflorin inhibits the central nervous systems.
Picture Kalopanax*
English Name
Kalopanax pictum
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache and dizziness, distending pain in the chest and costal regions, cessation of milk secretion, mastitis, redness of the eye with formation of nebula, urticaria with itching.
Potential Indication
1. Antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic. 2. Its alcoholic infusion exerts hypotensive effect in anesthetized animals.
Septemlobate Kalopanax Bark
English Name
Kalopanax septemlobus
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache and dizziness, distending pain in the chest and costal regions, cessation of milk secretion, mastitis, redness of the eye with formation of nebula, urticaria with itching.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Snailseed
English Name
Cocculus trilobus [Syn. Cocculus sarmentosus]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache and dizziness, distending pain in the chest and costal regions, cessation of milk secretion, mastitis, redness of the eye with formation of nebula, urticaria with itching.
Potential Indication
NA
Garden Balsam
English Name
Impatiens balsamina
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache caused by wind-cold, sinusitis with nasal discharge, urticaria with itching, arthritis with muscle contracture caused by damp.
Potential Indication
1. Lowering blood sugar, with similar mechanism as phenethyl biguanide ( DBI ). 2. Its chief poisonous component is rhamnose. The toxic effects in rats, guinea-pigs and rabbits by different routes of administration are similar. LD50 is 0.93g/kg in mice.
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