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| What conditions attack the exterior? | Wind heat, Wind Cold, Wind Dampness, Summerheat
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| Symptoms associated with the exterior | Chills, Fever, Headache, Stiff Neck, General Muscle aches
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| Describe what sweating condition (or lack of) warrants using release the exterior herbs. | Absence of sweating or sweating with not improvement in the patient's condition
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| Most exterior releasing herbs are ____. | Diaphoretics. (Induce sweating to expel/release pathogen)
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| What is the next deepest level that disease attacks after the exterior? | Muscle layer
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| Symptoms associated with muscle layer | Fever, General body aches, Profuse Sweating
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| What is the best herb for releasing the muscle layer? | Gui Zhi
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| What are possible other functions of some herbs that release the exterior? | Stop cough, Stop wheeze, Controls pain/spasms, Vents rashes, Vents measles
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| How to treat rashes and measles | Bring it to surface and vent it.
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| Rashes are a sign of ___. | Heat
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| Can herbs vent rashes that have been there a long time? | Yes. The rash has been trapped inside of the body.
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| What are the signs that exterior wind-cold is present? | Mild fever, Severe chills, Headache, Body & neck pains, Absence of thirst
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| What are the signs that exterior wind heat is present? | Severe fever, Mild Chills, Sore throat,
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| In addition to releasing the exterior, some cool acrid herbs also __ | vent rashes & treat eye problems due to wind heat.
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| What are 8 symptoms of heat? | 1) Dry throat 2) Red face 3) Red eyes 4) Dry stools 5) Dark & scanty urine 6) Yellow tongue coat 7) Rapid pulse 8)Sensations of warmth in the five centers
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| Compare symptoms of interior heat with exterior heat. | EXTERIOR - Fever & chills, Headache, THIRST, Moderate sweating, Superficial, rapid pulse INTERIOR - Fever (w/o chills), dry mouth, THIRST, Irritability, Scanty, dark urine, Yellow tongue coat, Constipation or diarrhea, Abdominal distention
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| Which 5 categories of herbs clear interior heat? | 1) Drain fire 2) Cool the Blood 3) Clear damp heat 4) Clear Toxic Heat 5)Clear deficiency heat
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| Which category of herbs contains the herbs that are the coldest in the Materia Medica? | Drain Fire
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| Drain Fire herbs treat which symptoms? | **High fever **Irritability **Thirst **Delirium associated with febrile disease **Eye problems due to wind heat **Heat in Liver, Lungs or Stomach
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| Drain Fire herbs treat which level of the Four Levels? Which Stage of the Six Stages? | Qi Level; Yangming Stage
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| Typical properties of Cool the Blood herbs | Cold, Bitter and Sweet or Salty
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| Two major functions of all Cool the Blood herbs | Cool the Blood & Clear the Nutritive Level
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| Cool the Blood herbs are used for heat entering which level of the four levels? | Nutritive level
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| Describe the symptoms of heat in the Nutritive Level | **Scarlet tongue **Irritability **Restlessness **Changes in consciousness **Various forms of bleeding, including maculopapular rashes
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| Heat at the nutritive level injures the _1__ and exhausts _2__. | 1) Yin 2) Fluids
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| Cool the Blood herbs enrich __1__. They are also good for internally generated heat from ___2____. | 1) Yin 2) Yin deficiency
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| Herbs that Clear Damp Heat are primarily used for which 5 conditions? | 1) Dysenteric disorders 2) Urinary difficulty/pain 3) Jaundice 4)Furuncles 5) Eczema
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| Common properties of clear damp heat herbs | Bitter and cold
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| Clear Damp Heat herbs are often combined with which other categories? | Drain Fire & Clear Toxic Heat
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| Because of their cold nature, Clear Damp Heat herbs should not be used when? | In cases of Spleen and Stomach deficiency
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| Toxin (in regards to toxic heat) = | Fever & other adverse effects of infectious disease that make a patient clinically sick
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| Hot swelling= | Hot, swollen & painful
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| Hot toxic swelling= | Hot swelling + fever, lethargy & sickness
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| Toxicity is a result of ___ | Accumulated pathogens
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| Give examples of heat or fire toxins | **Purulent infections **Sores **Mastitis **Pulmonary & breast abscess **Appendicitis **Dysentery **Viral infections such as mumps or encephalitis
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