Codonopsis, Klu bdud rdo rje Klu bdud rdo rje (C. ovata) (Tibet)Xin Jiang Dang Shen (C. clematidea) (TCM) C. ovata.Edwards’s Botanical Register, vol. 28  (1842) C. ovata (Royle, J.F., Illustrations of the botany … of the Himalayan Mountains and … of Cashmere (1839) Codonopsis clematidea(Photo by Agnieszka Kwiecień) (Wikimedia) Botanical name: Codonopsis spp.Several types are used: Klu bdud rdo rje. ཀླུ་བདུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་: C. ovata Klu bdud rdo rje nag po (‘Black variety’) ཀླུ་བདུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ནག་པོ་: C. nervosa, C. bhutanica, C. thalictrifolia Klu bdud rdo rje dkar po (‘White variety’) ཀླུ་བདུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཀར་པོ་: C. canescens, C. viridis Klu bdud rdo rje mchog ཀླུ་བདུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་ མཆོག་: C. clematidea (Xin Jiang Dan Shen), C. mollis Parts used: Aerial parts; some say whole plant Temperature & Taste: Neutral/Cool, dry. Bitter, PungentOne Tibetan text describes it as ‘Hot in taste, Cool in power’. Uses: 1. Tonifies Spleen, Increases Qi: (TCM)-Fatigue, Weakness-poor appetite, indigestion, stomach discomfort, diarrhea from deficiency-Cough, shortness of Breath from Lung Qi deficiency2. Clears Wind-Damp: (Tibet)-Skin diseases with weeping and itchiness, with or without heat; Eczema-Leprosy, Elephantiasis (especially Klu bdud rdo rje mchog)-Spasms and contracture of tendons and ligaments-painful swelling of the limbs, rigid and painful swollen joints-Arthritis; Gout-Rheumatoid arthritis-Goiter (Klu bdud rdo rje mchog)3. Clears Wind, Settles Spasms:…

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