Herb Board Review Set 10

Front 1

Mu tong

Back 1

Akebia caulis
Drain dampness
1. Diuretic for Lin
2. Promotes urination and drain heat from the heart through the small intestine.
3. Promotes lactation and unblockes vessels for insufficient lactation, amenorrhea pain and stiffness of joints.

Front 2

Mu xiang

Back 2

Aucklandia
Regulate Qi
1. Promotes circulation of SP and St Qi and stops pain for abdominal distention, or ab and epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting.
2. Regulates stagnant Qi in intestines for diarrhea, dysentery, ab pain and tenesmus.

Front 3

Mu zei

Back 3

Scouring rush
Cool and acrid to release exterior
1. Disperse wind heat and clears eyes for wind heat affecting eyes redness, pain, swelling, cloudiness, blurred vision, excessive tearing, conjunctivitis.
2. Clears heat and stops bleeding for blood in stool or hemorrhoids.

Front 4

Niu bang zi

Back 4

Great Burdock fruit
Cool and acrid to release the exterior.
1. Dispel wind heat for common cold with sore throat and cough.
2. Promotes eruption of measles.
3. Anti-inflammatory and and antitoxin for pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis.

Front 5

Niu Hunang

Back 5

Ox gallstone
Aromatic to open the orifices
1. Clears heat and opens orifices transforms phlegm and awakens the spirit for delirium, coma, wind stroke, convulsions and seizures.
2. Clears liver and extinguishes wind for spasms, tremors, convulsions with high fever.
3. Drains heat and resolves toxins for inflammation of mouth, throat, and other purulent skin inflammation.

Front 6

Nui xi

Back 6

Achryranthes root
Regulate the and invigorate the blood and the menses.
1. Invigorates the blood and dispels stasis for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, retained lochia and post traumatic pain.
2. Tonifies liver and kidney, strengthens sinews and bones for pain and soreness of back and knees.
3. Drains blood and fire downward for nosebleed, vomiting of blood, toothaches, bleeding gums, dizziness, HA, blurred vision due to Liver yang rising.
4. Clears damp heat from the lower burner for Lin, stones, vaginal discharge.

Front 7

Nu zhen zi

Back 7

Ligustrum fruit
Tonify Yin
1. Nourishes Liver and Kidneys for for early greying of hair, eyes, lumbago, vertigo.
2. Augments liver and kidney to improve eyesight.

Front 8

Pang da hai

Back 8

Boat sterculia seed
Cool herbs to transform phlegm heat
1. Eliminates heat and toxin for sore throat, cough with thick sticky yellow sputum, hoarseness, tonsillitis.
2. constipation with heat

Front 9

Pi pa ye

Back 9

Loquat leaves
Transform phlegm and stop cough
1. Transform phlegm, clear heat, stop cough.
2. Harmonizes ST, clears heat for nausea, vomiting hiccough, belching due to st heat.

Front 10

Pu gong ying

Back 10

Dandelion
Clear heat and relieve toxin
1. Reduce abscess, dissipate nodules for internal breast and intestinal abscesses and external sores.
2. Resolves dampness for jaundice, hepatitis, Lin.

Front 11

Pu huang

Back 11

Cattail pollen
Regulate the Blood and stop bleeding
1. Stop bleeding.
2. Dispels stasis, for chest pain, post-partum ab pain, gastralgia.
3. Promotes urination for Lin

Front 12

Qian cao

Back 12

Rubia root
Regulate blood and stop bleeding
1. Cools the blood and stops bleeding for vomiting blood, nose bleed, coughing of blood, blooding stool, uterine bleeding.
2. Invigorates and dispels stasis for chest and flank pain, retained lochia, pain from trauma, joint pain, early stage carbuncles.

Front 13

Qian hu

Back 13

Hogfennel root
Cool herbs to transform phlegm heat
1. Reverse Lung Qi for cough with thick sputum.
2. Dispel wind heat for HA and cough.

Front 14

Qian niu zi

Back 14

Morning glory seed
Downward draining harsh expellant
1. Edema, and ascites, oliguria.
2. Constipations
3. Parasites.

Front 15

Qian shi

Back 15

Euryale seeds
Stabilize and bind
1. Strengthen spleen and stop diarrhea.
2. Stabilize kidney essence for spontaneous seminal emission, leukorrhea, frequent micturition.

Front 16

Qiang huo

Back 16

Notoptergium root
Warm and acrid to release the exterior.
1. Dispel wind cold damp for occipital HA, chills, fever, Body aches and pain.
2. Bi pain in upper body
3. Guide Qi to Du and BL channels.

Front 17

Qin jiao

Back 17

Large leaf Gentiana root
Dispel wind dampness
1. Dispel wind damp for Bi pain.
2. Clears heat from Deficiency for Steaming bone, fever.
3. Eliminate heat and dampness for jaundice.
4. Constipation

Front 18

Qin pi

Back 18

Fraxini cortex, Ash bark
Clears heat and drys damp
1. Eliminates heat and drys damon for diarrhea, leukorrhea.
2. Drains liver fire to benefit the eyes.
3. Stops cough and wheezing due to wind heat.

Front 19

Qing dai

Back 19

Indigo
Clear heat and relieve toxicity
1. Clears heat for macula, papula, erysipelas, mumps, thrush, and epidemic parotits.
2. Detoxify for spitting of blood, hemoptysis.

Front 20

Qing hao

Back 20

Sweet wormwood
Clear heat from deficiency
1. Anti malarial
2. Clears heat for yin def fevers
3. Summer heat
4. Clears heat and stops bleeding for rashes or nosebleeds.

Front 21

Qing pi

Back 21

Green tangerine peel
Regulate Qi
1. Spreads liver Qi for distention and pain in chest, breast, hypochondriac regions.
2. Food stagnation.