Herbs that Clear Heat from Deficiency

Question 1

Qing Hao

Answer 1

bitter, cold
KD, LV, GB
6-12 (do not subject to prolonged cooking)
1. Clears summerheat
2. Clears fever from deficiency (fevers from either blood deficiency or as the sequelae of a febrile disease. Especially useful when steaming bone patterns are marked by an absence of sweating)
3. Cools the blood and stops bleeding (purpuric rashes or nosebleed dt heat in the blood)
4. Checks malaria d/o and resolves heat (for the alternating fever and chills of malarial d/o)

Question 2

Di Gu Pi

Answer 2

sweet, bland, cold
LU, LV, KD
6-15
1. Cools the blood and reduces steaming (specifically drains KD fire, eliminates lurking heat and clears heat from the bones. Also for floating fire in the KD channel marked by tooth ache)
2. Clears and drains LU heat (LU heat cough or wheezing)

Question 3

Bai Wei

Answer 3

bitter, salty, cold
LU, ST, KD
3-12
1. Clears heat and cools the blood (heat entering the nutritive or blood levels. Most commonly used for post partum fever and during the recovery stage from a febrile disease)
2. Cools the blood and promotes urination (for hot or painful lin, especially before or after giving birth)
3. Resolves toxicity and treats sores (taken internally or applied topically. Not particularily strong)

Question 4

Yin Chai Hu

Answer 4

sweet, sl cold
LV, ST
3-9
1. Causes heat from deficiency to recede (fire from yin deficiency with steaming bone disorder or any yin deficient fever)
2. Clears heat and reduces childhood nutritional impairment (fever, thirst, irritability associated with childhood nutritional impairment dt accumulation of heat)

Question 5

Hu Huang Lian

Answer 5

bitter, cold
LV, ST, LI
1.5-9
1. Clears heat from deficiency (yin deficiency with heat signs)
2. Clears heat and reduces childhood nutritional impairment (most approrpiate when the d/o is accompanied by abdominal distention, afternoon fevers and dysenteric diarrhea)
3. Drains damp-heat (damp heat dysenteric d/o or sores)