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  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Sophora flavescens
  • Paeonia officinalis (Peony)
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Borago officinalis (Borage, Star flower)
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • Face of a man with hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver
  • Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet'