Clear Deficiency Heat (Yin Xu)

Question 1

• Bitter, Acrid / Cold
• KD, LV, GB
• #1 for malaria - treats shao yang disorders
• Cools blood, stops bleeding
• Summerheat
• Yin Xu w/ fire

Answer 1

Qing Hao (Artemesia annuae Herba)

Question 2

• LU, LV, KD
• Sweet, Bland / Cold
• Cools blood, reduces KD fire - steaming bones, toothache (main fx)
• Drains LU heat
• Topical for genital itch
• Xiao Ke/Wasting and Thirsting
• Hypertension

Answer 2

Di Gu Pi (Lycii Cortex)

Question 3

• LU, ST, KD
• Bitter, Salty / Cold
• BEST HERB FOR POSTPARTUM - fever/febrile disease (Yin Xu Fever)
• Clears heat, cools blood in Ying/Xue
• Resolves toxicity

* heat in the body is due to loss of blood

Answer 3

Bai Wei (Cynanchi atrati Radix)

Question 4

• LV, ST
• Deficiency heat w/ steaming bone - Yin Xu Fever
• Childhood nutritional impairment w/ heat accumulation consumption

Answer 4

Yin Chai Hu (Stellariae Radix)

Question 5

• LV, LI, ST
• Bitter / Cold
• Clears excess (DH - dysentary) AND deficiency heat (Steaming Bones)
• Childhood Nutritional impariment - abd distention, dysentary, afternoon fevers

Answer 5

Hu Huang Lian (Picrorhizae Rhizome)

Question 6

Herbs that Clear Xu Heat & Cool Blood

Answer 6

• Qing Hao
• Di Gu Pi
• Bai Wei

Question 7

Childhood Nutritional Impairment Herbs

Answer 7

• Yin Chai Hu
• Hu Huang Lian

Question 8

General C

Answer 8

• SP xu w/ loose stool
• No heat