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Herbs - Terms
Herbs - Terms and Vocabulary
| English | Pinyin |
|---|---|
| Soaking | pao |
| bleaching | piao |
| Refining with water | shui fei |
| dry frying | chao |
| frying with liquids | zhi |
| calcining | duan |
| Quick frying | pao |
| Dry-curing | hong |
| Roasting in ashes | wei |
| Steaming | zheng |
| Boiling | zhu |
| Quenching | cui |
| Simmering | ao |
| Four Natures | si qi |
| Five Flavors | wu wei |
| Lifting, lowering, floating, sinking | sheng jiang fu chen |
| channels and organs entered | gui jing |
| mutual reinforcement | xiang xu |
| mutual assistance | xiang shi |
| mutual detoxification | xiang she/wei |
| mutual antagonism | xiang wu |
| incompatability | xiang fan |
| 30 grams | 1 liang |
| 3 grams | 1 qian |
| .3 grams | 1 fen |
| .03 grams | 1 li |
| Decoction | tang |
| powders | san |
| pills | wan |
| special pill | dan |
| syrup | gao |
| plaster | gao |
| tincture | ding |
| medicinal wine | yao jiu |
| injection | zhu she ye |