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Tussilago, Coltsfoot FREE

ByAdam Tate

Tussilago, Coltsfoot, Kuan Dong Hua 款冬花 Farfara, Ungula Caballina (‘Horses Hoof’)Kuan Dong Hua (Flower) (TCM) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Kohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 Coltsfoot(Photo by Andreas Trepte) (Wikimedia) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Tussilago farfara Parts used: Leaf; Flower; rarely the Root Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent, sweet. Classifications: 2U….

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Artemisia santolinifolia, Phur nag PRO

ByAdam Tate

Artemisia santolinifolia, Phur nag ཕུར་ནག Phur nag (Tibetan) Artemisia sacrorum (Russian Wormwood)J.G. Gmelin, Flora sibirica, vol. 2 (1749) Botanical name: Artemisia spp.Several species have been identified as supplying Phur nag: A. santolinifolia (syn. A. sacrorum var. minor) A. gmelinii (North-West Tibet) A. vestita (West Himalayas) A. sacrorum–Russian Wormwood (West Tibet) This is one of three…

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Dactylorhiza, Finger root PRO

ByAdam Tate

Dactylorhiza, Finger root Marsh Orchid, Spotted OrchidSalam Panja, Munjataka (Ayurveda)Dbang lag  དབང་ལག  (Tibetan)Hong Men Lan (China) A species of Dactylorhiza, listed as ‘Female Orchid’ and used as Salep.Herbarum Vivae Eicones, Otto Brunfels, 1530 Wild Finger root (Dactylorhiza hatagirea)(Photo by Manas Badge) Finger root, Chengdu Herbal Medicine Market (Adam, 2016) Botanical name: Dactylorhiza spp. D. hatagirea…

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Crataegus, Hawthorn, Shan Zha PRO

ByAdam Tate

Crataegus, Hawthorn, Shan Zha 山楂 Oxyacantha, White ThornShan Zha (TCM) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 C. oxyacanthaFlora von Deutschland (25), Kohler, 1886 C. monogynaFlora von Deutschland (25), Kohler, 1886 Chinese Hawthorn fruit slices (Adam, 2017) Botanical name: Crataegus spp.In Europe: C. laevigata (formerly C. oxyacantha); Branched Hawthorn C. monogyna; Single Hawthorn C. pentagyna; Five-headaed Hawthorn…

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Gentiana tibetica, Kyi lce PRO

ByAdam Tate

Gentiana tibetica, Kyi lce ཀྱི་ལྕེ Kyi lce  ཀྱི་ལྕེ  Trayamana (Ayurveda)Xi Zang Qin Jiao  西藏秦艽 (G. tibetica) (TCM)Tian Shan Qin Jiao  天山秦艽 (G. tianschanica) (TCM) Genitana tibeticaCurtis’s Botanical Magazine (1897) Gentian Flower for sale at the Chengdu Medicine Market (Adam, 2018) Botanical name: Gentiana spp.Several varieties of the plant are used: Kyi lce dkar po  ཀྱི་ལྕེ་དཀར་པོ …

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Incarvillea, Ug chos PRO

ByAdam Tate

Incarvillea, Ug chos ཨུག་ཆོས Ug chos (Tibetan) Incarvillea compactaGartenflora [E. von Regel] (1882) Incarvillea younghusbandii(Photo by Chao Shi [Chao7]) (Inaturalist) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Incarvillea spp.There are 3 types of Incarvillea used: White variety: Ug chos dkar po  ཨུག་ཆོས་དཀར་པོ : Incarvillea compacta Red variety: Ug chos dmar po   ཨུག་ཆོས་དམར་པོ : Incarvillea younghusbandii Yellow variety: Ug…

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Vitis amurensis, Shan Pu Tao PRO

ByAdam Tate

Vitis amurensis, Shan Pu Tao 山葡萄 Mountain Grape, Wild Grape, Amur GrapeShan Pu Tao (TCM) Vitis amurensis(Photo by Kenraiz) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Vitis amurensis (syn. Vitis vinifera var. amurensis)Vitis adstricta Parts used: Root Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Sweet Classification: C. Clears Damp, Promote Urine Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Damp, Promotes Urine:-Urinary Tract Infection,…

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Pegasus, Sea Moth

ByAdam Tate

Pegasus, Sea Moth, Hai E 海蛾 Seamoth, Dragon FishHai E; Hai Ma Que (“Sea Sparrow”) (TCM) Sea Moth (Pegasus laternarius)(Adam 2016) Zoological name: Pegasus laternariusOther species are also used. Parts used: Whole dried animal Temperature & Taste: Neutral. Sweet, Salty (Som,e sources say Cold) Classification: Uses: 1. Warms and Strengthens the Kidneys:a seminal and male…

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Glossopetra, Fossil Shark Teeth

ByAdam Tate

Glossopetra, Fossil Shark Teeth Tongue-stones, Ungues Melitenses (Maltese tongues) Museum Wormianum, 1655 Metallotheca Vaticana, Mercati, 1719 Zoological name: Fossil teeth of lamniform sharks, including Megladon. Parts used: Fossil teeth Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Sweet, Astringent Uses: 1. Clears Heat, Resists Poison:-Snake Bite, both to treat, and as an amulet to prevent-Epidemic Fevers including Small…

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Indigofera tinctoria, Nila PRO

ByAdam Tate

Indigofera tinctoria, Nila Dyers IndigoNila (Ayurveda)Nili, Avuri (Plant); Avuri Ver (Root) (Siddha)Habb-ul-Neel, Nil (Unani) Indigofera tinctoriaC.J. Trew, G.D. Ehret, Plantae selectae, vol. 6 (1760) Indigofera tinctoria(Photo by Pancrat) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Indigofera tinctoriaI. suffruticosa (syn. I. anil) and I. oblongifolia (syn. I. paucifolia) have also been usedThis is one of the sources of Indigo Parts…

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Gold Bhasma

ByAdam Tate

Gold Bhasma Gold AshSvarna Bhasma (Ayurveda)Gser thal (Tibet) Minerological name: Aurum cini Parts used: Prepared Gold Temperature & Taste: Mildly Warm, dry. Bitter and Sweet Unani says Gold is neither Hot or Cold, Classification: Uses: 1. Increases Qi, Nourishes Essence: (West, Ayurveda, Tibet)–Rasayana (tonifies 7 Body Constituents) (Ayurveda)–Tonic to the Heart, Brain, Liver and all Body…

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Blessed Thistle, Carduus benedictus FREE

ByAdam Tate

Carduus Benedictus, Blessed Thistle New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Kurtzes Handtbuchlein, Ryff, 1599 Koehler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Carduus benedictus Parts used: Herb; Seed Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Bitter, pungentattenuates, opens, discusses, and is cordial Classification: 2F. PURIFYING3A. SUDORIFICS & DIAPHORETICS.    3C. ALEXIPHARMIC.   3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS.  …

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