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Stag’s-horn Sumach
English Name
Rhus typhina
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Cough, bleeding due to external injury, scalds.
Stalactite
English Name
Stalactitum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Nosebleed(epistaxis), blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting.
Stalkedfruit Meadowrue*
English Name
Thalictrum podocarpum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood, clear heat, resolve toxin, settle fright.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, acute febrile diseases, epidemic febrile diseases.
Staminate Sage*
English Name
Salvia staminea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood, resolve toxin, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, scab and lichen, scalds, trichomoniasis.
Starch
English Name
Amylum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool liver and stanch bleeding, calm liver and brighten eyes, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematuria, flooding and spotting, red eyes with gall, eyeground hemorrhage, hypertension, red and white dysentery, nephritis with edema, chyluria.
Stavisacre
English Name
Delphinium staphisagria
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course liver and disinhibit gallbladder, clear damp heat.
Potential Indication
Jaundice, distending pain in chest and rib-side, damp-heat diarrhea dysentery.
stem of Common Perilla
English Name
Caulis Perillae Frutescentis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course liver and harmonize stomach, quicken blood and relieve pain, soften hardness and dissipate binds, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Liver stomach qi stagnation, distending pain in stomach duct, distending pain in rib-side, non-digestion of food accumulati on, dysenter y, mounting qi , lumbago, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, goiter and tuberculosis, scrofula, carcinoma.
stem of Lilac Daphne
English Name
Caulis Genkwa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course liver and rectify qi, diffuse lung and suppress cough.
Potential Indication
Mounting qi, lung cold cough.
stem of Red and Yellow Garden Raspberry
English Name
caulis Rubi idaei
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, calm liver and brighten eyes, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Angina pectoris, hypertension, externally contracted wind-heat, wind warmth, fever and headache, dizziness, common cold, red eyes, red eyes with gall, swelling toxin of clove sore.
stem of Yellow cinnamon
English Name
Ligum Cinnamomi Camphorae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, cool liver and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache, swelling pain in throat, cough, dysentery, jaundice.
stem or seed of Taiwan Entada
English Name
Semen Entadae Phaseoloidis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, disinhibit damp, stanch bleeding, quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, pneumonia with cough and asthma, swelling pain in throat, hepatitis with rib-side pain, diarrhea, dysentery, nephritis, blood ejection, fetal spotting (precipitation of blood in pregnancy).
Stemless Carline 392Thistle
English Name
Carlina acaulis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, disinhibit throat and relieve cough, cool liver and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, headache, swelling pain in throat, cough and asthma, dysentery, jaundice, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, wind papule itching.
Steudner Heliotrope*
English Name
Heliotropium steudneri
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Red eyes with gall, damp itchy skin, edema, ascites (hydroperitoneum).
Stevenson Rosewood*
English Name
Dalbergia stevensonii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, disperse accumulation and transform phlegm, fortify spleen and eliminate damp, move qi and dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, conjunctivitis, bronchitis, indigestion, dysentery, spleen vacuity and vaginal discharge, breast milk stoppage, painful swelling from knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain.
Stiff Silkworm
English Name
Bombyx Batryticatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, dry damp and resolve itch, moisten skin.
Potential Indication
Wandering wind of head and face.
Stink-bug
English Name
Aspongopus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, quicken blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Externally contracted wind-heat, headache and sore pharynx, non-eruption of measles, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, bleeding due to external injury, painful swelling from knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
Stipular Crotalaria*
English Name
Crotalaria stipularia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, relieve cough and transform phlegm, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Common cold, fever, cough, diarrhea, otitis media, deafness, pharyngitis, parotitis, urinary tract infection, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess, knocks and falls.
Stipulate Dolichandrone
English Name
Dolichandrone stipulata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, relieve cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Fever due to external contraction, lung heat cough, bronchitis.
Stoat-osmyl Deadnettle*
English Name
Lamium galeobdolon
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, lung vacuity consumption cough, hemoptysis, sprain and contusion.
Stomach Motherwort
English Name
Leonurus cardiaca
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Common cold, summerheat stroke, acute cholecystitis, hepatitis, enteritis, dysentery, parotitis, mastitis, swelling toxin of clove sore, allergic dermatitis, acute conjunctivitis.
Storax oil
English Name
Oleum Storax
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and clear heat, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, swelling pain in throat, nephritis, cystitis, swollen welling abscess and toxin of clove, knocks and falls.
Straight-raceme Barberry
English Name
Berberis orthobotrys
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and diffuse lung, rectify qi and disperse food, resolve toxin of fish and crab.
Potential Indication
Common cold due to wind-cold, cough and asthma, distention and oppression in stomach duct and abdomen, non-digestion of food accumulation, vomiting and diarrhea, cold dysentery, po isoning of fish or crab, genital swelling, leg qi with swelling toxin, snake or insect bites.
Strawberry Clover
English Name
Trifolium fragiferum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dispel damp, fortify spleen and disperse food, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
common cold with headache, wind-damp impediment pain, food accumulation distention and fullness, indigestion, knocks and falls.
Stria Agave*
English Name
Agave striata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dissipate cold, move qi and transform phlegm, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, dry damp and resolve itch.
Potential Indication
Wind-cold cough, asthma, pertussis, distending pain in stomach duct, edema, wound swelling from knocks and falls, wind-damp bone pain, toxin swelling of sores, burns and scalds, wind toxin and beriberi, scab and lai, eczema titillation.
Strict Conyza
English Name
Conyza stricta
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dissipate heat, clear lung and moisten dryness, clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, lung heat dry cough, dizziness and headache, red eyes and clouded vision.
Strict Meadowrue*
English Name
Thalictrum strictum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dissipate heat, diffuse lung and outthrust papules, resolve toxin and disinhibit throat.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, cough with profuse phlegm, measles papules, wind papules, swelling pain in throat, epidemic parotitis, erysipelas, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin.
Strict Verbena*
English Name
Verbena stricta
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dissipate heat, downbear qi and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Cough, externally contracted wind-heat, lung heat phlegm depression, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, sticky phlegm, retching counterflow and reduced food intake, fullness and oppression in chest and diaphragm.
Strictleaf Cryptocarya*
English Name
Cryptocarya strictifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and dissipate heat, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, headache, red eyes, sore pharynx, epidemic parotitis.
Stringbushlike Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon wikstroemioides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and overcome damp, transform phlegm and relieve cough, dissipate stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Wind damage and common cold, wind-damp impediment pain, cough and abundant phlegm, stasis swelling from knocks and falls.
Stygian Euphorbia*
English Name
Euphorbia stygiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To course wind and resolve exterior, clear heat and disinhibit damp, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Common cold with headache and fever, acute bronchitis, pertussis, malaria, jaundice, dysentery, chyluria, toxin swelling of sores, itchy skin, poisonous snake bite, knocks and falls, rheumatic arthritis.
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