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Dioscorea Rhizome
Traditional Uses
Supplements spleen and stomach, tonifies lungs and kidneys, astringes sperm, for Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic dysentery, cough due to general debility, diabetes, nocturnal emission, leukorrhea, urinary frequency
Scientific Research
Nutritive purpose: This action is probably due to its mucilage and nutrient content.
Epimedium
Traditional Uses
Supplements kidneys and strengthens yang, dispels wind-damp, for Impotence, weakness in the loins and knees, arthralgia due to wind, cold, and damp, general para1ysis
Scientific Research
(1) Aphrodisiac purpose: It has an aphrodisiac action mainly because it stimulates secretion of semen, causing the filling up of the scrotum, thereby stimulating the sensing nerves, and indirectly promoting sexual desire. The leaf and the root are most potent in this action, the fruit is intermediate, and the stem the least potent.
(2) Hypotensive purpose: The extract lowers blood pressure of anesthetized rabbits, normal mice, and hypertensive rats having kidney disorders. It acts mainly on dilating the peripheral blood vessels and inhibiting.the vasomotor center in the brain.
(3) Other purposes: Antitussive, expectorant, and antiasthmatic purposes. In small dosages it causes diuresis while at high dosages it acts against diuresis.
Eyebright
Common Names
Euphrasy, eye-bright. Medicinal Part: The herb.
Description
Red eyebright is a small, downy, annual herb very common in meadows, pastures, and other grassy areas of Europe and western Asia and probably naturalized locally in various places in the U.S. Its square, leafy stem grows up to 12 inches high and bears opposite, stiff, ovate leaves. The two-lipped, red or purple and white flowers grow in axillary leafy spikes from June to September.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, tonic. As the name suggests, red eyebright has been used to treat eye inflammations, eyestrain, and other eye ailments. A weak infusion of the fresh herb is used for these purposes, either as an eyewash or as fomentation. In addition, an infusion or poultice of red eye bright has been used for symptoms associated with colds, such as coughs, sore throat, nasal congestion, and catarrh. In Europe it has sometimes been taken for hay fever.
Fennel Fruit
Traditional Uses
Regulates the flow of chíi, controls pain, increases appetite, dispels cold, expels wind, for Abdominal distention, vomiting, diarrhea, hernia, abdominal pain
Scientific Research
(1) Expectorant purpose: The essential oil irritates the oral and throat mucosa and stimulates bronchial secretions, thus producing expectorant purposes.
(2) Stomachic purposes: The essential oil sensitizes the sense of taste and reflexively increases gastric and saliva secretion and activities of the stomach, thereby increasing the appetite and promoting digestion.
Fermented Pinellia Tuber
Traditional Uses
Harmonizes Stomach, Controls vomiting dries dampness, removes phlegm, disperses accumulation and swelling, for Vomiting, cough and dyspnea, thoracocostal distention, apoplexy, phlegm syncope, wind phlegm, dizziness, headache, insomnia
Scientific Research
(1) Antiemetic and sedative purposes: The toxic components are quite insoluble in water; the antiemetic and antitussive components, however, are soluble in hot water. The toxic compound cannot be destroyed by ginger juice or by boiling at 100 degrees C for three hours. Its toxicity can be eliminated by using alum. Therefore alum is always added to processed pinellia. Raw ginger is added to assist in its antiemetic action. Pinellia possesses quite a strong antiemetic purpose because it decreases excitation of the center causing vomiting.
(2) Emetic purpose: Raw pinellia and its extract cause vomiting, which is in accordance with the report of our ancestors that "unprocessed pinellia causes vomiting". The vomit-inducing component can be removed by heating the raw and powdered herb at high temperatures while the antiemetic component is preserved.
(3) Sedative purpose: The active constituent is an alkaloid. The boiled and filtered water-soluble fraction has been shown to tranquilize respiratory movements slightly.
(4) Purpose on 'the eye: Ingestion ofthe boiled and filtered water soluble portion can slightly decrease pressure inside the eyes.
Flowery Knotweed Root
Traditional Uses
Nourishes yin, replenishes sperm and blood. tonifies liver and kidneys, for Deficiency of liver and kidney yin, prematurely white hair, pain in the loins and knees, involuntary emission, functional bleeding, intestinal wind, chronic malaria, carbuncle, scrofula
Scientific Research
(1) Purgative purpose: It stimulates peristaltic movements of the intestine to induce defecation. The active constituents are the derivatives of anthraquinone.
(2) Cholesterol level-lowering purpose: In experiments with rabbits, it inhibits the increase of serum cholesterol and also decreases the absorption of cholesterol by the alimentary canal. This action is probably due to the ability of its constituents to combine with cholesterol to inhibit increase in cholesterol.
(3) Purpose on arteriosclerosis: It prevents the retention of lipid in the serum or inhibits the deposition of lipoid on the inner membrane of arteries, probably because of its lecithin content.
(4) Antiviral purpose: It has been shown to act against viruses.
(5) Other purposes: It is cardiotonic, especially to exhausted hearts; it stimulates extirpated frog heart and also causes blood sugar to first rise and then fall. The anthra-quinon derivatives in the herb possess a stimulatory action on the nervous system.
Forsythia Fruit
Traditional Uses
Dispels heat, removes toxin, disperses accumulations and swelling, drains pus, for Ulcer, scrofula, erysipelas, gonorrhea, erythema, dermal eruption
Scientific Research
(1) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro it inhibits Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhosa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other gram-negative bacteria. It also inhibits Staphylococus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus, Diplococcus pneumoniae, and Hemophilus pertussis and other gram-positive bacteria.
(2) Antiviral purpose: It inhibits influenza virus.
(3) Cardiotonic and diuretic purposes: Oleonolic acid is probably purposeive as a cardiotoric and diuretic.
Fritillaria Bulb
Traditional Uses
Moistens dryness to resolve phlegm, controls cough, clears heat, for Cough due to heat in the lungs, lung abscess, malfunction of the lungs. Chuan-pei is purposeive for treating tuberculosis and hemoptysis, while che-hei is good for cough due to external pernicious influence, incised-wound toxin, carbuncle, scrofula, toxic swelling, and laryngeal ulcer.
Scientific Research
(1) Antitussive and expectorant purposes: The alkaloids of the herb possess atro pinelike activities, stop contraction of the bronchial smooth muscle, decrease secretion, and dilate the pupil of the eye.
(2) Central nervous system-inhibiting purpose: In warm-blooded animals it paralyzes the central nervous system, stimulates heart muscles, causes dysfunction, of breathing and spontaneous, motor movements, decreases heart rate, and causes incomplete heart contraction thus leading to a lowering of blood pressure. It increases extirpated uterine contractions but inhibits peristalsis of extirpated rabbit intestines.
Gardenia Fruit
Traditional Uses
Dispels heat and purges fire, cools blood, removes toxin, for Insomnia due to fidgets and deficiency, jaundice, urinary disturbances, diabetes, hyperemia, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody diarrhea, hematochezia, tumor, esophagitis, chest pain, stomachache, oral ulceration, tonsillitis, mastitis
Scientific Research
(1) Purpose on the gallbladder: The aqueous or ethanol extracts when injected into rabbits stimulates their bile secretion. The extract also lowers the blood bilirubin level in rabbits after their bile ducts have been tied off and they have been injected with crocin and crocetin. Geniposide after being degraded in the intestine yields geni-pin, which stimulates bile secretion after being absorbed.
(2)Hypotensive purpose: The aqueous or ethanol extracts will continuously lower blood pressure in cats.
(3) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits the growth of Shigella dysenteriae, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(4) Antifungal purpose: Its aqueous extract inhibits white ringworm.
(5) Tranquilizing purpose: Its aqueous extract exhibits a tranquilizing purpose in mice. -.
(6) Antipyretic purpose: It inhibits center-controlling fever, its action being very
similar to that of coptis and scute.
(7) Other purposes: It inhibits ascitic carcinoma and suppresses diarrhea when given orally to mice.
Ginger Root
Traditional Uses
Warms middle warmer, reinvigorates yang, arms lungs, and resolves phlegm, for Vomiting, diarrhea. abdominal pain, cold limbs, minute pulse, cough due to retention of cold, rheumatic pain due to cold and moisture
Scientific Research
(1) Hypertensive purpose: It reflexively stimulates the vasomotor center and stimulates' the sympathetic nervous system thereby increasing the blood pressure.
(2) Stomachic and antiemetic purposes: It stimulates blood circulation. Ingestion of it warms the stomach and intestines, thus improving digestion and absorption by the gastrointestinal tract, which results in antiemetic and antidiarrheal actions.
Gleditsia Thorn
Traditional Uses
Opens cavities, resolves phlegm, dispels wind-dampness, kills parasites, for Stroke syndrome, hemiplegia, sore throat, asthmatic cough swelling
toxin, tinea
Scientific Research
(1) Hemolytic purpose: It possesses strong hemolytic action.
(2) Antibacterial purpose: The aqueous extract inhibits Escherichia coli, Eberthel-la typhos, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, and gram-negative bacteria in vitro.
(3) Antifungal purpose: In vitro it inhibits various dermatophytes.
(4) Expectorant purpose: Its saponin content,stimulates gastric mucosa reflexively,. causingan increase in secretions of the respiratory tract to aid in expelling phlegm.
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Dioscorea Rhizome
Traditional Uses
Supplements spleen and stomach, tonifies lungs and kidneys, astringes sperm, for Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic dysentery, cough due to general debility, diabetes, nocturnal emission, leukorrhea, urinary frequency
Scientific Research
Nutritive purpose: This action is probably due to its mucilage and nutrient content.
EpimediumTraditional Uses
Supplements kidneys and strengthens yang, dispels wind-damp, for Impotence, weakness in the loins and knees, arthralgia due to wind, cold, and damp, general para1ysis
Scientific Research
(1) Aphrodisiac purpose: It has an aphrodisiac action mainly because it stimulates secretion of semen, causing the filling up of the scrotum, thereby stimulating the sensing nerves, and indirectly promoting sexual desire. The leaf and the root are most potent in this action, the fruit is intermediate, and the stem the least potent.
(2) Hypotensive purpose: The extract lowers blood pressure of anesthetized rabbits, normal mice, and hypertensive rats having kidney disorders. It acts mainly on dilating the peripheral blood vessels and inhibiting.the vasomotor center in the brain.
(3) Other purposes: Antitussive, expectorant, and antiasthmatic purposes. In small dosages it causes diuresis while at high dosages it acts against diuresis.
Eyebright
Common Names
Euphrasy, eye-bright. Medicinal Part: The herb.
Description
Red eyebright is a small, downy, annual herb very common in meadows, pastures, and other grassy areas of Europe and western Asia and probably naturalized locally in various places in the U.S. Its square, leafy stem grows up to 12 inches high and bears opposite, stiff, ovate leaves. The two-lipped, red or purple and white flowers grow in axillary leafy spikes from June to September.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, tonic. As the name suggests, red eyebright has been used to treat eye inflammations, eyestrain, and other eye ailments. A weak infusion of the fresh herb is used for these purposes, either as an eyewash or as fomentation. In addition, an infusion or poultice of red eye bright has been used for symptoms associated with colds, such as coughs, sore throat, nasal congestion, and catarrh. In Europe it has sometimes been taken for hay fever.
Fennel Fruit
Traditional Uses
Regulates the flow of chíi, controls pain, increases appetite, dispels cold, expels wind, for Abdominal distention, vomiting, diarrhea, hernia, abdominal pain
Scientific Research
(1) Expectorant purpose: The essential oil irritates the oral and throat mucosa and stimulates bronchial secretions, thus producing expectorant purposes.
(2) Stomachic purposes: The essential oil sensitizes the sense of taste and reflexively increases gastric and saliva secretion and activities of the stomach, thereby increasing the appetite and promoting digestion.
Fermented Pinellia Tuber
Traditional Uses
Harmonizes Stomach, Controls vomiting dries dampness, removes phlegm, disperses accumulation and swelling, for Vomiting, cough and dyspnea, thoracocostal distention, apoplexy, phlegm syncope, wind phlegm, dizziness, headache, insomnia
Scientific Research
(1) Antiemetic and sedative purposes: The toxic components are quite insoluble in water; the antiemetic and antitussive components, however, are soluble in hot water. The toxic compound cannot be destroyed by ginger juice or by boiling at 100 degrees C for three hours. Its toxicity can be eliminated by using alum. Therefore alum is always added to processed pinellia. Raw ginger is added to assist in its antiemetic action. Pinellia possesses quite a strong antiemetic purpose because it decreases excitation of the center causing vomiting.
(2) Emetic purpose: Raw pinellia and its extract cause vomiting, which is in accordance with the report of our ancestors that "unprocessed pinellia causes vomiting". The vomit-inducing component can be removed by heating the raw and powdered herb at high temperatures while the antiemetic component is preserved.
(3) Sedative purpose: The active constituent is an alkaloid. The boiled and filtered water-soluble fraction has been shown to tranquilize respiratory movements slightly.
(4) Purpose on 'the eye: Ingestion ofthe boiled and filtered water soluble portion can slightly decrease pressure inside the eyes.
Flowery Knotweed Root
Traditional Uses
Nourishes yin, replenishes sperm and blood. tonifies liver and kidneys, for Deficiency of liver and kidney yin, prematurely white hair, pain in the loins and knees, involuntary emission, functional bleeding, intestinal wind, chronic malaria, carbuncle, scrofula
Scientific Research
(1) Purgative purpose: It stimulates peristaltic movements of the intestine to induce defecation. The active constituents are the derivatives of anthraquinone.
(2) Cholesterol level-lowering purpose: In experiments with rabbits, it inhibits the increase of serum cholesterol and also decreases the absorption of cholesterol by the alimentary canal. This action is probably due to the ability of its constituents to combine with cholesterol to inhibit increase in cholesterol.
(3) Purpose on arteriosclerosis: It prevents the retention of lipid in the serum or inhibits the deposition of lipoid on the inner membrane of arteries, probably because of its lecithin content.
(4) Antiviral purpose: It has been shown to act against viruses.
(5) Other purposes: It is cardiotonic, especially to exhausted hearts; it stimulates extirpated frog heart and also causes blood sugar to first rise and then fall. The anthra-quinon derivatives in the herb possess a stimulatory action on the nervous system.
Forsythia Fruit
Traditional Uses
Dispels heat, removes toxin, disperses accumulations and swelling, drains pus, for Ulcer, scrofula, erysipelas, gonorrhea, erythema, dermal eruption
Scientific Research
(1) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro it inhibits Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhosa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other gram-negative bacteria. It also inhibits Staphylococus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus, Diplococcus pneumoniae, and Hemophilus pertussis and other gram-positive bacteria.
(2) Antiviral purpose: It inhibits influenza virus.
(3) Cardiotonic and diuretic purposes: Oleonolic acid is probably purposeive as a cardiotoric and diuretic.
Fritillaria Bulb
Traditional Uses
Moistens dryness to resolve phlegm, controls cough, clears heat, for Cough due to heat in the lungs, lung abscess, malfunction of the lungs. Chuan-pei is purposeive for treating tuberculosis and hemoptysis, while che-hei is good for cough due to external pernicious influence, incised-wound toxin, carbuncle, scrofula, toxic swelling, and laryngeal ulcer.
Scientific Research
(1) Antitussive and expectorant purposes: The alkaloids of the herb possess atro pinelike activities, stop contraction of the bronchial smooth muscle, decrease secretion, and dilate the pupil of the eye.
(2) Central nervous system-inhibiting purpose: In warm-blooded animals it paralyzes the central nervous system, stimulates heart muscles, causes dysfunction, of breathing and spontaneous, motor movements, decreases heart rate, and causes incomplete heart contraction thus leading to a lowering of blood pressure. It increases extirpated uterine contractions but inhibits peristalsis of extirpated rabbit intestines.
Gardenia Fruit
Traditional Uses
Dispels heat and purges fire, cools blood, removes toxin, for Insomnia due to fidgets and deficiency, jaundice, urinary disturbances, diabetes, hyperemia, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody diarrhea, hematochezia, tumor, esophagitis, chest pain, stomachache, oral ulceration, tonsillitis, mastitis
Scientific Research
(1) Purpose on the gallbladder: The aqueous or ethanol extracts when injected into rabbits stimulates their bile secretion. The extract also lowers the blood bilirubin level in rabbits after their bile ducts have been tied off and they have been injected with crocin and crocetin. Geniposide after being degraded in the intestine yields geni-pin, which stimulates bile secretion after being absorbed.
(2)Hypotensive purpose: The aqueous or ethanol extracts will continuously lower blood pressure in cats.
(3) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits the growth of Shigella dysenteriae, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(4) Antifungal purpose: Its aqueous extract inhibits white ringworm.
(5) Tranquilizing purpose: Its aqueous extract exhibits a tranquilizing purpose in mice. -.
(6) Antipyretic purpose: It inhibits center-controlling fever, its action being very
similar to that of coptis and scute.
(7) Other purposes: It inhibits ascitic carcinoma and suppresses diarrhea when given orally to mice.
Ginger RootTraditional Uses
Warms middle warmer, reinvigorates yang, arms lungs, and resolves phlegm, for Vomiting, diarrhea. abdominal pain, cold limbs, minute pulse, cough due to retention of cold, rheumatic pain due to cold and moisture
Scientific Research
(1) Hypertensive purpose: It reflexively stimulates the vasomotor center and stimulates' the sympathetic nervous system thereby increasing the blood pressure.
(2) Stomachic and antiemetic purposes: It stimulates blood circulation. Ingestion of it warms the stomach and intestines, thus improving digestion and absorption by the gastrointestinal tract, which results in antiemetic and antidiarrheal actions.
Gleditsia Thorn
Traditional Uses
Opens cavities, resolves phlegm, dispels wind-dampness, kills parasites, for Stroke syndrome, hemiplegia, sore throat, asthmatic cough swelling
toxin, tinea
Scientific Research
(1) Hemolytic purpose: It possesses strong hemolytic action.
(2) Antibacterial purpose: The aqueous extract inhibits Escherichia coli, Eberthel-la typhos, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, and gram-negative bacteria in vitro.
(3) Antifungal purpose: In vitro it inhibits various dermatophytes.
(4) Expectorant purpose: Its saponin content,stimulates gastric mucosa reflexively,. causingan increase in secretions of the respiratory tract to aid in expelling phlegm.
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