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46 Cards in this Set
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Nei Jing theory?
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-Hot diseases must be cooled and cold diseases must be warmed.
-Temp. characteristics are yang and tastes are yin |
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Temperature/Properties of Chinese herbs?
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Property of herb referres to the temperature characteristics (4 qi)
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4 qi (characteristic's) ?
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-hot (re)
-warm (wen) -cool (hun) -neutral (ping) -cold l(iang) |
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Tastes of Chinese Herbs?
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-There are 5 tastes, yet really are 6
-sweet, pugnent, salty, bitter,sour, bland |
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Sweet taste?
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-Tonifies deficiencies, harmonizes & sometimes moistens
-Soothes acute disease & regulates medicines |
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Pungent/acrid taste?
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-Disperses and moves
-Dispels pathogenic factors from the body -Promotes normal flow of qi -Stimulates blood circulation |
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Salty taste?
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-Purges & softens
-Softens hard masses and resolves lumps -Relieves constipation through purgation |
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Sour taste?
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-Astringes and prevents or reverses abnormal leakage of fulid and energy
-Contracts and arrests energy |
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Bitter taste?
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-Drains and dries
-Puts down the upward perverted flow of qi -Dries dampness and dispels heat in the body |
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Bland taste?
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-Leeches out damp and promotes urine
-Dispels dampness through diuresis |
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Aromatic?
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-More a temperature characteristic
-Also the ability to penetrate through turbidity and revive a particular function -Digestive function of spleen -Cognitive function of spirit and sensory orfices |
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Astringent?
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-ability to prevent leakage of fluids
-more a taste of characterstic |
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According to the Nie Jing?
1. Acridity/pungency travels 2. Saltiness travels 3. Sweetness travels 4. Sourness travels |
1. travels qi-for qi diseases do not eat acrid/pungent food
2. travels in blood-for blood diseases do not eat salty food 3. travels in flesh-for diseases of the flesh do not eat sweat food 4. travels in sinews-for sinew diseases do not eat sour food |
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According to the basic questions?
1. Sourness enters 2. Acridity/pungency enters 3. Bitterness enters 4. Saltyness enter 5. Sweetness enters |
1. enters the liver
2. Acridity/pungency enters the lungs 3. Bitterness enters the heart 4. Saltyness enter the kidneys 5. Sweetness enters the spleen |
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8 therapeutic methods?
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-promote sweat
-induce vomit -purge -harmonizing -warm -clear -tonify -reduce |
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What lead to the 8 therapeutic methods?
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The therapeutic actions of an herb as determined by temperature and taste
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therapeutic actions of the herb is bases on?
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the 8 principles
-hot/cold -int/ext -yin/yang -shi/xue |
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The directions of Chinese herbs?
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-4 directions
-assending/descending/neutral -contracting/dispersing/neutral |
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Who wrote the the discussion of the spleen and stomach (1249) and when?
(4 directions) |
“Li Dong Yuan"
1249 |
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4 directions theory?
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-Concept of herbs entering specific channels or organs
-Concept of certain herbs having the capacity to guide or lead other herbs |
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Chinese Herb categories?
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Superior, medium, inferior
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Superior herbs?
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-considered most safe
-can be used long time -mostly tonic herbs |
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Medium herbs?
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-Can be toxic or nontoxic depending on its use
-Generally used to treat diseases in a specific manner |
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Inferior herbs?
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-Are toxic if improperly used or used to long
-Used for treating diseases -Should not be used for extended period of time -Should only be used with supervision by an herbalist |
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Reducing toxic side effects of inferior herbs?
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-Boiling or heating
-soak for days then boil for hours -Herbs can be mixed with other herbs |
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Combining Chinese Herbs?
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-Chinese herbs are usually used in combinations to:
-Enhance the action of the main herb -To mitigate the toxic side effects of the main principle herb -Accommodate complex clinical situations -To alter the actions of the substances themselves |
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7 types of herbal combinations?
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1. usual accentuation
2. mutual enhancement 3. mutual counteraction 4. mutual suppression 5. mutual antagonism 6. Mutual incompatability 7. single effect |
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usual accentuation?
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the combination of 2 substances with similar functions to accentuate your therapeutic actions
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mutual enhancement?
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the combination of 2 or more substance with different actions which one of the substances enhances the effect of the other in a specific clinical situation
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mutual counteraction?
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combination in which the toxicity or side effects of one substance are reduced or eliminated by another substance
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mutual suppression?
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one substance also reduces the undesirable side effect of another, however, the emphasis is on the substance that performs the action
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mutual antagonism ?
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the ability of 2 substances to minimize or neutralize each others positive effects- the combination renders the substances useless. There are 8 traditional pairs in 1 trio=9 antagonists
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Mutual incompatability?
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Combination of 2 substances gives rise to side effects of toxicity which would not be caused by either substance when used alone: herbs that react with side effects only when combined with one another. There are 18 incompatabilities:
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Single effect?
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The use of 1 medicinal substance to treat a patient
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Gan Cao is incompatible with?
glycyrrhizae |
Gan Sui-euphorbiae kansui
Da Ji-euphorbiae seu knoxiae Yuan Hua-daphnes genkwa Hai Zao-sargassii |
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Wu Tou is incompatible with?
aconiti |
Bei Mu-bulbus fritillariae
Zhi Ban Xia-pinelliae Gua Lou-trichosanthis Bai Lian-ampelopsis Bai Ji-bletillae |
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Li Lu is incompatible with?
veratri |
Ren Shen-ginseng
Sha Shen-glehniae Dan Shen-salviae miltiorrhizae Ku Shen-sophorae flavescentis Xi Xin-asari cum radicis Bai Shao-paeoniae lactiflorae |
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Ba Dou antagonizes?
crotonis |
Qian Niu Zi
sm pharbitidis |
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Ding Xiang antagonizes?
caryophylli |
Yu Jin
rz curcumae longae |
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Liu Huang antagonizes?
sulphur |
Po Xiao
sal glauberis |
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Zhi Wu Tou antagonizes?
aconiti |
Xi Jiao
cornu rhinoceri |
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Ren Shen antagonizes?
ginseng |
Wu Ling Zi
excrementum trogopterori |
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Rou Gui antagonizes?
cinnamomi |
Chi She Zi
halloysitum rubrum |
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Shui Yin antagonizes?
hydragyrum |
Pi Shuang
arsenicum |
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Lang Du antagonizes?
euphorbiae fischerianae |
Mi Tuo Zhen
lithargyrum |
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Ya Xiao antagonizes?
nitrum |
San Leng
rz sparanii |
