Dui Yao - Clear Heat Flashcards
What are the 6 different subcategories in the Clear Heat category?
Qi level heat
Blood heat
Damp heat
Toxic heat
Summer heat
Deficient heat
Qi level heat
- 4 Bigs: high fever, profuse sweating, great thirst, surging pulse due to Heat in Qi level
- Xiao Ke (Upper burner) with polydipsia, dry mouth and tongue, and great thirst due to excess LU Heat
Shi gao - Gypsum Fibrosum (clear heat)
Zhi mu - Anemarrhenae Rz (clear heat)
Bai hu tang
Yu nu juan
Qing wen bai du yin
Qi level heat
- ST Heat: toothache, bleeding/swollen/painful gums, oral ulcers, and glossitis
- Headache due to Wind-Heat entering the clear orifices
Xi xin - Asari Hb (warm release exterior)
Shi gao - Gypsum Fibrosum (clear heat)
Qi level heat
- Irritability and agitation, insomnia, and vexation during or after Warm-febrile disease
- External contraction of Wind-Heat of febrile disease
Zhi zi - Gardinia fruit (clear heat)
Dan dou chi - Sojae Sm preparatum (cool release exterior)
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Qi level heat
- Fever, thirst, and irritability due to Warm-febrile disease or Wind-Heat
- Cough/wheezing due to LU Heat
- Early stage of measles due to Toxic-Heat
- Acute nephritis, urinary tract infection accompanied by fever, dysuria, or edema
- Nausea/vomiting due to ST Heat
- Epidemic hemorrhagic fever
Lou gen - Phragmitis Rz (clear heat)
Bai mao gen - Imperatae Rz (regulate blood/stop bleeding)
Blood heat
- Blood Heat: Hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, purpura, rubella, and pruritus
- Menstrual irregularities or postpartum abdominal pain due to Blood-Heat causing Blood stasis
- Continuous, low grade fever due to Yin deficiency
- Hot, red, swollen, painful joints due to Heat-Bi
MU DAN PI (Moutan Cx) - clear heat
DAN SHEN (Salviae miltiorrhizae Rx) - invigorate blood
Blood heat
- Blood-Heat, Chronic low-grade fever
- Yin and Body-fluid deficiency, dry mouth, red and painful eyes
- Chest and hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain
- Irregular menstruation, amenorrhea due to Blood deficiency and stasis with Heat
CHI SHAO (Paeoniae Rx rubra) - invigorate blood
BAI SHAO (Paeoniae lactiflora Rx) - tonify blood
Damp heat
- Wilting of the lower limbs with pain due to Damp-Heat pouring downward to the lower part
- Damp-Heat in the genital area: vaginal discharge, external vaginal itching, and cloudy, scanty urination
- Red, swollen, hot, painful joints due to Wind-Damp-Heat Bi syndrome
HUANG BAI (Phellodendri Cx) - clear heat, dry damp
CANG ZHU (Atractylodis Rz) - aromatic transform damp
Damp heat
- Dysentery with abdominal pain and tenesmus due to Damp-Heat and Qi stagnation in the Lower burner
HUANG LIAN (Coptidis Rz) - clear damp heat
MU XIANG (Aucklandiae Rx) - regulate qi
Toxic heat
- Cold and influenza due to Wind-Heat
- Warm-febrile disease with internal heat
- Headache, eye pain, toothache, sinusitis, and painful, swollen throat due to Wind-Heat
- Skin eruption with pruritus due to Wind-Heat
- Skin inflammation due to Toxic-Heat
JIN YIN HUA (Lonicerae Fl) - clear heat, resolve toxicity)
LIAN QIAO (Forsythiae Fr) - clear heat, resolve toxicity)
Toxic heat
- Mouth and tongue ulcer, swollen gum, sore throat due to Heat
- Red swelling, carbuncle, erythema, mumps, and acute febrile maculopapular rash
NIU BANG ZI (Arctii Fr) - c.a.r.e.
LIAN QIAO (Forsythiae Fr) - clear heat, resolve toxicity)
Toxic heat
- Painful/red/swollen throat with due to Yin deficiency Heat or excess Fire which damages Yin
BAN LAN GEN (Isatidis Rx) - cleat heat, resolve toxicity
XUAN SHEN (Scrophulariae Rx) - clear heat, cool blood
Toxic heat
- Neck lumps or nodules such as in scrofula, lipoma, swollen glands, or goiter in patterns of Phlegm-Fire
- Also used for similar nodules in the inguinal canal and other parts of the body
XUAN SHEN (Scrophulariae Rx) - clear heat, cool blood
MU LI (Ostreae Concha) - calm spirit
Summer heat
- Summer-Heat and Damp: marked by fever, restlessness, thirst, diarrhea, difficulty in urine
- Damp-Heat or UB marked by dark urine, difficulty and painful urination or urinary stone
HUA SHI (Talcum) - drain damp
GAN CAO (Glycyrrhizae Rx) - tonify qi