Table 1.

List of medicinal herbs

Herbs No.	Plant name	Family name	Chinese name	Herb part used	Medicinal use
H1	Baccharis genistelloides (Lam.) Pers.	Asteraceae	Zhong jie feng	leaf	Gastritis, indigestion, heartburn, gallbladder stones, constipation, jaundice, diabetes, urinary tract infections (UTI), spleen dysfunction, liver disorders, fever and worms.1
H2	Physalis alkekengi L.	Solanaceae	Jin Deng Long	fruit	Sore throat and hoarseness of voice; cough with yellow sticky sputum; dysuria; external use for pemphigus and eczema.2
H3	Taraxacum mongolicum Hand-Mazz.	Compositae	Pu Gong Ying	leaf, flower and stems	Boils and sores, mastitis lymphadenitis, inflammation of eyes, sore throat, lung abscess, appendicitis, jaundice caused by damp-heat, urinary infection with difficult painful urination.2
H4	Lasiosphaera fenzlii Reich	Lycoperdaceae	Ma Bo	fungus	Sore throat, cough and hoarseness caused by wind-heat in the lung; epistaxis and traumatic bleeding in external application.2
H5	Belamcanda chinensis L.	Iridaceae	She Gan	root	Sore throat, cough and dyspnoea with expectoration of copious phlegm due to accumulation of toxic heat, phlegm and fire.2
H6	Tinospora capilipes Gagnep.	Menispermaceae	Jin Guo Lan	root	Swelling and pain of the throat, carbuncles and boils; diarrhoea, dysentery; epigastric hot pain.2
H7	Artemisia argyi Levl. & Vant.	Compositae	Ai Ye	leaf	Cold pain in the lower abdomen; menstrual disorders caused by cold; infertility; spitting of blood, epitasis, uterine bleeding in pregnancy, excessive menstrual flow or prolonged menstruation; external use for itching.2
H8	Morus alba L.	Moraceae	Sang Ye	leaf	Common cold due to -wind-heat, dry cough due to heat in the lung dizziness, headache, inflammation of the eye, blurred vision.2
H9	Prunella vulgaris L.	Labiatae	Xia Ku Cao	fruit-spike	Inflammation of the eyes, ophthalmalgia at night, headache and dizziness; scrofula, goitre, mastitis with swelling and pain, hyperplasia of breast; hypertension.2
H10	Lophatherum gracile Brongn	Gramineae	Dan Zhu Ye	leaf	Restlessness and thirst in febrile diseases, ulcers of the tongue and the mouth, swelling and pain of gingiva, pharyngolaryngitis, oliguria, phlegmonosis and odynuria, dysuria with dark urine, and painful urination.2
H11	Cordyceps militaris L.	Clavicipitaceae	Dong Chong Xia Cao	fungus	Chronic cough and asthma; haemoptysis in phthisis; impotence and seminal emission with aching of loins and knees.2
H12	Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi.	Labiatae	Huang Qin	root	Oppressed feeling in the chest, nausea and vomiting in epidemic febrile diseases caused by damp-heat or summer-heat; feeling of stuffiness in the abdomen, acute dysentery or jaundice caused by damp-heat; cough due to heat in the lung; high fever with dire thirst; spitting of blood and epitasis due to heat in blood; carbuncles and sores; threatened abortion.2
H13	Platycodon grandiflora (Jacq.) A.DC.	Campanulaceae	Jie Geng	root	Cough with much phlegm, sore throat, hoarseness; pulmonary abscesses with pus running abscess difficult to burst after suppuration.2
H14	Epimedium brevicornum Maxim	Berberidaceae	Yin Yang Huo	leaf	Impotence, seminal emission, weakness of the limbs; rheumatic or rheumatoid arthralgia with numbness and muscle contracture; climacteric hypertension.2
H15	Conyza Bonariensis (L.) Cronquist	Asteraceae		whole plant	Diuretic.1

¹Campos, N (2006). Chapter: Carqueja. Aprendendo com a Mae Terra – Plantas Medicinais, Aromáticas e Condimentares. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Arte & Ciencia. p59.

Unless specified, information on medicinal function was obtained from China Pharmacopoeia Committee (2005).

²Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China (Vol. 1). Beijing: China Chemical Industry Press.