Final Exam Herbs Ii Combos

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Ma Huang & Gui Zhi

Back 1

Mutually reinforce each other's floating and dispelling characteristics.
-Effectively open the pores of the skin, strongly provoke perspiration, resolve the musles, and scatter wind cold of the replete type.
Indications: basic cold damage pattern; chills, fever, body aches, cough, running nose, aversion to cold, floating tight pulse, and absense of sweat.

Front 2

Gui Zhi & Bai Shao

Back 2

Bai Shao: Yin
Gui Zhi: Yang
Harmonize yin and yang, qi and blood, ying and wei. Together they drain w/o damaging yin, while they contain yin without retaining evils. Also harmonize the vessels, relieve tension, and stop pain, as well as support ST yin and SP yang, while regulating the SP and ST.
Indications: Deficient type of exterior wind cold syndrome- h/a, fever, aversion to wind w/ sweat, nasal congestion, dry heaves, and floating moderate pulse.

Front 3

Gui Zhi & Gan Cao

Back 3

Combining pungent and sweet flavors produces Yang qi. Gui Zhi is used to enter the Heart and warm and unblock the Heart Yang. It is not used here to release the exterior. Gan Cao controls Gui Zhi to prevent it from inducing sweat and releasing the exterior. Together they warm and unblock the Heart Yang. Gan Cao also tonifies the SP and the Qi to help Gui Zhi build up the Qi.

Front 4

Ma Huang & Gui Zhi

Back 4

Mutually reinforce each other's floating and dispelling characteristics.
-Effectively open the pores of the skin, strongly provoke perspiration, resolve the musles, and scatter wind cold of the replete type.
Indications: basic cold damage pattern; chills, fever, body aches, cough, running nose, aversion to cold, floating tight pulse, and absense of sweat.

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Gui Zhi & Bai Shao

Back 5

Bai Shao: Yin
Gui Zhi: Yang
Harmonize yin and yang, qi and blood, ying and wei. Together they drain w/o damaging yin, while they contain yin without retaining evils. Also harmonize the vessels, relieve tension, and stop pain, as well as support ST yin and SP yang, while regulating the SP and ST.
Indications: Deficient type of exterior wind cold syndrome- h/a, fever, aversion to wind w/ sweat, nasal congestion, dry heaves, and floating moderate pulse.

Front 6

Sheng Jiang & Ban Xia

Back 6

One downbears, while the other drains. One dries; the other warms. When these two medicinals are combined together, they transform phlegm and downbear counterflow, harmonize ST and stop vomiting,
Sheng Jiang can control Ban Xia's toxicity and side effects (Xiang Wei and Xiang Sha relationship)
Sheng Jiang- P/slightly warm- LU, SP, ST
Ban Xia- P/W- LU, SP, ST
Indications: damp-phlegm/ cold in middle jiao

Front 7

Gui Zhi & Gan Cao

Back 7

Combining pungent and sweet flavors produces Yang qi. Gui Zhi is used to enter the Heart and warm and unblock the Heart Yang. It is not used here to release the exterior. Gan Cao controls Gui Zhi to prevent it from inducing sweat and releasing the exterior. Together they warm and unblock the Heart Yang. Gan Cao also tonifies the SP and the Qi to help Gui Zhi build up the Qi.

Front 8

Ju Hua & Sang Ye

Back 8

Indicated: to raise LR yang and descend Lung Qi
disperse wind heat (cough), clear and anchor liver. Tx wind heat invasion, or LR heat, LR Yang rising.
Ju Hua: LR
Sang Ye: LU

Front 9

Sheng Jiang & Ban Xia

Back 9

One downbears, while the other drains. One dries; the other warms. When these two medicinals are combined together, they transform phlegm and downbear counterflow, harmonize ST and stop vomiting,
Sheng Jiang can control Ban Xia's toxicity and side effects (Xiang Wei and Xiang Sha relationship)
Sheng Jiang- P/slightly warm- LU, SP, ST
Ban Xia- P/W- LU, SP, ST
Indications: damp-phlegm/ cold in middle jiao

Front 10

Ju Hua & Sang Ye

Back 10

Indicated: to raise LR yang and descend Lung Qi
disperse wind heat (cough), clear and anchor liver. Tx wind heat invasion, or LR heat, LR Yang rising.
Ju Hua: LR
Sang Ye: LU

Front 11

Chai Hu & Huang Qin

Back 11

Harmonizing Shaoyang syndrome or harmonizing exterior and interior syndrome.
Goes to GB- initial stage of Shaoyang syndrome (internal heat)

Front 12

Chai Hu & Bai Shao

Back 12

LR Qi Stagnation or dysfunction or LR organ system
Chai Hu; focuse on yang function of LR
Bai Shao: yin function of LR

Front 13

Chai Hu & Sheng Ma

Back 13

This combination is the basic structure of raising the Yang Qi to lift up the prolapse. A condition such as Qi deficiency causing prolapse is due to insufficient ascending energy. When treating this kind of problem, we need to focus on the ascending organs - the Liver and the Spleen. We need to use herbs that work on the Liver and Spleen to help them ascend.
If something prolapses the desired treatment is to help the ascending movement. A prolapse of Qi will affect the internal organs because they need the Qi to hold them in their normal position. That is why as females age the uterus may prolapse –because of decreasing Qi, or a trauma that injures the Qi.

Hint 13

When they are used together they really work on raising the Yang Qi for treating the prolapse of Qi causing conditions such as prolapse of internal organs or chronic diarrhea.

Chai Hu can lift the Yang Qi to lift the prolapse. Specifically, it goes to the Liver to work on the Liver energy and assist the ascending function. Sheng Ma goes to the Spleen to help the movement of Spleen energy and work together with the Liver to raise the Yang Qi and help prolapse.

Using Sheng Ma by itself will not achieve the desired effect – it must be combined with Chai Hu. And, more importantly, when these two herbs are used to raise the Yang Qi and treat prolapse, they are really only helping the movement of energy – they are not treating the root.

Notes
It is very important to pay attention to the dosage of both herbs. Use a small amount of both – less than 3g. They serve as a guide for the energy, not to tonify the Yang Qi. The dose controls the direction of the herbs effect – a larger amount of these herbs has an entirely different action.

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Shi Gao & Zhi Mu

Back 14

Shi Gao is pungent and sweet. Nature is very, very cold (Da Han). It goes to the LU & ST channels. It can clear heat, purge fire, relieve vexation, and stop thirst. It is good at clearing heat, especially for excessive heat in the Yang Ming Qi Fen. (Qi layer)

Zhi Mu is bitter, sweet, cold nature. It goes to the Lung, Stomach, and Kidney. It can
also clear heat and purge fire, nourish Yin, generate fluids, and moisten dryness.
Its cold nature can help Shi Gao to clear heat, moisten quality to help Shi Gao to
generate fluids.

When used together they can strengthen each other, have a Xiang Xu relationship.
They create the strongest effect of clearing heat and generating fluids, used for
treating Shang Han Yang Ming Jing Zheng(Yang Ming Channel Syndrome), or Weng
Bing Re Zai Qi Fen(Heat in the Qi Layer).

Hint 14

This combination has the effects of clearing heat and generating fluids. It is a combination of clearing heat and nourishing the Yin.

Front 15

Zhi Mu & Huang Bai

Back 15

This combination has a very good effect at clearing empty heat or deficient heat. It is used for treating Yin deficiency – empty heat or deficient heat cause by Yin deficiency. Sx include: Gu Zhen (steaming bone sense), tidal fever, hot flashes, burning
sensation in the five centers (palms, soles, and chest – at Tan Zhong), red tongue with less coat, thin and rapid pulse. Excessive Xiang Huo: “Yang Qiang Bu Dao”-which describe a man’s penis erect all the time, can not become soft.

Hint 15

In the ancient times the practitioners described this combination as having a Xiang Xu relationship. They said that these herbs are inseparable for the effect of clearing empty heat – must use them together to clear empty heat. If use Zhi Mu or Huang Bai alone, the effect of clearing empty heat will not result. Therefore they must be used together for this kind of synergy.

The analogy given for these two herbs is like the shrimp and the Shui Mu ( A kind of clam?) – they are always found together.

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Sheng Di Huang & Mai Men Dong & Xuan Shen

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All together they can nourish the Yin to replenish the fluids in the body.Together these three herbs can nourish the Yin and replenish fluids; moisten dryness and unblock the bowel. They make a formula called Zeng Ye Tang. Zeng
means add or replenish; Ye means fluids. Thus: Replenish Fluids Decoction.

For treating Yin fluid deficiency or constipation due to intestinal dryness. The action of this formula is described in Chinese medicine as adding more water to the river to move the boat. If there isn’t enough water, you cannot move the boat. Constipation due to dry intestines or lack of fluids cannot be solved by purging. The correct method is to moisten dryness, nourish Yin, and replenish fluids.

This combination makes a strong effect of nourishing the Yin. Also this action works over a large area of the body, not just only one organ. At the same time, Sheng Di and Xuan Shen act to clear the heat, cool the blood. Thus always are used for
treating febrile disease that has damaged the Yin and manifest as Yin defici sx.

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Huang Qin & Huang Lian & Huang Bai

Back 17

Together these herbs clear heat, dry dampness, and clear heat to relieve toxicity.They are used to treat damp-heat syndromes or heat toxins.

Examples of conditions are damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, and sores, boils, and carbuncles – even Herpes. Damp-heat jaundice.

This combination is also used for bleeding due to too much heat.

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Huang Lian & Wu Zhu Yu

Back 18

This pair clears the Liver and harmonizes the Stomach. It purges fire and directs the Qi downwards. It is used for Liver heat or fire overacting on the Stomach causing a disharmonious Liver and Stomach. This is manifested clinically as hypochondriac and chest pain, acid reflux, belching / burping, vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, red tongue with yellow coat, wiry and rapid pulse.

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Huang Bai & Cang Zhu

Back 19

These two herbs when they get together, they can clear heat and dry dampness, used for treating damp-heat syndromes, especially in the lower jiao, such as damp heat Bi syndrome, or damp heat Lin syndrome, or damp heat leukorrhagia, damp
heat diarrhea, or dysenteric disorders, etc.

Cang Zhu is pungent, bitter and warm, it is good at drying and transforming dampness, and helping to strengthen the spleen’s transportive and transformative functions.
Huang Bai is bitter and cold, cold can clear heat, bitter can dry dampness, especially it is good at clearing damp heat in the lower jiao.

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Qing Hao & Bie Jia

Back 20

Qing hao and Bie jia: Bie jia is tortoiseshell. The combination works with difficult conditions, such as cancer. They nourish Yin at the same time as they clear deficient heat. The two herbs go deep into the body and disperse lingering pathogens. Turtles live in the water; that’s why their shells are good at tonifying the Yin. The shell also anchors the Yang. The turtle likes to go deep under the water; the herb goes in to the collaterals to find pathogens. Qing hao is good at going to
the deep layers, but Bie jia is even better. It can also soften hardnesses and dispel nodules and accumulations all the time, which is why it’s used to treat tumors.
When the two herbs get together, they go very deeply into the body (Bie jia), and then they bring the pathogens out (Qing hao). Bie jia has a sticky quality, but Qing hao takes care of that with its pungent flavor, dispersing any potential stagnation.

Front 21

Da Huang & Mang Xiao

Back 21

This combination has the effects of purging the heat and unblocking the bowel. They are used to treat the Yang Ming Fu syndrome or constipation due to heat in the intestine.
When both Da Huang and Mang Xiao are used together, they strengthen each other, have a Xiang Xu relationship, make the strongest effects of purging heat accumulation and unblocking the bowel. Since heat accumulated in the Yang Ming Fu organ (stomach and intestines), on the one hand, it blocks the flow of qi that cause constipation, on the other hand, heat will damage the fluids that make the stool very dry and hard. When you are going to treat this condition, you need to work on all of these. To purge the heat to treat the root of the problem, to descend and unblock the bowel to free the flow of the qi and provide a way for the heat and accumulation to get out of the body, and to soften the hard stool for easy to purge and eliminate.

Da Huang goes to purge and descend the heat accumulation and stool, while Mang Xiao goes to soften the dry stools that make it is easier for Da Huang to push downward and eliminate. They are used for treating Yang Ming Fu Syndrome or constipation due to heat.