Herbs That Release The Exterior

Front 1

麻黄

Ephedrae Herba

Back 1

1) Wind cold exterior pattern

2) Wind cold cough and wheezing

3) Exterior pattern and fluid retension

Front 2

桂枝

Cinnamomi Ramulus

Back 2

1) wind cold exterior pattern

2) thin mucus, urinary difficulty

3) wind damp painful obstruction, cold amenorrhea, painful menstruation, masses

4) Chest yang unaroused

5) Cold pain in the center and abdomen

Front 3

紫苏叶

Perillae Folium

Back 3

1) Exterior wind cold

2) Spleen and stomach qi stagnation,restless fetus

Front 4

荆芥

Schizonepetae Herba

Back 4

1) Exterior pathogenic wind

2) Postpartum muscular tetany

3) Abnormal bleeding

Front 5

防风

Saposhnikoviae Radix

Back 5

1) Externally-contracted pathogenic wind

2) wind damp painful obstruction

3) abdominal pain and diarrhea from dampness encumbering the Spleen yang.

Front 6

羌活

Back 6

1) Externally-contracted wind cold

2) Wind cold damp painful obstruction,pain in the nape and upper limbs

Front 7

藁本

Back 7

1) Vertex headache

2) abdominal pain and diarrhea

Front 8

白芷

Back 8

1) Head and body pain from exposure to cold, damp sores, leukorrhea

2) Pustular swellings, sores, furuncles

Front 9

细辛

Back 9

1) Cold thin mucus in the lungs

2) External pathogen plus yang deficiency, headache, toothache, wind-damp painful obstruction, pain in the chest.

Front 10

生姜

Back 10

1) Exterior wind cold

2) Nausea and vomiting from stomach cold

3) Profuse phlegm, coughing, and wheezing from lung cold.

Front 11

葱白

Back 11

1) Exterior wind cold

2) Excessive yin forcing weakened yang upward, diarrhea, lassitude（疲乏无力）, cold extremities, flushed face, and a faint pulse.

Front 12

香薷

Back 12

1) Summertime exterior cold oppressing the yang qi

2) Fluid retention, urinary difficulty

Front 13

苍耳子

Back 13

1) nasal or sinus problems with thick, viscous discharge

2) Painful obstruction, itchy skin

Front 14

辛夷花

Back 14

Blocked nose, sinusitis

Front 15

西河柳

Back 15

Unexpressed rashes such as measles

Front 16

薄荷

Back 16

1) Exterior wind heat affecting head, eyes, or throat, unexpressed rashes

2) Liver qi constraint

3) Warm pathogen causing focal distention, nausea and reflux

Front 17

牛蒡子

Back 17

1) Exterior wind heat affecting head, eyes, or throat, unexpressed rashes, toxic sores

2) Accumulation of heat toxin

3) Painful or swollen throat

4) Exterior wind heat with interior heat causing constipation

Front 18

蝉蜕

Back 18

1) External wind heat,itching

2) Spasms, convulsions, childhood fright wind

3) Unexpressed rashes

4) Loss of voice, hoarseness

Front 19

桑叶

Back 19

1) Liver channel wind heat, liver fire causing red, swollen or painful eyes

2) Lung heat with dry cough, exterior wind heat with headache, dry cough, or red, swollen or painful eyes

Front 20

菊花

Back 20

1) Wind heat headache, red eyes

2) Liver channel heat, ascending liver yang, vertigo

3) Superficial visual obstruction, red eyes due to liver heat

4) Toxic swelling,abscesses

Front 21

蔓荆子

Back 21

1) wind heat affecting the face and eyes, including swollen, painful gums

2) wind damp painful obstruction

Front 22

淡豆豉

Back 22

1) Exterior wind heat, lurking（潜伏的） pathogens, lingering(缠绵的，延迟的） pathogenic heat in the lungs

2) Constrained heat in the upper burner

Front 23

大豆卷

Back 23

Early stages of summerheat or damp-heat

Front 24

浮萍

Back 24

1) Exterior wind heat, wind rash, or damp heat rash and itching

2) Fluid retention and urinary due to dampness or pathogenic water

Front 25

木贼

Back 25

1) wind heat or liver fire affecting the eyes

2) Exterior wind heat, fire constraint in the Lungs, Liver or Gallbladder.

Front 26

葛根

Back 26

1) Exterior pathogen in greater yang and yang brightness stages, stiff neck due to exterior pathogen.

2) Rashes and sores that are slow to express.

3) Diarrhea or thirst due to inability of fluids to ascend.

Front 27

柴胡

Back 27

1) Alternating fever and chills, fullness of chest and hypochondria

2) Prolapse, abnormal sinking of gall bladder or stomach qi

3) Exterior wind heat, fire constraint in liver or gallbladder.

4) Deficiency consumption with steaming bones and tidal fever

5) Liver qi stagnation

6) Heat entering the blood chamber, qi constraint, puerperal（产褥热） fever

7) Guiding herb for shaoyang and jueyin cheannels.

Front 28

升麻

Back 28

1) abnormal sinking of stomach qi or spleen qi, dragging sensation in lower body, chronic diarrhea

2) Pathogenic wind in skin, wind heat with body aches and unexpressed rash

3) Yangming headache, toothache, mouth ulcers

4) Sores, spots and blotches （红斑，疹块，疮）