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Rosa, Rose PRO

Rosa, Rose, Mei Gui Hua 玫瑰花 Mei Gui Hua (TCM)Ward, Gulab (Unani)Se ba’i me tog  སེ་བའི་མེ་ཏོག  (Tibet) Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485 Della Materia Medicinale Andrea Valuassori, 1562 Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Rosa gallicaMedical Botany, Woodville, Hooker, Vol. 3, 1832 Rosa centfoliaMedical Botany, Woodville, Hooker, Vol. 3, 1832 Rose buds used for tea and…

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Caesalpinia sappan, Pattanga, Su Mu PRO

Caesalpinia sappan, Pattanga, Su Mu 苏木 Sappan WoodPattanga (Ayurveda)Bakam (Unani)Bukam (Arabic)Patangam (Siddha)Su Mu (TCM) Caesalpinia sappanBen Cao Tu Pu, 1644 (Welcome) Caesalpinia sappanM. Blanco, Flora de Filipinas. (1875) Fresh sappanwood for sale at the Ereke market, northern Buton Island, Indonesia(Photo by David E Mead, cropped) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Caesalpinia sappan Parts used: Heart wood Temperature…

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Agnus Castus, Chaste tree FREE

Agnus Castus, Chaste tree Monk’s Pepper Tree, Hemp TreeRenuka (Ayurveda)Sambhalu (Unani) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Vitex agnus castusDuhamel du Monceau, H.L., Traité des arbres et arbustes, Nouvelle édition, 1815 Vitex agnus castus(Photo by Sten Porse) (Wikimedia) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Vitex agnus castusVitex…

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Zea, Corn Silk PRO

Zea, Corn Silk, Yu Mi Xu 玉米须 Yu Mi Xu (TCM) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Flora von Deutschland, Kohler, 1886 Botanical name: Zea mays Parts used: Corn Silk Temperature & Taste: Neutral, Sweet. Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Damp, Promotes Urine, Clears Stones (TCM, West, Ayurveda):-obstructed urine with scanty or difficult urination-acute and chronic nephritic edema,…

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Sinomenium, Qing Feng Teng PRO

Sinomenium, Qing Feng Teng 青风藤 Qing Feng Teng (TCM) Iwasaki, T., Honzo zufu (1916-1921) Botanical name: Sinomenium acutum, Sinomenium acutum var. cinerum Parts used: Vine Temperature & Taste: Neutral. Bitter, Pungent Classification: D. Clear Wind and Damp Uses: 1. Clears Wind-Damp, Stops Pain:-painful obstruction of the muscle and joints; Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis-edema, swelling and pain…

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Thlaspi, Treacle Mustard PRO

Thlaspi, Treacle Mustard Thlaspi, Pennycress, Treacle Mustard, Mithridate MustardBre ga  བྲེ་ག  (Tibetan)Xi Ming, Bai Jiang Cao (TCM); Thlaspi arvenseFuchs, L., New Kreüterbuch, 1543 Thlaspi arvense(«Bilder ur Nordens Flora», 1917) (Wikimedia) Patrinia scabiosaefolia(an alternate herb used in China)Sweet, R., British flower garden, vol. 2 (1823-1825) Thlaspi arvense(Photo by Enrico Blasutto) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Thlaspi arvenseSalmon noted…

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Fossil Spirifer

Fossil Spirifer Dove Stone, Swallow StoneShi Yan  石燕 (‘Swallow Stone’, TCM)Byi ‘u mgo  བྱི་འུ་ མགོ་ (‘Small Bird Head’, Tibetan Medicine) Fossilve Spirifer (Adam, Chengdu Medicine Market, 2016) Zoological name: Devonian fossil brachiopods including Spirifer disjunctus Parts used: Prepared Fossil Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Salty, slightly Sweet Constituents: Mainly calcium carbonate, silicon dioxide, small amount…

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Primula, Shang dril PRO

Primula, Shang dril ཤང་དྲིལ་ Shang dril (Tibet) Primula secundifloraCurtis, W., Botanical Magazine (1914) Primula sikkimensisRegel, E.A. von, Gartenflora (1876) Botanical name: Primula spp.A number of species are used in Tibetan Medicine: Shang dril smug po (Brown): P. calderiana Shang dril dkar po (White): P. reidii, P. atrodentata Shang dril ser po: (Yellow): P. sikkimensis Shang…

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Gypsum, Shi Gao 石膏

Gypsum, Shi Gao 石膏 Shi Gao (TCM)Godanti (Ayurveda)Jibsin (Unani)Selenite, Lapis Selenite; Lapis Specularis: Affroselinum, Glacies Marie; the Crystallized form of Gypsum GypsumHortus sanitatis, 1491 GypsumDie Mineralien, Weber, J. C., 1871 Gypsum (Chengdu Medicine Market, Adam, 2016) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Mineralogical name: Calcium sulphate Temperature & Taste: Very Cold, dry. Sweet, slightly…

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Eugenia, Clove, Ding Xiang PRO

Eugenia, Clove, Ding Xiang 丁香 Caryophyllatus aromaticusAnthophyllum: Mother Cloves: Mature ClovesLavanga (Ayurveda)Kirambu, Ilavankam (Siddha)Ding Xiang (TCM); Mother Clove is Mu Ding Xiang (literally “Mother Clove”)Li Shi  ལི་ཤི  (Tibetan)Qaranful (Unani) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Medical Botany, Woodville, Hooker, Vol. 3, 1832 Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914 Anthophyllum or ‘Mother Clove’Notes on Pharmacognosy, Otto Augustus Wall, 1902…

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Euonymus, Gui Jian Yu PRO

Euonymus, Gui Jian Yu 鬼箭羽 Winged Spindle tree, Winged Euonymus Gui Jian Yu (TCM) Euonymus alatusCurtis, W., Botanical Magazine (1919) Botanical name: Euonymus alatus (syn. E. alata) Parts used: Winged branches Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Pungent, Bitter (Classed as Warm in Barefoot Doctors Manual) Classification: Uses: 1. Moves the Blood, Promotes Menstruation:–Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea–Metrorrhagia-Postpartum stasis,…

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Galium odoratum, Woodruff

Galium odoratum, Woodruff Sweet Woodruff, Woodroof, WoodrowelXiang Che Ye Cao (TCM) Galium odoratumIllustrated Flora, Vol 3, Britton and Brown, 1913 Galium odoratumMasclef, A., Atlas des plantes de France, vol. 2 (?) Botanical name: Galium odoratum (syn. Asperula odorata)Salmon (Botanologia) listed:  1. Common (White-flowered) Woodruff  2. Blue-flowered Woodruff  3. Small Stone-break Woodruff Parts used: Herb collected…

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