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Jamaican dogwood (Piscidia piscipula)

• Anxiety,
• cough,
• dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation),
• headache , nerve pain, toothache,
• increases the salivary and cutaneous secretions;
• slows the pulse,
• internally administered, it relieves pain, overcomes spasm, allays nervous excitability, and induces sleep,
• favorite remedy in prolonged insomnia, particularly in the aged, and in those of an excessively nervous temperament.

Japanese Ginseng (Panax japonicus)

• Inhibitory effect on glucose transport in tumor cells,
•  hepatoprotective,
• antiulcer activity,
• stimulant, enhances mental and physical capacities, used in cases of exhaustion, tiredness, loss of concentration,
• immune booster,
•  blood pressure modulator,
• modulator of blood glucose.

Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)

• Resveratrol is one of its active components, inhibits carcinogenesis, antileukemic activity, estrogenic activity, prevents tumor growth and metastasis, inhibits protein-tyrosine kinase, which catalyzes the phosphorylation of tyrosine,
• inhibits lipoxygenase,
• inhibits deposition of lipids and cholesterol in liver,
• reduces elevation of aspartate transaminase and alanine transaminase in liver,
• prevents the formation of blood clots within blood vessels,
• protects myocardial cells injured by deprivation of oxygen and glucose,
• inhibits xanthine oxidase, gout,
• antiviral activity,
• inhibits oncogene signal transduction,
• active oxygen scavenging activity,
• anti-inflammatory activity,
• enhances immune system,
• excellent for burns.

Japanese Raisin Tree (Hovenia dulcis)

• Reduces the level of alcohol in blood after acute alcohol intoxication,
• has the effect of relieving alcohol toxicity and preventing drunkenness through restraining the absorption of alcohol in the gastrointestinal tract and promoting the metabolism of alcohol in the liver,
• has an obvious effect on acute alcohol toxicity,
• excellent diuretic, oedema,
• hepatoprotective.

Jasmine Flowers (Jasminum sambac)

• Antidepressive,
• inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme,
• analgesic,
• antispasmodic,
• relieves congestion,
• cough,
• migraine,
• jasmine flowers seem to be an effective and inexpensive method of suppressing puerperal lactation and can be used as an alternative in situations where cost and nonavailability restrict the use of bromocriptine.

Juniper Berry (Juniperus communis)

• Strong diuretic, gout, arthritis,
• loss of appetite,
• antiseptic,
• bladder infections,
• bronchitis,
• aids digestion,
• migraine,
• dropsy,