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Centipeda, E Bu Shi Cao PRO

ByAdam Tate

Centipeda, E Bu Shi Cao 鹅不食草 SneezewortE Bu Shi Cao (TCM)Nakchikni (Unani) Kshavaka, Chikini, Chikkika (Ayurveda) Centipeda minimaKirtikar, K.R., Basu, B.D., Indian medicinal plants, Plates (1918) Centipeda minima(Photo by Mark Marathon) (Wikimedia) Centipeda minima closeup(Photo by Dalgial) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Centipeda minima (syn. C. elatinoides, C. orbicularis) Parts used: Herb (TCM); Seed has been used…

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Cinnamon twig, Gui Zhi PRO

ByAdam Tate

Cinnamon twig, Gui Zhi 桂枝 Gui Zhi (TCM) Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 Botanical name: Cinnamomum cassia Parts used: twigs Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent, Sweet Classification: A. Clear Exterior Wind-Cold Uses: 1. Clear Wind-Cold, Promotes Sweat:-acute Wind-Cold with sweat; Cold, Flu-“It relieves headache due to invading pathogenic Wind … expels exterior syndrome and induces…

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Rehmannia, Shu Di Huang PRO

ByAdam Tate

Rehmannia, Shu Di Huang 熟地黄 Prepared Chinese Foxglove rootShu Di Huang (TCM) Edwards’s Botanical Register (1837) Rehmannia glutinosa flower(Photo by 阿橋) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Rehmannia glutinosa Parts used: Prepared Root Temperature & Taste: Warm, moist. Sweet Classification: N. Blood Tonic     N. Yin Tonic Uses: 1. Tonifies the Blood:-weakness, pale face and tongue, deficient and thin…

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Ficus simplicissima, Wu Zhi Mao Tao

ByAdam Tate

Ficus simplicissima, Wu Zhi Mao Tao 五指毛桃 Hispid Fig, Hairy Fig, Roughhair Fig, Fissured Fig, Coarse-leaf Fig, “Five-fingered Peach”Wu Zhi Mao Tao, Cu Ye Rong (TCM) Ficus simplicissimaThe botany of Captain Beechey’s voyage (1841) Ficus Wu Zhi Mao Tao(Adam 2024) Botanical name: Ficus simplicissima (syn. F. hirta)Ficus microcarpa is also given as a source, especially…

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Swallows Nest

ByAdam Tate

Swallows Nest, Yan Wo 燕窝 Yan Wo (TCM) Swallows Nest; right is ‘Red Blood Birds Next’, the most expensive (Chengdu Herb Market, 2015) Zoological name: White-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus);Black-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus Parts used: Nest Temperature & Taste: Neutral, Sweet Constituents: The nest contains mucopolysaccharides, and good levels of calcium, iron, potassium, and magnesium as…

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Stellaria, Chickweed

ByAdam Tate

Stellaria, Chickweed Dodoens, A Niewe Herball (1578) English botany, or coloured figures of British plants,, J.E. Sowerby (1864) Botanical name: Stellaria media (syn. Alsine media) Parts used: Whole Herb (preferably fresh) Temperature & Taste: Cool, moist. Sweet, Bitter Classifications: B. Clears Heat Uses: 1. Clears Liver Heat, Resists Poison:-Liver heat with red eyes, headache, bitter…

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Callerya, Niu Da Li

ByAdam Tate

Callerya, Niu Da Li 牛大力 “Cow Big Power”, Showy Millettia, Golden Bell Root, Mountain Lotus root Callerya speciosa Niu Da Li root(Photo by Adam, 2024) Botanical name: Callerya speciosa (syn. Millettia speciosa, Nanhaia speciosa) Parts used: Root Temperature & Taste: Neutral, Sweet, slightly Bitter Classification: Uses: 1. Strengthens Spleen, Increases Qi:–Fatigue, deficiency–Chronic Hepatitis–Spermatorrhea–Leukorrhea–Anti-cancer–regarded as prolonging…

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Copper, Cuprum

ByAdam Tate

Cuprum, Copper, Cu VenusTamra (Ayurveda)Nuhas (Unani, Avicenna)Tong 铜 (TCM) Hortus sanitatis, 1491 Native CopperPhoto by Jonathan Zander (Digon3) (Wikimedia) Minerological name: Cuprum Parts used: Oxide, BhasmaCopper Pyrite, Copper Sulphate, Verdigris and Malachite are also used. Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry (Ayurveda, Dioscorides; some Vedic sources say Cool); Bitter, Pungent, Astringent, Sour, Sweet“Burnt copper is hot,…

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Helix, Snails

ByAdam Tate

Helix, Snail Wo Niu 蜗牛 (TCM)Bu skyogs  འབུ་སྐྱོགས་  (Snail shell, Tibet) Herbario nuovo, 1667 Materia Medica Animalia, Peter Peyto Good, 1853 Helix pomatia(Photo by H. Zell) (Wikimedia) Zoological name: Helix spp. H. pomatia (Edible or Apple Snail), H. asperea (Common Snail), H. sylvatica (Wood Snail), H. nemoralis (Grove Snail) Others reportedly used include H. vermiculata,…

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Thapsia, Scorching Fennel PRO

ByAdam Tate

Thapsia, Scorching Fennel Deadly Carrot Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 3 varieties of Thapsia (Eicones plantarum, Jacobus Theodorus, 1590) T. garganica(Illustration by Ferdinand Bauer, 1787) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Thapsia spp.It appears several species have been used:  1. T. garganica  2. T. villosa (‘Deadly Carrot’ or ‘Scorching Fennel’)  3. T. ascelpium (‘Narrow-leaved Carrot’)Varieties listed in Parkinson’s Herbal include,…

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Artemisia, Mugwort, Ai Ye PRO

ByAdam Tate

Artemisia vulgaris, Mugwort Damanka (Ayurveda)Birenjafif (Unani)Khan nag འཁན་ནག་ (Tibet) Artemisia argyi, Chinese Mugwort, Ai Ye 艾叶 Ai Ye (TCM) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Ortus sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501 Artemisia (Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563) Flora von Deutschland (29), Kohler, 1887 Botanical name: Artemisia vulgarisRed and White varieties were traditionally known.The Chinese Mugwort is principally…

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Trifolium, Red Clover FREE

ByAdam Tate

Trifolium, Red Clover Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 T. pratenseFlora von Deutschland (23), Kohler, 1885 Florigraphia Britannica, Deakin, 1857 Red Clover Flower (Adam, 2017) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Trifolium pratense, T. medium; T. repens is the White Parts used: Flowers Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Slightly Sweet and Bitter Classification: B….

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