Herbs that clear heat and cool blood

Question 1

shui niu jiao - water buffalo horn

Answer 1

herbs that clear heat and cools blood

cold, salty

heart, liver, stomach

Actions:
- cool nutritive and blood level heat (high fever, delirium/ mental changes)

-clear heat from the heart channel

-resolve toxic rashes and sores (skin conditions that are bleeding)

• stops bleeding due to heat in the blood
• high fever, coma, delirium, skin eruptions, convulsions and tremors due to the heat in yin or/ and blood level with fire toxicity (tremors/ convulsion)

Sheng di huang is a good substitue

herb drug interactions:
- sedatives

Question 2

sheng di huang ** raw rehmanniae

Answer 2

herbs that clear heat and cools blood

cold, sweet, bitter

heart, liver, kidney

Actions:
- enrich yin
- cool blood
-clear heat and produce body fluid
- produces body fluid
-augments the marrow

• fever, dry mouth, deep red tongue, due to invasion of warm pathogen in the yin or blood level
• hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, and uterine bleeding due to heat in the blood
• can be cloying to the digestion

herb drug interactions:
- anti-inflamatory
- diabetes
- endocrine

Question 3

xuan shen ** scrophularia

Answer 3

herbs that clear heat and cools blood

cold, bitter, sweet, salty

lung, stomach, kidney

Actions
-salty flavor has the ability to soften the harness
- enriches yin,
- moistens dryness
- drains fire resolve toxins
- softens hardness and transforms hardness and transforms phlegm heat to dissipate nodules and clears heat and cools blood

• feverish body, dry mouth, deep red tongue to to invasion of warm pathogens in ying level or blood level
• skin eruptions or. restlessness and delirium due to excess heat in the blood,
  -swollen and painful throat

herb drug interactions
-anti-hypertensive
-anti-biabetic
- antibiotic

Question 4

Mu dan pi ** tree peony root bark

Answer 4

herbs that clear heat and cools blood

slightly cold, bitter, acrid

heart, liver, kidney

Actions:
-clears excess and deficiecny heat
-cools blood
- gently invigorates the blood circulation without injuring blood and yin
- clears lurking fire in the blood

-skin eruptions due to invasion of warm heat pathogen in the xue level or hematemissis or epistaxis due to heat in the blood

• drains pus, intestinal abscess
  -clears ascending liver fire

herb drug interaction
- anti-inflamatory
-cardiovascular
-anti hypertensive
-anti -biotic

Question 5

zi cao - lithospermum

Answer 5

herbs that clear heat and cools blood

cold, sweet,

heart, liver

Actions:
- cools and invigorates the blood
-resolves toxins

• slow skin eruption or dark red/purple skin eruptions in warm-heat diseases, measels due to extreme heat and toxin in the blood
  -vents rashes, measels and chickenpox
• eczema due to damp heat and heat in the blood and burns

Herb drug interaction
- anti-biotic
- anti inflammatory
-contraceptive
- cardiotonic

Question 6

herbs that clear heat and cool blood functions

Answer 6

the herbs are cold and flavor is bitter, sweet, or salty

all of them can cool the blood and clear the yin/nutrative layer

problems of nutritive and four level diseases - scarlet tongue, irritabiltiy, restlessness and changes in consiousness and various forms of bleeding and rashes