Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.32.13
633.32.13 Stemona tuberosa
Names: Stemona sessilifolia; Stemona japonica; Roxburghia gloriosoides; Roxburghia viridiflora; Roxburghia stemona.
Names: Pai Pu; Chinese: Bai Bu, translates to “hundred parts”.
English: Wild Asparagus; Sessile Stemona Root; Japanese Stemona Root; Tuber Stemona Root.
Botany: herb; Asia.
Use: insecticide mosquito larvae, fleas, bugs, maggots, mosquitoes, mandarin aphids, cutworms.
Content: benzene, chloroform; alkaloids: tuberostemonine, isotuberostemonine, oxotuberostemonine, protostemonine, stemonamine, isostemonamine, neotuberostemonine, stemonidine, sinostemonine; glucides, lipids, proteins; organic acids, citric acid, formic acid, malic acid, succinic acid; bibenzyls.
Source: Chinese medicine.
General
Aversion: food, anorexia.
Body
General: progressive wasting
Vertigo: dizziness, chest discomfort.
Infection: bacteria, parasitic intestinal worms; fungi; Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. hominis; Pediculus capitus, Pediculus corporis, Phthirus pubis, Angiostronglyus cantonensis, Dipylidium caninum, Fasciola hepatica.
Nose: dry.
Mouth: dry.
Throat: dry.
Lungs: shortness of breath; whooping cough; cough chronic, dry, < common cold; tuberculosis; chronic bronchitis.
Stomach: weak; heartburn.
Abdomen: weak spleen; parasites; worms, tapeworm, pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis, oxyuriasis, Ascaris roundworms.
Rectum: diarrhoea.
Genitals: pudenda itching.
Skin: impetigo; persistent itching; scabies; itch mite; head louse, body louse, pubic louse.