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ACU F 19
Intro to HERBS Lect 2
Question | Answer |
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What are the causes of disease | Six Evils External, Seven Emotional Internal, eating habits, lifestyle, overexertion/overwork, trauma/injury |
Six Evils | External, Wind, Cold, Heat, Damp, Dry, Fire/toxin |
Seven Emotions | Joy, Anger, Worry, Contemplation, Sorrow, Fear, Shock |
how can eating habits cause disease | irregular or improper |
what lifestyle imbalances can cause disease | sleep, sex, exercise |
Eight Treatment Methods | Sweat, Clear heat, induce bowel movement, harmonize, warm tonight eliminate, induce vomit |
Sweat | move out external pathogen that is invading the body |
heat | clear heat, rid heat from the interior of the body, hear causes dryness, need to lubricate |
induce | induce bowel movement, alleviate constipation to sedate excess heat, attack cold accumulation, lubricate the intestines |
harmonize | striking a balance or negotiating a settlement between two ZangFu, meridians, or Qi & Blood |
warming | treats interior coldness |
tonify | enrich Qi, Blood, Yang, Yin |
eliminate | rid of accumulation (stones, ulcers, parasites) |
induce vomit | prevent poisoning or toxicity |
Herbal Properties | Temperature(energy), Taste(flavor), movement(direction), Channel related |
What is temperature used to do | Treat or balance Yin and Yang |
Paradoxical treatment | hot herbs treat cold syndromes/cold herbs treat Hot syndromes |
Four temperatures | Hot, Warm, Cool, Cold |
Neutral | neither hot or cold |
Five taste of herbs | Pungent, sweet, bitter,sour, salty |
3 additional tastes of herbs | bland, astringent, aromatice |
pungent | disperses and moves |
sweet | tonifies and harmonizes |
bitter | drains and dries |
sour | constricts and binds |
salty | purges and softens |
bland | promotes urination |
astringent | consolidates |
aromatic | opens to the orifices |
Yang energy tastes | Pungent and sweet |
Yin energy tastes | sour, salty, bitter |
Cautions of tastes | pungent effects Qi, salty effects blood, bitter effects bones, sweet effects flesh, sour effects sinews |
what does pungent effect | Qi |
what does salty effect | blood |
what does bitter effect | bones |
what does sweet effect | flesh |
what does sour effect | sinews |
movement direction of herbs | upward=elevate, downward=suppress, outward=float, inward=sink |
Direct effect | herbs travel internally to the ZangFu |
Indirect effect | herbs travel internally in the channel to assist in function |
example of direct effect | LU to treat cough or UB to treat urine retention |
Example of Indirect effect | KD to treat bones or LV to treat sinews |
how were chinese herbs named | by the description of the herb |
Descriptions used to name herbs | shape, color, smell/taste, location, function |
Bai | white |
chi | bright red |
hei | black |
hong | red |
huang | yellow |
jin | gold |
Lu | green |
Qing | blue-green |
Yin | silver |
Zhu | Dull Red |
Zi | Purple |
Cao | whole plant |
dou | Bean |
Gen | Root |
Geng | Stem |
Gua | Fruit(melon) |
Hua | Flower |
Mu | Wood |
Pi | peel |
Ren | seed(large) |
Teng | Vine |
Ye | Leaf |
Zhi | Twig |
Zi | Seeds |
Gan | Liver |
Xin | heart |
Pi | Spleen |
Fei | Lung |
Shen | Kidney |
Xin Bao | pericardium |
dan | gall bladder |
wei | stomach |
jiao | gelatin |
ke | shell |
Shi | stone |
dan | bland |
gan | sweet |
ku | bitter |
suan | sour |
Xian | salty |
Xiang | aromatic |
Xin | acrid |
Bei | North |
Nan | South |
Dong | East |
Xi | West |
Xu Wei | Five Tastes |
Acrid Xin | Yang in Nature, Spicy substances can scatter, disperse and move, diaphoretic, treats cold, nourishing invigorates blood and moves blood stagnation |
Sweet Gan | Yang in nature, sweet substances can scatter, tonify, harmonize, and sometimes thought to moisten, alleviate pain and spasms, nourish and tonify the Middle jiao, changes the taste of herbal formula |
Bitter Ku | Yin in nature, bitter substances can drain, clear heat, dry dampness, and descend fire, asthma, constipation, retention of dampness due to heat or cold |
Sour Suan | Yin in nature, sour substances can drain, estranges, improve digestion, soften the arteries and prevent or reverse the abnormal leakage of energy and fluids, diarrhea, excess perspiration, softens arteries |
Salty Xian | Yin in nature, salty substances can drain, purge, and soften masses, softens and dissolves lumps and masses, constipation, reduce phlegm |
Bland Dan | Yang in nature, substances that seep and drain, leech out dampness and promote urination, edema, dysuria |
Astringent Se | Yin in Nature, diarrhea, bleeding, spermatorrhea, frequent urination |
Describe Temperature of Herb | Energy, sensation in the mouth |
example of a cool herb | peppermint |
example of a warm herb | cinnamon |
define paradoxal treatment | treating opposite, heat treat with cool |
What herb can be used with Wind Cold and why | Cinnamon tea because it is warm |
Describe Taste of Herbs | Flavors, Wu Wei-5 ingredients, functions depending on taste, pungent, sweet, bitter, sour, salty |
Describe movement of herbs | direction herb travels |
Example of using herb for direction purpose | Have a HTN headache, treat with herb that will bring down HTN |
describe Channels and herbs | every herb enters certain channels |
What type of herbal property balances Yin and Yang | Temperature treats if excess hot and cold |
which herbal property is a paradoxical treatment | Temperature treat opposite if hot or cold |
how many Hot herbs | only 3 |
what temperature are most herbs | warm |
what are 4 temperatures of herbs | cool, cold, warm, hot |
which taste has a lot of herbs associated with it | pungent/akrid |
what taste are onions and garlic | pungent/akrid |
what taste is white rice | sweet |
what taste are lemons, tart peaches | sour |
what are additional tastes | bland, astringent, aromatic |
which taste is a subcategory of sweet | bland |
which taste are mushrooms and what do they do | bland, promote urination |
which herbs are considered diuretics | bland promote urination |
which taste is a subcategory of sour | astringent, milder than sour |
which taste is celery juice | astringent |
which taste is associated with smell | aromatic |
cautions of taste | if you have too much |
4 types of movement of herbs | elevate up, suppress down, outward floating, inward sinking |
which herb movement is used for depression | elevating |
describe outward floating direction | 3 dimensional, all directions outward |
which organ correlates with outward floating direction of herbs | Liver |
which direction would you use Tangerine Peel | outward floating |
which herb would decoction is used before you get sick and why | genseng/marmalade,genseng/citrus, strengthen and disperse |
what are patterns of inward sinking | frequent urination, diarrhea |
2 ways to get herb to medians/channels | direct and indirect |
by which means would you treat colitis | direct, bring herb directly to colon |
by which means would you treat to aid SP transportation | indirect, send herbs to KD to treat bones, send herbs to LV to treat sinews |
pinyin lesser | Shao |
pinyin small | Xiao |
pinyin envelope | Bao |
pinyin purple or seed | Zi |
pinyin sesame seed | Hai Ma Zi |
pinyin purple leaf | Zi Su Ye |
what is Zi Su Ye used to treat | food poisoning, restless fetus |
how many principles | 8 |
how many treatment methods | 8 |
how many evils | 6 |
how many emotions | 7 |
pinyin salty | xian |
pinyin spicy/acrid | Xin |
pinyin astringent | se |
which hers taste used for constipation | bitter, salty |
how many causes of disease | 4, eating, lifestyle , overwork, trauma |
which herb taste used to improve digestion and diarrhea | sour |
which herb taste reduces phlegm | salty |
which herb taste treats edema and dysuria | bland |
how many ways do herbs travel | 2, direct and indirect |
pinyin Liver | Gan |
Pinyin Heart | Xin |
pinyin aromatic | Xiang |
pinyin north | bei |
pinyin west | xi |
pinyin seed | ren |
pinyin leaf | ye |
pinyin twig | zhi |
which temperature and flavor used for Cold | spicy hot, heat up body,moves blood |
which taste stops sweat | sour |
which taste is ginger | pungent, spicy, akrid |
which taste is gecko | salty |
which taste is Mong Beans | sweet |