Acrid And Cool To Release Exterior

Question 1

*Niu Bang Zi

Answer 1

Burdock Seed
Burdock Seed
Cold & Slippery, Acrid, Bitter – [colder than most herbs, more intense than Bo He]
Channels: Lu, St

Functions: disperse wind-heat in the exterior; clears internal heat toxin, EASE THROAT AND RELIEVE SWELLING, moisten the intestines and vent skin eruptions or rashes

1. Swollen and painful throat
2. – Vents rash and skin eruptions, early stage of measles by wind-heat
3. Carbuncle and mumps due to heat and toxin, RESOLVES AND DRAINS FIRE TOXINS
4. Moisten the intestines

6-12g

Question 2

*Chan Tui

Answer 2

Cicada Moulting
Slightly cold, Sweet, Salty
Channels: Lu, Liv

Functions: cool, light, and ascending it disperses wind-heat, vents skin eruption and STOPS ITCHING; extinguishes external wind; clears eyes by removing superficial visual obstructions; relieve convulsion by subduing liver wind
1. Fever, headache, sore throat, cough and HORSE VOICE from wind-heat – early stages of warm disease
2. Skin eruption in early stage of measles… SKIN ITCHING
3. Red eyes, tearing in the eye and blurry vision with swelling in the eye due to attack of the liver by wind-heat
4. Morbid night crying babies (liver wind heat attack or tetanus)
3-9g
HDI: sedatives

Question 3

**Sang Ye

Answer 3

White Mulberry Leaf
Cold, Sweet, Bitter
Channels: Lu, Liv

Functions: Light, rising, cooling, and moistening. Disperses wind-heat, clears heat from the lungs, moistens the lung; clears heat from the liver and benefits the eyes

1. Cough, headache, fever, and swollen and painful throat due to wind-heat
2. DRY COUGH or cough with scanty yellow sputum due to dry heat in lungs
3. Red, painful eye lacrimation (liver heat)
4. Cools blood and stops bleeding due to heat in blood
5. 5-9g; 15-30g to COOL BLOOD
   * Sang Ju Yin (yin = cool drink)

Question 4

**Ju Hua

Answer 4

Chrysanthemum Flower
Cool, Acrid, Sweet, Bitter
Channels: Lu, Liv

Functions: Cooling, Aromatic and Light. Can ascend or descend, drain or tonify. Disperses wind and clears heat from the liver and lung; cleans toxins; clears and tonifies liver to brighten eyes

1. Common cold, fever, dizziness and headache due to attack of warm pathogens
2. RED, SWOLLEN, and PAINFUL EYE due to wind-heat in the liver or upward attack of Liv Fire
3. Hyperactivity of Liver Yang (headache and dizziness)
4. Carbuncles and boils due to fire toxins – [more severe than just a rash]
   * **Special Pairing: Gou Qi Zi
5. 5-15g

Question 5

*Man Jing Zi

Answer 5

Cited Fruit
Cool, Acrid, Bitter
Channels: Bl, Liv, St

Functions: ascending, dispersing, cooling, disperses wind-heat especially CLEARS EYES, FACE, and HEAD. Treats wind-damp painful obstruction

1. Dizziness, deafness, headache all due to wind-heat
2. Blurring vision or red, painful eyes
3. Stiff, painful joints, cramping or numbness due to wind-damp conditions

6-12g

Question 6

*Dan Dou Chi

Answer 6

Prepared Soybean
Cool or warm, Acrid, Sweet, Slightly Bitter
Channels: Lu, St

Functions: Ascends, vents and disperses to relieve exterior syndromes; disperses heat above the diaphragm to RELIEVE RESTLESSNESS

1. Fever, aversion to cold, headache due to WIND-HEAT OR WIND-COLD
2. Restlessness and insomnia due to heat stagnation in chest during transmission of febrile diseases

Question 7

Mu Zie

Answer 7

Horsetail
Neutral, Bitter, Sweet
Channels: Lu, Liv, GB

Functions: disperses wind heat, clear the eyes and reduce visual obstructions. Clear heat and stop bleeding

1. Wind-heat attacking eyes, redness, pain, cloudiness, blurred vision
2. Excessive tearing
3. Blood in stool, hemorrhoids

3-9g

Question 8

**Ge Gen

Answer 8

Kudzu Root
Cool, Sweet, Acrid
**Channels Entered: Sp, St

Functions: Raises the clear Yang Qi of Yangming, generates Stomach Qi, RELEASES MUSCLE LAYER venting fever and rash, expels exterior pathological factors; lifts the Spleen Qi [TAIYIN], clears heat and promotes body fluid

1. STIFFNESS OF NECK AND UPPER BACK, no sweat [pathogen trapped], fever and headache due to attack of wind-heat or wind-cold
2. VENTS AND DISCHARGES RASHES AND SKIN ERUPTIONS, fever and aversion to cold in early stage of measles
3. DIARRHEA due to Spleen Qi xu or Damp heat excess
4. Restlessness and thirst due to injury of body fluid by heat in febrile diseases
5. RAISES AND GENERATES FLUIDS to restore lubrication; eases thirst in St heat
6. Treats hypertension, angina pectoris, and xiao me

9-21g
**Guiding herb into Yangming St and Taiyin Sp
HDI: antidiabetics, anticoagluant, antiplatelet

Question 9

**Chai Hu

Answer 9

Bupleurum
Cool, Bitter, Acrid
**Channels: Liv, GB, SJ, Pc

Functions: HARMONIZES SHAOYANG Syndrome, releases heat from the muscle layer and disperses wind-heat, RAISES CLEAR QI of the St and GB; relieves LIVER QI CONSTRAINT; lifts Yang Qi and treats malaria

1. Alternating chills and fever, distention in chest and hypochondriac regions, bitter taste in mouth, dry throat, blurry vision, dizziness and wiry pulse SHAOYANG SYNDROME
2. LIV QI STAGNATION – [#1 herb in moving, soothing Liv Qi]
3. PROLAPSE in any organ
4. Malaria and other types of parasitic diseases w/ strange symptom patterns
5. Treats deficiency heat, excess heat and benefits ALL gynecological conditions
6. Broad range of symptoms including diarrhea, eye and ear diseases

HDI: Interferons

Question 10

Doses of Chai Hu

Answer 10

1-3g: raises Qi (Bu Zheng yo Qi tang)
3-9g: clear heat
6-12g: disperse Qi (sini San)
15-24g: SHAOYANG

**Guiding herb of SHAOYANG, the Liver and up into the brain

Question 11

*Sheng Ma

Answer 11

Black Cohosh Rhizome
Cool, Acrid, Sweet
*Channels: Lu, Sp, LI, St (earth pair, metal pair)

Functions: raises Yang Qi; disperses wind heat to release exterior syndrome and express skin eruption; clear heat and clean toxins

1. HEADACHE due to attack of wind-heat or VENTS SKIN ERUPTION AND RASHES in the early stage of measles
2. Toothache, swollen and painful gums [st channel], sore throat, canker sore due to heat and toxin in the Yangming due to warm pathogens
3. Prolapsed rectum, prolapsed uterus, and shortness of breath due to SINKING OF THE SPLEEN QI, uterine bleeding due to Spleen Qi Xu and failure to control blood in vessels

3-9g

Question 12

**Bo He

Answer 12

Field Mint
Cool, Acrid, Aromatic
Channels: Lu, Liv

Functions: disperse wind heat in the UPPER BURNER; clear head and eyes; soothes the throat; facilitates the flow of Liver Qi; vents skin rashes

1. Attack of wind-heat
2. Headache and red eyes, sore throat
3. Vents rashes (in early stage of measles)
4. Liver Qi stagnation
5. Expels turbid filth due to unclean Qi [summer travelers?]
   3-6g, up to 15g for parasites