QI REGULATORS Flashcards
QI REGULATING HERBS
OVERALL: HELP PROMOTE MOVEMENT AND DISPERSE! UNBLOCK STAGNANT QI IN ORGANS!
- MOVE QI
- STOP PAIN
- SMOOTH QI
- DESCEND QI
- RELIEVE LIVER QI STAGNATION
- BREAK
- SOFTEN MASSES
MOVES DOWNWARD
HELPS TO CIRCULATE AND CLEAR HEAT
ACRID, BITTER, WARM, SOMETIMES AROMATIC; A FEW ARE SWEET (TO TONIFY!)
LONG TERM USE CAN INJURE QI; CAN BE DRYING OR INJURE YIN
CHEN PI
CHANNELS: LU, SP, ST
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM, AROMATIC
AKA JU PI
DOSAGE 3-9G
“TREATS 100 DISEASES”; VERY WELL LOVED AND MUCH USED HERB; FOOD HERB
KEY:
- MIDDLE JIAO AND LUNG ISSUES!
- HARMONIZING! HARMONIZES MIDDLE JIAO (SP/ST)
- FOR SOMEONE WITH A DEFICIENCY
- GOOD FOR KIDS WITH PHLEGM
- GREAT HERB FOR DIGESTION!
C/I: BITTER AND DRYING SO USE WITH CAUTION! LONG TERM USE CAN INJURE QI!
JU HONG
CHANNEL: LU, ST
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
KEY:
- LARGER LUNG FOCUS THAN CHEN PI BUT NOT USED AS MUCH
- BETTER FOR PHLEGM
- MORE AROMATIC AND DRYING THAN CHEN PI
DOSAGE: 3-10G
QING PI
CHANNELS: LV, GB, ST
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
DOSAGE 3-10G
C/I: FIERCELY CONSUMES QI; BE CAREFUL WITH QI PATIENTS!
KEY:
- GREEN (YOUNGER AND UNRIPE!)…AND LIVER!
- QI BREAKER!
- BREAST/HYPOCHONDRIAC PAIN…BREAST MASSES, CANCER
- STRONGER! SPREADS LIVER QI
- FOR MORE SEVERE PAIN AND FOR LIVER
- CHILD HERB OF CHEN PI => KIDS MOVE FASTER AND ARE STRONGER!
QING PI VS CHEN PI
ZHI SHI (“JEU SHEU”)
CHANNELS: SP, ST, LI (YANGMING)
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, SLIGHTLY COLD
3-10G
C/I: NOT FOR PREGNANCY! TOO DESCENDING!
KEY:
- UNRIPE/IMMATURE => BREAKER OF STAGNANT QI!
- REDUCES ACCUMULATION AND MOVES IT DOWN! (STOOL, CONSTIPATION!)
- MORE ABOUT STOMACH/LI (MIDDLE JIAO!)
- PHLEGM ACCUMULATION IN CHEST
- USED IN QI TONICS FOR PROLAPSE! DOESNT RAISE; JUST SUPPORTS
- FOR HEART DISEASE!
- VERY BLOCKAGE ORIENTED!
- MODERN CHINA INJECTS IT TO RAISE BLOOD PRESSURE
ZHI KE (“JEU KEU”)
CHANNEL: SP, ST
PROPERTIES: BITTER, ACRID, SLIGHTLY COLD
3-9G
KEY:
- SIMILAR TO ZHI SHI BUT WEAKER! (WHEN YOU WANT DESCENDING QUALITY BUT NOT AS STRONGLY/INTENSELY
- PROMOTES THE FLOW OF QI (FOR QI STAGNATION LEADING TO PROBLEMS IN FLOW OF QI LIKE COUGH, DISTENTION, CONSTIPATION)
- REGULATING QI TO HELP PAIN IN ABDOMEN
- CONSTIPATION!
- NEARLY MATURED (BIGGER THAN ZHI SHI)
ZHI SHI VS. ZHI KE
XIANG FU
CHANNELS: LV, SJ (RARE SAN JIAO!)
PROPERTIES: ACRID, SLIGHTLY BITTER, SLIGHTLY SWEET, NEUTRAL
6-12G
C/I: VERY DRYING!
KEY:
- LIVER QI STAGNATION PATTERNS!
- MOST IMPORTANT HERB FOR GYNECOLOGY
- WOMEN WITH IBS THAT GETS WORSE BEFORE PERIOD
- DEPRESSION AND IRRITABILITY BEFORE PERIOD
- IRREGULAR MENSTRUATION
- ALLEVIATES PAIN
- STOMACH
- VERY DRYING BECAUSE BITTER
MU XIANG
CHANNELS: SP, ST, GB, LI (SJ)
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
2 KINDS: GUAN MU XIANG AND CHUAN MU XIANG
KEY:
- VERY FRAGRANT!
- FAR REACHING HERBS
- MOVES QI, STOPS PAIN
- ABDOMINAL DISHARMONY (DIARRHEA, TENESMUS, DYSSENTERY)
- DAMP HEAT
- STRENGTHENS SPLEEN!
- FOR DEFICIENCY PATIENT WHO DOESNT GET BETTER AFTER THEY GO
- MIDDLE JIAO DEFICIENCY
- BLOATING/DISTENTION/FOOD SITTING IN STOMACH
3-10 G
C/I: AROMATIC, PUNGENT, DRYING,WARMING; WATCH OUT FOR YIN XU, DEPLETED FLUIDS
WU YAO
CHANNELS: UB, KD, LU, SP (LV NOT IN BENSKY)
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
3-10G
C/I: QI XU, INT HEAT, BLOOD XU; VERY ACRID WARM AND DRYING SO CAN EASILY DISPERSE QI AND DEPLETE BLOOD
KEY:
- MOVES QI
- DISPEL COLD WHICH CAUSES STAGNATION
- STOPS PAIN
- WARMS QI REGULATOR (WARMS KIDNEY!)
- HERNIAS
- TESTICULAR PAIN
- MENSTRUAL PAIN WITH CLOTS
- LOWER BACK PAIN
- CHILDREN AND BEDWETTING ISSUES (WITH MOXA)
CHEN XIANG
CHANNEL: SP, ST, KD
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
1-1.5G
KEY:
- ***WARMS KIDNEY AND GRASPS QI*** (INABILITY TO GRASP QI => ASTHMA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH)
- MOVES QI, STOPS PAIN
- HELPS TO GRASP QI
- HERNIA
- DESCENDS REBELLIOUS QI (BELCHING, WHEEZING, VOMITING)
- IT WILL SINK DOWN AND GRASP THE LUNG QI
TAN XIANG
CHANNEL: SP, ST, LU
PROPERTIES: ACRID, AROMATIC, WARM
1-3G OR IN PILLS, SMALL DOSAGE BECAUSE IT’S AN AROMATIC
KEY:
- HEART/CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE!
- CHEST QI STAGNATION
- NAUSEA/BELCHING/VOMITING
- GUIDES DOWNWARD!
CHUAN LIAN ZI
CHANNELS: LV, ST, SI, UB
PROPERTIES: BITTER, COLD, SLIGHTLY TOXIC
3-10G (LOWER BECAUSE OF TOXICITY)
C/I: SLIGHTLY TOXIC (TOXICITY CAN CAUSE NAUSEA/VOMITING/BLURRY VISION/HEART ARRYTHMIAS), SP/ST COLD DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
KEY:
- LOOKS LIKE A VAGINA! (VERY LIVERY!!)
- VERY USEFUL HERB!
- THINK OF ANGRY WOMEN W/ PMS SYMPTOMS…LIVER CHANNEL ANGER, ITCHY!!,
SOUNDBITE:
- LIVER/STOMACH RELATED
- VAGINAL ISSUES
- YEAST INFECTION
- STOMACH ISSUES
- PARASITES
- HERNIAS, MENSTRUAL PAIN, EPIGASTRIC PAIN, PARASITES, SCALP FUNGUS
XIE BAI
CHANNELS: LU, ST, LI
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER/WARM, SLIPPERY
5-10G
C/I: WEAK STOMACH THAT CANT TOLERATE ONION/GARLIC (ULCERS); STOMACH QI XU
SOUNDBITE:
- CHEST BI!!! (COLD DAMP PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION OF CHEST DUE TO COLD, TURBID PHLEGM)
- PAIN AND PHLEGM!
- WARM SO DISPELS COLD
- UNBLOCKS YANG QI!
- WHITE => LUNG!
FO SHOU
CHANNELS: LV, LU, SP, ST
PROPERTIES: ACRID, BITTER, WARM
3-10G
C/I: YIN XU WITH HEAT/FIRE
KEY:
- DOES NOT ALLEVIATE PAIN!
- HELPS LIFT DEPRESSION
- QI CONSTRAINT WITH DEPRESSION
- EMOTIONAL HERB; CAN MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH
- HARMONIZES ST + SP
CHANNELS: SP, ST, LI, SI
PROPERTIES: ACRID, SLIGHTLY WARM
3-10G
C/I: QI XU PATIENTS (BECAUSE TOO DRAINING)
KEY:
- WRINKLY LIKE STOMACH LINING! MIDDLE AND LOWER JIAO
- DRIVES QI DOWNWARD; VERY DIGESTIVE ORIENTED
- FOR PATIENT WHO SAYS BOWEL MOVEMENT DOESNT FEEL COMPLETE
- PROMOTES URINATION, REDUCES EDEMA
- SOUNDBITE: REDUCING EDEMA + WATER WEIGHT
HERBS THAT REGULATE QI
