Wind-Heat : Herbs

Question 1

Bo He

Answer 1

Field Mint
acrid, aromatic / cool
Lu, Liv

• Vents rashes: early stage measles
• Cools/clears the eyes & head
• Soothes the throat
• Disperses wind-heat in upper jiao
• Facilitates the flow of Liv qi
• Expels turbid filth 
for problems like summer-heat gastric disturbance due 
to summertime exposure 
to unclean qi

Question 2

Niu Bang Zi

Answer 2

Great Burdock Fruit
acrid, bitter / cold
Lu, ST

• Disperses heat in the exterior and clears internal heat toxin
• Benefits the throat 
(top for sore throat)
• Facilitate bowel movements and moisten the intestines (unless fried)

Question 3

Chan Tui

Answer 3

Cicada Molting
sweet, salty / slightly cold
Lu, Liv

• Vent rashes, stops itching
• Soothes the throat
• Extinguishes internal wind
• Cools the Lu/Liv
• Clears eyes
• Stops spasms
• Loss of voice

Question 4

Sang Ye

Answer 4

White Mulberry Leaf
sweet, bitter / cold
Lu, Liv

• Cools and drains the Lu & Liv.
• Clears Lu/moistens dryness
• Calms Liv/clears eyes
• Tx cough (lung heat)
• Clears Liver, stops bleeding

Question 5

Ju Hua

Answer 5

Chrysanthemum Flower
sweet, bitter / slightly cold
Lu, Liv

• # 1 Eyes herb 
(Tx red, itchy, burning eyes)
• Can ascend or descend
• Drain or tonify, (particularly effective for dispersing wind-heat)
• Cooling/tonifying the Liv and brightening the eyes
• Resolves toxicity.
• Good for headache

Question 6

Man Jing Zi

Answer 6

Vitex Fruit
bitter, pungent / cool
BL, Liv, ST

• # 2 for eyes
• Major eye herb - headache w/ pain in eyes
• Particularly for wind-heat in the face and eyes
• Take formula to the eyes
• Useful for stiff/painful joints in wind-damp painful obstruction
• Ju Hua is more broad spectrum Tx

Question 7

Dan Dou Chi

Answer 7

Prepared Soybean
sweet, slightly bitter / cold or warm
Lu, ST

• Vents/disperses exterior pathogens
• Disseminates and disperses constrained heat above the diaphragm
• Food therapy
• Calms chest
• Release both ext. heat/cold - 
yin xu patterns
• Eliminates vexations, irritability, restlessness, insomnia
**Do not use if nursing

Question 8

Ge Gen

Answer 8

Kudzu Root
acrid, sweet / cool
Sp, ST

• Raises clear yang qi of yang brightness
• Releases muscle layer heat -headache, stiffness in back/neck
• Vents rashes
• Alleviates thirst & nourishes fluids by raising ST fluids, Tx diarrhea.
• Tx diabetes: Herbs that generate fluids Tx diabetes!
• Tx diarrhea & dysentery
• Hypertension–headache, dizziness, tinnitus

Question 9

Chai Hu

Answer 9

Bupleurum
acrid, bitter / cool
GB, Liv, Xb, SJ

• # 1 Shaoyang harmonizer 
(guide to side of head)
• Classic Shao Yang symptoms:(alternating fever/chills bitter taste in mouth, vomitting)
• Treats alternating chills/fever; 
Releases heat in the muscle layer
• Harmonizes shao-yang stage disorders
• Raises clear qi of ST and GB; Relieves Liv qi constraint
• Raises qi: Sp/ST def. - prolapsed organ, diarrhea, hemorrhoids

Question 10

Sheng Ma

Answer 10

Bugbang Rhizome
pungent, sweet / slightly cold
Lu, LI, Sp, ST

• Raises yang qi; tooth/gum pain,
• Disperses heat
• Resolves toxicity
• Vents measles/rashes
• Tx sinking Sp qi-prolapse
• Toxic in high doses