Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines

487T3859 Linum usitatissimum (Linaceae); YA MA; Common Flax. Used part:root, leaf. TCM Effects: To calm liver, quicken blood. TCMIndications: Liver wind headache, knocks and falls, swollen wellingabscess and clove sores. Isolated compounds: 8316, 9616, 11773,12854, 12891, 12893, 12895, 12896, 13003, 15429, 16196, 22464.T3860 Linum usitatissimum (Linaceae); YA MA ZI; Common Flax Seed.Used part: seed. TCM Effects: To nourish blood and dispel wind,moisten dryness and free stool. TCM Indications: Leprosy, dry crackedskin, itchy skin, hair loss, sores eczema, intestinal dry and constipation.Isolated compounds: 4511, 4512, 4513, 4514, 6729, 12854.T3861 Liparis auriculata (Orchidaceae); ER XING YANG ER LAN;Auriculate Twayblade*. Isolated compounds: 2015.T3862 Liparis loeselii (Orchidaceae); LUO XI YANG ER SUAN; Fen Orchid.Isolated compounds: 2015.T3863 Liparis nervosa (Orchidaceae); JIAN XUE QING; Nervate Twayblade.Used part: whole herb. TCM Effects: To cool blood and stanchbleeding, clear heat and resolve toxin. TCM Indications: Stomach heatblood ejection, lung heat hemoptysis, intestinal wind bleeding,flooding and spotting, bleeding during operation, bleeding due toexternal injury, toxin swelling of sores, poisonous insect stings, knocksand falls. Isolated compounds: 15506, 15511.Lippia citriodora = Verbena triphyllaT3864 Lippia dulcis (Verbenaceae); TIAN SHE CAO; Sweet-tongue Lippia*.Isolated compounds: 580, 3745, 4830, 6148, 6930, 6951, 6953, 7591,9450, 10751, 11195, 12456, 12902, 19211.T3865 Lippia nodiflora (Verbenaceae); PENG LAI CAO; Knotteflower PhylaHerb. Used part: whole herb. TCM Effects: To dispel wind and clearheat, resolve toxin and disperse swelling. TCM Indications: Throatmoth, swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, heatdysentery, strangury, gan of teeth and gum, zoster. Isolated compounds:7556, 7557, 15648, 15649, 15650.T3866 Liquidambar formosana [Syn. Liquidambar taiwaniana](Hamamelidaceae); FENG XIANG SHU; Beautiful Sweetgum Leaf.Used part: leaf. TCM Effects: To move qi and relieve pain, resolvetoxin, stanch bleeding. TCM Indications: Pain in stomach duct,abdominal pain due to summerheat damage, dysentery, diarrhea,swollen welling abscess and sores, eczema, blood ejection, hemoptysis,bleeding due to external injury. Isolated compounds: 6482, 12843,15179, 20988.T3867 Liquidambar formosana [Syn. Liquidambar taiwaniana](Hamamelidaceae); LU LU TONG; Beautiful Sweetgum. Used part:inflorescence. TCM Effects: To expel wind and eliminate damp,soothe liver and quicken network vessels, disinhibit water. TCMIndications: Wind-damp impediment pain, numbness in limbs,hypertonicity of limbs, pain in stomach duct and abdomen,amenorrhea, galactostasis, edema distention fullness, eczema. Isolatedcompounds: 231, 2338, 2558, 3303, 12904, 12906, 20417, 20418.T3868 Liquidambar orientalis (Hamamelidaceae); SU HE XIANG; OrientalSweetgum Resin. Used part: balsam from trunk. TCM Effects: Toopen orifices, break foul, relieve pain. TCM Indications: Wind strokewith phlegm reversal, sudden clouding collapse, cold pain in chest andabdomen, fright epilepsy, warm disease. Isolated compounds: 3695,6980, 16402, 20417, 22336.Liquidambar taiwaniana = Liquidambar formosanaT3869 Liquor JIU Liquor. TCM Effects: To quicken blood and free vessels,dissipate cold, free medicinal strength. TCM Indications: Wind-coldimpediment pain, hypertonicity of sinews and vessels, chestimpediment, cold pain in heart and abdomen. Isolated compounds:1103, 1104, 7418, 7423, 8808, 13456, 16010.T3870 Liriodendron spp. (Magnoliaceae). Isolated compounds: 15751.T3871 Liriodendron tulipifera (Magnoliaceae); BEI MEI E ZHANG QIU;Yellow Poplar. Used part: bark. TCM Effects: To dispel wind andeliminate damp, dissipate cold and relieve cough. TCM Indications:Wind-damp impediment pain, wind-cold cough. Isolated compounds:2838, 4923, 7030, 7031, 11083, 12897, 12917, 16339, 16973, 19540,22103.T3872 Liriope muscari (Liliaceae); DUAN TING SHAN MAI DONG;Short-stipe Liriope*. Isolated compounds: 4188, 4299, 12919, 16050,22270.T3873 Liriope platyphylla (Liliaceae); KUO YE SHAN MAI DONG;Broadleaf Liriope*. Used part: tuberoid. TCM Effects: See Liriopespicata. TCM Indications: See Liriope spicata. Isolated compounds:16147, 19070.T3874 Liriope spicata (Liliaceae); SHAN MAI DONG. Equivalent plant:Liriope platyphylla. Used part: tuberoid. TCM Effects: To nourish yinand engender liquid. TCM Indications: Yin vacuity lung dryness,cough of profuse phlegm, stomach yin insufficiency, dry mouth andthroat, intestinal dry and constipation. Isolated compounds: 19070.T3875 Liriope spicata var. prolifera (Liliaceae); HU BEI SHAN MAI DONG;Hubei Liriope. Used part: tuberoid. TCM Effects: See Ophiopogonjaponicus. TCM Indications: See Ophiopogon japonicus. Isolatedcompounds: 618, 19071, 19072.T3876 Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae); LI ZHI; Lychee. Used part: fruit. TCMEffects: To engender liquid and boost blood, rectify qi and relieve pain.TCM Indications: Vexation and thirst, hiccough, stomachache,scrofula, swelling of clove, toothache, bleeding due to external injury.Isolated compounds: 7852, 7853.T3877 Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae); LI ZHI HE; Lychee Seed. Used part:seed. TCM Effects: To rectify qi, dispel cold, relieve pain, resolvebinds. TCM Indications: Mounting qi pain, painful swollen testes,premenstrual abdominal pain, postpartum abdominal pain. Isolatedcompounds: 14358.T3878 Lithocarpus polystachyus (Fagaceae); DUO SUI SHI KE YE;Manyspike Tanoak Leaf. Used part: leaf. TCM Effects: To clear heatand resolve toxin, transform phlegm, dispel wind, lower bloodpressure. TCM Indications: Hypertension, damp-heat diarrheadysentery, lung heat cough, sores with welling abscess and flat abscess,dry-itchy skin. Isolated compounds: 1113, 6918, 10645, 12921, 12922,14351, 21878.T3879 Lithocarpus sp. (Fagaceae). Isolated compounds: 20711.T3880 Lithospermum arvense (Boraginaceae); MAI JIA GONG; CornGromwell. Used part: fruit. TCM Effects: To warm center and move qi,disperse swelling and relieve pain. TCM Indications: Stomach colddistending pain, hyperchlorhydria, painful swelling from knocks andfalls, fracture. Isolated compounds: 7996.T3881 Lithospermum erythrorhizon (Boraginaceae); ZI CAO; Redroot