Dui - Yao Expel Wind Flashcards
- Severe chills and fever, aversion to cold, no sweating, headache, body aches due to Wind-Cold excess type
- Bi syndrome (rheumatic pains) due to Wind-Cold-Damp
- Cough and asthma due to Wind-Cold obstructing the LU Qi
Ma Huang - ephedra (expel wind cold)
Gui Zhi - Cinnamon twig (expel wind cold)
Both herbs are chief herbs in Ma Huang Tang
- Cough and asthma due to Wind-Cold
- Cough and asthma due to LU Heat
Ma Huang - ephedra (expel wind cold)
Xing Ren - Semen Armeniacae (transform phlegm and stop cough)
- Exterior patterns for either Wind-Cold or Wind-Heat pathogens
- Early stage of measles and skin eruption with itching
- Early stage of carbuncle or boils, accompanied by chills and fever
- Blood in the stool/urine, excessive menstruation, diarrhea, dysentery
Jing jie - Herba Schizonepetae (warm release exterior)
Fang feng - Radix Saposhnikoviae (warm release exterior)
- Common cold with headache, nasal congestion, and runny nose due to Wind-Cold
- Deep source nasal congestion with headache, loss of smell, and turbid nasal phlegm
- Chronic/acute rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, hypertrophic rhinitis, sinusitis, pansinusitis, and frontal sinusitis
*Open the nose
Xin yi hua - Flos Magnoliae (warm release the exterior)
Cang er zi - Fructus Xanthii (warm release the exterior)
NOTE: nasal congestion is more common in wind cold because the cold congeals the mucous.
- Fever, aversion to wind, light sweating, cough, headache and slight thirst due to Wind-Heat
- Headache, vertigo, photophobia, and red, swollen, painful eyes due to LV Yang rising
*Dispel wind-heat
*Brighten the eyes
*Stop cough
Sang ye - Folium Mori (cool release the exterior)
Ju hua - chrysanthemum (cool release the exterior)
- Early stage of measles, headache, fever
- Incomplete eruption of measles, fever
Sheng ma - cimifuga (cool release exterior)
Ge gen - Radix Puerariae (cool release exterior)
