Release Exterior - Gui Zhi & Bo He Flashcards
Name three functions of Wei Qi
Warms and moistens the skin.
Regulates appropriate opening and closing of pores.
Protects the exterior.
What Channels relate to the Tai Yang
UB Channel - Foot Tai Yang
SI Channel - Hand Tai Yang
What is the direction of Tai Yang (greatest Yang)
Up and Out
Open and Disperse
List the 6 Evils
Wind
Cold
Fire
Dampness
Dryness
Summer Heat
WIND characteristics (6 evils)
Yang in nature
Effects the upper body
Chief of 100 diseases
Squires up
COLD characteristics (6 evils)
Yin in nature
Congeals, blocks and obstructs
Clear, watery discharge
Symptoms feel better with heat
FIRE characteristics (6 evils)
Yang in nature
Rises Upward pathologically
Moves things around quickly
Dries fluids
Colorful and odor discharges
Anything that accumulates heat
DAMPNESS characteristics (6 evils)
Yin in nature
Heavy, stinky in nature
Effects the lower body
Mid and Lower Jaios - tends to sink down
Wet discharges and accumulation
Upper body and lower body phlegm
DRYNESS characteristics (6 evils)
Yang in nature
Drying to Yin fluids
SUMMER HEAT characteristics
6 evils
Yang in nature
Only seasonal pathogen
Often combines with Damp
Combination of pathogens most likely to attack the Exterior:
Wind-Cold
Wind-Heat
Wind-Damp (cold or hot)
Main signs and symptoms of any Exterior Disorder:
Chills and Fever simultaneously
Stiff neck
Floating pulse
With or without sweating
WIND-COLD Repletion pattern
Chills and Fever (chills predominant/aversion to cold)
Headache Muscle aches Clear or white secretions Floating tight pulse No sweating (so blocked, no sweat)
Treatment: induce sweating to release pathogenic influence.
WIND-COLD Vacuity
Pattern
Chills and Fever (chills predominant)
Headache Body aches Clear sections Floating weak pulse (no longer tight, because it's not excess) Mild sweating
Treatment: stabilize the Exterior to dispel wind cold pathogens by harmonizing Wei & Ying Qi
Primary caution for the category release the Exterior:
ONLY release Exterior Patterns when the pathogen is lodged at the surface, sweating will bring it out.
Gui Zhi, Cinnamomi Ramulus
[twig]
3-9 g
TASTE:
Acrid - to open and disperse
Sweet - to tonify weak Qi
TEMP: Warm - to balance Cold Pathogen (wind-cold)
CHANNELS ENTERED:
LU - Governs the Exterior
UB - Governs the Tai Yang
HT - Warms and Moves blood circulation and Yang Qi of chest.
FUNCTIONS/ INDICATIONS:
•Release Exterior and Assists the Yang: Adjusts Ying and Wei Qi.
- for Exterior cold with underlying disorders.
- sweating occurs but does not improve condition: releases the muscle layer.
- aversion to wind.
•Warms the channels & vessels and disperses Cold
- Wind-Cold-Damp, painful obstruction on joints and limbs.
- also good for dysmenorrhea caused by cold obstruction.
• Warms and facilitates the flow of Yang Qi in the chest and Mid Burner by directing turbid Yin downward.
- palpitation due to obstruction of the Yang Qi (easily flushed or startled), thin mucus accumulation.
CAUTIONS/CONTRA-INDICATIONS:
- Do not use in Exterior Heat disease
- Yin vacuity with heat signs
- Heat in blood with vomiting
- Caution during Pregnancy
Main signs and symptoms for WIND-HEAT Invasion
Fever and Mild chills (Fever predominant)
Sore throat Body aches Mild sweating (due to heat streaming fluids) Floating and fast pulse Yellow secretions Rashes Eye problems
Bo He, Menthae Haplocalycis Herba
[Field Mint - Square Stem]
3-6 g - min. 35% leaves
TASTE:
Acrid - to disperse pathogen
TEMP:
Cool - to balance warm pathogen
CHANNELS ENTERED:
LU - governs the Exterior
LIV - special function to move Qi and open the eye.
Special Property: Aromatic: to penetrate and open.
FUNCTIONS/INDICATIONS:
• Disperse WIND-HEAT
- Fever/chills, headache, floating/fast pulse.
• Clears the head and eyes, and headache.
- Sore throat, red eyes, and headache.
• Vents rashes
- Early stages of rashes: to induce rash to come to surface and speed recovery.
• Allows constrained Liver Qi to flow freely.
- Pressure in chest or flanks, emotional instability and gynecological problems.
CAUTIONS/CONTRA-INDICATIONS:
- Only cook 5 mins at end
- Not recommend for nursing mothers.
- May deplete Qi of overuse in weak patients.
