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Best Wind Cold herb to treat Shaoyin stage?
Xi Xin
Best Wind Cold herb to treat wind cold in summertime?
Xiang Ru
Best Wind Cold herb to treat exterior cold with interior cold?
Xi Xin
Best Wind Cold herb to treat common cold with thin mucus and digestive problems?
Sheng Jiang
Best wind cold herb to treat overdose of toxic herbs?
Sheng Jiang
Best wind cold herb to treat old exterior cold in channels?
Xi Xin
Best herb to open nose by expelling cold?
Cong Bai
best herb to treat vomit and diarrhea due to overeating cold damp raw foods. Also treats exterior wind cold and interior damp.
Xiang Ru
Best wind cold herb to treat sinus problems?
Xin Yi Hua
Best herb to treat Wind Heat and Liver Qi Stasis?
Bo He
Best Wind Cold herb to treat common cold with runny nose, stuffy nose, headache, and cough?
E Bu Shi Cao
Best Wind Heat herb to treat sore throat?
Niu Bang Zi
Best Wind Heat Herb to treat sore throat and constipation?
Niu Bang Zi
Best herb to treat sore throat with loss of voice?
Chan Tui
Best Wind Heat herb to treat skin problems such as measles or eczema or itching
Chan Tui
Best herb to calm liver, treat stomach disharmony, and clear eyes?
Bo He
One Fen is equal to how many grams?
0.3
Which does not apply for cooking diaphoretic, qi movers, drying, aromatic open orifice herbs?
cook longer
Which is #1 herb to treat Wind Cold?
Ma Huang
Which herb is good for Wind Cold with digestive problems and also treats seafood poisoning?
Zi Su Ye
Which is one of the major surface relieving herbs because it is effective and mild, dispels internal and external wind and treats skin problems?
Fang Feng
What is the best herb to treat Deficient constitution with exterior excess wind cold?
Gui Zhi
Patient presents with a few swellings not erupted, pink and itchy. T: sl. red, thin white coat. P: superficial. Which is best herb?
Jing Jie
Patient has shoulder pain worse with windy damp weather. T: pink, thin white coat. P: superficial, slow. wiry. Which is best herb?
Qiang Huo
Which Wind Cold herb is best to harmonize Wei and ying levels?
Gui Zhi
Which wind cold herb will also calm fetus?
Zi Su Ye
Which Wind Cold herb will also treat morning sickness?
Zi Su Ye
Which wind cold herb will also dissipate water accumulation, esp. upper jiao?
ma huang
Best herb to treat frostbite?
Gui Zhi
Best wind Cold herb to treat angina and palpitaions?
Gui Zhi
If wei qi is strong, pores will...
close to ward off external pathogen
If wei Qi is weak, pores will...
remain open and allow pathogen in
Yang deficient constitutions are more prone to...
cold conditions
Yin deficient constitutions are more prone to...
heat conditions
Phlegm or Damp constitutions are more prone to...
damp conditions
Treatment principle for dispersing Evil Qi from surface...
Diaphoresis
With diaphoretic herbs, caution should be taken for patients with...
yin deficiency with night sweats, dehydration, bleeding.
General characteristics of diaphoretic herbs are...
pungent
act on lung channel
induce sweat
expel pathogens from surface of body
General charateristics of Diaphoretic Warm herbs are...
Pungent
warm
induce sweat
disperse wind cold
Textbook symptoms of Wind Cold attack are...
severe chills w/ mild fever
no sweat
body ache/stiff neck/headache
P:superficial, tense, slow
Wind Cold symptoms can be complicated by...
cough/asthma
clear or white sputum
edema - usually face & hands
joint pain
Deficient Wind Cold symptoms are...
fever/chills
spontaneous sweating
pale face
shortness of breath
p: superficial, slow, weak
t: pale
Cooking time for Diaphoretic warming herbs
Do not cook more than 15 minutes
List all 14 herbs in the wind cold category.
Ma Huang
Gui Zhi
Zi Su Ye
Jing Jie
Fang Feng
Qiang Huo
Bai Zhi
Gao Ben
Sheng Jiang
Cong Bai
Xi Xin
Xiang Ru
Xin Yi Hua
E Bu Shi Cao
List all 12 herbs in the Wind Heat category.
Niu Bang Zi
Bo He
Chan Tui
Ju Hua
Ye Ju Hua
Man Jing Zi
Dan Dou Chi
Sang Ye
Chai Hu
Sheng Ma
Fu Ping
Ge Gen
List all 11 Clear Heat herbs.
Shi Gao
Zhi Mu
Zhi Zi
Dan Zhu Ye
Xia Ku Cao
Lian Zi Xin
Lu Gen
Jue Ming Zi
Qing Xiang Zi
Ye Ming Sha
Xiong Dan
List all 9 cool blood herbs.
Xi Jiao
Shui Niu Jiao
Sheng Di Huang
Xuan Shen
Mu Dan Pi
Zi Cao
Di Gu Pi
Bai Wei
Huai Jiao
List all 6 Clear Heat Dry Damp herbs.
Huang Qin
huang Lian
Huang Bai
Long Dan Cao
Ku Shen
Qin Pi
Give the pharmaceutical name of Zi Su Ye
Folium Perillae
Patient has fever worse in afternoon, dry mouth, trouble sleeping, petechiae. T: dry deep red with little or no coat. P: fine threaady rapid. What level is his syndrome?
Ying level
Ying and Blood are often associated with which organ?
liver
In treating ying and blood level heat, chinese herbs do what 3 things?
Reduce fever
Reduce capillary permeability
promote coagulation
Which cool blood herb treats skin problems due to heat?
Xi Jiao
Which Cool Blood herb treats inflamed hemorhoids due to heat in the blood?
Huai Jiao
Which cool blood herb is best to treat sore throat?
Xuan Shen
What is the primary herb to treat wind cold and the strongest diaphoretic?
Ma Huang
What is the primary herb to treat a Deficient Constitution with a surface condition?
Gui Zhi
What herb is good for treating seafood poisoning?
Zi Su Ye
What is Jing Jie used for?
Can relieve both Wind Cold and Wind Heat.
Can treat early stage measles and skin problems.
What herb in the Wind Cold category can also calm a restless fetus?
Zi Su Ye
What herb in the Wind Cold category can disperse both internal and external wind?
Fang Feng
Besides Wind conditions, what else does Fang Feng treat?
skin problems with itching
Bi syndrome with pain
Which Wind Cold herb is used when damp is predominant?
Qiang Huo
What channels does Qiang Huo guide to?
Taiyang and Du
Which Wind Cold herb treats vertex and occipital headache from a surface condition?
Qiang Huo
What cause sneezing, coughing, and runny nore in an external condition?
Wind interferes with lungs ability to disperse Qi and Lung fluids
List the 3 cautions associated with Wind Cold herbs.
1 caution in patients with spontaneous sweating
2 Not for patients with yin or body fluid deficiency
3 Diaphoretic herbs should not be cooked more than 15 minutes
What is the mechanism of fever?
battle between wei qi and evil qi
Where does wind attack the body?
Wind is buoyant therefore it attacks the upper jiao first -- primarily the Taiyang channels UB and SI
Best wind heat herb to treat common cold with stuffy chest? can treat W/C or W/H depending on herbs it is combined with.
Dan Dou Chi
Best wind heat herb to clear heat in the head? Also treats Wind Damp Bi.
Man Jing Zi
This wind heat herb is not used much as a diaphoretic. Clears heat and toxins and treats deep rooted sores.
Ye Jua Hua
This wind heat herb clears and nourishes eyes. Mild diaphoretic. Calms liver fire and liver yang. Treats hypertension.
ju Hua
Relieves W/H, calms liver yang, clears heat in the lung thereby dispelling both interior and exterior Wind.
Sang Ye
wind heat herb that Raise Qi, tx diarhea, disperse Liver Qi, calm Liver.
Chai Hu
One of strongest pungent cool W/H diaphoretics. Also dispel toxins thru the skin and treats hangover.
Fu Ping
wind heat herb Treats common cold with neck and upper back pain. Treats heat stasis in muscles and yang ming channels.
Ge Gen
Best wind heat herb to treat Shaoyang syndrome.
Chai Hu
Best wind heat herb to treat prolapsed organs.
Fu Ping
Best herb to treat Yin Deficient W/H.
Sang Ye
wind heat herb that Raises Qi, also clears heat and toxins in the blood.
Sheng Ma
wind heat herb Not for nursing mothers.
Ge Gen
Treats skin problems and promotes eruption of measles and rashes.
Sheng Ma
Best herb to treat Liver Qi Stagnation with anger. Very effective to treat Liver and spleen disharmony.
Chai Hu
Which of the following is not a symptom of heat: Dry mouth, loose stool, dark urine, yellow tongue coating?
loose stool
Which best describes herbs that clear heat: Bitter, Cold, Easily Damage Middle Jiao?
All
T/F: Qi Deficiency is not a cause of internal heat.
true
List several possible causes of internal heat.
Excessive consumption of hot energy foods
chronic emotional problems
invasion of pathogentic factor
T/F: With Deficient Heat there is no pathogenic factor.
true
What are the common characteristics of Fire?
Tends to affect the mind
Tends to cause mouth ulcers and bleeding
Clear Heat/ Quell Fire herbs treat...
Qi Level heat
Yangming stage heat
Which is the best clear heat/fire herb to treat both excess and deficient lung and stomach qi level heat, while nourishing body fluids?
Zhi Mu
Best Clear heat/fire herb to drain damp in all 3 burners?
Zhi Zi
What is the strongest herb in the Clear heat/quell fire category?
Shi Gao
Best Clear heat/fire herb to treat heart heat transferred to SI with heat in urine symptoms?
Da Zhu Ye
Best Clear heat/fire herb to treat fire attacking the PC resulting in mental confusion and delirium?
Lian Xin
Best Clear heat/fire herb to clear heat in liver channel and treat neck lumps?
Xia Ku Cao
Best Clear heat/fire herb to clear heat from Lung and Stomach especially when lung and stomach yin damaged by heat?
Lu Gen
Best clear heat/fire herb to treat liver yang rising with headache, red eyes, and constipation?
Jue Ming Zi
Best clear heat/fire herb to treat liver fire but not moistening to the intestines?
Qing Xiang Zi
Best clear heat/fire herb to treat night blindness?
Ye Ming Sha
Which cool blood herb best to treat yin deficient false heat?
Sheng Di Huang
Best cool blood herb to treat neck lumps and masses?
Xuan shen
Best cool blood herb to treat mouth and tongue sores due to heart fire?
Xi Jiao
Best cool blood herb to treat Xiao Ke (waste and thirst syndrome.)?
Sheng Di Huang
Best Cool blood herb to treat ascending liver fire causing headache, red painful eyes, and hypochondrial pain?
Mu Dan Pi
Best cool blood herb to treat lung heat cough?
Di Gu Pi
Best cool blood herb to treat measle and chicken pox not fully expressed?
Zi Cao
Best cool blood herb to treat toxic skin rash and skin cancer?
Zi Cao
Best cool blood herb to treat early stage Blood Level HEat and yin deficiency as well as lingering fever after febrile disease which damaged yin and blood?
Bai Wei
Which clear heat dispel damp herb acts primarily on the upper jiao?
Huang Qi
Which clear heat dispel damp herb acts primarily on the middle jiao?
Huang Lian
Which clear heat dispel damp herb acts primarily on the lower jiao?
Huang Bai
Which clear heat dry damp herb treats kidney yin deficiency?
Huang Bai
Which clear heat dry damp herb treats damp heat in liver gall bladder channels?
Long Dan cao
Which clear heat dry damp herb treats damp heat skin problems with itching?
Ku Shen
Which clear heat dry damp treats damp heat dysentery?
Qin Pi