Final Formulas Flashcards
1
Q
GUI ZHI TANG
A
- Wind with sweat, floating and weak pulses*
- Cold, fever, mild*
- Archtype-Taiyang-Opens
- Pulse: floating weak yin and yang pulse
- Stiff and painful neck
- Aversion to wind with sweating
2
Q
GE GEN TANG
A
- Sick, flu, more complex, more pain*
- Cold, no sweat, stretched*
- Can Tx: tetnus, yellow mucous, sinus infx*
- Open with power
- Pulse: floating tight yin and yang
- HA
- Whole body pain
- Stiff and stretched nape and back
- Aversion to cold w/o sweat
3
Q
XIAO QINLONG TANG
A
- Water not moving*
- LU-cough/rheum*
- Water qi under chest*
- Dragon rises, bright clouds accumulate- breaths fluidly
- Pulse: floating left, tight, sunken wiry
- Fever/chills
- Rheum: overflow -limbs, poke- chest
4
Q
WULING SAN
A
- Bladder*
- Opens water faucet*
- Water metabolism at root*
- Pulse: floating tight, wiry, flooding
- Inhibited urination
- Dispersion thirst
- Dark complexion
- Foaming drool
- Vomit upon drinking
- Hardness below heart
- Thirst, dry mouth
- Alternating vomiting and diarrhea
5
Q
ZHIZI CHI TANG
A
- Tai yang too open –>increased wind –>SI—> heat to heart*
- Specific*
- Heat trapped in chest
- Red complexion
- Weakness
- Sick for a time with return
- Vexation
- Insomnia with tossing and turning
- Binding heart pain
- Diarrhea followed by vexation
- Yellow fur on tongue
6
Q
TAIO WEI CHENG QI TANG
A
- Yang ming archtype
- YM cannot descend*
- Affects mind*
- Attune ST to receive qi
- Full ST push out old, in with new
- Constipation but pt may not know
- Dry intestines = sluggishness
- Post sweat: steaming fever, no aversion to cold, delirious speech
- Post-vomit: abdominal distension
- W/o tx: heart vex, fullness, deep, slippery pulse, sunken and full
7
Q
Ling Gan Wuwei Jiang Xin Xia Xing Dahuang Tang
A
- Metal - Breath*
- After Xiao Qinglong tang–cough with chest fullness
- Dizzy
- vomiting
- Edematous body
- Drunk face
8
Q
DA HUANG MUDANPI TANG
A
- Specific for acute abdomen - sudden-appendicitis*
- YM large intestine
- Dredge stagnation
- L.Jiao throwing tantrum, stasis
- Out with old in with new
- Swelling and block of rt side of abdomen
- Blood stasis in lower abdomen
- Rebound tender in bladder
- Fever, sweating
- Aversion to cold
- Pulse: slow, tight, deep, surging, rapid if severe
9
Q
HUANG LIAN TANG
A
- Treats imbalance between above and below*
- Regional pain from stomach to chest*
- Food poisoning*
- YM stomach- tx reunitfies
- Pulse: slippery in ST
- Ab pain
- Desire to vomit
- Heat in chest
- Evil in stomach
10
Q
BAIHU TANG
A
- Specific acute of big 4*
- Internal dryness, no fluids, decrease in senses*
- Extreme formula to protect PC*
- Possibly due to drugs*
- Pulse: flosting, slippery
- Ab fullness
- Delirious speech
- Heaviness and difficulty turning sides
- Numb mouth and grimy face
11
Q
XIAO CHAIHU TANG
A
- Specific SY disease presentation*
- Archetype
- Harmonizes wind (GB) and fire (M. Fire)
- Bitter taste in mouth
- Dryness in throat
- Dizziness in eyes
- Cold and heat coming and going *Time alternating
- Thin, weak, wiry pulse on left guan
12
Q
HUANGQIN TANG
A
- SI fire–>LI
- Dysentery, L. Jiao
- SY contains M. Fire
- Spontaneous Diarrhea
- Fever
- Ab pain
- Blood or mucous in stool
- Sore throat with diarrhea
13
Q
SINI SAN
A
- Qi of M. Fire stuck internally*
- Whole system*
- Entire process, pivot*
- Young girls - thin nervous
- Counterflow cold hands and feet, cold clammy fingers
- Pulse: thin, weak, wiry pulse, mid-depth on both sides
- Dong pulse
- Anger, irritability, nervousness, rib-side discomfort
- Headache
- Targets GB
- Something stuck and cannot fully emerge
- Something stuck and cannot fully emerge
- Too much coffee
- N/S affecting circulation
- Cough, palpitations, pain in ab, diarrhea with rectal heaviness
14
Q
CHAIHU GUIZHI GANJIANG TANG
A
Chronic SY pattern
Thirst SY SJ
Triple Yang pattern
*Fluids no longer viable
Pt gets worse before better
_Fullness in chest and ribs; vexation; mild chest bind
-Cold and heat come and go
-Inhibited urination; sweating only from head **
-Thirst without retching
-Pulse: floating soft weak on left, wiry gun. Tight on LU
15
Q
DA CHAIHU TANG
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- BIG presentation - Sini San & Xiao Chai Hu tang
- SY GB
- Incessant retching; nausea; vomiting; diarrhea
- Epigastric pain or discomfort; distress; hard pi
- Depression, anxiety, vexation
- Headache, migraine
- Sweating, fever
16
Q
BANXIA HUO PO TANG
A
- Specific presentation - women with boiled meat in throat*
- Throat emotional*
- Throat block, closure
- “Glomus hystericus”
- Stuck sensation, sensitivity, strange, subjective discomfort and sense of overwhelm
- Soggy pulse on ST
- Feeling of blockage
- Gagging, coughing
- Nausea, no appetite
- Aphonia, dysphonia, chronic fatigue, flaccidity
- Good for asthma
- Clears air
17
Q
XIAO XIAN XIONG TANG
A
- Local chest pain
- Sternum/typhoid process
- Heat and phlegm in chest
- Knot in chest
- Directly below heart
- Painful to the touch
- Stifling sensation in chest, cough, phlegm, yellow-green sputum, bronchitis (preventative)
- Precursor to HT disease
- Tx: breaks phlegm and heat and drops it down
18
Q
BANXIA XIE XIN TANG
A
- Outer portal*
- 3 Jiao*
- Pt feels something but nothing is there*
- Hunger at night, not in AM*
- Above: retching, reflux, burping,
- Center: epigastric soft, weak, fullness pain, discomfort, dampness
- Below: alternating diarrhea, constipation, mixed stool
19
Q
MAZIREN WAN
A
- Inner portal*
- Constipation with freq. urination*
- Liberating of fluids - Taiyang breaths out, tai yin breaths in
- Pi yue- SP constraint, long standing
- Fuyang pulse, floating and rough - on foot
- Constraint, contention between in and out
- Chronic constipation
20
Q
ZHULING TANG
A
- Water divided*
- No heat in Wu Ling San
- fluids hot*
- heat in urine*
- Thirst, with a desire to drink
- Fever, w/o copious sweating
- Inhibited urination
- Dark urine/yellow
- Coughing, retching, vexation, insomnia
21
Q
SINI TANG
A
Counterflow of 4 extremities
- Tai Yin archetype*
- SP cold*
- Lack of Yang*
- 4 Pillars cold*
- Cold in the zang
- Spontaneous diarrhea
- No thirst
- Cold hand and feet
- Abdominal fullness without appetite
- Periodic ab pain
22
Q
LIZHONG WAN
A
Rectify center
- Taiyin dampness*
- Sp yang Def*
- Damp SP*
- Vitalizes fluid*
- Need to get body moving*
- Pulse: soggy, slippery, dong in guan on right, wiry
- Diarrhea and vomiting
- No thirst
- Heaviness, foggy mind
- Band like headache
- Chronic loose stool with cold hands
- Pain and aching
23
Q
GUIZHI JIA DAHUANG TANG
A
- Taiyin earth*
- Fullness pain, weak*
- SP family full*
- Weak earth, wood cramps on it*
- Putrid turbidity*
- Don’t need push from liver, need space to hold it back
- No energy to move
- Ab fullness with periodic pain and cramping
- Warm hands
- Yellow complexion*
- Fatigue
- Muscle cramping
- Restless legs
24
Q
XIAO JIAN ZHONG TANG
A
- TY SP qi def*
- Usually given after XCHT
- More heat in SP
- Awakens center
- Needs space, time, freedom, play, less stress
- Deficiency taxation formula*
- Pulse: yang rough, yin wiry
- Urgency, abdominal cramping pain
- Palpitations, vexation in the heart
- Weakness, fatigue
- Inability to lift upright
- Spontaneous external bleeding, easy bruising (ITP)
- Nocturnal seminal emissions
- Vexing heat in hand and feet
- Dry throat and mouth
25
Q
LING GUI ZHU GAN TANG
A
- TY Lung*
- Damp in chest/LU, U. Jiao*
- Rhythm and regulation of time emerges from the lung*
- Propping fullness in the chest and ribs
- Dizziness
- Dizzy vision
- Emaciation
- Borborygmus
- Clearing of the throat
- Lingering cough
- Generalized phlegm-rheum in U. Jiao
- Wet swollen tongue
26
Q
ZHEN WU TANG
A
- SYin archetype
- KD/SP Yang Def*
- Urination issues*
- Unresolved taiyang illness
- Fever
- Palpitations below heart
- Dizzy head
- Shaking and wavering, about to fall
- General body twitching
- SY water QI
- Ab pain
- Inhibited urination
- Heaviness
- limb pain
- Cold between scapula
- Spontaneous diarrhea
- Old person
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Lack of inner cultivation
- Too busy consuming ST dragon
- No center of gravity
- Untransformed water
27
Q
GAN CAO TANG
A
- Shao yin heat*
- 2-3 days in shao yin with sore throat
- Add jie geng if not effective or with fishy sputum
28
Q
HUANG LIAN E JIAO TANG
A
- Shao Yin fire insomnia*
- Life & death faced with mortality*
- Empty heat rising - fire not connecting to source*
- Life yang saving formula
- Insomnia
- Vexation in heart
- Pulse: deep, thin, rapid
- Thirst
29
Q
LING GUI CAO ZAO TANG
A
- Shao yin heart*
- Fear of death, abyss, shock, fright, mortality*
- Tx: Water metabolism*
- Following loss of sweat
- Palpitations below umbilicus - about to surge up
- Pulse: soggy, rolling on both cun
- Hands crossed over heart - Gui Zhi Gan Cao Tang
30
Q
SHENQI WAN
A
- Shao Yin KD*
- Re-enlivens KD*
- Disconnection of upper to lower body - Neuropathy
- Weakness, fatigue
- SOB
- Mild rheum
- Inhibited urination, incontinence, leakage, profuse urination, shifted bladder in preg
- Lumbar pain, urgency of lower ab
- lower limb neuropathy, atrophy
31
Q
DANG GUI SINI TANG
A
- Jue Yin Archetype*
- Cold, slow, pale, tired - low energy state*
- Old enduring cold*
- Reversal cold of limbs
- Frostbite
- Pulse: fine, verging on expiry
- Pale complexion
- Fatigue
- Pain or rigidity
- Scanty menses
- Cold genitalia
- Cold occiput, vertex (scarf)
32
Q
WU MEI WAN
A
- JY wind*
- Wind cuts through frozen ice*
- Vomiting
- Periodic vexation, heat
- Chronic diarrhea
- Dizziness
- Qi surging up to the heat
- Pain and heat in the heart
- Hunger with no desire to eat
- Vomiting after eating
- Unquenchable thirst
- Positive AI anti-body
33
Q
WUZHUYU TANG
A
- JY Wood*
- Retching
- Vomiting upon eating food
- Drooling, foaming sputum
- Headache - vertex
- Inability to ‘stomach’
- Addiction
34
Q
WEN JING TANG
A
- JY - Liver*
- Dysmenorrhea*
- Incessant bleeding, or spotting between cycles
- Irregular menstruation
- Menopausal symptoms
- Dry lips and mouth
- Afternoon fever, heat & vexation in the palms and chest
35
Q
ZHI GANCAO TANG
A
- JY - PC*
- Heart is joyful*
- Calms*
- Yin tonic*
- Viscosity herbs - herbal IV*
- Severe fatigue and taxation
- Sweating, chest oppression
- Pulse: bound (jei mai) knotted slow
- Palpitations
- Drooling, spitting, chest “nausea” (M. Fire flare/scatter turbid)
- No alcohol, stirs blood
36
Q
MAIMENDONG TANG
A
- Yin earth-cloud gate*
- Yang Ming formula –>LU to descend –>metal descend
- Thick nourishing herbs*
- Lung wilting: Emaciation, thick, sticky difficult to expectorate sputum
- Great counterflow Qi ascent: Dry cough, panting, difficulty breathing
- Throat Block: Dry throat, sensation of stuck-ness and dryness in throat with cough compare to Ban xia houpo tang
37
Q
WEIJING TANG
A
- Yin earth - white knight*
- Productive cough
- Yellow green sputum
- Hot thick phlegm
- Fever
- Vexation with cough
- Chest fullness, dry, rough skin
- Foamy, turbid sputum, possibly with pus and blood
- Lung abcess
38
Q
DA JIAN ZHONG TANG
A
- Yin earth - Great white*
- Great cold pain in the heart and chest (ST)
- Retching
- Inability to eat or drink
- Cold contraction of the abdomen
- Pain above and below that one cannot touch it
- Paracites
- Food poisoning
39
Q
HANGTU TANG
A
- Leaky gut*
- Leaky vessels*
- IBD, IBS*
- SP cannot contain form in SI
- Proximal bleeding (post BM)
- Chronic loose stools
- Weakness, fright, anxiety
- Leakage
- Stirring of blood
- Pallor, lack of thirst, cold
40
Q
FU LING GAN CAO TANG
A
- Reversal - yin and yang separation: Dizziness
- Fainting
- Low BP
- Palpitations below heart
- Borborygmus
- No thirst
