Herb Categories Flashcards
(321 cards)
1
Q
Dang Shen
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi
Neutral
Mild form of Ren Shen.
Poor man’s ginseng.
Tonify middle burner, strengthen qi, nourish fluids, tonify lungs.
2
Q
Du Zhong
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify LV/KD (strengthen sinews, bones, fatigue).
Promotes smooth flow of qi and blood circulation.
Calm the fetus for yang deficiency kidneys.
3
Q
Gou Qi Zi
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
Neutral
Nourish/tonify LV/KD (yin and blood deficiency).
Benefits essence, brighten eyes.
Enrich yin, dry lung, consumptive cough, xiao ke.
4
Q
Long Dan Cao
A
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain damp heat from the LV and GB (eyes/ears/throat, jaundice, swollen painful genitals, leukorrhea).
Clears ascending liver fire (headache, eyes, fever, spasm, convulsions).
5
Q
Xing Ren
A
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing
Warm, Toxic
Stop coughing and wheezing due to heat or cold.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
6
Q
Niu Bang Zi
A
Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior
Cold
Expels wind heat, benefits throat (fever, cough, sore throat).
Clear heat, relieve toxicity.
Moisten intestines (wind heat constipation).
7
Q
Bo/Bai Zi Ren
A
Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit
Neutral
Nourish heart yin, calm spirit (irritability, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations).
Moisten intestines due to blood/yin deficiency (constipation).
Night sweats.
8
Q
Gou Teng
A
Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors
Cool
Cleras wind nad heat in the liver (spasms, tremors, seizures, eclampsia).
Drains liver heat, ascends yang (headache, irritable, red eyes, dizzy).
Release exterior wind heat (fever, headache, red eyes).
9
Q
Fang Feng
A
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
Warm
Release exterior, dispel wind.
Alleviate wind damp, alleviate pain.
Harmonizes liver and spleen (painful, diarrhea, blood in stool)
10
Q
Ma Dou Ling
A
Obsolete substances with toxicity
Cold
Clears lungs, transforms phlegm (coughing, wheezing, heat signs).
Hypertension, bleeding hemorrhoids.
11
Q
Huang Lian
A
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (high fever, irritability, disorientation, red eyes, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses).
Clear eat, drain damp in the stomach (diarrhea, dysentery, acid reflux, halitosis, belching).
Clears heart fire (irritability, insomnia).
Topically for red painful ulcerations.
12
Q
Qin Jiao
A
Herbs that dispel wind dampness
Cool
Dispel wind cold/heat/damp, soothes sinews (muscle cramping) in extremities.
Clears deficiency heat.
Paralysis caused by stroke.
13
Q
Fu Zi
A
Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold
Hot, Toxic
Restores devastated yang (extreme cold limbs with abundant cold).
Assists heart yang to unblock vessels and improves circulation.
Tonifies kidney yang (warms fire and assists yang qi for HT/SP/KD).
Disperse cold, warm channels, relieve pain due to cold.
14
Q
Han Lian Cao
A
Tonify yin herbs
Cool
LV/KD yin deficiency (dizzy, grey hair, bad vision).
Cools blood, stops yin deficiency bleeding (uterine, nose, stool, urine).
15
Q
Shi Wei
A
Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome
Cool
Promote urination, drain damp heat from the bladder (lin syndrome)
Stops bleeding.
Cleras lung, expels phlegm, relieves cough.
16
Q
Yan Hu Suo
A
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
Warm
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Alleviate pain.
17
Q
Gou Ji
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
18
Q
Ge Jie
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Neutral
Strengthen kidneys, tonify lungs (help kidney grasp lung qi, wheezing).
Assists kidney yang (strengthen essence and blood, impotence, day break diarrhea, urinary frequency).
19
Q
Lai Fu Zi
A
Herbs that relieve food stagnation
Neutral
Reduce food stagnation, transform accumlations (raw).
Caused lung qi to descend, cough with damp phlegm (dry fried).
20
Q
Jue Ming Zi
A
Herbs that clear heat and drain fire
21
Q
Hong Teng
A
Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity
Neutral
Clear toxic heat and abscesses (skin lesions, swelling pain).
Invigorate blood, disperse stasis (trauma, dysmenorrhea, joint pain).
22
Q
Qin Pi
A
Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness
Cold
Drain damp heat (dysentery).
Drain liver fire (eyes).
Clear wind damp heat (painful hot obstruction).
23
Q
Rou Cong Rong
A
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang
Warm
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary disorders).
Warms womb (infertility, excessive uterine bleeding, leukorrhea).
Moistens intestines, constipation.
24
Q
Li Zhi He
A
Herbs that regulate qi
Warm
Regulate qi, stop pain (abdominal pain, PMS pain, postpartum pain).
Disperse cold and stagnation (hernia and testicular pain).
25
San Leng
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Breaks up blood stasis, promotes movement of qi, alleviates pain (dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, abdominal masses, amenorrhea).
Dissolves food stagnation/accumulations (severe abdominal pain and distention with food stagnation).
26
Ai Ye
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Warm**
Stops bleeding (deficiency cold uterine bleeding).
Warms womb (restless fetus).
Lower abdominal cold pain.
27
Huang Jing
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral**
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (poor appetite, fatigue, dry mouth, loss of taste, dry stool).
Moisten lung (dry cough, little sputum).
Tonify kidney, strengthen essence (lower back pain/weak, light headed).
28
Shi Liu Pi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm, Toxic**
Binds intestines (deficiency diarrhea/dysentery, rectal prolapse).
Stabilize kidney, retian essence (spermatorrhea, uterine bleeding, leukorrhea).
Parasites (tapeworm, roundworm, ringworm).
29
Da Zao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral**
Tonify spleen qi (weakness, shortness of breath, reduced appetite, loose stools).
Nourish blood, calm spirit (irritable, pale, emotional, restless).
Harmonize other herb's harsh properties.
30
Chuan Xiong
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Irregular menses, dysmenorrhea, lochioschesis, headache.
31
Jing Jie
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, dispel wind, carbuncles in their initial stage, vents rashes and aleviates itching.
Stops bleeding when charred (in stools, uterine)
32
Di Long
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Cold**
Drains liver heat (spasms, convulsions, high fever, painful lin).
Clears lung heat (wheezing).
Clears heat in the channels (swollen, painful joints).
33
Xiao Ji
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Cool**
Stops bleeding/blood in urine (stronger than Da Ji).
34
Zhi Mu
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Clear heat, drain fire (lung and stomach).
Nourish yin, moisten dryness (night sweat, steaming bone, irritability, kidney heat patterns).
Generates fluids and cleras heat.
35
Zi Cao
*Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood*
**Cold**
Relieve fire toxicity, cool blood (rashes).
Damp heat in the skin, itching.
Moisten intestines, unblocks bowels (constipation).
36
Huang Qi
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Warm**
Tonify spleen and lung qi (raise spleen and stomach qi/prolapse).
Tonify wei qi (stabilize exterior).
Tonify qi and blood due to loss of blood/postpartum fever.
Promotes urination (edema, discharge of pus, generates flesh).
37
(Zi) Su Zi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Warm**
Stops coughing and wheezing.
Redirects rebellious qi downward and dissolves phlegm.
Moistens intestines.
38
Bai Dou Kou
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Aromatically transforms dampness, chest distention, lack of appetite.
Stagnation of middle burner qi, warms middle burner.
Causes rebellious qi to descend, nausea and vomiting.
Cook in the last 5 minutes of decoction.
39
Xiang Ru
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, expel summerheat, transform damp (chill, fever, no sweat, body ache)
Promote urination, reduce edema and swelling, lin syndrome
40
Kuan Dong Hua
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Warm**
Relieves cough, expels phlegm.
Redirects rebellious qi downward and stop coughing.
Frying in honey enhances moistening function of lungs.
Used with Zi Wan.
41
Huang Qin
*Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness*
**Cold**
Clear heat, drain fire in the upper burner (thirst, irritability, thirst, cough).
Clear heat, dry damp in the stomach (diarrhea, dysentery, thirst with no desire to drink, lin syndrome, jaundice).
Clear heat, stop bleeding (vomiting, coughing, nose, stool).
Clear heat, calm fetus.
Clear liver yang rising (headache, irritability, red eyes, bitter taste).
42
Ban Xia
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm, Toxic**
Dry dampness (transform cold phlegm, rebellious qi).
Harmonize stomach, stops vomiting.
Dissipate nodules, reduce distention.
Caution with pregnancy.
43
Sang Piao Xiao
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Tonifies kidneys (aids yang, retains essence, incontinence, spermatorrhea, enuresis in children).
44
Zi Wan
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Warm**
Relieves cough, expels phlegm.
Redirects rebellious qi downwards and stops coughing.
Frying in honey enhances the moistening function of lungs.
Used with Kuan Dong Hua.
45
Huo Ma Ren
*Downward Draining herbs -moist laxatives*
**Neutral**
Moisten and nourish intestines, elderly and postpartum constipation.
Mildly tonify spleen qi and yin.
Clear heat, promote healing of sores.
46
Ban Mao
*Herbs for topical application*
**Cold, Toxic**
Attack tocins, wears away sores (topically, carbuncles, scrofula).
Greatly irritates skin producing blisters and redness).
Breaks up blood stasis, disperses clumps (palpable non moving masses).
47
Wang Bu Liu Xing
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorate blood in the upper body channels (promote lactation, unblocks menses, amenorrhea).
Swelling (breast or testicular swellings with pain).
48
Mu Tong
*Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome*
**Cool**
Promote urination, drains heat from heart through the small intestine.
Promotes lactation, unblocks blood vessels.
49
E Jiao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Neutral**
Tonify blood, blood deficiency.
Stops bleeding.
Nourish, moisten yin, dry lung, xiao ke.
50
Dong Chong Xia Cao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Strengthen kidneys, tonify yang (impotence, sore/weak back).
Tonify kidney yang, nourish lung yin, transforms phlegm.
Cough, wheezing, bleeding, xiao ke.
51
Hua Jiao
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot**
Warm middle, disperse cold, allevaite pain, spleen and stoamch cold.
Cold pain in the abdomen with vomiting and diarrhea.
52
Kun Bu
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cold**
Reduce phlegm, soften hardness (nodules in neck, fullness in chest due to phlegm).
Promote urination, reduce swelling (lower extremity edema).
53
Ba Ji Tian
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary/menstrual disorders).
Strengthen sinews and bones (back pain, muscular atrophy).
Expels wind/damp/cold (back and leg qi pain).
54
Xuan Fu Hua
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm**
Redirect lung qi downward (expel cold phlegm).
Stop vomiting, rebellious qi.
55
Gui Ban
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Nourish yin, anchors yang (interior liver wind).
Benefits kidneys, strengthens bones.
Cools blood, uterine bleeding.
Tonify blood, nourish heart, calm heart, anxiety, insomnia.
56
Sang Ye
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cold**
Expel wind, clear lung heat (fever, headache, sore throat, cough, dry mouth, thick yellow sputum).
Clear liver heat (eyes).
Cool blood, stop bleeding (vomiting blood).
57
Bai Xian Pi
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear toxic heat and fire, expels wind, dries damp (sores, carbuncles, rashes with excessive pus, moist skin, jaundice).
58
Long Gu
*Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit*
**Neutral**
Calm spirit/heart (emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety).
Calms liver, anchors floating yang (irritable, blurred vision, vertigo).
Topically for chronic non healing sores and ulcerations.
59
Mu Dan Pi
*Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood*
**Cool**
Clear heat, cool blood (nose bleed, bloody sputum, profuse menses).
Clear deficiency fire (steaming bone, no sweating).
Clears liver blood stasis (amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises).
Clears liver fire (headache, eye pain, dysmenorrhea).
Drains pus, reduces swelling.
60
Huang Bo/Bai
*Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness*
**Cold**
Drain damp heat in the lower jiao (thick yellow leukorrhea, diarrhea, dysentery, red swollen painful knee joints, jaundice).
Drains kidney fire (steaming bone, night sweats, afternoon fever).
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (sores).
61
Rou Dou Kou
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Binds intestines, stops chronic/daybreak diarrhea.
Warms middle burner, moves qi (allevaites pain in the abdomen, vomiting).
62
Hua Shi
*Herbs that drain dampness, cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Promote urination, drain heat from bladder lin syndrome.
Clears heat, summer heat, and damp heat through urine.
Absorbs dampness (oozing eczema), used topically
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
63
Lu Hui
*Downward draining herbs - purgatives*
**Cold**
Purge accumulations, drains fire, cools liver.
Kills parasites, strengthen stomach.
64
Ce Bo Ye/Ce Bai Ye
Herbs that cool the blood and stop bleeding
65
Ye Jiao Teng
*Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit*
**Neutral**
Calm spirit, nourish heart and blood (insomnia, irritability, dream disturbed sleep).
Nourish blood (weakness, soreness, pain, numbness due to deficiency).
66
Mu Xiang
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain (ST and abdomenal pain), tenesmus, stagnated qi in intestines, clears damp heat.
Jaundice, dysentery, diarrhea.
Strengthen spleen, digestive disorders.
67
Ma Huang Gen
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Deficiency sweating (night/spontaneous).
68
Shi Gao
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Clear heat, drain fire (thirst, sweat).
Clears excess lung heat (cough, wheezing, thick yellow sputum).
Clears stomach fire (headache, toothache, painful gums).
Topically for eczema, burns, sores.
69
Yuan Zhi
*Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit*
**Warm**
Calm spirit, quiet heart (insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, restlessness).
Expel phlegm from lungs, clears orifices (copious sputum, mental confusion).
Reduces abscesses, dissipate swellings (boils, sores, painful breasts).
70
Bai He
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Moisten lung, clear heat (stop cough, sore throat).
Clear heat, calm spirit (low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability).
71
Wu Jia Pi
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Warm**
Dispel wind cold damp, kidney deficiency.
Transforms damp, reduce edema.
72
Di Gu Pi
*Herbs that clear heat from deficiency*
**Cold**
Drain yin deficiency heat (night swetas, steaming bone, irritaiblity, thirst).
Clear lung heat (coughing, wheezing).
Clear heat, cool blood (nosebleed, vomiting blood, bloody urine).
Drain floating kidney fire (toothache).
73
Shui Zhi
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral, Toxic**
Breaks up blood stasis, reduces immobile masses (amenorrhea, trauma).
74
E Zhu
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Breaks up blood stasis, promotes movement of qi, alleviates pain.
Dissolves accumulatiosn (distention and fullness or constriction in the chest, food stagnation).
Childhood nutritional impairment.
75
Bai Jie Zi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm**
Warm lung qi, expel cold phlegm.
Disspates nodules, reduce swelling, alleviate pain, yin type boils.
76
Mu Li
*Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit*
**Cool**
Calms spirit (palpitations, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia).
Benefits yin, anchors floating yang (irritable, headache, tinnitus).
Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency.
Softens hardness, dissipates nodules (lumps, scrofula, goiter).
Absorbs acidity (stomach pain, sour taste in mouth).
77
Ru Xiang
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Invigorate blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain.
Relax sinews, promotes movement of qi, bi syndrome.
Reduces swellings, generates flesh (yin carbuncles).
78
Lian Qiao
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cool**
Clear heat and toxins (nodules, carbuncles, sores).
Expel wind heat.
79
Jin Yin Hua
*Clear heat and relieve toxicity herbs*
**Cold**
Clear heat, relieve toxic fire (throat/breast/eye).
Expel wind heat (fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, headache).
Clear damp heat from the lower jiao (dysnetery, lin syndrome).
80
Bai Zhu
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Warm**
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite, vomiting).
Strengthen spleen qi (dry dampness, calm fetus).
Tonify wei qi (stabilize exterior, stops spontaneous sweat).
81
Guang Fang Ji
Obsolete substances with toxicity
82
Wa Leng Zi
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorate blood, dissolve phlegm (dissipate nodules, abdominal masses).
Absorb acid, alleviate pain (chronic stomach pain, ulcer, vomiting acid).
83
Gua Lou
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cold**
Pi: peel (clears and transforms phlegm heat, dissipates nodules).
Ren/Zi: seed (expels pus, promotes healing of sores, moisten intestines).
84
Wu Bei Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Cold**
Contain lung qi (chronic cough due to deficiency).
Binds intestines (stops diarrhea, dyesentery, prolapse).
Restrains leakage (spermatorrhea, excessive sweat, bleeding).
Absorbs moisture (swellings, toxic fire, sores, ringworm, ulcers).
Topically on scar tissue.
85
Yin Chen Hao
*Herbs that resolve dampness, relieve jaundice*
**Cool**
Clear damp heat from the LV and GB, relieves yang or yin jaundice.
Clear heat, shaoyang syndrome.
86
Pei Lan
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Neutral**
Aromatically transforms middle burner dampness (halitosis).
Excess drool for summer heat.
87
Hou Po
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Transform dampness, promtoes movement of qi, resolves stagnation.
Warms and transforms cold phlegm and directs rebellious lung qi downwards.
88
Xuan Shen
*Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood*
**Cold**
Clear heat, cool blood (bleeding, fever, dry mouth).
Nourish yin (constipation, irritability).
Drain fire, relieve toxicity (eyes, throat).
Phlegm fire nodules.
89
Fo Shou
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Regulate and soothe liver qi (rib pain, distention, belching).
Harmonize stomach, strengthen spleen (epigastric pain and distention, lack of appetite, belching, vomiting).
Dries damp, transforms phlegm (chronic cough with phlegm and chest pain).
90
Fan Xie Ye
*Downward draining herbs - purgatives*
**Cold**
Drains down, guides out constipation due to heat.
Contraindicated druing pregnancy, mensturation, or nursing.
91
Lian Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Tonify and binds spleen (chronic diarrhea).
Tonifies kidneys (stops leukorrhea and spermatorrhea).
Nourish heart (calm spirit, stop sweating, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia).
92
Bai Wei
*Herbs that clear heat from deficiency*
**Cold**
Clear heat, cool blood (yin deficiency fever, post partum fever).
Cools blood, promote urination (bloody lin).
Relieves toxicity (toxic sores, swollen painful throat, snake bites).
93
Xi Yang Shen
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Benefits qi, nourish yin, generates fluids.
Clear lung qi empty fire, nourish lung yin (bloody sputum, dyspnea).
94
Tao Ren
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorate blood, remove stasis.
Abscess of large intestine and lung.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
95
Mai Ya
*Herbs that relieve food stagnation*
**Neutral**
Reduce food stagnation, strengthen stomach.
Inhibit lactation (30g raw + 30g cooked = 60g decoction).
Regulates liver qi.
96
Gan Sui
*Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants*
**Cold, Toxic**
Drain downward, drives out congested fluids, fluid in chest and abdomen.
General edema, causes water to be passed anally.
Clear heat, reduce swellings, swollen painful skin lesions.
97
Sang Bai Pi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Cold**
Lung heat with coughing and wheezing.
Promote urination, reduce edema, lung heat obstructs the lung qi movement, no sweating, edema, fever, thirst.
98
He Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Binds intestines (hot/cold diarrhea, dysentery).
Leakage of lung qi (cough, wheezing, loss of voice).
99
Qian Cao (Gen)
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Cold**
Cool blood to stop bleeding.
Invigorates blood to dispel blood stasis.
Chronic skin rash (eczema).
100
Fu Pen Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Tonify, stabilize kidney (incontinence, enuresis, spermatorrhea).
Liver and kidney deficiency (poor viison, sore low back, impotence).
101
Ou Jie
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Neutral**
Stops bleeding, breaks up blood stasis (lung and stomach heat causing vomiting or coughing blood).
102
Bai Fu Zi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform phlegm cold*
**Warm, Toxic**
Dry dampness, transform phlegm, expel wind cold, stop spasm pain.
Relieve toxicity, dissipates nodules, snake bite.
Do not use with pregnancy.
103
Wu Yao
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain, lower jiao.
Abdominal pain, hernia, menses pain.
Warm kidney, stop enuresis, urine frequency.
104
Jie Geng
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Neutral**
Opens up lung qi, expel phlegm (hot or cold), benefits throat.
Promote discharge of pus.
Guiding herb to lung.
105
Hei Zhi Ma
*Tonifying herbs - tonify yin*
**Neutral**
Nourish LV/KD yin deficiency (blurred vision, tinnitus, dizziness, recovery after illness).
Nourish blood, clear wind (headache, dizziness, numbness).
Moisten and lubricate intestines (constipation).
106
Chuan Lian Zi
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Cold, Toxic**
Promote movement of qi, clear heat in the LV/ST, stop pain.
Kills parasites, stop pain.
107
Can Sha
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Warm**
Expel wind damp, relieve pain (wind damp obstruction, itchy rash).
Harmonize stomach, transform turbid dampness (vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, abdominal pain, borborygmus).
108
Ju Hua
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cool**
Disperse wind heat.
Clear liver fire (red painful dry eyes, tearing, floaters).
Calm liver (dizziness, headache, deafness, blurred vision).
109
Jin Qian Cao
*Herbs that drain dampness, resolve dampness relieve jaundice*
**Neutral**
Promote urination, stone lin syndrome.
Clears damp jaundice (yang or yin), eye problems.
Snake bite.
110
Si Gua Luo
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Neutral**
Expel wind, damp ehat obstructing the channels (sore chest and flank areas).
Sore muscles and sinews (stiff joint, traumatic injury, breast abscess).
Expel phlegm, lung heat (high fever, chest pain, sticky sputum).
Expel summerheat, promote urination.
Breasts (swollen painful breasts, insufficient lactation).
111
Mai Men Dong
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Moisten lungs, dry cough (coughing up blood).
Augments stomach yin (generates fluids, dry mouth/tongue).
Moistens intestines.
112
Dan Shen
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Cool**
Invigorate blood, break up blood stasis.
Clear heat, soothe irritability.
Stomach pain.
113
Sheng Di Huang
*Herbs that clear heat and cool the blood*
**Cold**
Clear heat, cool blood.
Nourish yin, geernate fluids (dry mouth, constipation).
Cools heart fire (cankers, irritability, insomnia, malar flush).
Wasting thirsting disorder.
114
Bai Guo
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral, Toxic**
Nourish lung (expel phlegm, cough, wheezing).
Elimiante damp, stabilize lower jiao (leukorrhea, turbid/frequent urine).
115
Hu Po
*Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit*
**Neutral**
Calm spirit (tremor, palpitations, anxiety, excessive dreams, insomnia, poor memory, convulsions, seizures).
Invigorate blood, dissipate stasis (amenorrhea with pain, palpable masses).
Promote urination, invigorate blood (lin syndrome).
Reduce swellings, promote healing (sores).
116
Da Ji
*Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants*
**Cold, Toxic**
Drain downward, drive out congested fluids, fluid in chest, thick sputum.
Reduce swelling, dissipate nodules, (red swollen painful toxic sores or scrofula).
117
Lu Gen
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Clear heat, generate fluids (high fever, irritability, thirst).
Clear lung heat (cough, thick yellow sputum).
Clear stomach heat (vomiting, belching).
Clear heat and promote urination (dark scanty urine, blood in urine, thirst).
Encourages rashes to the surface.
118
Ji Xue Teng
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Promote movement of blood, tonify blood.
Invigorate channels, relax sinews.
119
Wei Ling Xian
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Warm**
Dispel wind damp and unblocks channels, relieves pain.
Fish bone lodged in the throat.
120
Dong Gua Pi
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water relieve edema*
**Cold**
Clear lung heat, expel phlegm, discharge puss (thicky sticky yellow phlegm, lung abscess, upper jiao obstruction).
Clear heat, drain damp (leukorrhea).
121
Gao Ben
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Expel wind cold and alleviate pain (pain at the vertex of the head, low back pain).
122
Qian Shi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Strengthen spleen, stop diarrhea.
Stabilize kidney (nocturnal emissions, premature ejaculation).
Expels damp (damp heat or deficient leukorrhea).
123
Gan Cao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral or Warm**
Tonify spleen and stomach qi (digestive disorders).
Moisten lung (stop dry cough).
Tonify heart qi (regulate pulse).
Clears heat and toxic fire.
Alleviates pain, stops spasms.
Harmonizes and moderates characteristics of other herbs.
Antidote for toxicity.
Easily causes bloating, don't use with hypertension, edema, Hai Zao.
124
Shi Di
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Neutral**
Direct stomach qi downward (hiccup, belching).
125
Xiao Hui Xiang
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Warm**
Soothes liver qi, warms kidney, expels cold, alleviates pain.
Regulates and harmonizes stomach qi.
126
Qing Pi
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Liver qi stagnation (mastitis, hypochondriac pain, irritable).
Dissipates lumps/nodules, reduces food stagnation.
Raise blood pressure.
Do not use with qi deficiency.
127
Bai Bu
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Warm**
Moisten lung, stop cough (chronic and acute cough, deficiency cough).
Expel parasites, kill lice, pinworms.
128
Chi Shi Zhi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Binds intestines, stop cold diarrhea with mucus and blood.
Contain blood, stop bleeding (uterine bleeding, excess menses, prolapse).
Promotes healing of wounds (chronic ulcers, topically for wheeping sores).
129
Hu Huang Lian
*Herbs that clear heat from deficiency*
**Cold**
Drain damp heat (dysentery, sores).
Clear deficiency heat.
Clera heat (childhood nutritional impairment, abdominal distention, afternoon fever, dysentery, diarrhea).
130
Hai Er Cha
*Herbs for topical application*
**Neutral**
Drain damp, absorb seepate from sores (chronic non healing sores).
Stop bleeding (topically).
Clear lung, transform phlegm (generate fluids, stop diarrhea, lung heat, thirst, summerheat).
131
Qing Hao
*Herbs that clear heat from deficiency*
**Cold**
Clear summer heat (fever, headache, dizzy, stifling sensation in the chest).
Clear deficiency fever.
Cool blood, stop bleeding (rash, nosebleed).
Malaria.
132
Ming Fan
*Herbs for topical application*
**Cold**
Relive toxicity, kills parasites, dry damp, alleviate itch.
Topical wash for scabies, ringworm, damp or damp heat rash.
Swollen painful eyes, throat, jaundice.
Stop bleeding, alleviate diarrhea (chronic blood in diarrhea/urine, hemorrhoids, nosebleed, bleeding gums, any external bleeding).
Clear heat, expel phlegm, wind phlegm (irritability, delirium, convulsions, cough with thick sticky sputum).
133
Bai Jiang Cao
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cool**
Clear toxic heat and fire (pus, abscess, sores, swellings).
Dispel blood stasis, stop pain (abdominal/chest stasis, traumatic injury).
134
Mo Yao
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorates blood, dispel blood stasis, alleviate pain.
Relax sinews, promotes movement of qi, bi syndrome.
Reduce swellings, generates flesh (yin carbuncles).
135
Bai Mao Gen
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Cold**
Cool blood, stop bleeding due to reckless movement of hot blood.
Blood in urine, coughing blood.
Clear heat from the stomach and lungs.
136
Gao Liang Jiang
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot**
Warms middle jiao, alelviate epigastric/abdominal pain.
Vomit, diarrhea, hiccup due to cold in the middle burner.
137
Xie/Xue Jie
*Herbs for topical application (or invigorate blood).*
**Neutral**
Dispel blood stasis, relive pain (traumatic injury/fractures, contusions, sprains, bruising and stops bleeding topically).
Protect decay of ulcer's surface, generate flesh (chronic non healing sores).
138
Nan Gua Zi
*Herbs that expel parasites*
**Neutral**
Expel parasites, alleviate pain (tapeworm, roundworms).
Benefit pot partum fluid metabolism (post partum hand and feet swelling, aids in lactation).
139
Chan Tui
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cool**
Disperse wind heat (swollen throat, loss of voice).
Vents early stage of rashes.
Clears liver fire.
Stops infantile wind (spasms, delirium, night terrors, convulsions).
140
Ma Huang
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**warm**
Release exterior, disperse cold, moves lung qi (coughing, wheezing), promotes urination and reduces edema
141
Yi Mu Cao
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
142
Zi Hua Di Ding
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear toxic heat and fire (hot swellings, eyes, throats, ears).
Clear hot sores in the head and back topically.
143
Tian Ma
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Neutral**
Calm liver, clears wind heat or cold (spasm, tremors, headache, epilepsy).
Disperse painful obstruction due to wind damp (numbness, pain, dizzy).
144
Lu Rong
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify kidneys, strengthen yang.
Tonify Du, Chong, Ren vessels.
Strengthen sinews/bones, stabilizes Dai Mai, reproductive disorders.
Nourish qi/blood (yin type boils).
145
Pu Gong Ying
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear toxic heat and fire (liver heat affecting eyes).
Dissipates nodules and abscesses.
Promotes lactation due to heat.
Clear heat and resolves damp (jaundice, lin syndrome).
146
Zhu Ling
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema*
**Cool**
Promotes urination, drains damp (combine with fu ling).
Yang jaundice, lin syndrome.
147
Yu Jin
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Cool**
Invigorate blood, promote movement of qi.
Alleviate pain (liver qi with heat).
Clears heart, cools blood.
Benefits gallbladder (jaundice).
Stone lin syndrome.
148
Huo Xiang
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Aromatically transforms turbid dampness.
Harmonizes middle burner, stops vomiting.
Release exterior (wind damp cold), stomach flu.
Cook for the last 5 minutes of decoction.
149
Hai Zao
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cold**
Clear heat, reduce phlegm nodules (goiter, scrofula).
Promote urination, reduce edema, leg edema and floating edema.
150
Chen Xiang
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Promote movement of qi, alleviate pain, upper and middle burner.
Stomach pain with nausea, vomit, direct rebellious qi downward.
Helps kidney grasp qi.
With Rou Cong Rong for constipation due to kidney deficiency.
151
Qian Hu
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cool**
Redirects rebellious lung qi downward, expels phlegm.
Releases wind from the exterior.
152
Xiang Fu
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Neutral**
Spreads and regulate qi, soothes liver.
Regulates menses, alleviates pain.
153
Tong Cao
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Promote urination, clear heat (lin syndrome, damp warm febrile disease).
Promote lactation.
154
Bai Qian
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm**
Redirects lung qi downward, expel phlegm (cough with copious sputum and gurgling in throat, wheezing).
155
Qiang Huo
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, disperse cold, unblocks painful obstruction (wind cold damp pain), guides the herbs to Du and Taiyang Channels
156
157
Wu Wei Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Constrain lung qi (chronic cough and wheezing).
Tonify kidney, binds essence (stop diarrhea, nocturnal emissions, spermatorrhea, leukorrhea, frequent urination).
Inhibits sweating, generates fluids (thirst with excess sweat, xiao ke).
Quiet spirit, calm heart (irritable, palpitations, insomnia).
158
Ku Shen
*Herbs that clear heat and dry dampness*
**Cold**
Clear heat, drain damp (dysneterry, leukorrhea, jaundice, sores).
Expels wind, kills parasites (itching, skin lesions).
Clear heat, promote urination (lin syndrome, hot edema).
159
He Huan Pi
*Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit*
**Neutral**
Calms spirit, relieve constrained emotions (vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory).
Invigorate blood, alleviate pain (swelling due to trauma, abscesses).
160
Meng Chong
Herbs that invigorate blood and move stagnation
161
Ju Pi/Chen Pi
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Regualte stomach qi, invigorates spleen qi.
Dry damp, transform phlegm.
Prevents stagnation.
162
San Qi
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Warm**
Stops bleeding, transforms blood stasis.
Stops bleeding without causing blood stasis.
Traumatic injuries, alleviates pain, reduces swelling.
163
Suo Yang
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify Kidney yang (impotence, frequent urination, spermatorrhea).
Nourish blood, tonify essence, strengthen sinews (motor impairment, paralysis).
Moisten intestines (constipation due to deficient qi or blood).
164
Ting Li Zi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Cold**
Drains lung heat, relieve phlegm, calm wheezing (excess type wheezing and coughing with excess sputum and gurgling sound in the throat).
Moves water, reduce edema (facial edema, fluid accumulation in the chest and abdomen, urinary difficulty).
165
Quan Xie
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Neutral, Toxic**
Clears liver wind phlegm (convulsions, tetanus, seizures, tremors).
Fire toxic nodules (topically on toxic sores, swellings).
Unblocks collaterals (painful headaches).
166
Xie Bai
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Unblock yang qi in chest due to cold phlegm, disperse cold phlegm.
Promote movement of qi and blood, alelviate pain,, upper jiao.
Direct qi downward, reduce stagnation.
167
Tu Si Zi
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Neutral**
Tonify kidneys, strengthen yin, secures essence, reserves urine.
Tonify LV, improves vision.
Strengthen spleen, stops diarrhea.
Calms fetus.
168
Liu Ji Nu
*Herbs that inbigorate blood - treat trauma*
**Warm**
Dispel blood stasis, unblocks menses (amenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, pain due to trauma).
Topically for burns, bleeding, contusions.
169
Lu Feng Fang
*Herbs for topical application*
**Neutral, Toxic**
Relive toxicity, expel wind, allevaite pain (toothache).
Topically (skin rash, itching, scabies, ringworm, sores, carbuncles).
Expel wind, dry damp (painful obstruction, wind rash).
170
Cao Guo
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Dries damp, damp cold obstructing the spleen, abdominal pain and distention, vomiting, diarrhea.
Malarial disorder (fever, chills with damp cold and turbid dampness).
Dissolve stagnation and distention of abodmen (nausea, spleen deficiency).
171
Niu Xi
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorates blood, dispels blood stasis.
Strengthens sinews/bones/joints.
Clears damp heat in the lower burner.
Brings blood downward.
172
Wu Ling Zhi
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Disperse blood stasis, alleviate pain (amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post partum abdominal pain, epigastric pain due to blood stasis).
Transforms stasis, stops bleeding (uterine bleeding, lochioschesis).
Childhood nutritional impairment with focal distention.
Use raw to invigorate blood and dry fry to stop bleeding.
173
Bai Hua She She Cao
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear toxic heat and fire (abscesses, sores, ulcerations, swellings, snakebites).
Clear heat and damp (promotes urination, lin syndrome, jaundice).
174
Xia Ku Cao
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Ascending liver fire (eyes, headache, dizziness).
Phlegm fire nodules (neck, scrofula, lipoma, goiter).
Hypertension.
175
Da Qing Ye
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear heat, relieve toxicity (febrile disease outbreak).
Cools blood, reduces blotches (skin eruptions, fever, irritability).
176
Zhu Ru
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cool**
Clear, transform phlegm heat and cough.
Clears heat from stomach, stops vomiting.
Disturbed heart by phlegm heat (insomnia, restlessness).
177
Bie Jia
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Nourish yin, clear deficiency heat (anchors yang, interior liver wind).
Invigorates blood, promotes menses, dissipate nodules.
178
Wu Gong
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Warm, Toxic**
Cleras wind and spasms (lock jaw, seizures, convulsions).
Dissipates toxins and nodules (sores, carbuncles, neck lumps, snake bite).
Unblocks collaterals (painful headaches).
179
Mang Xiao
*Downward draining herbs - purgatives*
**Cold**
Purge accumulations, guides out stagnation, soften hardness.
Clears heat, reduces swelling.
180
Di Yu
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Cool**
Cools blood, stop bleeding in the lower burner (dysentery, vomiting blood, uterine bleeding).
Cleras heat, generates flesh (carbuncles/burns).
181
Sang Shen
Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood
182
Liu Huang
*Herbs for topical application*
**Hot, Toxic**
Relive toxicity, kill parasites, stop itching.
Topically for scabies, ringworm, damp sores, ulcers, carbuncles.
Tonify vitality gate fire, strengthen yang (interior yin cold symptoms).
Kidney yang deficiency (cold lower back and knees, impotence).
Spleen deficiency cold (asthma, constipation in the eldery with Ban Xia).
183
Ji Nei Jin
*Herbs that relieve food stagnation*
**Neutral**
Strongly reduce food stagnation, improves spleen transport.
Malnutrition in children.
Secures kidneye ssence, stop enuresis.
Transforms hardness (GB/BL/KD stones).
184
Zhen Zhu Mu
Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit
185
Xi Xin
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, disperse damp and cold (headache, body ache).
Warms lungs transforms phlegm (coughing, watery sputum).
Unblocks nasal congestion.
186
He Shou Wu
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Warm**
Nourish blood (tonify liver and kidney yin and blood).
Relieve toxic fire (carbuncles, sores, scrofula, neck lumps).
Moisten intestines, unblocks bowels.
Expels wind from skin (rash).
Malaria.
187
Sha Yuan Zi/Tong Ji Li
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify kidney yang, secures essence (lower back pain, tinnitus, impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, incontinence, leukorrhea).
Strengthens kidney and liver (poor viison, blurred vision).
188
Su Mu
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Neutral**
Invigorate blood, reduce swelling (post partum abdominal pain, amenorrhea, pain due to trauma with blood stagnation).
Stops bleeding (excessive bleeding with vertigo and shortness of breath).
189
Zong Lu Tan
*Herbs that astringe blood and stop bleeding*
**Neutral**
Binds and stops bleeding (coughing blood, nosebleed, blood in stools, uterine bleeding).
190
Gan Jiang
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot**
Restores devastated yang (expel interior cold, yang qi deficiency cold).
Spleen and stomach excess cold.
Warms lung and transforms phlegm.
Warms channels, stops bleeding (pao jiang).
191
Yin Yang Huo
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify kidney yang (impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, poor memory, painful and cold lower back and knees).
Expel wind damp cold (spasms, cramps, joint pain, numbness).
Strengthen yin and yang, liver yang rising (dizziness, low back pain, irregular menses).
192
Cang Er Zi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm/Toxic**
Expel wind and damp (painful obstruction, skin disorders, itching).
Nasal passage obstruction.
193
Di Fu Zi
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Clear damp heat, promote urination (lin syndrome).
Expel dampness, stop itching (damp skin disorder, eczema, scabies, genital itch).
194
Tian Nan Xing
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm, Toxic**
Dry dampness, expel phlegm (drying aspect stronger than ban xia).
Dipserse wind phlegm in channels, stops spasms.
Reduce swelling, alleviate pain, deep rooted sores, yin type abscess.
Caution with pregnancy.
Tian Nan Xing: prepared with fresh ginger
Dan Nan Xing: prepared with cow bile (good for heat phlegm).
195
Wu Zhu Yu
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot, Toxic**
Warms middle, disperse cold, relieve channel to alleviate pain.
Redirects stomach qi downwards, vomiting of sour fulids.
Leads fire downwards (mouth/tongue cankers).
Warms spleen and expels damp cold, stops diarrhea.
196
Xin Yi (Hua)
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Expels wind cold unblocks nasal orifices
197
Hai Jin Sha
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Clear heat, promote urination (lin syndrome).
Clear heat and toxic fire (swollen painful throat).
198
Ze Lan
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood
199
Bei Xie/Bi Xie
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome*
**Neutral**
Separates pure from turbid, cloudy urination and leukorrhea.
Expel wind damp (cold/hot bi) relax sinews.
Damp heat skin disorders.
200
Da Huang
*Downward draining herbs - purgatives*
**Cold**
Purge accumulations, clear heat from blood, invigorates blood.
Drains heat/damp for yang jaundice.
Topically for burns, hot skin, skin lesions (combine with Shi Gao).
201
Dai Zhe Shi
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Cold**
Calms liver, anchors floating yang, clears liver fire.
Directs rebellious qi downwards (belching, vomiting, hiccough, wheezing).
Cools blood, stops bleeding (vomit/nose bleeding).
202
Hai Fu Shi
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cold**
Clear lung heat (expel phlegm, thick sputum, bloody sputum).
Soften hardness (dissipate phlegm nodules, scrofula).
Promote urination for lin syndrome.
203
Cao Dou Kou
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Dries dampness, warms middle burner, abdominal distention, vomiting, diarrhea.
Very strong warming and drying function.
204
Bai Zhi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Expel wind cold, alleviate pain (headache, chills, bodyache).
Clears swelling, expel pus in early stage.
Expel damp (leukorrhea).
Opens nasal passages for nasal congestion.
205
Bing Pian
*Aromatic substances that open the orifices*
**Cool**
Aromatically opens the orifices, revives spirit (fainting, convulsions).
Clears heat, alleviates pain, dissipates nodules (alleviates itching, pain swelling of throat and skin disease, regenerate flesh).
206
Ban Lan Gen
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Drain toxic heat and fire, cool blood (mumps, throat).
Damp heat jaundice.
207
Ci Shi
*Herbs that calm the spirit - anchor the spirit*
**Cold**
Anchors and calms spirit (restlessness, palpitation, insomnia, tremors).
Yin deficiency with ascending yang (dizziness, vertigo).
Tonify kidney yin and liver (improve hearing and vision).
Helps kidney to grasp qi (chronic asthma).
208
Che Qian Zi
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Promote urination, drain heat from bladder.
Solidify stool, clear/brighten eyes.
Lung heat (expel phlegm, stop cough).
209
Bo He
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cool**
Expel wind heat, clears head and eyes (throat, red eyes, headache).
Clears early stage rashes.
Liver qi stagnation (emotional, gynecological disorders).
210
Shen Qu
*Herbs that relieve food stagnation*
**Warm**
Reduce food stagnation, strengthen stomach.
Aids in minderal digestion and absorption.
Excess alcohol/wheat ingestion causing stagnation.
211
Yu Xing Cao
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cool**
Clear toxic lung heat (swellings, abscess, thick yellow sputum).
Relieves toxicity (expels pus for toxic sores).
Drains damp heat (promotes urination, diarrhea, lin syndrome).
212
Dang Gui
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Warm**
Tonify blood, regulate menses due to blood deficiency.
Invigorates/harmonizes blood, disperse cold, alleviate pain.
Moisten intestines, unblock bowels.
Reduce swellings (expel pus, generate flesh).
213
Pi Pa Ye
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that stop coughing and wheezing*
**Cool**
Transform phlegm, clears lung heat (lung qi upsurging, cough).
Harmonize stomach, clear stomach heat, redirects rebellious stomach qi, nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching.
214
Zhi Shi
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Cool**
Break up qi stagnation, reduce accumulations.
Transforms phlegm, expel focal distention (abdominal pain, indigestion, constipation).
Used with qi tonifying herbs for prolapse of organs.
Raise blood pressure.
215
Ding Xiang
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Warm**
Warms middle jiao, direct rebellious qi downward, cold in the stomach.
Warms kidney yang, impotence, leukorrhea due to deficiency cold.
216
Tai Zi Shen
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral**
Strengthen spleen and stomach qi (fatigue, reduced appetite).
Tonify lung qi (spontaneous sweating).
Generates fluids (thirst, fever, summer heat in children, febrile disease).
217
Fu Xiao Mai
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Cool**
Deficiency sweating (night/spontaneous).
Nourish heart (palpitations, insomnia, irritability).
Childhood bedwetting.
218
Tian Men Dong
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Moisten lung, clear lung heat, dry mouth, coughing up blood.
Nourish kidney yin, generates fluids, constipation.
219
Lu Gan Shi
*Herbs for topical application*
**Neutral**
Brighten eyes (superficial visual obstruction, red swollen eyes).
Dry dampness, generate flesh (chronic draining pus from open sores).
220
Yu Mi Xu
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema*
**Neutral**
Promote urination (lin syndrome, edema).
Regulate gallbladder jaundice.
Wasting thirstin disorder.
221
Sang Zhi
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Cool**
Dispel wind heat bi, upper extremities, benefits joints.
Damp heat, reduce edema.
222
Feng Mi
*Tonifying herbs - tonify qi*
**Neutral**
Tonify SP/ST
223
Sha Ren
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Transform damp, stop vomiting.
Promote movement of qi, strengthen spleen.
Harmonize stomach, stop diarrhea.
Calm fetus, morning sickness.
224
Shan Zhu Yu
Herbs that stabilize and bind
225
Hong Hua
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Invigorate blood, unblock menstruation.
Dispel blood stasis, stop pain due to injury or abscess.
226
Wu Mei
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Inhibits leakage of lung qi (lung defiicency chronic cough).
Binds intestines (diarrhea, dysentery).
Generates fluids for thirst.
Expels roundworms, alleviates abdominal pain.
227
Yi Zhi Ren
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Warms kidneys (retain essence, hold urine, reproductive/urinary disorder).
Warms spleen (stops diarrhea, excess salivation, thick/bad taste in the mouth).
228
Chi Xiao Dou
*Herbs that drain damp, benefit water and relieve edema*
**Neutral**
Clear heat, promote urination (abdominal fullness, swelling with edema).
DIsperse blood stasis (reduce swelling and fire toxicity, sores, carbuncles).
Clear damp heat jaundice.
229
Rou Gui
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot**
Fortifies kidney yang.
Leads floating yang fire back to its source (KD), upper heat and lower cold.
Disperse deep cold, aleviate qi and blood stagnation.
Encourages generation of qi and blood.
Dysmenorrhea.
230
Xiong Huang
*Obsolete substances with toxicity*
**Warm, Toxic**
Relive toxicity, kill parasites, skin itchiness, inflammation, abscesses.
Topically for scabines, ringworm, dam rashes.
Kills parasites, roundworm.
Dries damp, expel phlegm (wheezing, seizures, malarial disorders).
231
Mu Gua
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Warm**
Relax sinews and muscles (dispel cold bi, calf cramps).
Harmonize stomach, reduce food stagnation.
232
Bu Gu Zhi
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Hot**
Tonify KD, strengthen yang (reproductive disorders, cold lower back).
Tonify and strengthen spleen (early morning diarrhea).
Promote kidneys to grasp lung qi (wheezing).
Topically for alopecia, psoriasis, vitiligo.
233
Hu Tao Rou/Ren
*Tonifying herbs - tonify yang*
**Warm**
Tonify kidney (weak back and knees with coldness, frequent urination).
Warms lung (helps kidney grasp lung qi, chronic cough, wheezing).
Moisten intestines, constipation in elderly.
234
Zhe Chong
*Regulate blood - invigorate blood*
**Cold, Toxic**
Breaks up blood stasis (abdominal masses, amenorrhea, numb swollen tongue).
Renews sinews and joints bones (lacerations, fractures).
235
Sha Shen
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cool**
Moisten lungs (non productive cough).
Nourish stomach (generates fluids, clears heat).
Moisten exterior (dry itchy skin aggravated by cold and dry).
236
Bai Ji
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Cool**
Stops bleeding from the lung and stomach (vomiting/coughing blood).
Reduces swelling and generates flesh (sores, ulcers).
237
Shi Jue Ming
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Cold**
Drains liver fire and ascending yang (headache, dizziness, red eyes).
Liver heat disturbing vision (photophobia, pterygium, visual obstruction).
238
Zhe Bei Mu
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cool**
Cleras heat, dissipates nodules due to heat.
239
Bai Bian Dou
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral**
Strengthen spleen qi (stops diarrhea).
Cleras heat and dampness (diarrhea, vomiting).
240
Ren Shen
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Warm**
Strongly tonify yuan/original qi (extreme qi deficiency).
Tonify lung qi (respiratory disorders, asthma/dyspnea).
Strengthens spleen qi/lethargy (no appetite, chronic diarrhea, prolapsed organs, distended chest/abdomen).
Generates fluids/stops thirst.
Benefits heart qi (calms spirit).
Do not take with tea, turnips, Li Lu, Wu Ling Zhi, Zao Jia.
241
Tian Hua Fen
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Drains lung heat, transforms phlegm, moistens lung dryness.
Drains heat, generates fluids (thirst, irritability, cough, thick sputum).
Relieves toxicity, expels pus (carbuncles, breast).
242
Dan Dou Shi/Chi
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cold or Warm**
Release both exterior wind heat or wind cold.
Eliminates vexation, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, yin deficiency.
243
Ze Xie
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and relieve edema*
**Cold**
Promote urination, drains damp in the lower burner.
Drain deficiency kidney fire.
244
She Gan / Ye Gan
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clears toxic heat (throat, phlegm heat).
Transforms phlegm, clears lung (cough, wheezing and phlegm).
245
Sheng Ma
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cool**
Release exterior, vents measles/early stage skin rashes.
Clear heat and toxicity sores.
Raise yang for spleen qi sinking (shortness of breath, fatigue, prolapse).
Guides other herbs upwards.
246
Bai Ji Li/Ci Ji Li
*Substances that extinguish wind and stop tremors*
**Warm**
Calm liver, anchor yang (headache, vertigo).
Expels wind heat (brighten eyes, swelling of eyes).
Promotes smooth flow of qi (chest distention, insufficient lactation).
Expels wind (stops itching).
247
Shu Di Huang
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Warm**
Tonify blood, nourish yin.
Nourish blood, enrich essence.
248
She Chuang Zi
*Herbs for topical application*
**Warm**
Dry damp, kill parasites, stop itch (topically for weeping itchy skin lesions, scabies, ringworm).
Warm kidney, strengthen yang (impotence, infertility, cold womb).
Disperse cold, expel wind, dry damp (leukorrhea, low back pain).
249
Wu Zei Gu/Hai Piao Xiao
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Warm**
Stop bleeding (uterine bleeding with vaginal discharge).
Kidney deficiency (nocturnal emission, premature jeaculation, leukorrhea).
Harmonize stomach (epigastric pain, acid reflux).
Resolve dampness, promote healing (topically for rashes, ulcers).
Deficiency diarrhea (pain near navel, diarrhea/dysentery).
250
Sheng Jiang
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, dispel cold in middle jiao (vomiting).
Disperse cold phlegm in lung (acute and chronic cough).
Reduce toxicity of other herbs.
Harmonizes ying and wei for sweating.
251
Hai Ge Ke
*Herbs that resolve phlegm - cold herbs that clear phlegm heat*
**Neutral**
Clear heat, redirect lung qi downards, transform thick sputum with chest or rib pain.
Soften hardness, dissipate nodules (phlegm fire goiter and scrofula).
Epigastric pain and acid reflux (calcined powdered form).
252
Chi Shao Yao
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Cool**
Invigorate blood, dispel stasis (gynecology, abdominal masses, traumatic swelling/pain).
Clears heat, cools blood (blotchy skin, bleeding, irregular menses).
253
Fu Ling
*Herbs that drain dampness, promote urination and benefit edema*
**Neutral**
Promotes urination, drains damp.
Strengthen spleen, harmonize middle jiao.
Quiet's heart and calms spirit.
254
(Fen) Fang Ji
*Wind damp dispelling herbs*
**Cold**
Promote urination, reduce edema (lower extremiti edema, borborygmus, abdominal distention, lower jiao damp accumulation).
Expel wind damp heat, alleviate pain (fever, red swollen hot painful joints).
255
Chuan Bei Mu
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - herbs that cool and transform phlegm heat*
**Cool**
Clears heat, transforms phlegm, stop cough.
256
Long Yan Rou
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Warm**
Tonify heart and spleen, nourish blood, calm spirit, insomnia, palpitations, poor memory, vertigo.
257
Cang Zhu
*Aromatic herbs that transform dampness*
**Warm**
Strong drying damp function, harmonizes middle burner.
Expel wind damp cold bi syndrome.
Clears damp heat from the lower burner.
Induces sweating, release exterior.
258
Chai Hu
*Cool acrid herbs that release the exterior*
**Cool**
Clears shaoyang (fever, chills, bitter taste, irritable vomiting).
Liver qi stagnation (vertigo, menstrual disorder, chest pain, bloating).
Spleen/Stomach deficiency (prolapsed organs, diarrhea, hemorrhoids).
259
Nu Zhen Zi
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Neutral**
LV/KD yin deficiency (dizzy, floaters, weak knees).
Clears deficiency heat.
Improves vision.
260
Shi Hu
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cold**
Nourish yin, clear deficiency heat, generate fluids, severe thirst.
Brightens vision, strengthen lower back.
Nourish stomach yin (dry heaves, wasting/thirsting disorder).
261
Zi Su Ye
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, disperse cold
Promotes qi circulation, expands chest
Calms restless fetus, alleviates morning sickness
Sea food poisoning, nausea, vomiting
262
Gu Sui Bu
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify KD (diarrhea, toothache, bleeding gums, tinnitus).
Mending sinews and bones due to falls (fractures, contusions, sprains).
Stimulates growht of hair (alopecia, topically).
263
Gui Zhi
Warm acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Harmonizes ying and wei, exterior cold with deficiency
Warms channels, disperses cold, unblocks yangqi in the chest (palpitations)
264
Huai Hua
*Herbs that stop bleeding - cool the blood, stop bleeding*
**Cool**
Cools blood, stops bleeding (damp heat in the LI - dysentery, hemorrhoids).
Soothes liver fire (red eyes, dizziness).
265
Shi Jun Zi
*Herbs that expel parasites*
**Warm**
Kills parasites (roundworms).
Strengthen spleen (dossolves accumulations, nutritional impairment).
Abdominal distention (poor appetite, weakness).
266
Hu Jiao
*Herbs that warm the interior and expel cold*
**Hot**
Warms middle, disperse cold (stomach cold, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain).
267
Pu Huang
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Neutral**
Stops bleeding (traumatic injury, uterine bleeding, vomiting blood, nosebleed, coughing blood, blood in urine/stool).
Invigorates blood and dispels stasis (chest pain, postpartum abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea).
268
Du Huo
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Warm**
Dispel wind cold damp (relieve pain, release exterior, lower part of the body).
Shaoyin headache and toothache.
Itchy skin due to wind damp.
Do not use for excess of deficiency heat syndromes.
269
Bai Fu Zi
Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm
270
Sang Ji Sheng
*Herbs that dispel wind dampness*
**Neutral**
Liver/kidney yin deficiency (strengthen sinews/bones).
Expel wind damp (bi syndrome).
Nourish blood deficinecy (restless fetus, uterine bleeding, dry scaly skin).
271
Qing Dai
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear heat, relieve toxicity, cool blood, disperse swelling.
Topically for inflamed oral cavity or throat.
Lung heat cough.
272
Shan Yao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the qi*
**Neutral**
Tonify spleen and stomach qi and yin.
Tonify lung qi and yin.
Strengthen kidney yin and yang.
273
Yu Li Ren
*Downward draining herbs - moist laxatives*
**Neutral**
Qi stagnation, moisten intestines, constipation.
Promote urination (edema in legs).
274
Da Ji
Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding
275
Yi Yi Ren
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water relieve edema*
**Cool**
Promote urination, drains damp.
Strengthens spleen, stops diarrhea.
Expels wind damp, relieve joint and muscle pain.
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
276
Jin Ying Zi
*Herbs that stabilize and bind*
**Neutral**
Stabilize kidney (spermatorrhea, incontinence, leukorrhea, rectal prolapse).
Binds intestines (diarrhea, dysentery).
277
Da Fu Pi
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Promote downward movement of qi, reduce food stagnation (epigastric and abdominal distention, belching, acid regurgitaiton, constipation).
Expel dampness, promote urination (edema, damp in stomach and intestines).
278
Yu Zhu
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yin*
**Cool**
Nourish yin, moisten dryness, lung and stomach dry heat with cough, dry throat, thirst, irritability, steaming bone disorder, excess hunger, constipation.
Clear wind, nourish sinews (moisten sinews, spasms, dizziness).
279
Bai Shao
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the blood*
**Cool**
Nourish blood, regulate menses due to blood deficiency.
Calms liver yang, alleviates pain.
Preserves yin, adjusts ying and wei.
280
Bian Xu
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit water and cure lin syndrome*
**Cool**
Damp heat in the bladder (promote urination, painful lin, blood lin, expels parasites).
Itchy skin.
281
Bai Tou Weng
*Herbs that clear heat and relieve toxicity*
**Cold**
Clear toxic heat and fire (dysentery, damp heat in stomach).
282
Zao Jiao Ci
*Herbs that transform phlegm and stop coughing - warm herbs that transform cold phlegm*
**Warm**
Reduce swelling, discharge pus (reduce abscess, early stage of swollen sores, encourages sores to burst).
Expels wind.
Kills parasites.
283
Qu Mai
*Herbs that drain dampness, benefit urination and cure lin syndrome*
**Cold**
Promote urination, drain damp heat from the bladder, painful/bloody/stone lin.
Breaks up blood stasis.
284
Jiang Xiang
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Disperse blood stasis, stops bleeding.
Invigorates blood, promote qi movement, epigastric and abdominal pain.
Spleen and stomach qi stagnation, chest pain.
285
Shan Zha
*Herbs that relieve food stagnation*
**Warm**
Reduces and guides out food stagnation.
Transforms blood stasis (dissipates clumps).
Hypertension.
286
Yuan Hua
*Downward draining herbs - harsh expellants*
**Warm, Toxic**
Drain downward, drive out congested fluids, cathartic and diuretic, fluids in chest and abdomen.
Kills parasites, topically for ringworm.
287
Tan Xiang
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Warm**
Promote qi movement, alleviate pain (chest and abdomen).
288
Shi Chang Pu
*Aromatic substances that open the orifices*
**Warm**
Open orifices, vaporize phlegm, quiet spirit, sensory orifice disorder due to phlegm (deafness, dizziness, poor memory, dulled sensation, seizures).
Harmonize middle warmer, transform turbid damp, abdominal pain.
Wind cold damp (painful obstruction, trauma, sores).
289
Ku Lian Pi
*Herbs that expel parasites*
**Cold, Toxic**
Kills parasites (roundworm, hook worm, pin worm, vaginal trich infection).
Topically for tinea infections.
290
Xian Mao
*Tonifying herbs - tonify the yang*
**Hot, Toxic**
Tonify kidney, strengthen yang (reproductive/urinary disorders).
Expel cold, eliminate damp (pain, weakness in the bones and sinews).
291
Zhi Ke/Qiao
*Herbs that regulate qi*
**Cool**
Move qi, reduce distention with deficiency.
292
Xu Duan
*Tonifying herbs - herbs that tonify the yang*
**Warm**
Tonify LV/KD (strengthen sinews and bones, lower back/knee weakness, stiff joints - tonify without causing stagnation).
Stops uterine bleeding (calm fetus, bleeding during pregnancy).
Promotes blood circulation, alleviates pain, generates flesh, trauma injuries.
293
Suan Zao Ren
*Herbs that calm the spirit - herbs that nourish the heart and calm the spirit*
**Neutral**
Nourish heart yin, tonify liver blood, quiet spirit.
Irritability, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety due to deficiency.
Prevents abnormal sweating.
294
Jiang Huang
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that invigorate blood*
**Warm**
Invigorates blood, unblock menses (chest and abdominal pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea with cold deficiency, swelling pain).
Expel wind, promote movement of blood, painful obstruction.
295
Ma Qian Zi
*Obsolete substances with toxicity*
**Cold, Toxic**
Unblock channels, disperse clumps (reduce swelling, alleviate pain, abscesses, yin type ulcers, pain due to trauma, wind damp obstruction).
296
Xie/Xue Yu Tan
*Herbs that regulate blood - herbs that stop bleeding*
**Neutral**
Stops bleeding (especially uterine bleeding).
Promotes urination, bloody urination.
297
Dan Zhu Ye
*Herbs that clear heat and purge fire*
**Cold**
Clear heat in stomach or heart (irritability, cankers, swollen painful gums).
Promote urination (clear damp heat lin syndrome).
Heat in the small intestine (irritability, dark red tongue tip).
298
Bing Lang
*Herbs that expel parasites*
**Warm**
Kills parasites (tapeworm, pinworm, blood flukes, helps expel bodies of worms).
Promote movement of qi, reduce stagnation (drain downward and unblock bowels, food accumulations, abdominal distention, constipation, tenesmus).
Promote urination (damp phlegm and malarial disorders).
299
Xian He Cao
*Herbs that regulate the blood - stop bleeding*
**Neutral**
Stops bleeding due to cold/heat/excess/deficiency.
Alleviates diarrhea/dysentery.
Kills parasites.
300
Ge Gen
*Cool acrid herbs that dispel wind heat*
**Cool**
Release muscle, clear heat (fever, headache, stiffness in back and neck).
Nourish fluids (thirst with stomach heat).
Vents measles/rash at early stage.
Expel water and reduce welling (difficulty urinating, hot superficial edema).
301
Yin Chai Hu
*Herbs that clear heat from deficiency*
**Cool**
Clear deficiency heat (steaming bone, deficiency fever).
Clear heat (fever, thirst, irritability, childhood nutritional impairment).
Cool blood, stop bleeding (coughing up blood, nosebleed, bloody urination).
302
Zhi Zi
*Herbs that clear heat and drain fire*
**Cold**
Clear heat, eliminate vexation (irritability, restlessness, insomnia, delirium).
Drains damp heat (urinary dysfunction, constrained liver and gallbladder causing jaundice).
Cools blood, stops bleeding (nose, vomit, dysentery, urinary).
Topically for blood stasis due to trauma/swelling.
303
Man Jing Zi
*Cool acrid herbs that dispel wind heat*
**Cool**
Expel wind heat (headache, eye pian).
Wind heat in the liver (eyes).
Drains damp, expels wind (stiff, numb, cramping, heavy limbs).
304
Cong Bai
Warm Acrid herbs that release the exterior
**Warm**
Release exterior, induce sweat.
Disperse cold, unblock yang (abdominal pain, nasal congestion).
Topically relieves toxicity/clumps/abscesses/sores.
305
Herbs contraindicated during pregnancy
\*Poisonous or toxic herbs
\*Herbs with a strong or drastic action
\*Bie Jia
Che Qian Zi
\*Chuan Niu Xi
\*Da Ji
\*Dan Shen
\*E Zhu
Fan Xie Ye
\*Fu Zi
Gan Sui
\*Gui Ban
\*Hong Hua
\*Huai Niu Xi
\*Hua Jiao
\*Jiang Huang
Liu Huang
\*Lu Hui
Ma Qian Zi
\*Mang Xiao
\*Mo Yao
\*Mu Dan Pi
Qu Mai
\*Ru Xiang
\*San Leng
Shang Lu
\*Shan Zha
\*She Gan
She Xiang
Shui Zhi
\*Tao Ren
Tian Hua Fen
\*Tian Nan Xing
\*Wang Bu Liu Xing
Wu Gong
Wu Tou
Xiong Huang
Xuan Ming Fen
\*Yan Hu Suo
\*Yi Mu Cao
Yuan Hua
306
Caution during pregnancy herbs
\*Herbs that warm the channels to remove stasis
\*Herbs that promote qi circulation and break stagnation
\*Herbs that are pungent and hot
\*Herbs that drain dampness
Bai Fu Zi
\*Bai Jiang Cao
\*Bai Ji Li
Ban Xia
Bing Pian
Chang Shan
\*Chan Tui
\*Che Qian Zi
\*Chi Shi Zhi
\*Chuan Xiong
\*Da Huang
\*Da Fu Pi
\*Dai Zhe Shi
\*Dong Kui Zi
\*Gan Jiang
\*Gui Zhi
\*Hou Po
Huai Niu Xi
\*Hua Shi
Lu Hui
Mo Yao
\*Mu Tong
\*Mu Zei
Pu Huang
Quan Xie
\*Rou Gui
Ru Xiang
\*San Qi
Su Mu
\*Tian Hua Fen
Tian Nan Xing
Tong Cao
Wang Bu Liu Xing
\*Xin Yi Hua
Xue Jie
Yi Yi Ren
\*Yu Jin
Yu Li Ren
\*Zhen Zhu Mu
\*Ze Lan
\*Zhi Ke
\*Zhi Shi
307
Toxic Herbs
Ai Ye
Ba Dou
Bai Fu Zi
Bai Guo
Ban Mao
Ban Xia
Bi Ma Zi
Cang Er Zi
Cao Wu
Chan Su
Chang Chun Hua
Chang Shan
Chong Lou
Chuan Lian Zi
Chuan Wu
Da Feng Zi
Da Ji
Dan Fan
Fan Xie Ye
Fu Zi
Gan Sui
Gou Wen
Gua Di
Guan Zhong
He Shi
Hong Sheng Dan
Hu Er Cao
Hua Jiao
Ji Xing Zi
Jiao Mu
Jin Qian Bai Hua She
Ku Lian Pi
Ku Xing Ren
Lei Gong Teng
Lei Wan
Li Lu
Liu Huang
Long Kui
Lu Feng Fang
Lu Hui
Ma Bo
Ma Qian Zi
Mang Chong
Mi Tuo Seng
Mu Bie Zi
Mu Tong
Nao Yang Hua
Pi Shi
Pi Shuang
Qi She
Qian Dan
Qian Jin Zi
Qian Niu Zi
Qing Fen
Quan Xie
Rou Dou Kou
Shen Ci Gu
Shan Dou Gen
Shang Lu
Shi Di
Shi Jun Zi
Shou Gong
Shui Yin
Shui Zhi
Teng Huang
Tian Nan Xing
Tian Xiaon Zi
Tian Xiong
Tu Jing Pi
Wei Ling Xian
Wu Bei Zi
Wu Gong
Wu Zhu Yu
Xi Xian Cao
Xi Xin
Xian Mao
Xiong Huang
Ya Da Zi
Yang Jin Hua
Ying Su Ke
Yuan Hua
Zao Jie
Zao Jiao Ci
Ze Qi
Shang Nan
Zhe Chong
ZHu Sha
308
Gan Cao is incompatible with:
Gan Sui
Yuan Hua
Hai Zao
Da Ji
309
Wu Tou is incompatible with:
Ban Xia
Gua Lou
Bei Mu
Bai Lia
Bai Ji
310
Li Lu is incompatible with:
Ren Shen
Dan Shen
Sha Shen
Xuan Shen
Ku Shen
Xi Xin
Bai Shao
Chi Shao
Chuan Xiong
Gan Cao
311
Liu Huang is antagonistic with
Po Xiao
312
Shui Yin is antagonistic with
Pi Shaung
313
Lang Du is antagonistic with
Mi Tuo Seng
314
Ba Dou is antagonistic with
Qian Niu Zi
315
Ding Xiang is antagonistic with
Yu Jin
316
Ya Xiao is antagonistic with
San Leng
317
Chuan Wu and Cao Wu are antagonistic with
Xi Jiao
318
Ren Shen is antagonistic with
Wu Ling Zhi
319
Rou Gui is antagonistic with
Chi Shi Zhi
320
Chuan Wu, Cao Wu, and Fu Zi are incompatible with
Ban Xia
Gua Lou
Tian Hua Fen
Chuan Bei Mu
Zhe Bei Mu
Bai Lian
Bai Ji
321
Xi Jiao is antagonistic with
Cao Wu
