Everybody knows orchids as the beautiful flowering plants, but orchids also can be a cure. Here is the most complete list of orchids which used as medications ever:
- Acampe papillosa - roots: used for rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, syphilis and uterine diseases
- Acampe praemorsa - roots: used for treating rheumatism
- Aerides crispum - powdered, boiled in neem oil, and filtered plant: used to cure earache
- Aerides odorata - the ground fruits: used for healing wounds; leaf juice: used to heal boils in ears and nose
- Anoectochilus formosanus - plant: used for hypertension, lung and liver diseases and cancer
- Anoectochilus regalis - stems and leaves: ingredients in certain medicinal oils
- Arundina graminifolia - scrapped stems: applied on heels to treat cracks
- Bletilla striata - roots: (as ingredient) used to promote stomach and duodenal health
- Calanthe sylvatica - flowers: used to stop nose bleeding
- Calanthe triplicata - roots: ingredient of local medicine to treat swollen hands; with
other ingredients, chewed for diarrhea; flowers: applied as a painkiller at caries; pseudobulbs: used for gastrointestinal disorders - Cephalanthera longifolia - roots and rhizome: used as a tonic
- Coelogyne ovalis - plant: used for cough, urinary infections and eye disorders
- Corymborkis veratrifolia - leaf juice: used to treat fever in children
- Crepidium acuminatum - stems: as component used for sperm formation increase
- Cremastra appendiculata - roots: used for toothache and as emollient; tubers: used for abscesses, scrofula, and freckles and as an antidote to snakebite
- Cymbidium aloifolium - ground plant: with ginger used to induce vomiting and diarrhea, to cure chronic illness, weakness of the eyes, vertigo and paralysis; used as an ingredient of oil to cure benign and malignant tumors
- Cymbidium hookerianum - seeds: applied on cuts and injuries as a hemostatic
- Dendrobium densiflorum - leaves: (crushed with salt) applied on fractured area to set
bone - Dendrobium jenkinsii - stems: used in preparation of Chinese drug Shih-hu
- Dendrobium ovatum - stem juice: used on patients suffering from constipation and stomachache
- Dendrobium nobile - stems: used in preparation of Chinese drug Shih-hu for longevity and as an aphrodisiac, stomachic, and analgesic
- Dienia muscifera - tubers decoction: used as tonic to strengthen kidneys
- Echioglossum williamsoni - leaf juice: applied to cure swellings of hands and legs and bone fractures
- Eulophia nuda - plant: used as an appetizer and for treating tumors and bronchitis
- Eria pannea - roots and leaves decoction: used in bathing in cases of ague
- Flickingeria nodosa - plant: used to treat asthma, bronchitis, and throat infections
- Gastrodia elata - tubers: used to cure liver diseases, headache, migraine, vertigo, convulsion, epilepsy, and cramps
- Goodyera repens - roots and leaves: used for female disorders, stomach and bladder diseases; chewed leaves: applied to reptile bites; mashed leaves: used to prevent rash in infants
- Goodyera schlectandaliana - plant: used as tincture in rice wine to apply as a tonic for internal injuries and to improve blood circulation
- Gymnadenia orchidis - tubers: ingredient of salep that used as aphrodisiac and tonic
- Habenaria diphylla - flowers: used to cure asthma
- Habenaria species - plant: ingredient of tonics to treat unconsciousness and as blood purifiers, especially Habenaria acuminata
- Limodorum spathulatum - flowers: used to cure asthma
- Malaxis rheedei - plant: used as a tonic and as an ingredient of a medications with immense therapeutic value
- Nervilia aragoana - plant: used to cure eye infections
- Phaius tancarvilleae - pseudobulbs: used to heal swellings of hands and legs and as a poultice to soothe pain of abscess
- Pholidota chinensis - pseudobulbs: (as aqueous extract) taken for scrofula, feverish stomachache, and toothache; as a tincture used for internal bleeding, hemorrhage,
asthmatic cough, tuberculosis, and dysentery - Pholidota imbricata - pseudobulbs: (macerated in mustard oil) applied on joints for
rheumatic pains - Pleione maculata - pseudobulbs: used to cure liver complaints and stomachache
- Ponerorchis chusua - tubers: used for diarrhea, dysentery and chronic fever
- Rhynchostylis retusa - roots: used for rheumatism; plant: used against asthma, tuberculosis, nervous twitchings, cramps, infantile epilepsy, vertigo, palpitation,
kidney stone, and menstrual disorders - Satyrium nepalense - tubers: eaten for malaria, dysentery, also used as an aphrodisiac
- Spathoglottis plicata - plant decoction: used for rheumatism and as a poultice
- Tropidia curculioides - plant decoction: given for cold stage of malaria; roots decoction: given for diarrhoea
- Vanda coerulea - leaf juice: used to treat diarrhea and dysentery, also used as an external application for skin diseases
- Zeuxine strateumatica - tubers: used as a tonic in combination with the roots of Cymbidium aloifolium
Photos: click here
No comments:
Post a Comment