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Eruca, Rocket PRO

Eruca, Rocket Jirjir, Jirjeer (Unani) Garden (left) and Wild (right) RocketDella Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562 Wild RocketFuchs, New Kreuterbuch, 1543 Garden RocketSturm et al, Flora von Deutschland in Abbildungennach der Natur, Zweite auflage, vol. 6, 1902 Botanical name: Eruca spp. Garden Rocket: E. sativa (syn. E. vesicaria subsp, sativa, Brassica eruca) Wild Rocket: E….

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Ipomoea sepiaria, Lakshmana

Ipomoea sepiaria, Lakshmana Purple Heart Glory, Hedge BindweedLakshmana, Banakalami (Ayurveda)Thaalikeerai, Taalikkirai (Siddha) Ipomoea sepiaria(Image from Leiden University Libraries, Leyden, The Netherlands) Ipomoea sepiaria(Photo by George Muttathil Pulikurumba) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Ipomoea sepiaria (syn. I. marginata, I. maxima, I. sagittifolia, Convolvulus marginatus)The Ayurvedic plant Lakshmana has also been equated with Ginseng and Mandrake. Parts used: Root;…

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Catechu, Er Cha FREE

Catechu, Er Cha 儿茶 Er Cha (TCM)Khi la wa ri (Tibetan)Khadira (Ayurveda) Acacia catechuBotanische wandplaten, 1904–1914 Acacia catechuAn Encyclopaedia of useful and ornamental Plants, Burnett, 1852 Uncaria Gambir (used as an alternate source in TCM)Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen, Berg & Schmidt, Leipzig, 1893 Catechu (Adam, 2016) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name:…

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Wheat, Triticum

Triticum, Wheat Xiao Mai  小麦 (Wheat) Fu Xiao Mai 浮小麦 (Light Wheat) (TCM)Gandum (Unani) Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 WheatKöhler, F.E., Köhler’s Medizinal Pflanzen (1890) Botanical name: Triticum aestivum (syn. T. vulgare) Parts used: Seed (Grain)Two different products are used in TCM. Regular Wheat, and ‘Light’ Wheat, the latter floating when put in water and has…

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Carthamus, Safflower, Hong Hua PRO

Carthamus Flos, Safflower, Hong Hua 红花 Bastard or Wild Saffron; Cnicus, Crocus Saracenicus, CartamusKusumbha, Vahinshikha (Ayurveda)Qurtum, Asfar (Unani)Chendurakam (Siddha)Gur Gum གུར་གུམ་ (also used for Saffron)Rtsa Gur Gum རྩ་གུར་གུམ་ (Carthamus, Tibet)Hong Hua (TCM) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Above: Safflower Left: dried whole Safflower flower (Adam, 2016, 2018) Botanical name: Carthamus tinctorius Parts…

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Chinese Ink, Jing Mo

Beijing Ink, Jing Mo 京墨 Jing Mo (TCM) Traditional Ink Block (Photo from Cleveland Museum of Art) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Pinus spp.Ink made from the soot of burning pine wood, mixed with gum. Parts used: Ink Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent. Classification: Uses: 1. Stops Bleeding:–Nosebleeding-Vomiting Blood, Blood in the Stool-Postpartum Bleeding-Bleeding from Wounds,…

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Asplenium, Ceterach

Asplenium, Ceterach SpleenwortSaquluqandrium (Unani) New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Left: Scolopendrum; Above: Scolopendrum verum, Arabian CeterachKrauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Botanical name: Asplenium ceterach (syn. Ceterach offcinarum, Hemidictyum ceterach) Parts used: Herb Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry“Hot in the First and Dry in the Second degree” (Avicenna) Uses: 1. Clears Damp, Promotes Urine:-urinary diseases; Edema-removes Kidneys and Bladder Stones…

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Chalk

Chalk CretaHajar al-labant (Unani)Fen Bi  粉笔 (TCM)Chu skyur rdo  ཆུ་སྐྱུར་ རྡོ་ (native calcium carbonate, Tibetan Medicine) Native Chalk(Photo by Alina Zienowicz Ala z’) (Wikimedia) Minerological name: Native Calcium carbonate Parts used: Prepared Chalk Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Sweet, Bitter. Avicenna said it was moderate (Neutral) in temperature. Classification: 2Z. CICATRIZING Uses: 1. Clears Stomach…

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Motherwort seed, Chong Wei Zi

Leonurus semen, Motherwort seed, Chong Wei Zi 茺蔚子 Leonurus seedChong Wei Zi (TCM) L. sibiricusM. Blanco, Flora de Filipinas. (1875) Botanical name: Leonurus spp.  1. L. heterophyllus (syn. L. artemisia)  2. L. sibiricus  3. L. turkestanicus   4. L. rnacranthus Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Cool, moist. Sweet Uses: 1. Moves the Blood, Regulate…

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Vitis, Grape Vine FREE

Vitis, Grape Vine VineDrakshadi (Raisins, Ayurveda)Pu Tao 葡萄 (TCM)Kishmish (Raisins, Unani)rgun brum  རྒུན་འབྲུམ (Raisins, Tibetan) Grapes                                                                                                          RaisinsOrtus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Grape Vine and WineMuseum Museorum, Valentini, 1704 Grapes (Adam, 2017) Light (‘Golden Sultanas’) and Dark (‘Purple Raisins’) dried fruit (Adam, 2017) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Vitis vinifera Parts used: Grapes,…

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Cedrela, Xiang Chun PRO

Cedrela, Xiang Chun 香椿 Chinese MahogonyXiang Chun, Zhong Guo Yang Chun (TCM)Xiang Chun Zi (Fruit, TCM) Revue horticole, sér. 4 (1875) Cedrela sinensis (syn. Toona sinensis)(Photo by KATHERINE WAGNER-REISS) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Cedrela sinensis (syn. Toona sinensis)The Indian C. toona (syn. C. ciliata–Indian Mahogony tree or Indian Red Cedar) is used similarly, especially for Dysentery…

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Indigo, Qing Dai PRO

Indigo, Qing Dai 青黛 Pigmentum IndicumQing Dai (TCM) The processing of Indigo(Museum Museorum, Valentini, 1704) Indigofera tinctoriaAusländische Culturpflanzen in bunten Wand-Tafeln, (?) A Block of Indian Indigo(Photo by Palladian) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Several plants supply Indigo: Baphicacanthus cusia Polygonum tinctorium Isatis indigotica (syn Isatis tinctoria) Indigofera tinctoria, I. anil, I. argentea Parts used: Indigo extracted…

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