Herb Board Review Set 14

Front 1

Wu Yao

Back 1

Lindera root
Regulate Qi
1. Promotes Qi to relieve pain in the chest and Abdomen due to cold and Qi stagnation.
2. Warms the kidneys for frequent urination, and incontinence.

Front 2

Wu zhu yu

Back 2

Evodia fruit
Warm the interior and expel cold
1. Dispels cold to relieve pain for HA, epigastric pain with nausea and drooling, reduced taste sensation.
2. Directs Qi downward for vomiting due to stomach cold.
3. Warms the middle for diarrhea, and dysentery due to deficiency cold.
4. Directs fire downward for hypertension and oral ulcers.

Front 3

Xi jiao

Back 3

Rhinoceros horn
Clear heat and cools the blood
1. Cools the blood and stops bleeding.
2.Eliminates toxins and clears blotches on skin
3. Calms the spirit and extinguishes wind.

Front 4

Xi xian cao

Back 4

Siegesbeckia herb
Expels wind dampness
1. Dispels wind dampness for Bi or hemiplagia,
2. Clears damp heat for measles, ulcers, suppurative infections, jaundice, malaria.
3. Pacifies liver for hypertension.

Front 5

Xi xin

Back 5

Asarum, Chinese wild ginger
Warm and acrid to release the exterior
1. Release the exterior and dispel cold for wind cold invasion with yang deficiency.
2. Warm the lungs and transform phlegm for cough with profuse watery sputum.
3. Expels wind and relieves pain for HA, toothache, BA, chest pain.
4. Opens nasal passages

Front 6

Xi yang shen

Back 6

American Ginseng
Tonify Qi
1. Tonifies Qi, generates fluids and nourishes yin for yin deficiency with heat, fever, febrile disease weakness, irritability and thirst.
2. Nourishes lung yin clears heat for coughing up of blood streaked sputum, loss of voice due to yin def.

Front 7

Xia ku cao

Back 7

Prunella Spike
Clear heat and drain fire
1. Clears liver fire and brightens eyes, redness, swelling, pain in the eyes.
2. Clears heat and dissipates nodules for neck lumps, swollen glands, breast inflammation.

Front 8

Xian he cao

Back 8

Agrimony Herb
Regulate blood and stop bleeding
1. Stops bleeding for vomiting blood, coughing blood, nosebleed, bleeding gums, blood in the urine, uterine bleeding.
2. Alleviates diarrhea and dysentery.
3. Kille parasites for trichomonas vaginitis, tape worm and malarial disorders.

Front 9

Xian Mao

Back 9

Curculiginis Rhizome,
Golden eye-grass Rhizome
Tonify Yang
Tonifies Kidneys and Yang for impotence, incontinence, nocturnal emission, and irregular menstruation.
2. Expel cold and eliminate dampness for Bi, weakness, sinews bones, low back and knees.

Front 10

Xiang fu

Back 10

Nut grass Rhizome
Regulates Qi
1. Soothes the liver for hypochondriac pain and distention.
2. Regulates menstruation and alleviates pain for dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation.

Front 11

Xiang Ru

Back 11

Aromatic Madder
Warm and acrid to release the exterior.
1. Releases exterior for ext wind cold with now sweating, HA, fever.
2. Promotes urination and reduces swelling for edema, urinary difficulty, especially due to external pathogens.

Front 12

Xiao hui xiang

Back 12

Fennel seed
Warm interior and expel cold
1. Dispels cold, warms the liver and kidneys and stops pain for hernial pain, lower ab pain due to cold, orchidoptosis, amenorrhea.
2. Regulates the Qi and harmonizes the stomach for abdominal pain, indigestion, reduced appetite, and vomiting.

Front 13

Xiao Ji

Back 13

field thistle, small thistle
Regulate the blood to stop bleeding by cooling the blood.
1. Cools the blood and stops bleeding due to heat in the blood.
2. Resolves toxicity and reduces abscesses, for sores and abscesses due to heat toxin.

Front 14

Xie Bai

Back 14

Garlic chives
Regulate Qi
1. Activates yang to remove stasis for chest Bi.
2. Directs Qi downward and reduces stagnation for damp stag in large intestines with dysentery disorder.

Front 15

Xin yi hua

Back 15

Magnolia flower
Warm and acrid to release the exterior
1. Expels wind cold and unblocks nasal passages.

Front 16

Xing Ren

Back 16

Apricot Kernel
Transform phlegm to stop coughing and wheezing
1. Stops coughing and calms wheezing
2. Constipation

Front 17

Xu duan

Back 17

Himalayan Teasel root
Tonify the Yang
1. Tonifies Liver and kidney, strengthens sinews and bones for impotence, seminal emission, low back and knee pain, weakness in legs.
2. Calms the fetus and stops leakage, restless fetus, bleeding during pregnancy, threatened miscarriage, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge.
3. Treats trauma, sores, pain and swelling in low back and limbs in trauma.

Front 18

Xuan fu hua

Back 18

Inula flower
Warm herbs that transform phlegm
1. Reduces phlegm and promotes dissipation of pathogenic water for phlegm and fluids clogging the lung
2. Directs Qi downward to relieve belching and vomiting.

Front 19

Xuan shen

Back 19

Figwort root
Clear heat and cool the blood
1. Clears heat and cools the blood for bleeding, dry mouth, and purplish tongue.
2. Nourish yin for restlessness, irritability, dry constipation, thirst.
3. Softens hardness and dissipates nodules for neck lumps due to phlegm fire, throat pain, and swelling

Front 20

Yan hu suo

Back 20

Corydalis rhizome
Regulate the blood and invigorate the blood to stop pain
1.Invigorates the blood, promotes the movement of Qi and alleviates pain. pain affecting the chest, abdomen, or limbs, epigastric pain and dysmenorrhea.