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Spectacular Senna*
English Name
Senna spectabilis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To constrain sweat and secure exterior, supplement qi and disinhibit water, draw toxin and close sores.
Potential Indication
Qi vacuity and hypodynamia, reduced food intake and sloppy stool, prolapse of rectum due to enduring diarrhea, hematochezia, flooding and spotting [=metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], spontaneous sweating due to exterior vacuity, qi vacuity edema, blood vacuity with yellow complexion, enduring welling abscess and flat abscess.
Sphagnum girgensohnii Russ.
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To contract damp and close sores, stanch bleeding and settle pain, clear heat and resolve phlegm.
Potential Indication
Enduring sores, damp-sore with flowing water, gan of teeth and gum, mouth sore, hemoptysis, blood ejection, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding, bleeding due to external injury, hemorrhoids and swollen welling abscess, phlegm-heat cough.
Spica Panax ginseng
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To contract damp, close sores and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Enduring sores, eczema, mouth sore, painful wound from knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, suppurative infection.
Spica Polygoni orientalis
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To contract uterus and stanch bleeding, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Postpartum bleeding, migraine.
Spicate Centaurium*
English Name
Centaurium spicatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and check dysentery, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Red dysentery and abdominal pain, enduring dysentery, bleeding hemorrhoids, swelling toxin of sore and welling abscess.
Spicate Pseudoelephantopus
English Name
Pseudoelephantopus spicatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and clear heat, disinhibit damp and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Nosebleed(epistaxis), hematochezia, hematuria, constipation, strangury-turbidity, hemorrhoids, swollen welling abscess, fracture, snake or insect bites.
Spicate Woodbetony
English Name
Pedicularis spicata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and clear heat, regulate menstruation.
Potential Indication
Vacuity heat and hypodynamia, menstrual disorder [=menoxenia], dysmenorrhea.
Spicebush
English Name
Lindera benzoin
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and disperse stasis, eliminate inflammation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Peptic ulcer, enteritis, tuberculosis, pertussis, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, sore pharynx, toothache, swollen welling abscess.
Spiceleaf Kernel Oil
English Name
Oleum Linderae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and dissipate stasis, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Cough with blood ejection, flooding and spotting [= metrorrhagia and metrostaxis], edema, knocks and falls.
Spiked Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum spicatum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and quicken blood, relieve cough and free strangury, resolve toxin and dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Postpartum blood stasis, retention of placenta, strangury, cough with phlegm and blood.
Spina Ziziphi jujubae
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and quicken blood, resolve toxin and outthrust papules.
Potential Indication
Macula, measles papules, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, purpura, jaundice, welling abscess and flat abscess, scalds.
Spinach Jointfir
English Name
Gnetum gnemon
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and resolve toxin, clear heat and disinhibit damp, quiet spirit and calm.
Potential Indication
Common cold, infant ardent fever, bronchitis, hepatitis, gastritis, enteritis, conjunctivitis, calculus of urinary system, edema, taxation damage hemoptysis, nosebleed(epistaxis), hematuria, neurasthenia, neurosis, insomnia, toxin swelling of sores, zoster, knocks and falls.
Spinach-like Jointfir
English Name
Gnetum gnemonoides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and resolve toxin, disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity lung dryness, cough, hemoptysis, dribbling urination.
Spined Cordia*
English Name
Cordia spinescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and resolve toxin, kill worms and relieve itch.
Potential Indication
Lacquer sore, bald sores, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, innominate toxin swelling, poisonous snake bites, deep-source nasal congestion, decayed teeth, internal damage due to knocks and falls.
Spined Custardapple*
English Name
Annona spinescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cracked nipple.
Spineless Mitragyna*
English Name
Mitragyna inermis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, check discharge, check diarrhea.
Potential Indication
Bleeding, vaginal discharge, diarrhea, dysentery.
Spineless Powderpuff*
English Name
Calliandra inermis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and disinhibit urine, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, hematuria, strangury, pain wind, wind-damp pain, epilepsy.
Spiny Sida*
English Name
Sida spinosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Coughing of blood, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, blood strangury, hematochezia, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Spiny Thorowax*
English Name
Bupleurum spinosum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and engender liquid, disinhibit urine and free strangury.
Potential Indication
Acute nephritis with edema, acute glomerulonephritis, chronic glomerulonephritis, acute hepatitis, blood ejection due to blood heat, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, jaundice, edema, heat strangury with inhibited pain, measles papules.
Spinyflower Alternanthera
English Name
Alternanthera repens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin, disperse swelling and close sores.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis, duodenal ulcer, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, bleeding from hemorrhoids, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, red and white vaginal discharge, swelling pain of welling abscess and sore, eczema, pudendal itch, burns and scalds, snake or insect bites.
Spinyflower Strophanthus
English Name
Strophanthus gratus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, dispel wind and free network vessels.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, blood strangury, bleeding from wounds, enteritis, dysentery, mammary welling abscess, swollen welling abscess and toxin of clove sore, scalds, snake bite, menstrual disorder, menstrual pain, leukorrhea, knocks and falls, wind-damp impediment pain, pain in lumbus and leg, tinea capitis, mouth sore, eye screen.
Spiral Acacia*
English Name
Acacia spirorbis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Bleeding, sore toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Spirulina major Kuetz.
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls, swollen welling abscess and clove sores, mammary welling abscess, mammary rock, erysipelas, ulcer, scalds, stomachache, pain in joints, swelling pain in throat, lung heat cough.
Sponge Psammaplysilla purpurea
English Name
Psammaplysilla purpurea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Stomach heat blood ejection, lung heat hemoptysis, intestinal wind bleeding, flooding and spotting, bleeding during operation, bleeding due to external injury, toxin swelling of sores, poisonous insect stings, knocks and falls.
Spotted Gum
English Name
Eucalyptus maculata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Intestinal wind bleeding, bleeding from hemorrhoids, blood dysentery, hematuria, hematochezia, blood strangury, flooding and spotting, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, liver fire headache, red eyes with gall, swollen welling abscess and sores.
Spottedleaf Euphorbia
English Name
Euphorbia supina
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Intestinal wind bleeding, bleeding from hemorrhoids, blood strangury, flooding and spotting, blood dysentery, blood heat, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, liver fire and red eyes, dizziness and dim vision.
Spread Gentian
English Name
Gentiana leptoclada
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, close sores and engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, blood dysentery, hemorrhoids, lai, scalds, knife wound, poisonous snake bite.
Spreading Creosote-bush
English Name
Larrea divaricata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, disinhibit damp and abate jaundice, dissipate stasis and strengthen sinews.
Potential Indication
Gum hemorrhage, anemia, hepatitis, rheumatic arthritis, knocks and falls, urinary tract infection.
Spreading Dogbane
English Name
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, dispel stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Spontaneous external bleeding, blood ejection, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, bleeding due to external injury, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Spreading Rabdosia*
English Name
Isodon effusa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, dispel stasis and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Flooding and spotting with vaginal discharge, blood ejection, dysentery, stasis pain from knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
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