Final Flashcards
wind cold exterior excess syndrome (tai yang Shang Han disorder)
Ma Huang Tang
(Ephedra Decoction)
B Formula
aversion to cold and fever, headache, body ache, wheezing, no sweating
Ma Huang Tang
(Ephedra Decoction)
B Formula
wind cold exterior deficiency (tai yang Zhong Feng disorder)
Gui Zhi Tang
(Cinnamon Twig Decoction)
A Formula
Ma Huang Tang tongue and pulse
T: thin, white coating
P: floating, tight
Gui Zhi Tang
(Cinnamon Twig Decoction)
A Formula
—–KING—–
1. Gui Zhi
—–DEPUTY—–
2. Bai Shao
—–ASSISTANT—–
3. Sheng Jiang
4. Da Zao
—–ENVOY—–
5. Zhi Gan Cao
headache and fever, aversion to wind and sweating, nasal congestion, dry heaves, no thirst
Gui Zhi Tang
(Cinnamon Twig Decoction)
A Formula
Gui Zhi Tang tongue and pulse
T: thine white coat
P: floating, moderate/frail/soft
exterior wind cold with interior congested cold fluids
Xiao Qing Long Tang
(Minor Bluegreen Dragon Decoction)
B Formula
chills and fever without sweating, coughing, wheezing, copious white watery bubbly sputum with stifling sensation in the chest, generalized sensation of heaviness and body aches, no thirst, possible facial edema
Xiao Qing Long Tang
(Minor Bluegreen Dragon Decoction)
B Formula
chills and fever without sweating, headache, focal dissension, stifling sensation in chest and epigastrium, poor appetite, belching
Xiang Su San
(Cyperus and Perilla Leaf Powder)
B Formula
exterior wind cold with qi constrained in the interior syndrome
Xiang Su San
(Cyperus and Perilla Leaf Powder)
B Formula
exterior cold with interior dampness constrained in summer
Xiang Ru San
(Mosla Powder)
B Formula
aversion to cold and fever without sweating, heavy sensation of head headache, abdominal pain, vomitting, diarrhea, sniffling sensation in chest, general body ache
Xiang Ru San
(Mosla Powder)
B Formula
Cong Chi Tang
(Scallion and Prepared Soybean Decoction)
- Cong Bai (green onion)
- Dan Dou Chi (fermented soybean)
MISO SOUP :)
Ma Huang Tang INgredients
- Ma Huang
- Gui Zhi
- Xing Ren
- Zhi Gan Cao
In Gui Zhi Tang- Gui Zhi and Bai Shao harmonize the ying and Wei
Which herb is for the ying and which herb is for the Wei
ying= Bai Shao (yin tonic; nutritive ying qi)
wei= Gu Zhi (releases the exterior; Wei= exterior)
Indication: early stage warm wind febrile disease (wen bing tao bian)
Sang Ju Yin
(Mulberry leaf and Chrysanthemum Drink)
A Formula
coughing, slight fever, slight thirst
Sang Ju Yin
(Mulberry leaf and Chrysanthemum Drink)
A Formula
Sang Ju Yin
(Mulberry leaf and Chrysanthemum Drink)
A Formula
—–KING—–
1. Sang Ye
2. Ju Hua
—–DEPUTY—–
3. Bo He
4. Xing Ren (goes down)
5. Jie Geng (goes up)
—–ASSISTANT—–
6. Lian Qiao
7. Lu Gen
—–ENVOY—–
8. Gan Cao
Indication: early stage wind warm febrile disease
Key Symptoms: fever, slight or no sweating, slight aversion to wind cold, headache, thirst, cough, sore throat
Yin Qiao San
(Honeysuckles and Forsythia Powder)
A Formula
exterior wind cold, stagnation turns to interior heat (tai yang, yang ming, shao yang)
-unresolved exterior wind-cold gets constrained and turns to heat
Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang
(Bupleurum and Kudzu Decoction to Release Muscle Layer)
A Formula
measles or rashes that do not surface evenly, fever, headache, cough, generalized body aches, sneezing, red eyes, tearing and thirst
Sheng Ma Ge Gen Tang
(Cimicifuga and Kudzu Decoction)
B Formula
Indication: headache due to wind evil attack
-heat or cold
-headache + exterior attack
Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San
(Chuan Xiong Powder To Be Taken with Green Tea)
A Formula
headache in any part of the head, fever and chills/aversion to cold, dizziness, nasal congestion
Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San
(Chuan Xiong Powder To Be Taken with Green Tea)
A Formula
Indication: profuse nasal discharge (bi yuan) due to wind heat
Key Symptoms: stuffy, runny nose, foul smelling nasal discharge and frontal headache
Cang Er Zi San
(Xanthium Powder)
B Formula
Indication: exterior wind cold damp with qi deficiency
Ren Shen Bai Du San
(Ginseng Powder to Observe Pathogenic Influences)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: high fever, severe chills with shivering, no sweating, pain and stiff head and neck, soreness and pain of extremities, fullness and distension of the chest, nasal congestion with sonorous breathing and productive cough
Ren Shen Bai Du San
(Ginseng Powder to Observe Pathogenic Influences)
A Formula
exterior wind heat with preexisting yin deficiency
Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang
(Modified Solomons Seal Decoction)
fever with slight chills, little or no sweating, headache, dry throat, cough, irritability, thirst
Jia Jian Wei Rui Tang
(Modified Solomons Seal Decoction)
Ren Shen Bai Du San
(Ginseng Powder to Observe Pathogenic Influences)
Chief Herbs
- Qiang Huo
- Du Huo
(both wind cold damp herbs)
*Ren Shen is the envoy- small dose to deal with xu
Alternating fever and chills, fullness in the chest and hypochondriac, continuous vommiting, slight irritability, fullness and pain or oppression and hardness int he epigastrium, constipation, burning diarrhea
Da Chai Hu Tang
(Major Bupleurum Decoction)
B Formula
exterior wind heat disorders with interior excess heat
Fang Feng Tong Sheng San
(Saposhnikovia Powder that Sagely Unblocks)
fever, sweating, thirst, dysenteric diarrhea characterized by especially foul-smelling stools and burning sensation around the anus, a sensation or irritability and heat sensation in the chest and epigastrium and wheezing
Ge Gen Huang Qin Huang Lian Tang
(Kudzu, Scutellaria, Coptis Decoction)
B Formula
exterior heat sinks into the interior yang ming channel
Ge Gen Huang Qin Huang Lian Tang
(Kudzu, Scutellaria, Coptis Decoction)
B Formula
severe pattern yang ming fu excess syndrome
Da Cheng Qi Tang
(Major Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
excess heat with severe constiaption and flatulence, focal dissension and abdominal fullness, abdominal pain increased with pressure, tense firm abdomen. In severe cases there may be tidal fever, unconsciousness, delirium, constant sweating from extremities.
-possible diarrhea that is clear, watery, green
Da Cheng Qi Tang
(Major Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
mild pattern yang ming fu organ excess syndrome
Xiao Cheng Qi Tang
(Minor Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
excess tidal fever, delirium, constipation, focal distention, abdominal fullness, dissension, no obvious abdominal masses
Xiao Cheng Qi Tang
(Minor Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
T: red tongue with and “old looking” dirty and dry yellow coating
P: slippery, rapid
Xiao Cheng Qi Tang
(Minor Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
yang ming fu organ ST and LI heat
Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
(Regulate the Stomach and Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
mild constiaption, aversion to heat, thirst, irritability, fullness and dissension and no obvious abdominal pain
Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang
(Regulate the Stomach and Order the Qi Decoction)
A Formula
Indication: Jie Xiong syndrome (water retention and heat evil accumulation in chest)
Da Xian Xiong Tang
(Major Decoction for Pathogens Stuck in The Chest)
Indication: Dry Heat in ST and Intestines with jin ye deficiency (Pi Yue- Spleen Bind Pattern)
Ma Zi Ren Wan
(Hemp Seed Pills)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: Constipation with dry hard stool, frequent urination
T: Dry yellow
P: Submerged, Rapid OR Floating, Choppy
Ma Zi Ren Wan
(Hemp Seed Pills)
A Formula
Indication: Constipation due to blood and yin deficiency
Run Chang Wan
(Moisten Intestines Pill from Master Shen’s Book)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: constipation, lusterless skin and nails, dry mouth with unquenchable thirst
T: Dry coat
P: Thin
Run Chang Wan
(Moisten Intestines Pill from Master Shen’s Book)
A Formula
Indication: Constipation due to KI Yang Deficiency
Key Symptoms: Constipation, clear/copious urine, low back pain, cold sensation in back
T: Pale, White Coat
P: Deep, Slow
Ji Chuan Jian
(Benefit the River (Flow) Decoction)
B Formula
Indication: Yang Ming Jing (SHL) - Qi Level Xs Heat (WB)
Bai Hu Tang
(White Tiger Decoction)
A Formula
4 BIGS (BIG: sweat, pulse, fever, thirst) aversion to heat, red face, irritability, headache, toothache, bleeding gums/nose
-high fever with profuse sweating, aversion to heart red face, severe thirst, irritability
Bai Hu Tang
(White Tiger Decoction)
A Formula
Bai Hu Tang
(White Tiger Decoction)
A Formula
Shi Gao
Zhi Mu
Zhi Gan Cao
Jing Mi (rice)
heat at the ying level
Qing Ying Tang
(Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction)
B Formula
Key Symptoms: High fever worse at night, indistinct maculae rash and erythema, irritability/restlessness, delirium
T: scarlet, dry coat
P: thin, rapid
Qing Ying Tang
(Clear the Nutritive Level Decoction)
B Formula
Indication:
Heat damages Blood channel
Blood accumulation leading to stagnation
Heat disturbs HT yin
Key Symptoms: ANY type of bleeding accompanied by fever and a scarlet/purple tongue
Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang
(Rhinocéros Horn and Rehmania Decoction)
B Formula
Indication: Reckless Blood due to Interior XS fire blazing
Xie Xin Tang
(Drain the epigastrium Decotion)
A Formula
Fire toxin obstructing the San Jaio
Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
(Coptic Decoction to relieve Toxicity)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: High fever, irritability, dry mouth/throat, incoherent speech, nosebleeds, vomitting blood, diarrhea and jaundice due to DH, carbuncles
T: Red tongue, yellow coat
P: Rapid, forceful
Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
(Coptic Decoction to relieve Toxicity)
A Formula
Constipation, Bleeding, Sores, high fever, irritability, red/swollen eyes, dysentery, jaundice
T: Greasy yellow coat
P: Rapid, forceful
Xie Xin Tang
(Drain the epigastrium Decotion)
A Formula
Indication: LUNGS- coughing and wheezing due to constrained interior lung heat
Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
(Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Gypsum, and Licorice Decoction)
B Formula
Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
(Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Gypsum, and Licorice Decoction)
B Formula
- Ma Huang
- Shi Gao
- Xing Ren
- Zhi Gan Cao
Key Symptoms: Cough/wheeze, SOB, nostril flare, thirst, fever, possible sweat
T: yellow coating
P: slippery, rapid OR superficial rapid
Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
(Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Gypsum, and Licorice Decoction)
B Formula
Indication: STOMACH- heat accumulation in the stomach
Qing Wei San
(Clear the Stomach Powder)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: Toothache, swollen gums, bloody gums, bad breath
Toothache especially that extend or radiates to the head and aversion to heat, gum ulceration, gum bleeding
T: red yellow coating
P: slippery rapid
Qing Wei San
(Clear the Stomach Powder)
A Formula
HEART & SI- heart heat pouring into the SI (UTI)
Dao Chi San
(Guide out the Red Powder)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: Urinary issues due to heat transferred from HT to SI - dark scanty rough painful possible blood in urine; irritability with a sensation of heat in the chest thirst with a desire to drink cold, red face, possible sores on mouth/tongue
T: red
P: rapid
Dao Chi San
(Guide out the Red Powder)
A Formula
Indication: LIVER & GALLBLADDER- excess heat in LV/GB
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
(Gentian Decoction to Drain The Liver)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: Headache, red/sore eyes, hypochondriac pain, bitter taste, OR damp heat draining downward (turbid urine; leukorrhea due to damp heat)
T: red, yellow coating
P: wiry, rapid, forceful
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
(Gentian Decoction to Drain The Liver)
A Formula
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
(Gentian Decoction to Drain The Liver)
A Formula
—–KING—-
1. Long Dan Cao
—–DEPUTY—-
2. Huang Qin
3. Zhi Zi
—–ASSISTANT—-
4. Ze Xie
5. Mu Tong
6. Che Qian Zi
7. Sheng Di Huang
8. Dang Gui
9. Chai Hu
—–ENVOY—-
10. Gan Cao
Indication: LIVER- liver fire attacking the stomach
Zuo Jin Wan
(Left Metal Pill)
B Formula
Key Symptoms: Fire rushing upward, vomit, acid regurgitation, hypochondriac dissension, intermediate gnawing hunger, epigastric sniffling sensation, belching, bitter taste in mouth
T: red, yellow coating
P: wiry, rapid
Zuo Jin Wan
(Left Metal Pill)
B Formula
Indication: STOMACH- stomach heat with yin xu
-excess ST fire injuring KI yin
Yu Nu Jiang
(Jade Woman Decoction)
B Formula
Key Symptoms: Frontal headache, loose teeth, toothache, bleeding gums, irritability, fever, thirst
T: dry, red tongue, yellow coating
P: floating, slippery, deficient, large
Yu Nu Jiang
(Jade Woman Decoction)
B Formula
Indication: toxic heat dysentery
Key Symptoms: Diarrhea with more blood than pus, tenesmus, burning around anus, abdominal pain, thirst with desire to drink
Bai Tou Weng Tang
(Pulsatilla Decoction)
A Formula
Indication: Late Stage Wen Bing - depleted fluids with hidden heat lingering in the yin of body
Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang
(Sweet Wormwood and Soft Shelled Turtle Shell Decoction)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: Night fever, absence of sweating as fever recedes
T: Red tongue, little coat
P: Thready, rapid
Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang
(Sweet Wormwood and Soft Shelled Turtle Shell Decoction)
A Formula
Herbs for:
Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang
(Sweet Wormwood and Soft Shelled Turtle Shell Decoction)
A Formula
—–KING—–
1. Bie Jia
2. Qing Hao
—–DEPUTY—–
3. Sheng Di Huang
4. Zhi Mu
—–ASSISTANT—–
5. Mu Dan Pi
Key Symptoms:
Shao Yang Syndrome- Alternating chills and fever, fullness in chest/hypochondria, reduced appetite, irritability, bitter taste, dry throat, dizzy
T: thin white coat
P: wiry
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
(Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
A Formula
Indication:
Shao Yang Syndrome
Blood heat in the uterus
Malaria, jaundice, interior disease
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
(Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
A Formula
Herbs for
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
(Minor Bupleurum Decoction)
A Formula
—–KING—–
1. Chai Hu
—–DEPUTY—–
2. Huang Qin
—–ASSISTANT—–
3. Ban Xia
4. Ren Shen
5. Sheng Jiang
—–ENVOY—–
6. Da Zao
7. Zhi Gan Cao
Indication: Shan Han- Premature purge that drives evil into Yang Ming
-used if person had an exterior attack nd was given the wrong formula (ie given a purging formula instead of release exterior) and now pathogen has gone deeper
Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang
(Bupleurum plus Dragon Bone and Oyster Shell Decoction)
Indication:
Shao Yang frigid extremities
Liver/Spleen Disharmony (LV XS)
Si Ni San
(Frigid Extremities Powder)
A Formula
San=S=sedate (the liver)
Key Symptoms: Frigid extremities, pain in epigastrium and abdomen, cough, palpitation, urinary difficulty, diarrhea
T: red yellow coating
P: wiry
Si Ni San
(Frigid Extremities Powder)
A Formula
San=S=sedate (the liver)
Herbs for:
Si Ni San
(Frigid Extremities Powder)
A Formula
San=S=sedate (the liver)
- Chai Hu
- Zhi Shi
- Bai Shao
- Zhi Gan Cao
Indication:
LV qi stagnation + blood deficiency + Spleen xu (T&T issues)
Xiao Yao San
(Rambling Powder)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: hypochondriac pain, fatigue, poor appetite, irregular menses
T: pale red
P: wiry, deficient
Xiao Yao San
(Rambling Powder)
A Formula
Know Herbs:
Xiao Yao San
(Rambling Powder)
A Formula
- Chai Hu
- Bai Shao (tonify blood)
- Dang Gui (tonify blood)
- Bai Zhu (tonify sp/damp)
- Fu Ling (tonify sp/damp)
- Zhi Gan Cao (tonify sp)
- Wei Jiang (warm MJ)
- Bo He (spread LV)
Know Herbs:
Xiao Yao San
(Rambling Powder)
A Formula
- Chai Hu
- Bai Shao (tonify blood)
- Dang Gui (tonify blood)
- Bai Zhu (tonify sp/damp)
- Fu Ling (tonify sp/damp)
- Zhi Gan Cao (tonify sp)
- Wei Jiang (warm MJ)
- Bo He (spread LV)
Indication: severe LV qi stagnation transforming into fire
Jia Wei Xiao Yao San
-Jiao Wei means “add ingredients”
Jia Wei Xiao Yao San
-Jiao Wei means “add ingredients”
Xiao Yao San +
Mu Dan Pi
Zhi Zi
what two formulas have the same herbs, just different kings
Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang
(Pinellia Decoction to Drain the Epigastrium)
&
Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang
-Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang King= Ban Xia
-Gan Cao Xie Xin Tang King= Gan Cao
Indication: Pi syndrome (focal distention) from ST/Intestine disharmony
Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang
(Pinellia Decoction to Drain the Epigastrium)
A Formula
Key Symptoms: epigastric focal distention, fullness & tightness with little or no pain, dry heaves, vomiting, borborygmus with diarrhea and reduced appetite
*H Pylori
Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang
(Pinellia Decoction to Drain the Epigastrium)
A Formula
Indication: MJ deficiency cold
Li Zhong Wan
(Regulate the Middle Pill)
A Formula
Diarrhea with watery stool, nausea/vomit, no thirst, no appetite, abdominal pain
T: pale tongue, white coat
P: submerged, thin
Li Zhong Wan
(Regulate the Middle Pill)
A Formula
Herbs:
Li Zhong Wan
(Regulate the Middle Pill)
A Formula
- Gan Jiang
- Ren Shen
- Bai Zhu
- Zhi Gan Cao
Indication:
ST deficiency cold
Jue Yin Headaches
Shao Yin disorder
Wu Zhu Yu Tang
(Evodia Decoction)
A Formula
vomitting due to MJ Xu
1. ST deficiency cold- vomitting immediately after eating, acid regurgitation with or without pai, intermediate gnawing hunger (Cao Za)
2. Jue Yin Headaches- dry heaves or spitting or clear fluids with vertex headache
3. Shao Yin disorder- vomitting & diarrhea, cold hands and feet, unbearable irritability makes the patient suicidal
Wu Zhu Yu Tang
(Evodia Decoction)
A Formula
Indication: consumptive deficinecy
Key Symptoms: Spasmodic pain relieved by warmth and pressure and empty sensation, palpitation, low grade fever
Xiao Jian Zhong Tang
(Minor Construct the Middle Decoction)
A Formula
Xiao Jian Zhong Tang
(Minor Construct the Middle Decoction)
A Formula
Yi Tang + Gui Zhi Tang
Yi Tang
Gui Zhi
Bai Shao
Sheng Jiang
Da Zao
Zhi Gan Cao
Indication:
Shao Yin stage syndrome
Tai Yang stage yang collapse
Si Ni Tang
(Frigid Extremities Decoction)
A Formula