Single Herbs Board Review A-C

Front 1

Ai ye
Name, category, clue

Back 1

Artemisia, Mugwort
Invigorate blood, warm and stop bleeding.
This is moxa

Front 2

Ai Ye
Actions and Indications?

Back 2

1. Warm the meridians and stop bleeding for: Sterility and bleeding of the uterus.
2. Dispel cold and relieve pain for Dysmenorrhea
3. To relieve cough and asthma and resolve phlegm

Front 3

Ba ji tian
Name and category

Back 3

Morinda root.
Yang tonifying.
Beside the walnut, Hu tou rou

Front 4

Ba ji tian
Actions and Indications

Back 4

1. Tonify Kidney Yang for impotence and premature ejaculation.
2.Strengthen bones and tendons and dispels wind and dampness for Bi syndrome.
3. Infertility in woman

Front 5

Bai Bu
Name, category, clue

Back 5

Stemona root
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop cough, Herbs that relieve coughing and wheezing.
Yogi Bear

Front 6

Bai bu
Actions and Indications

Back 6

1. Moisten lung and relieve cough for acute and chronic bronchitis , tuberculosis.
2. Anti-parasitic for lice and enterobiasis (pinworms)

Front 7

Bai dou kou
Name, Category and Clue

Back 7

Round Cardamon.
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness.
Bye Dou Kou you spicy tart

Front 8

Bai dou kou
Actions and Indications?

Back 8

1. Resolves dampness to promote circulation of Qi, for intestinal fullness, nausea and vomiting.
2. Antiemetic by warming the spleen and stomach.

Front 9

Bai guo
Name, Category, and clue

Back 9

Ginkgo Biloba Nut
Herbs that consolidate lung and kidney Qi.
Buy grow ginkgo.

Front 10

Bai Guo
Actions and Indications?

Back 10

1. To consolidate lung Qi and relieve asthma.
2. astringent to help with leukorrhea and frequent micturition.

Front 11

Bai he
Name, Category, and Clue

Back 11

Lily Bulb
Yin tonifying herbs.
Buy her a lily bulb.

Front 12

Bai he
Actions and Indications?

Back 12

1. Moisten and nourish the lung for cough and hemoptysis.
2. Sedative, dispels heat from the heart and soothe the nerves for insomnia and fidgetiness in late stage febrile disease.

Front 13

Bai hua she
Name, category and clue.

Back 13

Snake body
Dispels wind and dampness.

Front 14

Bai hua she
Actions and Indications?

Back 14

1. Dispel wind and dampness for arthritis pain.
2. Strengthen bones and tendons for arthritis pain.
3. relieves spasms of infantile convulsions and tetanus.

Front 15

Bai ji
Name, Category and clue?

Back 15

Bletilla orchid tuber
Regulate blood and stop bleeding. To astringe and stop bleeding.
Buy Gia an orchid

Front 16

Bai ji
Actions and indications?

Back 16

1. Stop bleeding of the lung and stomach for gastric and duodenal ulcers.
2. Tuberculosis
3. Reduce inflammation and promote recovery of wounds, carbuncles and suppurative infections.

Front 17

Bai ji li
Name, category and clue

Back 17

Fructus tribuli terrestris
puncture vine fruit or
fucking goat heads when you are on a bike.!
Extinguish wind.

Front 18

Bai ji li
Actions and Indications?

Back 18

1. Calms liver and anchors yang for HA, vertigo, and dizziness due to liver yang rising.
2. Dispels wind heat and brightens eyes.
3. Smooths liver qi for distention and in sufficient lactation due to liver qi stagnation.
4. Dispels wind and stops itching for hives and vitiligo.

Front 19

Bai jiang cao
Name, category, and clue

Back 19

Patrinia herb
Clear heat and relieve toxicity.

Front 20

Bai jiang cao
Actions and Indications?

Back 20

1. Anti-inflamattory for carbuncles and acute appendicitis.
2. Eliminate pus, toxin and abscess for intestinal abscess.
3.Eleminate pain due to blood stasis, for postpartum pain, dysmenorrhea and endometritis.

Front 21

Bai jie zi
Name, category and clue.

Back 21

White mustard seed
Warm herb that transforms phlegm-cold to stop cough.
Buy Gia zip

Front 22

Bai jie zi
Actions and Indications

Back 22

1. Warm the lung and resolve phlegm for cough with profuse sputum and tuberculosis.
2. Resolves lumps by invigorating the circulation of Qi for pleurisy and Bi pain.

Front 23

Bai mao gen
Name, category and clue?

Back 23

Woolly Grass
Herbs stop bleeding by cooling the blood.
Buy more guns

Front 24

Bai mao gen
Actions and Indications?

Back 24

1. Stop bleeding by dispelling pathogenic heat from the blood for epistaxis, hematuria, hematemesis.
2. Dispel heat through urine for edema and jaundice

Front 25

Bai qian
Name, category and clue

Back 25

Cynanchum root
Herbs that transform wind cold to stop cough.
By cheetin I got the long straw to stay inside and not get a cough from the wind and cold.

Front 26

Bai qian
Actions and Indications?

Back 26

1. Antitussive for asthma and cough with sputum caused by wind cold.
2. Expectorant for cough with musical rales.

Front 27

Bai shao
Name, category, and clue.

Back 27

White peony root
Tonifies liver blood.

Front 28

Bai shao
Actions and Indications?

Back 28

1. Tonifies liver blood for HA, tinnitus, dizziness and irritability, and menstrual disorders.
2. Nourish blood and consolidate yin for spontaneous and night sweats.
3. soothe liver qi and stop pain for chest and abdominal pain and calf spasms.

Front 29

Bai tou weng
Name, category, and clue?

Back 29

Pulsatilla
Clears heat and relieves toxicity
I took a bite oh one and got dysentery.

Front 30

Bai tou weng
Actions and indications?

Back 30

1. Dispels pathogenic heat from the blood for dysentery.
2. anti inflammatory for trichomonas vaginitis, externally,

Front 31

Bai wei
Name, category and clue?

Back 31

Cynanchum root
Clears heat from deficiency.
By the way I am so yin def I have a cough and a fever, I also have a bladder infection sore throat, an abscess and a sanke bite..

Front 32

Bai wei
Actions and Indications?

Back 32

1. Cool the blood for yin def cough and fever.
2. Diuretic for hematuria, and Lin syndrome.
3. Clears toxicity for sore throat, abscess and snake bite

Front 33

Bai zhi
Name, category, and clue.

Back 33

Angelica root
Warm and acrid herb to release the exterior.
That wind cold will bite you on the front of your head.

Front 34

Bai zhi
Actions and Indications?

Back 34

1. Dispels wind cold for frontal HA, and face pain.
2. discharge pus and reduce swelling for rhinitis and sinusitis, and skin diseases.

Front 35

Bai zhu
Name, category, and clue?

Back 35

White atractylodes
Tonify Qi
Buy you something to chew on for your qi.

Front 36

Bai zhu
Actions and Indications?

Back 36

1. Tonifies Spleen and Qi for poor appetite, dyspepsia, ab distention, chronic diarrhea.
2. Dispel dampness for edema, phlegm and other fluids
3. Strengthen wei qi to stop sweating and calms fetus

Front 37

Bai zi ren
Name, category, and clue.

Back 37

Arborvitae seed
Calm the spirit

Front 38

Bai zi ren
Actions and Indications?

Back 38

1. Nourish the heart and soothe the nerves for palpitation and insomnia due to heart blood deficiency.
2. constipation.

Front 39

Ban lan gen
Name, category, and clue.

Back 39

Isatis root
Clear heat and relieve toxicity

Front 40

Ban lan gen
Actions and Indications?

Back 40

1.Eliminate heat and pathogens from the blood for, fever, pyogenic inflammation, influenza, meningitis.
2. Cools heat in the blood for macula in acute infectious disease, erysipelas, mumps, sore throat.

Front 41

Ban xia
Name, category, and clue?

Back 41

Pinellia rhizome
Transforms phlegm

Front 42

Ban xia
Actions and Indications?

Back 42

1. Eliminates phlegm and dampness for cough.
2. Descends Qi for nausea, vomiting and morning sickness.
3. Disperse lumps and hardening for stuffiness in chest, scrofula.

Front 43

Bi ba
Name, category and clue?

Back 43

Long pepper fruit
Warm the interior and expel cold.

Front 44

Bi ba
Actions and Indications?

Back 44

1. To dispel cold and warm the middle for abdominal pain and cold.
2. Direct Qi down for vomiting, borborygmi, and acid reflux.
3. Analgesic for HA, toothache and rhinitis.

Front 45

Bian dou
Name, category and clue?

Back 45

Hyacinth bean
Clear and relieve summer heat
Beyond dough there are beans to help with summerheat diarrhea and vomiting.

Front 46

Bian dou
Actions and Indications?

Back 46

1. Clears summer heat for diarrhea and vomitting.
2. Tonifies spleen for chronic diarrhea with, loud stomach growling and vaginal discharge.

Front 47

Bian xu
Name category and clue?

Back 47

Polygonum, common knot grass
Drains dampness.
Pee beyond your shoe

Front 48

Bian xu
Actions and Indications?

Back 48

1. Diuretic for Lin syndrome.
2.Jaundice.
3.anti puritic for eczema, skin infections and trichomonas vaginitis.

Front 49

Bie jia
Name, category and clue?

Back 49

Soft shelled turtle shell
tonifies yin

Front 50

Bie jia
Actions and Indications?

Back 50

1. Nourish yin and subdue yang for night sweats and tidal fever.
2. Resolves hard lumps for abdominal masses, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly.

Front 51

Bing lang
Name, category, and clue?

Back 51

Betel nut
Expels parasites

Front 52

Bing lang
Actions and Indications?

Back 52

1. kills parasites
2. removes food stagnation
3. constipation, abdominal distention and tenesmus.

Front 53

Bo he
Name, category, and clue?

Back 53

Mint
Cool and acrid to dispel wind cold.

Front 54

Bo he
Actions and Indications?

Back 54

1. Disperse wind heat and clear head and eyes for common cold caused by wind heat.
2. HA, pharyngitis, conjunctivitis.
3. Promote eruption of measles in early stage.
4. Relieve liver Qi stagnation for chest and costal region.

Front 55

Bu gu zhi
Name, category and clue?

Back 55

Psoralea seeds
Yang tonifying herb

Front 56

Bu gu zhi
Actions and Indications?

Back 56

1. Tonify kidney yang for impotence, nocturnal emission and frequent urination
2. Astringent for cock crow diarrhea.

Front 57

Cang er zi
Name, category and clue?

Back 57

Xanthium fruit
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior.

Front 58

Cang er zi
Actions and Indications?

Back 58

1. Opens the nose for rhinitis, sinusitis HA, chronic rhinitis.
2. Dispel wind and damp for arthritis and lumbago
3. Relieve pain and itchiness for leprosy ad pruritus of the skin.

Front 59

Cang zhu
Name, category and clue?

Back 59

Atractylodes rhizome
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness.

Front 60

Cao dou kou
Name, category and clue?

Back 60

Katsumadia
Aromatic herbs to transform dampness.

Front 61

Cao dou kou
Actions and Indications?

Back 61

1. Dries damp and warms the middle for distention, pain, vomiting and diarrhea.

Front 62

Ce bai ye
Name, category and Clue?

Back 62

Arborvitae tops
Clears heat to stop bleeding.
Ju buy yourself something for that bloody cough?

Front 63

Ce bai ye
Actions and Indications?

Back 63

1. Cools the blood and stops bleeding for coughing blood and spitting of blood, hematuria, and uterine bleeding, dysentery.
2. stops cough and expectorant for blood streaked difficult to expecorate sputum.
3.Promotes healing of burns, small early stage burns.

Front 64

Chai hu
Name Category and clue?

Back 64

Bupleurum root,
Clears heat and releases exteriro.

Front 65

Chai hu
Actions and Indications?

Back 65

1. Resolves shao yang disorders and reduces fever for alternating feverand chills, bitter taste, flank pain, irritability, vomiting, and stifling sensation in chest.
2. Spreads liver Qi for dizziness, vertigo, chest and flank pain, emotional instability, menstrual issues.
3. Raises and lifts yang qi, Stomach and GB, for Prolapse, hemorrhoids, vaginal discharge, bleeding or exhaustion.

Front 66

Chan tui
Name category and clue?

Back 66

Cicada skin
Clears heat and releases exterior
Its a bug skin.

Front 67

Chan tui
Actions and Indications?

Back 67

1. Dispel wind heat for common cold sore throat.
2. Promotes rashes to the surface for measles.
3. Clears the eys
4. stops spasms and extinguishes wind for childhood febrile diseases.

Front 68

Che qian zi
Name, category, and clue?

Back 68

Che qian zi
Plantago seed

Front 69

Che qian zi
Actions and Indications?

Back 69

1. Promotes urinations and clears damp-heat for any type of edema, or damp heat lin syndrome, and damp heat in lower burner.
2. Promotes urination to solidify stool for damp heat diarrhea
3.Clears the eyes for KD and LV def or heat in Liver channel.
4. Expels phlegm and stops cough for lung heat cough with yellow copious sputum.

Front 70

iChen pi
Name category and clue?

Back 70

Tangerine peel
Regulates Qi

Front 71

Chen pi
Actions and Indications?

Back 71

1.Regulates Qi, adjusts the middle, epigastric and abdominal distention, fullness, belching, bloating, nausea and vomiting.
2. Dries damp and transforms phlegm for phlegm damp cough, with copious sputum, also damp affecting the middle, abdominal distention, loss of sppetite, fatigue, loose stools, thick greasy toungue coating.
3.Helps prevent stagnation of tonifying herbs.

Front 72

Chen xiang
Name category and clue.

Back 72

Aloe wood
Herbs that regulate qi
CX herb there are only 2 and this one regulates qi

Front 73

Chen xiang
Actions and Indications?

Back 73

1. Promotes movement of Qi and alleviates pain for Distention or pain in the middle.
2. Directs rebellious Qi downward for vomiting, belching, hiccough.
3. Aids kidney in grasping Qi for asthma and wheezing.

Front 74

Chi shao
Name Category and clue?

Back 74

Red peony
Herbs that invigorate the blood and regulate menstruation.
She shoats when she has her period.

Front 75

Chi shao
Actions and Indications?

Back 75

1. Invigorate the blood and dispel stasis for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, ab pain, fixed abdominal masses, swelling and pain.
2. Clears heat and cools the blood for, fever, purple tongue, maculae, bleeding, gyno problems due to hot blood.

Front 76

Chi shi zhi
Name category and clue?

Back 76

Halloysite
Herbs that astringe the Lung and Large intestine.

Front 77

Chi shi zhi
Actions and Indications?

Back 77

1.Binds intestines and stops diarrhea for diarrhea due to cold from def or chronic dysentery with mucus and blood in stools.
2. Contains the blood for uterine bleeding, excessive menstruation, blood in stool, and bleeding prolapsed rectum due to cold form def in lower burner.
3. Promotes the healing of wounds, chronic non-healing ulcers, and weeping damp sores.

Front 78

Chuan bei mu
Name category and clue?

Back 78

Fritillary bulb
Herbs that transform phlegm heat and stop cough.
Chew on bay moon to stop cough.

Front 79

Chuan bei mu
Actions and Indications?

Back 79

1. Clears heat and transforms phlegm for cough with yin def fire, cough with little sputum that is difficult to expectorate .
2. Clears heat and dissipates nodules, sores, swellings, scrofula, and lung and breast abscesses.

Front 80

Chuan jiao
Name category and clue?

Back 80

Szechuan pepper
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold.
Chew on your jowel to get warm, and kill those parasites.

Front 81

Chuan jiao
Actions and Indications?

Back 81

1. Warms the middle, disperses cold and stops pain for SP and ST cold from def, vomiting, and diarrhea.
2. Kills parasites, and alleviates abdominal pain due to round warms

Front 82

Chuan lian zi
Name, category and clue?

Back 82

Toosendan fruit
Herbs that regulate Qi
Chew on leons to move liver qi and kill parasites.

Front 83

Chuan lian zi
Actions and indications?

Back 83

1. Dredges liver Qi, stops pain, conducts heat down and out, for pain in the chest and ribs, distention form LV and ST disharmony and bulging disorders.
2. Kills parasites, roundworms and tapeworms.

Front 84

niu xi
Name category and clue?

Back 84

Achyranthes root
Regulate and invigorate the blood to regulate the menses.
I New She was on her period.

Front 85

Niu xi
Actions and Indications?

Back 85

1. Invigorates the blood and dispels stasis for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and retained lochia,
2. Tonifies liver and kidney, strengthens the sinews and bones and benefits the joints, for knee and low back pain due to deficiency.
3. Induces the downward movement of blood and fire, for nose bleed, vomiting blood, toothaches, bleeding gums, dizziness, HA and blurred vision due to LV Yang rising.
4. Clears damp heat in lower burner for Bi pain, Lin, vaginal discharge.

Front 86

Chuan xiong
Name category and clue?

Back 86

Lugusticum rhizome or
szechuan lovage root.
Invigorate the blood and relieve pain.

Front 87

Chuan xiong
Actions and Indications?

Back 87

1. Invigorates the blood and promotes the movement of Qi for dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, difficult labor, retained lochia and pain and soreness in the chest, flanks and hypochondria.
2. Expels wind and alleviates pain for HA, dizziness, or painful obstruction, or skin problems caused by wind.

Front 88

Chun pi
Name category and clue?

Back 88

root bark of ailanthus
Stabilize and bind, herbs that astringe the LU and LI.
Chun pees due to the dysentery.

Front 89

Chun pi
Actions and Indications?

Back 89

1. Clears heat, dries damp and binds up intestines for chronic diarrhea or dysentery due to damp heat or vaginal discharge.
2. Kills parasites particularly roundworm and externally for pruritic rashes.

Front 90

Ci shi
Name category and clue?

Back 90

Magnetite
Calms the spirit
This shit's magnetic.

Front 91

Ci shi
Actions and Indications?

Back 91

1. Anchors and calms the spirit for restlessness, palpitations, insomnia, tremors, dizziness and vertigo.
2. Nourishes kidneys and augments the liver for impaired hearing or tinnitus or deafness and visual disturbances.
3. Aids kidneys in grasping Qi for chronic asthma.