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Orientvine
English Name
Sinomenium acutum
Latin Name
stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache caused by wind-heat toothache, ulcers in themouth, sore throat, measles with inadequate eruption andother eruptive febrile diseases, prolapse of the rectum or the uterus.
Potential Indication
1. Antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. Gastric infusion of its extract (mainly containing ferulic acid) in a dosage of 1.0g/kg can lower the body temperature of normal rats and relieve the pain elicited by acetic acid in mice.2. Inhibiting myocardium, slowing heart rate and lowering heart rate and lowering blood pressure.
Stipefruit Mistletoe
English Name
Viscum multinerve
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of headache, dizziness, fidgetness and insomnia, inflammation of the eye due to heat in the liver, blurred vision in deficiency conditions of the liver.
Potential Indication
1. Its hydrolysate decreases the intestinal tone in vitro and also exerts a transient diuretic effect in rabbits.2. Promote the healing of wound in experimental animals.
Spiderweb Blueeargrass, Pearl Cyanotis*
English Name
Cyanotis arachnoidea [Syn. Cyanotis bodinieri ]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of heat in the blood and blood stasis, liver and gall bladder diseases, dyspepsia, abdominal pain, cough, sore throat, dryness of the mouth.
Potential Indication
NA
Tree Clubmoss
English Name
Lycopodium obscurum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic bleeding.
Potential Indication
1. Inhibiting the growth of various pathogenic bacteria2. Shortening the bleeding time , blood clotting time and plasma recalcification time.
Pseudostapfia Monkshood
English Name
Aconitum pseudostapfianum
Latin Name
tuberoid
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hematochezia, hemorrhoidal bleeding, dysentery with bloody stools, abnormal uterine bleeding, spitting of blood, epistaxis, redness of the eyes, headache and dizziness due to excess fire in the liver.
Potential Indication
1. Its component rutin decreases capillay permeability. 2. Lowering blood pressure transiently in anesthetized dog. 3. Inhibiting the growth of various dermatomyces.
Camphortree Bark
English Name
Cinnamomum camphora
Latin Name
bark
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematochezia, abnormal uterine bleeding, traumatic bleeding, pricking pain in the chest and abdomen, traumatic swelling and pain.
Potential Indication
1. Flavonoid glycoside, one of its components, increases coronary flow, reduces myocardial oxygen consumption and lowers arterial pressure.2.Cardiotonic on frogs' hearts in vitro; low concentration of its extract exerts a vasoconstrictive effect on the vessels of frogs' leg and high concentration, vasodilative3. Its liquid extract shortens clotting time and exerts hemostatic effect in rabbit.
Densevein Schefflera
English Name
Schefflera venulosa
Latin Name
stem cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hemoptysis, hematemesis, traumatic bleeding and pain.
Potential Indication
NA
Elder* Equivalent plant: Sambucus nigra
English Name
Sambucus williamsii
Latin Name
stem-branch
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of hiccup, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhea and epigastric and abdominal pain with cold sensation in deficiencycold syndromes of the spleen and stomach, impotence due to deficiency of the kidney yang.
Potential Indication
NA
Tail-leaf Monachosorum
English Name
Monachosorum flagellare
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of high fever with convulsion and impairment of consciousness, eclompsia, epilepsy, mamia, headache and dizziness, redness of the eye with corneal opacity, epidemic fibrile diseases with eruption, carbuncle, abscess and sores.
Potential Indication
1. Intraperitoneal injection of its alcoholic extract (0.05mg/g) exerts sedative effect in mice.2. Its alcoholic extract and hydrolsate lower vaccine-induced fever in rabbits.3. Analgesic, anti-convulsive and hypotensive.
Oriental Bittersweet Root
English Name
Celastrus orbiculatus [Syn. Celastrus articulatus ]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of high fever with impaired consciousness, convulsions, arthralgia, numbness of the limbs, hemiplegia, cough and asthma due to heat in the lung, edema ano oliguria, hypertension.
Potential Indication
1. Relaxing bronchial spasm in rats or rabbits.2. Intravenous injection of alcoholic infusion (0.1g/kg) lowers blood pressure in anesthetized dogs.3. Sedative and anticonvulsive.4. Lumbrifebrine, one of its active components, is ab antipyretic.
Shinyleaf Pricklyash
English Name
Zanthoxylum nitidum
Latin Name
root or branchlet-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and asthma with much phlegm, dizziness and palpitation due to retention of phlegm and fluid, vertigo caused by wind-phlegm, headache with cold extremities due to attack of phlegm , stuffiness in the chest and the epigastrium, globus hystericus. Rhizoma Pineliae (processed with ginger) is often used for relieving nausea and vomiting. Rhizoma pinelliae (Proccessed with alum) for removing damp and phlegm. Rhizoma Pinelliae (unproccessed) is used externally for boils, sores and lymphadenitis.
Potential Indication
NA
Glaucesent Diploclisia
English Name
Diploclisia glaucescens
Latin Name
lianoid stem
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and asthma with thin expectoration, palpitation and insomnia.
Potential Indication
NA
Babylon Weeping Willow Root-bast
English Name
Salix babylonica
Latin Name
bark or root cortex
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and dyspnea due to accumulation of phleg , constipation.
Potential Indication
NA
Ainsliaefolious Cacalia
English Name
Cacalia ainsliaeflora
Latin Name
tuber
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and dyspnea due to retained phlegm, epilepsy, mania, restlessness with distress in the chest, convulsions.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Box Juvenile Leaf
English Name
Buxus microphylla var. sinica
Latin Name
tender leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and dyspnea due to retained phlegm, epilepsy, mania, restlessness with distress in the chest, convulsions.
Potential Indication
NA
Ailanthus-like Pricklyash Root
English Name
Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and dyspnea due to retention of sticky phlegm, irritability and oppressed feeling in the chest, epilepsy, mania, convulsions.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Floweringquince
English Name
Chaenomeles lagenaria [Syn. Chaenomeles speciosa]
Latin Name
fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough and expectoration due to heat in the lung, chronic cough, chronic dysentery of diarrhea, night sweating, hematochezia, hemorrhoidal bleeding, traumatic bleeding, abscess, sores and skin lesions with exudation, diabetes.
Potential Indication
1. Astringent, antidiarrheal, haemostatic and antibacterial.2. Acting as a detoxicating agent by combining with various ions of heavy metals, alkaloids or glycosides to form insoluble compounds.
Chinese Morina
English Name
Morina chinensis
Latin Name
whole herb or seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough due to heat and phlegm, restlessness, vomiting, palpitation and insomnia caused by excess fire in the gallbaldder, stroke with impairment of consciousness, stiff tongue vomiting due to heat in the stomach, hyperemesis gravidarum, threatened abortion.
Potential Indication
Inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus albus, Bacillus coli and Bacillus typhi in vitro.
Angulate Mistletoe*
English Name
Viscum angulatum
Latin Name
stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough in colds with retention of phlegm marked by dyspnea, profuse expectoration and feeling of stuffiness in the chest, external use for pyogenic infections of the skin.
Potential Indication
NA
Japanese Eurya
English Name
Eurya japonica
Latin Name
leaf or fruit
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough in common cold: cough with dyspnea copious expectoration due to accumulation of phlegm, belching, nausea and vomiting with stuffiness sensation in the epigastric region.
Potential Indication
1. Its alcoholic extract is a diuretic in experimental rabbits.2. The decoction inhibits the growth Staphylococcus aureus and pneumococcus in vitro.
Masson Pine Leaf Equivalent plant: Pinus armandii
English Name
Pinus massoniana
Latin Name
leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough with much phlegm, sore throat, hoarseness of voice, lung abscess with purulent expectoration, absecess difficult to burst after suppuration.
Potential Indication
1. Small dosage of platycodoside, one of its active components, can increase secretion of respiratory tract and promote expectoration.2. Platycodoside may also serve as a sedative, an analgesic and an antipyretic.3. Its decoction inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus typhoid in vitro.
Longpedicel Holly
English Name
Ilex pedunculosa
Latin Name
leaf, branch-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough with much phlegm, sore throat, hoarseness of voice, lung abscess with purulent expectoration, absecess difficult to burst after suppuration.
Potential Indication
1. Small dosage of platycodoside, one of its active components, can increase secretion of respiratory tract and promote expectoration.2. Platycodoside may also serve as a sedative, an analgesic and an antipyretic.3. Its decoction inhibits the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus typhoid in vitro.
Oriental Ostrich Fern
English Name
Matteuccia orientalis
Latin Name
rhizome or stem-leaf
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough with yellowish sticky expectoration, oppressed feeling in the chest and costal pain.
Potential Indication
NA
China Alyxia
English Name
Alyxia sinensis
Latin Name
whole herb with root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough with yellowish sticky expectoration, stroke, mania, epilepsy.
Potential Indication
NA
Common Jasminorange Root
English Name
Murraya paniculata [Syn. Chalcas paniculata]
Latin Name
root
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough with yellowish sticky expectoration, stroke, mania, epilepsy.
Potential Indication
NA
Paniculed Bittersweet Seed
English Name
Celastrus paniculatus
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough, chest pain and bloody sputum caused by heat in the lung, scrofula, goitre, epigastric pain associated with acid regurgitation, external use for eczema and scalds.
Potential Indication
NA
Tuberculate Speranskia
English Name
Speranskia tuberculata
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough, itching of the throat and profuse expectoration in colds, nausea, vomiting and epigastric distension caused by improper diet or excessive drinking.
Potential Indication
NA
Chinese Dregea
English Name
Dregea sinensis
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of cough, itching of the throat and profuse expectoration in colds, nausea, vomiting and epigastric distension caused by improper diet or excessive drinking.
Potential Indication
NA
Narrowflower Poisonnut
English Name
Strychnos angustiflora
Latin Name
seed
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of deficiency condition of the kidney marked by lumbago and lack of strength, threatened abortion, hypertension.
Potential Indication
1. Hypotensive 2. Promoting phagocytosis of mononuclear phagocytes3. Sedative and diuretic.
Complanate Clubmoss
English Name
Lycopodium complanatum
Latin Name
whole herb
Plant Part
Traditional Use
Treatment of deficiency of both qi and yin characterized by fever and thirst, cough in consumptive diseases, traumatic injuries, joint pain, hemoptysis, hematemesis, traumatic bleeding.
Potential Indication
NA
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