Harmonizing Flashcards
Xiao Chai Hu Tang ingrediants
Chai Hu Huang Qin Zhi Ban Xia Sheng Jiang Ren Shen Zhi Gan Cao Da Zao
Formula for 1/2 exterior & 1/2 interior
Xiao Chai Hu Tang
Shao Yang (Lesser Yang) Disorder?
- -> 1/2 exterior, 1/2 interior
- -> Treatment = Harmonizing
Related to SJ & GB channels
Red eyes, dizziness, visual distortion, headaches & hyperchondriac pain, alternating cold & hot, bowel symptoms, bitter taste, nausea or retching, irritability, anxiety
Tongue: Thin, thin coat Pulse: Wiry
Xiao Chai Hu Tang-“heat entering the chamber of the blood”
actions:
Indications:
Main pathology:
- Harmonizes and releases shao yang disorders
- Alternating fever & chills, bitter taste in mouth, dry throat, dizziness, irritability, nausea & vomiting
- Evil qi enters the lesser yang warp, which impedes its ability to direct the clear upward & turbid downward, disturbed Gallbladder & Stomach function
Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang indications?
Mild chills alternating with profuse fever, bitter taste, stifling sensation in the chest, spitting up bitter or sour fluids (vomiting yellow, blackish fluids or in severe cases dry heaves), thirst with or without desire to drink, distention & pain in the chest & hypochondria
Tongue: Red tongue with thick, greasy coating that can be yellow or white (or both) Pulse: soggy, wiry, rapid or slippery on right & wiry on left
Diagnosis for using Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang
More dampness & phlegm
Damp-heat and turbid phlegm in the shao yang (lesser) channels (SJ & GB), constraining protective & nutritive Qi
Actions of Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?
Clear Gallbladder heat, dispels dampness, harmonizes the stomach & transforms phlegm
Main pathology of Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?
Heat in the Gall Bladder
Da Cheng Qi Tang Ingrediants
Da Huang
Mang Xiao
Zhi Zhi Shi
Zhi Huo Po
Actions of Da Cheng Qi Tang?
Vigorously purges heat & accumulation downward
Main pathology of Da Cheng Qi Tang? (3 total)
- Severe constipation: Heat accumulation in the Stomach & Intestines where it injures fluids, dries the stool, & forms clumps that obstructs the downward flow of Qi in the Yang Ming organs.
- Dry constipation: Overabundance of heat drying out the fluids
What is the actions of the 2 chief ingredients in Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?
Qing Hao & Haung Qin: Drain damp-heat from the Liver & Gallbladder
Treatment strategies to drain downward?
- Purge heat accumulation
- Warm the Yang and guide out accumulation
- Moistens the Intestines and unblock the bowels
- Drive out excess water
Treatment strategies to harmonize?
- Harmonize the Lesser Yang
- Vent the membrane source
- Harmonize the Liver & Spleen
- Regulate the Stomach & Intestines
Treatment strategies for clearing
- Clear heat from the Qi level
- Clear the nutritive level and cool the blood
- Clear heat and resolve toxicity
- Clear heat from the organs
Which formulas would you use to treat problems in all 3 yang channels (Tai Yang, Yang Ming, Shao Yang)?
Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang