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Sikkim Mahonia
English Name
Mahonia sikkimensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, draw out toxin, engender flesh.
Potential Indication
Heat toxin sore and welling abscess, enduring sores, wound, burns and scalds.
Sikkim Microula
English Name
Microula sikkimensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, dry damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat diarrhea dysentery, jaundice, lung heat cough, red eyes with gall, swelling welling abscess and sore and boil, exudative dermatitis
Siko Milkvetch*
English Name
Astragalus shikokianus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, dry damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, diarrhea, jaundice (icterus, ICT), red eyes with gall, burns and scalds.
Siko Stringbush*
English Name
Wikstroemia sikokiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, dry damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, red eyes with gall, sores, eczema, scalds.
Siliculose Onychium
English Name
Onychium siliculosum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, eliminate damp, soothe sinews and quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Jaundice, edema, chyluria, dysentery, diarrhea, knocks and falls, innominate toxin swelling, mastitis.
Silk Mulberry*
English Name
Morus bombycis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, engender liquid, disinhibit urine, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat cough, sore pharynx, vexation and thirst, stone strangury, oral putrescence, toothache, malaria with splenomegaly, resolve liquor toxin.
Silk-rubber Tree
English Name
Funtumia elastica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, engender liquid, disperse accumulation.
Potential Indication
Vacuity taxation with steaming bone, diabetes mellitus, food accumulation.
Silkworm excrement
English Name
Excrementum Bombycis Mori
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, engender liquid, moisten lung, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Cough, heat vexation and thirst, blood ejection, mouth sore, heat dysentery, hematochezia.
Silkworm excrement
English Name
Excrementum Bombycis Mori
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Malaria.
Silver Maple
English Name
Acer saccharinum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, lower blood pressure, disperse swelling and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, hypertension, abdominal pain.
Silver Ragwort
English Name
Senecio cineraria
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, lower blood pressure, quiet spirit.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, headache and generalized pain, swelling pain in throat, hypertension, dizziness, insomnia, gan accumulation.
Silver sheet
English Name
Silver sheet
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, moisten dryness, cool liver, transform phlegm, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
heat vexation and disquiet, dry throat and phlegm node, dim vision and eye screen, heat strangury, jaundice.
Silver Wattle
English Name
Acacia dealbata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, moisten lung, lubricate intestines, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Febrile diseases with vexation and thirst, lung heat dry cough, constipation, hemorrhoids.
Silveredge Agave
English Name
Agave angustifolia var. marginata
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, moisten lung, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Cough, asthma, tuberculosis, pleuritis, fluid damage and thirst.
Silverleaf Cotoneaster
English Name
Cotoneaster pannosus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, relieve cough, eliminate damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, damp-heat jaundice, diarrhea, wind-damp impediment pain, sore, scrofula.
Silverleaf Morningglory*
English Name
Ipomoea argyrophylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve summerheat, eliminate steam, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Summerheat-heat, summerheat-damp, damp warmth, yin vacuity fever, malaria, jaundice.
Simons Mahonia
English Name
Mahonia simonsii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin and disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat strangury pain, wind-damp-heat impediment, swollen welling abscess, sore and boil, wind papule itching, knocks and falls.
Simple Rostellularia
English Name
Justicia simplex
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, cool blood, quicken blood.
Potential Indication
Measles papules, pneumonia, febrile diseases macular eruption, ulcerating sores, eczema, scalds.
Simplex Rice-flower*
English Name
Pimelea simplex
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, cool blood, settle fright.
Potential Indication
Headache due to febrile disease, ardent fever with clouded spirit, macular eruption and papules, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, stasis heat yellowing, infant fright wind, swelling pain in throat, mouth and tongue sores.
Singleleaf Acronychia*
English Name
Acronychia haplophylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, disinhibit damp, disperse accumulation.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, heat strangury, cough and asthma, wind-damp impediment pain, clove sore and swollen boil, poisonous snake bite, child gan accumulation, carcinoma of uterine cervix, carcinoma of esophagus, carcinoma of lung, carcinoma of liver, carcinoma of stomach, squamous carcinoma of skin.
Sinkiang Poplar*
English Name
Populus alba var. pyramdalis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, dribbling pain of urination, pruritus of vulva, swelling toxin malign sore, knocks and falls, bleeding knife wound.
Siphonostegia
English Name
Herba Artemisiae Anomalae
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Dysentery, diarrhea, jaundice, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Sitka Spruce
English Name
Picea sitchensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, dispel damp, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Phlegmon, suppurative tympanitis, goose-mouth sore, eczema, knocks and falls, bleeding due to external injury.
Skunk Cabbage
English Name
Lysichitum americanum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, dispel wind.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, wind-damp bone pain, throat pain, red eyes with gall, sore and boil, poisonous snake bites.
Slamm Black Poplar
English Name
Populus xiaohei
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, dissipate binds, disinhibit urine.
Potential Indication
Mammary welling abscess, edema, scrofula, tetrodon poisoning.
Sleeping Lotusleaftung
English Name
Hernandia nymphaeifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, eliminate steam.
Potential Indication
Scourge epidemic with fever,steaming bone taxation fever.
Slender Maesa
English Name
Maesa tenera
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, resolve toxin, raise spirit, allay thirst.
Potential Indication
NA
Slender Periwinkle*
English Name
Catharanthus pusillus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, supplement vacuity, resolve toxin, lower blood sugar levels, protect hepatic function.
Potential Indication
Vacuity and hypodynamia, septicemia, hyperlipemia, viral hepatitis, chronic gastroenteritis, chronic trachitis.
Slender-leaf Crotalaria
English Name
Crotalaria intermedia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, transform phlegm, resolve toxin, kill worms, break stasis, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Nipple moth, throat impediment, acute fright wind, chronic fright wind, toothache, swelling toxin of clove sore, hemorrhoids and fistulas, Itchy papules, poisonous snake bite, worm accumulation, blood conglomeration, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, blood strangury, bleeding due to external injury.
Slenderstalk Litse*
English Name
Litsea gracilipes
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear intestines and dry damp, settle pain.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, enteritis and diarrhea, jaundice, eczema, sore pharynx, toothache, intractable lichen, scalds.
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