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Sweet-briar
English Name
Rosa rubiginosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine and free strangury, transform phlegm and relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Nephritis, cystitis, urethritis, beriberi with edema, cough.
Sweet-tongue Lippia*
English Name
Lippia dulcis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Qi strangury.
Sweetroot Polypody*
English Name
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Opacity of urine, dribbling pain of urination, urethral stone, scab and lichen, knocks and falls.
Sweetscented Basil
English Name
Ocimum gratissimum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Inhibited urination, damp-heat edema, strangury, infant fetal toxin.
Sylvatic Sapium*
English Name
Stillingia sylvatica [Syn. Sapium sylvatica]
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, clear heat, eliminate inflammation, allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Chronic nephritis, hepatitis, pain of hot urine, stomach heat vomiting, wind papules, sore toxin, bleeding due to external injury.
Syneilesis*
English Name
Syneilesis palmata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Edema, inhibited urination, ascites.
Syria Origanum*
English Name
Origanum syriacum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, free milk, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Inhibited urination, hematuria, galactostasis, snake or insect bites, toxin swelling.
Syrian Rue*
English Name
Ruta chalepensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, free stool, move qi, dissipate stasis, kill worms, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Edema, constipation, food accumulation, stomachache, knocks and falls, fracture, scab and lichen, sore toxin.
Szechwan-Tibet Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon pharicus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Strangury syndrome, pain wind.
Taibaien Aralia
English Name
Aralia taibaiensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Urinary stoppage, edema, ascites.
Taillikeleaf Rabdosia
English Name
Rabdosia excisa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, clear heat and resolve toxin, stanch bleeding and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Edema, sore and boil, burns and scalds, bleeding due to external injury, ascariasis.
Taishan Sumac Fruit
English Name
Rhus taishanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, clear heat and resolve toxin, stanch bleeding, eliminate vexation and quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Edema, heat strangury, inhibited urination [=dysuria], jaundice, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, flooding spotting and vaginal discharge, profuse menstruation, sleepless and vexation, diabetes mellitus, common cold, summer unacclimation in child, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin, scrofula, mastitis, swelling pain in throat, acute conjunctivitis, poisonous snake bites.
Taiton Wildginger
English Name
Asarum taitoense
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, clear heat and resolve toxin, supplement vacuity.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, jaundice, toad head scourge, child heat sore, dysentery, gan disease, taxation fever, postpartum vacuity weakness.
Taiuia Root*
English Name
Cayaponia tayuya
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, jaundice, edema, inhibited urination, heat toxin swollen welling abscess.
Taiwan Pieris*
English Name
Pieris formosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Beriberi with edema, inhibited urination, eczema, sore toxin, wind-damp impediment pain, hypertension, adjuvant in anesthesia.
Taiwan Barberry
English Name
Berberis kawakamii
Latin Name
root or leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, harmonize stomach and inhibit acid.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea and dysentery due to cold qi, hyperchlorhydria.
Taiwan Bletilla*
English Name
Bletilla formosana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, relieve cough and transform phlegm, resolve toxin and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Edema and qi fullness, phlegm-rheum cough asthma, malaria, bacillary dysentery, scrofula, tuberculous fistula, medullitis.
Taiwan Buckthorn*
English Name
Rhamnus formosana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema, transform phlegm and soften hardness, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Edema, goiter and carcinoma of neck, hypertension, laryngitis, sore and boil, acute enteritis, chronic enteritis, gan accumulation.
Taiwan Bugle*
English Name
Ajuga taiwanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Inhibited urination, edema, ascites.
Taiwan Butterbur*
English Name
Petasites formosanus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and free stool, quicken blood and transform stasis.
Potential Indication
Inhibited urination, edema, phlegm-rheum, sand strangury, stone strangury, beriberi, constipation, concretion and conglomeration, amenorrhea, mania and withdrawal, sore and papules.
Taiwan Common Jasminorange
English Name
Murraya crenulata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and free strangury, clear heart and downbear fire.
Potential Indication
Strangury, edema, inhibited urination, damp-heat jaundice, insomnia and vexation, infant night crying, throat impediment, mouth sore, wound.
Taiwan Dandelion*
English Name
Taraxacum formosanum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and free strangury, clear heat and resolve toxin, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Gallstones, calculus of urinary system, heat strangury, nephritis with edema, damp-heat jaundice, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, poisonous snake bite, knocks and falls.
Taiwan Euchresta
English Name
Euchresta formosana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and free strangury, cool blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Blood strangury, snake bite.
Ｔaiwan Goniothalamus
English Name
Goniothalamus amuyon
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and free strangury, eliminate welling abscess.
Potential Indication
NA
Taiwan Hogfennel
English Name
Peucedanum formosanum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and percolate damp, anticancer.
Potential Indication
Inhibited urination, edema, ascites, carcinoma of lung, carcinoma of esophagus, diarrhea, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge.
Taiwan Incense Cedar
English Name
Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and percolate damp, rectify qi and disperse swelling, quicken blood and regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Edema, diarrhea, food accumulation distention and fullness, menstrual disorder, galactostasis, scrotal enlargement, itch-pain in sore and papules.
Taiwan Loquat
English Name
Eriobotrya deflexa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water and percolate damp,fortify spleen and quiet heart.
Potential Indication
Neurasthenia, disquieted heart spirit, fright palpitation and insomnia, insomnia, pelvic inflammation, edema, scant urine with edema, phlegm-rheum dizziness, reduced food intake due to spleen vacuity, sloppy stool and diarrhea, chronic diarrhea.
Taiwan Magnoliavine
English Name
Schisandra arisanensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water, disperse edema and abate jaundice, clear heat, resolve toxin and disperse welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Edema, leg qi , jaundice, strangury, hematochezia, swelling toxin sores, lichen papules.
Taiwan Malabar Randia
English Name
Randia formosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water, disperse swelling, free strangury, dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, jaundice, diabetes mellitus, strangury, swollen welling abscess.
Taiwan Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum urbainii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To disinhibit water, disperse swelling, kill worms, attack gastrointestinal accumulation.
Potential Indication
Edema, ascites, scrofula, itchy skin.
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