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Herbs 2 - Regulate Qi / Food Stasis Flashcards

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: Lu, Sp, St
	- Regulates Qi, relieves the diaphragm
	- Adjusts the middle
	- Dries dampness, transforms phlegm
	- Helps prevent stagnation
Contraindications
	- Those with excess heat, or dry coughs due to Qi or yin deficiency. 
	- Long-term use dan injure the celestial Qi
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Chen Pi

Aged Tangerine Peel

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: LI, Sp, St
- Breaks up stagnant Qi and reduces accumulation (indigestion)
- Transforms phlegm, expels focal distention
- Recently used to raise blood pressure
Contraindications
- During pregnancy, and in those with Sp/St deficiency

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Zhi Shi

Unripe Bitter Orange

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: Sp, St, LI 
	- Promotes the flow of Qi
	- Unblocks
Contraindications
	- During pregnancy
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Zhi Ke

Bitter Orange

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Gb, LI, Sp, St, SJ
- Promotes flow of Qi, stops pain (Sp/St stagnant Qi)
- Adjusts/regulates stagnant Qi in the intestines (dysenteric disorders, abdominal pain)
- Strengthens Sp, prevents stagnation
Contraindications
- In those with depleted fluids, yin deficiency, or blazing fire

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Mu Xiang

Aucklandia Root

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: Ki, Sp, St
	- Promotes Qi flow and alleviates pain
	- Directs rebellious Qi downward and regulates the middle
	- Aids the Ki in grasping the Lu Qi
	- Warms the Sp and Ki
Contraindications
	- In those with sunken Qi or fire from yin deficiency
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Chen Xiang

Aquilaria Wood

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: UB, Ki, Lu, Sp
	- Promotes Qi flow, alleviates pain
	- Warms the Ki (Ki yang deficiency)
	- Disperses cold
Contraindications
	- In those with significant Qi and Blood deficiency or internal heat
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Wu Yao

Lindera Root

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, SJ, Gb
- Spreads/regulates Lr Qi
- Facilitates flow of Lr Qi in gynecological disorders (menstruation, dysmenorrhea)
Contraindications
- Those with Qi deficiency and no stagnation, yin deficiency and heat, or heat in the blood

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Xiang Fu

Cyperus

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Gb, Lr, St
- Spreads the Lr Qi and breaks up stagnant Qi
- Dissipates clumps, reduces stagnation (food stagnation with accumulation)
Contraindications
- Qi deficiency (herb fiercely consumes the Qi)

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Qing Pi

Unripe Tangerine Peel

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: UB, Lr, ST, St
- Dredges Lr Qi, relieves constraint, stops pain, conducts heat out from below
- Kills parasites and stops pain (roundworm, tapeworm)
Contraindications
- Those with cold from deficiency of Sp/St

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Chuan Lian Zi
Toosendan Fruit (Sichuan Pagoda Tree)
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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: LI, SI, Sp, St
	- Drives Qi downward and eases the middle
	- Promotes urination, reduces edema
Contraindications
	- During pregnancy
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Da Fu Pi

Areca Husk

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp
- Promotes movement of Qi and relieves constraint (Lr/St disharmony)
- Harmonizes blood, disperses stasis (menstrual issues)
Contraindications
- None noted

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Mei Gui Hua

Rosebud

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, St
- Dispels cold and stagnation, and stops pain (bulging disorders of groin/testicles)
- Regulates Qi, stops pain (abdominal/epigastric due to Lr Qi constraint)
Contraindications
- None noted

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Li Zhi Ke

Leechee Nut

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Functions and Indications
- Promotes the movement of Qi and releases constraint
- Focal distention, stifling sensation in the chest and abdomen, fixed pain in hypochondria, belching, vomiting, acid reflux, mild cough with copious sputum, reduced appetite, indigestion
Pattern Confirmation
- Various types of constraint due to stagnant Qi

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Yue Ju Wan

Escape Restraint Pill

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Functions and Indications
- Regulates Qi, dries dampness, resolves food stagnation
- Epigastric/abdominal bloating and distention resulting from disruption in the flow of Qi from obstruction due to dampness, rebellious Qi, and food stagnation
Pattern Confirmation
- Food stagnation in the middle jiao

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Pai Qi Yin

Discharge Gas Decoction

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Functions and Indications
- Warms the middle burner, dispels cold, promotes the movement of Qi, and alleviates pain
- Epigastric pain that responds favorably to warmth, stifling sensation in the chest, hypochondriac pain, painful menstruation, white tongue coating
Pattern Confirmation
- Lr Qi stagnation with cold congealing in the St

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Liang Fu Wan

Galangal and Cyperus Pill

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Functions and Indications
- Directs rebellious Qi downward, stops hiccup, augments the Qi, clears heat
- Hiccup, nausea, dry heaves or retching,
Pattern Confirmation
- Long-term St deficiency, leading to Qi stagnation and constraint; OR when vomiting, diarrhea, or other causes have injured the St Qi

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Ju Pi Zhu Ru Tang

Tangerine Peel and Bamboo Shavings Decoction

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Functions and Indications
- Augments the Qi, warms the middle jiao, directs rebellious Qi downward, stops hiccup
- Hiccup, belching, or vomiting with stifling sensation in the epigastrium, focal distention in the chest, pale tongue with white coating, submerged and slow pulse
Pattern Confirmation
- Hiccup, belching or vomiting due to cold from deficiency in the St

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Ding Xiang Shi Di Tang

Clove and Persimmon Calyx Decoction

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Functions and Indications
- Disseminates and redirects Lu Qi, arrests wheezing, clears heat, transforms phlegm
- Coughing and wheezing with copious thick and yellow sputum, labored breathing, greasy and yellow tongue coating and a slippery and rapid pulse. May also be simultaneous fever and chills
Pattern Confirmation
- Wheezing cause by W-C constraining the exterior and phlegm-heat smoldering interior

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Ding Chuan Tang

Arrest Wheezing Decoction

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Functions and Indications
- Directs rebellious Qi downward, arrests wheezing, stops coughing, warms and transforms phlegm-cold
- Coughing and wheezing with watery, copious sputum, a stifling sensation in chest and diaphragm, shortness f breath marked by relatively labored inhalation and smooth exhalation, and white tongue coating that is either slippery or greasy. may also be pain and weakness of lower back/legs, edema of the extremities, and fatigue
Pattern Confirmation
- Abundance above, deficiency below

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Su Zi Jiang Qi Tang

Perilla Fruit Decoction for Directing Qi Downward

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Functions and Indications
- Promotes the movement of Qi, dissipates clumps, directs rebellious Qi downward, transforms phlegm
- Plum-pit Qi, stifling sensation in chest and hypochondria, moist or greasy, white tongue coating, wiry/slow or wiry/slippery pulse. May also be coughing/vomiting.
Pattern Confirmation
- Plum-pit Qi - emotional upset due to circumstances that the patient figuratively cannot swallow

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Ban Xia Hou Po Tang

Pinellia and Magnolia Bark Decoction

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp, St
- Relieves food stagnation and transforms accumulation from meat or greasy foods
- transforms blood stasis, dissipates clumps
- bulging disorder
- stops diarrhea
- Recently used for hypertension, coronary artery disease. and elevated serum cholesterol
Contraindications
- Sp/St deficiency. Large doses absolutely contraindicated during pregnancy (fetal death)

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Shan Zha

Hawthorn Fruit

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp, St
- reduces food stagnation and strengthens St (weak) - undigested starchy foods.
- restrains lactation (women discontinuing breast feeding, or distended, painful breasts
- Facilitates smooth flow of Lr Qi
Contraindications
- Large doses during lactation

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Mai Ya

Barley Sprouts - Malt

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Sp/St
- Reduces food stagnation, strengthens the St
- For weak digestion, undigested starchy foods, loss of appetite associated with Sp deficiency
Contraindications
- None noted

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Gu Ya

Grain Sprouts

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: Sp/St
	- Reduces stagnation, harmonizes the St - St cold w/ food stagnation, with symptoms 		such as epigastric/abdominal distention, lack of appetite, borboygmus, diarrhea  
	- Aides in digestion of minerals
Contraindications
	- None noted
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Shen Qu

Medicated Leaven

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Key Actions and Indications
	- Channel(s) entered: UB, SI, Sp, St
	- Strongly reduces all types of food stagnation
	- Improves Sp transportive function
	- Childhood nutritional impairment
	- Secures the essence, stops enuresis
	- Transforms hardness, dissolves stones (Urinary or Bile)
Contraindications
	- Sp def w/ no food stagnation
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Ji Nei Jin

Gizzard

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Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lu, Sp, St
- Reduces stagnation eliminates distention
- Causes Qi to descend, reduces phlegm
- Recently used for hypertension
Contraindications
- In absence of food stagnation, phlegm, or other accumulations. Taken long-term will consume the Qi.

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Lai Fu Zi

Radish Seed

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Functions and Indications
- Reduces food stagnation, harmonizes St
- Focal distention, fullness in chest and epigastrium, abdominal distention with occasional pain, rotten-smelling belching, acid regurgitation, nausea and vomiting, aversion to food, yellow and greasy tongue coating, slippery pulse. There may also be diarrhea.
Pattern Confirmation
- This is a typical presentation of food stagnation that occurs from eating contaminated food or from gross overeating and drinking.

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Bao He Wan

Preserve Harmony Pill

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