Herbs and Formulas Relieve Food Stagnation

Question 1

The actions of this group of herbs reduce or _______ and _____ _____.

Answer 1

dissolve, guide out

Question 2

An accumulation is a disorder characterized by an abdominal _____, _____, and/or _____.

Answer 2

mass, distention, pain

Question 3

Accumulation is often caused by ______ ______ which results in stagnant ____ or _____, but can also arise from improper ______ habits, ______, or ____ or _____ disorders.

Answer 3

emotional disturbances, qi, blood, dietary, phlegm, hot, cold

Question 4

Herbs from this category are often combined with others that ______ the middle ____.

Answer 4

regulate, qi

Question 5

Food stagnation is generally subdivided into ____ and ____ types.

Answer 5

hot, cold

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

severe bad breath, distension, cold, hot, yellow, greasy, forceful, slippery

Question 7

Hot type food stagnation usually arises from either ______-______ diseases or ____ from constraint. In such cases, herbs that clear ____ are also prescribed.

Answer 7

externally-contracted, heat, heat

Question 8

The cold type of food stagnation is due to _____ or _____ deficiency, or ingesting too much _____ food.

Answer 8

Spleen, Stomach, cold

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

brackish, nausea, clear, distention, hot, cold, white, greasy, weak, thin

Question 10

For cold type food stagnation, herbs that _____ the _____ are added to the prescription.

Answer 10

warm, interior

Question 11

If food stagnation is severe, ______ may also be required.

Answer 11

purgatives

Question 12

Shan Zha, hawthorne fruit tastes and channels

Answer 12

sour, sweet, slightly warm

Liver, Spleen, Stomach

Question 13

Shan Zha reduces food stagnation, especially from _____ and _____ foods, ______ the blood flow, alleviates _____ and ______.

Answer 13

meat, greasy, invigorates, diarrhea, and dysentery

Question 14

Shan Zha transforms _____ stasis, and _____ _____.

Answer 14

blood, dissipates clumps

Question 15

Shan Zha is also recently used for _______, ______ _____ disease, and _____ _____ _____.

Answer 15

hypertension, coronary artery disease, elevated serum cholesterol

Question 16

Mai Ya (barley sprouts, malt) tastes and channels

Answer 16

sweet, neutral

Liver, Spleen, Stomach

Question 17

Mai Ya is most used for digesting what three things? It ______ areas of hardness and ______ the appetite.

Answer 17

starches, fruits, and sugar, softens, improves

Question 18

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 ____.

Answer 18

Stomach, starchy, milk, Spleen, weak

Question 19

Mai Ya restrains _______: for women who are discontinuing ______, or for distended and painful ______.

Answer 19

lactation, nursing, breasts

Question 20

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 ______.

Answer 20

Liver, Liver, ribs, belching, appetite

Question 21

Gu Ya (sprouted rice), tastes and channels

Answer 21

sweet, neutral

Spleen, Stomach

Question 22

Gu Ya gently reduces food stagnation while strengthening the ______ and ______ the appetite.

Answer 22

Spleen, improving

Question 23

Gu Ya reduces food stagnation of ______ foods.

Answer 23

starchy

Question 24

Shen Qu (medicated leaven) tastes and channels

Answer 24

sweet, acrid, warm

Spleen, Stomach

Question 25

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 ______.

Answer 25

alcohol, sugars, wheat, Stomach, cold, fullness, distention, appetite, diarrhea

Question 26

Shen Qu is also added to pills that contain ____ to aid in their digestion and absorption, as in Magnetite and Cinnabar pill.

Answer 26

minerals

Question 27

Lai Fu Zi (radish seed) tastes and channels

Answer 27

acrid, sweet, neutral

Lung, Spleen, Stomach

Question 28

Lai Fu Zi transforms _____, reduces food stagnation, promotes the flow of qi in the ______, ______, and _____ ______.

Answer 28

phlegm, Lungs, Spleen, Large Intestine

Question 29

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 _______.

Answer 29

middle burner, rotten, regurgitation, diarrhea

Question 30

Lai Fu Zi causes qi to ______ and reduces _____: for chronic productive _____ or wheezing. Most effective in cases due to ______.

Answer 30

descend, phlegm, cough, excess

Question 31

Lai Fu Zi is recently used for _______, as in Three-Seed Decoction to Nourish One’s Parents.

Answer 31

hypertension

Question 32

Ji Nei Jin (gizzard lining), tastes and channels

Answer 32

sweet, neutral

Bladder, Small Intestine, Spleen, Stomach

Question 33

Ji Nei Jin reduces what types of food stagnation? It stops ______, and dissolves ______.

Answer 33

all types, enuresis, stones

Question 34

Ji Nei Jin ______ reduces food stagnation and improves the ______ transportive function. Used _____ for mild cases. Also important in the treatment of ______ ______ _____.

Answer 34

strongly, Spleen’s, childhood nutritional impairment

Question 35

Ji Nei Jin secures the ______ and stops _____.

Answer 35

essence, enuresis

Question 36

Ji Nei Jin transforms _______ and dissolves _____: for ______ in either the _____ or biliary tract.

Answer 36

hardness, stones, stones, urinary

Question 37

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.

Answer 37

chest, abdomen, acid, belching, nausea, vomiting, pain, diarrhea, greasy, slippery, excessive

Question 38

The main treatment strategy for food stagnation is to reduce ______ and ______ food stagnation.

Answer 38

accumulation, reduce

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

move, break up, downward, draining, damp-heat, parasites, warm

Question 40

Bao He Wan (Preserve Harmony Pill) reduces food stagnation and harmonizes the _______.

Answer 40

Stomach

Question 41

Food stasis refers to stagnation of food in the _____ _____.

Answer 41

middle jiao

Question 42

The presentation for Bao He Wan is the typical presentation of food stagnation that occurs from eating ______ foods or from _____ _____ and drinking.

Answer 42

contaminated, gross overeating

Question 43

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.

Answer 43

shan zha, shen qu, lai fu zi, chen pi, lian qiao