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38 Cards in this Set
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Huo Ma Ren
Name and Category and Clue |
Cananbis seed, Hemp seed
Downward draining, moist laxative. |
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Huo Ma Ren
Actions and Indications |
1. Constipation in the elderly.
2. Milidly tonifies yin 3. Sores and ulcerations orally or topically. |
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Huo Xiang
Name and Category |
Patchouli
Aromatically transform dampness |
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Huo Xiang
Actions and Indications |
1. Dispels summer heat and dampness in spleen and stomach.
2. Dispel Exterior cold and dampness for nausea and vomiting and common cold with interior dampness. 3. |
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Ji nei jin
Name and Category |
Chicken gizzard skin
Remove food stagnation |
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Ji nei jin
Actions and Indicaitons |
1. All types of food stagnation.
2. Secures essence for enuresis, seminal emission 3. Dissolves stones, gallstones and calculi in urinary tract. |
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Jiang can
Name and Category |
Batryticated silkworm
Extinguish wind and stop tremors |
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Jiang can
Actions and indications |
1. Subdue endogenous wind and convulsions, vertigo and spasms.
2. Relieve pain due to wind heat, HA, blood shot eyes, sore throat, tonsillitis, parotitis. 3. Resolve phlegm and nodules for lymphatic TB, Scrofula, and rubella. |
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Jiang huang
Name and Category |
Turmeric Rhizome
Regulate blood, and invigorate blood to relieve pain |
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Jiang Huang
Actions and Indications |
1. Invigorates Qi and Blood for chest and abdominal pain, epigastric pain, amenorrhea or dysmenorrhea.
2. Expels wind dampness for and breaks up stasis for Bi pain especially in the shoulders. |
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Ji xue teng
Name and category |
Milletia stem
Invigorate the blood and regulate the menses |
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Ji xue teng
Actions and indications |
1. Tonifies the blood and invigorates circulation for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and dizziness due to anemia.
2. Invigorates channels and relaxes sinews, for numbness of body and limbs, arthritic pain, sore low back and knees. |
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Jie geng
Name and Category |
Platycodon root, Balloonflower root.
Warm herbs that transform cold phlegm |
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Jie geng
Actions and Indications |
1. To ventilate and smooth the lung for cough with profuse phlegm due to infection.
2. Resolve phlegm from wind heat or wind cold for inflammation of the throat, sputum with blood and pus. 3. Eliminates pus for pulmonary abscess. 4. Directs action of formula to upper part of body. |
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JIn Qian Cao
Name and Category |
Lysimachia
Drain dampness and reduce jaundice |
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Jin Qian Cao
Actions and Indications |
1. Promotes urination, and expels stones for Lin and urinary tract stones.
2. Clears damp heat in the liver and gallbladder and expels gallstones for Jaundcie, red swollen eyes, and gall stones. 3. Resolves toxicity and swelling for snakebite, abscess and trauma. |
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Jin yin hua
Name and Category |
Honeysuckle Flower
Clears heat and relieves toxicity |
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Jin Yin Hua
Actions and Indications |
1. Clears heat and eliminate toxicity for hot painful sores and swellings, especially the breast throat and eyes, and intestinal abscess.
2. Vents and disperses externally contorted wind-heat for common cold, fever, wind, sore throat, HA, summer heat. 3. Clears damp heat from lower burner for dysenteric disorder or Lin. |
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JIn ying zi
Name and Category |
Rosa fruit, cherokee rose hip
Stabilize and Bind |
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Jin ying zi
Actions and Indications |
1. Stabilize kidneys and secures the essence for spermatorrhea, incontinence, vaginal discharge.
2. Chronic diarrhea. |
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Jing Jie
Name and category |
Schizonepeta, catnip
Warm and acrid to dispel wind cold |
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Jing jie
Actions and Indications |
1. Releases exterior and expels wind for exterior wind heat or cold, fever, sore throat, HA.
2. Encourage rashes to surface to stop itching, for measles. 3. Stops bleeding for blood in stool, urine, uterus, or vomiting. |
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Ju hua
Name and category |
Chrysanthemum flower
Cool and acrid to release the exterior |
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Ju hua
Actions and Indications |
1. Disperses wind and clears heat for exterior wind heat, fever, and HA.
2. Clears the liver and brightens the eyes for red painful teary or dry eyes. 3. Pacifies the liver and subdues wind for HA, dizziness, deafness, and hypertension. 4. Drains heat toxins for boils and toxic swellings. |
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Jue ming zi
Name and category |
Cassia seeds
Clear heat and drain fire |
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Jue ming zi
Actions and Indications |
1. Clears liver and eyes, for red itchy swollen and painful eyes.
2. Subdues liver yang rising for HA, red watery, sensitive yes, dizziness and hypertension. 3. Constipation 4. Reduces high blood pressure and high cholesterol. |
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Ku shen
Name and category |
Sophora root, bitter ginseng
Clear heat and drain dampness |
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Ku shen
Actions and Indications |
1. Eliminates heat and dampness for jaundice, acute dysentery, and leukorrhea.
2. Kills parasites and stops itching, for vaginitis, eczema, ringworm, leprosy, genital itching. 3. Diuretic for Lin |
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Kuan dong hua
Name and category |
Coltsfoot flower
Transform phlegm to stop coughing and wheezing |
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Kuan dong hua
Actions and Indications |
1.Moistens lungs, directs Qi down, stops cough and transform phlegm.
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Kun bu
Name and category |
Kelp
Transform heat and phlegm |
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Kun Bu
Actions and Indications |
1. Reduces phlegm and softens hardness for scrofula, goiter.
2. Promotes urination and reduces swelling for edema, and leg qi |
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Lai fu zi
Name and category |
Radish seed
Remove food stagnation |
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Lai fu zi
Actions and Indications |
1. Reduces food stagnation for fullness, distention, belching, acid regurgitation, or abdominal pain and diarrhea.
2. Descends Qi and reduces phlegm for cough |
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Lian Qiao
Name and category |
Forsythia fruit
Clear heat and relieve toxicity |
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Lian Qiao
Actions and Indications |
Clears heat and resolves toxicity for pronounced fever, slight chills, sore throat, and HA.
2. Reduces abscesses and dissipates clumps for External sores, internal abscesses, scrofula, or throat painful obstruction. |
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Lian zi
Name and category |
Lian zi
Stabilize and Bind |
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Lian zi
Actions and Indications |
1. Tonifies the spleen and stops diarrhea.
2. Tonify kidney for spontaneous seminal emission, leukorrhagia. 3. Nourishes the heart for insomnia and palpitation |