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Spriferida Fossil
English Name
Fossilia Spiriferis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, dispel stasis.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, knocks and falls.
Spring Larkspur
English Name
Delphinium tricorne
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hemoptysis, hematochezia, bleeding from hemorrhoids, red and white dysentery, flooding, blood strangury, vaginal discharge, scalds, knocks and falls.
Spring Snowflake
English Name
Leucojum vernum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, drain heat and free stool, disinhibit urine, kill worms.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hematochezia, profuse menstruation, heat dysentery, red eyes, constipation, urinary stoppage, strangury-turbidity, malign sore, scab and lichen, eczema.
Spruce Rosewood*
English Name
Dalbergia spruceana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and regulate menstruation, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection due to blood heat, hemoptysis, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury, menstrual disorder, dysmenorrhea, galactostasis, wind-heat common cold, malaria, hepatitis, dysentery, diarrhea, poisonous snake bite, scalds, eczema, yellow-water sore.
Spurless Barrenwort*
English Name
Epimedium ecalcaratum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and relieve pain, disinhibit damp and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Lung heat hemoptysis, blood strangury, vaginal discharge, menstrual disorder, vacuity fever in children, knocks and falls, toxin swelling.
Squirting Cucumber
English Name
Ecballium elaterium
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, quicken blood and transform stasis.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to blood heat, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, knocks and falls, impediment pain in joints.
Sri-Lankan Bridelia
English Name
Bridelia retusa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, relieve cough and dispel phlegm, dispel wind-damp, dissipate toxin swelling.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, duodenal bleeding, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, blood dysentery, incessant flooding and spotting, cough with profuse phlegm, wind-damp impediment pain, erysipelas, epidemic parotitis, scalds, burns.
Srilanka Glochidion
English Name
Glochidion zeylanicum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Blood ejection, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, red swollen due to knocks and falls, red swollen sore and welling abscess, poisonous snake bite.
St Brigid
English Name
Anemone coronaria
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis and hemoptysis, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, dysentery, welling abscess, hemorrhoids.
Stachyurus or Japanese Helwingia Pith
English Name
Medulla Stachyuri Medulla Helwingiae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To cool blood and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Bleeding due to external injury, bleeding of digestive tract, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting.
Smallflower Bugle*
English Name
Ajuga parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and engender liquid, disinhibit urine and free milk, resolve liquor toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, pulmonary welling abscess, summerheat stroke with vexation and thirst, diabetes mellitus, scant breast milk, inhibited urination [=dysuria].
Smallflower Hemsleya
English Name
Hemsleya graciliflora [Syn. Alsomitra graciliflora]
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and moisten dryness, quiet spirit and relieve pain, harmonize blood and check dysentery.
Potential Indication
Cough, dry throat, hoarseness, constipation, insomnia, dysmenorrhea, pain in joints, dysentery.
Smallflower Mimosa*
English Name
Mimosa tenuiflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, clear liver and disinhibit gallbladder, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, fever and chest pain, liver-gallbladder damp-heat, pain in rib-side, fever, anorexy for greasy food, jaundice, damp-heat diarrhea.
Smallflower Pawpaw
English Name
Asimina parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, toxin swelling of sores.
Smallflower Saussurea*
English Name
Saussurea parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, tuberculosis and hemoptysis, dysentery, bleeding from hemorrhoids, mammary welling abscess, epidemic parotitis, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, burns and scalds, bald sores, scab and lichen, snake or insect bites.
Smallflower Xylopia*
English Name
Xylopia parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and stanch bleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, pulmonary welling abscess, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, swelling pain in throat, parotitis, dysentery, scrofula, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, damp itchy skin, wind-fire toothache, wind-damp bone pain.
Smallfruit Rue*
English Name
Ruta microcarpa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and stanch bleeding, dissipate stasis and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, flooding and spotting, jaundice, diarrhea, stasis swelling from knocks and falls, bleeding knife wound, fracture.
Smallheartleaved Morningglory
English Name
Ipomoea obscura
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and stanch bleeding, free network vessels and relieve pain, clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Pulmonary welling abscess, coughing of blood, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematuria, blood strangury, wind-damp pain, toothache, dysentery, wind papules, damp itchy skin, swollen boil and malign sore, syphilis.
Smallleaf Fritsch Spiraea*
English Name
Spiraea fritschiana var. parvifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, cool blood and stanch bleeding, resolve toxin and disinhibit throat.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, hemoptysis, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, swelling pain in throat, red eyes and eye screen, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil.
Smallleaf Rabdosia*
English Name
Isodon parvifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, disinhibit damp and free strangury, free network vessels and relieve pain, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, damp-heat strangury pain, wind-damp lumbago, swollen welling abscess and malign sore, sprain from knocks and falls, bee sting, insect bites.
Smallleaf-hirsute Alder*
English Name
Alnus hirsute var. microphylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, disinhibit water and free strangury, disperse welling abscess and promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, dribbling pain of urination, mammary welling abscess with swelling and pain, breast milk stoppage.
Smallligulatecorolla Aster
English Name
Aster albescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, dispel wind-damp.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, wind-damp pain in lumbus and legs, sore and boil.
Smilax scobinicaulis C.H. Wright
English Name
NA
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, downbear counterflow and check vomiting.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, qi counterflow with rapid asthma , stomach heat vomiting, heat vexation and thirst.
Smirch Groundsel*
English Name
Senecio sceleratus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, nourish liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, pertussis, night blindness.
Smirnow Leontice*
English Name
Leontice smirnowii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, swelling pain of sore and boil, cassava poisoning.
Smoke Longan*
English Name
Dimocarpus fumatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and relieve cough, transform phlegm and calm asthma, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Bronchitis, cough and asthma with abundant phlegm, hypertension.
Smooth Butterbur*
English Name
Petasites laevigatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and suppress cough, supplement spleen and engender liquid.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis, cough and asthma, stomachache, hypovitaminosis.
Smooth Gambirplant
English Name
Uncaria laevigata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, disperse welling abscess and expel pus, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-heat cough, pulmonary welling abscess, intestinal welling abscess, white turbidity, vaginal discharge, beriberi, edema, strangury syndrome.
Smooth Mulberry*
English Name
Morus laevigata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, dissipate stasis and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, sore pharynx, painful swelling from knocks and falls, welling abscess, poisonous snake bite.
Snail
English Name
Eulota
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, harmonize center and moisten intestines.
Potential Indication
Hemoptysis, enduring cough, constipation.
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