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Herbs 2 - Clear Heat and Toxins Flashcards

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  • Channel(s) entered: LI, Lu, St
    • Resolves fire toxicity
    • Vents and disperses early-stage W-H
    • Clears damp-heat from lower burner
    • Lightweight, affecting upper burner
    • Cools blood and stops bleeding (if charred)
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Jin Yin Hua

Honeysuckle Flower

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lu, Gb
    • Often paired with Jin Yin Hua
    • Cools and vents heat in Ht and Upper Jiao
    • Reduces abscesses and dissipates clumps
    • Resolves toxicity from externally-contracted W-H
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Lian Qiao

Forsythia Fruit

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  • Channel(s) entered:Ht, Lu, St
    • Very cold, strongly cools heat toxin or pathogenic heat at both Qi and Blood levels
    • For any warm-heat disease or epidemic febrile outbreak
    • Cools the blood and dissipates maculae
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Da Qing Ye

Isatis Leaf

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lu, St
    • Benefits the throat
    • Drains heat, resolves fire toxicity
    • Cools blood
    • Often combined with Da Qing Ye
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Ban Lan Gen

Isatis Root

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, St
    • Light, lifting, guide to eyes
    • Reduces abscesses and dissipates nodules
      • internal (breast/intestinal) abscesses, external sores (firm and hard)
    • Breast herb: abscesses/sores and promotes lactation
    • Clears Lr and eyes (swollen, red)
    • Excels at draining and directing downward
    • Unblocks painful urinary dribbling
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Pu Gong Yin

Dandelion; Taraxacum

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lr
    • Strongly clears heat-toxin
    • Reduces hot swellings
      • Red, swollen eyes, swollen painful throat and ears
    • Clears hot sores, internally and topically (if used fresh)
      • Particularly of head/back
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Zi Hua Di Ding

Violet

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, Lr
    • Drains fire and resolves fire toxicity (furuncles, carbuncles, and sores)
    • Clears W-F causing red eyes
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Ye Ju Hua

Wild Chrysanthemum Flower

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  • Channel(s) entered: LI, Lr, St
    • Expels pus (internal fire toxin disorders - int. abscess, or fire toxin surface sores/swelling)
    • Dispels blood stasis and stops pain (heat-induced)
    • Appendicitis
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Bai Jiang Cao

Patrinia

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, LI
    • Lung abscess or Lu heat cough. Internally and topically for H-T sores.
    • Drains D-H and promotes urination
      • For LI D-H diarrhea or D-H in the Lower Jiao with painful urinary dribbling)
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Yu Xing Cao

Houttuynia

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  • Channel(s) entered: LI, Lr
    • Cools the blood (D-H or fire toxin dysenteric disorders)
    • For bloody or hot painful urinary dribbling
    • Fire-toxin carbuncles or sores, as well as red and white vaginal discharge
    • Wasp stings, snake bites
    • Stops bleeding, unlocks painful urinary dribbling
    • Very good for dysentery
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Ma Chi Xian

Purslane

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  • Channel(s) entered: LI, St - yangming herb
    • Clears heat and resolves fire toxicity
      • HOT Dysenteric disorders due to D-H in St or intestines
    • Cools blood
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Bai Tou Weng

Pulsatilla

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  • Channel(s) entered: LI, Lu, SI, St
    • For a wide variety of heat disorders, including heat in Lu, throat, and urinary tract
    • Wide-scope toxic D-H
    • Clears heat, dries damp, stops diarrhea
      • Damp dysenteric disorders
    • Topically for snake bite in fresh form
    • Anti-cancer herb
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Chuan Xin Lian

Andographis

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, St, LI, SI
    • Strongly resolves fire toxicity
    • Reduces abscesses
      • Snakebite, and recently for a variety of cancers
    • Facilitates resolution of dampness by promoting urination
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Bai Hua She She Cao

Heydyotis

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  • Channel(s) entered: Sp, St
    • Expels D-H accumulated in the vessels of the muscles and flesh
    • Leads D-H out through urine
    • Stops itching (for vaginal pruritis with discharge)
      • STDs causing toxic sores on skin
    • Skin conditions (W-D-H-F-T on skin)
    • Relieves painful obstruction
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Bai Xian Pi

Dictamnus Root Bark

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, St
    • Relieves joint pain caused by heat toxin type pathogens
      • D-H bi
      • D-H jaundice
    • Clears D-H from skin
    • Often combined with Fu Ling
    • Chelating Herb
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Tu Fu Ling

Smooth Greenbriar Rhizome

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu
    • Improves condition of the throat
      • Fire excess, fire toxin, P-H obstruction
    • Clears Lungs, transforms phlegm, phlegm, phlegm
    • Lu toxic-heat conditions
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She Gan

Belamcanda Rhizome

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, LI
    • Improves condition of throat
    • Used for cancers - dissipates clumps - especially in throat/Lu
    • Clears toxic swellings of gums
    • Can be used both internally and as a gargle
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Shan Dou Gen

Bushy Sophora

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu
    • Lightweight, rises to disseminate and disperse
    • Best for throat disorders due to W-H **
    • Clears the Lu (cough due to Lu heat)
    • Stops bleeding (internally and topically, most often in oral cavity or lips, also for bleeding gums associated with frostbite)
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Ma Bo

Puffball

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, Lu, St
    • Cools the blood and reduces maculae due to heat entering the blood level, or other forms of warm toxins. Also for nosebleeds
    • Reduces swelling from blazing heat leading to swollen/painful throat, mouth sores, mumps
    • Drains Lr fire, dispels summerheat (esp. affecting Lr) , extinguishes wind to stop tremors
    • Clears Lr fire, drains Lu heat, cools the blood (Lr fire accosting Lu)
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Qing Dai

Indigo

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  • Drains fire and resolves toxicity
    • High fever, irritability, dry mouth and throat, incoherent speech, insomnia, dark urine, red tongue with yellow coat, rapid and forceful pulse
    • Nosebleed/vomiting of blood due to heat excess, toxic swellings, dysenteric disorders or jaundice due to D-H
    • Antibiotic formula base *
    • Bitter, cold, and very attacking
    • **Severe obstruction of the three Jiaos by fire toxin, which pervades both the interior and exterior
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Huan Lian Jie Du Tang

Coptis Decoction to Resolve Toxicity

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  • Clears heat, resolves toxicity, drains heat from the Lu to improve throat function
    • Severe sore throat with great difficulty swallowing, red tongue with a thick white or yellow coating, rapid and slippery, possibly floating pulse
    • Painful obstruction of the throat due to D-H attack on the Lu
    • Damp-heat collecting in Lu
    • W-H-F-T throat Bi
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Yin Qiao Ma Bo San

Honeysuckle, Forsythia, and Puffball Powder

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  • Drains fire, resolves toxicity, dries dampness
    • Fever, irritability, restlessness, flushed face, red eyes dark urine, constipation, greasy and yellow tongue coating, delirious speech (in severe cases)
    • Also for epigastric focal distention, jaundice, diarrhea and dysenteric disorders, or vomiting of blood or nosebleed; or red or swollen eyes and ears; or ulceration of the tongue and mouth; or abscesses
    • D-H excess with interior clumping (yangming Fu)
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Xie Xin Tang

Drain the Epigastrium Decoction

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  • Clears heat, eliminates fire toxin, disperses W-H
    • Strong fever and chills, redness, swelling, burning pain of head and face, inability to open eyes, dysfunction of the throat, dryness and thirst, red tongue with powdery-white or yellow coating, floating rapid and forceful pulse
    • Acute, massive febrile disorder of the head, aka massive epidemic disorder of the head
    • Seasonal toxin associated with W-H and D-P
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Pu Ji Xiao Du Yin

Universal Benefit Drink to Eliminate Toxin

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  • Clears heat, resolves toxicity, cools the blood, reduces swelling
    • All types of boils/carbuncles with localized erythema, swelling, heat, and pain accompanied by fever, chills, a red tongue with a yellow coating, rapid pulse
    • Especially useful for deep-rooted and hard lesions, which are said to resemble nails or chestnuts
    • ** Main formula for skin infections
    • Fire toxin, which can arise from many causes:
      • Externally-contracted heat from a warm pathogen disease, seasonal PF’s accumulating in the organs or channels, overindulgence in rich or spicy foods, or heat that accumulates because of disharmony of any of the internal organs
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Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin

Five-Ingredient Drink to Eliminate Toxin

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