Herbs that warm the interior Flashcards
Herbs that warm the Interior overview
Many Culinary herbs
Indian cooking
Spicy , bitter, warm, hot
act mainly on HT/SP (KI)
someone in cold environment/sitting on cold surfaces/eating too much cold
Restore Yang Qi (from yang collapse)
Treat Sxs of Interior Cold
- restore normal Fx of internal organs (P: weak, slow, deep; T: pale with white coat (no scallops)
- Relieve pain: epigastric & abdominal (cold=pain)
- Dispel cold to warm yang
- warm SP/ST (nausea/vomiting, belching, loss of appetite, diarrhea, undigested food particles, dysentery
- strengthen yang (pallor of face/tongue, clear& profuse urination, decreased sexual abilities)
- restore yang collapse (hypothermia, shock, coma, P: failing depp/hidden or floating/weak)
Cautions w/ these herbs
Herbs are spicy, warm, drying
yin deficiency (can injure fluids)
heat
blood loss
pregnancy
high doses (if PT weak)
Add tonification herbs (if PT weak)
Common names of the 10 herbs
Aconite
Dried Ginger
Evodia pepper
red pepper/ Si Chuan (prickly ash)
black pepper (white inside w/ husk removed)
long pepper
CLoves
galangal
fennel
Fu Zi
Aconite Root
HT/SP/KI
Spicy, Toxic, Hot
rescue devastated yang from collapse: warming and assisting HT & KI
- restores devastated yang: hospital Fx: shock, hypothermia, low bld pressure, shallow breath, cold. In China put in IV
- Warm KI/SP: KI/SP yang def: cold, diarrhea, polyuria (sometimes constipation-no “push”)
- expel cold/ reduce pain: warms channel, reduces Bi Zheng (arthritis)
- warms HT yang: palpitations, angina, Careful w/ patients re “Ht Pulse” - may be result of trauma.
Contra: all phlegm herbs: Ban Xia (toxic), Bei Mu, Gua Luo
yin def
pregnancy
Fu Zi Can treat
Thyroid hypofunction
Sciatica, low back pain,
joint pain, Bi Zheng d/t cold
Gynecology
menopausal Sxs: insomnia, night sweats
brittle bones
HT problems
fever/profuse sweating d/t yang def
pediatrics
Plane travel coldness
FU ZI presentation
Aging: over 50, skin dry, saggy, hair, course and brittle, libido down, gaining weight, irregular menses (late/scant d/t cold)
deficient cold: weak, low reactions, mentally tired. low voice, cold+aversion to cold, SOB, irregular menses, P: deep, weak, slow, T: swollen, toothmarks (tonifies KI/SP), moist
Fu Zi Sxs of overdose*
Numbness/burning of Tongue
dry mouth+ hot flashes= mild
nausea, vomiting
dizziness
blurred vision
numbness of body & extremities
decreased HT rate
difficulty breathing
Muscle spasms in arms and legs
arrhythmia
ventricular tachycardia
ventricular fibrillation
Cardiac arrest
Gan jiang
Dried Ginger; Zingiber Officinalis
HT, LU, SP, ST
spicy, hot
Upper jiao: HT/LU (transport phlegm)
middle Jiao: SP/ST (disperse cold)
rescue devastated yang from collapse: cold def of SP/ST (longer lasting)
pain and diarrhea
warms LUs; transports phlegm, stops cough
- expells cold + damp (int excess/SP yang def): nausea, belly pain, diarrhea, indigestion d/t cold
- Hospital Fx: oils help cardio vascular&nervous systems. coldness/shock/weak pulse, increase circulation, low BP
- transforms cold phlegm (more coagulated/damp: coughing, wheezing, chronic bronchitis, watery clear, easy to expel mucous.
- Pao Jiang = charred version, warms channels/stops bleeding
(Shen jiang= fresh ginger)
Rou Gui
Cinnamon bark; cinnamomum cassia
HT, SP, KI, LV
Spicy, sweet, hot
For deficient people
Treating def cold in lower jiao
- warms HT/SP/KI yang: relieves pain of all kinds and weakness by warming these organs. Yang qi def=pain, cold and weakness Sxs
- warms meridians: good at expeling cold: gyno stuff: amenorrhea, stasis w/ clots or late periods, Bi Zheng
- aids skin healing as a powder in external applicationor drink in formula- helps push blood
- tonification fx for qi and bld deficiency: fatigue, BM issues, pallor, dizziness, dry skin
- Hot above/cold below- leads fire back to KI (true cold/false heat): cold low limbs, flushed face, wheezing
Cinnamon presentation
(Rou Gui/Gui Zhi)
very skinny youth
difficulty gaining eight
deficient type: belly flat like drum, skin moist. tender, pulse soft
T: dusky/pale not red
Wu Zhu Yu
Evodia Fruit; Evodia Rutaecarpa
SP, ST, LV, KI
Spicy, bitter, sl toxic, hot
Lower burner: cold bulging disorders, diarrhea d/t cold
belching and vomiting when LV involved
Pain medicine (for cold only); in many formulas for cold of ST/SP. Oils warming-relate to Ren, Chong, Du, Dai channels
- analgesic: pain reliever, works thru nervous system, head ache, St pain, cold, hernia pain- relieves LV constraint
- excellent at warming ST: reduces vomiting, diarrhea w/ undigested food particles, nausea, rebellious qi (brings down)
- mouth/tongue sores, regurgitation
- pin worms (sl toxic)
Hua Jiao
Chuan Jiao
Su Jiao
Sichuan Pepper fruit; Zanthoxylum schinifolium
SP, ST, KI
spicy, hot, sl toxic
dries dampness/kills parasites
- cold belly pain: fixed, sharp, sudden diarrhea, like ST caught a cold- cant TnT fluids, toothache interior or exterior as compress
roundworms, auxiliary herb- need to add other herbs
HU Jiao
Black table pepper; piper nigrum
ST, LI
spicy, hot
recommends as food not formula; great table medicine
black and white (and green) are same-one w/o husk- red different
- warms mdle, reduces pain: indigestion, diarrhea, epigastric/abd pain, toothpain
- opens the appetite: sl. nausea, vomiting, low appetite
Bi Bo
long pepper fruit; Piper longum
ST, LI
spicy, hot
hotter: cold sunken into mdle jiao leading to abd pain, nausea, vomiting
- Warms midle, reduces pain: Kapha type- cold, damp type, nausea, vomiting, belching, abd pain, diarrhea= St coldness (SP qi fatigue)
- Typically used for toothache> antibiotic effect on toothache
