Week 4

Question 1

Category of Heat-Clearing Antitoxins

Answer 1

Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity
Nature: Bitter and Cold Function: Clear Toxic Heat Symptoms of Toxic Heat: -Abscesses -Boils -Sores -Sore Throat -Dysentery -Skin Lesions These herbs have antibiotic and antiviral properties

Question 2

What is Jin Yin Hua ?

Answer 2

Known as gold silver flower - honeysuckle

Property: Sweet and Cool Channels: Lung, Stomach, and Large Intestine Functions: 1. Clears heat and resolves Nire toxicity 2. Vents and disperses Wind-Heat

Question 3

What are the subcategories or herbs that transform phlegm and stop cough?

Answer 3

Subcategories of Transform Phlegm and Stop cough:

1. Relieve Coughing and Wheezing
2. Cool and Transform Phlegm-Heat
3. Warm and Transform Phlegm-Cold

Question 4

What is an Antitussive?

Answer 4

Definition: Any herb that stops cough or asthma by descending rebellious Qi

Cough and asthma are caused by Lung Qi rebelling

Cough and asthma are symptoms. Herbs that treat this must be combined with other herbs that treat the root cause.

Cough is caused by both interior and exterior syndromes.

Examples: Exterior conditions are Wind-Cold and Wind-Heat Interior conditions are Lung Qi deficiency, heat-phlegm, and cold-phlegm in Lung

Question 5

Symptoms of Lung Qi deficiency:

Answer 5

• Shortness of breath
• Chronic weak cough
• Low voice
• Fatigue
• Pale face
• Tongue is pale and moist
• Pulse is thready

Question 6

What is Xing Ren?

Answer 6

Armeniacae semen - Apricot Seed

Property: Bitter and Slightly Warm, Slightly Toxic Channels: Lung and Large Intestine Functions:

1. Stops cough and calms wheezing (Descends rebellious Qi and stops cough and asthma)
2. Moistens the intestines and unblocks the bowels (treats constipation) This herb should be chopped and cooked for 5 minutes only

Question 7

Symptoms of phlegm in lung look like?

Answer 7

• Cough with white sputum -Asthma
• Stifling sensation in chest
• Tongue has White Greasy Tongue coat
• Pulse is Slippery

Symptoms of Heat-phlegm in the Lung:
-Cough with yellow sputum -Asthma

• Stifling sensation in chest
• Tongue has Yellow Greasy Tongue coat
• Pulse is Slippery and Rapid

Question 8

Symptoms of phlegm in the stomach

Answer 8

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Epigastric discomfort
• Loss of appetite
• Tongue has Greasy Tongue Coat
• Pulse is Slippery

Question 9

What are herbs that are aromatic and transform damp?

Answer 9

Nature: Pungent (spicy) warm + drying
Function: Aromatically transform damp on spleen to invigorate the spleen.

Stagnation will upset spleen function and upset flow of stomach

Symptoms: Nausea, vomiting, loss of apetite, fatigue, diahrrhea, loose stools, abdominal distension, heavy feeling in body

Tongue: White, greasy
Pulse: Slippery

Long term can exhaust qi and yin

Qi Yin blood deficiency

10 minute cook time

Spleen should be^^ UP. When spleen is damaged energy is down vv

Nose is related to spleen - aromatic and invigorating