Niuwang Feijincao, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the whole plant, including the roots, of Phlomis umbrosa Turcz. var. australis Hemsl. (family Lamiaceae). It is distributed in southwestern China, as well as in Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, and Tibet. It has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving cough, promoting blood circulation and unblocking meridians, and detoxifying and reducing swelling.It is primarily used to treat colds, coughs, rheumatic pain, weakness in the lower back and knees, bruises and hematomas from falls or blows, fractures, and abscesses and toxic swellings.
Bitter melon is the dried, nearly ripe fruit of Momordica charantia L., a plant in the Cucurbitaceae family. It possesses both medicinal and edible value; it can be used as a traditional Chinese medicinal herb for clinical treatment and incorporated into daily diets for health maintenance.According to traditional medicine, it has a bitter taste and a cold nature, and affects the Heart, Spleen, Liver, and Lung meridians. It is effective in relieving summer heat and clearing internal heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and detoxifying the body. It can be used to treat summer heat-induced thirst and restlessness, red, swollen, and painful eyes, and abscesses and swellings caused by toxins.
Evodia is a commonly used medicinal herb for warming the interior. It consists of the dried, nearly ripe fruits of the Rutaceae plants Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth., Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth. var. officinalis (Dode) Huang, or Evodia rutaecarpa (Juss.) Benth. var. bodinieri (Dode) Huang. It has the therapeutic effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain, subduing counterflow and stopping vomiting, and tonifying yang to stop diarrhea. It is used to treat Jueyin-type headaches, abdominal pain due to cold hernia, cold-damp beriberi, menstrual abdominal pain, epigastric and abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and regurgitation of acid, and early-morning diarrhea.
Milezhi, a name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is the fat of the sika deer (Elaphurus davidianus Milne-Edwards) of the Cervidae family. This species is endemic to China; it was already being raised in Nanyuan, Beijing, during the Qing Dynasty but did not occur in the wild. It was later transported to the United Kingdom, and the species became extinct in China.In the late 1980s, the British government returned the species to China; it is now bred in Beijing and Jiangsu and is classified as a Class I nationally protected animal. It is believed to promote blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, moisturize the skin, and detoxify. It is primarily used to treat conditions such as wind-cold-heat bi syndrome, stiffness and weakness of the limbs, wind-induced swelling of the head and face, boils, abscesses, and malignant sores, as well as facial blisters and pustules.
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