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Oroxylum, Mu Hu Die PRO

ByAdam Tate

Oroxylum, Mu Hu Die 木蝴蝶 Indian TrumperflowerMu Hu Die (TCM, Seed)Shoyanaka, Shoynka, Balluka (Ayurveda, Root-bark)Tsampa Ka  ཙམ་པ་ཀ་ (Tibetan) Oroxylum indicumBlanco, M., Flora de Filipinas. (1875) Oroxylum indicum(Photo by Vinayaraj) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Oroxylum indicum (syn. Bignonia indica) Parts used: Seed; Bark Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Bitter Classifications: Q. Stop Cough and Wheezing Uses: SEED:1….

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Herpetospermum, Gser Gyi Me Tog PRO

ByAdam Tate

Herpetospermum, Gser Gyi Me Tog གསེར་གྱི་མེ་ཏོག Himalayan Bitter GourdGser Gyi Me Tog (Tibetan)Bo Leng Gua Zi (TCM)Beej Karela (Hindi) Herpetospermum pedunculosum(Photo by Max Antheunisse) (plantillustrations) Herpetospermum seed(Chengdu Medicine Market, Adam, 2017) Botanical name: Herpetospermum pedunculosum (syn. Bryonia pedunculosa, Herpetospermun caudigerum, H, grandiflorum) Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Bitter Uses: 1. Clears Liver…

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Piper Longum, Long Pepper PRO

ByAdam Tate

Piper longum, Long Pepper, Bi Ba 荜茇 Bi Ba (TCM)Pippali (Ayurveda)Thippili (Siddha)Filfil Daraz, Peepal (Unani)Pi pi ling  པི་པི་ལིང༌  (Tibetan)The root of Long Pepper is called Peepalmool (Unani), Thippiliver (Siddha) Long Pepper, Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640 Piper longumWoodville, Hooker, Spratt, Medical Botany, 1832 Long Pepper (Adam, 2017) Botanical name: Piper spp. P. longum P. officinum Classical…

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Acorus, Calamus, Shi Chang Pu PRO

ByAdam Tate

Acorus, Calamus, Shi Chang Pu 石菖蒲 Sweet FlagVacha (Ayurveda)Vasambu (Siddha)Shi Chang Pu 石菖蒲 (TCM)Shu dag  ཤུ་དག  (A. calamus, Tibetan)Waj, Waj e Turki (Unani) Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485 Ortus Sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501 Calamus (Acorum verum, Acorus of Dioscorides)Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578  PseudoacorusNew Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Acorus calamusKohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 The ‘True’ (original) Acorus…

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Cnidium, She Chuang Zi FREE

ByAdam Tate

Cnidium, She Chuang Zi 蛇床子 She Chuang Zi (TCM)La la phud ser po  ལ་ལ་ཕུདསེར་པོ  (Tibetan Medicine) Cnidium monnieriJacquin, Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis, (1770) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Cnidium monnieri (syn. Selinum monnieri) Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Pungent, Sweet Classifications: T. External Medicines Uses: 1. Warms the Kidneys, Tonifies…

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Leech, Shui Zhi 水蛭

ByAdam Tate

Leech, Shui Zhi 水蛭 Shui Zhi (TCM)Jonk, Pichchian, Jonkan (Unani) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Materia Medica Animalia, Peter Peyto Good, 1853 Dried Leech as used in TCM.(Chengdu Medicine Market, Adam, 2009) See also Leeching Entomological name: Hirudo and Whitmania spp.In TCM, the Official species used are: Hirudo nipponica Whitmania acranulata W. pigra There are…

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Dendrobium nobile, Shi Hu FREE

ByAdam Tate

Dendrobium nobile, Shi Hu 石斛 Shi Hu (TCM)Pu shel rtse  པུ་ཤེལ་རྩི  (Tibet) Dendrobium nobileAtlas des plantes de jardins, Klincksieck, 1896 Above: Bunches of freshly harvested DendrobiumRight: fresh, stripped and bunched stems(Chengdu Medicine Market, Adam, 2017) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Dendrobium spp.D. nobile, D. candidum, D. fimbriatum are listed in the Chinese…

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Deglued Deer Horn, Lu Jiao Shuang

ByAdam Tate

Deglued Deer Horn, Lu Jiao Shuang 鹿角霜 Lu Jiao Shuang (TCM) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Deglued Deer horn (Adam, 2016)  Zoological name: Cervus spp.A number of Deer species have been used, the main sources in TCM are:  1. C. nippon (Sika Deer)  2. C. elaphus (Red Deer) Parts used: Horn…

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Azadirachta, Neem PRO

ByAdam Tate

Azadirachta, Neem, Nimba Margosa treeNimba, Nimbaka, Arishta (Ayurveda)Neem, Aazaad-Darakht-e-Hindi (Unani)Vemmu, Vembu, Veppan (Siddha)Nim Pa  ནིམ་པ  (Tibetan) ‘Azeadarach’, Ortus sanitatisCube, Johann von, 1501 Lobel, M. de, Plantarum seu stirpium icones,vol. 2 (1581) Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum,Breyne (1739) (Photo by Jimmy tikhak) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Azadirachta indica (syn. Melia azadirachta)M. toosenden and M. azedarach are regarded as different…

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Rhododendron anthopogon, Dwa Li PRO

ByAdam Tate

Rhododendron anthopogon, Dwa lis, དྭ་ལིས Savoury Rhododendron Dwa Li (Flower), Ba Lu (Leaf) (Tibetan)Xiao Ye Pi Pa, Lie Xiang Du Juan (TCM) Rhododendron setosumThe rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya, Hooker, 1851 Rhododendron anthopogon subsp. hypenanthumPhoto by Ulf Eliasson (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Rhododendron spp.Two varieties are used in Tibetan Medicine for Dwa Li: Dwa li dkar po (‘White’):…

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Ammi, Bishop’s Weed, Ajowan FREE

ByAdam Tate

Ammi, Bishop’s Weed, Ajowan Ameos, Ethiopian Cumin, Alexandrian Cumin, Cuminum RegiumNankhuah, Ajwain (Unani)Aatrilal (Ammi majus, Unani)Ajowan, Ajwain, Yavani (Ayurveda) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Salmon, Botanologia, 1710  Left: Ammi copticum; Right: A. majusIcones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1806 Trachyspermum ammi(Photo by Sanjay ach) (Wikimedia) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Several plants supply Ammi: Trachyspermum…

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Bees, Apis

ByAdam Tate

Bees, Apis Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Lustgarten der Gesundtheit, Ryff, 1546 1. Queen Bee, 2. Worker Bee, 3. Male BeeThe Natural History of Insects, Rennie, 1838 Botanical name: Apis spp.A. mellifera; A. indicus, A. sinensis (in China) Parts used: Whole dried Bees; usually toasted or ashed for use Temperature & Taste: Warm, dry. Sweet….

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