Herb and Category Flashcards
Fu Zi
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
HT, KD, SP
- Restore yang collapse
- Stops pain - cold block.
- Chronic Bi
Gan Jiang
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
SP, ST, HT, LU
- Warms middle
- Restores HT yang
- Transform thin phlegm
Rou Gui
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
HT, KD, SP, LV
- Strengthen zang organs - yang qi def
- HT/KD disharmony
- LV blood stasis
- Unblock channels relieve deep cold/ pain
Wu Zhu Yu
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
LV, SP, ST, KD
- Directs LV / rebellious qi down
- Strongly warm lower jiao - cold def of SP, KD -diarrhea, irregular menstruation
Xiao Hui Xiang
HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
SP, ST, LV, KD
- Warm KD, spread LV qi - hernia, period pain
- Regulates ST qi
Chen Pi
REGULATE THE QI
LU, SP
- Directs qi down
- Assist digestion prevent damp SP,ST
- Dries damp, transform phlegm
- Protects from greasy/ yin nature herbs
Zhi Shi
REGULATE THE QI
SP, ST, LI
- Breaks up stagnant qi
- Directs qi down, Unblocks bowel
- Transforms phlegm
Mu Xiang
REGULATE THE QI
SP, ST, LI, GB, SJ
- Promote qi , relieve pain
- Relieve stagnant qi LI - damp heat, diarrhea, tenesmus
- Strengthen SP, eliminate food stagnation
Xiang Fu
REGULATE THE QI
LV, SJ
- Constrained LV qi - chest, disharmony SP/LV
- Regulates mens, stops pain (esp due emotional)
Wu yao
REGULATE THE QI
LU, SP, KD, BL
- Qi stagnation - chest, abdomen, hernia, menst (esp lower)
- Disperse cold, cold qi in KD/BL leading to freq urination
Shan Zha
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST, LV
- Food stag esp from meat/greasy food - abdomen distension, pain, diarrhea
- Move qi and blood - stasis, high cholesterol, hypertension
Shen qu
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST
-Harmonize ST, strengthen SP - ST cold, diarrhea, cold damp SP
Mai ya
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST, LV
- SP/ST def - strengthens ST, *promotes digestion
- LV qi stagnation - breast pain (esp breast feeding)
- Inhibits lactation - assist weaning
Ji nei jin
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST, SI, BL
- Strongest reducing food stag - all types. Strengthen SP
- Consolidated KD ess - seminal emission, urinary incontinence
- Dissolves stones
Gu ya
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST
- Gentle reduce food stagnation esp starch/grains
- SP/ST def - strengthens ST, *gain appetite
Lai fu zi
RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
LU, SP, ST
- Food stagnation with foul belching, acid reflux
- Directs qi down, reduce phlegm - excess coughing wheezing
Dang Gui
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, HT, SP / sweet pungent warm
- Regulates Mens, tinnitus, blurred vision, palpitations
- Invigorates blood, stops pain esp cold damp, abd pain
- Moisten intestine
- Reduces swelling, expel pus, generates flesh
Shu Di Huang
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, KD / sweet slightly warm
- Tonify blood - dizziness, insomnia, irregular mens
- Nourish yin - night sweat, w&t, steaming bone
- Generates essence - lumbar pain, weak legs, hearing loss
Bai Shao
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, SP / bitter sour slightly cold
- Nourish blood, regulate mens
- Suppress LV yang & allieviate pain - chest or abdomen pain from LV/SP disharmony/ LV const, cramping pain
- Preserve yin - spontaneous/ night sweating
- adjusts nutritive and protective levels
E jiao
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LU, LV, KD / sweet neutral
- Tonify blood - dizziness, sallow complexion, palpitation
- Stops bleeding, blood cough/stool
- Nourish and moisten yin - irritability, insomnia, dry cough
Zhi he shou wu
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, KD / bitter sweet astringent warm
- nourish blood and yin, preserves essence - weak lower back and knees, scanty mens, leukorrhea
- Dizziness or tinnitus due to LV yang rising
Sheng he shou wu
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, HT, LI / bitter sweet astringent neutral
(more for remove blood heat)
- Moisten intestines - constipation
- Resolve fire toxicity, sores, lumps
- Expel wind from skin - rash
Long yan rou
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
HT, SP / sweet warm
-nourishes blood
-calms spirit
HT and SP def causing insomnia, palpatations,
dizziness, mental fatigue
Sang Shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
LV, KD / sweet cold
-Gently tonify blood and enrich yin - dizziness tinnitus,
LV yin def leading to yang rising
-Moisten intestines - constipation
Bei sha shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, ST / sweet slightly bitter cool
-nourish ST yin, generate fluids - dry mouth
-moisten and tonify LU yin - dry cough, blood cough,
hoarsness
Nan sha shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, ST / sweet slightly bitter cool
- clears LU heat- cough wheezing sticky phlegm
- nourishes ST yin - dry mouth, thirst
- moisten exterior - dry itchy skin
Mai men dong
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, ST, HT / sweet slightly bitter slightly cold
- moisten LU stop cough, dry swollen throat
- nourish ST yin - dry mouth, tongue
- nourish HT - irritability, palpatation
- Moisten intestine
Tian men dong
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, KD/ sweet bitter cold
-nourishes KD and LU yin, clears heat. w&t
-moisten LU - sputum hard to spit
-generates fluids - constipation w dry intestines.
itchy skin
Shi hu
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
ST, KD / sweet slightly cold
-nourish ST, generate fluids, parched, thirsty
-clear heat, nourish KD yin, improves vision, weak lower
back
Yu zhu
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, ST / sweet, slightly cold
- nourish LU and ST yin, generates fluids - thirst , w&t s.b
- extinguishes wind, moisten sinews bi syndrome
Bai He
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LU, HT / sweet cold
- clears heat and stops cough LU yin def or LU heat
-nourish HT, calm spirit - insomnia, restless, irritable
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Gou qi zi
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LV, KD / sweet neutral
- Tonify KD and LV yin - sore back , impotence, w&t
- Benefits eyes
Mo han lian
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LV, KD / sweet sour cold
-Tonify LV and KD - dizziness, vertigo
-Cools blood, stops bleeding due to blood heat - early
mens
Nu zhen zi
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LV, KD / sweet bitter cool
- nourishes KD and LV yin - sore lower back, prem grey hair, tinnitus
- improves vision
Hei zhi ma
HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
KD, LV, LI / sweet bland neutral
-nourish LU ST yin, generate fluids, yin def hyperactive yang. nourish skin
Lu rong
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LV, KD / sweet salty warm
- tonifys KD yang - impotence, fatigue
- tonifys governing vessel - physical/mental development disorders.
- nourish essense, qi and blood - strengthen sinews and bones. yin type boils
- regulates chong and ren vessels - cold def uterus
Ge jie
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LU, KD / salty neutral
- Tonify KD and LU - kidney unable to grasp qi . panting
- Supplies essence - impotence, diarrhea, freq urine
Dong cong xia cao
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LU, KD / sweet neutral
- Tonify KD yang benefits essence - impotence, weak lower back, knees.
- Tonify LU yin - cough wheezing, blood sputum.
Rou cong rong
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, LI / sweet salty warm
- Tonify KD yang, enrich essence and blood - impotence, urine incontinence, lower back and knee weak/pain
- Moisten large intestine
Yin yang huo
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, LV / pungent sweet warm
- Tonify KD yang and gate of vitality fire- impotence, infertility, forgetful, painful cold lower back knees
- Disperse wind cold dampness - bi spasms, cramps, numbness
Ba ji tian
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, LV / pungent sweet slightly warm
- Tonify KD yang - lumber weakness, impotence, infertility
- Expel wind cold damp, strengthen sinews bones, leg heavy, muscle atrophy painful bi
Bu gu zhi
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, SP / pungent bitter warm
- Tonify KD and SP - diarrhea cold def SP
- Prevent essence leakage - hold urine, emission
- Assists KD to grasp qi - wheezing
Du zhong
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LV, KD / sweet warm
- Tonify LV and KD - urinary frequency. strengthen sinews
- Calm fetus - with underlying KD def
- Calm LV yang rising - dizziness, hypertension
Xu duan
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LV, KD / bitter pungent slightly warm
- Tonify LV and KD - weak stiff joins, strengthen sinews
- Calm fetus, Stop uterine bleeding
- Promotes blood movement - ease pain
- Assists in healing bones - fractures, tendon injury
He tao ren
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, LU, LI / sweet warm
- Tonify KD - strengthen lower back
- warm LU, aids KD grasp qi - chronic cough, wheezing
- Moisten intestines - constipation due to injured fluid or elderly
Tu si zi
HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
KD, LV, SP / sweet warm
- Tonify KD yin and yang, secures essence - impotence, night emission, discharge
- Tonify LV, improves vision - dizziness, tinnitus, blurred vision
- Benefits SP and KD - diarrhea/loose stools
- Calm fetus ( general KD yang def) frequent miscarriage
Ren shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
LU, SP, HT / sweet slightly bitter neutral
- Powerfully tonify qi of 5 zang - qi collapse, shallow breath, sever blood loss, minute pulse
- Tonify SP and LU
- Generate fluids, stops thirst - w&t, qi and fluid injured by fever and sweating
- Tranquilize the mind, benefit HT qi - palpitation with anxiety, insomnia
Dang shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
LU, SP / sweet neutral
- Tonify middle burner - LU, SP - tiredness, lack strength, shallow breath, chronic cough/ chronic qi def
- generates body fluid and blood - blood def w hemorrhage
Tai zi shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, LU / sweet slightly bitter neutral
-mild tonify qi and yin - SP ST def with lack appetite, LU def with spontaneous sweating, injury to fluid after disease. w&t esp upper burner - thirst
Huang qi
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, LU / sweet slightly warm
- Tonifies SP and LU qi, raise yang, generate blood - lack of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea
- Tonify wei qi stops sweating
- regulates water - reduce edema, promote urine
- expel pus, generate flesh - chronic sores
Xi yang shen
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
LU, HT, SP KD / sweet bitter cool
- Tonify qi, generate fluid, nourish yin - yin def w heat signs - weakness, irritable, thirst
- Nourish LU yin, clear heat from LU - dry cough
- Calm restlessness
Shan yao
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, LU, KD / sweet neutral
- tonify SP and ST qi and yin - diarrhea, fatigue, lack appetite
- Tonify LU qi, nourish LU yin - spontaneous sweating, chronic cough, wheezing, w&t
- Tonify KD, consolidates essence - urine frequency, discharge, spermatorrhea
Bai zhu
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, ST / bitter sweet warm
- Tonify SP qi (and SP yang) dispel damp through urine - diarrhea, poor appetite, edema, bi syndrome
- Tonify qi (exterior) stop sweating
- Calm fetus due to spleen def
Da zao
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, ST, HT / sweet warm
- Tonify Sp and ST qi - poor appetite, loose stools
- Nourish the blood, calm spirit - irritable
- Moderate harsh effect of other herbs that may injure ST qi
Gan cao
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
HT, LU, SP, ST / sweet neutral
- tonify qi, nourish SP qi - lassitude, palpatations
- moisten LU, stop cough - wheezing, expel phlegm
- clear heat, resolve fire toxin - sores, sore throat due to fire toxin
- moderates spasms, alleviates pain - spasms of legs
- harmonise effects of other herbs
Ci wu jia
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, HT, KD / pungent slightly bitter warm
- Tonify qi, strengthen SP and KD yang - weakness, insomnia, fatigue, poor appetite
- Strengthen HT, calm shen - poor concentration, mild depression, fearful, dream disturbed sleep.
- invigorates blood - poor circulation, pain due to stasis
Huang jing
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
LU, SP, KD / sweet neutral
- Tonify qi, tonify Sp qi, produce fluid - lassitude, poor appetite, ST yin def w dry mouth, dry stools
- Enrich yin, moisten LU - Dry cough due to qi and yin def
- Tonify KD, enrich essence - lumbar pain, w&t
Bai bian dou
HERBS THAT TONIFY QI
SP, ST / sweet slightly warm
- Treats summer heat, transform dampness, directs turbid downward - diarrhea
- Strengthen SP - poor appetite, vaginal discharge
- Treats poising - diarrhea, vomiting
Xiao ji
STOP BLEEDING - BLOOD COOLING
LV, HT / bitter sweet cool
- stop bleeding due to blood heat. esp lower
- Resolve toxicity, reduce abcess, sores, pimples/rash
- Promotes urination - blood in urine damp heat, jaundice, hepatitis, hypertension (excess LV yang)
Di yu (diyu tan - charcoal stronger stop bleeding)
STOP BLEEDING - BLOOD COOLING
LV, ST, LI / bitter astringent cool
- stop bleeding due to blood heat esp lower vomit with blood, bloody stools, uterine bleeding
- Resolves toxicity, generates flesh to help heal tissue - sores, ulcers, burns
Huai hua
STOP BLEEDING - BLOOD COOLING
LV, LI / bitter cool
- stop bleeding due to heat esp intestine, haemorrhoids, nosebleed, blood urine.
- Clear LV heat/fire- redness/swollen eyes, headache
Ce bai ya
STOP BLEEDING - BLOOD COOLING
LU, LV, LI / bitter slightly cold
- Stop bleeding due to heat - bloody stool, urine, uterine bleeding
- transform phlegm, reduce LU heat - stop cough, blood cough
- Heals burns (topically), promote hair growth - hair loss due to blood heat.
Bai mao gen
STOP BLEEDING - BLOOD COOLING
HT, LU, ST, BL / sweet cold
- Stop bleeding due to heat - nose bleeding
- Drain heat, promote urination - damp heat - painful urine
- Clear heat in LU and ST - nausea , thirst (ST) coughing
San qi
STOP BLEEDING - STASIS RESOLVING
LV, ST / sweet slightly bitter warm
-stop bleeding(without causing stasis) internal, or due to qi fail to hold blood - vomiting blood, nosebleed
-Transform stasis - heavy menstruation due to uterus stasis. clear the blood - dark skin
-Reduce swelling, stop pain - external
swelling, traumatic injury
Pu huang
STOP BLEEDING - STASIS RESOLVING
LV, PC / sweet neutral
- stop bleeding (without causing stasis) nose, intestines, uterus
- Transform stasis - external from traumatic injury
- Promote urine - blood urine
- Stop pain esp in trunk & pelvis
Qian cao
STOP BLEEDING - STASIS RESOLVING
LV / bitter cold
- Cools blood stops bleeding - any bleeding from heat OR stasis, external trauma
- Resolve blood stasis and regulate menstruation - too long, lower abdominal pain
Bai ji
STOP BLEEDING - ASTRINGENT
LU, ST, LV / bitter astringent slightly cold
- Restrain leakage stop bleeding - ST, LU cough blood, ulcers
- Reduces swelling/ inflamation, generates flesh - wounds from ext trauma - chronic sores, boils, sunburn, chapped skin, scars (can make powder use mask)
Xian he cao
STOP BLEEDING - ASTRINGENT
LV / bitter astringent, neutral
- Restrain leakage stop bleeding - esp vomiting blood, uterine bleeding, internal wind w blood
- Alleviate diarrhea and dysenteric disorders
- Kill parasites - tapeworms.
Ai ye
STOP BLEEDING - MERIDIAN WARMING
LV, SP, KD / pungent bitter warm
-Warm meridians stop bleeding. Dispel cold damp, stop pain due to cold/ yang def - pain, abnormal mens
-Warms uterus, calm fetus - irregular uterine bleeding, infertility vag discharge, threatened abortion.
-Eliminate
damp -skin problems, itching
Chuang xiong
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & PAIN RELIEVING
LV, GB, PC / pungent warm
- Invigorate blood, move Qi - esp head, pelvis, chest, flanks, hypochondria
- Expel wind, Stop pain - ext wind, wind heat/cold/blood def cause headache, dizziness, cold bi, skin problems - darkish skin.
Yan hu suo
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & PAIN RELIEVING
LV, SP, HT / pungent bitter warm
-Invigorate blood and Qi, resolve stasis, Strongly stops pain - any pain due to obstruction qi and blood esp - chest, epigastric, menstrual pains
Yu jin
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & PAIN RELIEVING
HT, LV, GB / pungent bitter cold
- Invigorate blood and Qi, resolve stasis, stops pain due to HEAT stasis - dysmenorrhea, hypochondriac, chest
- Clears HT heat, cool blood - delirium, epilepsy, emotional problems
- Relieves constraint of LV qi
- Benefits GB to clear jaundice - damp heat attack LV/GB
Jiang huang
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & PAIN RELIEVING
SP, LV / pungent bitter warm
- Invigorate blood and Qi, resolve stasis, Warm meridians, stop pain - chest, epigastric, abdominal pain/bloating, gynecological disorders
- Treat wind cold damp - painful obstruction, aching joints
Dan shen
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
HT. LV, PC / bitter cool
- Invigorate Blood, cool blood - dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, chest pain, joint pain
- Calm irritability - restlessness, insomnia, palpatation due to heat in nutritive level or HT/KD yin def
Ji xue teng
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
HT, LV, SP / bitter sweet warm
- Invigorate Blood, tonify blood - irregular mens - dysmenorrhea, postpartum pain
- Soothe sinews, invigorate collaterals - numbness/ paralysis of extremities, pain lumbar/knees - wind damp painful obstruction.
Yi mu cao
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
HT, LV, BL / pungent bitter slightly cold
- Invigorate blood, regulate mens - dysmenorhea, postpartum abdominal pain, heavy menses - continual blood with clots
- Promotes urination - edema
- Resolves toxicity - sores, abscesses, swelling, skin problems
Ze lan
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
LV, SP / pungent bitter slightly warm
- Gently invigorates blood - regulate mens, postpatrum abdominal pain
- Promotes urination - edema, painful urine
Tao ren
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
HT, LV, LI / bitter sweet neutral
- Invigorate blood, expel stasis - amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, LU and intestinal abscesses
- Constipation due to dryness
Hong hua
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
HT, LV / pungent warm
-Invigorate blood, unblock mensuration, enrich blood - amenorrhea, abdominal pain, postpartum dizziness, abdominal masses, incompletely expressed rashes.
-Dispel stasis, stop pain - painful chest
(yang qi def)
Niu xi
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
LV, KD / bitter sweet sour neutral
- Break up blood stasis unblock mensturation - amenorrhea, fixed or mobile abdominal masses postpartum ab pain (chuan niu xi)
- Directs fire downward - Lv yang rising or def fire - nosebleed, dizziness, headache
- Tonify LV and KD strengthen sinews, bones - lumbar, knee, joint pain (huai nui xi)
Gui sui bu
INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & TRAUMA CURING
LV, KD / bitter warm
- Tonify KD, directs floating yang down - weak lower back, knees, tinnitus, diminished hearing, toothache
- Strengthen and repair bones, invigorate blood - injuries - fractures, sprains, ligaments, bones, loose teeth
Jing san leng
INVIGORATE BLOOD - BLOOD BREAKING, REMOVE MASSES
LV, SP / bitter neutral
- Promotes qi and blood movement (strong break blood) qi stagnation, blood stasis with clumping, pain or masses, Serious mass - cancer, epigastric masses due to stasis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea.
- Reduces food stagnation, stops pain - fullness in chest and abdomen
E zhu
INVIGORATE BLOOD - BLOOD BREAKING, REMOVE MASSES
LV, SP / pungent bitter warm
- Promotes qi and blood movement (strong break qi) qi stagnation, blood stasis with clumping, pain or masses, epigastric masses due to stasis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea.
- Reduces food stagnation, stops pain - fullness in chest and abdomen
Long gu
HEART SETTLING TRANQULIZER
HT, LV, KD / sweet astringent neutral
- Settle/ calm spirit - emotional distress, restless, insomnia, palpitations w anxiety, mania
- Calm LV, suppress floating LV yang - bad temper, blurred vision, dizziness
- Prevent leakage of fluids (due to def) sweating, discharge, uterine bleeding. non healing sores (topical)
Muli
HEART SETTLING TRANQULIZER
LV, KD / salty astringent cool
- Settle/ calm spirit - restless, insomnia, palpitation w anxiety
- suppress floating LV yang, benefits yin. tinnitus, dizzy. Moisten dryness.
- Prevent leakage of fluid (due to def) sweating, discharge, uterine bleeding.
- Soften hardness - lumps nodules - scrofula, goiter
- Absorbs acidity alleviate excess stomach pain w sour taste
Ci shi
HEART SETTLING TRANQULIZER
HT, LV, KD / salty cold
- Anchor/ calm spirit - emotional distress, restless, insomnia, palpatations, dizzy, convulsions esp w yin def and rising yang
- Nourish KD, Calm LV - improves hearing, vision, tinnitus
- Aid KD grasp qi - chronic asthma
Suan zao ren
HEART NOURISHING
HT, LV, GB / sweet sour neutral
- nourishes HT yin, calm mind, benefits LV - irritability, insomnia, palpatations due to blood/qi/yin def
- Prevents abnormal sweating - spontaneous/ night sweating.
Bai zi ren
HEART NOURISHING
HT, KD, LI / sweet neutral
- nourishes HT, calms shen - insomnia, poor memory, palpatation, night fear, depression - due to HT yin/blood yin def
- Moisten intestines - constipation due to weak yin or blood
Yuan zhi
HEART NOURISHING
HT, KD, LU / pungent bitter warm
- Calm shen, restore communication between KD & HT - insomnia, palpatation, restless
- Expel phlegm, clear orrifices - stop cough w sticky sputum, mental disorentation
- reduce abcesses/swelling - boils, swollen painful breasts
He huan pi
HEART NOURISHING
HT, LV / sweet neutral
-Calm spirit, regulates qi and constraint - bad temper, depression, insomnia
-Harmonize blood, stop pain, benefit sinews bones - pain and swelling due to trauma
-resuce abcesses - swollen painful abcess esp LU
(assistant herb for second 2 points)
Ye jiao teng
HEART NOURISHING
HT, LV / sweet neutral
- Nourish HT blood, calm spirit - insomnia/ dream disturbed, irritable due to yin and blood def/LV heat dry yin
- Nourish blood unblock channels - sore achy limbs, pain
- dispel wind - alleviates itching, rash dry skin good for hair growth. (yin or blood cannot nourish)
