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Shortfluff Consolida*
English Name
Consolida pubescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and settle fright, move qi and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Warm heat disease with fever, common cold with fever, infant ardent fever convulsion, abdominal distention and pain, hemorrhoids.
Shortfluff Dutchmanspipe*
English Name
Aristolochia pubescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Intestinal wind bleeding, bleeding from hemorrhoids.
Shortfluff Euphorbia*
English Name
Euphorbia pubescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and toxic materials, promote diuresis. For heat-syndrome, intense heat-syndrome and dampness-heat syndrome. Recently, for preventing and treating encephalitis B, epidemic ho\emorrhagic fever, viral hepatitis, eyedrops for epidemic conjunctivitis and viral keratitis, local application for herpes zoster. Also for furuncle, snake bite, stranguria with turbid urine, etc.
Potential Indication
NA
Shortfluff Holarrhena*
English Name
Holarrhena pubescens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp, disperse accumulation and relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Food accumulation, stomachache, abdomin al pain.
Shorthairy Antenoron
English Name
Antenoron neofiliforme
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp, engender flesh and stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, chronic diarrhea, white turbidity, vaginal discharge, flooding and spotting, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, sore toxin, incised wound.
Shortleaf Agave
English Name
Agave cantala
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Abdominal pain and diarrhea, dysentery, common cold with cough, summerheat stroke, skin heat papules, red eyes with gall, swelling toxin of sore and boil, poisonous snake bite, burns and scalds.
Shortleaf Anabasis
English Name
Anabasis brevifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp, resolve toxin and disperse swelling.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat diarrhea, common cold with cough, wind papules, sore and boil, red eyes with gall.
Shortleaf Crotalaria*
English Name
Crotalaria brevifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Edema, heat impediment, toxin swelling of sores, scab and lichen, beriberi, foot rot.
Shortleaf Gentian*
English Name
Gentiana brachyphylla
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat and transform damp.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, dysentery, strangury-turbidity, retching counterflow, swollen welling abscess, sore and lichen, knocks and falls, poisonous snake bite.
Shortleaf Wormwood*
English Name
Artemisia brevifolia
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat toxin, disperse swollen welling abscess.
Potential Indication
Influenza, infection of upper respiratory tract, tonsillitis, infective hepatitis, enteritis, dysentery, nephritis, parotitis, conjunctivitis, acute appendicitis, clove sore and swollen welling abscess, scrofula.
Shortspike Pepper*
English Name
Piper brachystachyum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, allay thirst.
Potential Indication
Heat vexation, diabetes mellitus.
Shortspine Pricklyash*
English Name
Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, brighten eyes, eliminate screens.
Potential Indication
Red eyes and profuse eye discharge, ingrown eyelash, eye screen, galloping gan of teeth and gum.
Shortstalk Bushclover
English Name
Lespedeza cyrtobotrya
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, calm liver, calm asthma, free network vessels, lower blood pressure.
Potential Indication
Ardent fever and manic agitation, fright wind and convulsion, wind-heat headache, red eyes, wind stroke with hemiplegia, chronic bronchitis, asthma, bronchial asthma, hypertension, throat impediment, pain in joints, gum hemorrhage, urinary stoppage, scrofula, epidemic parotitis, sore.
Shorttooth Milkvetch*
English Name
Astragalus canadensis var. brevidens
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, dissipate stasis.
Potential Indication
Wind due to blood heat, itchy body, wind papules, limp aching numbness in limbs, swelling pain in throat.
Showy Mountainsah
English Name
Sorbus decora
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, quiet heart.
Potential Indication
Epilepsy, bleeding from hemorrhoids, hard swelling.
Shrub Thoroughwax (Shrubby Hare’s-ear)
English Name
Bupleurum fruticosum
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, resolve toxin, disinhibit damp.
Potential Indication
Common cold, pertussis, tonsillitis, pharyngolaryngitis, conjunctivitis, jaundice, nephritis with edema, menstrual disorder, vaginal discharge, sore and boil, eczema, snake or insect bites.
Shrubby Ajania
English Name
Ajania fruticulosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Measles papules, non-eruption of measles, postpartum blood dizziness, vaginal discharge, swelling toxin of sore and scab.
Shrubby Asparagus*
English Name
Asparagus dumosus
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Summer common cold, tuberculosis tidal fever, hemoptysis, child gan fever, spontaneous external bleeding, hematochezia, flooding and spotting, vaginal discharge, icterohepatitis, erysipelas, poisonous snake bite.
Shrubby Clover*
English Name
Trifolium fruticosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, cool blood, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Warm disease ardent fever, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, macular eruption, swelling pain in throat, swollen boil, innominate toxin swelling, bee sting, insect bites.
Shrubby Crinum*`bush’ or `march lily’
English Name
Crinum macowanii
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, disperse edema, relieve pain.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat edema, intestinal welling abscess, swelling toxin of welling abscess and sore.
Shrubby Devilpepper*
English Name
Rauwolfia fruticosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Common cold, influenza, cough with profuse phlegm, swelling pain in throat, toothache, jaundice, heat strangury, edema, dysentery, enteritis, bleeding due to external injury.
Shrubby Holly*
English Name
Ilex dumosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Common cold, influenza, cough with profuse phlegm, swelling pain in throat, toothache, jaundice, heat strangury, edema, dysentery, enteritis, bleeding due to external injury.
Shrubby Milkwort*
English Name
Polygala fruticosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin, stanch bleeding.
Potential Indication
Diarrhea, dysentery, hemoptysis, blood ejection, flooding, incised wound and bleeding, sore toxin, eczema.
Shrubby Otostegia*
English Name
Otostegia fruticosa
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Damp-heat dysentery, strangury syndrome, mammary welling abscess, swollen boil.
Siam Rosewood
English Name
Dalbergia cochinchinensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Jaundice, dysentery, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, clove sore, scab sore.
Siamense Common Jasminorange
English Name
Murraya siamensis
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Wind-heat common cold, summerheat stroke, pulmonary welling abscess, nipple moth, scrofula, mammary welling abscess, swollen boil, strangury syndrome, jaundice, lumbago, emission.
Siamese Senna
English Name
Cassia siamea
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit damp, transform phlegm and resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, heat strangury, stone strangury, edema, phlegm cough, red eyes with gall, poisonous snake bite.
Siberian Adonis
English Name
Adonis sibirica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit throat, engender liquid, resolve toxin.
Potential Indication
Swelling pain in throat, cough, vexation and thirst, poisoning of fish or crab.
Siberian Corydalis
English Name
Corydalis sibirica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit urine, relieve cough.
Potential Indication
Blood strangury, urethral stone, chyluria, inhibited urination.
Siberian Fir
English Name
Abies sibirica
Latin Name
NA
Plant Part
Traditional Use
To clear heat, disinhibit urine, resolve toxin, break accumulation and kill worms.
Potential Indication
Pertussis, rheumatic arthritis, leprosy, bronchial asthma, amebic dysentery, pneumonia, epidemic parotitis, edema, scrofula, toxin swelling of sores, swelling and pus of sores, knocks and falls.
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