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| Commmon
Name : |
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Amur
Cork Tree |
| Latin
Name : |
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Phellodendron Amurense |
| Family
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Rutaceae |
Actions & Indications |
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Eliminates
Heat and Dampness |
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For Damp-Heat especially in the
lower burner with symptoms of diarrhea with strong odor, dysentery,
urinary tract infections, yellow vaginal discharge and jaundice |
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Reduces Kidney
Fire |
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For rising Kidney Fire from Yin
deficiency, with heat signs such as night sweats, afternoon fevers,
steaming bone disorder, nocturnal emissions or spermatorrhea.
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Drains Fire
Toxicity |
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For damp skin lesions,
abscess, boils, carbuncles, furuncles and eczema. |
Medical Functions |
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It has strong, bitter actions
and detoxicant, alterative, antibacterial, anti-rheumatic, aphrodisiac,
bitter stomachic, holagogue, diuretic, expectorant, febrifuge,
hypoglycemic, ophthalmic, skin, vasodilator, and tonic properties. |
| Commmon
Name : |
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Coptis |
| Latin Name : |
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Coptidis Chinensis
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| Family : |
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Ranunculaceae |
Actions & Indications |
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Drains Fire
and Relieves Toxins |
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For fire symptoms such
as high fever, irritability, delirium, red tongue, and full and
rapid pulse. Also for heat with toxicity causing painful red eyes,
sore throat, and for toxic skin lesions. |
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Drains Dampness
and Clears Heat |
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For Damp-Heat in the stomach with
vomiting or acid regurgitation, or stomach fire with bad breath
and belching with a foul smell, and for Damp-Heat in the intestines
with diarrhea or dysentery. |
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Calms Heart
Fire |
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For insomnia due to the Heart and
Kidneys miscommunication. |
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Clears Heat,
Stops Bleeding |
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For epistaxis, Blood in the stool,
urine, or vomit. |
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Used topically
to clear heat in the eyes, tongue, and mouth. |
Medical Functions |
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Coptis contains berberine,
which has been shown to help fight certain types of bacteria, fungi,
reduce inflammation, and help promote healing. |
| Commmon
Name : |
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Sophora |
| Latin Name : |
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Sophora Flavescentis |
| Family : |
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Leguminosae |
Actions
& Indications |
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Eliminates
Heat and Dries Dampness |
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Used
for jaundice, acute dysentery, leukorrhea, and sores. |
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Stops
Wind, Itching, and Kills Parasites |
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Used for damp skin
toxins with chronic itching, genital itching and bacterial infections,
trichomonas, ringworm, eczema, pus, and bleeding anywhere on the
skin. Can be used both internally and topically. |
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Promotes
Urination |
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For acute urinary
tract infections due to heat, for patterns such as Damp-Heat in
the small intestine, and heat induced edema. |
Medical
Functions |
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The
root is anthelmintic, antibacterial, antifungal, antipruritic, astringent,
bitter, carminative, diuretic, febrifuge, parasiticide, pectoral,
stomachic and tonic
It is used both internally and externally in the treatment of vaginitis,
eczema, pruritis, ringworm, leprosy, syphilis, scabies and itching
allergic reactions |
| Commmon
Name : |
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Skullcap |
| Latin Name : |
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Scutellaria Baicalensis |
| Family : |
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Labiatae |
Actions & Indications |
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Used
mental and nerve disorders. |
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Scientific studies are proving
this to be a valuable plant in many areas for mental disorders.
Skullcap is used in the treatment of a wide range of nervous conditions
including epilepsy, insomnia, hysteria, anxiety, delerium tremens,
withdrawal from barbiturates and tranquilisers. |
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Promotes
menstruation |
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It will use a medicinal infusion
of the plant, it should not be given to pregnant women since it
can induce a miscarriage, the infusion is also used in the treatment
of throat infections.
The infusion is given for nervous headaches, neuralgia and in headache
arising from incessant coughing, pain, and inducing sleep when necessary,
without any unpleasant symptoms following. |
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Treat
ADD |
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Skullcap is currently
being used as an alternative medicine to treat ADD. |
Medical Functions |
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Skullcap is a powerful medicinal
herb, it is used in alternative medicine as an anti-inflammatory,
abortifacient, antispasmodic, slightly astringent, emmenagogue,
febrifuge, nervine, sedative and strongly tonic. |
| Commmon
Name : |
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Licorice |
| Latin Name : |
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Glycyrrhizae Uralensis |
| Family : |
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Leguminosae |
| Actions
& Indications |
This
is the most commonly used Chinese herb, appearing in almost all
precriptions; it benefits all the organs; its flavour improves the
taste of all precriptions; it slows and prolongs the effects of
strong tonic precriptions; antidote in mushroom poisoning; emollient
in peptic ulcers. |
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Tonifying
the spleen and moistening the lung. |
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It
is efficacious in the treatment of syndromes due to deficiency of
qi in the spleen and stomach and cough with dyspnea. |
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Supplementing
qi and restoring pulse. |
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It is prescribed
to treat insufficiency of blood and deficiency of qi, manifested
as spontaneous sweating, palpitation, and knotted and intermittent
pulses. |
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Clearing
away heat and toxic substances. |
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It is often used
to treat phylogenic infections, e.g. carbuncles, deep-rooted carbuncles,
furuncles, multiple abscesses, scrofula, ulcer, sore throat, etc.
It is also efficacious in the treatment of pesticides poisoning
and food poisoning. |
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Relieving
spasm and pain. |
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It is applied in the
treatment of stomachache, abdominal pain and spasm and pain and spasm
and pain of muscles. |
| Medical
Functions |
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It effects on digestive
system, anti ulcer, anti convulsion, and promotes secretion of insulin,
protects liver from toxin ,anti inflammation,anti allergy. anti
virus and bacteria, and also effects on blood vessels |
| Other
Herbs : |
| Giant
Knotweed Rizome, Arnebia Root, Borneo Camphor Tree |
| Other
Ingredients : |
| Lotion |
: Purified
Water, Alcohol |
| Cream |
: Petroleum Jerry |
Grossary
| Damp,
Dampness : |
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excessive
fluids in the body with symptoms including fellings of heaviness,
sluggishness, secretions that turbid, sluggish, sinking, viscous,
copious, slimy, cloudy or sticky, excessive leukorrhea, ozzing,
purulent skin eruptions, lassitude, edema, abdominal distention,
chest fulless, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, lack of thierst
and achy, heavy, stiff and sore joints. |
| Damp
Heat |
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a condition of
Dampness and Heat woth symptons of thick, greasy yellow secretions
and phlegm, jaunadice, hepatitis, dysentery, urinary difficulty
or pain, furuncles and eczema. |
| Qi |
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Energy, life force;
Qi circulates, protects, holds, transforms and warms. |
| Yang |
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The body's capcity
to generate and maintain wormth and circulation. |
| Yin |
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The body's substance,
including Blood and all other fluids in the body ; these nurture
and moisten the Organs and tissues. |
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