Outline of Chinese herb names

Chinese herbal medicines are widely origin , variety, its name and the name of both a great relationship with medical applications , especially in its name with a certain sense, the nominal care , can help us understand some of the properties of the drug, more important is the use of herbs shape , color and smell to treat disease , so some herbs with its salient points named because there are herbs and spread into the story with special effects and, therefore, used to name some herbs are the best authentic yield and quality , origin labeled with a name. More is that some herbs have growth characteristics, medicinal parts , imported from abroad, the name transliteration , etc., are named as a medicinal basis , now they are named are as follows :

( A ) to the origin of medicine named

For example: Cyathula , Fritillaria , Angelica , Chuanmutong root, croton , fangchi , Patchouli , broad bean root , Radix Hangzhou , Hangzhou Angelica, Huai Shan , Achyranthes , silver Bupleurum ( Yinchuan ) , Toronto TPG ( Inner Mongolia ) .

( B) the harvest season with herbs named

For example , winter leaves, Prunella , Breit, Cordyceps ( summer harvest ) , winter flowers ( stems and leaves through the winter does not wither , flowers bloom in winter ) .

(C ) in the form of herbs named

For example , verbena , chicken berberine , lobelia , aconite , herb , ginseng, hyssop , wooden butterflies, ferns , poppy , laevigata ( there is a ” vase ” word of mouth that big belly small bottle ) .

( Four ) in color naming herbs

For example , cinnabar ( red ) , ocher ( liver-colored ) , blood ( blood red ) , Salvia ( red skin ) , safflower ( red ) , orange peel ( orange ) , berberine ( both yellow flesh ) , Angelica ( section of the color white as flour ) , Atractylodes ( white section ) , HHD ( its color white ) , Scrophulariaceae ( black section ) , indigo ( blue table ) , comfrey ( both inside and outside purple ) , purple Ding ( its color purple ) .

(E ) to the texture of herbs named

For example , incense, pumice , floating wheat , light pink , Sang cuttlebone , cuttlebone and so on.

(F ) a gas medicine named

For example , musk , aloes , storax , benzoin, patchouli , woody, Elsholtzia , paederosidic , smelly peony .

(Vii ) the naming herbs to taste

For example , Xin Asarum , the sweet licorice , Semen of acid , Sophora bitter , salty salty stone renovation , tasteless pale leaves of Schisandra with five different flavor and so on.

( H) of the medicinal herbs site named

For example , ephedra root , arrowroot, tonkinensis, rhizome , almond , peach , rose, cockscomb, honeysuckle , Yangjinhua , mulberry , gardenia and so on.

( Nine ) in the efficacy of medicines named

For example , motherwort ( cures gynecological diseases ) , wind ( can cure various wind ) , Polygala ( Puzzle strong chi ) , Alisma ( wins wet diuresis ) , Cistanche ( complement rather steep ) , Millennium Health ( rheumatism , strong bones ) , cassia ( Liver eyesight , cure red eyes and swollen poison ) , chaulmoogra ( treating leprosy ) and so on .

(J ) to commemorate the legendary story of the invention or character names

For example , to make a gentleman , legend states have a Pan doctor surnamed Guo Shijun name , use of the drug treatment of children with malnutrition , which made a name ; Polygonum , ancient legend of how a child nicknames Tian old man, frail hair were white , did not have a child , he saw one night on their own vine twining , self curious , digging roots to eat and cook , over time , the body is better, black hair , life is long and over a hundred years old , so there ‘s the name Polygonum ; Cynanchum , ancient legend has a man surnamed Xu Changqing drug treatment professionals in this evil disease, and hence the name ; gutta , Li said that in the ” outline” of : . ” gutta , gutta service names are past this enlightenment with solid this name of . ” Siphonostegia , this drug is invented by Liu Yu Ning Gaozu to his nicknames Siphonostegia name.

(Xi ) to foreign imports named

For example , senna, Picrorhiza ( historically accustomed to a foreign land called ” Fan ” or ” Hu ” ) , saffron , ginseng, Oriental ginseng , ginseng ( Korean ginseng ) .

(Xii ) to name a foreign language transliteration

For example , Mandolin dill , Terminalia ( blame Lile ) and so on .

( Xiii) to medicine distribution center named

For example , saffron, wide wood and so on.

(Xiv ) to change the original medicinal processed to form a unique physical traits named

For example , licorice , roasted ginger , coke Atractylodes, cooked rhubarb , built song, Liushen , gelatin , yellow gelatin , antler , etc.

( Fifteen ) named in digital

For example , a little red , one yellow, one Artemisia , Feb. law , Panax , triangular , holly , four watts, Schisandra, grain insects, gall, Liuyuexue , Polyphylla August tie , star anise , 9 Iris , Aspongopus , Mahonia , Bai Caoshuang , daughter son , evergreen, seven per cent hemp, Hayata .

(Xvi ) to Zodiac named

For example , gentian, Cnidium , burdock , Aristolochia, trotter , Polyporus, Woodwardia , Hou Tsao , dodder ( rabbit ear style ) , Gallus gallus ( cockscomb, Millettla ) , mouse sticky sub ( pillbug insects ) , Polygonum cuspidatum, saxifrage .

( Xvii) to grow herbs position named

For example , the east wind, Fritillaria East and West rhubarb, tamarisk , Adenophorae , South terrier orange, North flavors , North Asarum, littoralis, Menispermi , Ephedra .

( Xviii) to the physical properties of herbs named