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Solanum indicum Solanum indicum, Bruhati Indian Nightshade, Poison BerryBruhati (Ayurveda)Tian Qie Zi (TCM) Solanum indicumPapillons de Surinam dessinés d’après nature”, plate 74, circa 1850 Solanum indicum(Photo by Muthukurussi) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Solanum indicum (syn. S. anguivi) Parts used: Root or Whole Plant; sometimes the Fruit Temperature & Taste: Cold, dry. Bitter Classification: Uses: 1. Clears…
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Scrophularia, Figwort, Xuan Shen 玄参 Xuan Shen (Chinese Figwort)Gyer shing pa གཡེར་ཤིང་པ (Tibetan) Herbarum Vivae Eicones, Otto Brunfels, 1530 Flora von Deutschland (17), Kohler, 1884 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Scrophularia spp. 1. S. nodosa (West) 2. S. ningpoensis, S. buergeriana (TCM) 3. S. incisa, S. ningpoensis, S. koelzii (Tibetan) Parts used: Root Temperature & Taste: Cold,…
Arctium Semen, Burdock seed, Niu Bang Zi 牛蒡子 Niu Bang Zi (TCM, Seed) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Medicinal Plants, Millspaugh, 1892 Burdock seed(Adam, 2025) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Artcium lappaGreater and Lesser types were recognised. Parts used: Seed Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Bitter, pungent Classifications: A. Clears Exterior…
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Calamintha, Calamint Also called Mountain Mint New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Greater (top left) and Lesser (right) CalamintParkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, 1640 Curtis, William, Flora Londinensis, vol. 6 (1789-1798) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Calamintha officinalis (syn. Clinopodium nepeta subsp. glandulosum, Melissa nepeta, Melissa calamintha)C. nepeta (Lesser Calamint) is used…
Lapis Hystericus Mother Stone, Woman Stone, Womb Stone, Vulva Stone, Stone of VenusHysterolithos, Hysteroptera Museum Museorum, Valentini, 1704 Palaeozoologie, Zittel, 1876–1880 Photo taken from Zoologische und paläontologische Objekte, Carola Fey & Reinhard Ziegler (University of Heidelberg website) Zoological name: Fossil brachiopods, most often spiriferids and ortids. (Duffin)Schizophoria vulvaria is commonly given as the source. Parts…
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Punica Fructus, Pomegranate Fruit Shi Liu Zi (TCM)Se bru སེ་འབྲུ (Tibetan)Dadima (Ayurveda)Anardana (Unani) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Kreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 Pomegranate Fruit (Adam, 2019) Dried Pomegranate fruit as used inAyurveda and Tibetan Medicine (Adam, 2016) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Punica granatum Parts used: Fruit; the dried, ripe fruit-seed are used in Tibetan…
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