Herb Board Review Set 2

Front 1

Bai wei
Name, category and clue?

Back 1

Cynanchum root
Clears heat from deficiency.
By the way I am so yin def I have a cough and a fever, I also have a bladder infection sore throat, an abscess and a sanke bite..

Front 2

Bai wei
Actions and Indications?

Back 2

1. Cool the blood for yin def cough and fever.
2. Diuretic for hematuria, and Lin syndrome.
3. Clears toxicity for sore throat, abscess and snake bite

Front 3

Bai zhi
Name, category, and clue.

Back 3

Angelica root
Warm and acrid herb to release the exterior.
That wind cold will bite you on the front of your head.

Front 4

Bai zhi
Actions and Indications?

Back 4

1. Dispels wind cold for frontal HA, and face pain.
2. discharge pus and reduce swelling for rhinitis and sinusitis, and skin diseases.

Front 5

Bai zhu
Name, category, and clue?

Back 5

White atractylodes
Tonify Qi
Buy you something to chew on for your qi.

Front 6

Bai zhu
Actions and Indications?

Back 6

1. Tonifies Spleen and Qi for poor appetite, dyspepsia, ab distention, chronic diarrhea.
2. Dispel dampness for edema, phlegm and other fluids
3. Strengthen wei qi to stop sweating and calms fetus

Front 7

Bai zi ren
Name, category, and clue.

Back 7

Arborvitae seed
Calm the spirit

Front 8

Bai zi ren
Actions and Indications?

Back 8

1. Nourish the heart and soothe the nerves for palpitation and insomnia due to heart blood deficiency.
2. constipation.

Front 9

Ban lan gen
Name, category, and clue.

Back 9

Isatis root
Clear heat and relieve toxicity

Front 10

Ban lan gen
Actions and Indications?

Back 10

1.Eliminate heat and pathogens from the blood for, fever, pyogenic inflammation, influenza, meningitis.
2. Cools heat in the blood for macula in acute infectious disease, erysipelas, mumps, sore throat.

Front 11

Ban xia
Name, category, and clue?

Back 11

Pinellia rhizome
Transforms phlegm

Front 12

Ban xia
Actions and Indications?

Back 12

1. Eliminates phlegm and dampness for cough.
2. Descends Qi for nausea, vomiting and morning sickness.
3. Disperse lumps and hardening for stuffiness in chest, scrofula.

Front 13

Bi ba
Name, category and clue?

Back 13

Long pepper fruit
Warm the interior and expel cold.

Front 14

Bi ba
Actions and Indications?

Back 14

1. To dispel cold and warm the middle for abdominal pain and cold.
2. Direct Qi down for vomiting, borborygmi, and acid reflux.
3. Analgesic for HA, toothache and rhinitis.

Front 15

Bian dou
Name, category and clue?

Back 15

Hyacinth bean
Clear and relieve summer heat
Beyond dough there are beans to help with summerheat diarrhea and vomiting.

Front 16

Bian dou
Actions and Indications?

Back 16

1. Clears summer heat for diarrhea and vomitting.
2. Tonifies spleen for chronic diarrhea with, loud stomach growling and vaginal discharge.

Front 17

Bian xu
Name category and clue?

Back 17

Polygonum, common knot grass
Drains dampness.
Pee beyond your shoe

Front 18

Bian xu
Actions and Indications?

Back 18

1. Diuretic for Lin syndrome.
2.Jaundice.
3.anti puritic for eczema, skin infections and trichomonas vaginitis.

Front 19

Bie jia
Name, category and clue?

Back 19

Soft shelled turtle shell
tonifies yin

Front 20

Bie jia
Actions and Indications?

Back 20

1. Nourish yin and subdue yang for night sweats and tidal fever.
2. Resolves hard lumps for abdominal masses, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly.

Front 21

Bing lang
Name, category, and clue?

Back 21

Betel nut
Expels parasites

Front 22

Bing lang
Actions and Indications?

Back 22

1. kills parasites
2. removes food stagnation
3. constipation, abdominal distention and tenesmus.

Front 23

Bo he
Name, category, and clue?

Back 23

Mint
Cool and acrid to dispel wind cold.

Front 24

Bo he
Actions and Indications?

Back 24

1. Disperse wind heat and clear head and eyes for common cold caused by wind heat.
2. HA, pharyngitis, conjunctivitis.
3. Promote eruption of measles in early stage.
4. Relieve liver Qi stagnation for chest and costal region.

Front 25

Bu gu zhi
Name, category and clue?

Back 25

Psoralea seeds
Yang tonifying herb

Front 26

Bu gu zhi
Actions and Indications?

Back 26

1. Tonify kidney yang for impotence, nocturnal emission and frequent urination
2. Astringent for cock crow diarrhea.

Front 27

Cang er zi
Name, category and clue?

Back 27

Xanthium fruit
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior.

Front 28

Cang er zi
Actions and Indications?

Back 28

1. Opens the nose for rhinitis, sinusitis HA, chronic rhinitis.
2. Dispel wind and damp for arthritis and lumbago
3. Relieve pain and itchiness for leprosy ad pruritus of the skin.

Front 29

Cang zhu
Name, category and clue?

Back 29

Atractylodes rhizome
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness.

Front 30

Cao dou kou
Name, category and clue?

Back 30

Katsumadia
Aromatic herbs to transform dampness.

Front 31

Cao dou kou
Actions and Indications?

Back 31

1. Dries damp and warms the middle for distention, pain, vomiting and diarrhea.