Herbs and Formulas Relieve Food Stagnation Flashcards
The actions of this group of herbs reduce or _______ and _____ _____.
dissolve, guide out
An accumulation is a disorder characterized by an abdominal _____, _____, and/or _____.
mass, distention, pain
Accumulation is often caused by ______ ______ which results in stagnant ____ or _____, but can also arise from improper ______ habits, ______, or ____ or _____ disorders.
emotional disturbances, qi, blood, dietary, phlegm, hot, cold
Herbs from this category are often combined with others that ______ the middle ____.
regulate, qi
Food stagnation is generally subdivided into ____ and ____ types.
hot, cold
The principle manifestations of the hot types are _____ _____ ____, a feeling of _____ in the abdomen, a preference for ____ food and beverages and an aversion to _____ ones, a _____, _____ tongue coating, and a _____ or _____ pulse.
severe bad breath, distension, cold, hot, yellow, greasy, forceful, slippery
Hot type food stagnation usually arises from either ______-______ diseases or ____ from constraint. In such cases, herbs that clear ____ are also prescribed.
externally-contracted, heat, heat
The cold type of food stagnation is due to _____ or _____ deficiency, or ingesting too much _____ food.
Spleen, Stomach, cold
Major symptoms of cold food stagnation include a _____ feeling in the throat, _____, spitting up _____ fluids, a feeling of _____ in the abdomen, preferences for ____ food and beverages and an aversion to ___ ones, a ____, ____ tongue coating, and a ____, ____ pulse.
brackish, nausea, clear, distention, hot, cold, white, greasy, weak, thin
For cold type food stagnation, herbs that _____ the _____ are added to the prescription.
warm, interior
If food stagnation is severe, ______ may also be required.
purgatives
Shan Zha, hawthorne fruit tastes and channels
sour, sweet, slightly warm
Liver, Spleen, Stomach
Shan Zha reduces food stagnation, especially from _____ and _____ foods, ______ the blood flow, alleviates _____ and ______.
meat, greasy, invigorates, diarrhea, and dysentery
Shan Zha transforms _____ stasis, and _____ _____.
blood, dissipates clumps
Shan Zha is also recently used for _______, ______ _____ disease, and _____ _____ _____.
hypertension, coronary artery disease, elevated serum cholesterol
Mai Ya (barley sprouts, malt) tastes and channels
sweet, neutral
Liver, Spleen, Stomach
Mai Ya is most used for digesting what three things? It ______ areas of hardness and ______ the appetite.
starches, fruits, and sugar, softens, improves
Mai Ya reduces food stagnation and strengthens the _______: for poor digestion due to stagnation and accumulation of undigested ______ foods, as well as poorly digested ____ in infants. Also for weak digestion and loss of appetite in cases of _____ deficiency. This strengthening function is rather ____.
Stomach, starchy, milk, Spleen, weak
Mai Ya restrains _______: for women who are discontinuing ______, or for distended and painful ______.
lactation, nursing, breasts
Mai Ya facilitates the smooth flow of ______ qi: for constrained ______ qi manifesting as a stifling sensation and distention in the epigastrium or ______, _____, and loss of ______.
Liver, Liver, ribs, belching, appetite
Gu Ya (sprouted rice), tastes and channels
sweet, neutral
Spleen, Stomach
Gu Ya gently reduces food stagnation while strengthening the ______ and ______ the appetite.
Spleen, improving
Gu Ya reduces food stagnation of ______ foods.
starchy
Shen Qu (medicated leaven) tastes and channels
sweet, acrid, warm
Spleen, Stomach
Shen Qu reduces food stagnation (especially _______, simple _____, and _____) and harmonizes the ______: for Stomach ____ with food stagnation or accumulation, with such symptoms as epigastric and abdominal ______ or _______, lack of ______, borborygmus, and ______.
alcohol, sugars, wheat, Stomach, cold, fullness, distention, appetite, diarrhea
Shen Qu is also added to pills that contain ____ to aid in their digestion and absorption, as in Magnetite and Cinnabar pill.
minerals
Lai Fu Zi (radish seed) tastes and channels
acrid, sweet, neutral
Lung, Spleen, Stomach
Lai Fu Zi transforms _____, reduces food stagnation, promotes the flow of qi in the ______, ______, and _____ ______.
phlegm, Lungs, Spleen, Large Intestine
Lai Fu Zi reduces food stagnation and eliminates distention: for food stagnation accumulating in the _____ ______ with fullness and distention, belching with a ______ smell, acid _______, or abdominal pain with _______.
middle burner, rotten, regurgitation, diarrhea
Lai Fu Zi causes qi to ______ and reduces _____: for chronic productive _____ or wheezing. Most effective in cases due to ______.
descend, phlegm, cough, excess
Lai Fu Zi is recently used for _______, as in Three-Seed Decoction to Nourish One’s Parents.
hypertension
Ji Nei Jin (gizzard lining), tastes and channels
sweet, neutral
Bladder, Small Intestine, Spleen, Stomach
Ji Nei Jin reduces what types of food stagnation? It stops ______, and dissolves ______.
all types, enuresis, stones
Ji Nei Jin ______ reduces food stagnation and improves the ______ transportive function. Used _____ for mild cases. Also important in the treatment of ______ ______ _____.
strongly, Spleen’s, childhood nutritional impairment
Ji Nei Jin secures the ______ and stops _____.
essence, enuresis
Ji Nei Jin transforms _______ and dissolves _____: for ______ in either the _____ or biliary tract.
hardness, stones, stones, urinary
The main symptoms of excess patterns caused by food stagnating in the interior are focal distention in the _____ and upper _______, ____ regurgitation, _____, ______, _____, abdominal _____, ______, a _____ tongue coating, and a _____, _____ pulse.
chest, abdomen, acid, belching, nausea, vomiting, pain, diarrhea, greasy, slippery, excessive
The main treatment strategy for food stagnation is to reduce ______ and ______ food stagnation.
accumulation, reduce
In food stagnation formulas we often comine herbs that reduce food stagnation with others. These include herbs that ____ the qi and ____ ____ stagnation, herbs that drive the qi ______, herbs that promote the _____ of ____-_____, herbs that kill ______, and herbs that _____ the interior.
move, break up, downward, draining, damp-heat, parasites, warm
Bao He Wan (Preserve Harmony Pill) reduces food stagnation and harmonizes the _______.
Stomach
Food stasis refers to stagnation of food in the _____ _____.
middle jiao
The presentation for Bao He Wan is the typical presentation of food stagnation that occurs from eating ______ foods or from _____ _____ and drinking.
contaminated, gross overeating
Bo He Wan includes three herbs for food stagnation: ____ ___, ____ ___, and ____ ___ ___. It also includes ___ ___: a regulate qi herb and ___ ___ an herb that clears heat and relieves toxicity.
shan zha, shen qu, lai fu zi, chen pi, lian qiao
