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Herbs 2 - Cool Blood / Damp-Heat Flashcards

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, St
    • Clears summerheat, especially when thirst is a main symptom
    • Alleviates thirst
    • Resolves toxic conditions (sores and swellings)
    • Can be used as an antidote for poisoning from zhi fu zi or fava beans
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Lu Dou

Mung Bean

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lr, Sp
    • Resolves summerheat patterns
    • Raises clear yang of the Sp
    • Stops bleeding, primarily in the lower burner
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He Ye

Lotus Leaf

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ub, Ht, St
    • Clears summerheat and generates fluids, especially patterns with significant thirst
    • Promotes urination; expels jaundice
    • mouth/gum sores, sore throat
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Xi Gua Pi

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  • Channel(s) entered: Sp, St
    • Strengthens Sp, nourishes, St - harmonizes the middle
      • Also for vaginal discharge due to Sp deficiency
    • Transforms dampness
    • Eliminates summerheat, especially with pronounced diarrhea/vomiting
    • Treats food poisoning (wide variety)
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Bian Dou

Lablab Bean

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  • Resolves summerheat and clears the Lu
  • Fever, mild thirst, unclear head and vision with lightheadedness and slight distention of the head, pink tongue with a thin and white coating
  • Mild summerheat injuring the Qi level of the Lu channel or a summerheat-warmth pathogen that has not been fully released by sweating
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Qing Luo Yin

Clear the Collaterals Drink

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  • Releases the exterior, scatters cold, transforms dampness, harmonizes middle jiao
  • Chills w/ skin warm to the touch, an absence of sweating, a sensation of heaviness in the head, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stifling sensation in the head, fatigued extremities, whit and greasy tongue coating and a floating pulse
  • Exterior cold with interior dampness contracted in the summer
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Xiang Ru San

Mosla Powder

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  • Clears summerheat, resolves dampness, augments the Qi
  • Fever, sweating, thirst. irritability, urinary difficulty, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, thin yellow and greasy tongue coating, soggy and rapid pulse
  • Also treats painful urinary dribbling and stony painful urinary dribbling due to D-H in the Bladder, and D-H skin disorders like papules, sores, prickly heat
  • Summerheat injuring the Qi and dampness obstructing the interior
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Liu Yi San

Six-to-One Powder

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  • Clears summerheat, augments the Qi, nourishes the yin, generates fluids
  • Fever, profuse sweating, irritability, thirst, scanty and dark urine, fatigued limbs, shortness of breath, apathy, and a deficient and rapid pulse
  • Summerheat injuring the Qi and fluids
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Qing Shu Yi Qi Tang

Clear Summerheat and Augment the Qi Decoction

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, St, Gb, LI
    • Clears heat and dries dampness, especially in the St or intestines
    • Resolves toxicity, especially in the Upper Burner
    • Stops bleeding from heat in the blood, causing reckless movement
    • Calms the fetus during pregnancy when fetus irritated by heat
    • Sedates rising Lr yang (headaches, irritability)
    • ST/INTESTINAL DAMP-HEAT
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Huang Qin

Scutellaria

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, LI, Lr, St
    • Cools heat and drains damp (D-H in St/intestines)
    • great stand alone dysentery herb
    • Drains fire, resolves toxicity (heat w/ blazing fire)
    • Stops bleeding (nosebleed, bloody urine/stool, or vomit due to reckless movement
    • major acid reflux herb
    • Clears heat topically (painful eyes, mouth ulcers)
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Huang Lian

Coptis

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ki, UB
    • Directs fire downward (D-H in lower burner)
    • Great D-H gynecological herb
    • For damp-heat pouring downward
    • Drains Ki fire (for ascending Ki fire)
    • Resolves toxicity
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Huang Bai

Phellodendron Bark

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  • Channel(s) entered: Gb, Lr, St
    • Drains D-H from entirety of Lr and Gb channels (head/throat in particular)
    • Drains and pacifies Lr fire (fire blazing upward affecting head)
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Long Dan Cao

Gentian Root

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  • Channel(s) entered: UB, Ht, Lr, LI, SI, St
    • Clears heat, dries dampness (D-H in lower burner)
    • Disperses wind, kills parasites, stops itching (D-T skin lesions)
    • Promotes urination
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Ku Shen

Sophora Root

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  • Channel(s) entered: Gb, LI, Lr, St
    • Clears heat, resolves toxicity, dries dampness
    • Drains Lr fire, benefits the eyes
    • Disperses wind-damp (hot w-d Bi)
    • Calms wheezing, stops cough (Lu heat)
    • Dysentery with cramping pain
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Qin Pi

Ash Bark

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  • Resolves dampness, transforms turbidity, clears heat and resolves toxicity
  • Fever, achy limbs, lethargy, swollen throat, stifling sensation in the chest, abdominal distention, dark scanty urine, a white greasy or yellow and dry tongue coating, and a soggy rapid pulse
  • May also be vomiting and diarrhea, jaundice, unremitting fever
  • Early-stage Damp-warmth epidemic disorder
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Gan Lu Xiao Du Yin

Sweet Dew Special Pill to Eliminate Toxin

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  • Clears heat, transforms dampness, regulates the Qi and harmonizes middle jiao
  • Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea, focal distention and a stifling sensation in the chest and epigastrium, irritability, restlessness, dark scanty urine, yellow greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse
  • Sudden-turmoil disorder due to an aggregation of damp-heat smoldering in the body
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Lian Po Yin

Coptis and Magnolia Bark Drink

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  • Clears heat, resolves dampness, and reduces jaundice
  • Whole-body jaundice, with a color that resembles a ‘fresh tangerine,’ slight abdominal distention, urinary difficulty, thirst (but can only take sips), little or no sweating, or sweating only from the head and stopping at the neck, a yellow greasy tongue coating, and a slippery and rapid pulse
  • Yang-type or damp-heat jaundice
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Yin Chen Hao Tang

Virgate Wormwood Decoction

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, Lr, Ki
    • Clears heat from both excess and deficiency in the blood
    • Cools the Blood: for steaming bone disorder with sweating
      • Drains Ki fire, eliminates “lurking” heat, clears heat from bones
      • For floating fire in Ki channel marked by toothache
    • Cools & drains Lu heat
    • Not intense in its actions
    • Chronic Lu disease, damaging yin
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Di Gu Pi

Lycium Bark

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lr, Gb
    • Clears all types of yin level heat without injuring the Qi, Blood or yin
    • Clears summerheat
    • Fever from deficiency
    • Cools the Blood and stops bleeding
    • Checks malarial disorder and resolves heat
    • best malaria herb
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Qing Hao

Sweet Wormwood

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, St
    • Clears heat from deficiency
    • Heat due to childhood nutritional impairment (parasites)
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Yin Chai Hu

Stellaria Root

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, St, LI
    • Clears heat from both excess and deficiency
    • Cools the blood, steaming bones
    • Dries dampness, damp-heat dysenteric disorder
    • Reduces childhood nutritional impairment
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Hu Huang Lian

Picrorhiza Rhizome

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lu, St, Ki
    • Cools and clears Blood-level heat from it, without injuring yin-fluids or blood
      • Ying-level heat, especially persistent and stubborn heat
    • post-partum fever
    • Vents pathogens
    • Facilitates urination and resolves toxicity
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Bai Wei

Cynanchi Root

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  • Nourishes the yin and vents heat
  • Night fever and morning coolness with no sweating as the fever recedes, emaciation with no loss of appetite, red tongue with little coating, fine and rapid pulse
  • Heat lurking in the yin aspects of the body
  • Later stages of a warm-pathogen disease when the heat has depleted the yin and fluids
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Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang

Sweet Wormwood and Soft-shelled Turtle Shell Decoction

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  • Clears heat from deficiency and alleviates steaming bone disorder
  • Tidal fever or unremitting, chronic low-grade fever, a sensation of heat in the bones but with flesh that is not warm to the touch, irritability, insomnia, emaciation, lethargy, red lips, dark-red cheeks, night sweats, thirst, dry throat, red tongue with little coating, a thin and rapid pulse
  • Steaming bone disorder due to Lr and Ki yin deficiency
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Qing Gu San

Cool the Bones Powder

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lr, St
    • Cools ying-level heat
    • Clears heat from Ht channel
    • Resolves toxic rashes and sores; wind stirring heat
    • Stops bleeding due to heat in Blood; arrests tremors
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Shui Niu Jiao

Water Buffalo Horn

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Ki, Lr
    • Enriches yin, cools the blood, clears heat
    • Generates fluids
    • Gynecological/diabetic herb
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Sheng Di Huang

Rehmannia Root

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lu, St
    • Enriches yin and moistens dryness
      • Especially for sequelae of warm-heat pathogen diseases
    • Drains fire and resolves toxicity
    • Softens hardness and transforms phlegm-heat (fire)
      • Neck lumps
    • phlegm-fire nodules
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Xuan Shen

Scrophularia

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lr, Ki
    • Cools heat from excess or deficiency
    • Gently invigorates blood without injuring blood or yin and dispels blood stasis
    • Clears lurking fire in blood
    • Clears ascending Lr fire
    • Drains pus and reduces swellings
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Mu Dan Pi

Moutan Root Bark

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  • Channel(s) entered: Ht, Lr
    • Cools and invigorates the blood
    • Resolves toxicity; vents rashes
    • Facilitates passage of stool and urine
    • Clears damp-heat from skin
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Zi Cao

Lithospermum

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  • Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp
    • Invigorates the blood (Strong blood mover)
    • Transforms stasis and stops pain
    • Cools heat in blood
    • gyno herb - blood stasis with heat
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Chi Shao

Red Peony Root

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  • Clears the ying-level, relieves fire-toxin, drains heat, nourishes the yin
  • High fever that worsens at night, severe irritability and restlessness, a scarlet and dry tongue, thin and rapid pulse. Some patients may be thirsty, delirious,, or exhibit faint and indistinct erythema
  • Heat entering the ying-level
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Qing Ying Tang

Clear the Nutritive-Level Decoction

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  • Clears heat, resolves fire toxicity, cools the blood, nourishes the yin, dispels blood stasis and stops bleeding
  • Fever, various types of bleeding, black and tarry stools, abdominal distention and fullness, thirst with an inability to swallow, a scarlet tongue with prickles, thin and rapid pulse; some patients become delirious
  • Heat entering the ying-level, causing the blood to move recklessly
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Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang

Rhinoceros Horn and Rehmannia Decoction

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