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Blood tonics Flashcards

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What are Blood tonic foods?

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  • Generally cool, neutral, warm with flavours of sweet and sour.
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What diet would you suggest clients eat to tonify Blood?

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  • The same foods as building Spleen Qi with an emphasis on Blood building foods (iron and protein rich foods)
  • Animal foods particularly soups made with bones, dark green and rich red fruit/veg
  • Foods cooked in a cooling, neutral way (moisture/yin promoting) e.g. blanching, steaming, soups.
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What are beneficial foods for Blood?

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Meat and seafood: chicken, eggs, beef, beef stock, organic liver, pork trotter, bone marrow, oysters, mussels, squid, perch, eel.
Vegetables: red cabbage, spinach, wheatgrass, fennel, seaweeds, nettle, parsley, watercress.
Grains and legumes: oats, amaranth, glutinous rice, rice, adzuki beans, black beans, fermented beans, miso.
Fruit: red grapes, cherries, lychees, longans, goji, plums, apricots, strawberries.
Nuts and seeds: sesame, black sesame, sunflower seeds.
Drinks and condiments: beetroot juice, cherry juice, plum juice, red tea (reship/hibiscus), red wine, stout, molasses, Vegemite.

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What food are not beneficial for Blood?

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Bitter, pungent foods.
Esp warm or hot such as excessive black tea, hot chocolate, garlic, ginger, pepper, curry, cinnamon, coffee, high proof alcohol, chai.

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What kind of cooking methods are not beneficial for Blood?

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Dry cooking methods such as deep fry, thermally hot foods.

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What are Liver Blood and Heart Blood foods?

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  • Thick, well-cooked soups, sweet root, vegetables and grains, easily digested foods.
  • Well cooked food, chewed well.
  • Food that tastes and smells good to awaken digestive system.
  • Dark foods: dark red, black beans, cherry, date, blackcurrants, black sesame
  • Liver, alfalfa, nettle tea, dandelion root, and artichoke lead in addition to other Blood nourishing foods.
  • Salt in moderation
  • Quinoa, oats, dates, beetroot, adzuki bean and egg particularly benefit heart blood def.
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What food should be avoided when considering Blood?

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Excessive sugar, heating alcohol and stimulants.

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What is Bai Shao?

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Paeonia lactiflora (root)
White peony root

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How is Bai Shao collected?

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Collected in Summer or Autumn and washed clean.
After removal of its rootlets, it is steeped in boiling water or slightly boiled till it is heated equally then sun dried. Cooked for 20 mins.

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What are the actions and indications of Bai Shao?

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  • Nourishes Blood & regulates menses, treats blood deficiency presenting as dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, vaginal discharge, uterine bleeding accompanied by lustreless complexion, dull/pale nails.
  • Nourish Liver Yin & calms Liver Yang, treats Liver Yin Xu with Liver yang rising presenting as flank, chest or abdominal pain from either Liver Qi constraint or liver invading Spleen. Stops painful spasms in the abdomen, cramping/spasms of the hands and feet. Headaches, dizziness, light-headedness, hypertension, vertigo.
  • Preserves Yin, stops sweat, adjusts the nutritive and protective levels, presenting as spontaneous sweating, night sweats, vaginal discharge, spermatorrhoea.
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What are the classifications of Bai Shao?

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Nature: Slightly cold
Taste or flavour: bitter, sour
Direction of action: sinking
Site of action: Liver, Spleen

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What is the dosage of Bai Shao?

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6-15g

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What are the cautions / contraindications of Bai Shao?

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Cold deficiency diarrhoea; incompatible with Li Lu.

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What is Dang Gui?

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ANGELICA SINENSIS (ROOT)

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What are the blood tonic herbs?

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Dang Gui
Bai Shao
Shu Di Huang
Hong Dou

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What is the formula for blood tonification?

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Si Wu Tang

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What is the collection and processing of Dang Gui?

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Collected in late autumn, fibrous root removed, moisture is slightly steamed, bundled into wisp, placed on shelf, and smoke-dried slowly or dry fried with wine for use.

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What is the function of Dang Gui?

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  • Tonifies Blood, regulates menses, treats Blood deficiency, particularly of the Liver & Heart. Pale/Dull complexion, lusterless nails, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations, menstrual disorders (irregular menses, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhea)
  • Invigorates the Blood, treats Blood stagnation/stasis. Important for stopping pain due to blood stasis, abdominal pain, traumatic injury, postpartum pain, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhea.
  • Disperse cold, relieves pain due to Cold Bi, or stagnation, presenting as painful joints, numbness of the limbs
  • Moistens the intestines, treats constipation due to Blood xu and dryness.
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What is the classification of Dang Gui?

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Nature: warm
Taste or flavour: acrid, sweet
Direction of action: ascending and sinking
Site of action: Liver, Heart, Spleen

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What is the dosage of Dang Gui?

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6-15g

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What are the contraindications of Dang Gui?

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Spleen Xu, Yin Xu with Heat (contraindication), pregnancy, anticoagulant medication (caution).

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What is Shu Di Huang?

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REHMANNIA GLUTINOSA (PROCESSED ROOT)

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When is Shu Di Huang collected?

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Root is processed with a series of steaming and drying by natural sunlight repeatedly until the root becomes black with a soft sticky and greasy property.

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What are the functions of Shu Di Huang?

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  • Tonifies Blood, treats Blood Xu presenting as pale/dull complexion, dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, irregular menses, uterine bleeding and postpartum bleeding.
  • Tonifies Yin, treats Liver and Kidney Yin Xu presenting as weak lower back and limbs, dizziness, tinnitus, tidal fevers, night sweats and nocturnal emissions, wasting and thirsting disorder.
  • Nourishes essence. Presents as delayed development, premature aging, diminished mental acuity, greying of hair, impotence, infertility and memory loss.
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What is the classification of Shu Di Huang?

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Nature: Slightly warm
Taste or flavour: Sweet
Direction of action: Sinking
Site of action: Liver, Kidney, Heart

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What is the dosage of Shu Di Huang?

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6-15g

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What are the cautions / contra for Shu Di Huang?

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Spleen/Stomach Xu

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What is Hong Dou?

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VIGNA ANGULARIS (BEAN)

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What is the collection of Hong Dou?

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Beans are gathered in Autumn, dried and under the sun and remove pods before use.

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What are the actions of Hong Dou?

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  • Reinforcing the Spleen and removes Damp, to treat oedema, difficulty in urination due to weak Spleen
  • Dispersing Blood stasis and detoxification, to treat haemorrhoids dysentery.
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What are the classification of Hong Dou?

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Nature: neutral
Taste or flavour: sweet
Direction of action: sinking
Site of action: Spleen, LI, SI

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What is the dosage of Hong Dou?

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9-15g

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What are the cautions of Hong Dou?

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Contraindicated for pregnancy and those with Qi xu and haemoptysis

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What is Si Wu Tang?

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  1. Shu Di Huang
  2. Dang Gui
  3. Bai Shao
  4. Chuan Xiong
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What are the functions of Si Wu Tang?

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  • Tonify and regulate Blood
  • Regulates menstruation
  • Chong and Ren channels
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What are the symptoms / patterns of Si Wu Tang?

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  • Blood Xu and Blood stagnation
  • Symptoms: Pale and lusterless complexion, pale fingernail beds, pale lips, brittle nails, dry skin or dry eyes, poor memory, blurred vision, insomnia, numbness of extremities, irregular menstruation with scanty flow or amenorrhoea, pelvic pain (dull) and alleviated by pressure, restless foetus disorder, pale tongue, thin and choppy pulse.
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What are the cautions / contraindications of Si Wu Tang?

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Early stage acute illness (cold/flu), Spleen and Stomach Yang Xy, care with abdominal bloating, loose stool and GIT disturbance. Hematinic, tones uterus and muscles, glactogogue.

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What is the dosage of Si Wu Tang?

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8-12 pills (2-3 times a day) away from food where possible.

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