Potentilla chinensis, Wei Ling Cai 委陵菜 Rgyu mkhris  རྒྱུ་མཁྲིས  (Tibetan Medicine)Wei Ling Cai (P. chinensis, TCM)An Hong Wei Ling Cai (P. atrosanguinea, TCM) Potentilla atrosanguineaCurtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 63 (1836) Botanical name: Potentilla spp.Several species supply Wei Ling Cai of TCM (Bensky): P. chinensis (Wei Ling Cai) P. anserina (E Rong Wei Ling Cai) P. viscosa (Nian Wei Ling Cai) Several species are listed in Tibetan texts; these are of the P. argyrophylla group: P. venusta (Rgyu mkhris ser po) P. atrosanguinea (Rgyu mkhris smug po) Some Tibetan sources list P. chinensis and P. viscosa as sources of Rgyu mkhris. The former in particular has almost identical uses in TCM to the use of Rgyu mkhris in Tibetan Medicine. Parts used: Whole Plant Temperature & Taste: Cool, dry. Sweet, Bitter Uses: 1. Clears Heat from the Blood, Stops Leakage: (Tibet, TCM)-Diarrhea and Dysentery with Fever-Diarrhea associated with Worms-Bleeding Hemorrhoids (TCM)2. Clears Heat, Resists Poison: (Tibetan, TCM, India)-Cold or Flu with Fever (Tibetan, TCM, India)-Epidemic and Contagious diseases with Heat and Toxin (Tibet)-Pneumonia (TCM)-Poisoning (Tibet)-Acute Sore Throat-Toxic Sores and Abscesses (TCM)3. Clears Heat, Settles Wind, Stops Pain:-Headache-Angina Pectoris and Chest pain4. Externally:-applied to Toothache in Nepal.-applied to Wounds-applied to Toxic Sores,…

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