Jin niu cao (ardisia) is a 'folk-remedy', no 'classical' TCM-herb

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, " Ferre, Cynthia " <cdf1@c...> wrote:

> >try hsu's oriental materia medica (maybe) and/or

> >contact Subhuti at itmonline.org

> >Todd

>

> >This is Rey Tiquia here. Are you referring to the

> > " Jin niu Cao " as in " Golden Cattle Plant " ?

> >Do you also have the complete latin botanical

> >nomenclature as in ardisia....?

>

> My thanks to Todd for his suggestion to followup with

itmonline.org. And

> thanks to Rey. I don't have the Latin botanical information for jin

niu cao

> because I cannot find it anywhere that I've looked so far.

Searching on

> ardisia on google brings up a range of plants. And I don't find it

searching

> on jin niu cao or ardisia on the online herb databases that I've

found so

> far.

>

> Cynthia

 

Hi Cynthia,

next three herbals all belong to the zi jin niu plant-family:

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Ardisia bicolor Walker (zi bei zi jin niu)

has 'jin niu' as its last two characters

temp: cool (liang)

taste: bitter astringent (ku se)

removes stagnation promotes flow of blood (qu yu huo xue)

removes toxin opens orifices (jie du kai qiao)

 

this page has an appendix on the difference to Ardisia crenata Sims.

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Ardisia japonica Hornsted (zi jin niu)

has 'jin niu' as its last two characters

temp: neutral (ping)

taste:pungent (xin)

promotes blood flow stops bleeding (huo xue zhi xue)

cools blood drains humid (qing re li shi)

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Ardisia crispa Thunb. (bai liang jin)

has 'jin' as its last character

temp: cold (han)

taste: bitter astringent (ku se)

qingre jiedu shujin huoxue

cools blood expels toxin softens sinews promotes bloodflow

 

this page has an appendix on the difference to Ardisia brevicaulis

Diels

 

Polygala japonica Houtt.

another name for this one is jin niu cao among several other names

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Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb.

another name for this is jin niu cao -dito-

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I could find no reference at all in the

zhong hua ren min gong he guo cao dian (THE reference)

neither in another 1000p thick herbal book...

I found above information in a

'popular/folk herbals'-book (as opposed to the TCM-herbals books)

which really dissappointed me ten years ago because it listed *none*

of the commonly used TCM herbals but lesser known folk-herbals.

 

Greetings Tay.