Herbs: Clear Deficient Heat

Question 1

Di Gu Pi: lyceum cort

Answer 1

clears LUNG heat, drains Yin deficient fire, drains floating Kidney Fire (toothache).
Steaming Bone: Bone Cancer, Chemo, Radiation.

Wolfberry Root Cortex

Question 2

Qing hao: artemesia

Answer 2

1 Malaria Drug (alternating fever and chills)

Wormwood
Clears all types of yin level heat without harming qi or blood.
Clears summer heat

Question 3

Bai Wei: cynanchi atr

Answer 3

Post partum fever (lingering)
Snakebite (only herb in category)
Bloody Lin, cools the blood, clears more toxicity

Swallowwort Root

Question 4

Yin Chai Hu: stellaria rad

Answer 4

General broad spectrum yin deficient heat herb, stops bleeding
Childhood nutritional impairment

Stellaria Root

Question 5

Hu Huang Lian: picrorhiza rhiz

Answer 5

Childhood nutritional impairment with damp heat.
Dysentery

Picrorhiza Rhizome

Question 6

What are signs of Yin deficiency?

Answer 6

feeling hot (heat), night sweats (can’t hold yin at night which is the yin time of day), when heat penetrates to the yin level of the body: yin level is interior, in the Kidneys and Liver.

Question 7

Four organs prone to yin deficiency:

Answer 7

Lung and Stomach (superficial) and Liver and Kidneys (deeper)
Deficiency is chronic