Herbology 2 Chapter 9 Digestive Herbs

Question 1

Digestive herbs definition

Answer 1

Herbs that have the primary therapeutic effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, stimulating appetite, treating food stagnation

Question 2

Digestive herbs therapeutic effects

Answer 2

Promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, stimulating appetite

Question 3

Digestive herbs applications

Answer 3

Food stagnation manifested as stomach and abdominal stuffiness and fullness, nausea and vomiting, retching with decay, acid reflux, irregular bowel movement, and spleen and stomach weakness with indigestion

Question 4

Food stagnation with qi stagnation

Answer 4

With qi regulating herbs

Question 5

Food stagnation with coldness

Answer 5

With herbs for warming the interior and dispersing coldness

Question 6

Food stagnation with heat

Answer 6

With bitter, cold, and light purgatives

Question 7

Food stagnation with dampness obstructing the middle jiao

Answer 7

With aromatic herbs that dissolve dampness

Question 8

Food stagnation with spleen and stomach weakness

Answer 8

With herbs that tonify qi and strengthen the spleen

Question 9

Digestive herbs caution

Answer 9

Caution for patients with qi deficiency without food or phlegm obstruction

Question 10

Therapeutic effects: Promote digestion and harmonize middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite

Answer 10

Dao Ya

Question 11

Clinical applications: Combine with Mai Ya, milder than Mai Ya, reinforce each other for starch food stagnation and spleen deficiency manifested as poor appetite

Answer 11

Dao Ya

Question 12

Which herb raw is good at harmonizing middle jiao

Answer 12

Dao Ya

Question 13

Which stir fried herb is good at dissolving food stagnation

Answer 13

Dao Ya

Question 14

Therapeutic effects: Promote digestion and relieve distention, direct qi downward and resolve phlegm

Answer 14

Lai Fu Zi

Question 15

Clinical applications: Food stagnation and qi obstruction (abdominal distention or paid, acid reflux, may or may not have spleen qi xu), cough and asthma with profuse sputum, chest congestion, and poor appetite

Answer 15

Lai Fu Zi

Question 16

Which herb stir fried is good for promoting digestion, directing qi downward and resolving phlegm

Answer 16

Lai Fu Zi

Question 17

Lai Fu Zi caution

Answer 17

Qi deficiency without food stag or phlegm accumluation

Question 18

Lai Fu Zi is contraindicated with

Answer 18

Ren Shen

Question 19

Therapeutic effects: promote digestion and invigorate spleen, arrest seminal emission and relieve enuresis

Answer 19

Ji Nei Jin

Question 20

Clinical applications: food stagnation, infantile malnutrition with accumulation and spleen deficiency, seminal emission and enuresis based on kidney deficiency, sand stone lin syndrome, gallbladder stone

Answer 20

Ji Nei Jin

Question 21

Ji Nei Jin cautions

Answer 21

Spleen deficiency without stagnation

Question 22

Digestive herbs flavor

Answer 22

Sweet

Question 23

Digestive herbs meridians

Answer 23

SP ST