PCOM Herbs 4 Midterm

• Ma Huang
• Gui Zhi
• Xing Ren
• Zhi Gan Cao

• Tai Yang Cold Damage
• Promotes Sweating, Release, Exterior, Disseminates Lung, Stop Wheezing

Ma Huang

• Chill and Fever w/o Sweating
• Headache, bodyaches, wheezing
• Tongue: thin white coat
• Pulse: floating

• Tai Yang Wind Strike
• Relase the exterior, Regulates Ying and Wei Qi

• Gui Zhi
• Bai Shao
• Sheng Jiang
• Da Zao
• Gan Cao

• Gui Zhi: Release WD and Flesh, regulate wei qi (Out trusting of WC)
• Bai Shao: Helps Gui Zhi to regulating Ying & Wei, contain the ying, Preserve the Yin.
• Sheng Jiang: Assist Gui Zhi to release exterior, Harmonize ST, Descend Qi, Transform Fluids
• Da Zao: Helps Bao Shao to produce ying.  Boost Middle Jiao.
• Zhi Gan Cao: Preserves Yang, Preserves Yin, Harmonize formula

• Fever and Chills with Sweating
• Headache, aversion to wind, stiff neck
• Tongue: thin, white, moist
• Pulse: Floating

Gui Zhi

Tai Yang Wind Strike pattern with coughing up thin phlegm-drool and focal distention.  Internal Rheum.

• Ma Huang
• Gui Zhi

Warm interior, transform damp, stop cough, cook down fluids

Preserve Lung Qi, stop cough

Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao San

• Action: Release the exterior and the muscle layer, generate fluids
• Indication: Fever and Chills with no sweating, stiff and rigid neck and upperback

• Action: Disperse Wind and alleviate pain
• Indication: Headache due to wind, exterior syndrome w/ headache.

• Action: Regulate Qi and Release Exterior
• Indication: Exterior WC with Qi stagnation at the interior, bodyaches, focal distention and chest oppression

• Action: Promotes Seating and release exterior
• Indication: Mild WC

• Action: Release Exterior, promotes sweating, eliminates damp, clear heat
• Indication: WCD in exterior w/ internal heat

• Action: Disperes W and clear heat, disseminates lung and stop cough
• Indication: Early stage WH

• Jin Yin Hua
• Lian Qiao
• Bo He
• Jie Geng
• Niu Bang Zi
• Dan Dou Chi
• Jing Jie
• Dan Zhu Ye
• Lu Gen
• Gan Cao

• Action: Release exterior, clear heat and resolve tox
• Indication: Early stage Wen Bing, WH invasion, Wei level heat.

• Action: Release the muscle layer and vent rashes
• Indication: Early stage measles due to external heat

• Action: Release the muscle layer and clears interior heat
• Indication: Simultaneously taiyang and yangming patterns.  Unresolved WC becomes heat.

• Actions: Disperse W, alleviates pain, unblock nasal pasage
• Indication: Deep-source nasal congestion or brain seepage

• Action: Release exterior, clear heat, relieve tox
• Indication: WH affecting the head and neck

• Action: Unblocks nasal passages and release exterior
• Indication: Nasal congestion and pain, copious nasal discharge, loos of smell, headache due to wind.

• Action: unblocks nasal passages and release exterior
• Indication: Nasal congestion and pain, copious nasal discharge, loss of smell, headache due to wind.

• Shi Gao
• Zhi Mu
• Zhi Gan Cao
• Geng Mi

• Action: Clears heat and eliminates vexation, generate fluids
• Indication: Yangming Channel Syndrome, Qi Level Heat, 4 bigs

• Action: Clear heat, generate fluids, boosts qi and harmonize the st
• Indication: Lingering Qi level heat injures Qi and Fluid

• Action: Clear and diffuses depressed heat
• Indication: Stagnant heat in chest or diaphragm

Yin Qiao San

Bai Hu Tang

Qing Ying Tang

Xi Jiao Di HuangTang

• Shan Zhi Zi
• Dan Dou Chi

• Heat Effusion, anguish, vacuity vexation and insomnia, focal distention, fullness in chest and st, hunger but no desier to eat
• Pulse: Rapid
• Tongue: Red and slightly yellow coat

• Action: Clear ying, resolve tox, out thrust heat and nourish yin.
• Indication: Early stage Heat entering ying level.

• Action: Clear blood heat, dissipates blood stasis
• Indication: Heat entering the Blood level

• Qiang Huo
• Du Huo

• Vigorous chill and fever with no sweating.  Stiff Neck, HA, aching limbs, nasal congestion, cough with phlegm, focal distention
• Tongue: pale with white greasy caot
• Pules: Floating soggy

• Action: Release the exterior, dispel wind, cold and damp, and augments the qi
• Indication: WCD with interior Qi deficiency.

Ma Huang and Shi Gao

Exterior Cold /w internal heat

• Jing Jie
• Fang Feng

• Actions: Promotes Seating, release the exterior, dispel wind and stops pain
• Indication: WCD, fever and chill with no sweating, bodyache.

• Action: Assists the yang and release the exterior
• Indication: Cold invasion with interior yang deficiency.

• Action: Nourish yin, clear heat, induce sweating, release the exterior
• Indication: WH with yin deficiency

• Action: disperse wind, release exterior, drain heat, unblock bowls
• Indication: Excess heat in the exterior and interior, fever, constipation, dark urine

• Action: Release Shaoyang, drains internal clumping
• Indication: Concurrent Shaoyang and yangming channel disorders

• Action: Release the exterior and drain heat
• Indication: Exterior pattern incompletely released with Fire Blazing in the interior.  Sweating.

• Action: Clears heat, resolve tox, release exterior
• Indication: Cold damage with heat blazing in the interior.  No Sweating

Da Huang

• Action: Clear heat, relieve tox, drain heat from lung, benefit throat
• Indication: Painful obstruction of throat due to damp heat collecting in the lungs. sore throat.

• Action: Vents lung qi, clear heat, descends qi, stop wheezing
• Indication: Heat lodged in lung obstructing the flow of qi.  Fever, no sweat, nasal flaring and pain.

• Action: Promotes sweating, disseminates lung qi, moves water
• Indication: wind edema with aversion to wind, facial or general edema, fever, continuous sweating.

• Action: clears and drain lung heat, relieves coughing and calms panting
• Indication: Lung heat with panting and coughing, steaming hot / dry skin.  Latent (Deep-lying) fire in lung.

• Action: Clear heat, promote urination, nourish yin
• Indication: heat in the heart conducting down to UB via the SI.  Sores in the mouth, scanty dark urine, blood in urine.

• Action: Drains LV and GB fire, clears and drains lower jiao damp heat.
• Indication: Excess Heat and Dampness in the Liver and GB

• Long Dan cao
• Huang Qin
• Zhi Zi
• Mu Tong
• Che Qian Zi
• Ze Xie
• Chai Hu
• Sheng Di
• Dang Gui
• Gan Cao

• Shi Gao
• Zhi Mu
• Dan Zhu Ye
• Gan Cao

• Long Dan Cao: Drains Lv / GB fire, drains lower jiao damp heat
• Huang Qin + Zhi Zi: Clear tox, drain damp heat
• Chai Hu: Course constrained heat, clear upper manifestation
• Che Qian Zi + Ze Xie + Mu Tong: Conduct damp heat downward, clear heat via urination.
• Sheng Di + Dang Gui: Nouish, regulate and protect blood.  Soften Liver
• Gan Cao: Harmonize

• Action: Celar lurking fire from SP and ST
• Indication: Lurking fire in sp, mouth ulcers, bad breathe, frequent hunger

• Action: Drain ST fire, coo the blood, nourish yin
• Indicatoin: heat accumulation in st.  Toothache, bleeding gums

• Action: Darin heat from St and nourish yin
• Indication: KD yin xu with ST fire.  Bleeding gums.  Thirst with desire for cold beverages.

• Action: Regulate and harmonize qi and blood, clear heat, dry damp, resolve tox
• Indication: Dysenteric disorder due to damp heat lodged in the intestines, with qi and blood stagnation.

• Action: Cearls heat, resolve tox, cool bood, dysentery
• Indication: hot dysentery due to more heat than damp in the ST/LI

• Both Ying and Blood level disturbs the shen and causes delirious speech.  
• On the ying level, delirious speech is only periodic.
• In the Blood level, there is accompanying bleeding due to heat.