Herb Board Review Set 6

Front 1

Gan Cao
Name category and clue

Back 1

Licorice root
Tonify Qi

Front 2

Gan Cao
Actions and Indications

Back 2

1. Tonifies the SP and augments Qi for shortness of breath, lassitude and loose stool.
2. Moistens the lung and stops cough
3. Moderates spasms and alleviates pain of the abdomen and leg
4. Clears heat and resolves toxic heat for carbuncles, sores, or sore throat.
5. Moderates and harmonizes herbs and also as antidote for some toxic substances.

Front 3

Gan jiang
Name category and clue

Back 3

Dried ginger
Warm the interior and expel cold

Front 4

Gan jiang
Actions and Indications

Back 4

1. Warms the middle and expels cold for Externally contracted cold, cold from deficiency, wind damp causing low back pain.
2. Rescue devastated yang and expels interior cold for yang collapse.
3. Warms the lung and resolves phlegm caused by cold for chronic bronchitis with thin white foamy sputum.

Front 5

Gan sui
Name category and clue

Back 5

Kansui root
Downward draining, harsh expellant

Front 6

Gan sui
Actions and Indications

Back 6

1. To relieve the retention of fluid in the chest, for hydrothorax, ascites, dysuria, pleurisy, liver cirrhosis.
2. constipation
3. topically for swollen painful, nodular, skin lesions due to damp heat.
2.

Front 7

Gao ben
Name category and clue

Back 7

Ligusticum root
Warm and acrid to release the exterior

Front 8

Gao ben
Actions and Indications

Back 8

1. Release exterior and dispel cold for HA, toothache, and migraine HA, and nasal congestion.
2. Dispels wind damp for wind cold damp bi pain and acute low back pain.

Front 9

Gao liang jiang
Name category and clue

Back 9

Galanga
Warm the interior and expel cold

Front 10

Gao liang jiang
Actions and Indications

Back 10

1. Warms the middle and alleviates pain for Epigastric and abdominal pain, vomiting, hiccough or diarrhea.

Front 11

Ge gen
Name category and clue

Back 11

Kudzu vine root
Releases exterior wind heat

Front 12

Ge gen
Actions and Indications

Back 12

1. Releases the exterior for wind heat or cold for fever, HA, stiff or tight upper back and neck.
2. Nourishes fluids for thirst febrile disease, diabetes.
3. Raises the yang and stops diarrhea, or dysentery.
4. Promotes the eruption of measles.
5. Hyper tension

Front 13

Ge jie
Name category and clue

Back 13

Gecko
Tonifies Yang

Front 14

Ge jie
Actions and Indications

Back 14

1.Tonify Lung and Kidney for cough and chronic asthma
2. Assists Kidney yang for impotence, cock crow diarrhea, and urinary frequency.

Front 15

Gou ji
Name category and clue

Back 15

Chain fern rhizome
Tonify yang

Front 16

Gou ji
Actions and Indications

Back 16

1. Tonifies Liver and kidney and strengthens sinews and bones for wind damp bi, low back pain, rheumatic pain.
2. Warms and stabilizes the kidneys for incontinence and vaginal discharge.

Front 17

Gou qi zi
Name category and clue

Back 17

Goji berries, lycium fruit
Tonifies the blood

Front 18

Gou qi zi
Actions and Indications

Back 18

1. Nourishes Liver and Kidney yin for impotence, nocturnal emission, aching back and legs.
2. Nourishes the blood and brightens the eyes, for blurred vision, dizziness.
3. Consumptive cough and diabetes.

Front 19

Gou teng
Name category and clue

Back 19

Uncaria stem and hooks
Extinguish wind and stop tremors

Front 20

Gou teng
Actions and Indications

Back 20

1. Extinguishes wind for tremors, seizures, and eclampsia, convulsions.
2. Drains liver fire for HA, irritability, red eyes dizziness and hypertension.
3. Releases the exterior for fever, HA, red eyes for ext wind heat.

Front 21

Gu sui bu
Name category and clue

Back 21

Drynaria
Yang tonifying

Front 22

Gu sui bu
Actions and Indications

Back 22

1. Nourish Liver and Kidney for arthritis pain.

Front 23

Gu ya
Name category and clue

Back 23

Germinated rice
Remove food stagnation

Front 24

Gu ya
Actions and Indications

Back 24

1. Improves digestion and appetite.
2. Removes food stagnation.

Front 25

Gua lou
Name category and clue

Back 25

Trichosanthes fruit
Cools and transforms phlegm

Front 26

Gua lou
Actions and Indications

Back 26

Clears and transforms phlegm heat for cough with thick difficult to expectorate sputum.
2. Unbinds the chest and dissipates nodules for stifling or distended sensation in the chest, constriction, pain, or pressure in the diaphragm.
3. Reduces abscess and dissipates nodules in the lung intestines and breast.

Front 27

Gua lou pi
Name category and clue

Back 27

Trichonsanthes fruit peel
Transforms phlegm heat

Front 28

Gua lou pi
Actions and Indications

Back 28

1. Moistens the lung and resolves phlegm for pulmonary infections with thick yellow sputum.
2.Regulates Qi and expands the chest for Chest Bi, clumping in the chest and early stage of breast abscess.

Front 29

Gua lou ren
Name category and clue

Back 29

Trichosanthes seed
Transform phlegm heat

Front 30

Gua lou ren
Actions and Indications

Back 30

1. Clears and transforms phlegm heat for cough with chest pain and difficult to expectorate sputum.
2. Expands chest for phlegm in chest causing stifling sensation, pain or diaphragmatic pressure.
3. Moistens intestines for dry constipation with dry mouth, thirst and irritability.

Front 31

Gui ban
Name category and clue

Back 31

Turtle plastron
Tonify yin

Front 32

Gui ban
Actions and Indications

Back 32

1. Tonifies yin and anchors yant for vertigo, tinnitus, tidal fever, night sweats, dry mouth/throat.
2. Nourish kidney yin and strengthen boes for back and knee pain, rickets.
3. Cools the blood and stops uterine bleeding, excessive menstruation due to reckless blood.
4. Nourishes blood and heart for heart deficiency with anxiety insomnia and forgetfulness.

Front 33

Gui zhi
Name category and clue

Back 33

Cinnamon twig
Warm and acrid to release the exterior

Front 34

Gui zhi
Actions and Indications

Back 34

1.Harmonizes the ying and wei Qi for exterior wind cold deficiency with sweating.
2, Tonify Heart yang for chest pain and palpitations.
3. Promotes the circulation of yang qi in the chest for edema, dysuria, abdominal fullness.
4. Warm the channels and disperse cold for bi syndrome, amenorrhea and angina pectoris.