Chinese Herbology
The Chinese Herbology is the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs.
The Herbology is one of the most important terms used in TCM. Each of the requirements is a cocktail of plants tailored to the patient. An assortment of herbs is infused twice in one hour. The practitioner usually designs a remedy using one or two main ingredients that target the disease. He then adds other ingredients to adjust the formula to the yin / yang of the patient. Sometimes, ingredients are needed to cancel the toxicity or side effects of the main ingredients. Some herbs require the use of other ingredients that act as catalyst or else the brew is ineffective. The final steps require a lot of experience and knowledge, and make the difference between a good herbalist and amateur. Unlike the western medicine, the balance of all ingredients is considered more important than the effects of the ingredients separate.
The Chinese Herbology incorporates ingredients from all parts of the plant, leaf, stem, flower, root and also ingredients from animals or minerals. The use of threatened species (such as seahorses, rhinoceros horn and tiger bones) has created controversy and resulted in the emergence of a black market that has encouraged poaching of endangered species.
50 plants fundamentals [edit]
In Chinese Herbology, there are 50 "core plant" [1] listed below:
1. Agastache rugosa - huòxiāng
2. Alangium chinense - ba feng jiǎo
3. Anemone or Pulsatilla chinensis - Bai tou weng
4. Anisodus tanguticus - Shane làngdàng
5. Ardisia japonica - zǐjīn niu
6. Aster tataricus - zǐwǎn
7. Astragalus membranaceus - huángqí or běiqí
8. Camellia sinensis - chá chá shu or yè
9. Cannabis sativa - dà má
10. Carthamus tinctorius - hong hua
11. Cinnamomum cassia - Rou Gui
12. Cissampelos pareira - sheng Teng or xí
13. Coptis chinensis - duǎn è huánglián
14. Corydalis ambigua - Yan hú suǒ
15. Croton tiglium - ba dou
16. Daphne genkwa - yuánhuā
17. Datura metel - Yang Jin Hua
18. Datura Tatul - zǐ màn hua tuo luo
19. Dendrobium nobile - or shí shí hú hú lán
20. Dichroa febrifuge - Changshan
21. Ephedra sinica - Ma Huang cǎo
22. Eucommia ulmoides - dùzhòng
23. Euphorbia pekinensis - dàjǐ
24. Flueggea suffruticosa (formerly Securinega suffruticosa) - yè qiu yi
25. Forsythia suspensa - liánqiào
26. Gentiana loureiroi - dì ding
27. Gleditsia sinensis - zao jia
28. Glycyrrhiza uralensis - gāncǎo
29. Hydnocarpus anthelmintics (syn. H. anthelminthicus) - Da Feng zǐ
30. Ilex purpurea - Dongqing
31. Leonurus japonicus - yìmǔcǎo
32. Ligusticum wallichii - chuānxiōng
33. Lobelia chinensis - Ban bian lian
34. Phellodendron amurense - Huang bǎi
35. Platycladus orientalis (formerly Thuja orientalis) - cèbǎi
36. Pseudolarix amabilis - qian jin song
37. Psilopeganum sinense - Ma Huang Shan
38. Pueraria lobata - GE GEN
39. Rauwolfia serpentina - Gold
40. Rehmannia glutinosa - dìhuáng or gan dìhuáng
41. Rheum officinale - dà yao yong huang
42. Rhododendron tsinghaiense - Qīnghǎi dùjuān
43. Saussurea costus - xiang yun mù
44. Schisandra chinensis - wǔ wei zi
45. Scutellaria baicalensis - huángqín
46. Stemona tuberosa - bǎi bù
47. Stephania tetrandra - Fang jǐ
48. Styphnolobium japonicum (formerly Sophora japonica) - Huai, huai shu, or hua huai
49. Trichosanthes kirilowii - guālóu
50. Wikstroemia indica - liǎo ge Wang
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