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18 Cards in this Set
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CHUAN BEI MU/ BEI MU
Sichuan Shell Mother Fritillaria - Bitter, Sweet, Slt. Cold LU, HT 1 - 1.5 grams CI: WU TO (Hot Herb) |
1. Clear Heat & Transform Phlegm (hot)
2. Clear Hear dissipate nodules - goiter, breast, lung abscess 3. Nourish lung, nourish yin (stronger than Zhe Bei Mu) Cough due to yin deficiency. *Grind to powder & wrap-open & add each time you drink. Like little pearls. |
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ZHE BEI MU
Zhejian Fritillaria -Bitter, Cold LU, HT 3-10 grams CI: WU TO (Hot Herb) |
1. Clear heat & transform Phlegm (hot)
2. Clear heat & dissipate nodules - goiter, breast, lung abscess 3. Clear heat (stronger than Chuan Bei Mu for nodules) (Phlegm heat that congeals and causes swellings). coughing blood, pneumonia, chest pain, smokers 20 years, sticky phlegm, singer throat-loss of voice, dehydration (burning man). |
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*BEI MU -COMPARISON
CHUAN BEI MU ZHE BEI MU |
CHUAN BEI MU
-nourishes yin better and lung better -like little pearls $400-800 perlb. -grind to powder and wrap for decoction ZHU BEI MU -clears heat better -Like elephant ear garlic then slice. 3.99 per lb. |
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QIAN HU
Bitter, Spicy, Slt. Cold LU 3-10 grams |
1. Descending Lung Qi, transform phlegm
2. release external wind |
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*Bamboo Herbs:
cold, clears heat, grow in China - Panda eats |
TIAN JU HUANG (yellow sap of bamboo)
-mixes with diet ZHU WU (fiber of bamboo) -100 times tougher that root, makes furniture, waterproof ZHU LI (sap drippings - oil) -when bamboo is cut into 4 pcs. and warmed at the fire to bend at 90 degrees-fresh juice comes out into a container. |
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TIAN JU HUANG
(yellow sap of bamboo-bamboo sugar) Sweet, Cold HRT, LV, GB 3-6 grams |
1. Clears heat, transforms heart phlegm
2. Cools the heart and stops convulsions -warm febrile diseases, heart level phlegm heat bio-med: hypertension,alcolic, anger in shue level |
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ZHU WU
(fiber of bamboo stalk) Sweet, Slt. Cold LU, ST, GB 6-10 grams |
1. clears heat transform hot phlegm
2. clears heat, stops vomiting (stomach heat) 3. cools blood, stops bleeding |
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ZHI LI
(sap drippings - oil)-coldest of bamboos HRT, ST, LU 30-50 grams - liquid format CI: with cold- cough, cold, diarrhea due to cold |
1. clears heat, transforms heart phlegm
alleviates cough This is the coldest of the 3 bamboo herbs |
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*heart pathology
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heat has orifices: tinnitus, sinus eye pain-
heart/blood wind heart shen -controls sleep, relates to memory, (brain & heart both have orifices & can have hot phlegm) |
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GUA LOU
(melon vine fruit - whole squash sliced) Sweet, Cold LU, LI, ST 10 - 20 grams CI: Wu Tou, Ban Xia. Also diarrhea, def & weakness of SP/ST, or combined with aconitum drugs |
1. Clears heat, transforms phlegm heat
2. unbinds chest & dissipates nodules pain and pressure in chest |
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GOA LOU PI
(melon vine skin) - Sweet, cold LU, LI, ST 6-12 grams |
1. Clears heat, transforms phlegm
Phlegm hot, pneumonia, bronchitis, dry cough, sticky phlegm hard to expectorate 2. chest pain from lung heat or heart heat pain & tightness, chest Bi, early breast abscesses *Ht disease chest pain & tightness |
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GUA LOU REN
(melon vine seed) -Zi/Kernal Sweet, Cold LU, LI, ST (commonly used with Gua Lou Pi) |
1. Clears heat, transforms phlegm heat & cough.
2. cools and moistens. sticky phlegm hard to expectorate, lung abscesses 3. moistens intestines, esp. w/dry mouth, lung heat cough, thirst, irritability. * hot phlegm cough due to LU heat, chest pain, LU abscesses, sometimes constipation |
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FU HAI SHI
(pumice Fu Shi) Salty, Cold KD, LU 6-10 gram |
1. Clears heat & transforms phlegm
2. softens hardness, dissolves nodules 3. Promotes urination |
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HAI GE KE
(clam shell) Bitter, Salty, Cold LU, KD 10-15 grams |
1. transforms hot phlegm
2. softens nodules 3. promotes urination |
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KUN BU
(kelp - Nori) Salty, Cold LV, ST, KD 10-15 Grams |
1. Reduce phlegm nodules: goiter, thyroid tumors,
scrofula, bulging disorders 2. Reduce swelling 3. promotes urination: (but weak-used as helping herb edema and leg qi |
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HAI ZAO (zi)
(seaweed ocean grass) Bitter, Cold LU, LV 10-15 grams |
1. softens hardness, dissolves nodules
2. Transforms hot Phlegm 3. promotes urination |
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PANG DA HAI
(sterculia seed "fat big ocean" swells (gels) in water Sweet, Cold 3-5 pcs in water |
1. opens Lung Qi, disseminates Lung heat
Hot Phlegm, Sore Throat, Singers throat can use alone 2. Moistens Intestines - constipation |
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HUANG YAO ZI
(Dioscoria -"yellow medicine) Bitter, Cold 10-15 grams CI: overdose can cause liver damage |
1. softens hardness & dissolves nodules
2. Cools Blood and & stops bleeding - blood heat 3. Reduce Toxicity & poisonous swelling - heat toxins Heals toxic swelling - esophagus, lung, liver |
