Question | Answer |
What do Wei Ling Xian, Bai Hua She, Wu Shao She and She Tui all have in common? | Salty |
What is the only wind cold damp dispelling medicinal to enter the Stomach? | Can Sha |
What is the only wind cold damp dispelling medicinal to enter the Lung? | Song Zi Ren |
What is the only wind cold damp dispelling medicinal to enter the Large Intestine? | Song Zi Ren |
This is the only sour herb in the wind cold damp dispelling category... | Mu Gua |
Which wind cold damp dispelling herb is toxic? | Bai Hua She |
Which herb specializes in dispelling wind damp and relieving pain form the lower body? | Du Huo |
Radix Angelicae Pubescentis | Du Huo |
What are the flavors and nature of Du Huo? | Bitter, Acrid, Slightly Warm |
What channels are entered by Du Huo? | Kidney, Bladder, Liver |
Dispels wind-damp and relieves impediment pain. Resolves exterior. Used for lesser yin (shaoyin) stage headache involving teeth and cheeks & toothache. | Du Huo |
What herb is similar to Du Huo but specializes in treating the upper body? | Qiang Huo |
What symptoms are associated with a damp predominant painful obstruction? | Heavy feeling, dull pain |
Which herb has a strong mobilizing tenancy to promote qi movement through the channels? | Wei Ling Xian |
Radix Clematidis | Wei Ling Xian |
Usually the dose for Wei Ling Xian is 5-15g but when used for fish bones in the throat, the dose increases to ____________ | 30-50g |
Latin for Bai Hua She | Agkistrodon seu Bungarus |
Du Huo can be used as a dui yao with which herb to both dispel wind cold and direct the action to the upper body? | Xi Xin |
Nature and flavor of Wei Ling Xian | Acrid, Salty, Warm |
Bai Hua She relieves itch, dispels wind-damp and frees the network vessels and sinews, but its main function is __________________ | Settle fright and check tetany |
Agkistrodon and Bungarus are forms of which herb? | Bai Hua She |
Although very similar, what is the primary difference between Bai Hua She and Wu Shao She? | Wu Shao She is less toxic |
Which of the wind cold damp dispelling medicinals is similar to and used as a dui yao with Chan Tui? | She Tui |
Zaocys Dhumnades | Wū Shāo Shé |
Periostracum Serpentis | Shé Tuì |
Your patient presents with tremors, an annoying itch & complain that they feel like there are screens in their visual field...they are very afraid. Which herb will you choose? | Shé Tuì |
Fructus Chaenomelis | Mù Guā |
This herb is especially good for cramping pain of the calves and restless leg syndrome | Mù Guā |
Soothes sinews & quickens network vessels &
Harmonizes Stomach & transforms dampness | Mù Guā |
What are the nature, flavor and channel entries for Mù Guā? | Sour, Warm, Liver, Spleen |
When there is LV SP disharmony causing damp in the middle jiao and lower leg edema, which herb will you use? | Mù Guā |
Faeces Bombycis | Cán Shā |
Cramping is often due to what type of vacuity? | Liver Blood Vacuity |
What type of rash would you use Can Sha on? | Itchy damp rash |
What is necessary when preparing Can Sha? | Wrap in a cloth |
What herb will you choose if your patient presents with weeping eczema and vomiting? | Cán Shā |
This is THE "knocks and falls" herb | Shēn Jīn Cǎo |
Herba Lycopodii | Shēn Jīn Cǎo |
Which herb looks like miniature pine branches? | Herba Lycopodii |
If your patient is not bending well, a good herb in the category of wind cold damp dispelling medicinals would be... | Shēn Jīn Cǎo |
Caulis Piperis kadsurae | Hǎi Fēng Téng |
The one word that comes to mind when thinking of Hǎi Fēng Téng is ___________ Medicine. | Trauma |
Nodi Pini Lignum | Sōng Jié |
Sōng Jié is used is used occasionally in trauma when what factor predominates? | Wind-damp |
Semen Pini | Sōng Zǐ Rén |
Your patient complains of constipation and a dry cough... | Sōng Zǐ Rén |