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Trumpetcreeper Flower | Flos Campsis | 凌霄花 (Lingxiaohua)
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Flower |
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| Property: |
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Cold |
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Sweet, Sour |
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Influences the liver and pericardium channels. |
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To remove heat from blood, promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis. |
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| Indications: |
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To remove heat from the blood, remove blood stasis and dispel wind. |
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Abalone Shell | Concha Haliotidis | 石决明 (Shijueming)
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Marine Sources - Shell |
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| Property: |
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Cold |
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Salty |
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Influences the liver channel. |
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To pacify hyperactivity of the liver, quench its fire and improve vision. |
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| Indications: |
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Headache and dizziness; blurred vision due to nebula, optic atrophy and night blindness. |
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Akebia Stem | Caulis Akebiae | 木通 (Mutong)
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Stem |
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| Property: |
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Slightly Cold |
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Bitter |
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Influences the heart, small intestine and bladder channels. |
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To clear heart-fire, induce urination, stimulate menstruation and promote lactation. |
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| Indications: |
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Feverish sensation in the chest, laryngalgia, pharyngalgia, deep-coloured urine, five types of stranguria, edema, general contraction pain, amenorrhea and hypogalactia. |
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American Ginseng | Radix Panacis Quinquefoli | 西洋参 (Xiyangshen)
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花旗参 (Huaqishen) |
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| Source: |
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Root |
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| Property: |
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Cool |
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Sweet, Slightly bitter |
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Influences the heart, lung and kidney channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To tonify qi, nourish yin, remove heat and promote the production of body fluids. |
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| Indications: |
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Used for deficiency of qi and yin; internal heat; cough; asthma; bloody phlegm; fire due to deficiency syndrome; dysphoria, tiredness; diabetes, dry and thirsty mouth and throat. |
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Appendiculate Cremastra Pseudobulb | Pseudobulbus Cremastrae Seu Pleiones | 山慈菇 (Shancigu)
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Common Pleione Pseudobulb | Chinese Tulip |
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| Source: |
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Pseudobulb |
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| Property: |
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Cool |
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Sweet, Slightly pungent |
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Influences the liver and spleen channels. |
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To remove toxic-heat, resolve phlegm and disintegrate lumps. |
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| Indications: |
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Carbuncles, boils, scrofula and subcutaneous nodules; snake and insect bites. |
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Arc Shell | Concha Arcae | 瓦楞子 (Walengzi)
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Cockle Shell |
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| Source: |
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Marine Sources - Shell |
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| Property: |
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Neutral |
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To eliminate phlegm, remove blood stasis, soften hard masses, dissolve nodulation and relieve gastric pain by reducing acid. |
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Influences the lungs, stomach, and liver channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To eliminate phlegm, remove blood stasis, soften hard masses, dissolve nodulation and relieve gastric pain by reducing acid. |
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| Indications: |
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Retention of sticky phlegm difficult to expectorate; goitre, scrofula and masses in the abdomen; gastric pain with acid regurgitation. |
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Areca Peel | Pericarpium Arecae | 大腹皮 (Dafupi)
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Pericarp |
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| Property: |
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Slightly Warm |
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| Taste: |
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Pungent |
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Influences the spleen, stomach, large and small intestine channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To check upward perverted flow of qi, relieve abdominal distension, induce urination and reduce edema. |
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| Indications: |
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Stagnation of qi due to accumulation of damp marked by epigastric and abdominal distension, difficult bowel movements, edema of the legs and oliguria. |
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Argy Wormwood Leaf | Folium Artemisiae Argyi | 艾叶 (Aiye)
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Leaf |
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| Property: |
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Warm |
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| Taste: |
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Pungent, Bitter; Slightly toxic |
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Influences the liver, spleen and kidney channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To dispel cold, relieve pain, warm the meridians and arrest bleeding. |
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| Indications: |
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Cold pain in the lower abdomen; menstrual disorders caused by cold; infertility; spitting of blood; epistaxis; uterine bleeding in pregnancy; excessive menstrual flow or prolonged menstruation; external use for itching. |
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Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit | Fructus Corni | 山茱萸 (Shanzhuyu)
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Fruit |
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| Property: |
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Slightly Warm |
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| Taste: |
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Sour, Astringent |
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| Channel: |
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Influences the liver and kidney channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To tonify the liver and kidneys, restrain seminal emission and relieve collapse. |
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| Indications: |
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Dizziness; tinnitus; aching pain in the loins and knees; impotence; seminal emission; enuresis; frequent urination; metrorrhagia; metrostaxis; leukorrhea; collapse with profuse sweating; diabetes. |
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Atractylodes Rhizome | Rhizoma Atractylodis | 苍术 (Cangzhu)
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Black Atractylodes |
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| Source: |
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Rhizome |
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| Property: |
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Warm |
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| Taste: |
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Pungent, Bitter |
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| Channel: |
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Influences the spleen, stomach and liver channels. |
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| Actions: |
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To remove dampness, invigorate the function of the spleen, dispel wind-cold and improve vision. |
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| Indications: |
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Epigastric distension and diarrhoea; edema, particularly edema of the legs due to wind-cold; rheumatic arthralgia; common cold; night blindness. |
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