Herb Board Review Set 13

Front 1

Shui Niu Jiao

Back 1

Water buffalo horn
Clears heat and cools the blood
1. Clears heat and cools blood for vomiting blood, nose bleed, carbuncles, skin diseases due to heat in the blood, sore swollen throat, supportive skin infections.
2. Detoxifies and relieves tremors for high fever, coma, delirium, convulsions, epilepsy, manic behavior.

Front 2

Su he xiang

Back 2

Styrax, Resin of Rose Maloes
Open orifices
1.opens orifices.
2. Warms and opens chest for fullness and oppression.

Front 3

Su zi

Back 3

Perilla fruit
Herbs that relieve cough and wheezing
1. Stops cough with stifling sensation, when exhalation is more labored than inhalation.
2. Constipation.

Front 4

Suan Zao Ren

Back 4

Sour jujube seed
Nourish the Heart and Calm Spirit
1. Nourish Heart Yin and Liver Blood, to calm the mind for palpitations and insomnia.
2. Arrests sweating for night sweats and spontaneous sweats.

Front 5

Suo yang

Back 5

Cynomorium Stem
Tonify Yang
1. Tonifies yang for impotence, female infertility, atrophy of lower limbs.
2. Constipation

Front 6

Tai Zi Shen

Back 6

Pseudostellatia Root
Tonify Qi
1. Tonify Qi and spleen for palpitations insomnia, and def heat sweating.
2. Generates fluids for lung and spleen. for post febrile disease, summer heat.

Front 7

Tan xiang

Back 7

Sandalwood
Regulates Qi
1. Promotes circulation of Qi for pain in chest and abdomen.

Front 8

Tao Ren

Back 8

Peach Kernel
Invigorate blood and remove stasis.
1. Breaks up blood stasis for menstrual disorders, abdominal pain, trauma, flank pain, lung and abdominal abscesses, fixed abdominal masses.
2. Constipation
3. Cough and asthma

Front 9

Tian hua fen

Back 9

Trichosanthes root or
Gua lou gen
Cleart heat and Drains fire
1. Clears heat and drains fire and generates fluids for thirst irritability, cough with thick bloody sputum, Xiao ke.
2. Clears lung heat transforms phlegm for dry cough.
3. Clears toxins and expels pus for toxic sores and carbuncles.

Front 10

Tian Ma

Back 10

Gastrodia Rhizome
Extinguish wind and stop tremors.
1. Extinguishes wind and relieve convulsions for epilepsy, , spasms, tetany, windstroke
2. Suppresses liver yang for vertigo HA, liver yang rising, wind phlegm.
3. Disperses Bi pain.

Front 11

Tian Men dong

Back 11

Asparagus tuber
Tonify Yin
1. Nourishes kidney yin to moisten dryness for yin consumption due to febrile disease, thirst, constipation, xiao ke, hot flashes, night sweats.
2. Tonifies Lung yin for dry cough with bloody sputum, dry mouth.

Front 12

Tian Nan Xing

Back 12

Arisematis Rhizome
Transform phlegm and stop cough
1. Transforms phlegm for cold phlegm cough.
2. Expels wind to relieve spasms, treat vertigo, stroke, epilepsy, and tetanus due to wind phlegm.
3. Externally for swelling, carbuncles, trauma, and be pain.

Front 13

Tian zhu hunag

Back 13

Bamboo sugar
Cool herbs to transform phlegm heat
1. Clears lung phlegm heat.
2. Spasm and convulsions due to phlegm heat.

Front 14

Ting li zi

Back 14

Tingli seed, Lepidium seed
Transform phlegm and stop cough.
1. Wheezing and cough with copious sputum.
2. Reduces edema for gurgling sound in throat.

Front 15

Tong Cao

Back 15

Rice paper plant pith
Drain dampness
1. Lin
2. Promotes lactation

Front 16

Tu fu ling

Back 16

Smooth Greenbrier Rhizome
Clear heat and relieve toxicity
1. Clears damon heat for Bi pain, Lin,jaundice, ulcers, hot skin lesions.

Front 17

Tu si zi

Back 17

Dodder see, Cuscuta seed
Tonify yang
1. Tonifies kidney yang
2. Nourish the liver to benefit the eyes.
3. Tonifies sp and kd yang to stop diarrhea.
4. Calms the fetus for habitual or threatened miscarriage.

Front 18

Wang bu lui xing

Back 18

Vaccaria seeds
Invigorate the blood and remove stasis.
1. Invigorates blood for upper body - lactations, lower body - amenorrhea, dysmenohrria, difficult labor.
2. Reduces swelling of testicles and breasts.
3. Stone Lin

Front 19

Wei ling xian

Back 19

Clematis root
Expels wind damp
1. Dispel wind dampness for whole body aches due to Bi.
2. Softens fish bones in throat.
3. Removes phlegm and fluids for focal distention in the middle burner.

Front 20

Wu jia pi

Back 20

Eleutherococcus Root bark
Dispel Wind-dampness
1. Dispels wind damp and strengthens sinews and bones for pain, spasms, low back and knee pain, wind cold damp Bi, due to Liver and Kidney def.
2. Transforms damp for edema, urinary difficulty, cold damp leg Qi.

Front 21

Wu ling zhi

Back 21

Flying squirrel poop
Invigorate the blood to relieve pain
1. Disperse blood stasis and alleviate pain for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post partum pain, any pain due to stagnation.
2. Transform stasis and stop bleeding for uterine bleeding , retention of after birth due to stasis.

Front 22

Wu mei

Back 22

Mume fruit
Stabilize and Bind
Astringes lung to arrest chronic cough due to deficiency.
2. Astringes large intestine for chronic diarrhea or dysentery.
3. Expels roundworms.
4. Promotes fluids for xiao ke or deficiency heat.
5. Stops bleeding for metrorrhagia, blood in stools.
6. Topically for skin diseases, tine, corns and warts.

Front 23

Wu wei zi

Back 23

Schisandra fruit
Stabilize and Bind
1. Astringes lung for chronic cough, spontaneous sweating, night sweating, seminal emission, spermatorrhoea, chronic diarrhea.
2. Replenishes Qi and fluid for xiao ke due to fluid consumption.
3. Tonifies Kidneys and calms heart for palpitations, insomnia, frequent dreams.