Week 7- Formulas that Clear Heat_Clear Nutritive Level Heat and Cool the Blood

Question 1

Action

Clears the nutritive level, relieves fire toxin, drains heat, and nourishes the Yin

Answer 1

Qing Ying Tang

Question 2

S/Sx

High fever that worsens at night, severe irritability and restlessness
Some are thirsty, some delirious, some exhibit faint and indistinct erytherma and purpura
TONGUE: scarlet dry
PULSE: thin and rapid

Answer 2

Qing Ying Tang

Question 3

Pattern

Strong heat entering the nutritive level affecting the yin

Answer 3

Qing Ying Tang

Question 4

What formula?

Shui Niu Jiao [Bubali Cornu]
Xuan Shen [Scrophulariae Radix]
Sheng Di Huang [Rehmanniae Radix]
Mai Men Dong [Ophiopogonis Radix]
Jin Yin Hua [Lonicerae Flos]
Lian Qiao [Forsythiae Fructus]
Huang Lian [Coptidis Rhizoma]
Dan Zhu Ye [Lophatheri Herba]
Dan Shen [Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix]

Answer 4

Qing Ying Tang

Question 5

In Qing Ying Tang, ax of Shui Niu Jiao

Answer 5

Chief, bitter, salty and cold, clears heat from the nutritive level and the HT, resolves toxicity, calms the spirit- all without causing obstruction- as well as cools blood and breaks up stasis

Question 6

In Qing Ying Tang, ax of Xuan Shen

Answer 6

Deputy enriches the yin, directs fire downward, resolves toxicity

Question 7

In Qing Ying Tang, ax of Sheng Di Huang

Answer 7

Deputy cools the blood and enriches the yin

Question 8

In Qing Ying Tang, ax of Mai Men Dong

Answer 8

Deputy clears heat, nourishes the yin, generates fluids

Question 9

In Qing Ying Tang, ax of Jin Yin Hua and Lian Qiao

Answer 9

Assistants, fragrant, aromatic, light, clear heat and resolve toxicity by dissipating and venting pathogenic heat to outside including heat in the qi level as well as in the nutritive level

Question 10

C/I Qing Ying Tang

Answer 10

dampness

Question 11

Action

Clears heat, resolves fire toxicity, cools the BLOOD, nourishes the yin, dispels blood stasis, and stops bleeding

Answer 11

Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang

Question 12

S/Sx

Fever, various types of BLEEDING [including vomiting of blood, nosebleed, blood in the stool or urine, and rashes], black and tarry stools, abdominal distention and fullness, thirst w an inability to swallow
TONGUE: scarlet tongue with prickles
PULSE: thin, rapid
*some can be delirious

Answer 12

Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang

Question 13

Pattern

Heat entering the BLOOD level, the deepest of the four levels of disease; reckless blood movement

Answer 13

Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang

Question 14

What formula?

Shui Niu Jiao [Bubali Cornu]
Sheng Di Huang [Rehmanniae Radix]
Shao Yao [Paeoniae Radix]
Mu Dan Pi [Moutan Cortex]

Answer 14

Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang

Question 15

In Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang, ax of Shui Niu Jiao

Answer 15

Chief, bitter salty and cold, clears HT fire and resolves fire toxicity without hindering the movement of blood [perfect for heat in the blood level]

Question 16

In Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang, ax of Sheng Di Huang

Answer 16

Deputy cools the blood, stops bleeding, nourishes the yin fluids, clears heat

Question 17

In Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang, ax of Shao Yao & Mu Dan Pi

Answer 17

Assistants drain heat and enliven blood to treat and prevent the blood stasis that may be caused by the severe heat or as a side effect of the cold ingredients in the formula

Question 18

In Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang, ax of Shao Yao

Answer 18

Assistant cools and moves the blood, actively drains the heat pathogen

Question 19

In Xi Jiao Di Huang Tang, ax of Mu Dan Pi

Answer 19

Assistant, bitter and slightly acrid, drains heat to cold the blood and stops bleeding by dispersing static blood

Question 20

C/I Xi Jian Di Huang Tang

Answer 20

Bleeding due to Yang deficiency or SP/ST deficiency