Warm, acrid herbs

Question 1

What is pin yin for cinnamon twig

Answer 1

Gui zhi (4/1)

Question 2

What is pin yin for ephedra

Answer 2

Ma huang (1/2)

Question 3

What is pin yin for perilla leaf

Answer 3

Zi su ye (3/1/4)

Question 4

What is pin yin for schizonepeta

Answer 4

Jing jie (1/4)

Question 5

What is pin yin for siler

Answer 5

Fang feng (2/1)

Question 6

What is pin yin for ligusticum

Answer 6

Gao ben (3/3)

Question 7

What is pin yin for notopterygium root

Answer 7

Qiang huo (1/2)

Question 8

What is pin yin for angelica

Answer 8

Bai zhi (2/3)

Question 9

What is pin yin for asarum, Chinese wild ginger

Answer 9

Xi xin (4/1)

Question 10

What is pin yin for green onion

Answer 10

Cong bai (1/2)

Question 11

What is pin yin for raw ginger

Answer 11

Sheng jiang (1/1)

Question 12

What is pin yin for aromatic madder

Answer 12

Xiang ru (1/2)

Question 13

What is pin yin for xanthium

Answer 13

Cang er zi (1/3/3)

Question 14

What is pin yin for magnolia flower

Answer 14

Xin yi hua (1/2/1)

Question 15

Which herb calms a restless fetus and is anti-parasitic

Answer 15

Zisuye (perilla leaf)

Question 16

Which two herbs is best for anti-parasitic and vomiting affects

Answer 16

Zisuye and shengjiang

Question 17

Which herb is best used for cold excess

Answer 17

Mahuang

Question 18

Which herb is best used for exterior wind

Answer 18

Jingjie

Question 19

Fangfeng is best combined with which herb in this category

Answer 19

Jingjie

Question 20

Which herb treats more interior patterns

Answer 20

Fangfeng

Question 21

Which three herbs best used for opening up the nose and sinusitus

Answer 21

Cangerzi, xinyihua, baizhi

Question 22

Which herb enters the Du channel and is a guiding herb for the Du channel

Answer 22

Gaoben

Question 23

Which herb treats all wind condition

Answer 23

Fangfeng

Question 24

Which herbs induces and promotes sweating

Answer 24

Mahuang, Xiangru

Question 25

Yangming is the guiding herb for which herb

Answer 25

Baizhi

Question 26

Shaoyin is the guiding herb for which herb

Answer 26

Xixin

Question 27

Taiyang is the guiding herb for which herb

Answer 27

Qianghuo

Question 28

What is the flavor of guizhi and what channels it enters

Answer 28

Acrid, sweet. Enters lung, heart, bladder

Question 29

What is the flavor of mahuang and what channels it enters

Answer 29

Acrid, slightly bitter. Enters lung and bladder

Question 30

What is the flavor of zisuye and what channels it enters

Answer 30

Acrid and aromatic. Enters lung and spleen

Question 31

What is the flavor of jingjie and what channels it enters

Answer 31

Acrid and aromatic. Enters lung and liver

Question 32

What herb treats summer heat with wind dampness and warms middle jiao

Answer 32

Xiangru. Also promotes sweating like mahuang

Question 33

True or False guizhi induces sweating in exterior releasing formulas

Answer 33

False. It releases the muscle layers. Induced sweating is when cold is constrained in the most superficial level of the exterior. Releasing the muscle layers is not constrained in the skin, but deeper in the muscle layer

Question 34

What are the actions and indications for guizhi

Answer 34

1. Attack of wind-cold (excess or deficiency) 2. Bi-syndrome 3. Warms yang and transforms thin mucus 4. Assist heart yang and unblocks yang qi 5. Qi surging upward with fright and fear (running piglet - panic attack) 6. Warms the channels, vessels and collaterals 7. Warms the middle jiao

Question 35

What channels does guizhi enter

Answer 35

Heart, lung, bladder

Question 36

Why does guizhi have a flavor of sweet

Answer 36

Sweet is associated with the element earth and the spleen organ and the muscle tissue...the reason why guizhi releases the muscle layers

Question 37

Use guizhi and mahuang to treat this

Answer 37

Exterior-wind cold conditions in absence of perspiration

Question 38

Use quizhi and baishao to treat this

Answer 38

Wind-cold, exterior deficient conditions with perspiration and aversion to wind

Question 39

Abdomen: pulsations in what acupoints

Answer 39

Around ren 17, ren 14 or below umbilicus

Question 40

What does the warm, acrid herbs do

Answer 40

Dispel-wind cold, used for exterior disorders when fever is mild, chills severe, and other wind-cold symptoms such as headache, body and neck pain, and absence of thirst

Question 41

What channels does mahuang enter

Answer 41

Lung, bladder

Question 42

What are the actions and indications

Answer 42

1. Induces sweating to release exterior syndrome due to wind-cold invasion 2. Disperses and facilitates lung qi - calms wheezing and stops coughing

Question 43

What are the three functions for mahuang

Answer 43

1. Induces and promotes sweating 2. Calms and relieves asthma 3. Promotes urination

Question 44

Which acrid warm herbs have antibiotic (antibacterial) and antiviral properties

Answer 44

guizhi, mahuang, zisuye, fangfeng, gaoben, xinyihua,

Question 45

Which acrid warm herbs are diuretic

Answer 45

mahuang and xiangru

Question 46

Which acrid warm herbs are antispasmodic

Answer 46

mahuang and jinjie

Question 47

Which acrid warm herbs are anti-inflammatory

Answer 47

Qianghuo (stimulate endocrine system - pituitary and adrenal), mahuang, shengjiang (inhibit prostoglandin synthesis in the periphery)