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Anchusa tinctoria, Alkanet Dyers Bugloss, Spanish Bugloss, Alkanna Salmon, Botanologia, 1710 Andrews, The botanist’s repository, 1809-1810 Hand-Atlas Medicinisch-Pharmaceutischer, 1884 Botanical name: Alkanna tinctoria (syn. Anchusa tinctoria, Lithospermum tinctoria)Salmon listed 6 varieties, only the first 3 being used medicinally: 1. Great Yellow Alkanet, Anchusa 2. Lesser Alkanet with purple flowers, Anchusa altera 3. Small Alkanet with yellow flowers, Anchusa…
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Scorpion, Quan Xie. 全蝎 Chinese Gold Scorpion, Manchurian Scorpion (TCM)Quan Xie (TCM)Aqrab (Unani)Sdig pa nag po སྡིག་པ་ ནག་པོ་ (Tibet) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Buthus mariefranceae (from Morocco), related to the species used in TCM.Photo by Christian Ferrer) (Wikimedia) Scorpion species used in Medicine,Shaw, G. Zoological Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, 1809 Bulk Scorpions…
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Cream of Tartar Dregs of WineDurdi (Unani) Crude Tartar being collected from Wine barrelsOrtus Sanitatis, 1491 Minerological name: Potassium hydrogen tartrate, Potassium Acid Tartrate: Potassium Bitartrate. KHC4H4O6Crude Tartar (impure Potassium bitartrate) is collected from wine barrels and is purified to give Cream of Tartar Parts used: Purified Salt“The best and safest dregs [crude tartar] are…
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Stacte, Liquid Myrrh Stacte, Liquid Myrrh Commiphora myrrhaKöhler, F.E., Köhler’s Medizinal Pflanzen (1890) Botanical name: Commiphora myrrha Parts used: Liquid oily gum-resinTwo types were differentiated: 1. Native: spontaneous liquid exudation of the Myrrh tree in an oily state2. Factitious: oil extracted from fresh Myrrh by mixing with a little water and pressing (Dioscorides) It is…
Menispermum canadense, Yellow Parilla Canadian Moonseed, Pisswort, Yellow Sarsaparilla, Texas Sarsaparilla Menispermum canadense,Addisonia, Vol. 8 (1916) Menispermum canadense rhizome and rootletsNotes on Pharmacognosy, Otto Augustus Wall, 1902 Botanical name: Menispermum canadense (syn. M. angulatum, M. smilacinum, Cissampelos smilacina) (America)M. dauricum of TCM is used similarly, but we have separated them. Parts used: Rhizome and root…
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Levisticum, Lovage Levisticum, Lovage HipposelinumSisaliyus (Unani) Herbarius latinus, Petri, 1485 Kurtzes Handtbuchlein, Ryff, 1599 Flora von Deutschland (27), Kohler, 1886 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Levisticum officinaleLigusticum chinensis (syn. L. sinensis, L. wallichi) is the Chinese Lovage Ligusticum Chuan Xiong. Parts used: Root; also the Seed and Leaf Temperature & Taste:…
Anemone coronaria, Wild Poppy Wild Poppy, Wind-Rose, Bastard Wild Poppy, Poppy Anemone, Crown AnemoneArgemonia, Concordia, Concordialis, Herba liburnica Two varieties of ArgemoneEicones plantarum seu stirpium, Jacobus Theodorus, 1590 Anemone coronariaJ. Sibthrop, J.E. Smith, Flora Graeca, vol. 6 (1826) Botanical name: Anemone coronaria, A. fulgens, A. apennina Parts used: Herb Temperature & Taste: Very Warm, dry….
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