Release Exterior Cold Flashcards
What flavours are preferable in external wind cold conditions?
Pungent flavours
What should be done at the first stage of the pathogen in external wind-cold?
Simplify and reduce the diet.
Cut out mucus forming foods such as meat, bananas, raw foods, dairy and fatty foods
Drink lots of fluids and include herbs that release the exterior
What are some beneficial foods for wind-cold conditions?
Vegetables: garlic, spring onions
Drinks & Herbs: chilli, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, chai tea
What foods should be avoided or reduced in wind-cold conditions?
Mucus forming foods e.g. meat, dairy and fatty foods
Excessively sour and astringent foods
What cooking methods should be used in exterior wind-cold?
Generally lightly cooked and plenty of fluids such as soups and teas
What culinary herbs should be used in exterior wind-cold?
Fresh ginger (sheng Jiang)
Cinnamon twig (gui zhi)
What are the herbal formulas for exterior cold?
Gui Zhi Tang
Xiao Qing Long Tang
What is Gui Zhi Tang?
- Gui Zhi
- Shao Yao
- Zhi Gan Cao
- Sheng Jiang
- Da Zao
What are the functions of Gui Zhi Tang?
- Releases the exterior
- Regulates nutritive (ying) qi and defensive (wei) qi
- Harmonises the Spleen and Stomach
What are the patterns / signs and symptoms of Gui Zhi Tang?
- Taiyang wind-attack pattern
- Exterior deficiency syndrome due to externally contracted wind-cold with the manifestations of headache, fever, sweating with aversion to cold, nasal hoarseness, retching, no thirst
- T: white tongue coating
- P: floating and weak
What are the cautions / contraindications for Gui Zhi Tang?
- Excess patterns, external cold with internal heat
- Wind or damp heat, internal heat and yin xu
What is the dosage of Gui Zhi Tang?
Decoct all ingredients for oral administration
What is Xiao Qing Long Tang?
- Ma Huang
- Gui Zhi
- Bai Shao
- Zhi Gan Cao
- Gan Jiang
- Xi Xin
- Ba Xia
- Wu Wei Zi
What are the functions of Xiao Qing Long Tang?
- Release external wind-cold
- Warms the Lung
- Resolve Phlegm-dampness
What are the patterns, signs and symptoms of Xiao Qing Long Tang?
- Chills and fever without sweating, body aches, panting, cough with excessive copious phlegm, unable to lay flat, body oedema
- T: white and greasy coat
- P: floating
What are the cautions / contras for Xiao Qing Long Tang?
- Contraindicated to clients with Yin Xu
What are the single herbs for exterior cold?
Gui Zhi
Sheng Jiang
Zi Su Ye
What is Gui Zhi?
GUI ZHI CINNAMOMUM CASSIA (TWIG)
What are the actions and indications of Gui Zhi?
- Release the exterior and expel cold, can induce mild sweating to expel pathogens from the muscle layer. External syndrome of wind-cold, expels wind-cold from muscle layer.
- Warms the channels, used for wind-cold/wind-damp painful obstruction, joint pain e.g. shoulder, neck, or back pain
- Warms Yang in the chest/upper jiao, used for yang deficiency affecting the upper jiao. Presents as upward movement of phlegm and thin mucus affecting the Lungs and Heart. SOB, chest pain/fullness, palpitations, cough with clear and thin sputum.
What are the classifications of Gui Zhi?
Nature: warm
Taste or flavour: acrid, sweet
Direction of action: floating
Site of action: Heart, Lung, Bladder. Works on the muscle layer
What are the cautions / contras of Gui Zhi?
Heat due to Yin Xu, blood heat, wind heat: pregnancy or excessive menses.
What is the dosage of Gui Zhi?
3-9g
What is Sheng Jiang?
ZINGIBER OFFICINALE ROSCOE (RHIZOME)
Fresh ginger
What are the actions / indications of Sheng Jiang?
- Releases the exterior, dispels cold, used for exterior wind-cold particularly early stages of wind-cold syndrome. Presenting as chills, aversion to cold, and mild fever.
- Warms Spleen/Stomach, calms vomiting, used for Cold in MJ, particularly with nausea/vomiting due to cold, epigastric pain
- Warms Lungs, transforms phlegm, used for cough with profuse thin, light-coloured sputum.
- Detoxifies and disinfects, used for reducing toxicity of other herbs (e.g. Ban Xia), seafood poisoning
What are the classifications of Sheng Jiang?
Nature: slightly warm
Taste or flavour: acrid
Direction of action: floating
Site of action: Lung, Spleen, Stomach
What are the cautions / contras of Sheng Jiang?
Heat in the Lung/Stomach
Yin Xu with heat
What is the dosage of Sheng Jiang?
2-6 slices (standard 3)
What is Zi Su Ye?
PERILLA FRUTESCENS (LEAF, TWIG)
What are the actions and indications of Zi Su Ye?
- Release exterior and dispels cold, used for exterior wind-cold presenting as chills/aversion to cold, fever, nasal obstruction, absence of sweating, cough, headache
- Moves and regulates Qi in the MJ, used for digestive disorders, fullness/distension in abdomen. Presents as abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite.
- Detoxifies and disinfects, used for fish, shellfish and seafood poisoning
- Calms the foetus. Useful for morning sickness or calming a restless foetus
What are the classifications of Zi Su Ye?
Nature: warm
Taste or flavour: acrid, aromatic
Direction of action: floating
Site of action: surface/exterior, Lung, Spleen
What is the cautions for Zi Su Ye?
Deficient exterior with excessive sweating, damp-heat
What is the dosage for Zi Su Ye?
5-9g
