Mid Term Flashcards
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桂枝
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Guì Zhī
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甘草
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Gān Cǎo
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白芍藥
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Bai Shao Yao
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赤芍藥
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Chi Shao Yao
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生薑
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Shēng Jiāng
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大棗
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Dà Zǎo
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黄耆
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Huáng Qí
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膠飴
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Jiāo Yí
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飴餹
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Yí Táng
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蜂蜜
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Fēng Mì
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石蜜
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Shí Mì
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茯苓
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Fú Líng
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白朮
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Bai Zhu
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蒼朮
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Cang Zhu
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澤瀉
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Zé Xiè
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豬苓
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Zhū Líng
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滑石
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Huá Shí
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防己
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Fáng Jǐ
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木通
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Mù Tōng
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Gui Zhi Pharmaceutical name Common name Properties Channel entered Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Cinnamomi Ramulus Common name: cinnamon twig Properties: acrid, sweet, warm Channel entered: heart, lung, bladder Classified as: herbs that release the exterior
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Gui Zhi
actions/indications
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o Release the exterior and assist the yang
o Warms and unblocks the channels and collaterals
o Warms the yang and transforms thin mucous
o Assists the heart yang and unblocks the yang qi of the chest
o Warms the channels, vessels and collaterals
o Warms the middle and directs turbid yin downward
o Warms yang in the chong and ren channels to restore normal menstruation
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Gui zhi
main ability
mainly treats
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Main ability assists heart and connects yang
Mainly treats counter flow
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Gui zhi
clinical applications
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Chest tightness with tachycardia, pulsation/palpitation
- Running piglet, qi rushing up to chest/throat, fright, anxiety, panic attack
- Release the exterior
- Sweating
- Headache
- Body pain
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Gan cao Pharmaceutical name Common name Properties Channel entered Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Glycyrrhizae Radix Common name: licorice root Properties: sweet, neutral Channel entered: all 12 channels Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
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Gan cao
| actions/indication
Tonifies the spleen and augments the qi
o Moistens the lungs and stops coughs
o Moderates spasm and alleviates pain
o Clears heat and resolves fire toxicity
o Used as antidote for a variety of toxic substances
o Moderates and harmonizes the characteristics of other herbs
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Gan cao
main ability
mainly treats
c/i
Main ability: moderates (relaxes) urgency 緩急
* Mainly treats: urgency
c/i in sp dampness
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Gan cao
| clinical indications
tightness, spasm, tension, pain
- counterflow, vexation, restlessness, agitation, palpitation
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- poison, toxicosis (also, relieving potential urgency that may be caused by the effect of other
herbs)
- sore throat
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Bai shao yao
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Paeoniae Radix alba
! Common name: white peony root
! Properties: bitter, sour, mildly cold
! Channel entered: liver, spleen
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the blood
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Chi shao yao
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Paeoniae Radix rubra
! Common name: red peony root
! Properties: sour, bitter, slightly cold
! Channel entered: liver, spleen
! Classified as: herbs that invigorate the blood
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Bai shao yao
| actions/indications
Nourishes the blood and regulates the menses
o Calms and curbs the liver yang and alleviates pain
o Preserves the yin and adjusts the nutritive and protective levels
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Chi shao yao
| actions/indications
Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis
o Clears heat and cools the blood
Reduces swelling from sores and abscesses
o Clears heat and relieves eye pain
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Shao yao
main ability
mainly treats
applications
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Main ability: breaks open yin congealment and spreads yang’s harmony (tones vessels, softens liver and
sinews)
* Mainly treats: hypertonicity (esp. in abdomen)
* Clinical applications:
- Hypertonicity, pain
- Abdominal pain, fullness
- Constipation/diarrhea
- Blood pattern
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Sheng jiang
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Gingiberis Rhizoma recens
! Common name: ginger
! Properties: acrid, slightly warm
! Channel entered: lung, spleen, stomach
! Classified as: herbs that release the exterior
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Sheng jiang
| actions
Release the exterior and disperses cold
o Warms the middle burner and alleviates vomiting
o Warms the lung and stops cough
o Resolves toxicity
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Sheng jiang
main ability
mainly treats
applications
Main ability: disperse water, dampness, and cold in the stomach
* Mainly treats: nausea
* Clinical applications:
- nausea, vomiting, retching
- digestive reversal: belching, hiccups
- excessive drooling and sputum
- abdominal distention
- cold
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Da zao
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Jujubae Fructus
! Common name: jujube, Chinese date
! Properties: sweet, warm
! Channel entered: spleen, stomach
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
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Da zao
| actions
Tonifies the spleen and augments the qi
o Nourishes the blood and calms the spirit
o Moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs
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Da zao
| main ability, mainly treats, applications
Main ability: moderates urgency
* Mainly treats: pulling tightness and stiffness
* Clinical applications:
- Vexation, restlessness, agitation, zang zao (with gan cao)
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- Pain: pulling, stiff quality
- Cough (with water expelling herbs)
* Combined with Sheng Jiang:
- Acrid, sweet and warm: transforms the yang, harmonizes the middle
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Huang qi
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Astragali Radix
! Common name: astragalus root
! Properties: sweet, slightly warm
! Channel entered: lung, spleen
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
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Huang qi
| actions
Tonifies the qi and blood
o Tonifies the spleen and raises the yang
o Augments the protective qi and stabilizes the exterior
o Promotes urination and reduces edema
o Promotes the discharge of pus and generates flesh
o Wasting and thirsting disorder, numbness of the limbs, paralysis and painful
obstruction
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Huang qi
main ability
mainly treats
applications
Main ability: raises and brings the qi to the surface
* Mainly treats: surface layer of water causing excessive sweats, swelling, sores, numbness, etc.
* Clinical applications:
- excessive sweating
- swelling pain
- chronic non-healing sores, abscesses
- weak puffy flesh (constitutional feature)
- abnormal skin sensation
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Jiao Yi/ Yi tang
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: maltosum
! Common name: malt sugar, maltose
! Properties: sweet, slightly warm
! Channel entered: lung, spleen, stomach
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
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Jiao Yi/ Yi tang
| actions
Tonifies the spleen and augments the qi
o Tonifies the middle burner qi and alleviates pain
o Moistens the lung and stops coughs
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Jiao Yi/ Yi tang
main ability
mainly treats
applications
Yi Tang tastes sweet and [is] slightly warm. It governs supplementing deficiency exhaustion, stopping
thirst, [and] removing blood.” - Ming Yi Bie Lu
* Main ability: moderates urgency and constructs the middle
Appearance of the middle (abdomen): emaciation, dry skin, thin and tight abdominal wall
* Symptoms: abdominal pain, taxation, malnutrition
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Feng mi/shi mi
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Mel
! English name: honey
! Properties: sweet, neutral
! Channel entered: spleen, lung, large intestine
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
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Feng mi/shi mi
| actions
Tonifies the middle jiao and relieves pain
o Moistens the lung to stop cough
o Lubricates the bowels to relieve constipation
o Eliminates toxins
o Used in preparation of herbs
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feng mi/shi mi
| pattern
“Shi Mi tastes sweet and [is] neutral. It governs …, stopping pain, resolving poison, …”
- Ben Cao Jing
* Main ability: moderates urgency and resolves toxicity
made into honey pills, moderate fu zi
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Fu ling
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Poria
! Common name: poria, hoelen
! Properties: sweet, bland, neutral
! Channel entered: heart, spleen, kidney, lung
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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fu ling
| actions
Promotes urination and leaches out dampness
o Strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the middle burner
o Strengthens the spleen and transforms phlegm
o Quiets the heart and calms the spirit
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fu ling
| pattern
Main ability: promote water metabolism
* Mainly treats: pulsation/palpitation (悸) due to abnormal distribution of water
* Clinical applications:
- unsmooth urination
- dizziness, vertigo
- vexation, restlessness, anxiety
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Bai zhu
| name, properties, channel, classified as, actions
Pharmaceutical name: Atractylodis macrocephalae Rhizoma
! Common name: atractylodes rhizome
! Properties: bitter, sweet, warm
! Channel entered: spleen, stomach
! Classified as: herbs that tonify the qi
! Actions & indications:
o Tonifies the spleen augments the qi
o Dries dampness and promotes water metabolism
o Stabilizes the exterior
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cang zhu
| name, properties, channel, classified as, actions
Pharmaceutical name: Atractylodis Rhizoma
! Common name: atractylodes rhizome
! Properties: acrid, bitter, warm
! Channel entered: spleen, stomach
! Classified as: aromatic herbs that transform dampness
! Actions & indications:
o Strongly dries dampness and strengthens the spleen
o Induces sweating and dispels wind dampness
o Clears dampness from the lower burner
o Improves the vision
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Zhu pattern
Main ability: dry dampness and promote water metabolism
* Mainly treats: disorders of water and dampness
* Clinical applications:
- urinary dysfunction
- body aches and pain
- dizziness, vertigo
- indigestion
- diarrhea
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Ze xie
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Alismatis Rhizoma
! Common name: alisma rhizome, water plantain
! Properties: sweet, bland, cold
! Channel entered: kidney, bladder
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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Ze xie
| actions
Actions & indications:
o Promotes urination and leaches out dampness
o Settles ministerial fire in the kidneys by draining damp heat from the lower burner
Clears deficiency fire from the kidney
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Ze xie pattern
* Main ability: promotes water metabolism and urination
* Mainly treats: unsmooth urination
* Clinical applications:
- Unsmooth urination with thirst
- Dizziness, vertigo
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Zhu ling
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Polyporus
! Common name: polyporus
! Properties: sweet, bland, slightly cool
! Channel entered: spleen, kidney, bladder
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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Zhu ling
| actions
Promotes urination and leaches out dampness
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Zhu ling pattern
Main ability: promotes water metabolism and urination
* Mainly treats: urinary dysfunction
* Clinical applications:
- unsmooth urination
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Hua shi
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Talcum
! Common name: talcum
! Properties: sweet, bland, cold
! Channel entered: stomach, bladder
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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Hua shi
| actions
Clears heat and facilitates the resolution of dampness
o Clears summerheat and facilitates the resolution of dampness
o Absorbs dampness
Topical use to clear heat and dry dampness
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Hua shi
| pattern
Main ability: promotes urination and clears heat
* Mainly treats: urinary dysfunction with heat signs
* Clinical applications:
- dribbling painful urination
- thirst and urinary dysfunction
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Fang ji
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Chinese: han fang ji 漢防己
! Pharmaceutical name: Stephaniae tetrandrae Radix
! Common name: stephania root
! Properties: bitter, acrid, cold
! Channel entered: bladder, spleen, kidney
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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Fang ji
| actions
Promotes urination and reduces edema
| o Expels wind-dampness and alleviates pain
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fang ji
| pattern
Main ability: unblocks qi and moves stagnant water
* Mainly treats: water accumulation
* Clinical applications:
- edema and pain in the lower extremities (Fang Ji Huang Qi Tang, Fang Ji Fu Ling Tang)
- asthma
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Mu tong
Pharmaceutical name
Common name
Properties
Channel entered
Classified as
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Pharmaceutical name: Akebiae Caulis
! Common name: akebia caulis
! Properties: bitter, slightly cold
! Channel entered: bladder, heart, small intestine
! Classified as: herbs that drain dampness
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mu tong
| actions
Promotes urination and unblocks painful urinary dribbling
o Promotes urination and drains heat from the heart via the small intestine
o Promotes lactation and unblocks the blood vessels
Sedates heart and small intestine fire
o Opens the channels to relieve pain
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mu tong
| pattern
“Tong Cao tastes acrid and [is] neutral. It governs…, unblocking [the] nine orifices, blood vessels and
joints...” - Ben Cao Jing
* Main ability: disinhibits water passage and blood vessels
