Acrid and Warm to release Exterior Flashcards
*Ma Huang
(Ephedra) Nature: Warm Flavor: Acrid, Slightly Bitter Channels Entered: Lung, Bladder FUNCTIONS: Induces and promotes sweating, calms and relieves asthma, promotes urination BOLD-- 1. Induces sweating to release exterior syndrome due to invasion of wind-cold 2. Disperses and facilitates Lung Qi TOXIC dose @ 30-45g
**Gui Zhi
(Cinnamon Twig)
Nature: Warm
Flavor: Acrid, Sweet
Channels: Heart, Lung, Bladder
FUNCTIONS: ACTIVATES YANG QI AND WARMS AND OPENS channels. Release muscle layer and control the Wei Qi at the surface. Warm the Middle Jiao.
1. releases exterior and assists Yang. attack of WIND-COLD either excess or xu
2. Bi syndrome
3. Warms Yang and transforms thin mucus
4. Assists Heart Yang and unblocks Yang Qi; Qi surging upward with Fright and Fear (Running Piglet)
5. Warms the channels, vessels, and collaterals
6. Warms the middle jiao
**Zi Su Ye
(Perilla Leaf) Nature: Warm Flavor: Acrid, Aromatic Channels: Lung, Spleen FUNCTION: relieve exterior syndrome by dispersing cold, disperse and discharge, HARMONIZE MIDDLE JIAO, PROMOTE QI MOVEMENT, revive Sp, alleviate seafood poisoning and kill parasites 2. vomiting, morning sickness 3. Anti-Parasitic actions
*Jing Jie
(Schizonepeta) Nature: Slightly Warm and Harmonious Flavors: Acrid, Aromatic Channels: Lung, Liver FUNCTIONS: Moderate by nature, light and ascending it vents wind-heat or wind-cold to relieve exterior syndromes. ELIMINATES WIND, EXPRESSES SKIN ERUPTIONS, vents heat in blood and stops bleeding 1. wind-cold or wind-heat 2. vents rashes and alleviates itching 3. hemafecia
**Fang Feng
(Siler) Nature: Slightly Warm Flavor: Acrid, Sweet Channels: Bladder, Liver, Spleen FUNCTIONS: Moderate and less drying than most wind herbs. FOR ALL WIND CONDITIONS. Relieves exterior syndrome and stops pain by ELIMINATE WIND, cold and damp. Stops diarrhea and bowel pain. 2. Bi syndrome 4. Liver over-controlling Spleen
*Gao Ben
(Ligusticum) Nature: Warm Flavor: Acrid, Aromatic Channels: Du Mai, Bladder FUNCTION: powerfully ascending it reaches to the vertex. Relieves exterior syndrome and stops pain by dispersing cold. Eliminate wind and damp. Guide herb into the Du meridian in some texts. 1. headache, especially VERTEX HEADACHE
*Qiang Huo
(Notopterygium Root) Nature: Warm Flavor: Acrid, Bitter, Aromatic Channels: Bladder, Kidney FUNCTIONS: With a clear, strong aroma it travels through the Qi level. It is light in weight and reaches to the vertex and upper body, travels through the limbs, and expels superficial dampness 1. Headache and body aches
**Bai Zhi
(Angelica) Nature: Warm Flavors: Acrid, Aromatic Channels: Lung, Spleen, Stomach FUNCTIONS: Aromatic and warm to release the exterior syndromes by eliminating wind-cold, opens and unblocks orifices, especially the nose, dries damp, drains pus, relieves swelling and stops pain 2. Frontal headache (Yangming channel) 3. Reduce swelling, drain and expel pus
**Xi Xin
(Asarum, Chinese Wild Ginger) Nature: Warm, Slightly Toxic Flavors: Acrid Channels: Lung, Kidney, Heart FUNCTIONS: Powerfully and aromatically warms and pierces through turbidity. Disperses Taiyang and Shaoyin cold, opens orifices, relieves pain, reaches into head, lungs, bones and joints and eliminates wind, cold and damp. Relatively weak to release exterior but relatively strong to warm the interior. 1. Headache, toothache
Cong Bai
(Green Onion) Nature: Warm Flavor: Acrid Channels: Lung and Stomach FUNCTIONS: relieve exterior syndrome by promoting sweats; disperse cold and activate yang
**Sheng Jiang
(Fresh Ginger) Nature: Slightly Warm Flavor: Acrid Channels: Lung, Spleen, Stomach FUNCTIONS: Dispersing in nature, benefits the stomach and alleviates nausea by warming the middle jiao, RELIEVES EXTERIOR SYNDROME by promoting sweating; Stops cough and transforms phlegm by warming the lung, alleviates poisoning from seafood and some herbs 1. Wind cold 2. Vomiting
Xiang Ru
(Aromatic Madder)
Nature: Slightly Warm
Flavor: Acrid
Channels: Lung, Stomach
FUNCTIONS: relieve exterior syndrome by promoting sweating, HARMONIZE MIDDLE JIAO and resolve dampness, relieve edema by promoting urination
1. abdominal pain and vomiting DUE TO ATTACK OF WIND COLD OR SUMMER HEAT WITH DAMP IN SUMMER
Cang Er Zi
(Xanthium) Nature: Warm, Slightly Toxic Flavor: Acrid, Bitter Channels: Lung, Liver FUNCTIONS: eliminate wind and dampness, OPEN NOSE AND STOP PAIN 1. Sinusitis with headache
*Xin Yi Hua
(Magnolia Flower)
Nature: Warm
Flavor: Acrid
Channels: Lung, Stomach
FUNCTIONS: disperses upper burner wind heat, disperse wind-cold, clears nasal passages, OPENS THE NOSE
1. One of the key herbs to treat sinusitis