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Roots & Rhizomes

何首烏Fo-ti

何首烏Fo-ti

Fo-ti (Polygonum multiflorum) has anti-aging properties, enhances immunity, and promotes adrenal cortex function. It can stimulate the production and development of blood cells, regulate blood lipids, fight atherosclerosis, and also has liver-protective effects.
山藥Chinese yam

山藥Chinese yam

Chinese yam has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, generating fluids and benefiting the lungs, and tonifying the kidneys and securing essence.
木香Costus root

木香Costus root

Mu Xiang is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach, and gallbladder meridians. It can strengthen the spleen and benefit qi, effectively alleviating gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and bloating. It can also dilate bronchial smooth muscles and prevent bronchial diseases. Additionally, Mu Xiang has antibacterial and anti-tumor effects, and it can serve as an adjunct treatment for gallstones, cholecystitis, and digestive tract pain.
柴胡Bupleurum

柴胡Bupleurum

Bupleurum has effects such as relieving exterior syndromes and reducing fever, soothing the liver and alleviating depression, raising Yang energy, reducing fever and interrupting malaria, protecting the liver and promoting bile flow, and regulating immunity.
桑寄生Mistletoe

桑寄生Mistletoe

Mistletoe can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, deficiency of nutrients and blood, rheumatic pain, or weakness and lack of strength in the muscles and bones caused by prolonged pain damaging the essence and blood, leading to soreness in the lower back and knees.
桔梗Platycodon

桔梗Platycodon

The main effects of Platycodon: promoting lung function, resolving phlegm, benefiting the throat, and discharging pus. Platycodon is pungent and dispersing, bitter and draining; it opens and promotes lung qi, resolves phlegm, and benefits qi flow.
檀香sandalwood

檀香sandalwood

This product consists of cylindrical pieces of wood of varying lengths, some slightly curved, generally about 1 meter long and 10 to 30 cm in diameter. Its outer surface is grayish-yellow or yellowish-brown, smooth and delicate, sometimes with knots or longitudinal cracks. Its cross-section is brownish-yellow with traces of oil. Brown growth rings may be noticeable or indistinct, and the grain is straight when split longitudinally. It is firm and resistant to breaking. It has a delicate aroma that intensifies when burned. Its flavor is mild, with a slightly spicy taste when chewed.
白茅 根Imperata Root

白茅 根Imperata Root

Baimaggen (Imperata root) has effects such as cooling the blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat and promoting urination, generating fluids to quench thirst, detoxifying and relieving rashes, and protecting the liver and promoting bile flow. It is mainly used to treat conditions such as bleeding due to excessive heat in the blood, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, hematuria, fever with thirst, damp-heat jaundice, edema with reduced urination, and painful, urgent urination caused by heat.
百合Lily

百合Lily

Nourishes yin and moisturizes the lungs; clears the heart and calms the mind. Used for chronic cough due to yin deficiency, cough with blood in the phlegm, late stages of febrile diseases with lingering heat, or restlessness, palpitations, insomnia with excessive dreaming, and mental confusion caused by emotional factors; also for abscesses and damp rashes.
石斛Dendrobium

石斛Dendrobium

Functions and Indications: Tonifies the stomach and promotes fluid production, nourishes yin and clears heat. Used for yin deficiency with fluid depletion, dry mouth and thirst, poor appetite with dry retching, post-illness deficiency heat, and blurred vision.
萵術Atractylodes Rhizome

萵術Atractylodes Rhizome

Atractylodes rhizome has effects such as promoting the circulation of Qi and blood, relieving pain, reducing accumulation, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, improving cardiovascular health, aiding digestion, assisting in gynecological treatment, and anti-tumor activities.
蒲公英HERBA TARAXACI

蒲公英HERBA TARAXACI

This plant appears as a wrinkled, curled mass. The roots are conical, often curved, and 3-7 cm long; the surface is brown and wrinkled; the root head has brown or yellowish-white hairs, some of which have already fallen off. The leaves are basal, often wrinkled and broken. The intact leaves are oblanceolate, green-brown or dark gray, with a pointed or blunt tip, shallowly lobed or pinnate margins, gradually narrowing at the base and extending downward into a petiole. The main vein on the lower surface is distinct. There are one to several flower stems, each with a terminal head inflorescence. The bracts are multi-layered, with the inner layer being longer. The corolla is yellow-brown or pale yellow-white. In some cases, many oblong achenes with white pappus can be seen. The odor is faint and the taste is slightly bitter.