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Sarracenia, Pitcher Plant
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024December 21, 2025

Sarracenia, Pitcher Plant Indian Cup, Small-Pox Plant, Saddle plant, Side-Saddle plantHuang Ping Zi Cao (S. flava, Yellow Pitcherplant) Sarracenia spp.Medicinal Plants, Millspaugh, 1892 Sarracenia purpurea(Photo by incidencematrix) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Sarracenia spp. Some claimed the only active species was S. pururea (Morris), while others suggested a number of other species probably possess similar properties including:…

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Ayurveda | Blatta | Cockroach | Galenic Medicine | Herbal Formula | Herbal Medicine | How to use | Materia Medica | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine

Blatta, Cockroach
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024April 4, 2025

Blatta, Cockroach Oriental Cockroach, Water Bug, Black BeetleZhang Lang (TCM)Bse spur (Tibet)Banat wardan (Unani) Oriental Cockroach (Blatta orientalis)Manual of Organic Materica Medica, Sayre, 1879 American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)(Principal Household Insects of theUnited States, Howard, 1896) Entomological name: Blatta orientalis (syn. Periplaneta orientalis, Stylopyga orientalis)The American Cockroach, Periplaneta americana, appears to have been used similarly in…

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Avena sativa | Ayurveda | Galenic Medicine | Greek Medicine | Herbal Formula | Herbal Medicine | Hippocrates | How to use Oats | Materia Medica | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine

Avena, Oats
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024December 26, 2025

Avena, Oats Dioscorides Materia Medica, Ruellio, 1549 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Botanical name: Avena sativa Parts used: Seeds (grain); Straw Temperature & Taste: Neutral, dry. Sweet Uses: OATS1. Calms the Mind, Calms Wind, Moves the Qi: -Extract or tincture is used as a nerve and uterine tonic;-Melancholy and Depression-Menopausal neurasthenia.-general debility and exhaustion after febrile diseases,…

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Ayurveda | Galenic Medicine | Greek Medicine | Herbal Medicine | Hippocrates | How to use Mastic | Materia Medica | Pistachio lenti | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine | Unani-Tibb

Mastic, Mastic Gum FREE
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024November 26, 2025

Mastic, Mastic Gum Mastagi (Unani) Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Botanische wandplaten (1904–1914) Left: P. lentiscus Right: P. terebinthusFlora von Deutschland (21), Kohler, 1885 Mastic Gum (Adam, 2017) Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Pistachio lentiscus (syn. Lentiscus mastiches)Related species which have supplied Mastic or have been used as a substitute include P….

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Ayurveda | Dres ma | Galenic Medicine | Herbal Formula | Herbal Medicine | How to use | Iris | Iris bulleyana | Iris goniocarpa | Iris lactea | Materia Medica | Subscription | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine

Iris, Dres ma PRO
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024December 22, 2025

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Ayurveda | Galenic Medicine | Greek Medicine | Herbal Medicine | Hippocrates | How to use Cinquefoil | Materia Medica | Potentilla | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine | Unani-Tibb

Quinquefoliae, Cinquefoil FREE
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024August 29, 2025

Quinquefoliae, Cinquefoil Pentafillum, Five-leaved grass Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Dioscorides Materia Medica, Ruellio, 1549 Flora von Deutschland (25), Kohler, 1886 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Potentilla reptans (syn. P. repens) Parts used: Herb in flower; Root Temperature & Taste: Temperate, very dry. Classifications: 2K. RESOLVENT. 2N. REPELLENT. 2T. GLUTINATE3C. ALEXIPHARMICS Uses:…

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Ayurveda | Herbal Medicine | Indian Beech | Jam Bras | Karakja | Karanj | Materia Medica | Pongamia | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine | Unani-Tibb

Pongamia, Indian Beech
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024September 15, 2025

Pongamia, Indian Beech Karakja (Ayurveda)Karanj (Unani)Punkum verptdai (root-bark), Punkum Viththu (Seed) (Siddha)Jam Bras (Tibetan) Pongamia pinnataBlanco, Flora de Filipinas. (1875) Pongamia pinnata(Photo by Dr.jayan.d) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Pongamia pinnataSynonyms include P. glabra, P. mittis, Derris indica, Dalbergia arborea, Galedupa indica, Galedupa pinnata, Mellittia pinnata Parts used: Seed; Bark; less commonly the Leaf Temperature & Taste:…

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Broomrape | Cistanche | Herbal Medicine | Materia Medica | Rou Cong Rong | Subscription | TCM | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine | 肉苁蓉

Cistanche, Broomrape, Rou Cong Rong PRO
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024December 25, 2025

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Ayurveda | Galenic Medicine | Greek Medicine | Herbal Medicine | Hippocrates | How to use Pontic Rhubarb or Rhapo | Materia Medica | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine | Unani-Tibb

Pontic Rhubarb or Rhaponticum
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024November 30, 2025

Pontic Rhubarb or Rhaponticum Rhei Pontici Rapontici, Pontic Rhubarb or RhaponticumEnglish Rhubarb Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Herbarium Blackwellianum, 1757 The Root, from Gerards Herbal, 1636 Botanical name: Rheum rhaponticum Parts used: Root Temperature & Taste: Cool (some said Neutral), dry. Sweet, Pungent, Bitter Uses: 1. Clears Heat and Poison, Purges:…

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Bursa pastoris, Shepherds Purse PRO
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024September 20, 2025

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Chermes | Coccus illicis | Grana tinctorum | Herbal Medicine | Kermes | Materia Medica | Traditional Herbal Formula | Traditional Medicine

Kermes
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024April 4, 2025

Kermes Kermes, Chermes; Kermes Grains; Alhermes; Dying Grains; Grana Tinctorum; Coccum Baphica; Coccus infectorium; Coccus of the Oak Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491 Illex cocciferaDioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578 Coccus illicis on Holm Oak(Photo by Bernard DUPONT) (Wikimedia) Entomological name: Insect of Coccus illicis (syn. Kermes illicis) on Illex coccifera Parts used: Insect…

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Ayurveda | Galenic Medicine | Herbal Formula | Herbal Medicine | How to use | Materia Medica | Sardonyx | TCM | Tibetan Medicine | Traditional Chinese Medicine | Traditional Medicine | Unani Medicine

Sardonyx
ByAdam Tate December 22, 2024December 27, 2025

Sardonyx Sardonyx (Photo by Arpingstone) (Wikimedia) Minerological name: Chalcedony type Parts used: Sardonyx as we know it today is red and white banded Agate. However, the term traditionally included a number of other Chalcedony varieties: Pliny described it as having a white opaque layer upon a red transparent layer of true Sard. This was the…

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