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Rehmannia, Shu Di Huang PRO

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Rehmannia, Shu Di Huang 熟地黄 Prepared Chinese Foxglove rootShu Di Huang (TCM) Edwards’s Botanical Register (1837) Rehmannia glutinosa flower(Photo by 阿橋) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Rehmannia glutinosa Parts used: Prepared Root Temperature & Taste: Warm, moist. Sweet Classification: N. Blood Tonic     N. Yin Tonic Uses: 1. Tonifies the Blood:-weakness, pale face and tongue, deficient and thin…

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Toothache Powder 7 (So snum bdun pa)

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So snum bdun pa  སོ་སྣུམ་ བདུན་པ་Toothache Powder 7 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Gla Rtsi (Musk) Shing kun (Asafetida)Byi tang ka (Embelia)Sga skya (Galangal)Pi pi ling (Long Pepper)Pho ba ris (Black Pepper)Li shi (Clove) Latin MoschusFerula foetidaEmbelia ribesKaempferia galangaPiper longumPiper nigrumEugenia caryophyllus Amount 5 grams10 grams80 grams50 grams50 grams50 grams50…

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Ficus simplicissima, Wu Zhi Mao Tao

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Ficus simplicissima, Wu Zhi Mao Tao 五指毛桃 Hispid Fig, Hairy Fig, Roughhair Fig, Fissured Fig, Coarse-leaf Fig, “Five-fingered Peach”Wu Zhi Mao Tao, Cu Ye Rong (TCM) Ficus simplicissimaThe botany of Captain Beechey’s voyage (1841) Ficus Wu Zhi Mao Tao(Adam 2024) Botanical name: Ficus simplicissima (syn. F. hirta)Ficus microcarpa is also given as a source, especially…

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Swallows Nest

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Swallows Nest, Yan Wo 燕窝 Yan Wo (TCM) Swallows Nest; right is ‘Red Blood Birds Next’, the most expensive (Chengdu Herb Market, 2015) Zoological name: White-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus);Black-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus Parts used: Nest Temperature & Taste: Neutral, Sweet Constituents: The nest contains mucopolysaccharides, and good levels of calcium, iron, potassium, and magnesium as…

Cold Diseases

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Cold Diseases Cold Disease of the body are of 2 kinds: the first is from excess exposure to cold, either internally or externally. Internal exposure is from the intake of cold food or drinks. External is exposure to Cold environment, either Cold, Rain and Wind, or air conditioning, for example. The second type of Cold…

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Stellaria, Chickweed

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Stellaria, Chickweed Dodoens, A Niewe Herball (1578) English botany, or coloured figures of British plants,, J.E. Sowerby (1864) Botanical name: Stellaria media (syn. Alsine media) Parts used: Whole Herb (preferably fresh) Temperature & Taste: Cool, moist. Sweet, Bitter Classifications: B. Clears Heat Uses: 1. Clears Liver Heat, Resists Poison:-Liver heat with red eyes, headache, bitter…

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Callerya, Niu Da Li

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Callerya, Niu Da Li 牛大力 “Cow Big Power”, Showy Millettia, Golden Bell Root, Mountain Lotus root Callerya speciosa Niu Da Li root(Photo by Adam, 2024) Botanical name: Callerya speciosa (syn. Millettia speciosa, Nanhaia speciosa) Parts used: Root Temperature & Taste: Neutral, Sweet, slightly Bitter Classification: Uses: 1. Strengthens Spleen, Increases Qi:–Fatigue, deficiency–Chronic Hepatitis–Spermatorrhea–Leukorrhea–Anti-cancer–regarded as prolonging…

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Copper, Cuprum

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Cuprum, Copper, Cu VenusTamra (Ayurveda)Nuhas (Unani, Avicenna)Tong 铜 (TCM) Hortus sanitatis, 1491 Native CopperPhoto by Jonathan Zander (Digon3) (Wikimedia) Minerological name: Cuprum Parts used: Oxide, BhasmaCopper Pyrite, Copper Sulphate, Verdigris and Malachite are also used. Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry (Ayurveda, Dioscorides; some Vedic sources say Cool); Bitter, Pungent, Astringent, Sour, Sweet“Burnt copper is hot,…

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Swertia 8 (Tig ta brgyad pa)

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Tig ta brgyad pa   ཏིག་ཏ་བརྒྱད་པ་Ba Wei Zhang Ya Cai San 八味獐牙菜散 (TCM)Swertia 8 Tradition: Tibetan Source / Author: Men Tsee Kang Herb Name Tig ta (Swertia)Gser me tog (Herpetospermum)Bong dkar (White Aconite)Ru rta (Costus)Rtsa mkhris **Hong len (Picrorhiza)Par pa ta (Hypecoum) ***Skyer shun (Barberry) Latin Swertia chirataHerpetospermum pedunculosumAconitum heterophyllumSaussurea lappaLactuca lessertianaPicrorhiza kurroaHypecoum leptocarpumBerberis aristata…

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Troches for Back and Sacral Pain (Nicholas)

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Troches for Back and Sacral Pain Tradition: Western, Unani Source / Author: Nicholas Alexandri (Medici Graeci, 1541) Herb Name SennaTurbithSarcocollaScammony prepared *Rose Mastic Latin Cassia angustifoliaOperculina turpethumAstragalus sarcocollaConvovulus scammoniaRosa gallica Pistacia lentiscus Amount 3 drams ea.2 oz.1 oz.1⁄2 oz.2 drams NOTE: 1 ounce seems an excessively large dose of Scammony; it is possible that 1…

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Helix, Snails

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Helix, Snail Wo Niu 蜗牛 (TCM)Bu skyogs  འབུ་སྐྱོགས་  (Snail shell, Tibet) Herbario nuovo, 1667 Materia Medica Animalia, Peter Peyto Good, 1853 Helix pomatia(Photo by H. Zell) (Wikimedia) Zoological name: Helix spp. H. pomatia (Edible or Apple Snail), H. asperea (Common Snail), H. sylvatica (Wood Snail), H. nemoralis (Grove Snail) Others reportedly used include H. vermiculata,…

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