Herbs: Clear Deficient Heat Flashcards
Di Gu Pi: lyceum cort
clears LUNG heat, drains Yin deficient fire, drains floating Kidney Fire (toothache).
Steaming Bone: Bone Cancer, Chemo, Radiation.
Wolfberry Root Cortex
Qing hao: artemesia
1 Malaria Drug (alternating fever and chills)
Wormwood
Clears all types of yin level heat without harming qi or blood.
Clears summer heat
Bai Wei: cynanchi atr
Post partum fever (lingering)
Snakebite (only herb in category)
Bloody Lin, cools the blood, clears more toxicity
Swallowwort Root
Yin Chai Hu: stellaria rad
General broad spectrum yin deficient heat herb, stops bleeding
Childhood nutritional impairment
Stellaria Root
Hu Huang Lian: picrorhiza rhiz
Childhood nutritional impairment with damp heat.
Dysentery
Picrorhiza Rhizome
What are signs of Yin deficiency?
feeling hot (heat), night sweats (can’t hold yin at night which is the yin time of day), when heat penetrates to the yin level of the body: yin level is interior, in the Kidneys and Liver.
Four organs prone to yin deficiency:
Lung and Stomach (superficial) and Liver and Kidneys (deeper)
Deficiency is chronic