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Snake bile
English Name
Fel Serpentis Liquidum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, lubricate intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Phlegm-heat cough, lung vacuity dry cough, intestinal dry and constipation, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Snake Muscle
English Name
Musculus Bungari
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, relieve headache, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough of phlegm asthma, bronchitis, headache, yellow-water sore, eczema.
Snake Slough
English Name
Periostracum Serpentis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and transform phlegm, stanch bleeding and dissipate stasis, clear heat and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Cough, blood ejection, hepatitis, dysentery, odynuria, vaginal discharge, scrofula, knife wound, fracture.
Snakegourd peel
English Name
Pericarpium Trichosanthis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung heat, relieve cough and asthma.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, lung heat cough, asthma.
Snakegourd Seed
English Name
Semen Trichosanthis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung, clear liver, calm asthma, disinhibit urine, free stool, resolve toxin and disperse swelling, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, hypertension, headache and red eyes, dribbling urination, constipation, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore, snake or insect bites.
Snaw Gentian
English Name
Gentiana nivalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung, cool blood, resolve toxin, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Lung heat dry cough, scurvy, infection of urinary system, painful swelling from clove sore, itchy skin.
Sneezeweed
English Name
Helenium autumnale
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung, cool blood, transform damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, hemoptysis, nosebleed(epistaxis), flooding and spotting, vaginal discharge, dysentery, red and white turbidity, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Snowdrop
English Name
Galanthus nivalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung, relieve cough and transform phlegm.
Potential Indication
Cough and asthma, abundant and sticky phlegm.
Snowwhite Sunflower*
English Name
Helianthus niveus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung, transform phlegm, dissipate binds.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, sticky phlegm and oppression in chest, consumption cough and hemoptysis, scrofula, swollen welling abscess.
Soapbark Tree
English Name
Quillaja saponaria
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summer-heat and eliminate dampness from the upper-jiao, invigorate the spleen and strengthen the stomach: For summer heat-dampness syndrome with feeling of oppression in the chest, dysuria and diarrhea, vomiting, diarrhea and dysentery of dampness-heat type, leucorrhagia, especially suitable for those with dampness-heat in the spleen.
Potential Indication
NA
Sodium Sulfate
English Name
Natrii Sulfas
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat and eliminate damp, dispel stasis and stanch bleeding, quiet fetus.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-damp diarrhea, blood dysentery, flooding and spotting, stirring fetus in pregnancy.
Sodome Nightshade*
English Name
Solanum sodomeum [Syn. Solanum sodomaeum ]
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat and resolve toxin, disinhibit water and disperse edema, expel worms.
Potential Indication
Edema, stream toxin, inhibited urination, ascariasis, hasten delivery.
Soft Argyreia*
English Name
Argyreia mollis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat and resolve toxin, dissipate stasis and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Fever due to summerheat damage, swollen welling abscess, fracture, poisonous insect stings.
Soft Comfrey
English Name
Symphytum orientale
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat and resolve toxin, quicken blood and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Toxin swelling of sores, knocks and falls.
Soft Hawksbeard
English Name
Crepis mollis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat and transform damp, fortify stomach and harmonize center.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-damp and oppression in chest, distended head and headache, dysentery, malaria, strangury syndrome, vaginal discharge, mouth sore, bad breath, sores, damp sore, scab and lichen, scrofula.
Soft Persimmon*
English Name
Diospyros mollis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat heat, eliminate vexation and allay thirst, boost qi and fortify spleen, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Spleen vacuity diarrhea, summerheat-heat vexation and thirst, diabetes mellitus, dysentery, drunkenness.
Softcoral Lemnalia bournei
English Name
Lemnalia bournei
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat heat, stanch bleeding, resolve sore toxin.
Potential Indication
Summerheat damage, generalized fever and aversion to cold.
Somniferous Withania
English Name
Withania somnifera
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat, brighten eyes, eliminate vexation.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-heat and cholera, heat vexation, blurred vision.
Soncoya
English Name
Annona purpurea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat, engender liquid, resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-heat thirst, swelling pain in throat, oral ulcer, vomiting and dysentery, strangury syndrome, innominate toxin swelling, sore and papules.
South Asia Michelia
English Name
Michelia doltsopa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear summerheat, repel foulness, transform damp.
Potential Indication
Summerheat damage, fever and headache, damp evil brew, inappetence due to glomus in stomach duct, bitter taste and slimy tongue fur.
South China Evodia
English Name
Evodia austrosinensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity fire, boost qi, engender liquid, promote lactation.
Potential Indication
Upflaming vacuity fire, throat pain, qi and yin vacuity, fatigued spirit and amnesia, vacuity vexation and thirst, dizziness and insomnia, postpartum vacuity weakness, scant breast milk.
South Houndstongue*
English Name
Cynoglossum australe
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity heat, boost liver and kidney, dispel wind-damp.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity taxation fever, cough and hemoptysis, dizzy head and vision, limp aching lumbus and knees, wind-damp impediment pain, white patch wind.
South-Africa Tufted Everlasting*
English Name
Helichrysum caespititium
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity heat, cool blood.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity tuberculosis, steaming bone tidalfever, night sweating, child gan fever, enduring malaria.
South-African Eriosema*
English Name
Eriosema kraussianum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity heat, dry damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis and hemoptysis, steaming bone tidal fever, dizziness and tinnitus, limp aching lumbus and knees, damp-heat jaundice, vaginal discharge, dysentery, wind-heat common cold, red eyes with gall, swollen welling abscess and sores.
South-India Andrographis*
English Name
Andrographis viscosula
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity heat, eliminate gan fever.
Potential Indication
Yin vacuity fever, steaming bone taxation fever, child gan fever.
South-India Sago Seed*
English Name
Cycas beddomei
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear vacuity heat, supplement kidney, dry damp.
Potential Indication
Steaming bone tidal fever, limp aching lumbus and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, damp-heat diarrhea, vaginal discharge, strangury-turbidity.
South-Japan Threewingnut*
English Name
Tripterygium doianum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clearheat and dry damp, promote astriction, brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Heat dysentery, diarrhea, chronic bronchitis, rheumatic arthritis, red and white vaginal discharge, red eyes with gall, eye screen.
Southern Catalpa
English Name
Catalpa bignonioides
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To close sores, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Southern Marigold
English Name
Tagetes minuta
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To constrain blood, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Toothache, hemorrhoids, hematochezia.
Southern Red-cedar
English Name
Juniperus silicicola
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To constrain lung and astringe intestines, downbear fire and disinhibit throat.
Potential Indication
Chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hematochezia, prolapse of rectum, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, incessant cough, aphonia due to throat pain.
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