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Acanthus, Bears Breech

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Acanthus, Bears Breech Acantha, Brank Ursine, Bearfoot Ortus Sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501 Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Kreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 Botanical name: Acanthus mollis Parts used: Root and Leaves (leaf only externally) Temperature & Taste: Temperate Uses: 1. Nourishes the Yin, Clears Heat:-Consumption, Spitting of Blood-Wasting-a mild diuretic that can be…

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Bombyx Faeces, Silkworm Feces, Can Sha

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Bombyx Faeces, Silkworm Feces, Can Sha 蚕沙 Can Sha (TCM) Silkworm, Silkworm Cocoon, SilkInsectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum, 1634 Entomological name: Bombyx mori Parts used: Feces Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Sweet, Pungent Uses: 1. Clears Wind, Transforms Damp:-painful obstruction of the muscles or joints from Wind-Damp-Wind-Damp damp and itchy rashes from Wind-Damp; Pruritus, Eczema-Convulsions,…

Camphor for Fever

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Introduction Camphor has been used in all medical systems for many centuries. It has particularly been used in many formulas against Infection, Epidemics, Fever and Toxin. Its widespread dissemination throughout the ancient world is seen in the similarity of its names: karpura in Sanskrit, ga bur in Tibetan, kafur in Arabic, camphora in Latin, which…

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Clove 6 (Li shi drug pa) (Tibetan Medicine)

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Li shi drug pa ལི་ཤི་དྲུག་པ།Clove 6 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Herb Name Li Si (Clove)Cu Gan (Tabasheer)Spang Rgyan Dkar Po Ru Rta (Costus)A Ru (Chebulic Myrobalan)Shing mngar (Licorice) Latin Eugenia caryophyllusBambusae silicaeGentiana algidaSaussurea lappaTerminalia chebulaGlycyrrhiza glabra Amount * 50 grams200 grams200 grams100 grams300 grams100 grams 25 grams12 1⁄2 grams10 grams 5 grams ea.1 gram…

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Pedicularis, Lug Ru PRO

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Pedicularis, Lug ru, ལུག་རུ Lug ru dkar po  ལུག་རུ་དཀར་པོ  Lug ru dmar po  ལུག་རུ་དམར་པོ   Lug ru smug po  ལུག་རུ་སྨུག་པོLug ru ser po  ལུག་རུསེར་པོ  Pedicularis siphonanthaK.R. Kirtikar, B.D. Basu, Indian medicinal plants (1918) Pedicularis megalanthaCurtis’s Botanical Magazine (1890) Pedicularis longiflora(Photo by Krokus) (Wikimedia) Pedicularis punctata(Photo by Vinayaraj) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Pedicularis spp. White: Lug ru dkar po:…

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Great Yellow Compound (Sman ser chen mo)

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Sman ser chen mo  སྨན་སེར་ཆེན་མོ་Great Yellow Compound Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Tsan dkar (White Sandal)Gi wan (Bezoar)Cu gang (Tabasheer)Kha gur (Saffron) **Brag zhun (Shilajit) Sman chen (Black Aconite)Bong dkar (White Aconite)Gla rtsi (Musk)Gu gul (Bdellium) Stag sha nag‘Dzin pa (Aconite) ***Spru nagThar nu (Spurge prepared) **** Latin Santalum albumCalculus…

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Cuscuta semen, Dodder, Tu Si Zi PRO

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Cuscuta Semen, Dodder seed, Tu Si Zi 菟丝子 Tu Si Zi (TCM)Kasoos (Unani)Sbrul zhags སྦྲུལ་ཞགས (Tibet) Left: Dodder, Cuscuta ; Right: Dodder of Thyme, EpithymumKreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 E. europeaBritish Phaenogamous Botany, Baxter, 1834 C. vulgaris (syn. C. epilinum)Flora von Deutschland (16), Kohler, 1884 Botanical name: Cuscuta spp.European is supplied by C. europea, C. epithymum (syn….

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Zheng Tian Wan TCM patent for Headache

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Zheng Tian Wan A TCM patent remedy for Headacheby Adam Tate, 2019 Zheng Tian Wan is a TCM patent medicine for Headache. It is an OTC (over-the-counter) medicine available from various manufacturers as a general first-line remedy for Headaches and Migraine. Some patent medicines develop a reputation for being effective for a particular disease without…

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Litsea, Medasaka

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Litsea, Medasaka Indian Laurel, Gluey LitseaMaidah Lakri (Unani)Vardbari (Arabic)Medasaka (Ayurveda)Chan Gao Mu Jiang Zi (TCM) Litsea glutinosaFlora de Filipinas, 1880 Botanical name: Litsea glutinosa (syn. Neolitsea chinensis, Sebifera glutinosa, L. sebifera, L. chinensis) Parts used: BarkIn China, the Bark and/or Leaf have been used synonymously Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent, BitterAvicenna said Warm and…

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Cynomorium, Suo Yang PRO

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Cynomorium, Suo Yang, 锁阳 Scarlet Mushroom, Maltese MushroomSuo Yang (TCM)Tarthuth, Tarathith (Unani) Cynomorium coccineumKerner von Marilaun, Hansen, & Pflanzenleben: Erster Band: Der Bau und die Eigenschaften der Pflanzen (1887-1891) Cynomorium coccineum(Photo by gailhampshire) (Wikimedia) Whole Suo Yang root (Adam, 2017) Botanical name: Cynomorium spp. C. songaricum (syn. Cynomorium coccineum var. songaricum) C. coccineum (Maltese Mushroom)…

Bistort & Tormentil

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Bistort & Tormentil Bistort is Cold, dry, Bitter and Astringent. It clears Heat and stops Leakage in Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colitis and Internal Ulcers. It clears Heat and resists Poison in infectious and spotted Fevers, as well as Venereal Diseases and Poisonous Bites. It also cools the Blood to stop Bleeding of the Stomach, Lungs or…

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Dioscorea nipponica, Chuan Shan Long PRO

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Dioscorea nipponica, Chuan Shan Long 穿山龙 Nippon Yam, Japanese Dioscorea, Japanese YamChuan Shan Long (TCM) Botanical name: Dioscorea nipponica, D. nipponica var. rosthornii Parts used: Rhizome Temperature & Taste: Neutral. Bitter. Slightly Toxic Classification: D. Clear Wind and Damp Uses: 1. Clears Wind-Damp, Relieve Pain:-Wind-Damp joint disease, especially with numbness-Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis-pain and numbness…

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