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Week 13 - Open Orifices / Extinguish Wind, Stop Tremors Flashcards

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What is the marquee substance to open the orifices and revive the spirit?

A

She Xiang

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What secondary function makes She Xiang a popular ingredient in Die Da plasters? What is a modern indication for this substance? How should this herb be used?

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  • Invigorates blood, dissipates clumps, reduces swelling and alleviates pain
  • CAD
  • administered in pill form
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Shi Chang Pu’s open the orifices function is secondary to which function? What are some indications of the second function?

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Transforms turbid dampness, awakens the SP, promotes movement of Qi

chest/epigastric fullness, abdominal distention, poor appetite, diarrhea, excessive thick saliva

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What is the marquee substance in Open the Orifices to relieve heat toxin? What is the typical dosage range?

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  • Niu Huang
  • 0.2-0.5g
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Which function is Niu Huang renowned for?

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Clear heat especially in HT

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Su He Xiang is indicated for _____ Closed Disorders.

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Cold

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7
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Which of the Open Orifices substances has a relatively larger dosage range?

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Shi Chang Pu - 3-9g

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What is the legal status of Niu Huang/Ling Yang Jiao/She Xiang? How does Ling Yang Jiao compare to Xi Jiao?

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  • These are animal substances that are expensive to obtain
  • Ling Yang Jiao drains LV heat
  • Xi Jiao cools the blood
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What type of headaches can Gou Teng treat? How is it prepared? What mechanism does Gou Teng possess to extinguish wind?

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  • LV yang rising due to heat
  • Decoct for less than 20 min
  • Drains LV heat causing wind to stir
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What type of dosing and preparation is required of minerals and shells?

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crush and cook ~1 hour before adding other herbs

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11
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Di Long plays an important role in _______. Identify the mechanisms.

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Stroke sequelae - dredges the channels

asthma - clears LU heat

arthritis - clears heat, dredges the channels

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What precautions should a TCM practitioner exercise when prescribing Quan Xie and Wu Gong? Is it still used presently?

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Quan Xie and Wu Gong are toxic and also taste bad. They should only be used for excess patterns. They are still used although Di Long is a safer alternative

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13
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Ci Ji Li is also known as _______.

List actions and indications

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Bai Ji Li

  • Calms the Liver and anchors the yang: For headache, vertigo, or dizziness from ascendant LV yang
  • Dispels wind-heat and brightens the eyes: For red, swollen, and painful eyes as well as increased tearing
  • Dredges the Liver Qi to smooth its flow while dispersing constraint and clumping: For pain and distention in the chest or flank, irregular menstruation, or insufficient lactation, from constrained LV qi
  • Dispels wind and stops itching: For any kind of skin lesion w/ significant itching, such as hives; also used for vitiligo, sometimes as a stand-alone herb
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Bia Jiang Can is often used in ______ conditions. List actions and indications

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wind-phlegm

  • Extinguishes wind and stops spasms and convulsions: Used for childhood convulsions due to high fever, epilepsy, facial paralysis, and facial tics
  • Dispels wind, disperses wind-heat, and stop itching and pain: Used to treat headache, red eyes w/ excessive tearing, toothache, loss of voice, and sore, swollen throat from wind-heat attacking the head
  • Transforms phlegm softens what is hard, and dissipates nodules: Used to treat mastitis, scrofula, erysipelas, and parotitis
  • Expels wind and stops itching: Used to treat wind trapped in the skin causing eczema and other itchy rashes
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15
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Latin name for Shè Xiāng 麝香

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Moschus

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Latin name for Sū Hé Xiāng 蘇合香

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Styrax

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Latin name for Shí Chāng Pú 石菖蒲

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Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma

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18
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Latin name for Niú Huáng 牛黄

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Bovis Calculus

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Latin name for Bīng Piàn 冰片

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Borneolum

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Latin name for Gōu Téng 鉤藤

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Uncariae Ramulus cum Uncis

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Latin name for Líng Yáng Jiăo 羚羊角

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Saigae Tataricae Cornu

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Latin name for Shí Jué Míng 石決明

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Haliotidia Concha

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Latin name for Dì Lóng 地龍

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Pheretima

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Latin name for Quán Xiē 全蠍

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Scorpio

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Latin name for Wú Gōng 蜈蚣

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Scolopendra

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Latin name for Dài Zhĕ Shí 代赭石

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Haematitum

27
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Latin name for Tiān Má 天麻

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Gastrodiae Rhizoma

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Latin name for Cī Jí Lí 刺蒺藜

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Tribuli Fructus

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Latin name for Bái Jiāng Cán 白殭蠶

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Bombyx Batryticatus

30
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List actions and indications for She Xiang

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Vigorously opens the orifices, revives the spirit, and unblocks closed disorders: For impaired consciousness, unconsciousness, seizures, epilepsy, stroke, fainting, stupor, and tetany

Invigorates the blood, dissipates clumps, reduces swelling, and alleviates pain: For toxic sores in the blood level, amenorrhea, angina. May also be used topically or internally to treat traumatic injury such as fractured bones and torn ligaments

Hastens delivery and facilitates the downward passage of stillborns: used in cases where the dead fetus or placenta fails to descend.

31
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List actions and indications for Su He Xiang

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Opens the orifices and penetrates through turbidity to awaken the spirit: For closed disorders, phlegm collapse, epidemic toxic diseases

Opens up areas of constraint and clears away filth: For stifling sensations, cold fullness, and chest and abdominal pain, CAD, biliary colic, topically for chilblain

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List actions and indications for Shi Chang Pu

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Opens the orifices, dislodges phlegm, removes filth, and Quiets the spirit: Used to treat phlegm obstructing the sensory orifices leading to delirium, mania, unconsciousness, coma, seizures, and epilepsy. Forgetfulness, dulled senses, dizziness, foggy head

Transforms turbid dampness, awakens the Spleen, and promotes movement of Qi: Used to treat chest and epigastric fullness, abdominal distention, poor appetite, diarrhea and excessive thick saliva

Promotes blood flow and reduces swelling: Used to treat painful throat, hoarse voice, pain due to trauma, and clogged ears due to pressure changes

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List actions and indications for Niu Huang

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Clears the Heart, opens the orifices, awakens the spirit, and dislodges phlegm: Used to treat mania, delirium, high fever with loss of consciousness, coma, and other conditions in which fire has burned the fluids into phlegm, and lodged in the orifices, disturbing or uprooting the Shen

Clears the Liver, relieves toxicity, extinguishes wind, and stops tremors: Used to treat tremors, convulsions, epilepsy, lockjaw, and high fever w/ spasms

Drains heat and relieves fire toxicity: Used to treat a variety of severe inflammations and infections, as well as ulcers and boils. May be used along for this purpose.

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List actions and indications for Bing Pian

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Opens the orifices, awakens the spirit, and unblocks closed disorders: Used to restore consciousness after fainting, seizure, stroke or coma

Clears heat, drains fire, resolves toxicity, clears the eyes, removes superficial visual obstructions, and stops pain: For eyes, throat and skin, to treat redness, swelling, sores, non-healing skin, decaying flesh, thrush, sore throat, and toothache. Apply topically

Clears heat, alleviates pain, dissipates nodules, and alleviates itching: For scabies, herpes, eye itching, styes, neuropathy, and itchy sores. Apply topically

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List actions and indications for Ling Yang Jiao

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Drains Liver heat, calms the Liver, extinguishes wind and controls spasms and convulsions: Used to treat high fever and seizure in children, and chronic or acute convulsions for both children and adults, spasms, tremors and epilepsy when due to firey LV yang generating wind

Calms the Liver and anchors the yang:

Used to treat dizziness, vertigo, headaches, blurry vision, bad temper, red eyes, ribside burning, insomnia w/ nightmares, and a constant bitter taste in the mouth

Clears the Liver and improves the vision: Used to treat swollen painful red eyes, pressure and pain in the eyeball, sensitivity to light and blurry vision due to LV fire

Drains heat and relieves fire toxicity: Used to treat high fever, mania, delirium and loss of consciousness

Clears damp-heat : Used to treat hot bi syndrome

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List actions and indications for Shi Jue Ming

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Drains Liver fire and anchors and sedates the Liver Yang: Used to treat hypertension, migraines, vertigo, flushing in the face or body, irritability, a bitter taste w/ a dry mouth, and short temper, along w/ other KD and LV yin deficiency symptoms (sore weak lower back, forgetfulness, etc.)

Improves vision and causes superficial visual obstructions to recede: Used to clear heat from the LV channel to treat swollen red eyes, photophobia, pterygium, glaucoma, cataract, and blurry vision

Recently also used for increased gastric acidity, and, topically, for bleeding due to trauma.

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Di Long’s main action is ________

List actions and indications for Di Long

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unblocks channels & collaterals

Drains heat, settles convulsions, extinguishes wind, and stops spasms: For very high fever leading to seizures and delirium; also used for epilepsy, mania and heat-induced schizophrenia

Clears Heat & Calms wheezing: Used to treat wheezing, asthma, and whopping cough

Clears heat and unblocks and promotes movement in the channels and collaterals: Used to treat hemiplegia, joint pain and hot painful bi syndrome

Clears Heat and promotes urination: Used to treat difficult urination due to heat in the UB and painful urination due to KD stones

Also used recently for hypertension associated with ascendant Liver yang patterns.

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List actions and indications for Quan Xie

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Extinguishes wind and stops tremors and convulsions: Used to treat seizures, spasms, facial tics, tetanus, slurred speech, inflexible tongue, opisthotonos, and acute or chronic childhood convulsions

Attacks and relieves fire toxin and dissipates nodules: Used topically to treat toxic sores, mastitis, scrofula, and mumps. Use as an ointment w/ sesame oil and beeswax

Tracks down wind, Unblocks the collaterals and stops pain: Used to treat frontal and temporal migraines, and sever muscular pain w/ numbness and joint immobility

39
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List actions and indications for Wu Gong

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Extinguishes wind and stops spasms and convulsions: Used to treat acute or chronic convulsions, spasms, cramps, epilepsy, lockjaw, seizures and opisthotonos

Attacks toxin and dissipates nodules: Used to treat sores, carbuncles, neck lumps and poisonous snakebite

Unblocks the collaterals and stops pain: Used to treat stubborn headaches such as migraines, trigeminal neuralgia, migratory joint and muscular pain

40
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List actions and indications for Dai Zhe Shi

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Sedates and anchors the Liver yang, and Clears Liver fire: Used to treat tinnitus, dizziness, vertigo, headache, short temper, pain or pressure around the eyes, hypertension, and palpitations

Strongly directs rebellious Qi Downward: Used to treat hiccups, vomiting, belching, and wheezing

Cools the blood and stops bleeding: Used to treat epistaxis, hematemesis, cough w/ blood-streaked sputum, and severe uterine bleeding

41
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List actions and indications for Tian Ma

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Calms the Liver, extinguishes wind, and controls spasms and tremors: Used to treat spasms, tremors, epilepsy, tetany, opisthotonos, childhood convulsions, high fever, tonic-clonic spasms, stroke

Extinguishes wind and alleviates pain: Used to treat migraines, headaches and wind-damp bi syndrome w/ joint pain, muscular pain or numbness and other arthritic conditions

Disperses painful obstruction:

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List actions and indications for Bai Jiang Can

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Extinguishes wind and stops spasms and convulsions: Used for childhood convulsions due to high fever, epilepsy, facial paralysis, and facial tics

Dispels wind, disperses wind-heat, and stop itching and pain: Used to treat headache, red eyes w/ excessive tearing, toothache, loss of voice, and sore, swollen throat from wind-heat attacking the head

Transforms phlegm softens what is hard, and dissipates nodules: Used to treat mastitis, scrofula, erysipelas, and parotitis

Expels wind and stops itching: Used to treat wind trapped in the skin causing eczema and other itchy rashes

43
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Bīng Piàn 冰片

Borneolum

Open Orifices

44
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Cī Jí Lí 刺蒺藜

Tribuli Fructus

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

45
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Dài Zhĕ Shí 代赭石

Haematitum

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

46
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Dì Lóng 地龍

Pheretima

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

47
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Bái Jiāng Cán 白殭蠶

Bombyx Batryticatus

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

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Líng Yáng Jiăo 羚羊角

Saigae Tataricae Cornu

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

49
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Niú Huáng 牛黄

Bovis Calculus

Open Orifices

50
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Quán Xiē 全蠍

Scorpio

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

51
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Shí Chāng Pú 石菖蒲

Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma

Open Orifices

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Shí Jué Míng 石決明

Haliotidia Concha

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

53
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Sū Hé Xiāng 蘇合香

Styrax

Open Orifices

54
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Tiān Má 天麻

Gastrodiae Rhizoma

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

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Wú Gōng 蜈蚣

Scolopendra

Extinguish Wind and Stops Tremors

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