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Threatened Miscarriage

Threatened Miscarriage Management of Threatened Miscarriage from Charaka:1. Lay the woman with her legs up and her head downwards, and apply a cool cotton pad dipped in Ghee and sprinkled with Licorice powder over her vagina.2. The whole lower body below the navel should be sprinkled with cool milk and decoction of Licorice and Ficus…

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Ren Shen Hu Tao Tang

Ren Shen Hu Tao Tang  人参胡桃汤Ginseng and Walnut Decoction Tradition: TCM Source / Author: Formula to Aid the Living (Ji Sheng Fang) Herb Name Hu Tao (Walnut)Ren Shen (Ginseng)Sheng Jiang (fresh Ginger) Latin Jugulans regiaPanax ginsengZingiber officinalis Amount 5 nuts6 grams5 slices Preparation: Prepare a standard decoction. Function: Strengthens Lungs and Kidneys, Stops Cough and…

Paralysis

Paralysis Palsy Paralysis is a loss of function of a part or the whole body, sometimes with a loss of sensation. It may be a single part such as the hand or tongue, or of half of the body 9such as the left, right or lower body), or of the whole body. Several types were…

Cancer Pancreatic

Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic Cancer is a Cancer of the Pancreatic Tissue. It is often not found until advanced as early Pancreatic Cancer often presents with no symptoms, and by the time symptoms do appear, the Cancer is often advanced and metastasized giving it a poor prognosis. The most common type of Pancreatic Cancer is pancreatic…

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Decoction for the Liver (Nicholas)

Decoction for the Liver Tradition: Western / Unani Source / Author: Nicholas Myrepsus (Medicamentorum Opus Nicolai Myrepsus 1625) Herb Name GentianGreater CardamonWormwoodCostusAgrimonyBitter AlmondsBlack PepperAniseed Latin Gentiana luteaAmomum subulatum Artemisia absinthum Saussurea lappa Agrimonia eupatoria Prunus amygdalus amara Piper nigrumPimpinella anisum Amount 2 drams ea. 1 dram ea. Preparation: Decoction Function: Open Obstruction, Clears Liver Heat…

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Endivae, Endive FREE

Endivae, Endive Also called Intybus Kurtzes Handtbuchlein, Ryff, 1599 Herbarium Blackwellianum, 1757 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Chicorium endiva Parts used: Seed; Leaf; sometimes the Root or whole plant Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. slightly Bitteropens, cleanses Classifications: 2A APERIENT.    2N. REPELLENT3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS4c. CARDIAC.    4e. STOMACHIC.    4f. SPLENETIC.    4h….

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Barberry 8 Powder (Skyer sun brgyad pa) (Tibetan Medicine)

Skyer sun brgyad pa  སྐྱེར་ཤུན་བརྒྱད་པ།Barberry 8 Powder Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang / Amdo Compendium Herb Name Skyer pa (Barberry bark)Skyu ru ra (Emblic Myrobalan)Gur gum (Safflower)Shing mngar (Licorice)Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Kha che sha skam (Saffron)Dom mkhris (Bear Bile) *Gla rtsi (Musk) **Rgya nag snag tsha (Ink) Latin Berberis vulgarisEmblica officinalis…

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Adonis, False Hellebore

Adonis, False Hellebore Bohemian Orchid, Devil’s Eye, Goat Flower, Yellow Pheasant’s Eye Adonis vernalis(Source: Bilder ur Nordens Flora, Stockholm) (Wikimedia) Adonis vernalis(Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1812) Adonis vernalis(Photo by Marco Schmidt) (Wikimedia) Adonis amurensis(Photo by たね) (Wikimedia) Adonis vernalis root, leaf, flower and seed.Squibb’s Atlas of the Official Drugs, Mansfield, 1919 Botanical name: Adonis vernalisThe Chinese A….

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Electuary for Gastric Pain

Electuary for Gastric Pain Tradition: Western Source / Author: The Admirable Secrets of Physick and Chyrurgery, Thomas Palmer, 1696 Herb Name Long PepperCumin seedsCalamusBayberry Latin Piper longumCuminum cyminumAcorus calamusLaurus nobilis Amount equal parts Preparation: Powder finely, boil with honey to a Confection Function: Warms, stops Wind, moves Qi, eases Pain Use: 1. Gastric or Abdominal…

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Cinnamonum, Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea PRO

Cinnamonum, Cinnamon, Cassia Lignea, Rou Gui 肉皮 Cinnamon:–Gui Pi  桂皮 (TCM)–Tvak (Ayurveda)–Ilavankap Padtai (Siddha)–Dar Chini (Unani)–Shing tsha  ཤིང་ཚ  (Tibetan)Cassia Lignea:–Rou Gui 肉皮 (TCM)–Taj Qalmi (Unani) Cassia LigneaOrtus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 CinnamonOrtus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Above: Cinnamon leaf and bark (left); Cassia bark (right)Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640Left: Cinnamon, Medical Botany, Stephenson and Churchill, 1836 CinnamonKoehler’s Medizinal…

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Galls, Wu Bei Zi FREE

Gall, Wu Bei Zi 五倍子 Oak or Aleppo Gall–Mazu (Unani)–Majuphalaka, Mayaphala (Ayurveda)–Mo Shi Zi (TCM)Chinese Gall (Rhus): Galla chinensis–Wu Bei Zi (TCM)–Karkatashringe (Ayurveda)–Kakrasingi (Unani) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Quercus infectoria(New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563) Oak Galls (Adam, 2016) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: A number of Galls have been used:  1. Oak, ‘True’,…

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