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Mukia, Mao Er Gua PRO

ByAdam Tate

Mukia, Mao Er Gua 帽儿瓜 Madras Pea PumpkinMao Er Gua, Dao Diao Jin Zhong (TCM)Ahilekhana, Trikoshaki (Ayurveda)Musumsukkai (Siddha) Mukia maderaspatanaAnonymous, Plantarum Malabaricum icones (1694-1710) Mukia maderaspatanaKirtikar, K.R., Basu, B.D., Indian medicinal plants (1918) Mukia maderaspatanaPhoto by Vinayaraj) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Mukia maderaspatana (syn. Melothria maderaspatana, Cucumis maderaspatanus, Bryonia scabrella) Parts used: Root, Leaf Temperature &…

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Symplocos Cortex, Lodhra PRO

ByAdam Tate

Symplocos Cortex, Lodhra Sapphireberry, SweetleafLodhra (Ayurveda)Velli-lethi (Siddha)Lodh Pathani (Unani)Satrak (Arabic)Hua Shan Fan (S. chinensis) (TCM) Symplocos racemosaEngler, H.G.A., Das Pflanzenreich, Symplocaceae, 1901 Symplocos racemosa bark(Photo by Miansari66) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Symplocos racemosa (syn. S. beddomei, S. candolleana)In some parts of India other species are used: S. laurina, S. spicata, S. ramosissima, S. sumuntia, S. cochinchinensis…

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Lepidium/Descurainia, Ting Li Zi PRO

ByAdam Tate

Lepidium seu Descurainia, Ting Li Zi 葶苈子 Pepperweed, Pepper grassTing Li Zi (TCM)Shang tshe dkar po ཤང་ཚེ་ དཀར་པོ་ (Descurainia, Tibetan Medicine) Lepidium apetalumClark, G.H., Fletcher, J., Farm weeds of Canada Descurainia sophiaKorsmo, E., Unkrauttaflen – Weed plates – Planches des mauvaises herbes – Ugressplansjer (1934-1938) Lepidium apetalum(Photo by Dalgial) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Two separate plants supply…

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Sophora moorcroftiana, Skyi ba PRO

ByAdam Tate

Sophora moorcroftiana, Skyi ba སྐྱི་བ་ Sandliving SophoraSkyi ba (Tibet)Sha Sheng Huai (TCM) Sophora moorcroftiana var. davidii (syn Sophora davidii)(Photo by Denis.prévôt) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Sophora spp. S. moorcroftiana (syn. Astragalus moorcroftiana) S. davidii Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Bitter Classification: Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Damp: (Tibet, TCM)-Jaundice (Tibet, TCM)-Indigestion, Stomachache 2….

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Forsythia, Lian Qiao PRO

ByAdam Tate

Forsythia, Lian Qiao 连翘 ForsythiaLian Qiao (TCM) Forsythia fortuneiAddisonia, vol. 4 (1919) Forsythia suspensa flower(Photo by 阿橋) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Forsythia suspensa (syn. F. fortunei) Parts used: Fruit Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Bitter, Pungent Classification: B. Clear Heat and Toxin Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Toxin:-Fever, Chills (Fever more than Chills)-Acute Cold and Flu…

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Acanthopanax, Wu Jia Pi PRO

ByAdam Tate

Acanthopanax, Wu Jia Pi 五加皮 Wu Jia Pi (TCM) Eleutherococcus senticosusKomarov (Komorov), V.L., Flora of the U.S.S.R., vol. 16 (?) Eleutherococcus henryiCurtis’s botanical magazine, vol. 136 (1801) Acanthopanax leucorrhizus (called ‘Narrow-leaf Wu Jia‘ in China)Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1915 Botanical name: Acanthopanax spp. (syn. Eleutherococcus spp.)  1. A. gracilistylus  2. A. sessilifforusLocal species used include:  3….

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Picrorhiza, Hu Huang Lian PRO

ByAdam Tate

Picrorhiza, Hu Huang Lian 胡黄连 Hu Huang Lian (TCM)Katuki (Ayurveda)Kadukurokini (Siddha)Kutki (Unani)Hong Len  ཧོང་ལེན  (Tibet) Royle, Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the naturalhistory of the Himalayan Mountains and of the flora of Cashmere, 1839 Picrorhiza kurroa(Photo by Kenraiz) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Picrorhiza spp. (sometimes spelled Picrorrhiza) P. kurroa (mainly Ayurveda, also TCM) P….

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Equisetum, Horsetai PRO

ByAdam Tate

Equisetum, Horsetail, Mu Zei 木贼 Hippuris, Ephedron, AnabasisMu Zei (TCM)Khu byug rtsa ljang  ཁུ་བྱུག་རྩ་ལྗང་ (Tibet) Two varieties of HorsetailDioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Greater Horsetail, the right showing a spindle of wound Horsetail for selling.Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 4 different varieties of HorsetailNew Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 E. arvensisFlora von Deutschland (4), Kohler, 1884 Botanical name: Equisetum…

Abelmoschus moschatus PRO

ByAdam Tate

Abelmoschus moschatus, Musk Mallow Latakasturi, Katuka, Kataphala (Ayurveda)So ma ra dza (Tibetan)Mushkdana (Unani)Huang Kui (TCM) Merian, De metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium, of te verandering der Surinaamsche insecten, 1714 Botanical name: Abelmoschus moschatus (syn. Hibiscus moschatus, H. abelmoschatus), A. manihot Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Pungent Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Toxin:-burning Fever, Flu-Skin…

Promote Chastity

ByAdam Tate

Anaphrodisiac Promote Chastity Anaphrodisiacs are medicine that retrain or hinder sexual desire. These medicines are used for various purposes: By Monks and those who are celibate Those with excessive Sexual appetite Previously used for teenagers who masturbate Some appently have an effect on the sex hormones. Some are cold medicines that calm excess Kidney Heat…

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Geranium, Lao Guan Cao PRO

ByAdam Tate

Geranium, Li ga dur ལི་ག་དུར Cranesbill, Common Heron’s Bill,Lao Guan Cao  老鹳草 (TCM)Li Ga Dur  (Tibetan)Bhanda (Ayurveda, G. nepalense) Geranium carolinianumA.J. Cavanilles, Monadelphiae classis dissertationes decem, (1787) Geranium wilfordii(Photo by Alpsdake) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Geranium spp.A number of species are used: G. wilfordii G. carolinianum  G. sibiricum G. nepalense (syn. G. affine) (TCM, Tibetan) G….

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Echinacea PRO

ByAdam Tate

Echinacea Cone-flower, Purple Cone-flower, Black Sampson Echinacea purpureaWitte, H., Flora. Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen, 1868 Echinacea purpurea(Photo by James St. John) (Wikimedia) Echinacea rootA Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, Sayre, 1907 Botanical name: Echinacea spp.  1. E. purpurea (syn. Rudbeckia purpurea)  2. E….

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