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Bursa pastoris, Shepherds Purse FREE

ByAdam Tate

Bursa pastoris, Shepherd’s Purse Ji Cai  荠菜 (TCM)Sog ka pa  སོག་ཀ་པ  (Tibetan) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Masclef, Atlas des plantes de France, (?) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Capsella bursa-pastoris Parts used: Herb Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Mildly Sweet and Bitterdries, binds, astringes Classification: 2P. HEMOSTATIC Uses:…

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Malva, Mallow, Dong Kui Zi PRO

ByAdam Tate

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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Fucus, Kelp, Kun Bu FREE

ByAdam Tate

Fucus, Kelp, Kun Bu 昆布 BladderwrackKun Bu (TCM) Fucus spp.Notes on Pharmacognosy, Otto Augustus Wall, 1902 Fucus nodosaEnglish Botany, Sowerby, 1799 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Fucus spp;F. vesiculosis, F. serratus, F. nodosus Parts used: Thallus (whole plant); Carbonised Plant Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Salty Classification: P. Clears Hot Phlegm…

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Nymphyae, Water Lilly FREE

ByAdam Tate

Nymphyae, Water Lilly Nilofar, Nasreen (Unani) New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica, Good, 1847 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Nymphea alba. Related species have been used. Parts used: Mainly Root and Seed; also Flower and Leaf Temperature & Taste: Root and Seed: Cool,…

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Nardostachys, Indian Spikenard PRO

ByAdam Tate

Nardostachys, Indian Spikenard Nardi Indica, NardJatamansi, Mansi (Ayurveda)Cadamancil (Siddha)Sumbul-e-Hindi, Sambul-ut-Teeb, Balchhar (Unani)Gan Song 甘松 (TCM)Spang spos  སྤང་སྤོས་ (Tibet) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Indian SpikenardDe Materia Medica, Dioscorides, 1555 Indian SpikenardKrauterbuch, Danz & Uffenbach, 1610 Various types of Spikenard, including Indian and Celtic SpikenardMuseum Museorum, Valentini, 1704 Indian SpikenardCurtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol….

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Leonurus, Motherwort, Yi Mu Cao PRO

ByAdam Tate

Leonurus, Motherwort, Yi Mu Cao 益母草 Also called Cardiaca, MatricariaYi Mu Cao (TCM) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Kurtzes Handtbuchlein, Ryff, 1599 L. cardiacaOeder et al., Flora Danica, 1756 (1761-1883) Botanical name: Leonurus cardiaca (syn. L. crispus, L. campestris, L. glabra, L. discolor)In TCM L. heterophyllus (syn. L. artermisia), L. sibiricus, L. macrathus and L. turkestanicus…

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Chamedrys, Germander FREE

ByAdam Tate

Chamedrys, Germander Trixago minorKamazarius (Unani) Herbarum Vivae Eicones, Otto Brunfels, 1530 Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Teucrium chamaedrys Parts used: Leaf; Flower Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Bitter. Classifications: 2A APERIENT MEDICINES.    2C INCIDERS.    2G. CLEANSING.    2K. RESOLVENT3F. LITHONTRIPTIC.    3G. EMMENAGOGUE4f. SPLENETIC.    4g. HEPATIC.    4k. ARTHRITIC Uses:…

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Pill Millipede

ByAdam Tate

Pill Millipede, Shu Fu 鼠妇 Wood Lice, Wood Louse, Hog Lice, Sow Lice, Pill bug, SlaterShu Fu  (TCM) Pill Millipedes (Manuscript 13th C., British Library, Harley 3244) Pill MillipedeDioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Handbook of Pharmaceutical Practice, Hager, 1878 Pill Millipedes (Armadillidium vulgare) (Chengdu Medicine Market, 2015) Entomological name: Two distinct but related genus supplied…

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Silybum, Mary’s Thistle FREE

ByAdam Tate

Silybum, Milk Thistle Mary’s Thistle, Carduus Mariae, Carduus lacteus New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Chaumeton, Flore médicale, 1829 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Silybum marianum (syn. Carduus marianus) Parts used: Seed; herb; rarely the root Temperature & Taste: Temperate, dry. Bittercuts, opens, gently binds Classification: B. Clear Heat and Toxin Uses: 1….

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Lemna, Duckweed, Fu Ping

ByAdam Tate

Lemna, Duckweed, Fu Ping 浮萍 Lens palustris, Lens lacustris, L. aquatica, Muscus palustrisFu Ping (TCM)Tuhlab (Unani) Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Kreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 4 different varieties of Duckweed (Lemna)Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora, vol. 2 (1922-1926) Botanical name: Lemna spp., including L. minorThere are a number of…

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Agaricus, Agaric PRO

ByAdam Tate

Agaricus, Agaric AgarikonGhariqoon (Unani)Ku Bai Tie  苦白蹄; A Li Hong  阿里红 (TCM) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 True ‘Larch Agaric’New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 AgaricKreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 ‘Agaricus albus’Icones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1800 Polyporus officinalis (Nees von Esenbeck,T.F.L., Plantae officinales, vol. 2, 1828-1833) Polyporus officinalisKoehler, F.E., Medizinal Pflanzen, vol. 4 (1890) Polyporus ignarius, probably the lesser, ‘Male’…

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Amylum, Starch

ByAdam Tate

Amylum, Starch Amidum, Amisum Preparation of StarchOrtus sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501 Botanical name: Starch extract from various plants, usually Wheat Parts used: Starch prepared from Wheat bran or Wheat meal. Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Sweet Uses: 1. Clears Heat, Benefit the Lungs, Stops Cough:-soreness, dryness, roughness and irritation of the Throat-Cough, Wheezing, chronic…

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