Herb Board Review Set 9

Lucid ganoderma
Calm the spirit by nourishing the heart

1. Nourish the heart and calm the spirit for insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, forgetfulness, and hypertension.
2. Stops coughing caused by cold, or with profuse sputum, chronic asthma or difficulty sleeping due to dyspnea.
3. Tonifies Qi and Blood for weak digestion, poor appetite, listlessness, loose stools, fatigue, dizziness and sore lower back.

Gentian root
Clears heat and drys damp

1. Eliminates heat and dampness in Liver and Galbladder, for jaundice, leukorrhrea, eczema,Red eyes, painful ears or sudden deafness, Lin,.
2. Sedates liver fire.

Dragon's bone
Calm the spirit

1. Settles and calms the spirit.
2. Calms the liver and anchors the yang.
3. Prevents leakage of fluids.

Longan fruit
Tonify the blood

1. Tonifies the Heart and spleen and blood and calms the spirit, for insomnia, palpitations, forgetfulness and dizziness.

Reed rhizome
Clear heat drain fire

1. Clears heat and generates fluids for thirst, high fever, and irritability.
2. Clears heat and promotes urination for Lin maybe with blood.
3. Encourages rashes to the surface, for febrile disease with rashes that are incompletely expressed.

Juice of Aloe leaves
Downward draining purgative

1. Purges heat in Liver and Large intestine for constipation, dizziness, red eyes, irritability, restlessness, insomnia.
2. Clears heat and cools the liver.
3. Childhood nutritional impairment due to roundworms or tinea.

Lu rong
Tonifies yang

1. Tonifies kidney yang vital function, for fatigue, impotence, cold extremities.
2. Warms yang and regulates penetrating and conception vessel and stabilizes govern vessel, for vaginal discharge, uterine bleeding, infertility.
3. Tonifies Du vessel for deficiency in children.
4. Tonifies Qi and Blood for chronic ulcerations or yin type boils.

Puff-ball
Clear heat and relieve toxicity

1. Clears the lungs and resolves toxicity for painful swollen throat or loss of voice, cough due to lung heat.
2. Stops bleeding in oral cavity or lips, bleeding gums associated with frostbite.

Ephedra
Warm and acrid to release the exterior

1. Wind cold excess, without sweating for common cold due to wind cold.
2. Circulates lung qi to stop coughing and wheezing.
3. Promotes urination for acute wind edema.

ephedra root
Stabilize and bind

1. stops sweating, for sweating due to qi or yin def and post partum sweating.

Ophiopogon root
Tonify yin

1. Moistens lung and nourishes yin for dry cough with thick difficult to expectorate sputum, or coughing up blood.
2. Tonifies Stomach yin and generates fluids for dry tongue and mouth.
3. Moistens intestines for constipation and irritability.
4. Clears the heart for irritability and insomnia due to yin deficiency.

Barley sprout, malt
Remove food stagnation

1. Remove food stagnation for carbohydrates and cereals.
2. Restrains lactation for women discontinuing nursing, or distended painful breasts.

Vitex fruit
Cool and acrid to release exterior

1. Disperses wind and clears heat for exterior wind heat , HA and eye pain.
2. Clears the eyes and head for red swollen painful eyes, tearing and blurry vision.
3. Drains damp and expels wind for stiffness, cramping, heaviness, and numbness in limbs.

Mirabilite, glauber's salt
Downward draining purgatives

1. Purges accumulation for constipation, and heat in the stomach and intestines.
2. Clears heat and drains fire for mastitis, appendicitis, conjunctivitis.

Myrrh
Regulate and invigorate the blood to relieve pain

1. Invigorates the blood and dispels blood stasis.
2. Promotes the healing of wounds. for pain and swelling

Peony root bark
Clears heat and cools blood

1. Eliminates heat from blood due to pyrogens for high fever disease, with epitaxis and spitting of blood.
2. Circulate blood to remove stasis for abdominal masses, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea, appendicitis, boils and carbuncles.

Chinese quince fruit
Dispel wind-dampness

1. Relaxes the sinews and unblocks channels for damp Bi, rheumatic pain, calf spasms.
2. Regulate St Qi and dispel dampness for food stagnation.

oyster shell
Calm the spirit and anchor the yang

1. Calms the spirit
2. Astringent for night sweat, spontaneous sweating, leukorhea, uterine bleeding, seminal emission.
3. soften and disperse hard lumps for scrofula, goiter, splenomegaly.
4. peptic ulcer.