Herb Board Review Set 8

Front 1

Huo Ma Ren
Name and Category and Clue

Back 1

Cananbis seed, Hemp seed
Downward draining, moist laxative.

Front 2

Huo Ma Ren
Actions and Indications

Back 2

1. Constipation in the elderly.
2. Milidly tonifies yin
3. Sores and ulcerations orally or topically.

Front 3

Huo Xiang
Name and Category

Back 3

Patchouli
Aromatically transform dampness

Front 4

Huo Xiang
Actions and Indications

Back 4

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.

Front 5

Ji nei jin
Name and Category

Back 5

Chicken gizzard skin
Remove food stagnation

Front 6

Ji nei jin
Actions and Indicaitons

Back 6

1. All types of food stagnation.
2. Secures essence for enuresis, seminal emission
3. Dissolves stones, gallstones and calculi in urinary tract.

Front 7

Jiang can
Name and Category

Back 7

Batryticated silkworm
Extinguish wind and stop tremors

Front 8

Jiang can
Actions and indications

Back 8

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.

Front 9

Jiang huang
Name and Category

Back 9

Turmeric Rhizome
Regulate blood, and invigorate blood to relieve pain

Front 10

Jiang Huang
Actions and Indications

Back 10

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.

Front 11

Ji xue teng
Name and category

Back 11

Milletia stem
Invigorate the blood and regulate the menses

Front 12

Ji xue teng
Actions and indications

Back 12

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.

Front 13

Jie geng
Name and Category

Back 13

Platycodon root, Balloonflower root.
Warm herbs that transform cold phlegm

Front 14

Jie geng
Actions and Indications

Back 14

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.

Front 15

JIn Qian Cao
Name and Category

Back 15

Lysimachia
Drain dampness and reduce jaundice

Front 16

Jin Qian Cao
Actions and Indications

Back 16

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.

Front 17

Jin yin hua
Name and Category

Back 17

Honeysuckle Flower
Clears heat and relieves toxicity

Front 18

Jin Yin Hua
Actions and Indications

Back 18

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.

Front 19

JIn ying zi
Name and Category

Back 19

Rosa fruit, cherokee rose hip
Stabilize and Bind

Front 20

Jin ying zi
Actions and Indications

Back 20

1. Stabilize kidneys and secures the essence for spermatorrhea, incontinence, vaginal discharge.
2. Chronic diarrhea.

Front 21

Jing Jie
Name and category

Back 21

Schizonepeta, catnip
Warm and acrid to dispel wind cold

Front 22

Jing jie
Actions and Indications

Back 22

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.

Front 23

Ju hua
Name and category

Back 23

Chrysanthemum flower
Cool and acrid to release the exterior

Front 24

Ju hua
Actions and Indications

Back 24

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.

Front 25

Jue ming zi
Name and category

Back 25

Cassia seeds
Clear heat and drain fire

Front 26

Jue ming zi
Actions and Indications

Back 26

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.

Front 27

Ku shen
Name and category

Back 27

Sophora root, bitter ginseng
Clear heat and drain dampness

Front 28

Ku shen
Actions and Indications

Back 28

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

Front 29

Kuan dong hua
Name and category

Back 29

Coltsfoot flower
Transform phlegm to stop coughing and wheezing

Front 30

Kuan dong hua
Actions and Indications

Back 30

1.Moistens lungs, directs Qi down, stops cough and transform phlegm.

Front 31

Kun bu
Name and category

Back 31

Kelp
Transform heat and phlegm

Front 32

Kun Bu
Actions and Indications

Back 32

1. Reduces phlegm and softens hardness for scrofula, goiter.
2. Promotes urination and reduces swelling for edema, and leg qi

Front 33

Lai fu zi
Name and category

Back 33

Radish seed
Remove food stagnation

Front 34

Lai fu zi
Actions and Indications

Back 34

1. Reduces food stagnation for fullness, distention, belching, acid regurgitation, or abdominal pain and diarrhea.
2. Descends Qi and reduces phlegm for cough

Front 35

Lian Qiao
Name and category

Back 35

Forsythia fruit
Clear heat and relieve toxicity

Front 36

Lian Qiao
Actions and Indications

Back 36

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.

Front 37

Lian zi
Name and category

Back 37

Lian zi
Stabilize and Bind

Front 38

Lian zi
Actions and Indications

Back 38

1. Tonifies the spleen and stops diarrhea.
2. Tonify kidney for spontaneous seminal emission, leukorrhagia.
3. Nourishes the heart for insomnia and palpitation