Single Herbs -Release Exterior - Warm

Question 1

ma huang ephedra herba

Answer 1

LU, UB acrid, slightly bitter, warm release exterior, disperse cold – wind-cold, chills, fever, headache, no sweating - helps move lung Qi – controls wheezing, cough -promotes urination – reduce edema

Question 2

reversed prompt

gui zhi cinnamomi ramulus

Answer 2

HT, LU, UB acrid, sweet, warm go to for deficiency- pertains to Ying and Wei Qi levels – exterior cold with deficiency -warms channels, disperse cold – wind-cold, painful joints, dysmenorrhea -unblocks Yang Qi in chest – palpitations

Question 3

reversed prompt

zi su ye perilla folium

Answer 3

LU, SP acrid, aromatic, warm release exterior, disperse cold – fever, chills, headache, congestion, cough -promotes Qi movement – expands chest – nausea, vomit, poor appetite -calming restless fetus – alleviates morning sickness-sea food poisoning

Question 4

reversed prompt

jing jie schizonepetea herba

Answer 4

LU, LV acrid, slightly warm release exterior, expel wind – wind cold chills fever, carbuncles or boils in initial stages of eruption-vents rashes and alleviate itching of measles and pruritic skin disease -stops bleeding – blood in stool, uterine bleeding- wind, skin, stops bleeding

Question 5

reversed prompt

fang fang saposhnikovia radix

Answer 5

UB, LV, SP acrid, sweet, slightly warm release exterior, expel wind – headache, chills, body ache- expel wind damp, alleviate pain – trembling hands and feet, painful diarrhea, blood in stool – imbalanced spleen and liver- wind, internal wind, spasms, severe wind-damp

Question 6

reversed prompt

qiang huo notopterygi rhizizoma radix

Answer 6

UB, KI acrid, bitter, aromatic, warm release exterior, disperse cold - chills, fever, headache, damp body ache- unblocks painful obstruction – wind-cold-damp pain -guiding herb to governing vessel and greater yang channel

Question 7

reversed prompt

gao ben ligusticum rhizoma

Answer 7

UB, GV acrid, warm expel wind and cold, alleviate pain –headache at vertex, lower back pain

Question 8

reversed prompt

bai zhi angelica dahurica radix

Answer 8

LU, ST, SP acrid, warm expel wind-cold, alleviate pain – supraorbital pain, congestion, toothache –clears swelling, expel pus – early stage, carbuncles, sores, ulcer- expel dampness – leucorrhea- opens nasal passages for nasal congestion

Question 9

reversed prompt

xi xin asari radix et rhizoma

Answer 9

LU, HT, KI acrid, warm release exterior, disperse damp and cold – headache, body aches -warms lung, transforms phlegm – coughing, excessive watery sputum- unblocks Qi for nasal congestion

Question 10

reversed prompt

xiang Ru moslae herba

Answer 10

LU, ST acrid, aromatic, slightly warm release exterior, expel summer heat, transform damp – chill, fever, no sweat, body ache, diarrhea- promote urination – reduces edema and swellings, lin syndrome- mild wind- dampness

Question 11

reversed prompt

xin yi hua magnolia flos

Answer 11

LU, ST acrid, warm expel wind-cold, unblocks nasal passages – nasal discharge/congestion, loss of smell, sinus headache

Question 12

reversed prompt

cang er zi xanthii fructus

Answer 12

LU sweet, bitter, warm, toxic expel wind and damp – painful obstruction, skin disorders, itching, headache continuing down to back of neck and back- nasal passage obstruction – thick nasal discharge, sinus headache

Question 13

reversed prompt

sheng jiang zingerberis rhizoma recens

Answer 13

LU, SP, ST acrid, slightly warm release exterior, disperse cold in middle jiao – vomiting -disperse cold phlegm in lung – chronic and acute cough -reduce toxicity of other herbs or treating overdoses- adjusts ying and wei Qi for sweating without improvement

Question 14

reversed prompt

cong bai allii fistulosi bulbus

Answer 14

LU, ST acrid, warm release exterior, induce sweat – early stages of wind-cold -disperse cold, unblock yang – abdominal pain, nasal congestion- topically for relieving toxicity, disperse clumps – abscess, sores