Ask's Herbs G-L Fxns

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Gan Cao**

Back 1

moistens Lu-stops cough; relieves M spasms; clears Heat/relieves Fire toxins; harminezed qualities of other herbs-antidote

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Gan Jiang**

Back 2

warms MJ/expels cold. warms LU: resolves harmful BFs. restores yang. warms Ch. stops bleeding

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Gan Sui*

Back 3

0.5-1g

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Gao Ben*

Back 4

GUIDING:DU MAI; vertex HA; opens C&C; dispels W-C-D Bi Syndrome

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Gao Liang Jiang-

Back 5

warms MJ: stops pain; disperses cold. directs ST Qi down

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Ge Gen**

Back 6

GUIDING: YANGMING(ST) & TAIYIN(Sp); raises clear Qi of Yangming; lifts Sp Qi; clears heat-generates BFs-neck/upperback pain d/t W-C/W-H attack; release M layer; vents heat/rashes; expels EPI

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Ge Jie-

Back 7

asthma, cough d/t Lu and Ki Yang Xu; ED d/t KI Yang Xu.

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Ge Qiao/Ge Ke/Hai Zao**

Back 8

clears heat/txforms Phlegm; goiter, scrofula; acid reflux; superficial edema

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Gou Ji-

Back 9

tonifies LR and KI; expels pathogenic Wind, Damp and Cold.

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Gou Qi Zi**

Back 10

enriches LR & KI Yin: dizz, vertigo, weak LB and knees; benefits essence/brightens eyes: LR&KI xu patterns where essence and bld are not nourishing the eyes; enriches Yin, moistens LU: cough d/t Yin Xu in LU. special combo: Gou Qi Zi+Ju Hua

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Gou Teng**

Back 11

clears LR Heat; subdues Lr Yang rising. releases exterior for W-H patterns. relieves convulsions. special pair: Tian Ma

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Gu Sui Bu*

Back 12

promotes mending of sinews and bones, regenerates tissue; stimulates hair growth; tonifies KI Yang

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Gu Ya**

Back 13

promotes digestion: STARCHY FOOD. grain sprout in general

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Gu Ya~Dao Ya**

Back 14

rice sprout

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Gu Ya~Su Ya**

Back 15

millet sprout

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Gua Lou Shi/Gua Lou Pi/Gua Lou Ren**

Back 16

clears heat/txforms P-H: cough, thick sticky sputum; unbinds chest/dissipates nodules: CHEST BI; dissipates nodules: LU, INTESTINE & BREAST abscesses; moistens intestine for dry constipation

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Guan zhong**

Back 17

SL. TOXIC. clears Heat cleans toxins; cools blood; stops bleeding; mildly kills parasites

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Gui Ban*

Back 18

benefits Ki; strengthens bones; nourishes Ht bld; cools bld/stops blding; strongly tonifites LR&KI. tonifies deepest level of Yin/Bld

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Gui Jian Yu*

Back 19

breaks up bld sts: unblocks menses; kills parasties

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Gui Zhi**

Back 20

warms/unblocks C&C-Bi Syndrome; Release M layer; warms Yang/txform thin mucous; removes bld stg: regulates menses; assists HT Yang/unblocks Yang Qi of chest-RUNNING PIGLET; warms MJ and directs turbid yin down

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Hai Feng Teng*

Back 21

dispels W-D, opens C&C. this herb addresses channel pain/Bi-Syndrome

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Hai Jin Sha**

Back 22

all kinds of LIN syndrome. EXPELS STONES. clears D-H from Bld level of BL & SI by promoting urn. decreases jaundice

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Hai Ma-

Back 23

ED, urn frequency, invigorates Bld: traumatic injury or masses d/t stg.

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Hai Paio Xiao-

Back 24

stops bleeding; secrures essense for unterin blding; seminal emission;acid reflux; sores

Front 25

Hai Tong Pi-

Back 25

stops itching. promotes urn. dental wash/gargle for toothache and cavities

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Hai Zao/Kun Bu*

Back 26

softens areas of hardness: NECK nodules: goiter scrofula.

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Han Fang Ji-

Back 27

facilitates flid pathways: ascites; expels W-D Bi-Syndrome/ alleviates pain: hot painful joints; clears D-H.

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He Huan Hua*

Back 28

relives constrained LR; promotes Qi flow in collaterals; calms spirit: depression, insomnia, forgetfulness, irritability, anger d/t constrained emotions "works more at Qi level"

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He Huan Pi*

Back 29

relieves mental stress & deperssion, relieves constraint, calms Shen: bad temper, anger, poor memory; harmoize Bld, stops pain, reconnects sinews & bones; dissipates swelling, reduces abscesses; swellling & pain of both int. & ext. abscesses; "works more at Bld level"

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He Shou Wu**

Back 30

replenishes Essence; expels Wind from skin by nourishing Bld: for wind rash d/t Bld Xu; nourishes bld

Front 31

He Tao Rou*

Back 31

moistens LI for constipation d/t dryness in LI; T+ KI & LU: stops wheezing.

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He Ye-

Back 32

summer heat; raises clear yang; stops bleeding

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He Zi-

Back 33

chornic cough with or without Hoarse Voice; chronic Diarrhea.

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Hei Zhi Ma*

Back 34

norishes bld;supports essence; promote BM. food grade.

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Hong Hua**

Back 35

wide variety of prob d/t Bld Stg: a/dysmenorrhea, traumatic injury, skin eruptions d/t heat special pair: Tao Ren

Front 36

Hong Qu**

Back 36

strengthen SP/ST: promotes digestion; invigorates blood; LOWERS CHOLSETEROL

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Hong Teng*

Back 37

intestinal abscesses; appendicitis; stops pain: trauma, dysmenorrhea, joint pain

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Hou Po**

Back 38

promotes Qi circulation in chest & directs it down; dries Dampo, reduces Phelgm; discends LU qi for asthma/wheezing; clears food stg

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Hu Huang Lian*

Back 39

primary herb for eliminating excess D-H; childhood nutritional impairment

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Hu Po*

Back 40

strongly moves Bld/dispels Bld stg/unblocks menses: a/dysmenorrhea, traumatic injury, pn associated w/ palpipal fixed masses; promotes Urn; promtes skin & tissue healing: topically

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Hu Zhang*

Back 41

eliminates Wind, expels Damp, txforms Phlegm; cools heat -treats all 6 pathologic factors.

Front 42

Hua (Chuan) Jiao*

Back 42

kills parasites, warms MJ

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Hua Shi*

Back 43

clears summer heat; clears D-H or stone in LJ; absorbs Damp when applied topically

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Huai Mi (Hua)*

Back 44

cools LR heat: brightens eyes; hemafecia; bleeding hemorrhoids

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Huang Bai**

Back 45

drains D-H in the LJ: diarrhea, dysentary, yellow leukorrhea; drains KI fire: for ascending KI fire with signs of Yin Xu

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Huang Jing*

Back 46

augments Sp yin; enriches yin-moistens Lu; augments Essence; cloying

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Huang Lian**

Back 47

clears D-H from MJ: vomit/acid refulx/excess hunger or thirst; drains fire/clean toxins: HT fire signs. clears ST fire or LR fire attacking ST

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Huang Qi**

Back 48

raises Yang Qi; tonifies Wei Qi/protects exterior-stops sweating; promotes tissue regeneration; promotes urination/reduces edema(LOW GRADE FEVER)

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Huang Qin**

Back 49

clears heat in UJ: cough, sore throat; dries D-H in Yangming (ST/intestines); auxilary herb for urinary dribble; stoms blding from internal heat d/t excess; sedates LR yang rising;

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Huo Ma/Ma Zi Ren**

Back 50

moistens LI, unblocks constipation d/t dryness: promote BM; nourishes yin fluids;

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Huo Xiang*

Back 51

harmonized MJ, Stops V/N; dispels Summer Heat. releases exterior

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Ji Nei Jin**

Back 52

malnutrition in children; astringes essence; BEDWETTING; dissolves Stones: Bladder & biliary stone in GB

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Ji Xue Teng*

Back 53

relax tendon/sinews; ACCRP: Bi-Syndrome; regulates menses; nourishes Bld

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Jiang Huang*

Back 54

breaks up/removes bld Sts: unblocks menses; opens C&C, expel Wind; Bi-Syndrome

Front 55

Jie Geng**

Back 55

GUIDING: UPWARD opens up and dissiminates LU Qi; dispels phlegm benefits throat; guides out pus: cough with fishy smalling sputum;

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Jin Qian Cao**

Back 56

Expels STONES in LR, GB, KI, BL; clears D-H in LR/GB, D-H jaundice; resolves toxic swellings: snakebite, abscess, traumatic injury

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Jin Yin Hua**

Back 57

breast, throat, eye swellings, intenstinal abscess; painful dribbling urine; dysentric d/o. Related: Ren Dong Teng: relieves W-D-H Bi Syndrome

Front 58

Jin Ying Zi-

Back 58

chronic diarrhea, secures/controls essence; binds LJ

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Jing Jie*

Back 59

release exterior: both W-C & W-H; disperses Wind-stops itching-vents rashes; charred: stops bleeding

Front 60

Jiu Cai Zi**

Back 60

fortifies Jing: ED, frequent Urn., profuse leukorrhea d/t KI Yang Xu; tonifies KI Yang; warmly T+ LR and KI, secures essence

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Ju Hua**

Back 61

cooling, aromatic, light: can ascend or descend; disperse Wind and clears Heat from Lr and Lu; cleans toxins; brightens eyes; subdues Lr Yang rising

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Jue Ming Zi**

Back 62

benefits the eyes, promotes BM; subdues Lr yang rising;

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Ku Lian Pi-

Back 63

topically: treats fungus (tinea); kills parasites + vaginal trichomonas

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Ku Shen**

Back 64

expels wind: genetal itching, itchy skin d/t D-H toxin; kills worms: scabies/tinea; promotes urination; clears heat/dry damp: LJ sxs: jaundice, dysnetery; leukorrhea, sores

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Kuan Dong Hua*

Back 65

A KEY HERB TO STOP COUGH; moistens the LU/directs Qi down; txforms phlegm

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Lai Fu Zi**

Back 66

reduces food stg/eliminates distention; descends LU Qi; reduces phlegm: cough copious sputum; wheezing

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Li Zhi He-

Back 67

disperses Qi stg & Cold; eliminates obstruction in LR ch. HERNIA. low AB pain that radiates to external genital area, or pain swelling in testicles

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Lian Qiao**

Back 68

GUIDING: SAN JIAO; Lian Qioa+Jin Yin Hua=Yin Jiao San: vents and disperses W-H; scrofula, swollen lymphy nodes (acts like a referee separating Heat/Damp and toxins and handling as needed); carbuncles, boils, abscesses

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Lian Zi Xin-

Back 69

clear heat from Pc and Ht: coma/delirium/high fever/insomnia

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Lian Zi**

Back 70

tonifies SP; stops diarrhea; stabilizes essence; nourishes HT: calms spirit. *esp useful for HT & KI not communicating

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Ling Yang Jiao-

Back 71

severe heat toxins; long cook, small dose. extreme heat, delirium, loss of cons. HA

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Ling Zhi**

Back 72

tonifies LU Qi, txforms Phlegm, stops cough/wheezing: cough, asthma, wheezing d/t cold from deficiency or P-D accum.; T+ Qi/nourishes Bld: consumptive Dz (of body/mind/spirit); calms shen; "this herb reinforces the body

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Liu Huang-

Back 73

scabies, eczema; itchy skin; ED, asthma d/t Ki Yang Xu

Front 74

Long Dan Cao*

Back 74

drains D-H from LR & GB channel; upper ch: red swollen eyes sudden deafness;

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Long Gu**

Back 75

subdues LR Yang: LR yang rising where Yin cannot control Yang from rising up; anstring/controls BFs, "prevents fluid leakage": seminal emission, leukorrhea, uterine blding. "secures Normal Qi & is Heavy in nature"; settles anxiety, anchors Shen

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Long Yan Rou*

Back 76

tonifies Ht&SP Qi; nourishes Bld; calms Shen. "strengthens Hun & Po to prevent aging

Front 77

Lu Dou-

Back 77

antidote for herb or food poisoning; summer heat-esp with pronounced thirst;

Front 78

Lu Feng Fang*

Back 78

kills bugs: scabies, ringworm; elimates toxins: carbuncles, nodes; expel Wind/stop pain: Bi-syndrome toothache. joint pain

Front 79

Lu Gen*

Back 79

clears Lu heat: abscess/cough; cools St heat: thirst/restlessness, settles nausea; generates BFs without being cloying; promotes urination; encourages expression of rashes

Front 80

Lu Hui*

Back 80

purge accumulation; cleat Heat from LR; kills parasites. 1.5-4.5g pill or pdwr: do not cook

Front 81

Lu Jiao-

Back 81

T+ Yang, promote Bld circulation; eases swelling

Front 82

Lu Jiao Jiao*

Back 82

T+ LR Bld & Ki Jing; stops all types of bleeding: cold intolerance, cold extremities, ED, seminal emission; unhealed Yin type carbuncle : necrotic tissue "use Yang to express Yin"

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Lu Jiao Shuang-

Back 83

T+ LR Bld & Ki Jing; stops all types of bleeding: cold intolerance, cold extremities, ED, seminal emission; unhealed Yin type carbuncle : necrotic tissue "use Yang to express Yin"

Front 84

Lu Lu Tong*

Back 84

opens channels; expels Wind; promotes urn; promotes lactation d/t stg

Front 85

Lu Rong*

Back 85

T+ Ki/fortifies Yang: fatigue, ED, cold intolerance, infertility, frequent urn; warms Yang; REGULATES CHONG MAI AND REN MAI ; STABALIZED DAI MAI: profuse leukorrhea, uterine bleeding; T+ DU MAI: poor development in children; augments essence/bld strengthens sinews/bones: weak tendons/bones;T+ Qi/nourishes Bld: chronic yin-type boils

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Luo Shi Teng*

Back 86

unblocks collateral for attach of W-D w/ Heat. cools blood/reduces swelling: painful abscesses/toxic sores