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Harmonizing Flashcards

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Xiao Chai Hu Tang ingrediants

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Chai Hu
Huang Qin
Zhi Ban Xia
Sheng Jiang
Ren Shen
Zhi Gan Cao
Da Zao
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Formula for 1/2 exterior & 1/2 interior

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Xiao Chai Hu Tang

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Shao Yang (Lesser Yang) Disorder?

  • -> 1/2 exterior, 1/2 interior
  • -> Treatment = Harmonizing
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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

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Xiao Chai Hu Tang-“heat entering the chamber of the blood”
actions:
Indications:
Main pathology:

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  • 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
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Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang indications?

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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

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Diagnosis for using Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang

More dampness & phlegm

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Damp-heat and turbid phlegm in the shao yang (lesser) channels (SJ & GB), constraining protective & nutritive Qi

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Actions of Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?

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Clear Gallbladder heat, dispels dampness, harmonizes the stomach & transforms phlegm

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Main pathology of Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?

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Heat in the Gall Bladder

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Da Cheng Qi Tang Ingrediants

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Da Huang
Mang Xiao
Zhi Zhi Shi
Zhi Huo Po

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Actions of Da Cheng Qi Tang?

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Vigorously purges heat & accumulation downward

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Main pathology of Da Cheng Qi Tang? (3 total)

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  1. 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.
  2. Dry constipation: Overabundance of heat drying out the fluids
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What is the actions of the 2 chief ingredients in Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang?

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Qing Hao & Haung Qin: Drain damp-heat from the Liver & Gallbladder

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Treatment strategies to drain downward?

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  • Purge heat accumulation
  • Warm the Yang and guide out accumulation
  • Moistens the Intestines and unblock the bowels
  • Drive out excess water
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Treatment strategies to harmonize?

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  • Harmonize the Lesser Yang
  • Vent the membrane source
  • Harmonize the Liver & Spleen
  • Regulate the Stomach & Intestines
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Treatment strategies for clearing

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  • Clear heat from the Qi level
  • Clear the nutritive level and cool the blood
  • Clear heat and resolve toxicity
  • Clear heat from the organs
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Which formulas would you use to treat problems in all 3 yang channels (Tai Yang, Yang Ming, Shao Yang)?

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Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang

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What are the 2 different actions of Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang?

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  1. Unblock the 3 yang warps & sedate & calm the spirit

2. Clear heat, transform phlegm, regulates Qi & sedates & calms the spirit

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What 2 patterns does Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang treat?

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  1. Triple yang disorder

2. Interior phlegm-heat disturbing the “Shen”

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Indications for using Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang?

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Fullness in the chest, irritability (w/ occ. palpitations), urinary difficulty, constipation, delirious speech, inability to rotate the trunk, sensation of extreme heaviness throughout the body.
Red tongue w/ slippery coating - Wiry, rapid pulse

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What formula is Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang a modification of?

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Xiao Chai Hu Tang

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Actions of Si Ni San (Frigid Extremity Powder)?

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Vent pathogenic Qi, release constraint, spread the Liver Qi, regulate the Spleen (disharmony between LV & SP)

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Indications for using Si Ni San?

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Cold fingers and toes while body & head are warm. Sensation of irritability, fullness in chest & epigastrium, cough, urinary difficulty, abd. pain & severe diarrhea.
Tongue: red w/ yellow coating
Pulse: Wiry

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Main pathology fir using Si Ni San?

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  1. Internal constrain of Yang Qi fails to reach extremities & causes frigid extremities
  2. Liver qi stagnation that attacks the Spleen & leads to disharmony btwn LV & SP
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Xiao Yao San (Rambling Powder) ingredients & dosages?

Dosage range depends on patient constitution, weight, severity of condition

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Chai Hu - 6-12g
Dang Gui - 6-9g
Bai Shao - 9g
Bai Zhu - 9g
Fu Ling - 9-12g
Zhi Gan Cao - 3-6g
**Wei Jiang (3 pieces) & Bo He (3g)**
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Actions of Xiao Yao San?

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Spread the Liver Qi, strengthen the Spleen, & nourish the blood

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Indications for using Xiao Yao San?

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Hypochondriac pain, headache, bitter taste in mouth, dry mouth & throat, fatigue, reduced appetite
Tongue: pale red tongue
Pulse: Wiry, deficient pulse
alternating fever & chills, irregular menstruation

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Main pathology for using Xiao Yao San?

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Constrained Liver Qi attacking & weakening the Spleen, while the deficient Spleen is failing to transform food into blood.

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What modification do you do to Xiao Yao San when there is heat?

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Jai Wei Xiao Yao San - add Mu Dan Pi & Zhi Zi

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What formula is often used for regulating menstruation, treating PMS & relieving depression?

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Xiao Yao San

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What is Tong Xie Yao Fang (important formula for painful diarrhea) used to treat?

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Disharmony between Liver & Spleen

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Actions of Tong Xie Yao Fang?

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Tonify the Spleen, soften the Liver, expels dampness & stops diarrhea

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What formula is good for a pattern with painful diarrhea due to Spleen deficiency w/ over controlling Liver?

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Tong Xie Yao Fang

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What are some of the indications for using Tong Xie Yao Fang?

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Reoccurring problem with borborygmus, abd pain, diarrhea with pain (starts w/ urge and then subsides after completion).
Tongue: Thin, white TC
Pulse: Wiry or moderate, thin pulse

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What formula is good for disharmony between stomach & intestines?

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Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang

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What actions does Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang do?

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  1. Harmonize the stomach, direct rebellious Qi down
  2. Disperse clumping (Intestines)
  3. Eliminate focal distention (Spleen deficiency)
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What must be clear in the pattern in order to use Ban Xia Xie Xin Tang?

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Heat & cold mixed

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What formula would you use for a heat & cold mixed pattern and a simultaneous excess & deficient pattern?

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Ban Xia Xie Xin

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What ingredients are in Bai Hu Tang (White Tiger Decoction)?

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Shi Gao
Zhi Mu
Zhi Gan Cao
Jing Mi

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What are the actions of Bai Hu Tang?

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Clears Qi level heat, drains stomach fire, generates fluids & alleviates thirst (treat qi level heat & tonify fluids)

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What formula is used to treat heat in the Yang Ming (yang brightness) channel of six warps disease or for the qi level of the 4 levels of disease?

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Bai Hu Tang

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What are the indications for using Bai Hu Tang?

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4 bigs (big fever, big thirst, big pulse, big sweat), aversion to heat, red face, irritability, flooding, forceful or slippery pulse.

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