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1
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What herb is the strongest herb in the category, controls wheezing and cough, promotes urination, reduces edema, and is diaphoretic and diuretic?

A

Ma Huang/Ephedra H.

2
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What herb goes to the Heart, harmonizes Ying and Wei, unblocks Yang in the chest, and is in Ma Huang Tang (with Ma Huang)?

A

Gui Zhi/Cinnamomi Ram.

3
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What herb promotes qi movement: for nausea and vomiting, and alleviate morning sickness?

A

Zi Su Ye/Perilla Flos.

4
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What herb can be used for wind cold or wind heat, vents rashes and stops bleeding (for blood in the stools)?

A

Jing Jie/Schizonepetea H.

5
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What herb expels wind DAMP and alleviates PAIN, for painful diarrhea, and intestinal wind? It treat ALL wind disorders.

A

Fang Feng/Saposhnikovia Rad.

6
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What herb relieves Urinary Bladder Channel headache and damp body ache (Damp-Bi Syndrome)? It is also a guiding herb to the Du Mai and the Greater Yang channels (Tai Yang).

A

Qiang Huo/Notopterygi Rhiz.

7
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What herb is used for headache at the VERTEX, is the ONLY ONE that enters the DU MAI, and is used for toothache and cold?

A

Gao Ben/Ligusticum Rhiz.

8
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What herb is used for toothache, opens the nasal passages (for nasal congestion), and is the FRONTAL headache herb?

A

Bai Zhi/Angelica Dahurica Rad.

9
Q

What herb warms the LUNG, is used for coughing with excessive watery sputum, unblocks qi (for nasal congestion), and is in the formula Minor Blue Green Dragon?

A

Xi Xin/Asari H.

10
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What herb expels Summerheat?

A

Xiang Ru/Elsholtzia Spl.

11
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What herb unblocks nasal passages, is for SINUS headache, and is the MAJOR NOSE and SINUS herb?

A

Xin Yi Hua/Magnolia Fl.

12
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What herb is TOXIC, used for THICK nasal discharge, and SINUS headache?

A

Cang Er Zi/Xanthii Fr.

13
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What herb is the #1 NAUSEA herb, reduces the toxicity of other herbs, is used for treating overdoses, and is for vomiting?

A

Sheng Jiang/Fresh Ginger

14
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What herb is used for the EARLY STAGES of MILD WIND COLD?

A

Cong Bai/Allium Fistulosi Bulbus

15
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What are the two types of WIND COLD?

A

Wind cold with COLD PREDOMINANT (Excess Wind Cold) and Wind Cold with WIND PREDOMINANT.

16
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In Wind Cold with COLD Predominant (Excess Wind Cold) there will be a lack of ______ and an aversion to _____. What is the classic formula for this?

A

sweating, cold. Ma Huang Tang

17
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Wind Cold with WIND Predominant is a ________ pattern. The person will have an aversion to _____. What is the classic formula for this?

A

deficiency, wind, Gui Zhi Tang

18
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Release exterior herbs disperse pathogenic factors from the _____ and _____ levels. They are mostly _____, _____, and _____.

A

wei, ying, acrid, pungent, spicy

19
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Release exterior herbs can be too ______, can damage the _____, should NOT be used for ______ conditions, and should be cooked for ____ minutes under a high flame.

A

drying, yin, chronic, 15

20
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What are the main signs and symptoms for Wind-Cold?

A

Simultaneous chills and fever, runny nose, headache, floating pulse

21
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Cold symptoms show more ____, there is headache, body ache, a ____ tongue, and no ____.

A

pain, white, thirst