BASICS - Herbs

Question 1

dang gui

Answer 1

chinese angelica root
[tblood]

1. enhances bld & reg mense
2. invig bld
3. moistens intestines (due to bld def)
4. rel swelling (sores/abscesses - regen flesh)

Question 2

bai shao

Answer 2

white peony root
[tblood]

1. enhance bld + reg mense
2. calms LR yang + stop pain + spasm*
3. bene yin + harmon Ying/wei

• 2.
• pain in thorax d. LR qi stag or disharmon LR/SP
• HA LR yang rising

Question 3

chi shao

Answer 3

red peony root
[movexue]

1. activ bld + diperse bld stasis*
2. cl. H + cool bld
3. cl. fire

• 1.
• dysmen, amen
• bld stasis c.ing abdo pain, immobile abdo masses
• pain and swelling c.by trauma

Question 4

shu di huang

Answer 4

cooked rhemannia
[tblood]

1. ton bld (bld def ss, beng lou d. bld def)
2. bene yin (night sweat, wasting thristing)
3. augment essence*

3*

• LBP + knees
• weak lower extremities
• dizzy, tinnitus, deafness, poor vis.

Question 5

chuan xiong

Answer 5

cnidium, sichuan lovage rhizome
[movexue]

1. activ bldd, move qi, allev pain*
2. expel wind + rel pain (HA)

1*

• dysmen, amen
• difficult labour, post partum stasis
• hypo pain
• HA