Week 9 Functions Flashcards
**Settles anxiety and calms the spirit: **For emotional distress, restlessness, insomnia, palpitations with anxiety, or even
seizures or withdrawal-mania due to an agitated Heart and spirit.
Long Gu
Calms the Liver and anchors and preserves the floating yang
For irritability, restlessness, dizziness, vertigo, blurred vision, and bad temper
due to Liver yin deficiency with deficient yang transgressing upward.
Long Gu
Prevents leakage of fluids
For loss of fluids due to deficiency including spermatorrhea, nightsweats,
spontaneous sweating, nocturnal emissions, vaginal discharge, and uterine
bleeding.
Long Gu
Used topically (calcined and powdered) for chronic, non-healing sores and
ulcers
(Often used as a Dui Yao with Dang Gui to generate flesh and heal)
Long Gu
Nourishes the Heart yin, augments the Liver blood, and quiets the spirit
For irritability, insomnia, and palpitations with anxiety due to either blood
deficiency (inability to nourish the Heart) or yin deficiency (with upward-flaring
fire).
Suān Zǎo Rén
Prevents abnormal sweating
For both spontaneous sweating and night sweats.
Suān Zǎo Rén
Opens the orifices, dislodges phlegm, removes filth, and quiets the spirit
For phlegm-dampness veiling and blocking the sensory orifices with such sx as
deafness, dizziness, forgetfulness, a dulled sensorium, as well as seizures or
stupor
Shí Chāng Pú
Transforms turbid dampness, awakens the Spleen, and promotes
movement of qi
Chest and epigastric fullness and abdominal distention and pain due to
dampness and turbidity obstructing the middle burner
Shí Chāng Pú
Promotes blood flow and reduces swelling
Used both internally and topically for wind-cold-damp painful obstruction,
trauma, and sores
Shí Chāng Pú
Extinguishes wind and alleviates spasms
For patterns of Liver heat with internal stirring of Liver wind with such
symptoms as tremors, seizures, and eclampsia
Gōu Téng
Drains Liver heat and pacifies Liver yang
For Liver fire and ascendant Liver yang patterns with such symptoms as
headache, irritability, red eyes, and dizziness. Recently used for hypertension,
especially of this type.
Gōu Téng
Releases the exterior For exterior wind-heat patterns with such symptoms as fever, headache, and
red eyes
Gōu Téng
Kills parasites While best for treating tapeworms, it is also useful in killing a wide variety of intestinal parasites including fasciolopsis, pinworms, & roundworms, as well as blood flukes. The ability of the herb to drain downward helps in expelling the bodies of the
parasites.
Bīng Láng
Promotes the movement of qi, reduces accumulation, and leads
stagnation out - by mildly draining downward and unblocking the
bowels
For food accumulation and stagnant qi with abdominal distention,
constipation, and tenesmus.
Bīng Láng
Promotes the movement of qi and promotes urination. For damp leg qi and edema due to excess.
Bīng Láng
Used for malarial disorders.
Bing Lang
