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85 Cards in this Set
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what are the 5 tastes
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pungent, sweet, sour, bitter, salty,
the 6th tasteless |
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pungent does what
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expel, purge
exterior syndromes, moves chi and blood |
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sweet does what
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tonify harmonize
stop pain, relax spasms |
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what does sour do
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hold, keep
for spon sweating, sperm loss, vaginal discharge |
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what does bitter do
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clear heat, drain toxins, purge, clear damp
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what does salty do
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purge, soften hard masses
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what does tasteless do
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promote urination
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# herbal company
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tong ren tang
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cleaning process includes what 5 things
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sorting, sifting, scraping, peeling, winnowing?
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pulverizing process does
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grinding, pounding, filing
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sheng di huang clears blood heat... after steamed several times becomes?
does? |
shudihuang
nourishes yin |
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3 mechanical methods of processing chinese herbs
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cleaning
pulverizing slicing |
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6 purposes of processing chinese herbs
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purify
increase absorption of active compounds increase effect remove toxicity change property or action remove unpleasant taste |
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3 ways to process with water
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bleaching
soaking trituration (shui fei) |
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6 ways to process with heat
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frying with liquid
stir frying roasting in ashes baking quick fry calcining |
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5 ways to process with heat and water
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steaming
simmering boiling quenching scalding with hot water |
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other methods of processing chinese herbs
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germination
fermentation |
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cao
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grass with or without root
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gen
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root
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hua
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flower
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pi
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peel, bark
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ren
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seed
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zi
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seed
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shi
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stone
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ye
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leaf
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zhi
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twig
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jiao
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horn
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teng
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vine
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tan
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charred herbs
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she
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snake
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zhi (2)
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processed
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habitat of chinese herbal medicines are based on what 5 things
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soil
water climate sunshine rainfall |
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best quality herbs that come from certain place called
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dao di yao cai
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best ren shen comes from
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north east china
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best di huang comes from
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he nan province
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in storing chinese herbal medicines what 7 things are done
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clean
dry seal absorb damp chemical substances reduce oxygen increase carbon dioxide |
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entire grass is collected when?
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flowers in full bloom
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leaves collected when?
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flowers in full bloom
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flowers collected when
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blooming
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fruits collected when?
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ripe (but not some)
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roots collected when?
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late autumn or spring
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bark is collected when?
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spring or early summer
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mineral herbs collected?
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anytime
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animal origin herbs collected?
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different times
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honey does what?
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tonify qi
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ginger juice does what
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decreases toxicity
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wine does what
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moves chi and blood
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when using toxic herbs why use honey
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reduce toxicity
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vinegar does what
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moves chi
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jiu zhi
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wine process
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jiang zhi
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ginger process
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mi zhi
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honey process
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cu zhi
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vinegar process
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germination makes herbs
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improve digestion
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fermintation makes an herb into
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another herb... walla!
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cold herbs do what
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resolve heat
clear toxicity |
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cool herbs do what
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antiinflamatory
anti fungal nourish yin purge fire |
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warm/hot herbs do what
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expel cold
tonify chi/yang warm interior |
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most tonifying herbs are
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warm
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3 mechanisms of chinese herbs
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expel pathogen and remove causes
tonify deficiency readjust function of zang fu and meridians |
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actions of chinese herbs
four causes? four symptoms? |
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4 properties of chinese herbs
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cold
cool warm hot |
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mutual accentuation is
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similar herbs reinforce therapeutic action
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mutual enhancement
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herbs with siilar actions reinforce each other, principle and assisting herbs
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mutual counteraction
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toxicity or side effects of one herb can be reduced or eliminated by another herb
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mutual suppression
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one herb reduces the side effects of another
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mutual antagonism
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one herb reduces the therapeutic action of another herb
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mutual incompatibility
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2 herbs used together can increase or give rise to side effect or toxicity
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single effect
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use the herb alone
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median lethal dose of non toxic herbs
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more then 50g/kg
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median lethal dose of slightly toxic herbs
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more then 50g/kg
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median lethal dose of moderately toxic herbs
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6-15g/kg
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median lethal dose of extremely toxic herbs
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5g/kg
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liu huang is antagonistic with
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mang xiao
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shui yin is antagonistic with
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pi shuang
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lang du is antagonistic with
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mi tuo seng
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ba dou is antagonistic with
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qian niu zi
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ding xiang is antagonistic with
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yu jin
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ya xiao is antagonistic with
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san leng
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wu tou (including chuan wu & cao wu) is antagonistic with
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xi jiao
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ren shen is antagonistic with
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wu ling zhi
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rou gui is antagonistic with
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chi shi zi
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wu tou is incompatible with what 5 herbs
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ban xia
gua lou bei mu bai lian bai ji |
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gan cao is incompatible with what 4 herbs
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hai zao
da ji gan sui yuan hua |
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li lu is incompatible with what 10 herbs
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ren shen
xi yang shen tai zi shen dang shen sha shen dan shen ku shen xuan shen xi xin bai/chi shao |
