Clear Heat & Cool Blood

Question 1

** Sheng Di Huang (Raw Rehmanniae)

Answer 1

• Cool Heat / Cool Blood
• Cold - *Sweet, Bitter
• *Heart, Liver, Kidney
• ***Generate true yin
• Heat Injuring Yin (Thirst, dry month, desire to drink)
• Nourish Yin and Increases Body Fluids
• • Warm Pathogen in Ying & Xue Level (fever, dry mouth, deep red tongue)
• Heat in blood
• Shu Di Huang (nourish blood)
• Related Herbs: Shu Di Huang (Steamed rehmannia)
• Formulas: Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang (Di Huang Family) = Sheng Di Huang + Shui Niu Jiao, Zeng Ye Tang, Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang, Dao Chi San, Xiao Feng San
  Dose: 9-30g

Question 2

** Xuan Shen (Scrophularia)

Answer 2

• Clear Heat / Cool Blood
• Cold - Sweet, Bitter, Salty
• Lung, Stomach, Kidney
• ***Generates true yin
• ***Can disolve down hard phlegm and masses
• Nourish Yin (moistens dry, drains fire)
• ** Softens hardness and transforms phlegm-heat to dissipate nodules
• • Warm pathogens in Ying & Xue level (fever, dry mouth, deep red tongue)
• Blood Heat
• Enriches yin
• Swollen and Painful Throat
• Yin Xu, cough, 5-Palm heat
• Dose: 9-15g
• HDI: Antidiabetics
• HHI: Li Lu (Veratrum):

Question 3

*** Mu Dan Pi (Mountain / Tree Peony Root & Bark)

Answer 3

• Clear Heat / Cool Blood
• Slightly Cold - Bitter, *Acrid
• *Heart, Liver, Kidney
• ***Clear heat and Cool Blood w/ circulation
• Excess and Deficiency Heat
• Moves Blood (Gently) - circulation without injuring Blood and Yin
• ** Warm pathogens in Xue
• Blood Heat
• Yin Deficiency
• Formulas: Qing Hao Bie Jie tang, Gui Zhi Fu Ling wan, Dan Huang Mu Dan tang, Jia Wei Xiao Yao san

Question 4

• Zi Cao (Lithospermum)

Answer 4

• Clear Heat / Cool Blood
• Cold - Sweet
• *Heart, Liver
• ***Clear heat and Cool Blood w/ circulation
• Slow skin eruption or dark red skin eruption in warm heat disease: measles, chicken pox, rash
• Damp heat and heat in the blood including burns: carbuncles, boils, eczema
• Facilitates passage of urine & stool in major skin outbreaks

Question 5

Shui Niu Jiao (Water Buffalo Horn)

Answer 5

• Clear Heat / Cool Blood
• Cold - Salty
• *Heart, Liver, Stomach
• Heat in Ying and blood level w/ Fire Toxicity (high fever, coma, delirium, skin eruptions, convulsions, tremors)
• Dose: 30-120g decoct, 6-15g powder
• Formulas: Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang (Di Huang Family) – Shen Di Huang + Shui Niu Jiao