General Introduction 2

Question 1

hemostatic

Answer 1

Character and Actions:
Taste: Sour, Astringing
Meridian: Liver and Heart
Main efficacies :
• Stop bleeding
Precaution:
• Astringent and cooling blood hemostatic medicine easily leave stasis, combination is important to avoid
• Some functioning well in carbonized form while some in raw form.

Question 2

blood-activating

Answer 2

Taste: pungent and bitter
Nature: warm
Meridian: heart and liver
Main efficacies :
• Promote blood circulation and remove blood-stasis
Precaution:
Not suitable for excessive menstruation, bleeding without blood-stasis
Caution or avoided in pregnancy

Question 3

qi-regulating

Answer 3

Taste: pungent, fragrant, bitter
Nature: warm
Meridians: spleen, liver and lung
Precaution:
Most are pungent, warm, fragrant and dry so easy to damage qi and yin, caution in cases of yin and qi def
• The qi-breaking medicinal with strong functions should be used with caution for pregnant women
• Contain volatile oil and so they cannot be decocted for long time

Question 4

interior warming

Answer 4

Taste: pungent
Nature: warm and hot 
Meridian: Spleen and Stomach
Precaution:
• syndrome of excess heat, yin deficiency with effulgent fire and less body liquids
• Careful use in extremely hot weather
• Contraindication for pregnant woman

Question 5

diuretics

Answer 5

• Edema alleviating
Taste: sweet and bland 
Nature: neutral or cold
Meridian: Kidney 
• Stranguria-relieving
Taste: bitter and cold/sweet, bland and cold.
Meridian: 
Bladder and Kidney 
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