• Spina Date Seed 酸枣仁

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Slightly sweet, sour

    Category: Seed

    Good for:
    1. Neurasthenia, insomnia, forgetfulness

    2. Palpitations

    3. For general debility with spontaneous sweating and night sweating

  • Rhizoma Pinelliae 半夏

    Nature of herb: Warm, slight toxicity 

    Taste: Spicy

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Productive cough, chest pain

    2. Vomiting

    3. Subcutaneous nodule, goiter

    4. Skin infections

    5. Scrofula

    6. Snake bites

  • Liquorice Root 炙甘草

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Sweet

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Sore throat, cough

    2. Gastric hyposecretion, gastroduodenal ulcer

    3. Hysteria

    4. Dermatitis and boils

    5. Drug and food poisoning

  • Bamboo Shavings 竹茹

    Nature of herb: Cool

    Taste: Slightly sweet

    Category: Stem

    Good for:
    1. Cough with thick and yellow sputum

    2. Vexation, feeling of oppression in the chest, insomnia, palpitation

    3. Vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth

    4. Bleeding

  • Tuber Fleeceflower Stem 夜交藤

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Slightly bitter

    Category: Stem

    Good for:
    1. Vexation, insomnia, excessive dreams, insanity and mania

    2. Rheumatism

    3. Urticaria (external use)

  • White Peony Root 白芍

    Nature of herb: Cool

    Taste: Slightly bitter, sour

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Menstrual disorders, dysfunctional uterine bleeding

    2. Hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain and spasmodic pain of the limbs

    3. Headache and dizziness

    4. Sweating

  • Chinese Thorowax Root 柴胡

    Nature of herb: Cool

    Taste: Slightly bitter

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Common cold

    2. Fever

    3. Cholecystitis

    4. Menstrual disorders

    3. Headache and dizziness

    4. Sweating

  • Villous Amomum 砂仁

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Acrid but fresh, slightly bitter

    Category: Seed 

    Good for:
    1. Feeling of fullness and distending pain in the chest and upper abdomen, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain

    2. Prevent miscarriage

  • Pilose Asiabell Root 党参

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Slightly sweet

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Anorexia, loose stool

    2. Weakness, lassitude

    3. Cough and dyspnoea, feeble voice

    4. Dehydration

    5. Rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse

  • Ginger 姜

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Spicy

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Pain and cold feeling in the lower abdomen, diarrhoea, vomiting

    2. Cough with thin sputum

    3. Shock

  • Chinese Angelica 当归

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Sweet, acrid & slightly bitter

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Anaemia

    2. Menstrual disorders

    3. Headache, abdominal pain, chest pain, coronary heart disease, rheumatism, trauma

    4. Constipation

    5. Carbuncles and sores

  • Szechwan Lovage Rhizome 川芎

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Bitter, acrid, slightly tongue-numbing and then slightly sweet

    Category: Rhizome

    Good for:
    1. Menstrual disorders

    2. Dizziness, headache, chest pain

    3. Aversion to cold

    4. Abdominal pain with mass formation, post traumatic swelling and pain

    5. Rheumatic arthralgia

  • Largehead Atractylodes Rhizome 白术

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Sweet and slightly acrid, slightly sticky when chewed

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Anorexia, abdominal distension, chronic diarrhoea, weakness

    2. Oedema, oliguria

    3. Spontaneous sweating

    4. Threatened abortion and morning sickness

    5. Arthralgia

  • Rehmannia Root 生地黄

    Nature of herb: Cold

    Taste: Slightly sweet

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Haemoptysis, epistaxis, menorrhagia

    2. Menstrual disorders, constipation

    Processed:

    1. Anaemia, weakness

    2. Nocturnal emission

    3. Low-grade afternoon fever

    4. Night sweating, menorrhagia

  • Poria 茯苓

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Mild

    Category: Fungi

    Good for:
    1. Oedema, dysuria

    2. Leukorrhagia

    3. Cough

    4. Diarrhoea, jaundice

    5. Palpitaton, insomnia, dizziness, chronic schizophrenia

  • Dried Ginger 干姜

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Spicy

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Pain and cold feeling in the lower abdomen, diarrhoea, vomiting

    2. Cough with thin sputum

    3. Shock

  • Oriental Waterplantain Rhizome 泽泻

    Nature of herb: Cold

    Taste: Slightly bitter

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Nephritic oedema, pyelitis, dysuria

    2. Enteritis, diarrhoea

  • Polyporus 猪苓

    Nature of herb: Neutral

    Taste: Mild

    Category: Mycorrhiza

    Good for:
    1. Odema, dysuria, stranguria, renal stone

    2. Jaundice, chronic hepatitis

    3. Leukorrhagia

  • Kudzuvine Root 葛根

    Nature of herb: Cool

    Taste: Slightly sweet

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Common cold with fever

    2. Thirst

    3. Acute gastro-enteritis, diarrhoea

    4. Palpitation

  • Incised Notopterygium Rhizome 羌活

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Slightly bitter, acrid

    Category: Rhizome

    Good for:
    1. Common cold, headache, generalized pain

    2. Rheumatism

  • Cassia Twig 桂枝

    Nature of herb: Warm

    Taste: Sweet and slightly acrid, cortex with a stronger taste

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Common cold, cough, dizziness

    2. Palpitation, precordial pain

    3. Arthralgia

    4. Amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea

    5. Dysuria, oedema

  • Danshen Root 丹参

    Nature of herb: Cool

    Taste: Slightly bitter-astringent

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Menstrual disorders, lochiorrhoea, lochiostasis

    2. Abdominal pain, pricking pain in the chest, trauma, rheumatism

    3. Irritability, palpitations and insomnia

  • Common Monkshood Daughter Root 附子

    Nature of herb: Hot

    Taste: Numbing, tongue-pricking

    Category: Root

    Good for:
    1. Shock

    2. Impotence, emission

    3. Urinary frequency, oedema

    4. Diarrhoea, constipation

    5. Arthralgia, periarthritis of shoulder joint