Warm Release Exterior Herbs

Question 1

What herb is the strongest herb in the category, controls wheezing and cough, promotes urination, reduces edema, and is diaphoretic and diuretic?

Answer 1

Ma Huang/Ephedra H.

Question 2

What herb goes to the Heart, harmonizes Ying and Wei, unblocks Yang in the chest, and is in Ma Huang Tang (with Ma Huang)?

Answer 2

Gui Zhi/Cinnamomi Ram.

Question 3

What herb promotes qi movement: for nausea and vomiting, and alleviate morning sickness?

Answer 3

Zi Su Ye/Perilla Flos.

Question 4

What herb can be used for wind cold or wind heat, vents rashes and stops bleeding (for blood in the stools)?

Answer 4

Jing Jie/Schizonepetea H.

Question 5

What herb expels wind DAMP and alleviates PAIN, for painful diarrhea, and intestinal wind? It treat ALL wind disorders.

Answer 5

Fang Feng/Saposhnikovia Rad.

Question 6

What herb relieves Urinary Bladder Channel headache and damp body ache (Damp-Bi Syndrome)? It is also a guiding herb to the Du Mai and the Greater Yang channels (Tai Yang).

Answer 6

Qiang Huo/Notopterygi Rhiz.

Question 7

What herb is used for headache at the VERTEX, is the ONLY ONE that enters the DU MAI, and is used for toothache and cold?

Answer 7

Gao Ben/Ligusticum Rhiz.

Question 8

What herb is used for toothache, opens the nasal passages (for nasal congestion), and is the FRONTAL headache herb?

Answer 8

Bai Zhi/Angelica Dahurica Rad.

Question 9

What herb warms the LUNG, is used for coughing with excessive watery sputum, unblocks qi (for nasal congestion), and is in the formula Minor Blue Green Dragon?

Answer 9

Xi Xin/Asari H.

Question 10

What herb expels Summerheat?

Answer 10

Xiang Ru/Elsholtzia Spl.

Question 11

What herb unblocks nasal passages, is for SINUS headache, and is the MAJOR NOSE and SINUS herb?

Answer 11

Xin Yi Hua/Magnolia Fl.

Question 12

What herb is TOXIC, used for THICK nasal discharge, and SINUS headache?

Answer 12

Cang Er Zi/Xanthii Fr.

Question 13

What herb is the #1 NAUSEA herb, reduces the toxicity of other herbs, is used for treating overdoses, and is for vomiting?

Answer 13

Sheng Jiang/Fresh Ginger

Question 14

What herb is used for the EARLY STAGES of MILD WIND COLD?

Answer 14

Cong Bai/Allium Fistulosi Bulbus

Question 15

What are the two types of WIND COLD?

Answer 15

Wind cold with COLD PREDOMINANT (Excess Wind Cold) and Wind Cold with WIND PREDOMINANT.

Question 16

In Wind Cold with COLD Predominant (Excess Wind Cold) there will be a lack of ______ and an aversion to _____. What is the classic formula for this?

Answer 16

sweating, cold. Ma Huang Tang

Question 17

Wind Cold with WIND Predominant is a ________ pattern. The person will have an aversion to _____. What is the classic formula for this?

Answer 17

deficiency, wind, Gui Zhi Tang

Question 18

Release exterior herbs disperse pathogenic factors from the _____ and _____ levels. They are mostly _____, _____, and _____.

Answer 18

wei, ying, acrid, pungent, spicy

Question 19

Release exterior herbs can be too ______, can damage the _____, should NOT be used for ______ conditions, and should be cooked for ____ minutes under a high flame.

Answer 19

drying, yin, chronic, 15

Question 20

What are the main signs and symptoms for Wind-Cold?

Answer 20

Simultaneous chills and fever, runny nose, headache, floating pulse

Question 21

Cold symptoms show more ____, there is headache, body ache, a ____ tongue, and no ____.

Answer 21

pain, white, thirst