Herb Board Review Set 4

Front 1

Da fu pi
Name, Category and Clue

Back 1

Areca peel, Betel palm peel
Regulate Qi
Clears out Da food and makes you pee

Front 2

Da fu pi
Actions and Indications

Back 2

1. Promote the flow of SP and ST Qi and remove food stagnation for abdominal distention and constipation.
2. Dispel dampness for edema.

Front 3

Da Huang
Name, category and Clue

Back 3

Rhubarb root and rhizome
Downward Draining Purgative

Front 4

Da Huang
Actions and Indications

Back 4

1. Purgative for Fever with constipation and abdominal fullness.
2. Drains fire for intensive fever, sore throat, hot swollen painful eyes, or fire toxin sores
3. clears heat promotes urination for jaundice, edema, lin, acute appendicitis, incomplete intestinal obstruction.
4. Invigorates blood circulation and eliminates stasis for hematemesis and epistaxis, nose bleeds.
5. Amenorrhea, fixed ab masses, pain due to blood stasis.
6. Charred to stop bleeding topically or internally.

Front 5

Da ji
Name category and clue

Back 5

Large thistle
Regulate the blood to stop bleeding.

Front 6

Da ji
Actions and Indications

Back 6

1. Cools the blood to stop bleeding for vomiting blood, hematuria, blood in stool, uterine bleeding.
2. Reduces swelling, and generates flesh for carbuncles, sores and swellings.
3. Benefits GB and reduces Jaundice.
4. Reduces hypertension due to Liver heat.

Front 7

Da qing ye
Name category and clue

Back 7

Isatis leaf
Clear heat and relieve toxicity
Indigo leaf

Front 8

Da qing ye
Actions and Indications

Back 8

1. Clears heat and fire toxin for meningitis, pneumonia, influenza, epidemic toxin, mouth ulcers, and painful throat obstruction.
2. Cools blood and dissipates maculae or other skin eruptions.

Front 9

Da zao
Name category and clue

Back 9

Jujube, chinese date
Tonify Qi

Front 10

Da zao
Actions and Indications

Back 10

1. Tonifies the Spleen and augments Qi for weakness, lassitude, reduced appetite, loose stools.
2. Nourishes the blood and calms the spirit for irritability, emotional upset due to restless organ disorder, palpitation, irritability.
3. Moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs.

Front 11

Dai Zhe Shi
Name, category and clue

Back 11

Hematite
Extinguish wind and stop tremors

Front 12

Dai Zhe Shi
Actions and Indications

Back 12

1. Sedates and anchors yang and clears liver fire, for dizziness, vertigo, HA, feeling of pressure around eyes, or tinnitus.
2.Strongly directs rebellious Qi downward, for belching, vomiting, nausea, and asthma.
3. Cools the blood to stop bleeding for spitting blood, nose bleed, and uterine bleeding.

Front 13

Dan dou chi
Name, category and clue

Back 13

Prepared soybean
Cool and Acrid to release the exterior.

Front 14

Dan dou chi
Actions and Indications

Back 14

1. Dispel wind cold and heat for common cold.
2. Relieves irritability, chest stuffiness, insomnia.

Front 15

Dan nan xing
Name, category and clue

Back 15

Arisaema powdered with cow bile
Transform phlegm heat

Front 16

Dan nan xing
Actions and Indications

Back 16

1. Clears heat, transforms phlegm and extinguishes internal wind for tremors, seizures, or stroke or childhood seizures due to phlegm heat

Front 17

Dan shen
Name category and clue

Back 17

Salvia root
Regulate the blood, and invigorates the blood

Front 18

Dan shen
Actions and Indications

Back 18

1. Invigorates the blood to dispel stasis for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, angina pectoris, lower ab, chest or hypochondriac pain.
2. Eliminates pathogenic heat for restlessness, irritability, palpitations and insomnia due to heat in the nutritive level.
3. Cools the blood and reduces abscess, for early stage breast abscess, ulcers and carbuncles.
4. Nourishes the blood and calms the spirit for palpitations and insomnia.

Front 19

Dan zhu ye
Name category and clue

Back 19

Lophatherum stem and leaves
Clear heat and drain fire

Front 20

Dan zhu ye
Actions and Indications

Back 20

1. Clear heat and relieve thirst for Febrile condition with thirst and fidgetiness, mouth sores, swollen painful gums.
2. Diuretic for oliguria and Lin syndrome

Front 21

Dang gui
Name category and clue

Back 21

Chinese Angelica root
Tonifying herbs, tonifies the blood

Front 22

Dang gui
Actions and Indications

Back 22

1. Nourish the blood and invigorate the blood for anemia, abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and other menstrual disorders.
2. Invigorates and harmonizes the blood and disperse cold for abdominal pain, trauma, and chronic wind damp bi.
3. constipation due to blood deficiency.
4. Reduces swelling, expels pus, generates pus and relieves pain for sores and abscesses.

Front 23

Dang shen
Name category and clue

Back 23

Codonopsis root
Tonifying herbs, tonify Qi

Front 24

Dang shen
Actions and Indications

Back 24

1. Tonifies the middle burner and Qi for lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, prolapse of the uterus, stomach or rectum.
2. Tonifies lung qi for chronic cough, shortness of breath, or copious sputum due to SP Qi def.

Front 25

Deng xin cao
Name category and indications

Back 25

Rush pith
Drain dampness

Front 26

Deng xin cao
Actions and Indications

Back 26

1. Promotes urination for hot painful lin, scanty dark urine, jaundice.
2. Clears the heart and directs fire downward for irritability especially at night, insomnia, restlessness, childhood sleeping disorder.

Front 27

Di fu zi
Name category and clue

Back 27

Broom cyprus fruit
Drains dampness

Front 28

Di fu zi
Actions and Indications

Back 28

1. Clears heat and promotes urination for Lin syndrome.
2. Expels dampness and stops itching for eczema, scabies and damp heat in the genitals.

Front 29

Di gu pi
Name category and clue

Back 29

Gou Qi zi bark
Clears heat from deficiency

Front 30

Di gu pi
Actions and Indications

Back 30

1. Cools the blood for steaming bone, chronic febrile disease, night sweats, irritability, thirst, tooth ache due to floating fire in kidney channel.
2. Drains lung heat for cough and wheezing, epistaxis, hematemesis, hematuria, and spitting blood.