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Clear heat herbs
Tcm herbology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many different categories of clear heat & what are they | 6. Drain fire, cool blood, dry dampness, relieve toxicity, relieve summer heat, relieve deficient heat |
| Drain fire | Yang ming level (channel and organ), qi level |
| Shi gao | Gypsum > gypsum |
| MAJOR herb for qi level | Shi gao |
| Zhi zi | Fr > gardenia, cape jasmine fruit |
| Clears heat from the three jiao | Zhi zi |
| Dan zhu ye | Hb > bamboo (lophatherum) stem & leaves |
| heart/stomach heat | Dan zhu ye |
| Lian xin | Plumuia > lotus plumule |
| Heart fire, bleeding | Lian xin |
| Lu gen | Rz > reed rhizoma |
| Lung/stomach heat | Lu gun |
| Xiong dan | Vesica fella > bear gallbladder |
| Liver disorder, liver fire, bi syndrome | Xiong dan |
| Cool the blood location and causes | Heat in the ying/xue level, rashes bleeding, heat by yin deficiency& fluids deficiency |
| Xi jiao | Cornu > rhino horn |
| Major herb for ying/xue level, tremors | Xi jiao |
| Sheng di huang | Rx> chinese foxglove root, rehmannia |
| dry constipation, heart fire, nourish body fluids | Sheng di huang |
| Mu dan pi | Cx > peony root, moutan |
| Invigrates blood, liver fire, Blood stasis (gyn, trauma) | Mu dan pi |
| Zi cao | Rx > Groomwell root |
| Lithospermum, arnebia | Zi cao |
| Yin chai hu | Stellaria root |
| Child malnutrition, relieve deficiency heat | Yin chai hu |
| Dry dampness, location, signs and symptoms | Damp heat in 3 jiao, dysentery, lin syndrome, jaundice, pain, thick yellow mucus, skin disorders. |
| Huang qin | Bical skullcap root, scutellaira Upper jiao |
| Huang lian | Coptis rhizoma Middle jiao |
| Huang bai | Amur cork tree bark, phellodendron Lower Jiao |
| Long dan cao | Chinese gentian root |
| Major herb for liver & gall bladder | Long dan cao |
| Hu hang lian | Picrorhiza rhizoma |
| Releives deficiency heat, child malnutrition | Hu huang lian |
| Relieve toxicity, location, signs and symptoms | Hot toxins or fire toxins, fevers, purulent infections, viral infections |
| Lian qiao | Forsythia fruit |
| Sore throat | Lian qiao |
| Pu gong ying | Hb w/ radice > dandelion |
| Female breast disease | Pu gong ying |
| Bai tou weng | Radix > chinese anemone root, pusatilla |
| Major root to relieve dysentery | Bai tuo weng |
| Shan dou gen | Subprostrate root, sophora root |
| Major herb to benefit the throat | Shan dou gen |
| Chang shan | Rx > dichora root |
| Major herb to relieve malaria, & expel parasites | Chang shan |
| Relieve summer heat | Summer season > diuretic, antipyretic actions Fever sweating, thirst, diarrhea, irritability |
| He ye | Flo> lotus leaf |
| Lu dou | Sm > mung bean |
| Antidote for Fu Zi (aconite) | Lu dou |
| Xi gua | Fr > watermelon fruit |
| Qing hao | Hb > worm wood |
| Major herb, relieve malaria, relieve deficiency heat | Qing hao |
| Relieve deficiency heat s&s | Yin deficiency (liv, kid, lu) Night sweats, hot flush, five palms heat, Shen disorders, low-grade fever |
| Qing hao | Hb> wormwood |
| Major herb for, relieve malaria, relieve summer heat | Qing hao |
| Yin chai hu | Rx> stellaria root |
| Child malnutrition, cools the blood | Yin chai hu |
| Di gu pi | Cx> wolfberry root, lycium bark Cools the blood |
| Bai wei | Rx> swallowwort root Cools the blood |
| Hu hang lian | Rz> picrorhiza rhizoma Child malnutrition, dry dampness |
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