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What is an Herb?

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Any substance, organic or inorganic, that is used for medicinal purposes.

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What are the 6 Pathogenic Factors?

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Wind
Heat
Dampness
Cold 
Dryness
Summer heat
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What is an inorganic substance?

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Inorganic substances are of mineral origin, such as sand, salt, iron, and calcium.

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What is an Organic substance?

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Organic Substances are usually of plant or animal origin and contain carbon.

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Wind

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Nature: Yang
Season: Spring
Affects the upper part of the body

Usually accompanies another pathogen while attacking the body, such as cold, damp, or heat.

Associated with movement and migratory pains

Characterized by sudden onset

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Cold

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Nature: Yin
Season: Winter

Affects the Stomach, Large Intestine, and Uterus.

Characterized by contraction and slowness.

Symptoms: severe sharp pain that is often relieved by heat, contraction of muscles and sinews causing restricted movement of the limbs, chills, no sweating, no thirst.

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Heat

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Nature: Yang
Season: Summer

Characterized by Shen disturbance and reckless movement of blood causing bleeding

Symptoms: fever, red face, irritability, mania, delirium, bleeding, dark urine

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Damp

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Nature: Yin
Season: End of Summer

Affects spleen

Characterized by: heaviness, turbidity, and lingering

Symptoms: loose stools, diarrhea, cloudy urine, leucorrhea, heaviness of the head and body, pain that is heavy and sore, loss of appetite, and edema.

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Dryness

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Nature: Yang
Season: Autumn

Affects Lung

Characterized by lack of moisture

Symptoms: dry lips, cracked skin, dry stools, dry cough, and asthma

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Summer Heat

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Nature: Yang
Season: Summer

Characterized by dispersion and consumption of body fluids by heat. Often accompanied by dampness which is due to humid weather

Symptoms: high fever, sweating, fatigue, headache, and diarrhea

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What are the Seven Emotions?

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Anger
Fear 
Fright
Grief
Joy/decadence
Melancholy/sadness
Worry/pensive was
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What are the Eight Principles?

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Yin-Yang
Interior-Exterior
Deficiency-Excess
Cold-Heat

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What is the principle of Yin-Yang?

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Determines the nature of the disease

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What are Yin symptoms?

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Characterized by deficiency of Yang Qi with the presence of cold or damp.

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What are Yang symptoms?

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Characterized by an excess of Yang Qi in the body causing heat conditions.

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What is the principle of Interior-Exterior?

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Determines the location of the disharmony.

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What does the Exterior pertain to?

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Exterior pertains to the surface of the body such as skin, hair, muscles, and the superficial branches of the meridians.

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What does the Interior pertain to?

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Interior pertains to the organs as they are known in TCM; the Zang-Fu.

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What is the principle of Deficiency-Excess?

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Determines the strength of the pathogen in relation to the body’s Qi. Knowing if the disease is deficiency or excess will determine the type of treatment.

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What does the weakness of the body’s Qi indicate?

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Deficiency syndrome

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What does the strong body Qi indicate?

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Excess syndrome

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What is the principle of Cold-Heat?

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Determines the nature of the disease.

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Heat syndrome have an excess of what?

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Cold syndromes have an excess of or a deficiency of?

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Excess of Yin (cold/damp)

Deficiency of Yang Qi.

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What are the Five (6) Tastes?

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Pungent/acrid
Sour
Sweet 
Bitter
Bland
Salty
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What is the nature of Pungent (Acrid)?

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Dispersing, promotes circulation, invigorating

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What is the function of Pungent/acrid?

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Rubes stagnation of Qi and Blood, releases the exterior by opening the pores and promoting sweating.

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What is the nature of Sour?

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Astringing- closes pores, retains, restrains fluids

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What is the function of Sour?

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Stops the discharge of fluids and vital substances

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What is the nature of Bitter?

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Drains dampness and heat

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What is the function of Bitter?

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Clears Heat and promotes diuresis to relieve damp accumulation

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What is the nature of Salty?

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Softens Hardness

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What is the function of Salty?

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Breaks up cysts, lumps, nodules, and tumors

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What is the nature of Sweet?

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Strengthening and sedating

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What is the function of sweet?

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Nourishes the body and tranquilizes and sedated

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What is the nature of Bland?

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Leaches or percolates dampness

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What is the function of Bland?

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Slow acting diuresis that gently removed damp accumulation

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What are the three temperatures of Herbs?

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Cold herbs
Warms herbs
Neutral herbs

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What do Cold herbs do?

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Clear Heat and cool

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What do Warm herbs do?

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Relieve and dispel cold

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What do Neutral herbs do?

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Can be used in either Heat or cold syndromes

Intro To Herbs (11 decks)

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