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Slimy Rabdosia
English Name
Isodon glutinosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, disinhibit gallbladder and free intestines, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat red eye, jaundice, cough with profuse phlegm, infant fright wind, swollen welling abscess, constipation, hemorrhoids.
Slimy Tobacco*
English Name
Nicotiana glutinosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, disinhibit water and free stool.
Potential Indication
Red eyes with gall, delacrimation and photophobia, clear-eye blindness, night blindness, dizziness and headache, dim vision, cirrhosis with ascites, inhibited urination, habitual constipation, toxin swelling, skin lichen.
Slimysheathed Waxy Cap
English Name
Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, free stool.
Potential Indication
Common cold with fever, liver heat and red eyes, eye screen, constipation.
Sloughy Litse*
English Name
Litsea turfosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, moisten intestines and free stool.
Potential Indication
Headache due to externally contracted wind-heat, conjunctivitis, hypertension, chronic constipation.
Small Beefwood*
English Name
Casuarina stricta
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Eye screen, gan accumulation, bad breath, swelling of sores.
Small Burnet*
English Name
Sanguisorba minor
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes, resolve toxin and eliminate damp, interrupt malaria.
Potential Indication
Eye screen, red eyes, jaundice, swollen welling abscess, rheumatic arthritis, malaria.
Small Gorse*
English Name
Ulex minor
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Eye pain and tearing, red eyes with gall.
Small Ochotsk Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis ochotensis var. raddeana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Eye pain, eye swelling, red eyes and tearing.
Small Rattle-box
English Name
Crotalaria nana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and brighten eyes.
Potential Indication
Headache due to externally contracted wind-heat, liver fire and red eyes, clouded flowery vision.
Small Ungernia*
English Name
Ungernia minor
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and disinhibit gallbladder, abate jaundice, disinhibit water and disperse edema.
Potential Indication
Acute icterohepatitis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, edema.
Small-grand Concave-top Alga*
English Name
Laurencia glandulifera
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and disinhibit gallbladder, clear heat and resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Acute icterohepatitis, cholecystitis, wind-heat common cold, wind-fire toothache, swelling pain in throat, indigestion, acute bacillary dysentery, infection of urinary system, tinnitus and deafness, burns and scalds.
Small-leaf Elaeocarpus*
English Name
Elaeocarpus parvifolius
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver and relieve constipation.
Potential Indication
Constipation, child gan accumulation, ascariasis, fright wind, lichen.
Small-leaf Knema
English Name
Knema globularia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver fire, resolve heat toxin.
Potential Indication
Dizziness and dim vision, acute conjunctivitis, oral gan , tooth decay, innominate toxin swelling, burns and scalds.
Small-leaf Meadowrue
English Name
Thalictrum elegans
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver, brighten eyes, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Red eyes with gall, eye screen, hepatitis, toothache.
Small-leaf Raspberry
English Name
Rubus taiwanicolus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear liver, fortify stomach, free stool, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Red eyes with gall, dizzy and distended head, indigestion, stomachache, dysentery, constipation, swollen welling abscess and toxin of clove.
Small-leaf Tansy*
English Name
Tanacetum microphyllum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and boost qi.
Potential Indication
Tuberculosis with cough, hemoptysis, pneumonia, b ronchitis.
Small-leaved Box
English Name
Buxus microphylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and calm liver.
Potential Indication
Gan of nose, hypertension.
Smaller Concave-top Alga*
English Name
Laurencia majuscula
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and disinhibit throat, course liver and harmonize stomach.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough, throat impediment, aphonia, liver stomach qi pain.
Smallflower Beggarticks
English Name
Bidens parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and disinhibit throat, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Cough, aphonia, nosebleed(epistaxis), bleeding due to external injury.
Smallflower Bruguiera Fruit*
English Name
Bruguiera parviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear lung and downbear qi, relieve cough and calm asthma, clear and discharge large intestines.
Potential Indication
Lung heat cough asthma, phlegm congestion and hasty qi , lung vacuity enduring cough, intestinal heat bleeding from hemorrhoids, swelling pain from hemorrhoids, edema.
Shining Milkwort*
English Name
Polygala nitida
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Sore toxin, red eyes with gall, malign sore.
Shining Rosewood*
English Name
Dalbergia nitidula
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, common cold, cough, swelling welling abscess and sore and boil, burns and scalds.
Shinyleaf Pricklyash Root
English Name
Radix Zanthoxyli
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, dysentery, poisonous snake bites.
Shkioki Angelica*
English Name
Angelica shkiokiana
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, urinary tract infection, medullitis, clove sore.
Shore Juniper
English Name
Juniperus conferta
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of sore and boil.
Short-stipe Agrostophyllum*
English Name
Agrostophyllum brevipes
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Short-stipe Liriope*
English Name
Liriope muscari
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Shortbractleaf Galingale*
English Name
Cyperus brevibracteatus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swollen pain of sore toxin, dysentery, tuberculosis and hemoptysis.
Shortflower Bottle Gourd*
English Name
Lagenaria breviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
White mouth sore in children, clove sore.
Shortflower Crotalaria*
English Name
Crotalaria breviflora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and settle fright, interrupt malaria, relieve cough and transform phlegm, quicken blood and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Ardent fever with fright wind, malaria, lung heat cough, pertussis, dysentery, toxin swelling of sores, swelling pain in throat, wind-fire toothache, zoster, red eyes with gall, snake or insect bites, rheumatism numbness, knocks and falls, menstrual disorder, bleeding due to external injury.
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