Quiz 4 Flashcards
actions: invigorates blood, transforms and dispels blood stasis, warms menses, alleviates pain
indications: retention of lochia accompanied by cold and pain in the lower abdomen, a pale purple tongue or a pale tongue w/ purple spots and a thin-submerged-choppy pulse
Sheng Hua Tang (generating and transforming decoction)
actions: invigorates blood, transforms blood stasis, reduces fixed abdominal masses
indications: mild, persistent uterine bleeding of purple or dark blood during pregnancy accompanied by abdominal pain that increases with pressure
Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan (cinnamon and poria pills)
actions: invigorates blood, dispels blood stasis, disperses accumulation, alleviates pain
indications: irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, retention of lochia, postpartum abdominal pain, acute colicky pain in lower abdomen, severe pain in middle abdomen, or epigastric pain
Shi Xiao San (sudden smile powder)
actions: cools blood, stops bleeding, promotes urination, unblocks painful urinary dribbling
indications: painful bloody urinary dribbling (with blood in urine, urinary frequency, urgency, burning, pain) or simple blood in urine, accompanied by thirst, irritability, red tongue w/ thin yellow coating, rapid-forceful pulse
Xiao Ji Yin Zi (small thistle drink)
actions: cools intestines, stops bleeding, disperses wind, promotes movement of qi
indications: bright red rectal bleeding during defecation that typically precedes passage of stool, blood in stools, hemorrhoids w/ either bright red or dark red bleeding, red tongue body, wiry-rapid or soggy-rapid pulse
Huai Hua San (sophora japonica flower powder)
actions: disperses wind, eliminates dampness, CH, cools blood
indications: weeping, itchy, red skin lesions over large part of the body, yellow or white tongue coating, forceful-floating-rapid pulse
Xiao Feng San (eliminate wind powder)
actions: disperses wind, alleviates pain (headache)
indications: headache in any part of head, which may be accompanied by fever and chills, dizziness, nasal congestion, thin-white tongue coating, floating pulse
Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San
actions: disperses wind, alleviates pain, unblocks nose
indications: copious, purulent, even foul-smelling nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, dizziness, frontal headache, a normal or thin-white-greasy tongue coating
Cang Er Zi San (xanthium powder)
actions: cools LV, extinguishes wind, increases fluids, relaxes sinews
indications: persistent high fever, irritability, restlessness, dizziness, vertigo, twitching and spasms of the extremities, a deep-red, dry, or burnt tongue w/ prickles, wiry-rapid pulse; in severe cases there may also be impaired or actual loss of consciousness
Ling Jiao Gou Teng Tang
actions: sedates LV, extinguishes wind, nourishes yin, anchors yang
indications: dizziness, vertigo, feeling of distention in eyes, tinnitus, feverish sensation in head, headache, irritability, flushed face, wiry-long-forceful pulse; there may also be frequent belching, progressive motor dysfunction of body or development of facial asymmetry that occurs over a period of a few hours to a few days, severe dizziness and vertigo, sudden loss of consciousness, mental confusion w/ moments of clarity, inability to fully recover after loss of consciousness
Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang (sedate LV and extinguish wind decoction)
actions: gently disperses cool dryness, disseminates LU qi, transforms thin mucus
indications: slight headache, chills w/o sweating, cough w/ watery sputum, stuffy nose, dry throat, dry white tongue coating, wiry pulse
Xing Su San (apricot kernel and perilla leaf powder)
actions: clears and disperses warm-dryness
indications: moderate fever, headache, thirst, a dry, hacking cough or one w/ scanty, thick, sticky sputum, red tongue w/ thin, dry, white coating, floating-rapid pulse (especially on right)
Sang Xing Tang (mulberry leaf and apricot kernel decoction)
actions clears dryness and moistens LU
indications: headache, fever, hacking cough, wheezing, a dry, parched throat, dry nasal passages, a sensation of fullness in the chest, hypochondriac pain, irritability, thirst, dry tongue w/o coating, deficient-big-rapid pulse
Qing Zao Jiu Fei Tang (clear dryness and rescue LU decoction)
actions: nourishes the yin, clears the LU, improves condition of throat, resolves toxicity
indications: development of a white, curd-like membrane in the throat that is difficult to scrape off, swollen and sore throat, fever, dry nasal passages, parched lips, raspy breathing resembling wheezing, a dry red tongue, thin-rapid pulse; there may also be coughing
Yang Ying Qing Fei Tang (nourish yin and clear LU decoction)
actions: benefits ST, generates fluids, directs rebellious qi downward
indications: coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing up phlegm that is difficult to expectorate, or spitting of saliva, dry and uncomfortable sensation in the throat, dry mouth, heat in palms and soles, dry red tongue w/ little coating, deficient-rapid pulse
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