Table 1.
The use of five treatments derived from orchids
| Condition |
Treatment
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shi-Hu | Tian-Ma | Bai-Ji | Jin-Xian-Lian | Shan-Ci-Gu | |
| Lack of ‘Yin’ (cool) or Excess of ‘Yang’ (fire) | |||||
| Thirst | + | ||||
| Fever | + | ||||
| Atrophic gastritis | + | ||||
| Diabetes mellitus | + | +* | |||
| Infection | + | + | + | ||
| Cataracts and eye problems | + | ||||
| Anti-cancer | + | + | |||
| Related to ‘wind’ | |||||
| Dizziness | + | ||||
| Convulsion | + | ||||
| Hypertension | + | ||||
| Stroke | + | + | |||
| Haemostatic agent | |||||
| Haemoptysis | + | ||||
| Gastric haemorrhage | + | ||||
| Trauma | + | ||||
| Producing necrosis of cancers | + | ||||
*
Especially nephritis, cystitis and pneumonia