The costus health benefits has been known for thousands of years and it was first mentioned in Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (The Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica), which is the earliest material medical extant in China.
As the name suggested, oyster shells mainly refers to the shells of Ostrea gigas Thunberg, Ostrea talienwhanensis Crosse, or Ostrea rivularis Gould. All of them are in the family Ostreidae and distributed along China’s coastal area.
Since the main medicinal part of trumpet flower tree is the seeds, medicinally Indian trumpet flower refers to the dried mature seeds of Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. This is a tree in the family Bignoniaceae.
Quince fruit is also the superior raw material for manufacturing candied fruit and medicine. Its products, such as quince fruit juice, paste, jam, preserve, and jelly, have a very unique sweet sour taste and an exceptional faint scent.
Peony flower is large, colorful, and splendid. That’s why it has always been regarded as a symbol of wealth and good fortune in Chinese culture. What’s more, it is also called “the queen of flowers” and “national beauty with heavenly fragrance.”
Myrrh refers to the oleoresin seeped through the bark of Commiphora myrrha Engl.It is good at healing skin conditions like eczema and a wound, especially chronic wounds, as it has excellent bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects.
Medicinally alum is mainly processed and refined from alunite, one type of sulfate mineral. It contains mainly potassium aluminum sulfate [KAl(SO4)2?12H2O].And other name of this mineral medicine include Alumen, Bai Fan, Ku Fan...
Beside of medicine, lead oxide is still used for manufacturing white lead paint, lead soap, cosolvent in metallurgy, paint driers, ceramic materials, rubber vulcanization accelerators, pesticides, and so on.
Buddleia is the herb that can make a difference on eye treatment. Clinically it is frequently used for the treatment of eye diseases like corneal opacity, dim eyesight, glaucoma, and nebula.
Medicinally lapis stone means two types of stones – chlorite schist and biotite schist. The amazing lapis stone healing properties have been found for more than a thousand of years.
Rose is native to China, in which there is a long history of cultivation for ornamental flower and spice plants. Coincidentally the mild nature of rose and weak temperament in women is quite in tune.
Glauber’s salt refers to the refined crystals from the natural mineral containing sodium sulfate. It mainly contains sodium sulfate decahydrate. As a result, other names of this mineral medicine include mirabilite, Natrii Sulfas, and so on.