Families and genera
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Plant name
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Local common name
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Plant type
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Edible part
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Food category
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Edible method
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Health function
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Compositae
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Mulgedium tataricum (L.) DC.
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Makucai
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf / rhizome
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Vegetables, medicinal materials
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Clearing heat and sterilizing
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Sonchus arvensis L.
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Tiankucai
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf / rhizome
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Clearing heat and sterilizing
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Taraxacum mongolicum Hand.-Mazz.
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Huanghuangcai/
Huangercai
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Perennial herb
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Tender stem and leaf/Roots
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Vegetables/snacks/medicinal materials
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Fresh/Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Clearing heat and sterilizing
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Cirsium souliei
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Perennial herb
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Root
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Hemostasis, antiphlogosis, and swelling
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Cichorium intybus L
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Xiaokucai
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf / rhizome
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Vegetables
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Fresh/cold/pickled
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Clear heat, sterilizing, promote urination, and relieving swelling
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Tragopogon pratensis L.
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Yangnaizi
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Perennial herb
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Bud
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Nourish
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Artemisia annua
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Artemisia annua
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Annual herb
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Bud
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Vegetables
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Clear heat, relieving summer-heat, intercept malaria, and cooling blood
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Artemisia lavandulaefolia DC.
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Chinese mugwort
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Perennial herb
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Bud
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Auxiliary food
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Steam cooked food with mixed flour (moxa bun)
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Regulate qi, regulating meridian, tranquilize, removing dampness, relieving swelling, and stop bleeding
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Rosaceae
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Rosa omeiensis
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Youpingping
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Large shrub
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Ripe fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food after fresh frost
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Quenching thirst and stopping bleeding
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Fragaria vesca L.
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Berries
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Perennial herb
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Ripe fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Clearing heat and detoxicating
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Armeniaca vulgaris Lam. var. ansu (Maxim.) Yü et Lu
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Wild apricots
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Arbor
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Ripe fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Relieving cough and moistening intestine
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Liliaceae
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Allium schoenoprasum
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Shallot
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Steamed buns
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Dissipate cold and relieving exterior syndrome
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Allium strictum
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Little garlic
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Perennial herb
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Bulb
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Snacks/vegetables
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Fresh food
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Sterilization and digestive aid
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Allium przewalskianum
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Spider lily
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Perennial herb
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Bulb
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Snacks/vegetables
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Fresh food
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Sterilization and digestive aid
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Allium mongolicum
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Flat leek
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Sterilize and stimulating appetite
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Allium bidentatum
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Wild leek
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Perennial herb
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Tender leaf
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Destroy bacteria
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Lilium pumilum
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Shan dan dan
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Perennial herb
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Bulb/Flower
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Vegetables
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Bulb salad/flower soup
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Promoting blood circulation, moistening lung, tranquilizing mind
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Hemerocallis citrina Baroni
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Day lily
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Perennial herb
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Bud
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Soup
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Invigorating stomach, promoting lactation, and tonifying blood
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Leguminosae
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Medicago sativa L.
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Alfalfa sprouts
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Perennial herb
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Bud
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce
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Hemostasis, diuresis, detoxification
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Robinia pseudoacacia
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Huaihua
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Arbor
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Bud/flower
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Snack
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Fresh/cooked food
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Stop bleeding
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Solanaceae
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Lycium chinense Mill. var. chinense
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Chinese wolfberry
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Large shrub
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh/ Dried tea/ Soup (herbal)
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Antipyretic, nourishing liver and moistening lung
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Lycium ruthenicum Murr.
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Black wolfberry
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Small shrub
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh/ Dried tea/ Soup
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Lowering blood pressure, nourishing, and regulating menstruation
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Solanum septemlobum Bunge
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Wild tomato
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Annual herb
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Clear away heat and swelling
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Solanum tuberosum L
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Suanqiuzi
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Annual herb
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food after frost
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Detoxicating, detumescence, laxative
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Cruciferae
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Lepidium apetalum
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Chilli
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Annual herb
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Tender root
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Diuresis, cough, phlegm
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Isatis indigotica Fortune
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Folium Isatidis
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Annual herb
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Tender leaf
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce
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Clear heat, detoxicating and cool blood
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Brassica campestris
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Winter rape
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Annual herb
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Tender stem and leaf/Seeds
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Vegetable/oil
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Cold and dressed with sauce/Fried food/Oil from its seeds
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Detumescence and dissipating blood
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Chenopodiaceae
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Chenopodium album Linn
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Huitiao
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Annual herb
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Bud/Seed
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Vegetables, supplementary foods
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Steamed buns with tender bud/ Cold and dressed with sauce/Making steamed bread with seed powder
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Antihypertensive, analgesic, diuretic
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Kochia scoparia (L.) Schrad.
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Qiansaozhou
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Annual herb
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Bud
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce
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Facilitating and clearing heat
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虫实Corispermum L.
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Mianpeng
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Annual herb
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Ripe seed
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Auxiliary food
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Making steamed bread with seed powder
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Facilitating and sterilizing
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Halogeton glomeratus (Bieb.) C. A. Mey.
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Shuipeng
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Annual herb
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Whole grass
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Condiment
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Burn into ash to make edible alkali
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Relieving cough and dampness
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Elaeagnaceae
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Hippophae rhamnoides L.
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Seabuckthorn seed
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Large shrub
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Fruit/Leaf
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Snacks/tea
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Fresh fruit/Leaf tea
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Relieving cough, promoting blood circulation, and eliminating phlegm
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Elaeagnus angustifolia Linn.
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Narrow-leaved oleaster
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Arbor
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Ripe fruit
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Snack
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Fresh after removing astringency after frost
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Cool blood, relieving diarrhea, and clear heat
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Berberidaceae
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Berberis diaphana Maxin.
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Suansuan/ Suanliuliu
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Small shrub
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Ripe fruit/ Tender leaf
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Clearing heat and detoxicating
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Asclepiadaceae
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Cynanchum thesioides (Freyn) K. Schum. var. thesioides
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Haoguo/ Haogua
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Perennial herb
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Tender fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Promoting lactation
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Cynanchum chinense R.Br.
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Yangnaijiao
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Perennial herb
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Detoxicating and relieving pain
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Geraniaceae
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Geranium wilfordii Maxim.
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Luo tangmiao
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Annual herb
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Tender root
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Promoting blood circulation, relieving cough, and sterilizing
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Iridaceae
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Iris tenuifolia
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Suogua
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Perennial herb
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Tender fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Clear heat, detoxicating and stop bleeding
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Labiatae
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Thymus quinquecostatus Celak.
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Pepper/thyme
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Perennial herb
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Aboveground part
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Condiment
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After drying and crushing, mix it into the fried flour
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Dispel swelling, relieve pain and inflammation
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Stachys sieboldii Miq. var. sieboldii
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Sweet potato/ Screw vegetable
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Annual herb
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Root tuber
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /Pickle
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Clearing heat and detoxicating
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Ulmaceae
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Ulmus pumila L.
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Yuqian
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Arbor
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Fruit/Skin
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Snacks/Supplements
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Fresh /Steamed food
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Detumescence, diuresis, constipation
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Salicaceae
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Populus davidiana
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White poplar
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Arbor
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Tender bud/Skin
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce /cooking
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Dispel wind, removing blood stasis and eliminate phlegm
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Orobanchaceae
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Cistanche deserticola Ma
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Desert-living cistanche
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Annual herb
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Complete stool
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Health foods
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Medicated diet
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Tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, and moistening intestine
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Cynomoriaceae
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Cynomorium songaricum Rupr.
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Chinese cynomorium
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Annual herb
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Complete stool
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Health foods
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Medicated diet
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Tonifying kidney, moistening dryness, and replenishing essence
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Meliaceae
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Toona sinensis (A. Juss.) Roem. var. sinensis
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Chinese toon
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Arbor
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Bud
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Vegetables
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Cold and dressed with sauce
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Tonifying deficiency, diminishing inflammation and stopping bleeding
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Umbelliferae
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Daucus carota L.
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Wild carrot
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Annual herb
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Root
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Snack
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Cooked for consumption
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Detumescence and eliminating phlegm
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Rhamnaceae
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Ziziphus jujuba Mill. var. spinosa (Bunge) Hu ex H. F. Chow
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Wild jujube
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Large shrub
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh/Sun-dried food
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Tonifying liver, promoting fluid production, and astringing sweating
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Polygonaceae
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Rheum nanum Siev. ex Pall.
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Huanggouluanzi
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Perennial herb
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Root
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Snack
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Roasted cooked food (similar to potatoes and sweet potatoes)
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Clear heat, invigorating stomach, and relieve diarrhea
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Gramineae
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Avena fatua L.
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Oat
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Annual herb
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Seed
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Auxiliary food
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To make fried flour /fermented glutinous rice
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Tonifying deficiency, astringing sweating, and stopping bleeding
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Panicum miliaceum L.
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Huosui
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Annual herb
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Ears of tender diseased plants
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Relieving pain and replenishing qi
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Zygophyllaceae
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Zygophyllum fabago L.
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Miandandan
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Small shrub
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Fruit
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Snack
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Fresh food
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Antihypertensive, spasmolytic, hypoglycemic
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Nostocales
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Nostoc commune
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Diruanzi/ Dedacai
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Fungus
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Complete stool
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Auxiliary food
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Steamed stuffed bun
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Clear heat and invigorate qi
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Nostoc flagelliforme
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Toufacai
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Fungus
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Complete stool
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Auxiliary food
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Omelette
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Enrich blood, lowering blood pressure, and promote urination
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