Herbs 2 - Wind-Damp Flashcards
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Ki, UB
- Releases the exterior and disperses W-C
- Lesser yin stage headache and toothache
- Promotes Qi and Blood flow and alleviates pain
- Bi syndrome in lower body
- Dispels lurking wind from Ki channel
Contraindications
- Very drying, can injure yin. Caution in those with yin or blood deficiency, and not for patients with internal wind
du huo
angelica root
Key Actions and Indications - Channel(s) entered: Gb, Lr, St - Soothes the sinews and collaterals - Clears deficiency heat (including steaming bone disorder) - Reduces jaundice - Moistens intestines, unblocks bowels Contraindications - Loose stools due to Sp deficiency
Qin Jiao
Large Gentian Root
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: UB
- Strongly mobilizes all 12 channels to dispel wind bi syndrome
- Focal distention and accumulation in Middle Jiao (reduces phlegm and pathogenic water)
Contraindications
- Excessive use will injure normal Qi, caution with patients with Qi/Blood deficiency or in the debilitated
Wei Ling Xian
Clematis Root
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp, St
- Eliminates itchy rashes due to wind-dampness
- Harmonizes ST and transforms turbid dampness causing internal obstruction
Contraindications
- None noted
Can Sha
Silkworm Feces
Key Actions and Indications - Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lr - Strengthens sinews and bones, for chronic w-d bi, when chronic Ki and Lr deficiency are the cause - Warms Ki/Lr - Transforms dampness, reduces swelling Contraindications - None noted
Wu Jia Pi
Eleutherococcus Root Bark
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lr
- Tonifies Lr and Ki, strengthens sinews and bones
- Nourishes yin and Blood
- Calms the fetus (restless fetus, uterine bleeding
- Benefits skin (dry scaly skin due to blood deficiency)
Contraindications
- None noted
Sang Ji Sheng
Mistletoe
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lr
- Tonifies Lr and Ki, strengthens sinews and bones
- Expels w-d bi obstruction with pain, soreness, numbness
- Warms and stabilizes Ki (Ki yang deficiency)
Contraindications
- Those with urinary difficulty or heat from yin deficiency
Gou Ji
Chain Fern Rhizome
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr
- Unblocks channels and collaterals, benefits the joints (W-D bi obstruction w/ spasms)
- Edema accompanied by joint pain
- Pain, numbness, itching of upper limbs due to bi syndrome
Contraindications
- None noted
Sang Zhi
Mulberry Twig
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp
- Relaxes sinews, unblocks channels (damp bi syndrome in extremities)
- Harmonizes Sp/St and transforms dampness
- Abdominal pain and cramping
- Reduces food stagnation (indigestion)
Contraindications
- Internal constrained hear and scanty dark urine; hyperchlorhydra
Mu Gua
Chaenomeles Fruit
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr
- “tracks down and eliminates wind”
- Powerfully unblocks channels and extinguishes wind
- Dispels wind from skin
- Dispels wind from sinews and settles jitteriness and convulsions (any kind of tremor, spasm, or seizure)
Contraindications
- Yin deficiency, dry blood, or wind from blood deficiency
Qi She
Agkistrodon (Viper)
Key Actions and Indications - Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp - Same as Qi She, although not as strong - Can be used when itching is symptom Contraindications - None noted
Wu Shao She
Zaocys (Black-Striped Snake)
Key Actions and Indications
- Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp, Ki
- Dispels W-D
- Relaxes sinews, invigorates channels
- For swelling and pain due to trauma or blood stasis
Contraindications
- Caution with pregnancy or in those with a bleeding diathesis
Shen Jin Cao
Ground Pine, Common Clubmoss
Key Actions and Indications - Channel(s) entered: Ki, Lr - Dispels W-D and unblocks collaterals (w-d bi) - Clears heat, pacifies Lr (Lr yang rising) - Clears and transforms d-h itching - Calms the Shen Contraindications - None noted
Xi Xian Cao
Siegesbeckia
Key Actions and Indications - Channel(s) entered: Lr, Sp, Ki - Clears channels, dispels W-D (W-d bi lower back, knees) - Promotes urination, reduces edema - Treats itching skin lesions - Use as gargle for toothache due to dental caries Contraindications - None noted
Hai Tong Pi
Erythrina Bark
Functions and Indications
- Expels W&D
- Heavy/painful head, generalized sesation of heaviness, back pain/generalized pain, stiffness of neck, difficulty rotating/bending trunk, mild fever, chills, white tongue coating, floating pulse.
Pattern Confirmation
- W-D Bi painful obstruction. Invasion is in muscle layer and channels only
Qiang Huo Sheng Shi Tang
Notopterygium Decoction to Overcome Dampness
Functions and Indications
- Unblocks flow of Yang Qi, promotes movement in areas of Bi obstruction, dispels wind, eliminates dampness, clears heat
- Swollen, painful joints (esp. lower extremities) that are warm to the touch and get worse at night, reduced ROM in affected joints, chills, no sweating, weight loss, HA, dizziness, shortness of breath, nausea, white/greasy tongue coat, wiry/slippery pulse
Pattern Confirmation
- recurrent W-C-D Bi in which localized constraint generates heat
Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang
Cinnamon Twig, Peony, and Anemarrhena Decoction
Functions and Indications
- Tonifies/harmonizes Wei & Ying Qi, dispels wind, eliminates damp
- Generalized sensation of heaviness in the body, stiffness of neck/shoulder/upper back, numbness in extremities, difficulty in moving, white tongue coating, moderate pulse
Pattern Confirmation
- Bi obstruction in a patient with Qi and Xue xu
Juan Bi Tang
Remove Painful Obstruction Decoction
Functions and Indications
- disperses swelling in the exterior and treats dry blood in the interior
- swelling and pain in joints (usually of hands/feet), numbness and difficulty moving joints, usually accompanied by fever
Pattern Confirmation
- Pain or swelling of joints that has not responded to treatment at the acute stage and is now beginning to become chronic
- Acute Bi syndrome that is becoming chronic
Yi Yi Ren Tang
Coicis Decoction from Enlightened Physicians
Functions and Indications
- Warms the channels, disperses cold, nourishes blood, unblocks blood vessels
- long-standing cold hands and feet that are cold to the patient and cold to the touch, pale tongue with white coat, submerged, thin pulse or one that is so thin it is almost imperceptible.
Pattern Confirmation
- cold in the channels of a patient with underlying xue xu
Dang Gui Si Ni Tang
Tangkuei Decoction for Frigid Extremities
Functions and Indications
- Expels W-D, disperses painful obstruction, tonifies deficiency
- Heavy/painful sensations at fixed locations in lower back/extremities accompanied by weakness and stiffness or hypertonicity and immobility, aversion to cold, attraction to warmth, palpations, shortness of breath, pale tongue with white coat, thin/weak/slow pulse
- may also be paresthesias or numbness
Pattern Confirmation
- Bi syndrome with Lr and Ki deficiency
Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang
Pubescent Angelica and Taxillus Decoction
Functions and Indications
- dispels wind, smoothes flow of Qi, invigorates blood vessels, fortifies sinews and bones, eliminates cold-damp
Pattern Confirmation
- Dysenteric disorder where legs are so painful and weak it is difficult to walk
- Cranes-knee wind - one or both knees become swollen, enlarged, and painful, accompanied by atrophy above and below the knee (patient cannot move knees)
Da Fang Feng Tang
Major Siler Decoction
Functions and Indications
- Tonifies Lr and Ki, augments the Qi, nourishes the blood, expels wind, overcomes damp
- soft/weak sinews/bones, W-D bi.
Pattern Confirmation
- Lr and Ki xu with qi and blood stagnation characterized by tremors of hands/feet
San Bi Tang
Three Painful Obstruction Decoction
Functions and Indications
- Painful obstruction characterized by high fever, sweating, irritability, thirst, pain and swelling of joints, white tongue coating, wiry/rapid pulse
- also used for warm malarial disrders with intense internal heat and mild external cold characterize by high fever, mild chills, aching joints, occasional vomiting, wiry/rapid pulse
Pattern Confirmation
- W-D-H painful obstruction
Bai Hu Jia Gui Zhi Tang
White Tiger plus Cinnamon Twig Decoction
Functions and Indications
- fever, epigastric distention, profuse sweating, generalized sensation of heaviness, cold feet, red/greasy tongue
Pattern Confirmation
- Damp-warm-heat pathogen disease or damp Bi that has transformed into heat
- also for W-D-H Bi with joint pain and generalized fever
Bai Hu Jia Cang Zhu Tang
White Tiger plus Atractylodes Decoction
Functions and Indications
- clears heat, dries damp
- For atrophy disorder characterized by severe numbness and weakness in the lower extremities with painful and swollen feet
Pattern Confirmation
- damp-heat lodged in the lower burner (sinews and bones)
Si Miao San
Four-Marvel Pill
Functions and Indications
- Clears and resolves D-H, unblocks the channels and disbands Bi syndrome
- Heat and pain in joints, reduced mobility, fever and shaking chills, lusterless yellow complexion, scanty dark urine, and gray or yellow and greasy tongue coat
Pattern Confirmation
- Painful obstruction due to containment of D-H primarily in the channels, but also obstructing the Qi dynamic
Xuan Bi Tang
Disband Painful Obstruction Decoction
Functions and Indications
- sharp pain in all the joints, stiffness, hypertonicity, paraesthesia with symptoms often worse at night
Pattern Confirmation
- Bi syndrome from wind, dampness, phlegm, and blood stasis
Shu Feng Huo Xue Tang
Dredge the Wind and Invigorate the Blood Decoction
