Herb Categories Flashcards
Dang Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Mild form of Ren Shen.
Poor man’s ginseng.
Tonify middle burner, strengthen qi, nourish fluids, tonify lungs.
Du Zhong
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify LV/KD (strengthen sinews, bones, fatigue).
Promotes smooth flow of qi and blood circulation.
Calm the fetus for yang deficiency kidneys.
Gou Qi Zi
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Neutral
Nourish/tonify LV/KD (yin and blood deficiency).
Benefits essence, brighten eyes.
Enrich yin, dry lung, consumptive cough, xiao ke.
Long Dan Cao
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain damp heat from the LV and GB (eyes/ears/throat, jaundice, swollen painful genitals, leukorrhea).
Clears ascending liver fire (headache, eyes, fever, spasm, convulsions).
Xing Ren
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm, Toxic
Stop coughing and wheezing due to heat or cold.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
Niu Bang Zi
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cold
Expels wind heat, benefits throat (fever, cough, sore throat).
Clear heat, relieve toxicity.
Moisten intestines (wind heat constipation).
Bo/Bai Zi Ren
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Neutral
Nourish heart yin, calm spirit (irritability, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations).
Moisten intestines due to blood/yin deficiency (constipation).
Night sweats.
Gou Teng
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Cool
Cleras wind nad heat in the liver (spasms, tremors, seizures, eclampsia).
Drains liver heat, ascends yang (headache, irritable, red eyes, dizzy).
Release exterior wind heat (fever, headache, red eyes).
Fang Feng
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, dispel wind.
Alleviate wind damp, alleviate pain.
Harmonizes liver and spleen (painful, diarrhea, blood in stool)
Ma Dou Ling
Obsolete substances with toxicity
Cold
Clears lungs, transforms phlegm (coughing, wheezing, heat signs).
Hypertension, bleeding hemorrhoids.
Huang Lian
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (high fever, irritability, disorientation, red eyes, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses).
Clear eat, drain damp in the stomach (diarrhea, dysentery, acid reflux, halitosis, belching).
Clears heart fire (irritability, insomnia).
Topically for red painful ulcerations.
Qin Jiao
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Cool
Dispel wind cold/heat/damp, soothes sinews (muscle cramping) in extremities.
Clears deficiency heat.
Paralysis caused by stroke.
Fu Zi
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot, Toxic
Restores devastated yang (extreme cold limbs with abundant cold).
Assists heart yang to unblock vessels and improves circulation.
Tonifies kidney yang (warms fire and assists yang qi for HT/SP/KD).
Disperse cold, warm channels, relieve pain due to cold.
Han Lian Cao
Tonify yin herbs
Cool
LV/KD yin deficiency (dizzy, grey hair, bad vision).
Cools blood, stops yin deficiency bleeding (uterine, nose, stool, urine).
Shi Wei
Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome
Cool
Promote urination, drain damp heat from the bladder (lin syndrome)
Stops bleeding.
Cleras lung, expels phlegm, relieves cough.
Yan Hu Suo
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Alleviate pain.
Gou Ji
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Ge Jie
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Neutral
Strengthen kidneys, tonify lungs (help kidney grasp lung qi, wheezing).
Assists kidney yang (strengthen essence and blood, impotence, day break diarrhea, urinary frequency).
Lai Fu Zi
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Neutral
Reduce food stagnation, transform accumlations (raw).
Caused lung qi to descend, cough with damp phlegm (dry fried).
Jue Ming Zi
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Hong Teng
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Neutral
Clear toxic heat and abscesses (skin lesions, swelling pain).
Invigorate blood, disperse stasis (trauma, dysmenorrhea, joint pain).
Qin Pi
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain damp heat (dysentery).
Drain liver fire (eyes).
Clear wind damp heat (painful hot obstruction).
Rou Cong Rong
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary disorders).
Warms womb (infertility, excessive uterine bleeding, leukorrhea).
Moistens intestines, constipation.
Li Zhi He
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Regulate qi, stop pain (abdominal pain, PMS pain, postpartum pain).
Disperse cold and stagnation (hernia and testicular pain).
San Leng
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Breaks up blood stasis, promotes movement of qi, alleviates pain (dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, abdominal masses, amenorrhea).
Dissolves food stagnation/accumulations (severe abdominal pain and distention with food stagnation).
Ai Ye
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Warm
Stops bleeding (deficiency cold uterine bleeding).
Warms womb (restless fetus).
Lower abdominal cold pain.
Huang Jing
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (poor appetite, fatigue, dry mouth, loss of taste, dry stool).
Moisten lung (dry cough, little sputum).
Tonify kidney, strengthen essence (lower back pain/weak, light headed).
Shi Liu Pi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm, Toxic
Binds intestines (deficiency diarrhea/dysentery, rectal prolapse).
Stabilize kidney, retian essence (spermatorrhea, uterine bleeding, leukorrhea).
Parasites (tapeworm, roundworm, ringworm).
Da Zao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Tonify spleen qi (weakness, shortness of breath, reduced appetite, loose stools).
Nourish blood, calm spirit (irritable, pale, emotional, restless).
Harmonize other herb’s harsh properties.
Chuan Xiong
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Irregular menses, dysmenorrhea, lochioschesis, headache.
Jing Jie
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, dispel wind, carbuncles in their initial stage, vents rashes and aleviates itching.
Stops bleeding when charred (in stools, uterine)
Di Long
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Cold
Drains liver heat (spasms, convulsions, high fever, painful lin).
Clears lung heat (wheezing).
Clears heat in the channels (swollen, painful joints).
Xiao Ji
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Cool
Stops bleeding/blood in urine (stronger than Da Ji).
Zhi Mu
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Clear heat, drain fire (lung and stomach).
Nourish yin, moisten dryness (night sweat, steaming bone, irritability, kidney heat patterns).
Generates fluids and cleras heat.
Zi Cao
Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood
Cold
Relieve fire toxicity, cool blood (rashes).
Damp heat in the skin, itching.
Moisten intestines, unblocks bowels (constipation).
Huang Qi
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Warm
Tonify spleen and lung qi (raise spleen and stomach qi/prolapse).
Tonify wei qi (stabilize exterior).
Tonify qi and blood due to loss of blood/postpartum fever.
Promotes urination (edema, discharge of pus, generates flesh).
(Zi) Su Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm
Stops coughing and wheezing.
Redirects rebellious qi downward and dissolves phlegm.
Moistens intestines.
Bai Dou Kou
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Aromatically transforms dampness, chest distention, lack of appetite.
Stagnation of middle burner qi, warms middle burner.
Causes rebellious qi to descend, nausea and vomiting.
Cook in the last 5 minutes of decoction.
Xiang Ru
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, expel summerheat, transform damp (chill, fever, no sweat, body ache)
Promote urination, reduce edema and swelling, lin syndrome
Kuan Dong Hua
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm
Relieves cough, expels phlegm.
Redirects rebellious qi downward and stop coughing.
Frying in honey enhances moistening function of lungs.
Used with Zi Wan.
Huang Qin
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Clear heat, drain fire in the upper burner (thirst, irritability, thirst, cough).
Clear heat, dry damp in the stomach (diarrhea, dysentery, thirst with no desire to drink, lin syndrome, jaundice).
Clear heat, stop bleeding (vomiting, coughing, nose, stool).
Clear heat, calm fetus.
Clear liver yang rising (headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste).
Ban Xia
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm, Toxic
Dry dampness (transform cold phlegm, rebellious qi).
Harmonize stomach, stops vomiting.
Dissipate nodules, reduce distention.
Caution with pregnancy.
Sang Piao Xiao
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Tonifies kidneys (aids yang, retains essence, incontinence, spermatorrhea, enuresis in children).
Zi Wan
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm
Relieves cough, expels phlegm.
Redirects rebellious qi downwards and stops coughing.
Frying in honey enhances the moistening function of lungs.
Used with Kuan Dong Hua.
Huo Ma Ren
Downward Draining herbs -moist laxatives
Neutral
Moisten and nourish intestines, elderly and postpartum constipation.
Mildly tonify spleen qi and yin.
Clear heat, promote healing of sores.
Ban Mao
Herbs for topical application
Cold, Toxic
Attack tocins, wears away sores (topically, carbuncles, scrofula).
Greatly irritates skin producing blisters and redness).
Breaks up blood stasis, disperses clumps (palpable non moving masses).
Wang Bu Liu Xing
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorate blood in the upper body channels (promote lactation, unblocks menses, amenorrhea).
Swelling (breast or testicular swellings with pain).
Mu Tong
Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome
Cool
Promote urination, drains heat from heart through the small intestine.
Promotes lactation, unblocks blood vessels.
E Jiao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Neutral
Tonify blood, blood deficiency.
Stops bleeding.
Nourish, moisten yin, dry lung, xiao ke.
Dong Chong Xia Cao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Strengthen kidneys, tonify yang (impotence, sore/weak back).
Tonify kidney yang, nourish lung yin, transforms phlegm.
Cough, wheezing, bleeding, xiao ke.
Hua Jiao
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot
Warm middle, disperse cold, allevaite pain, spleen and stoamch cold.
Cold pain in the abdomen with vomiting and diarrhea.
Kun Bu
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cold
Reduce phlegm, soften hardness (nodules in neck, fullness in chest due to phlegm).
Promote urination, reduce swelling (lower extremity edema).
Ba Ji Tian
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary/menstrual disorders).
Strengthen sinews and bones (back pain, muscular atrophy).
Expels wind/damp/cold (back and leg qi pain).
Xuan Fu Hua
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm
Redirect lung qi downward (expel cold phlegm).
Stop vomiting, rebellious qi.
Gui Ban
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Nourish yin, anchors yang (interior liver wind).
Benefits kidneys, strengthens bones.
Cools blood, uterine bleeding.
Tonify blood, nourish heart, calm heart, anxiety, insomnia.
Sang Ye
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cold
Expel wind, clear lung heat (fever, headache, sore throat, cough, dry mouth, thick yellow sputum).
Clear liver heat (eyes).
Cool blood, stop bleeding (vomiting blood).
Bai Xian Pi
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear toxic heat and fire, expels wind, dries damp (sores, carbuncles, rashes with excessive pus, moist skin, jaundice).
Long Gu
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
Neutral
Calm spirit/heart (emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety).
Calms liver, anchors floating yang (irritable, blurred vision, vertigo).
Topically for chronic non healing sores and ulcerations.
Mu Dan Pi
Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood
Cool
Clear heat, cool blood (nose bleed, bloody sputum, profuse menses).
Clear deficiency fire (steaming bone, no sweating).
Clears liver blood stasis (amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises).
Clears liver fire (headache, eye pain, dysmenorrhea).
Drains pus, reduces swelling.
Huang Bo/Bai
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain damp heat in the lower jiao (thick yellow leukorrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, red swollen painful knee joints, jaundice).
Drains kidney fire (steaming bone, night sweats, afternoon fever).
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (sores).
Rou Dou Kou
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Binds intestines, stops chronic/daybreak diarrhea.
Warms middle burner, moves qi (allevaites pain in the abdomen, vomiting).
Hua Shi
Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome
Cold
Promote urination, drain heat from bladder lin syndrome.
Clears heat, summer heat, and damp heat through urine.
Absorbs dampness (oozing eczema), used topically
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Lu Hui
Downward draining herbs - purgatives
Cold
Purge accumulations, drains fire, cools liver.
Kills parasites, strengthen stomach.
Ce Bo Ye/Ce Bai Ye
Herbs that cool the blood and stop bleeding
Ye Jiao Teng
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Neutral
Calm spirit, nourish heart and blood (insomnia, irritability, dream disturbed sleep).
Nourish blood (weakness, soreness, pain, numbness due to deficiency).
Mu Xiang
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain (ST and abdomenal pain), tenesmus, stagnated qi in intestines, clears damp heat.
Jaundice, dysentery, diarrhea.
Strengthen spleen, digestive disorders.
Ma Huang Gen
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Deficiency sweating (night/spontaneous).
Shi Gao
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Clear heat, drain fire (thirst, sweat).
Clears excess lung heat (cough, wheezing, thick yellow sputum).
Clears stomach fire (headache, toothache, painful gums).
Topically for eczema, burns, sores.
Yuan Zhi
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Warm
Calm spirit, quiet heart (insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, restlessness).
Expel phlegm from lungs, clears orifices (copious sputum, mental confusion).
Reduces abscesses, dissipate swellings (boils, sores, painful breasts).
Bai He
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Moisten lung, clear heat (stop cough, sore throat).
Clear heat, calm spirit (low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability).
Wu Jia Pi
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Warm
Dispel wind cold damp, kidney deficiency.
Transforms damp, reduce edema.
Di Gu Pi
Herbs that clear heat from deficiency
Cold
Drain yin deficiency heat (night swetas, steaming bone, irritaiblity, thirst).
Clear lung heat (coughing, wheezing).
Clear heat, cool blood (nosebleed, vomiting blood, bloody urine).
Drain floating kidney fire (toothache).
Shui Zhi
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral, Toxic
Breaks up blood stasis, reduces immobile masses (amenorrhea, trauma).
E Zhu
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Breaks up blood stasis, promotes movement of qi, alleviates pain.
Dissolves accumulatiosn (distention and fullness or constriction in the chest, food stagnation).
Childhood nutritional impairment.
Bai Jie Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm
Warm lung qi, expel cold phlegm.
Disspates nodules, reduce swelling, alleviate pain, yin type boils.
Mu Li
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
Cool
Calms spirit (palpitations, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia).
Benefits yin, anchors floating yang (irritable, headache, tinnitus).
Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency.
Softens hardness, dissipates nodules (lumps, scrofula, goiter).
Absorbs acidity (stomach pain, sour taste in mouth).
Ru Xiang
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain.
Relax sinews, promotes movement of qi, bi syndrome.
Reduces swellings, generates flesh (yin carbuncles).
Lian Qiao
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cool
Clear heat and toxins (nodules, carbuncles, sores).
Expel wind heat.
Jin Yin Hua
Clear heat and relieve toxicity herbs
Cold
Clear heat, relieve toxic fire (throat/breast/eye).
Expel wind heat (fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache).
Clear damp heat from the lower jiao (dysnetery, lin syndrome).
Bai Zhu
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Warm
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite, vomiting).
Strengthen spleen qi (dry dampness, calm fetus).
Tonify wei qi (stabilize exterior, stops spontaneous sweat).
Guang Fang Ji
Obsolete substances with toxicity
Wa Leng Zi
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorate blood, dissolve phlegm (dissipate nodules, abdominal masses).
Absorb acid, alleviate pain (chronic stomach pain, ulcer, vomiting acid).
Gua Lou
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cold
Pi: peel (clears and transforms phlegm heat, dissipates nodules).
Ren/Zi: seed (expels pus, promotes healing of sores, moisten intestines).
Wu Bei Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Cold
Contain lung qi (chronic cough due to deficiency).
Binds intestines (stops diarrhea, dyesentery, prolapse).
Restrains leakage (spermatorrhea, excessive sweat, bleeding).
Absorbs moisture (swellings, toxic fire, sores, ringworm, ulcers).
Topically on scar tissue.
Yin Chen Hao
Herbs that resolve dampness, relieve jaundice
Cool
Clear damp heat from the LV and GB, relieves yang or yin jaundice.
Clear heat, shaoyang syndrome.
Pei Lan
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Neutral
Aromatically transforms middle burner dampness (halitosis).
Excess drool for summer heat.
Hou Po
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Transform dampness, promtoes movement of qi, resolves stagnation.
Warms and transforms cold phlegm and directs rebellious lung qi downwards.
Xuan Shen
Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood
Cold
Clear heat, cool blood (bleeding, fever, dry mouth).
Nourish yin (constipation, irritability).
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (eyes, throat).
Phlegm fire nodules.
Fo Shou
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Regulate and soothe liver qi (rib pain, distention, belching).
Harmonize stomach, strengthen spleen (epigastric pain and distention, lack of appetite, belching, vomiting).
Dries damp, transforms phlegm (chronic cough with phlegm and chest pain).
Fan Xie Ye
Downward draining herbs - purgatives
Cold
Drains down, guides out constipation due to heat.
Contraindicated druing pregnancy, mensturation, or nursing.
Lian Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Tonify and binds spleen (chronic diarrhea).
Tonifies kidneys (stops leukorrhea and spermatorrhea).
Nourish heart (calm spirit, stop sweating, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia).
Bai Wei
Herbs that clear heat from deficiency
Cold
Clear heat, cool blood (yin deficiency fever, post partum fever).
Cools blood, promote urination (bloody lin).
Relieves toxicity (toxic sores, swollen painful throat, snake bites).
Xi Yang Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Benefits qi, nourish yin, generates fluids.
Clear lung qi empty fire, nourish lung yin (bloody sputum, dyspnea).
Tao Ren
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorate blood, remove stasis.
Abscess of large intestine and lung.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
Mai Ya
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Neutral
Reduce food stagnation, strengthen stomach.
Inhibit lactation (30g raw + 30g cooked = 60g decoction).
Regulates liver qi.
Gan Sui
Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants
Cold, Toxic
Drain downward, drives out congested fluids, fluid in chest and abdomen.
General edema, causes water to be passed anally.
Clear heat, reduce swellings, swollen painful skin lesions.
Sang Bai Pi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Cold
Lung heat with coughing and wheezing.
Promote urination, reduce edema, lung heat obstructs the lung qi movement, no sweating, edema, fever, thirst.
He Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Binds intestines (hot/cold diarrhea, dysentery).
Leakage of lung qi (cough, wheezing, loss of voice).
Qian Cao (Gen)
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Cold
Cool blood to stop bleeding.
Invigorates blood to dispel blood stasis.
Chronic skin rash (eczema).
Fu Pen Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Tonify, stabilize kidney (incontinence, enuresis, spermatorrhea).
Liver and kidney deficiency (poor viison, sore low back, impotence).
Ou Jie
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Neutral
Stops bleeding, breaks up blood stasis (lung and stomach heat causing vomiting or coughing blood).
Bai Fu Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform phlegm cold
Warm, Toxic
Dry dampness, transform phlegm, expel wind cold, stop spasm pain.
Relieve toxicity, dissipates nodules, snake bite.
Do not use with pregnancy.
Wu Yao
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain, lower jiao.
Abdominal pain, hernia, menses pain.
Warm kidney, stop enuresis, urine frequency.
Jie Geng
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Neutral
Opens up lung qi, expel phlegm (hot or cold), benefits throat.
Promote discharge of pus.
Guiding herb to lung.
Hei Zhi Ma
Tonifying herbs - tonify yin
Neutral
Nourish LV/KD yin deficiency (blurred vision, tinnitus, dizziness, recovery after illness).
Nourish blood, clear wind (headache, dizziness, numbness).
Moisten and lubricate intestines (constipation).
Chuan Lian Zi
Herbs that regulate qi
Cold, Toxic
Promote movement of qi, clear heat in the LV/ST, stop pain.
Kills parasites, stop pain.
Can Sha
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Warm
Expel wind damp, relieve pain (wind damp obstruction, itchy rash).
Harmonize stomach, transform turbid dampness (vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, abdominal pain, borborygmus).
Ju Hua
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cool
Disperse wind heat.
Clear liver fire (red painful dry eyes, tearing, floaters).
Calm liver (dizziness, headache, deafness, blurred vision).
Jin Qian Cao
Herbs that drain dampness, resolve dampness relieve jaundice
Neutral
Promote urination, stone lin syndrome.
Clears damp jaundice (yang or yin), eye problems.
Snake bite.
Si Gua Luo
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Neutral
Expel wind, damp ehat obstructing the channels (sore chest and flank areas).
Sore muscles and sinews (stiff joint, traumatic injury, breast abscess).
Expel phlegm, lung heat (high fever, chest pain, sticky sputum).
Expel summerheat, promote urination.
Breasts (swollen painful breasts, insufficient lactation).
Mai Men Dong
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Moisten lungs, dry cough (coughing up blood).
Augments stomach yin (generates fluids, dry mouth/tongue).
Moistens intestines.
Dan Shen
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Cool
Invigorate blood, break up blood stasis.
Clear heat, soothe irritability.
Stomach pain.
Sheng Di Huang
Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood
Cold
Clear heat, cool blood.
Nourish yin, geernate fluids (dry mouth, constipation).
Cools heart fire (cankers, irritability, insomnia, malar flush).
Wasting thirsting disorder.
Bai Guo
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral, Toxic
Nourish lung (expel phlegm, cough, wheezing).
Elimiante damp, stabilize lower jiao (leukorrhea, turbid/frequent urine).
Hu Po
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
Neutral
Calm spirit (tremor, palpitations, anxiety, excessive dreams, insomnia, poor memory, convulsions, seizures).
Invigorate blood, dissipate stasis (amenorrhea with pain, palpable masses).
Promote urination, invigorate blood (lin syndrome).
Reduce swellings, promote healing (sores).
Da Ji
Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants
Cold, Toxic
Drain downward, drive out congested fluids, fluid in chest, thick sputum.
Reduce swelling, dissipate nodules, (red swollen painful toxic sores or scrofula).
Lu Gen
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Clear heat, generate fluids (high fever, irritability, thirst).
Clear lung heat (cough, thick yellow sputum).
Clear stomach heat (vomiting, belching).
Clear heat and promote urination (dark scanty urine, blood in urine, thirst).
Encourages rashes to the surface.
Ji Xue Teng
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Promote movement of blood, tonify blood.
Invigorate channels, relax sinews.
Wei Ling Xian
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Warm
Dispel wind damp and unblocks channels, relieves pain.
Fish bone lodged in the throat.
Dong Gua Pi
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water relieve edema
Cold
Clear lung heat, expel phlegm, discharge puss (thicky sticky yellow phlegm, lung abscess, upper jiao obstruction).
Clear heat, drain damp (leukorrhea).
Gao Ben
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Expel wind cold and alleviate pain (pain at the vertex of the head, low back pain).
Qian Shi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Strengthen spleen, stop diarrhea.
Stabilize kidney (nocturnal emissions, premature ejaculation).
Expels damp (damp heat or deficient leukorrhea).
Gan Cao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral or Warm
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (digestive disorders).
Moisten lung (stop dry cough).
Tonify heart qi (regulate pulse).
Clears heat and toxic fire.
Alleviates pain, stops spasms.
Harmonizes and moderates characteristics of other herbs.
Antidote for toxicity.
Easily causes bloating, don’t use with hypertension, edema, Hai Zao.
Shi Di
Herbs that regulate qi
Neutral
Direct stomach qi downward (hiccup, belching).
Xiao Hui Xiang
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Warm
Soothes liver qi, warms kidney, expels cold, alleviates pain.
Regulates and harmonizes stomach qi.
Qing Pi
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Liver qi stagnation (mastitis, hypochondriac pain, irritable).
Dissipates lumps/nodules, reduces food stagnation.
Raise blood pressure.
Do not use with qi deficiency.
Bai Bu
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm
Moisten lung, stop cough (chronic and acute cough, deficiency cough).
Expel parasites, kill lice, pinworms.
Chi Shi Zhi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Binds intestines, stop cold diarrhea with mucus and blood.
Contain blood, stop bleeding (uterine bleeding, excess menses, prolapse).
Promotes healing of wounds (chronic ulcers, topically for wheeping sores).
Hu Huang Lian
Herbs that clear heat from deficiency
Cold
Drain damp heat (dysentery, sores).
Clear deficiency heat.
Clera heat (childhood nutritional impairment, abdominal distention, afternoon fever, dysentery, diarrhea).
Hai Er Cha
Herbs for topical application
Neutral
Drain damp, absorb seepate from sores (chronic non healing sores).
Stop bleeding (topically).
Clear lung, transform phlegm (generate fluids, stop diarrhea, lung heat, thirst, summerheat).
Qing Hao
Herbs that clear heat from deficiency
Cold
Clear summer heat (fever, headache, dizzy, stifling sensation in the chest).
Clear deficiency fever.
Cool blood, stop bleeding (rash, nosebleed).
Malaria.
Ming Fan
Herbs for topical application
Cold
Relive toxicity, kills parasites, dry damp, alleviate itch.
Topical wash for scabies, ringworm, damp or damp heat rash.
Swollen painful eyes, throat, jaundice.
Stop bleeding, alleviate diarrhea (chronic blood in diarrhea/urine, hemorrhoids, nosebleed, bleeding gums, any external bleeding).
Clear heat, expel phlegm, wind phlegm (irritability, delirium, convulsions, cough with thick sticky sputum).
Bai Jiang Cao
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cool
Clear toxic heat and fire (pus, abscess, sores, swellings).
Dispel blood stasis, stop pain (abdominal/chest stasis, traumatic injury).
Mo Yao
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorates blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain.
Relax sinews, promotes movement of qi, bi syndrome.
Reduce swellings, generates flesh (yin carbuncles).
Bai Mao Gen
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Cold
Cool blood, stop bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood.
Blood in urine, coughing blood.
Clear heat from the stomach and lungs.
Gao Liang Jiang
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot
Warms middle jiao, alelviate epigastric/abdominal pain.
Vomit, diarrhea, hiccup due to cold in the middle burner.
Xie/Xue Jie
Herbs for topical application (or invigorate blood).
Neutral
Dispel blood stasis, relive pain (traumatic injury/fractures, contusions, sprains, bruising and stops bleeding topically).
Protect decay of ulcer’s surface, generate flesh (chronic non healing sores).
Nan Gua Zi
Herbs that expel parasites
Neutral
Expel parasites, alleviate pain (tapeworm, roundworms).
Benefit pot partum fluid metabolism (post partum hand and feet swelling, aids in lactation).
Chan Tui
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cool
Disperse wind heat (swollen throat, loss of voice).
Vents early stage of rashes.
Clears liver fire.
Stops infantile wind (spasms, delirium, night terrors, convulsions).
Ma Huang
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
warm
Release exterior, disperse cold, moves lung qi (coughing, wheezing), promotes urination and reduces edema
Yi Mu Cao
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Zi Hua Di Ding
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear toxic heat and fire (hot swellings, eyes, throats, ears).
Clear hot sores in the head and back topically.
Tian Ma
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Neutral
Calm liver, clears wind heat or cold (spasm, tremors, headache, epilepsy).
Disperse painful obstruction due to wind damp (numbness, pain, dizzy).
Lu Rong
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify kidneys, strengthen yang.
Tonify Du, Chong, Ren vessels.
Strengthen sinews/bones, stabilizes Dai Mai, reproductive disorders.
Nourish qi/blood (yin type boils).
Pu Gong Ying
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear toxic heat and fire (liver heat affecting eyes).
Dissipates nodules and abscesses.
Promotes lactation due to heat.
Clear heat and resolves damp (jaundice, lin syndrome).
Zhu Ling
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema
Cool
Promotes urination, drains damp (combine with fu ling).
Yang jaundice, lin syndrome.
Yu Jin
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Cool
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Alleviate pain (liver qi with heat).
Clears heart, cools blood.
Benefits gallbladder (jaundice).
Stone lin syndrome.
Huo Xiang
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Aromatically transforms turbid dampness.
Harmonizes middle burner, stops vomiting.
Release exterior (wind damp cold), stomach flu.
Cook for the last 5 minutes of decoction.
Hai Zao
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cold
Clear heat, reduce phlegm nodules (goiter, scrofula).
Promote urination, reduce edema, leg edema and floating edema.
Chen Xiang
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain, upper and middle burner.
Stomach pain with nausea, vomit, direct rebellious qi downward.
Helps kidney grasp qi.
With Rou Cong Rong for constipation due to kidney deficiency.
Qian Hu
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cool
Redirects rebellious lung qi downward, expels phlegm.
Releases wind from the exterior.
Xiang Fu
Herbs that regulate qi
Neutral
Spreads and regulate qi, soothes liver.
Regulates menses, alleviates pain.
Tong Cao
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination cure lin syndrome
Cold
Promote urination, clear heat (lin syndrome, damp warm febrile disease).
Promote lactation.
Bai Qian
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm
Redirects lung qi downward, expel phlegm (cough with copious sputum and gurgling in throat, wheezing).
Qiang Huo
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, disperse cold, unblocks painful obstruction (wind cold damp pain), guides the herbs to Du and Taiyang Channels
Wu Wei Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Constrain lung qi (chronic cough and wheezing).
Tonify kidney, binds essence (stop diarrhea, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination).
Inhibits sweating, generates fluids (thirst with excess sweat, xiao ke).
Quiet spirit, calm heart (irritable, palpitations, insomnia).
Ku Shen
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Clear heat, drain damp (dysneterry, leukorrhea, jaundice, sores).
Expels wind, kills parasites (itching, skin lesions).
Clear heat, promote urination (lin syndrome, hot edema).
He Huan Pi
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Neutral
Calms spirit, relieve constrained emotions (vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory).
Invigorate blood, alleviate pain (swelling due to trauma, abscesses).
Meng Chong
Herbs that invigorate blood and move stagnation
Ju Pi/Chen Pi
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Regualte stomach qi, invigorates spleen qi.
Dry damp, transform phlegm.
Prevents stagnation.
San Qi
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Warm
Stops bleeding, transforms blood stasis.
Stops bleeding without causing blood stasis.
Traumatic injuries, alleviates pain, reduces swelling.
Suo Yang
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify Kidney yang (impotence, frequent urination, spermatorrhea).
Nourish blood, tonify essence, strengthen sinews (motor impairment, paralysis).
Moisten intestines (constipation due to deficient qi or blood).
Ting Li Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Cold
Drains lung heat, relieve phlegm, calm wheezing (excess type wheezing and coughing with excess sputum and gurgling sound in the throat).
Moves water, reduce edema (facial edema, fluid accumulation in the chest and abdomen, urinary difficulty).
Quan Xie
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Neutral, Toxic
Clears liver wind phlegm (convulsions, tetanus, seizures, tremors).
Fire toxic nodules (topically on toxic sores, swellings).
Unblocks collaterals (painful headaches).
Xie Bai
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Unblock yang qi in chest due to cold phlegm, disperse cold phlegm.
Promote movement of qi and blood, alelviate pain,, upper jiao.
Direct qi downward, reduce stagnation.
Tu Si Zi
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Neutral
Tonify kidneys, strengthen yin, secures essence, reserves urine.
Tonify LV, improves vision.
Strengthen spleen, stops diarrhea.
Calms fetus.
Liu Ji Nu
Herbs that inbigorate blood - treat trauma
Warm
Dispel blood stasis, unblocks menses (amenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, pain due to trauma).
Topically for burns, bleeding, contusions.
Lu Feng Fang
Herbs for topical application
Neutral, Toxic
Relive toxicity, expel wind, allevaite pain (toothache).
Topically (skin rash, itching, scabies, ringworm, sores, carbuncles).
Expel wind, dry damp (painful obstruction, wind rash).
Cao Guo
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Dries damp, damp cold obstructing the spleen, abdominal pain and distention, vomiting, diarrhea.
Malarial disorder (fever, chills with damp cold and turbid dampness).
Dissolve stagnation and distention of abodmen (nausea, spleen deficiency).
Niu Xi
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorates blood, dispels blood stasis.
Strengthens sinews/bones/joints.
Clears damp heat in the lower burner.
Brings blood downward.
Wu Ling Zhi
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Disperse blood stasis, alleviate pain (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, epigastric pain due to blood stasis).
Transforms stasis, stops bleeding (uterine bleeding, lochioschesis).
Childhood nutritional impairment with focal distention.
Use raw to invigorate blood and dry fry to stop bleeding.
Bai Hua She She Cao
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear toxic heat and fire (abscesses, sores, ulcerations, swellings, snakebites).
Clear heat and damp (promotes urination, lin syndrome, jaundice).
Xia Ku Cao
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Ascending liver fire (eyes, headache, dizziness).
Phlegm fire nodules (neck, scrofula, lipoma, goiter).
Hypertension.
Da Qing Ye
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear heat, relieve toxicity (febrile disease outbreak).
Cools blood, reduces blotches (skin eruptions, fever, irritability).
Zhu Ru
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cool
Clear, transform phlegm heat and cough.
Clears heat from stomach, stops vomiting.
Disturbed heart by phlegm heat (insomnia, restlessness).
Bie Jia
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Nourish yin, clear deficiency heat (anchors yang, interior liver wind).
Invigorates blood, promotes menses, dissipate nodules.
Wu Gong
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Warm, Toxic
Cleras wind and spasms (lock jaw, seizures, convulsions).
Dissipates toxins and nodules (sores, carbuncles, neck lumps, snake bite).
Unblocks collaterals (painful headaches).
Mang Xiao
Downward draining herbs - purgatives
Cold
Purge accumulations, guides out stagnation, soften hardness.
Clears heat, reduces swelling.
Di Yu
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Cool
Cools blood, stop bleeding in the lower burner (dysentery, vomiting blood, uterine bleeding).
Cleras heat, generates flesh (carbuncles/burns).
Sang Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Liu Huang
Herbs for topical application
Hot, Toxic
Relive toxicity, kill parasites, stop itching.
Topically for scabies, ringworm, damp sores, ulcers, carbuncles.
Tonify vitality gate fire, strengthen yang (interior yin cold symptoms).
Kidney yang deficiency (cold lower back and knees, impotence).
Spleen deficiency cold (asthma, constipation in the eldery with Ban Xia).
Ji Nei Jin
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Neutral
Strongly reduce food stagnation, improves spleen transport.
Malnutrition in children.
Secures kidneye ssence, stop enuresis.
Transforms hardness (GB/BL/KD stones).
Zhen Zhu Mu
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
Xi Xin
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, disperse damp and cold (headache, body ache).
Warms lungs transforms phlegm (coughing, watery sputum).
Unblocks nasal congestion.
He Shou Wu
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Warm
Nourish blood (tonify liver and kidney yin and blood).
Relieve toxic fire (carbuncles, sores, scrofula, neck lumps).
Moisten intestines, unblocks bowels.
Expels wind from skin (rash).
Malaria.
Sha Yuan Zi/Tong Ji Li
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify kidney yang, secures essence (lower back pain, tinnitus, impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, incontinence, leukorrhea).
Strengthens kidney and liver (poor viison, blurred vision).
Su Mu
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Neutral
Invigorate blood, reduce swelling (post partum abdominal pain, amenorrhea, pain due to trauma with blood stagnation).
Stops bleeding (excessive bleeding with vertigo and shortness of breath).
Zong Lu Tan
Herbs that astringe blood and stop bleeding
Neutral
Binds and stops bleeding (coughing blood, nosebleed, blood in stools, uterine bleeding).
Gan Jiang
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot
Restores devastated yang (expel interior cold, yang qi deficiency cold).
Spleen and stomach excess cold.
Warms lung and transforms phlegm.
Warms channels, stops bleeding (pao jiang).
Yin Yang Huo
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify kidney yang (impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, poor memory, painful and cold lower back and knees).
Expel wind damp cold (spasms, cramps, joint pain, numbness).
Strengthen yin and yang, liver yang rising (dizziness, low back pain, irregular menses).
Cang Er Zi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm/Toxic
Expel wind and damp (painful obstruction, skin disorders, itching).
Nasal passage obstruction.
Di Fu Zi
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome
Cold
Clear damp heat, promote urination (lin syndrome).
Expel dampness, stop itching (damp skin disorder, eczema, scabies, genital itch).
Tian Nan Xing
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm, Toxic
Dry dampness, expel phlegm (drying aspect stronger than ban xia).
Dipserse wind phlegm in channels, stops spasms.
Reduce swelling, alleviate pain, deep rooted sores, yin type abscess.
Caution with pregnancy.
Tian Nan Xing: prepared with fresh ginger
Dan Nan Xing: prepared with cow bile (good for heat phlegm).
Wu Zhu Yu
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot, Toxic
Warms middle, disperse cold, relieve channel to alleviate pain.
Redirects stomach qi downwards, vomiting of sour fulids.
Leads fire downwards (mouth/tongue cankers).
Warms spleen and expels damp cold, stops diarrhea.
Xin Yi (Hua)
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Expels wind cold unblocks nasal orifices
Hai Jin Sha
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome
Cold
Clear heat, promote urination (lin syndrome).
Clear heat and toxic fire (swollen painful throat).
Ze Lan
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Bei Xie/Bi Xie
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome
Neutral
Separates pure from turbid, cloudy urination and leukorrhea.
Expel wind damp (cold/hot bi) relax sinews.
Damp heat skin disorders.
Da Huang
Downward draining herbs - purgatives
Cold
Purge accumulations, clear heat from blood, invigorates blood.
Drains heat/damp for yang jaundice.
Topically for burns, hot skin, skin lesions (combine with Shi Gao).
Dai Zhe Shi
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Cold
Calms liver, anchors floating yang, clears liver fire.
Directs rebellious qi downwards (belching, vomiting, hiccough, wheezing).
Cools blood, stops bleeding (vomit/nose bleeding).
Hai Fu Shi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cold
Clear lung heat (expel phlegm, thick sputum, bloody sputum).
Soften hardness (dissipate phlegm nodules, scrofula).
Promote urination for lin syndrome.
Cao Dou Kou
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Dries dampness, warms middle burner, abdominal distention, vomiting, diarrhea.
Very strong warming and drying function.
Bai Zhi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Expel wind cold, alleviate pain (headache, chills, bodyache).
Clears swelling, expel pus in early stage.
Expel damp (leukorrhea).
Opens nasal passages for nasal congestion.
Bing Pian
Aromatic substances that open the orifices
Cool
Aromatically opens the orifices, revives spirit (fainting, convulsions).
Clears heat, alleviates pain, dissipates nodules (alleviates itching, pain swelling of throat and skin disease, regenerate flesh).
Ban Lan Gen
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Drain toxic heat and fire, cool blood (mumps, throat).
Damp heat jaundice.
Ci Shi
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
Cold
Anchors and calms spirit (restlessness, palpitation, insomnia, tremors).
Yin deficiency with ascending yang (dizziness, vertigo).
Tonify kidney yin and liver (improve hearing and vision).
Helps kidney to grasp qi (chronic asthma).
Che Qian Zi
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome
Cold
Promote urination, drain heat from bladder.
Solidify stool, clear/brighten eyes.
Lung heat (expel phlegm, stop cough).
Bo He
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cool
Expel wind heat, clears head and eyes (throat, red eyes, headache).
Clears early stage rashes.
Liver qi stagnation (emotional, gynecological disorders).
Shen Qu
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Warm
Reduce food stagnation, strengthen stomach.
Aids in minderal digestion and absorption.
Excess alcohol/wheat ingestion causing stagnation.
Yu Xing Cao
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cool
Clear toxic lung heat (swellings, abscess, thick yellow sputum).
Relieves toxicity (expels pus for toxic sores).
Drains damp heat (promotes urination, diarrhea, lin syndrome).
Dang Gui
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Warm
Tonify blood, regulate menses due to blood deficiency.
Invigorates/harmonizes blood, disperse cold, alleviate pain.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
Reduce swellings (expel pus, generate flesh).
Pi Pa Ye
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Cool
Transform phlegm, clears lung heat (lung qi upsurging, cough).
Harmonize stomach, clear stomach heat, redirects rebellious stomach qi, nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching.
Zhi Shi
Herbs that regulate qi
Cool
Break up qi stagnation, reduce accumulations.
Transforms phlegm, expel focal distention (abdominal pain, indigestion, constipation).
Used with qi tonifying herbs for prolapse of organs.
Raise blood pressure.
Ding Xiang
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Warm
Warms middle jiao, direct rebellious qi downward, cold in the stomach.
Warms kidney yang, impotence, leukorrhea due to deficiency cold.
Tai Zi Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Strengthen spleen and stomach qi (fatigue, reduced appetite).
Tonify lung qi (spontaneous sweating).
Generates fluids (thirst, fever, summer heat in children, febrile disease).
Fu Xiao Mai
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Cool
Deficiency sweating (night/spontaneous).
Nourish heart (palpitations, insomnia, irritability).
Childhood bedwetting.
Tian Men Dong
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Moisten lung, clear lung heat, dry mouth, coughing up blood.
Nourish kidney yin, generates fluids, constipation.
Lu Gan Shi
Herbs for topical application
Neutral
Brighten eyes (superficial visual obstruction, red swollen eyes).
Dry dampness, generate flesh (chronic draining pus from open sores).
Yu Mi Xu
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema
Neutral
Promote urination (lin syndrome, edema).
Regulate gallbladder jaundice.
Wasting thirstin disorder.
Sang Zhi
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Cool
Dispel wind heat bi, upper extremities, benefits joints.
Damp heat, reduce edema.
Feng Mi
Tonifying herbs - tonify qi
Neutral
Tonify SP/ST
Sha Ren
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Transform damp, stop vomiting.
Promote movement of qi, strengthen spleen.
Harmonize stomach, stop diarrhea.
Calm fetus, morning sickness.
Shan Zhu Yu
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Hong Hua
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorate blood, unblock menstruation.
Dispel blood stasis, stop pain due to injury or abscess.
Wu Mei
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Inhibits leakage of lung qi (lung defiicency chronic cough).
Binds intestines (diarrhea, dysentery).
Generates fluids for thirst.
Expels roundworms, alleviates abdominal pain.
Yi Zhi Ren
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Warms kidneys (retain essence, hold urine, reproductive/urinary disorder).
Warms spleen (stops diarrhea, excess salivation, thick/bad taste in the mouth).
Chi Xiao Dou
Herbs that drain damp, benefit water and relieve edema
Neutral
Clear heat, promote urination (abdominal fullness, swelling with edema).
DIsperse blood stasis (reduce swelling and fire toxicity, sores, carbuncles).
Clear damp heat jaundice.
Rou Gui
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot
Fortifies kidney yang.
Leads floating yang fire back to its source (KD), upper heat and lower cold.
Disperse deep cold, aleviate qi and blood stagnation.
Encourages generation of qi and blood.
Dysmenorrhea.
Xiong Huang
Obsolete substances with toxicity
Warm, Toxic
Relive toxicity, kill parasites, skin itchiness, inflammation, abscesses.
Topically for scabines, ringworm, dam rashes.
Kills parasites, roundworm.
Dries damp, expel phlegm (wheezing, seizures, malarial disorders).
Mu Gua
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Warm
Relax sinews and muscles (dispel cold bi, calf cramps).
Harmonize stomach, reduce food stagnation.
Bu Gu Zhi
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Hot
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive disorders, cold lower back).
Tonify and strengthen spleen (early morning diarrhea).
Promote kidneys to grasp lung qi (wheezing).
Topically for alopecia, psoriasis, vitiligo.
Hu Tao Rou/Ren
Tonifying herbs - tonify yang
Warm
Tonify kidney (weak back and knees with coldness, frequent urination).
Warms lung (helps kidney grasp lung qi, chronic cough, wheezing).
Moisten intestines, constipation in elderly.
Zhe Chong
Regulate blood - invigorate blood
Cold, Toxic
Breaks up blood stasis (abdominal masses, amenorrhea, numb swollen tongue).
Renews sinews and joints bones (lacerations, fractures).
Sha Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cool
Moisten lungs (non productive cough).
Nourish stomach (generates fluids, clears heat).
Moisten exterior (dry itchy skin aggravated by cold and dry).
Bai Ji
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Cool
Stops bleeding from the lung and stomach (vomiting/coughing blood).
Reduces swelling and generates flesh (sores, ulcers).
Shi Jue Ming
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Cold
Drains liver fire and ascending yang (headache, dizziness, red eyes).
Liver heat disturbing vision (photophobia, pterygium, visual obstruction).
Zhe Bei Mu
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cool
Cleras heat, dissipates nodules due to heat.
Bai Bian Dou
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Strengthen spleen qi (stops diarrhea).
Cleras heat and dampness (diarrhea, vomiting).
Ren Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Warm
Strongly tonify yuan/original qi (extreme qi deficiency).
Tonify lung qi (respiratory disorders, asthma/dyspnea).
Strengthens spleen qi/lethargy (no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapsed organs, distended chest/abdomen).
Generates fluids/stops thirst.
Benefits heart qi (calms spirit).
Do not take with tea, turnips, Li Lu, Wu Ling Zhi, Zao Jia.
Tian Hua Fen
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Drains lung heat, transforms phlegm, moistens lung dryness.
Drains heat, generates fluids (thirst, irritability, cough, thick sputum).
Relieves toxicity, expels pus (carbuncles, breast).
Dan Dou Shi/Chi
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cold or Warm
Release both exterior wind heat or wind cold.
Eliminates vexation, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, yin deficiency.
Ze Xie
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema
Cold
Promote urination, drains damp in the lower burner.
Drain deficiency kidney fire.
She Gan / Ye Gan
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clears toxic heat (throat, phlegm heat).
Transforms phlegm, clears lung (cough, wheezing and phlegm).
Sheng Ma
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cool
Release exterior, vents measles/early stage skin rashes.
Clear heat and toxicity sores.
Raise yang for spleen qi sinking (shortness of breath, fatigue, prolapse).
Guides other herbs upwards.
Bai Ji Li/Ci Ji Li
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Warm
Calm liver, anchor yang (headache, vertigo).
Expels wind heat (brighten eyes, swelling of eyes).
Promotes smooth flow of qi (chest distention, insufficient lactation).
Expels wind (stops itching).
Shu Di Huang
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Warm
Tonify blood, nourish yin.
Nourish blood, enrich essence.
She Chuang Zi
Herbs for topical application
Warm
Dry damp, kill parasites, stop itch (topically for weeping itchy skin lesions, scabies, ringworm).
Warm kidney, strengthen yang (impotence, infertility, cold womb).
Disperse cold, expel wind, dry damp (leukorrhea, low back pain).
Wu Zei Gu/Hai Piao Xiao
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Warm
Stop bleeding (uterine bleeding with vaginal discharge).
Kidney deficiency (nocturnal emission, premature jeaculation, leukorrhea).
Harmonize stomach (epigastric pain, acid reflux).
Resolve dampness, promote healing (topically for rashes, ulcers).
Deficiency diarrhea (pain near navel, diarrhea/dysentery).
Sheng Jiang
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, dispel cold in middle jiao (vomiting).
Disperse cold phlegm in lung (acute and chronic cough).
Reduce toxicity of other herbs.
Harmonizes ying and wei for sweating.
Hai Ge Ke
Herbs that resolve phlegm - cold herbs that clear phlegm heat
Neutral
Clear heat, redirect lung qi downards, transform thick sputum with chest or rib pain.
Soften hardness, dissipate nodules (phlegm fire goiter and scrofula).
Epigastric pain and acid reflux (calcined powdered form).
Chi Shao Yao
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Cool
Invigorate blood, dispel stasis (gynecology, abdominal masses, traumatic swelling/pain).
Clears heat, cools blood (blotchy skin, bleeding, irregular menses).
Fu Ling
Herbs that drain dampness, promote urination and benefit edema
Neutral
Promotes urination, drains damp.
Strengthen spleen, harmonize middle jiao.
Quiet’s heart and calms spirit.
(Fen) Fang Ji
Wind damp dispelling herbs
Cold
Promote urination, reduce edema (lower extremiti edema, borborygmus, abdominal distention, lower jiao damp accumulation).
Expel wind damp heat, alleviate pain (fever, red swollen hot painful joints).
Chuan Bei Mu
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat
Cool
Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stop cough.
Long Yan Rou
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Warm
Tonify heart and spleen, nourish blood, calm spirit, insomnia, palpitations, poor memory, vertigo.
Cang Zhu
Aromatic herbs that transform dampness
Warm
Strong drying damp function, harmonizes middle burner.
Expel wind damp cold bi syndrome.
Clears damp heat from the lower burner.
Induces sweating, release exterior.
Chai Hu
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cool
Clears shaoyang (fever, chills, bitter taste, irritable vomiting).
Liver qi stagnation (vertigo, menstrual disorder, chest pain, bloating).
Spleen/Stomach deficiency (prolapsed organs, diarrhea, hemorrhoids).
Nu Zhen Zi
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Neutral
LV/KD yin deficiency (dizzy, floaters, weak knees).
Clears deficiency heat.
Improves vision.
Shi Hu
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cold
Nourish yin, clear deficiency heat, generate fluids, severe thirst.
Brightens vision, strengthen lower back.
Nourish stomach yin (dry heaves, wasting/thirsting disorder).
Zi Su Ye
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, disperse cold
Promotes qi circulation, expands chest
Calms restless fetus, alleviates morning sickness
Sea food poisoning, nausea, vomiting
Gu Sui Bu
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify KD (diarrhea, toothache, bleeding gums, tinnitus).
Mending sinews and bones due to falls (fractures, contusions, sprains).
Stimulates growht of hair (alopecia, topically).
Gui Zhi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Harmonizes ying and wei, exterior cold with deficiency
Warms channels, disperses cold, unblocks yangqi in the chest (palpitations)
Huai Hua
Herbs that stop bleeding - cool the blood, stop bleeding
Cool
Cools blood, stops bleeding (damp heat in the LI - dysentery, hemorrhoids).
Soothes liver fire (red eyes, dizziness).
Shi Jun Zi
Herbs that expel parasites
Warm
Kills parasites (roundworms).
Strengthen spleen (dossolves accumulations, nutritional impairment).
Abdominal distention (poor appetite, weakness).
Hu Jiao
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot
Warms middle, disperse cold (stomach cold, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain).
Pu Huang
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Neutral
Stops bleeding (traumatic injury, uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in urine/stool).
Invigorates blood and dispels stasis (chest pain, postpartum abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea).
Du Huo
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Warm
Dispel wind cold damp (relieve pain, release exterior, lower part of the body).
Shaoyin headache and toothache.
Itchy skin due to wind damp.
Do not use for excess of deficiency heat syndromes.
Bai Fu Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Sang Ji Sheng
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Neutral
Liver/kidney yin deficiency (strengthen sinews/bones).
Expel wind damp (bi syndrome).
Nourish blood deficinecy (restless fetus, uterine bleeding, dry scaly skin).
Qing Dai
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear heat, relieve toxicity, cool blood, disperse swelling.
Topically for inflamed oral cavity or throat.
Lung heat cough.
Shan Yao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Tonify spleen and stomach qi and yin.
Tonify lung qi and yin.
Strengthen kidney yin and yang.
Yu Li Ren
Downward draining herbs - moist laxatives
Neutral
Qi stagnation, moisten intestines, constipation.
Promote urination (edema in legs).
Da Ji
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Yi Yi Ren
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water relieve edema
Cool
Promote urination, drains damp.
Strengthens spleen, stops diarrhea.
Expels wind damp, relieve joint and muscle pain.
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Jin Ying Zi
Herbs that stabilize and bind
Neutral
Stabilize kidney (spermatorrhea, incontinence, leukorrhea, rectal prolapse).
Binds intestines (diarrhea, dysentery).
Da Fu Pi
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Promote downward movement of qi, reduce food stagnation (epigastric and abdominal distention, belching, acid regurgitaiton, constipation).
Expel dampness, promote urination (edema, damp in stomach and intestines).
Yu Zhu
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin
Cool
Nourish yin, moisten dryness, lung and stomach dry heat with cough, dry throat, thirst, irritability, steaming bone disorder, excess hunger, constipation.
Clear wind, nourish sinews (moisten sinews, spasms, dizziness).
Bai Shao
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Cool
Nourish blood, regulate menses due to blood deficiency.
Calms liver yang, alleviates pain.
Preserves yin, adjusts ying and wei.
Bian Xu
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and cure lin syndrome
Cool
Damp heat in the bladder (promote urination, painful lin, blood lin, expels parasites).
Itchy skin.
Bai Tou Weng
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Cold
Clear toxic heat and fire (dysentery, damp heat in stomach).
Zao Jiao Ci
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
Warm
Reduce swelling, discharge pus (reduce abscess, early stage of swollen sores, encourages sores to burst).
Expels wind.
Kills parasites.
Qu Mai
Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome
Cold
Promote urination, drain damp heat from the bladder, painful/bloody/stone lin.
Breaks up blood stasis.
Jiang Xiang
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Disperse blood stasis, stops bleeding.
Invigorates blood, promote qi movement, epigastric and abdominal pain.
Spleen and stomach qi stagnation, chest pain.
Shan Zha
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Warm
Reduces and guides out food stagnation.
Transforms blood stasis (dissipates clumps).
Hypertension.
Yuan Hua
Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants
Warm, Toxic
Drain downward, drive out congested fluids, cathartic and diuretic, fluids in chest and abdomen.
Kills parasites, topically for ringworm.
Tan Xiang
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Promote qi movement, alleviate pain (chest and abdomen).
Shi Chang Pu
Aromatic substances that open the orifices
Warm
Open orifices, vaporize phlegm, quiet spirit, sensory orifice disorder due to phlegm (deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures).
Harmonize middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain.
Wind cold damp (painful obstruction, trauma, sores).
Ku Lian Pi
Herbs that expel parasites
Cold, Toxic
Kills parasites (roundworm, hook worm, pin worm, vaginal trich infection).
Topically for tinea infections.
Xian Mao
Tonifying herbs - tonify the yang
Hot, Toxic
Tonify kidney, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary disorders).
Expel cold, eliminate damp (pain, weakness in the bones and sinews).
Zhi Ke/Qiao
Herbs that regulate qi
Cool
Move qi, reduce distention with deficiency.
Xu Duan
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify LV/KD (strengthen sinews and bones, lower back/knee weakness, stiff joints - tonify without causing stagnation).
Stops uterine bleeding (calm fetus, bleeding during pregnancy).
Promotes blood circulation, alleviates pain, generates flesh, trauma injuries.
Suan Zao Ren
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Neutral
Nourish heart yin, tonify liver blood, quiet spirit.
Irritability, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety due to deficiency.
Prevents abnormal sweating.
Jiang Huang
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorates blood, unblock menses (chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea with cold deficiency, swelling pain).
Expel wind, promote movement of blood, painful obstruction.
Ma Qian Zi
Obsolete substances with toxicity
Cold, Toxic
Unblock channels, disperse clumps (reduce swelling, alleviate pain, abscesses, yin type ulcers, pain due to trauma, wind damp obstruction).
Xie/Xue Yu Tan
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
Neutral
Stops bleeding (especially uterine bleeding).
Promotes urination, bloody urination.
Dan Zhu Ye
Herbs that clear heat and purge fire
Cold
Clear heat in stomach or heart (irritability, cankers, swollen painful gums).
Promote urination (clear damp heat lin syndrome).
Heat in the small intestine (irritability, dark red tongue tip).
Bing Lang
Herbs that expel parasites
Warm
Kills parasites (tapeworm, pinworm, blood flukes, helps expel bodies of worms).
Promote movement of qi, reduce stagnation (drain downward and unblock bowels, food accumulations, abdominal distention, constipation, tenesmus).
Promote urination (damp phlegm and malarial disorders).
Xian He Cao
Herbs that regulate the blood - stop bleeding
Neutral
Stops bleeding due to cold/heat/excess/deficiency.
Alleviates diarrhea/dysentery.
Kills parasites.
Ge Gen
Cool acrid herbs that dispel wind heat
Cool
Release muscle, clear heat (fever, headache, stiffness in back and neck).
Nourish fluids (thirst with stomach heat).
Vents measles/rash at early stage.
Expel water and reduce welling (difficulty urinating, hot superficial edema).
Yin Chai Hu
Herbs that clear heat from deficiency
Cool
Clear deficiency heat (steaming bone, deficiency fever).
Clear heat (fever, thirst, irritability, childhood nutritional impairment).
Cool blood, stop bleeding (coughing up blood, nosebleed, bloody urination).
Zhi Zi
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
Cold
Clear heat, eliminate vexation (irritability, restlessness, insomnia, delirium).
Drains damp heat (urinary dysfunction, constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice).
Cools blood, stops bleeding (nose, vomit, dysentery, urinary).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma/swelling.
Man Jing Zi
Cool acrid herbs that dispel wind heat
Cool
Expel wind heat (headache, eye pian).
Wind heat in the liver (eyes).
Drains damp, expels wind (stiff, numb, cramping, heavy limbs).
Cong Bai
Warm Acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, induce sweat.
Disperse cold, unblock yang (abdominal pain, nasal congestion).
Topically relieves toxicity/clumps/abscesses/sores.
Herbs contraindicated during pregnancy
*Poisonous or toxic herbs
*Herbs with a strong or drastic action
*Bie Jia
Che Qian Zi
*Chuan Niu Xi
*Da Ji
*Dan Shen
*E Zhu
Fan Xie Ye
*Fu Zi
Gan Sui
*Gui Ban
*Hong Hua
*Huai Niu Xi
*Hua Jiao
*Jiang Huang
Liu Huang
*Lu Hui
Ma Qian Zi
*Mang Xiao
*Mo Yao
*Mu Dan Pi
Qu Mai
*Ru Xiang
*San Leng
Shang Lu
*Shan Zha
*She Gan
She Xiang
Shui Zhi
*Tao Ren
Tian Hua Fen
*Tian Nan Xing
*Wang Bu Liu Xing
Wu Gong
Wu Tou
Xiong Huang
Xuan Ming Fen
*Yan Hu Suo
*Yi Mu Cao
Yuan Hua
Caution during pregnancy herbs
*Herbs that warm the channels to remove stasis
*Herbs that promote qi circulation and break stagnation
*Herbs that are pungent and hot
*Herbs that drain dampness
Bai Fu Zi
*Bai Jiang Cao
*Bai Ji Li
Ban Xia
Bing Pian
Chang Shan
*Chan Tui
*Che Qian Zi
*Chi Shi Zhi
*Chuan Xiong
*Da Huang
*Da Fu Pi
*Dai Zhe Shi
*Dong Kui Zi
*Gan Jiang
*Gui Zhi
*Hou Po
Huai Niu Xi
*Hua Shi
Lu Hui
Mo Yao
*Mu Tong
*Mu Zei
Pu Huang
Quan Xie
*Rou Gui
Ru Xiang
*San Qi
Su Mu
*Tian Hua Fen
Tian Nan Xing
Tong Cao
Wang Bu Liu Xing
*Xin Yi Hua
Xue Jie
Yi Yi Ren
*Yu Jin
Yu Li Ren
*Zhen Zhu Mu
*Ze Lan
*Zhi Ke
*Zhi Shi
Toxic Herbs
Ai Ye
Ba Dou
Bai Fu Zi
Bai Guo
Ban Mao
Ban Xia
Bi Ma Zi
Cang Er Zi
Cao Wu
Chan Su
Chang Chun Hua
Chang Shan
Chong Lou
Chuan Lian Zi
Chuan Wu
Da Feng Zi
Da Ji
Dan Fan
Fan Xie Ye
Fu Zi
Gan Sui
Gou Wen
Gua Di
Guan Zhong
He Shi
Hong Sheng Dan
Hu Er Cao
Hua Jiao
Ji Xing Zi
Jiao Mu
Jin Qian Bai Hua She
Ku Lian Pi
Ku Xing Ren
Lei Gong Teng
Lei Wan
Li Lu
Liu Huang
Long Kui
Lu Feng Fang
Lu Hui
Ma Bo
Ma Qian Zi
Mang Chong
Mi Tuo Seng
Mu Bie Zi
Mu Tong
Nao Yang Hua
Pi Shi
Pi Shuang
Qi She
Qian Dan
Qian Jin Zi
Qian Niu Zi
Qing Fen
Quan Xie
Rou Dou Kou
Shen Ci Gu
Shan Dou Gen
Shang Lu
Shi Di
Shi Jun Zi
Shou Gong
Shui Yin
Shui Zhi
Teng Huang
Tian Nan Xing
Tian Xiaon Zi
Tian Xiong
Tu Jing Pi
Wei Ling Xian
Wu Bei Zi
Wu Gong
Wu Zhu Yu
Xi Xian Cao
Xi Xin
Xian Mao
Xiong Huang
Ya Da Zi
Yang Jin Hua
Ying Su Ke
Yuan Hua
Zao Jie
Zao Jiao Ci
Ze Qi
Shang Nan
Zhe Chong
ZHu Sha
Gan Cao is incompatible with:
Gan Sui
Yuan Hua
Hai Zao
Da Ji
Wu Tou is incompatible with:
Ban Xia
Gua Lou
Bei Mu
Bai Lia
Bai Ji
Li Lu is incompatible with:
Ren Shen
Dan Shen
Sha Shen
Xuan Shen
Ku Shen
Xi Xin
Bai Shao
Chi Shao
Chuan Xiong
Gan Cao
Liu Huang is antagonistic with
Po Xiao
Shui Yin is antagonistic with
Pi Shaung
Lang Du is antagonistic with
Mi Tuo Seng
Ba Dou is antagonistic with
Qian Niu Zi
Ding Xiang is antagonistic with
Yu Jin
Ya Xiao is antagonistic with
San Leng
Chuan Wu and Cao Wu are antagonistic with
Xi Jiao
Ren Shen is antagonistic with
Wu Ling Zhi
Rou Gui is antagonistic with
Chi Shi Zhi
Chuan Wu, Cao Wu, and Fu Zi are incompatible with
Ban Xia
Gua Lou
Tian Hua Fen
Chuan Bei Mu
Zhe Bei Mu
Bai Lian
Bai Ji
Xi Jiao is antagonistic with
Cao Wu
