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Fu Zi

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HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
HT, KD, SP

  • Restore yang collapse
  • Stops pain - cold block.
  • Chronic Bi
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Gan Jiang

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HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
SP, ST, HT, LU

  • Warms middle
  • Restores HT yang
  • Transform thin phlegm
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Rou Gui

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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
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Wu Zhu Yu

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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
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Xiao Hui Xiang

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HERBS THAT WARM THE INTERIOR
SP, ST, LV, KD

  • Warm KD, spread LV qi - hernia, period pain
  • Regulates ST qi
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Chen Pi

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REGULATE THE QI
LU, SP

  • Directs qi down
  • Assist digestion prevent damp SP,ST
  • Dries damp, transform phlegm
  • Protects from greasy/ yin nature herbs
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Zhi Shi

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REGULATE THE QI
SP, ST, LI

  • Breaks up stagnant qi
  • Directs qi down, Unblocks bowel
  • Transforms phlegm
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Mu Xiang

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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
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Xiang Fu

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REGULATE THE QI
LV, SJ

  • Constrained LV qi - chest, disharmony SP/LV
  • Regulates mens, stops pain (esp due emotional)
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Wu yao

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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
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Shan Zha

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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
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Shen qu

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RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST

-Harmonize ST, strengthen SP - ST cold, diarrhea, cold damp SP

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Mai ya

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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
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Ji nei jin

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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
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Gu ya

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RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
SP, ST

  • Gentle reduce food stagnation esp starch/grains
  • SP/ST def - strengthens ST, *gain appetite
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Lai fu zi

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RELIEVE FOOD STAGNATION/ IMPROVE DIGESTION
LU, SP, ST

  • Food stagnation with foul belching, acid reflux
  • Directs qi down, reduce phlegm - excess coughing wheezing
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Dang Gui

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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
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Shu Di Huang

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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
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Bai Shao

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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
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E jiao

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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
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Zhi he shou wu

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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
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Sheng he shou wu

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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
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Long yan rou

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HERBS THAT TONIFY BLOOD
HT, SP / sweet warm

-nourishes blood
-calms spirit
HT and SP def causing insomnia, palpatations,
dizziness, mental fatigue

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Sang Shen

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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

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Bei sha shen

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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

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Nan sha shen

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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
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Mai men dong

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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
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Tian men dong

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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

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Shi hu

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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

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Yu zhu

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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
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Bai He

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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

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HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LV, KD / sweet neutral

  • Tonify KD and LV yin - sore back , impotence, w&t
  • Benefits eyes
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Mo han lian

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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

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Nu zhen zi

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HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
LV, KD / sweet bitter cool

  • nourishes KD and LV yin - sore lower back, prem grey hair, tinnitus
  • improves vision
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Hei zhi ma

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HERBS THAT TONIFY YIN
KD, LV, LI / sweet bland neutral

-nourish LU ST yin, generate fluids, yin def hyperactive yang. nourish skin

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Lu rong

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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
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Ge jie

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HERBS THAT TONIFY YANG
LU, KD / salty neutral

  • Tonify KD and LU - kidney unable to grasp qi . panting
  • Supplies essence - impotence, diarrhea, freq urine
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Dong cong xia cao

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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.
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Rou cong rong

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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
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Yin yang huo

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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
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Ba ji tian

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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
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Bu gu zhi

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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
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Du zhong

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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
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Xu duan

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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
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He tao ren

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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
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Tu si zi

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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
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Ren shen

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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
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Dang shen

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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
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Tai zi shen

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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

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Huang qi

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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
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Xi yang shen

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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
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Shan yao

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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
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Bai zhu

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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
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Da zao

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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
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Gan cao

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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
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Ci wu jia

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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
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Huang jing

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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
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Bai bian dou

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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
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Xiao ji

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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)
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Di yu
(diyu tan - charcoal stronger stop bleeding)
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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
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Huai hua

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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
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Ce bai ya

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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.
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Bai mao gen

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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
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San qi

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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

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Pu huang

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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
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Qian cao

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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
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Bai ji

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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)
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Xian he cao

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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.
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Ai ye

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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

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Chuang xiong

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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.
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Yan hu suo

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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

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Yu jin

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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
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Jiang huang

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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
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Dan shen

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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
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Ji xue teng

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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.
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Yi mu cao

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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
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Ze lan

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INVIGORATE BLOOD - ACTIVATING & MENSES REGULATE
LV, SP / pungent bitter slightly warm

  • Gently invigorates blood - regulate mens, postpatrum abdominal pain
  • Promotes urination - edema, painful urine
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Tao ren

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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
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Hong hua

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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)

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Niu xi

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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)
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Gui sui bu

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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
82
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Jing san leng

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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
83
Q

E zhu

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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
84
Q

Long gu

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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)
85
Q

Muli

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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
86
Q

Ci shi

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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
87
Q

Suan zao ren

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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.
88
Q

Bai zi ren

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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
89
Q

Yuan zhi

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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
90
Q

He huan pi

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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)

91
Q

Ye jiao teng

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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)

Chinese Herbs (4 decks)

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