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Wrightia tinctoria, Shveta kutaja PRO

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Wrightia tinctoria Dyer’s Oleander, Blue Dying Roseberry, Pala Indigo plant, Sweet Inderajo/IndrajaoShveta kutaja, Indrayava (seed) (Ayurveda)Nila Palai (Siddha)Lisan al-Asafeer (Arabic)Inderjao Shireen (seed) (Unani) Wrightia tinctoriaEdward’s Botanical Register, vol. 11 (1825) Wrightia tinctoria(Photo by Vinayaraj) (Wikimedia) Wrightia tinctoria seed(Photo by Vinayaraj) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Wrightia tinctoria (syn. Nerium tinctorium)Also reportedly used include W. tomentosa, W. rothii,…

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Aloeswood 8 (Tibetan Medicine)

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A gar brgyad pa ཨ་གར་བརྒྱད་པ།Ba Wei Chen Xiang San (TCM)Aloeswood 8 Tradition: Tibetan Medicine Source / Author: Herb Name A ga ru (Aloeswood)Snying zho shaCu gang (Tabasheer)Spos dkar (Frankincense)Ru rta (Costus)Dza ti (Nutmeg)A ru ra (Chebula)Na ga ge sar (Silk Cotton tree) Latin Aquillaria agallochaChoerospondias axilliarisBambusae silicaeBoswellia sacraSaussurea lappaMyristica fragransTerminalia chebulaSalmalia malabarica Amount * 100…

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Great Cold Compound Precious Black Pill

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Rin chen ril nag chen mo   རིན་ཆེན་རིལ་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་Or Rin chen grang sbyor ril nag chen mo  རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་རིལ་ནག་ཆེན་མོ་Or, Rin chen grang sbyor  རིན་ཆེན་གྲང་སྦྱོར་Rin chen drangjor rilnak chenmo Great Cold Compound Precious Black Pill Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Written by Nagarjuna, introduced into Tibet by O rgyan pa Rinchen dpal (1229–1309)The following version is taken from…

Magnolia champaca, Champaka

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Magnolia champaca, Champaka Golden ChampaChampaka (Ayurveda)Sampagi (Siddha) Magnolia champaca(Blanco, Flora de Filipinas, 1875) Magnolia champaca flower(Photo by 阿橋) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Magnolia champaca (syn. Michelia champaca) Parts used: Flowers, Bark Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Pungent, Bitter, Astringent Uses: BARK:1. Clears Wind-Heat: -Fever (bark decoction) 2. Promotes Menstruation: -Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea-contraceptive (stem bark powder taken orally…

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Su He Xiang Wan

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Su He Xiang Wan 苏合香丸 Storax Pill Tradition: TCM Source / Author: Imperial Grace Formulary of the Tai Ping Era, 752 (Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Ju Fang) Herb Name Su He Xiang (Storax)She Xiang (Musk) *Bing Pian (Borneol)An Xi Xiang (Benzoin)Mu Xiang (Costus) Tan Xiang (Sandalwood)Chen Xiang (Aloeswood)Ru Xiang (Frankincense)Ding Xiang (Clove)Xiang Fu…

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Morus Fructus, Mulberry, Sang Shen PRO

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Morus Fructus, Mulberry, Sang Shen 桑椹 Sang Shen (TCM)Dar shing དར་ཤིང་ (Tibet) Botanische wandplaten (Plantillustrations) M. albaWeinmann, J.W., Phytanthoza iconographia (1737-1745) Dried Mulberry used in TCM Botanical name: Morus alba (fruit of M. rubra is used similarly)Li Shi Zhen noted there was 2 main varieties: White and Black.The black variety is used in the West….

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Decoction to Strengthen the Head (Wirtzung)

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Decoction to Strengthen the Head Tradition: Western Source / Author: Wirtzung Herb Name SagePeony seedAniseedLicorice Latin Salvia officinalis Paeonia officinalis Pimpinella anisum Glycyrrhiza glabra Amount 3 handfuls 1 oz.1⁄2 oz.6 drams Preparation: Decoct in Wine; it may be sweetened if desired Function: Regulates Qi, benefits the Brain and Nerves Use: Used to strengthen the Head…

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Syrup to Purge all Humors of Frankfurt

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Syrupus Hologagus FrankfurtiiSyrup to Purge all Humors of Frankfurt Tradition: Western Source / Author: Herb Name PolypodyFresh Caper root-barkHart’s TongueCeterachBalmBetonyMaidenhair, White (Wall Rue)Borage flowerBugloss flowerViolet flowerDodder of ThymeCitron seedFennel seedAniseedSafflower seedSennaBlack Hellebore, preparedColchicumAgaricDodder of ThymeGingerCloveMusk Latin Polypodium vulgareCapparis spinosaAsplenium scolopendriumAsplenium ceterachMelissa officinalisBetonica officinalisAsplenium ruta murariaBorago officinalis Anchusa officinalisViola odorataCuscuta europeaCitrus medicaFoeniculum vulgarePimpinella anisumCarthamus tinctorius Cassia…

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Meliotus, Meliot

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Melilotus, Meliot Sweet Clover, Yellow Sweet Clover, King’s Clover, Wild Clover, Hay Flowers, Sweet LucerneIklil-ul-Malik, Nakhuna (Unani)Rgya spos  རྒྱ་སྤོས་ (Tibet) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Koehler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 M. officinalis and M. leucanthaFlorigraphia Britannica, Deakin, 1857 Botanical name: Melilotus spp. M. officinalis (syn. Trifolium melilotus)-Official species M. leucantha M. altissima (Tall Meliot) Melilotus suaveolens (used…

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Expert Pills for Cough

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Expert Pills for Cough Tradition: Western, Unani Source / Author: De morbis internis curandis, Mesue, 1551 Herb Name StoraxMyrrhOpium Latin Styrax officinalis Commiphora molmol Opium Amount equal parts Preparation: Powder and form small pills (size of mung beans) with Honey Function: Stops Cough Use: Cough, especially irritable, spasmodic, relentless and chronic Cough Dose: to be…

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Malva, Mallow, Dong Kui Zi FREE

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Malva Semen, Mallow seed Tukhm e Khubbazi (M. sylvestris, Unani) Malva Moschata, Musk Mallow, Dong Kui Zi 冬葵子 Dong Kui Zi (TCM)Lcam pa  ལྕམ་པ  (Tibetan) Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485 New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Malva sylvestrisKoehler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 Left: Musk Mallow   Right: Low MallowFlora von Deutschland (21), Kohler, 1885 Musk Mallow Seed (Dong Kui…

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