Release Exterior - Gui Zhi & Bo He

Question 1

Name three functions of Wei Qi

Answer 1

Warms and moistens the skin.

Regulates appropriate opening and closing of pores.

Protects the exterior.

Question 2

What Channels relate to the Tai Yang

Answer 2

UB Channel - Foot Tai Yang

SI Channel - Hand Tai Yang

Question 3

What is the direction of Tai Yang (greatest Yang)

Answer 3

Up and Out

Open and Disperse

Question 4

List the 6 Evils

Answer 4

Wind

Cold

Fire

Dampness

Dryness

Summer Heat

Question 5

WIND characteristics 
(6 evils)

Answer 5

Yang in nature

Effects the upper body

Chief of 100 diseases

Squires up

Question 6

COLD characteristics
(6 evils)

Answer 6

Yin in nature

Congeals, blocks and obstructs

Clear, watery discharge

Symptoms feel better with heat

Question 7

FIRE characteristics
(6 evils)

Answer 7

Yang in nature

Rises Upward pathologically

Moves things around quickly

Dries fluids

Colorful and odor discharges

Anything that accumulates heat

Question 8

DAMPNESS characteristics
(6 evils)

Answer 8

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

Question 9

DRYNESS characteristics
(6 evils)

Answer 9

Yang in nature

Drying to Yin fluids

Question 10

SUMMER HEAT characteristics

6 evils

Answer 10

Yang in nature

Only seasonal pathogen

Often combines with Damp

Question 11

Combination of pathogens most likely to attack the Exterior:

Answer 11

Wind-Cold

Wind-Heat

Wind-Damp (cold or hot)

Question 12

Main signs and symptoms of any Exterior Disorder:

Answer 12

Chills and Fever simultaneously

Stiff neck

Floating pulse

With or without sweating

Question 13

WIND-COLD Repletion pattern

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

WIND-COLD Vacuity

Pattern

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Primary caution for the category release the Exterior:

Answer 15

ONLY release Exterior Patterns when the pathogen is lodged at the surface, sweating will bring it out.

Question 16

Gui Zhi, Cinnamomi Ramulus

[twig]

3-9 g

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Main signs and symptoms for WIND-HEAT Invasion

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Bo He, Menthae Haplocalycis Herba

[Field Mint - Square Stem]

3-6 g - min. 35% leaves

Answer 18

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.