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Sardonyx

ByAdam Tate

Sardonyx Sardonyx (Photo by Arpingstone) (Wikimedia) Minerological name: Chalcedony type Parts used: Sardonyx as we know it today is red and white banded Agate. However, the term traditionally included a number of other Chalcedony varieties: Pellucid, with the redness or Sard (Cornelian) and the whiteness of Onyx; this is most valuable–true Sardonyx (Salmon) Blood-red, White…

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Grasshopper

ByAdam Tate

Grasshopper Cicada (classical)Zha Meng 蚱蜢 (TCM)Cha ga pa ཆ་ག་པ་ (Tibet) two forms of GrasshopperHistory of the zoophytes. Goldsmith, 1824 Entomological name: Gryllulus domesticus, G. campestris (Field Cricket)In TCM, local types have been used including G. sigellatus, G. chinensis (Chinese Cricket), G. mitratus,Generally, any local Grasshopper can be used. A Tibetan classic text states that all Grasshoppers…

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Ganoderma applanatum, Artists Conk PRO

ByAdam Tate

Ganoderma applanatum, Artist’s Conk Artist’s BracketShu She Ling Zhi  樹舌靈芝 (TCM)Phansomba (Ayurveda, used for Phellinus and Ganoderma species) 2 local examples of Ganoderma (Adam, Victoria, 2019) Botanical name: Ganoderma applanatum (syn. Elfvingia applanata, Polyporous applanatus)Several other Gandoerma spp. including Ganoderma australe (Southern Bracket Fungus) and G brownii of the U.S. are very similar in appearance…

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Santalum, Sandalwood, Tan Xiang PRO

ByAdam Tate

Santalum, Sandalwood, Tan Xiang 檀香 Chanana (Ayurveda)Tan Xiang (TCM)Tsan Dan Dkar Po  ཙན་དན་དཀར་པོ  (Tibetan)Sandal Safed (Unani) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Santalum album,Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810 Packaging for imported SandalwoodA Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, Sayre, 1907 Australian Sandalwood available at the Chengdu Medicine Market (2010) BUY PREMIUM SANDALWOOD POWDER Botanical name: Santalum spp.  1….

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Levisticum, Lovage PRO

ByAdam Tate

Levisticum, Lovage HipposelinumSisaliyus (Unani) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Kurtzes Handtbuchlein, Ryff, 1599 Flora von Deutschland (27), Kohler, 1886 Botanical name: Levisticum officinaleLigusticum chinensis (syn. L. sinensis, L. wallichi) is the Chinese Lovage Ligusticum Chuan Xiong. Parts used: Root; also the Seed and Leaf Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent“Hot and Dry in the Second degree”…

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Armeniaca, Apricot PRO

ByAdam Tate

Armeniaca, Apricot, Xing Ren 杏仁 Malus Armenius (‘Apple of Armenia’)Xing Ren (Apricot kernel, TCM) Kreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 Botanical name: Prunus armeniacaOther species used in TCM include:  1. P. sibirica  2. P. manshurica   3. P. armeniaca L. var ansu Parts used: Kernel; Oil; rarely the Fruit or FlowerSweet and Bitter varieties of Kernels are used….

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Portulaca, Purslane FREE

ByAdam Tate

Portulaca, Purslane, Ma Chi Xian 马齿苋 Kulfa (Ayurveda)Kharfah, Kulfa (Unani)Ma Chi Xian (TCM) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Thomé, Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Portulaca oleraceaTwo types were differentiated: Garden with Broad leaves (best); Wild with Narrow leaves Parts used:…

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Ferula sumbul, Musk root

ByAdam Tate

Ferula sumbul, Musk root Sumbul, SambalaRishah-i-kalafs (Unani) Sumbuluttib (Arabic) Curtis, W., Curtis’s botanical magazine (1800-1948) Squibb’s Atlas of the Official Drugs, Mansfield, 1919 Sumbul rootNotes on Pharmacognosy, Otto Augustus Wall, 1902 Botanical name: Ferula sumbul (syn. F. moschata) Parts used: Root and Rhizome Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent, Bitter. Has a Musk-like odor Constituents:…

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Cleome, Ajagandha PRO

ByAdam Tate

Cleome, Ajagandha Caravella; Spiderflower; Wild Mustard (Yellow-flowered)Tilaparni (White-flowered)Ajagandha (Yellow-flowered)Arkapushpi (Blue-flowered)Hurhur; Panwar (Yellow-flowered) (Unani)Kadugu, Nalvelai (Siddha)Bai Hua Cai Zi (TCM, Seed) White-flowered (C. gynandra)Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 40 (1814) Yellow-flowered (Cleome viscosa)J. Martyn , F. Panzer, Abbildung und Beschreibung sellener Gewaechse neu übersetzt,systematisch bearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von D. Georg Wolffgang Franz Panzer (1797)(From the…

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Zataria, Satyr

ByAdam Tate

Zataria, Satyr Saatar Faarsi, Al-Saatar, Satyr (Unani) Zataria multifloraHooker, W.J., Hooker, J.D., Icones Plantarum [Hooker’s Icones plantarum] (1883) Botanical name: Zataria multiflora (syn. Z. bracteata)Three varieties are known in Unani: Sahraayi (Wild) Kohi (Found on hills) Bustaani (Cultivated) Parts used: Herb Temperature & Taste: Very Warm, dry. Pungent. The wild is hottest Classification: ‘Dissolvent, Carminative,…

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Draconite, Serpent Stone

ByAdam Tate

Draconite, Serpent Stone Stone of a Snakes Head, Snake Stone, Dragon Stone, Lapis DraconiteShe Huang (TCM) Ortus Sanitatis, Beck, 1517 Two ‘Snake Stones’ bought by Adam in Rajasthan, India, in 2006. The one of the left waspurchased from a member of the Naga (Snake) caste who showed the supposed skull of the King Cobrait had…

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Cicers, Chickpea PRO

ByAdam Tate

Cicer, Chickpea GarbanzoChana, Himmas (Unani) CicerDioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Red and White Cicer   Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Flora von Deutschland (24), Kohler, 1886 Botanical name: Cicer arietinumWhite, Red, Grey and Black Garden varieties were used; Wild and Garden varieties were also differentiated, the Wild being far stronger but the cultivated was accounted more nutritious. (Avicenna)…

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