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42 Cards in this Set
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cao
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grass with or without root
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gen
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root
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hua
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flower
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pi
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peel, bark
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ren
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seed
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zi
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seed
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shi
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stone
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ye
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leaf
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zhi
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twig
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jiao
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horn
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teng
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vine
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tan
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vine
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she
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snake
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zhi (2)
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processed
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habitat of chinese herbal medicines are based on what 5 things
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soil
water climate sunshine rainfall |
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best quality herbs that come from certain place called
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dao di yao cai
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best ren shen comes from
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north east china
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best di huang comes from
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he nan province
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what are the 5 tastes
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pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty,
the 6th tasteless |
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pungent does what
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expel, purge
exterior syndromes, moves chi and blood |
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cold herbs do what
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resolve heat
clear toxicity |
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cool herbs do what
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antiinflamatory
anti fungal nourish yin purge fire |
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warm/hot herbs do what
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expel cold
tonify chi/yang warm interior |
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most tonifying herbs are
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warm
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3 mechanisms of chinese herbs
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expel pathogen and remove causes
tonify deficiency readjust function of zang fu and meridians |
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mutual accentuation is
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similar herbs reinforce therapeutic action
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4 properties of chinese herbs
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cold
cool warm hot |
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mutual enhancement
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herbs with siilar actions reinforce each other, principle and assisting herbs
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mutual counteraction
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toxicity or side effects of one herb can be reduced or eliminated by another herb
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mutual suppression
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one herb reduces the side effects of another
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liu huang is antagonistic with
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mang xiao
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shui yin is antagonistic with
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pi shuang
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lang du is antagonistic with
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mi tuo seng
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ba dou is antagonistic with
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qian niu zi
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ding xiang is antagonistic with
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yu jin
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ya xiao is antagonistic with
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san leng
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wu tou (including chuan wu & cao wu) is antagonistic with
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xi jiao
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ren shen is antagonistic with
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wu ling zhi
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rou gui is antagonistic with
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chi shi zi
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wu tou is incompatible with what 5 herbs
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ban xia
gua lou bei mu bai lian bai ji |
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gan cao is incompatible with what 4 herbs
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hai zao
da ji gan sui yuan hua |
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li lu is incompatible with what 10 herbs
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ren shen
xi yang shen tai zi shen dang shen sha shen dan shen ku shen xuan shen xi xin bai/chi shao |
