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| Four properties | cold, cool, hot, warm. Also neutral
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| Five flavors | Acrid, Sweet (Bland), Sour (astringent), Bitter and Salty
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| Acrid | disperses ext. induces sweating, promotes blood and qi cirulation
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| Sweet | Tonifies or nourishes different organs, harmonizes other herbs/spleen and stomach
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| Sour | astringes and arrest discharges, sweating, nocturnal emmissions.
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| bitter | clears heat, drains fire-toxins, directs rebellious qi downward, unblocks bowels, and eliminates dampness
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| Salty | Purges accumulations 9heat or stools), resolves hard masses, directs other herbs to the kd
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| Herbal actions:Lifting, lowering, floating sinking | moves in to directions; elevates yang; disperses the ext (expels wind cold and promotes sweating, induces vomiting, opens in the senses. For disease of the upper part, prolapse, and ext syndrome
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| Actions:Lowering, sinking | bitter, sour, salty or cold or cool. clears heat purges accumulations and stagnations, promotes bowel movement and urination, drains dampness, anchors the yang and calms the spirit directs rebellious qi downward. used in diseases of lower part
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| ways of using toxic herbs | by preparation; processing, combination with other herbs, controlling the dose
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| techniques for strengthening herbs | mutual necessity herbs used together; mutual employment using a principle and a secondary; Mutual conteraction, the secondary reduces the toxicity of the primary herb; mutual suppresssion: one herb can reduce the undesirable side effects of another
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| techniques to avoid | mutual inhibition, two herbs that weaken the other; mutual incompatibility, two herbs that produce toxicity;
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| Prohibited combinations | Nineteen antagonisms and eightteen incompatibilities
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| Caution and Contradictions | Pregnancy and Dietary incompatibilities
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| Composition of prescription | chief herbs (Jin); Duputies (Chen); Assistance (Zuo); Envoys (Shi).
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| Dosage | from low to a higher; to avoid herbal poisoning or accumulated toxity dosage should be reduced as patients condition improves
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