Class 2 (Flavors and Release Exterior)

Question 1

What do pungent/acrid herbs do?

Answer 1

Make you sweat
disperse and cause movement
invigorate

Question 2

What do sour herbs do?

Answer 2

astringent… holds in and retains

stops the discharge of fluids and vital sunstances

Question 3

What do bitter herbs do?

Answer 3

drains damp and clears heat

promotes urination

Question 4

What do salty herbs do?

Answer 4

soften hardness and dissolve stagnation
moisten intensetinges
break up cysts, lumps, nodules, tumors

Question 5

What do sweet herbs do?

Answer 5

tonify, supplement, and harmonize the middle jao (spleen)

benefits the flesh

Question 6

What do bland herbs do?

Answer 6

leech/pulls out dampness

Question 7

The common cold would be what evil?

Answer 7

wind… wind attack

Question 8

Wind attacks can be hot or cold

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

What are the general properties of herbs that release the exterior

Answer 9

expel pathogen via sweating
clods, flus, asthma
pungent/acrid
benefits the lungs
contraindicated in sweating, dehydration, bleeding
10-15 min cook time at the end

Question 10

Warm and acrid herbs that release the exteriod

Answer 10

used for wind cold attack
get rid of pathogen via sweating
symptoms= body aches, headaches, chills, NO SWEATING

Question 11

Ma Huang (ephedrae herba)

Answer 11

category= warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
used for wind-cold excess (patient is cold)
channels= lungs and urinary bladder
sweating, wheezing, and peeing
only use when no sweating in patient (ie patient is cold)