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Lepidium, Garden Cress Cress, PepperwortChandrashura (Ayurveda)Habb-ul-rashad, Halun, Hurf (Unani)Alivirai (Siddha)Zag Hi Li Sar (Sumerian)Sahle (Akkadian) Della Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562 lustrations of Indian Botany, Wight, 1840 Botanical name: Lepidium sativumSeveral related varieties are used similarly including L. latifolium (Pepperwort)Lepidium apetalum is used similarly in TCM, and is found from Europe to Asia. Parts used:…
Armeniaca, Apricot, Xing Ren 杏仁 Malus Armenius (‘Apple of Armenia’)Xing Ren (Apricot kernel, TCM) Kreutterbuch, Matthiolus, 1586 Members CLICK HERE for the PRO VERSION Botanical name: Prunus armeniacaOther species used in TCM include: 1. P. sibirica 2. P. manshurica 3. P. armeniaca L. var ansu Parts used: Kernel; Oil; rarely the Fruit or FlowerSweet…
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…
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,…
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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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:…
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:…
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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