Single Herbs
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Single Herbs
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Single Herbs
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Single Herbs

Warm Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

1. Promote Sweating

2. Facilitate Lung Qi

3.  Promote Urination

1. Release Exterior Syndrome -

2. Warm Meridians and Move Yang - (Warm Heart - Spleen - Kidney Yang)

3. Unblock Channels (Ob/Gyn and Upper Bi Syn)

4. Warm Middle Jiao

1. Mild Release Exterior

2. Move QI and Expand Chest

3. Harmonize Middle  - (Nausea-Morning Sickness)

4. Food Poisoning

1. Release Exterior-Expel wind-Headache

2. Vent Rashes & Alleviate Itching

3. Stop Bleeding

1. Release Exterior-Expel wind

2. Expel wind dampness - Release pain - Pi Syndrome

3. Expel wind - Relieve spasm - Lock jaw (can prevent wind)

1. Expel wind & disperse cold

2. Eliminate dampness & relieve pain -  Pi Syndrome upper

3. Guide Qi to Taiyang & Du - Occipital headache

1. Expel wind cold - Strong upward function - Trigeminal pain

2. Eliminate dampness - Relieve pain - Pi Syndrome - liver - Inguinal pain (strong upward movement)

3. Vertex H/A

1. Expel wind - Relieve pain - Yangming  H/A

2. Open nasal passages - Yellow turbid

3. Expel dampness & alleviate discharge - Leucorrhea

4. Reduce swelling & expel pus - Carbuncles

1. Expel wind & disperse cold - Underlying Yang Xu

2. Open nasal - Relieve pain

3. Warm lung - Transforming phlegm

4. Disperse cold - Shao Yin Headache - Inside head empty headache

1. Release exterior - Disperse cold

2. Warm middle Jiao - Stop vomit

3. Food poison - Reduce toxic

4. Harmonize Ying & Wei - Dates

1. Disperse cold - Unblock Yang

2. Relieve toxicity - Disperse clumps - Paste

1. Release exterior - Expel summer heat

2. Promote urination - Reduce swelling

3. Transform dampness

1. Dispel pathogenic wind & cold

2. Open nasal passage - Sinusitis

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Cool Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

1. Disperse wind heat

2. Clear head & eyes - Benefit throat

3. Vent Rashes

4. Sooth Liver Qi - Relieve depression

1. Disperse wind heat - Benefit sore throat

2. Vent Rashes

3. Detoxicity - Sore throat - Tonsillitus

4. Moisten intestines - Constipation

1. Disperse wind heat - Horse throat

2. Vent rashes & relieve itching - Anti allergy

3. Brighten eyes- Swollen - Pain - Allergy eyes

4. Extinquish internal wind - Spasm - Pediatrics

1. Release wind heat

2. Clear lung heat - Moisten lung

3. Nourish & clear liver - Brighten eyes

4. Cools Xue & stop bleeding - D/T Xue heat

1. Disperse wind heat
2. Clear liver - Brighten eyes
3. Sooth & calm liver & extinguish wind
4. Clear away heat & detoxify

1. Disperse wind heat
2. Clear head & benefit eyes

1. Release wind heat - Relieve fever
2. Saint Herb - Shaoyang disorder - Malaria
3. Liver Qi stagnation - Spread liver Qi
4. Elevate Yang Qi - Prolapse - Qi sinking

1. Relieve exterior & vent rashes
2. Clear away heat & detoxify - Sores - Teeth - Gums
3. Elevate Yang Qi - Sinking - Prolapse

1. Release wind heat - Neck & shoulder tension
2. Vent rashes - Vent measles
3. Produce Jin Ye - Relieve thirst - Diabetic patient
4. Elevate Yang & stop diarrhea - Middle Jiao
5. Modern - Treat hypertension

1. Treat eyes
2. Release exterior wind heat

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Clear Heat and Drain Fire

1. Qi level heat

2. Excess lung heat

3. Blazing stomach fire

4. External - Burns - Sores - Eczema

1. Qi level heat - high fever

2. Lung heat - Dry heat - Nourish Yin

3. Kidney Yin xu - Nourish Yin

4. Xu heat

1. Heat/Relieve irritability - Stuffy heat

2. Drain damp heat

3. Cool blood - Stop bleeding

4. External use

1. Clear heart heat
2. Promote urination - Clear damp heat

1. Liver eyes heat - Eye night pain
2. Nodules
3. Hypertension

1. Heart fire
2. Stop bleeding & bind essence

1. Generate fluid fever & throat
2. Lung heat - Abscess
3. Stomach heat
4. Lin Syndrome - 5 types urine
5. Vent rashes

1. Eye - Clear heat from eyes
2. Constipation
3. Hypertension

1. Liver fire eyes - Swollen - Itchy - Red
2. Hypertension

1. Eye problems

1. Clear heat - Spasms
2. Clear heat - Fire & toxicity
3. Benefit eyes
4. Reduce Swelling - Hemorrhoids -
5. Eye drops for eye problems

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Clear Heat and Dry Dampness

1. Clear damp heat in upper Jiao

2. Calm fetus

3. Clear excess heat

4. Assist - Damp heat - Middle/Lower Jiao

5. Sedate - High Blood Pressure

1. Heart fire
2. Same - Clear heat - Dry damp
3. Damp heat/Stomach heat in middle Jiao
4. Dysentery
5. Purge fire
6. Great Antibacterial

1. Xu heat - Clear Xu heat but not nourish Yin
2. Clear damp heat - Lower Jiao
3. External use - Toxic heat
4. Huang Bai & Zhi Mu (Brother & Sister to clear Xu heat & nourish Yin)

1. Clear damp heat - Liver - Gallbladder
2. Excessive liver heat - Wind

1. Clear heat & dry dampness - Lower Jiao
2. Parasite - Itching - External wash
3. Clear heat - Promote urination

1. Same clear damp heat
2. Bi Syndrome - Wind - Damp heat Bi

1. Xu heat
2. Infantile malnutrition

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Herbs That Cool The Blood

1. Cool Xue - Fire Toxicity

2. Clear heat - Arrest tremors

1. Cool Xue - Stop bleeding
2. Clear Xu heat - Nourish Yin & Jin Ye - Better than Zhi Mu
3. Nourish Yin - Liver & Kidney
4. Heart heat - Upward blazing fire
5. 2nd most common used herb

1. Cool Xue - Clear head
2. Lung Yin - Kidney
3. Drain fire - Detox - Mainly upper Jiao and throat
4. Soften noodles - Goiter - Lung

1. Clear heat - Cool Xue
2. Clear Xu heat
3. Move blood stagnation
4. Clear rising liver fire
5. External - Drain pus - Reduce swelling

1. Clear heat - Cool Xue
2. Blood heat - Hidden Xue heat
3. Vent rashes
4. Damp heat skin- Burns - Itching - External use
5. Moisten intestines - Unblock channels
6. Abortion

1. Yin Xu heat - Bone steaming disorder
2. Lung cough- Stop cough - Lung heat
3. Clear heat - Cool blood - Bleeding stuff
4. Kidney Yin Xu - Floating fire - Teeth

1. Clear heat - Cool Xue
2. Lin Syndrome
3. Detoxify

1. Clear  Xu heat-Steaming Bone
2. Eliminate infant fever - D/T Malnutrition
3. Stop bleeding - Xue heat
4. Malaria

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Herbs That Clear Heat & Detoxity

1. C/H - R/T - Anti-Inflammatory - External use

2. Expel wind heat - Flu - Cold - Yin Qiao San

3. Sage herb sores - Summer heat - Sore throat tea

4. Damp heat - Lower Jiao - Lin syndrome

1. C/H - R/T - Surface
2. Saint Herb for Sores
3. Expel wind heat
4. Disseminate nodules

1. C/H - R/T - Epidemic Febrile - Lung -Throat
2. Cool blood - Reduce blotches - Bleeding under skin

1. C/H - R/T -
2. Cool xue - Disperse swelling - Blotches- Tonsillitis
3. Clear liver heat - Purge fire - Anger - Red eyes

1. C/H - R/T - All warm febrile
2. Saint Herb - Throat pain - Prevent Tonsillitis

1. B/H - R/T
2. Breast abscess - External - Internal
3. Damp heat - Lower Jiao - Lin syndrome
4. Promote Lactation

1. C/H - R/T
2. Clear heat & fire toxicity - Painful boils
3. Painful hot sores

1. Abdominal pain D/T Intestinal abscess
2. Dispel blood stasis - Abdominal pain
3. Postpartum pain - D/T Blood stagnation

1. Clear H - R/T - Expel pus
2. Lung abscess - May have fever - Sputum yellow
3. Large intestine damp heat- Fish smell

1. Lin Syndrome
2. Fire toxic

1. C/H - R/T - Carbuncle
2. Modern - Antiviral - Anti Cancer
3. Damp heat

1. C/H - R/T
2. Saint Herb - Dysentery - Abdominal pain

1. Toxic heat - Chronic dysentery - Not used much
2. Malaria
3. Warts & corns - Special - Used mostly

1. C/H - R/T
2. Clear damp heat - Internal & external
3. Stop bleeding

1. C/H - R/T
2. Saint Herb - Appendicitis - Intestinal abscess
3. External skin
4. Blood stasis - Intestinal - Menses

1. C/H - R/T - External - 30 grams - Skin
2. Stop bleeding - Folk & research

1. C/H - R/T - Detox
2. Eliminate dampness - Joint pain
3. Damp heat skin

1. C/H - Detox - Special sore throat
2. Stop bleeding - Mostly external - Internal stomach ulcers

1. C/H - Detox
2. Sore throat - Very good tonsillitis-Severe sore throat
3. Lung heat damp
4. Others - Toothache - Bite & hold there

1. C/H - R/T - Intestinal abscess - Snake bite
2. Cancer - Anticancer
3. Resolve damp heat by urination - Jaundice - Lin Syndrome

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Downward Draining Herbs

1. #1 Purgative - Stagnation

2. Xue heat - 3-5 grams - Internal & External

3. Move Xue - Acute or chronic - wine

4. Stop bleeding

1. Help soften & purge hard feces
2. Clear heat - Reduce swelling
3. External use / Internal Use

1. Purge constipation
2. 1.5 - 3 grams - Tea use regular
3. 3 - 9 for immediate decoction

1. Mostly external use
2. Liver heat uprising - Headache - Dizzy - Vertigo
3. Kill parasites

1. Also called Ma Zi Ren - Formula
2. Constipation - #1 Moist laxative
3. Nourish Yin
4. Clear heat - Sores

1. Constipation - Food stay - Qi stay
2. Promote urination

1. Water retention
2. Unblock bowels
3. Parasites

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Herbs That Drain Dampness and Promote Urination & Clear Heat

1. Lin Syndrome - Damp heat Lower Jiao

2. Drain dampness - Stop diarrhea

3. Liver heat - Eyes - Blurred, Red, Etc.

4. Clear lung heat - Resolve phlegm

5. Promote movement - Infertility - Ovulation - Ejaculation

1. Lin syndrome
2. Clear summer heat
3. Astringe - Skin moist ulceration (baby rash)

1. Lin syndrome - Ht & SI heat
2. Unblock meridians - Insufficient Lactation
3. Don't use Guang Mu Tong, very toxic

1. Lin syndrome - Not strong
2. Promote lactation

1. Lin syndrome
2. Clear heat heart meridian

1. Lin syndrome - Little blood in urine
2. Break Xue stagnation - Lower Jiao
3. Unblock the bowels

1. Lin syndrome - Usually assist
2. Expel dampness & stop bleeding
3. Damp heat - Skin stuff
4. Common use for genital wash - External wash
5. Internal use for skin

1. Lin syndrome - Bloody Lin
2. Expel parasites - Stop itching
3. Head lice
4. External wash - Hair - Genital wash
5. Internal parasites

1. Lin syndrome - UB stone - Bloody
2. Helps stop urinary bleeding
3. Clear lung heat - Causes cough & asthma

1. Lin syndrome - Blood stone - Kidney stone
2. Lactation - Breast
3. Mastitis - Breast swelling
4. Moisten intestines - Unblock bowels

1. Cloudy Lin - Saint Herb for Gao Lin
2. Expel wind dampness - Bi syndrome
3. Clear damp heat skin - Eczema - Oozing - Pus - Internal

1. Assist for lung abscess or intestinal abscess
2. Damp heat - Lower Jiao - Leucorrhea

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Herbs That Promote Urination and Reduce Swelling and Drain Dampness

1. Promote urination - Drain damp
2. Strengthen tonify spleen
3. Calm the Shen/mind - Especially Fu Shen

1. Promote urination - Drain dampness
2. Saint Herb - #1 Drain damp

1. Promote urination
2. Damp heat in Lower Jiao
3. Drain kidney fire - Kidney Yin Xu
4. #2 Drain damp

1. Promote urination - Superficial edema
2. Warm febrile disease with damp
3. Wind damp - Bi syndrome - Cold or hot
4. Tonify spleen - Spasms - Hand & Feet
5. Lung abscess
6. Intestinal abscess

1. promote urination
2. Reduce swelling & detox
3. Mild - Clear damp heat

1. Promote urination - Lower Jiao Edema
2. Expel wind damp heat - Bi syndrome

1. Promote urination - Liver ascites
2. Cool Xue - Reduce toxicity - External & Internal
3. Anti-cancer - Liver ascites

1. Promote urination - Ascites - Lin syndrome
2. Jaundice (Gallbladder)
3. Xiao Ke - Tea
4. Stop bleeding

1. Transform phlegm - Chief herb
2. Saint Herb - 1st Choice (almost) Jaundice
3. Clear heat - Release exterior - Not much

1. Clear heat liver and gallbladder
2. Promote urination
3. Gall & Urinary stones
4. Lin syndrome
5. Kidney stones
6. Detox - Reduce swelling - External skin

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 Herbs that Clear Summer Heat

1. Summer Heat

2. Raise Spleen Yang

3. Stop bleeding - Lower Jiao

1. Summer heat

2. Promote urination & expel Jaundice

3. Mong lao - Over Rhine

1. Summer heat - Xiong Ru & Hou Po
2. Strengthen the spleen

1. Clear summer heat
2. Detox body

1. Summer heat
2. Clear Xu heat - Fever at night
3. Xue heat - Stop bleeding
4. Shaoyang - Malaria - Alternating

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Herbs that Expel Wind - Dampness - Cold

1. Wind damp cold - Bi Syndrome

2. Lower body specialty - Lumbar & lower back

3. Wind cold damp - Release exterior

4. Shaoyin headache - Toothache

1. Wind cold dampness - Bi Syndrome - 12 Meridians
2. Soften fish bones
3. MJ - Distention
4. Gout

1. Bi Syndrome - Relax sinews - Calf Muscle Spasms
2. Harmonize stomach & dampness
3. Reduce food stagnation

1. Assistant herb - Bi Syndrome - Hot and cold
2. Superficial edema
3. External wash - Itching
4. Toothache - Gargle

1. Wind cold dampness - Bi Syndrome
2. Harmonize stomach & turbid dampness - MJ
3. MJ turbidity
4. Muscle spasm

1. Bi Syndrome - Cramp - Pain - Wind cold dampness

1. Wind cold dampness - Bi Syndrome - Very strong
2. Dispel wind from skin - Rashes - Numbness - Itching
3. Dispel wind from sinews
4. Vertiligo - White skin blotches

1. Wind cold dampness - Bi Syndrome - Not very strong
2. Dispel wind from skin - Rashes - Numbness - Itching
3. Dispel wind from sinews
4. Vertiligo - White skin blotches

1. Dispel wind & disperse damp - Bi Syndrome
2. Traumatic injury
3. Can be used in wine

1. Dispel wind & disperse damp
2. Open nasal passage - Sinusitis - Nasal congestion
3. Dispel exterior wind cold - Not so strong

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Herbs that Expel Wind Dampness & Heat

1. Wind dampness heat - Bi Syndrome - Swollen - Hot joint

2. Deficient & heat - Night sweats - Tital fever

3. Jaundice - Not chief, but assist

4. Moisten intestines - Constipation

1. Wind damp heat - Bi Syndrome - Hot or Cold Bi

2. Especially Effective Upper Extremities

1. Wind damp heat - Bi Syndrome - Feeble feet
2. Numbness of 4 extremities
3. Transform damp heat - Feeble feet & legs, affects legs & atrophy
4. Clear lung Yang rising
5. Calm spirit - Lower blood pressure

1. Wind damp heat - Bi Syndrome
2. Cool Xue & reduce swelling

Herbs that Expel Wind Damp - Strengthen Tendons & Bones

1. Expel wind damp & strengthen tendons & bones - Bi Syndrome

2. Transform dampness - Reduce swelling

1. Dispel wind damp cold - Strengthen sinews & bones

2. Chronic long term - Kidney and Liver Xu

3. Usually older people - Cook in wine

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Cool Herbs that Transform Phlegm Heat

1. Descend lung Qi & expel phlegm

2. Treat phlegm heat - Add other phlegm cold

3. Release to exterior - Wind Heat

1. Clear heat & transform phlegm - Chronic cough

2. Nodules

3. Incompatible with Wu Tou/Fu Zi

1. Clear heat & transform phlegm - Acute severe cough
2. Nodules
3. Incompatible with Wu Tou/Fu Zi

1. Phlegm heat lung
2. Open chest - Whole works better
3. Nodules - Lungs - Breast - Intestines

1. Phlegm heat lung - Moisten lung
2. Open chest
3. Constipation - Moisten intestines

1. Clear lung & transform phlegm
2. Open chest

1. Clear lung heat - Transform phlegm heat
2. Moistens dryness & generates Jin Ye
3. Toxicity - Expel pus - Internal - External

1. Clear phlegm heat - Lung - Gallbladder - Stomach
2. Vomiting - D/T stomach - Heat (nausea)
3. Cool Xue & stop bleeding

1. Clear phlegm heat lung - Long Yin Xu
2. Soften nodules & hardness - Stubborn
3. Promote urination

1. Descend lung Qi - Clear phlegm heat lung
2. Nodules
3. Promote urination - Lin Syndrome/Leucorrhea
4. Control acidity - Stops pain

1. Reduce phlegm - Soften nodules - Hyperthyroidism
2. Assist & promote urination - Swelling
3. Hernia disorder

1. Reduce phlegm - Soften nodules - Hyperthyroidism
2. Assist & promote urination
3. Hernia disorder
4. Incompatible with Gan Cao

1. Clear & disseminate lung Qi - Sore throat - Hoarse voice
2. Unblock bowels - Mild
3. Assist rashes - Express

1. Nodules & masses - Cancers - Strong/Toxic
2. Uterus bleeding - Bleeding - Cool Xue
3. Reduce toxic of toxic swelling

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Warm Herbs that Transform Cold Phlegm

1. Dry Damp - Transform Phlegm
2. Descend Stomach Qi
3. Dissipate Nodules/Clumps

1. Dry Damp - Expel Phlegm - Phlegm Cold
2. Expel Wind Phlegm - Convulsions - Channels
3. External

1. Treat Wind Phlegm in Channels
2. Dry Damp - Transform Phlegm
3. External Wind

1. Descend Lung Qi - Expel Phlegm
2. Descend Stomach Qi - Vomit

1. Descend Lung Qi - Expel Phlegm
2. Very good - Stop cough - D/T
3. Phlegm Cold

1. Warm Lungs & Expel Phlegm - Hidden Phlegm
2. Disperse Clump/Move Qi

1. Open Lung & Descend Lung Qi
2. Cough & Cough with Congestion
3. Goes to Lung

1. Dispel Phlegm
2. Open Orifice - Revive Spirit
3. Disable Clump & Nodules
4. Unblock Bowels - Expel Worms
5. Dementia - Phlegm in Head

1. Draws out Toxicity - Expel puss with head on bumps or without heads

1. Phlegm Heart in Lung/Lu

No Pregnant women

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Aromatic Herbs That Transform Dampness

1. Resolve Dampness - In Middle Jiao
2. Harmonize Middle Jiao-Stop Vomit-Damp Retention
3. Release Exterior/Trans. Turbidity-Summer Damp-Heat Invasion

1. Transform Damp/Awaken Spleen-Stick mouth-Sweet taste
2. Release Exterior Summer Heat
3. Not as Strong as Huo Xiang

1. Key Herb-Move Qi Downward (Qi Level)
2. MJ Stagnation-Damp-Phlegm-Food
3. Lung-Warm, Transform Phlegm-Descend  Lung Qi, Stop Wheezing

1. Key Herb-Dry Dampness (Not as good phlegm)-MJ & Lower Jiao-Luekerrhea
2. Wind Damp Bi/Arthritis-Joints
3. Promote Sweating-Release Exterior (Nasal Sinusitus)
4. Improve Vision

1. MJ Retention-Damp cold by self
2. Stronger to transform damp then Cao Du Kou

1. MJ Retention-Damp cold by itself
2. Dry, but moves Qi less

1. Strong dry damp & dispose cold MJ
2. Malaria disorders-Chills & fever intermittent
3. Food Stagnation-Dissolve-Meat Stagnation

1. Transform dampness & move Qi
2. Warm spleen-Stop diarrhea
3. Calm fetus (Decoded later)-Crush first

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Herbs That Relieve Cough and Wheezing

1. Descend Lung Qi-Wheezing-Cough/Cold or Heat
2. Moisten Intestines
    

1. Release cough-Expel phlegm/Wind cold or heat
2. Better at phlegm cough

1. Relieve cough-Expel phlegm
2. Better with cough

Any type cough

1. Descend lung Qi-Dissolve phlegm-Stop cough-Relieve asthma-Open Chest-Good Wheezing
2. Moisten Intestines

1. Descend lung Qi & transform phlegm
2. Clear Lung heat
3. Descend stomach Qi-Clear stomach heat

1. Moisten lung-Stop cough-Dry cough-Lung Yin Xu-Good Moist & Lung Yin
2. Kill lice & parasites-Vagina, anal itch-Wash

1. Drain lung heat-Stop cough-Wheezing
2. Promote urination
3. Hypertension

1. Drain lung heat-Reduce phlegm-Excessive pattern lung heat-Calm asthma
2. Moves water-Reduce edema-Focus on chest, MJ, adominal-Edema-Upper middle (Not for lung Qi Xu-Need add tonics

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Herbs that Relieve Food Stagnation

1. Improve digestion & remove food accomp.-Very good-Meat & grocery food-When meat & alcohol (Damp heat)
2. Transform blood stagnation-OB/GYN-Abdominal pain
3. Chronic diaherra-Dysentary type
4. Hypertension (Chief)-Decrease cholesterol-Combo. Jue Ming Zi

1. Reduce food Yu & strengthen stomach-Help starch stagnation-Flour-Rice and Diary foods (Kids with poor digestion of dairy foods)
2. Inhibit lactation-Stop nursing (60 gr)-Mastitis-Distention breast-Chao Mai Ya
3. Facilitate Liver Qi-Soothe liver Qi slightly
4. Assistant herb for heavy herbs

1. Reduce food stagnation & strengthen SP & ST
2. Not used to inhibit lactation

1. Reduce food stagnation & harmonize stomach-Starchy food stagnation-Cold plus food stagnation-Cold in MJ-Can dry
2. Added/Assistant herb helps digest heavy herbs

1. Reduce food YU & strengthen-General food stagnation=All types stomach
2. Secure male essence & stop enuresis (bed wetting)
3. Transform hardness & dissolve stones-Any stones (GB-KD-UB)

1. Reduce food stagnation & transform accumulation-Food stagnation-Qi stagnation=By moving Qi
2. Descend Qi & reduce phlegm-Excess food/phlegm-Raw-Induce vomit-Remove phlegm-Dry fried-Constipation-Move Qi down
3. Hypertension
4. Descend lung Qi-Stop cough

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Herbs that Regulate Qi

1. Regulate Qi - Abdominal Stay - Moves Qi more downward - Stag. cold - Nausea, vomit, diarrhea
2. Dry Dampness & resolve phlegm - upper Jiao (phlegm/ Qi stag. - lung) - MJ stag.
3. Prevent stagnation with tonifying herbs

1. Spread liver Qi & breakup Qi Stag. - Different from Chen Pi
2. Dissipate clumps (Qi & phlegm) & reduce stagnation - Food - Qi & Xue - Phlegm
3. Raise blood pressure - not for hypertension
4. Focus on moving liver Qi  Stronger than Chen Pi

1. Move Qi down & reduce stagnation - MJ - Qi stagnation in spleen, stomach, intestines
2. Damp heat/Damp cold in lower Jiao - FU - LI - SI - Dysentery
3. Abdominal edema - Liver cirrhosis - Ascetes - Hepatitis

1. Break up Qi stagnation & reduce food accumulation
2. LJ - Qi stagnation in chest - Qi phlegm - Chest Bi
3. MJ - Qi - Food - phlegm stagnation - strong
4. LJ - Qi - Blood - phlegm - damp heat
5. Modern - Treats prolapsed 12 gr. & tonics - St/Rectal - Uterus prolapsed

1. Same as above - Break up Qi stagnation - #1 in chest
2. Move mild, better for patients with Xu & stagnation
3. Including prolapsed

1. Spread & regulate liver Qi - Soothe Liver Qi - Lu overreaction stomach
2. Ob/GYN - Qi disorders - PMS - Irregular cycles
3. Liver overacts on MJ - Use Xiang Fu with Mu Xiang

1. Move Qi to relieve pain - SP & ST - LV & GB
2. Concentration on MJ - Below diaphragm - Big area - Whole MJ
3. Focus on MJ  Qi Stagnation
4. Dysentery - Stagnation Qi intestines
5. Strengthen spleen & prevent stagnation - Tonify sp with other tonics

1. Move Qi, Relieve pain-Chest, Abdomen, OB/GYN-Hernia-Cold stagnation - Phlegm/Xue
2. Warm kidney - Moist warm LJ - Uang Qi Xu
3. Grasp lung Qi - Deep breath
4. Urination - Frego
5. OB/GYN - Use alot for XU cold menses stuff
6. Mostly - Lower Jiao cold Qi stay - Moving lower Qiao

1. Move Qi and relieve pain - warm - help cold stagnation
2. Has a sinking downward tendency - Rebellion Qi
3. Descend Qi and regulate MJ - Belching, Hiccups, Nausea
4. Aid kidneys to grasp Qi - Stronger than Wu Yao - Asthma (usually Kid Yang/Qi Xu 94.6% effective
5. (Hiccups - Granular powder cigarettes - 3 puffs - swollen stomach)

1. Move Qi and relieve pain - Chest - Chief - Phlegm cold Xue - Abdomen
2. Use on heart disorders - H&XU - H&Xue Xu - Blood, Qi, Stagnation, Open heart
3. Artery disease
4. Angina pain - H Blockages
5. Pills for under tongue

1. Unblock Yang Qi & disperse phlegm - Chest cold Bi
2. Like chest Yang Qi Xu - Invigorate Yang Qi - Any kind of chest Bi
3. Descend Qi and reduce stagnation - LI stagnation - Dysentery
4. Sticky stools - Dysentery - Bacteria Li stool - Abdominal pain

1. Spread and regulate liver Qi - Soothe liver Qi without damage Yin - L4 Qi stagnation
2. Harmonize stomach and strengthen spleen - Like Chen Pi - Except Chen Pi more damp - Fu shou move Qi
3. Dry dampness and transform phlegm - Chronic cough and copiusm - mild - light Qi stagnation

1. Same as above

1. Move Qi - Relieve pain - Liver overacting on stomach
2. Harmonize Xue and disperese stasis
3. Menses stuff
4. Any blood stagnation - Trauma, etc. - Mild but moving
5. Breast mastitsis - Granules with wine - Crush fresh into paste

1. Move Qi & alleviate pain - Liver Qi stagnation with heat
2. #1 relief Hyperchondria pain
3. Kill parasites - Round worms - Tapeworms - Scapes - Tenia - Lice
4. AKA - Jin Ling Zi ( small toxicity)

1. Expand Chest and benefit diaphragm - Concentrate moving Qi
2. Calm the fetus and stop vomiting

1. Descend Qi and stop hiccups - Special - Helps diaphragm muscle spasms

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Herbs that Regulate Blood - Cool Blood

1. Cool Xue stop bleeding - Work whole area-Anywhere
2. Reduce swelling and repair sores and healing
3. Toxic heat sores - Infected sores

1. Cool Xue stop bleeding - Anywhere but good at blood in urine - Lin syndrome - Heart lin bleeding
2. Blood in urination

1. Cool blood - Stop blood (D/T blood heat)-Everywhere
2. Good at LJ bleeding - Uterus and Lower Jiao - Hemorrhoids
3. Clear heat - Generate flesh - Sores - Burns - Toxic heat sores - Shingles - Any toxic heat sores (50 - 100 grams) - Soak on rag and put on place - Can use granular mix with aloe jelly - vasoline

1. Cool Xue stop bleeding - LJ - Hemorrhoids
2. Clear liver heat

1. Lower Jiao Bleeding - Hemorrhoids
2. #1 Key herb for hemorrhoids

1. Cold Xue stop bleeding - Wine application
2. Stop cough and expel phlegm - Phlegm heat in lung
3. External use - Fresh ones, blender and mix with egg whites - Shingles - Pain - Help shorten time (Hair wash) - Skin - Burns, etc.

1. Cool Xue - Stop bleeding - Nose bleed - Cough Fue - Vomit - Lung - storm BL
2. Clear heat promote urination - Heat Lin Syndrome
3. Clear stomach and lung heat (Children eat as fruit)

1. Cool Xue - Stop bleeding - Purpura - Skin - Not raise
2. Calm the fetus - Threatened miscarriage - Uterus bleeding during pregnancy - Stop bleeding
3. Stop uterine bleeding during pregnancy
4. Difficult urination - Unblock water passage (Edema)
5. Cool Blood & relieve toxicity

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Herbs that Stop Bleeding & Dissolve Blood Stasis

1. Stop bleeding - Transform Blood stasis - Any kind uterine bleed - without cause stasis
2. Reduce swelling and relieve pain - Trauma - Swelling - Ulceration - Yuan Nan Bai yao
    

1. Cool blood stop bleeding *without causing blood stagnation - Any bleeding - Clear heat
2. Invigorate blood - Disperse blood stasis without causing stasis
3. Bi Syndrome - Mix with alcohol

1. Stop bleeding without causing Blood stasis
2. Common use - 1 Lin Syndrome - 2 painful period OB/GYN
3. Famous OB/GYN formula - Shi Xiao San - Sudden smell - Fresh eczema

(Fry to deep color - to stop bleeding/raw to break stasis

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Herbs Astringe & Stop Bleeding

1. Stops bleeding - Sticky - Good digestive ulcer - Nose bleed powder - Lung and stomach bleeding
2. Reduce swelling - Generate flesh - Dry cracked hands - Paste
3. Add to formula - To lengthen digestion
   (Don't need to cook - powder)
4. Contra - Lung abscess
5. Incompatible with Wu Tou Fu Zi

1. Astringe - Stop bleeding - Any kind - Neutral - Can add to any herb
2. Relieve diarrhea - Dysentery - Chronic
3. Strengthen body - Kill parasite - Vagina
4. Modern - Esophageal cancer

1. Bind and stop bleeding - Stool - Uterus - Nose
2. Charred used in clinic usually

1. Astringe and stop bleeding - Especially uterus and nose bleed
2. Promotes urination - Seldom used this way - Bloody Lin - Hair
3. Generate flesh - relieve sores
4. Can easily cause vomit  - No weak stomach

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Herbs that Stop Bleeding by Warming Meridians

1. Stop bleeding D/T Yang Xu by warm meridians - Uterine - Cheng Ren
    

1. Warm uterus - Stop Bleeding - D/T Xu cold - Very good
2. Dispel cold - Alleviate pain - Ob/Gyn - Bi Syndrome
3. Calm the fetus - Threatened miscarriage
4. Eliminate dampness - Stop itching - External shingles - Eczema - Feet fungus

1. Warm the blood - Stops bleeding - D/T Spleen QiXu - Mostly - Nose - Stool - Uterine
2. Stop vomit - Stop diarrhea
3. Replace with Chi Shi Zhi

Herbs that Invigorate Blood

1. Invigorate Blood - Move Qi - Qi & Xue Yu - Good
2. Expel wind - Relieve pain - H/A - Wind damp - Migraines
3. Bi-Syndrome
4. #1 most important herb for H/A
    

1. Natural Aspirin
2. Invigorate blood and aleviate pain - H/A -Tooth - Muscle - Bone Menie
3. Move Qi & relieve pain - Dissolve Qi Yu in Xue - Xue Yu in Qi Level

1. Invigorate blood & move Qi - Relieve pain - Liver Qi stagnation - Hypo pain
2. Emotional disorder - H fire/Liver Qi - mania
3. GB damp heat - Jaundice - Key herb
4. Good herb tx depresssion - High cholesterol (Pain D/T Liver Qi stagnation)

1. Invigorate blood - Dissolve Xue stasis - OB/GYN - Move blood and tonify herb without hurt Xue
2. Relieve pain P/T Xue stagnation - Chest pain
3. Clear heat - Emotional - Irriatibilty - Depression
4. Nourish Xue - Calm spirit
5. Cool Xue - Reduce abssess

1. Invigorate & tonify Xue - Relieve pain - Sinew - Channels Jing Luo
2. Key herb - Xue Qi Yu with Xue Qi Xu - OB/GYN
3. Sinews and channels - Unblock channels - OB/GYN
4. Modern - Low white blood cells - Luekemia

1. Invigorate blood & regulate menses - D/T Qi Xue Yu
2. Move Qi & alleviate pain - Chest - Hypo - pain
3. Expel wind & move Xue - Shoulder Bi Syndrome - Frozen shoulder

1. Invigorate blood - OB/GYN - Bilateral - P/T Xue Yu - Protistitis - Painful period - D/T Xue Yu (Masses)
2. Promote urination - Reduce swelling - Not commonly used - Large dosage (glomerulonephratis)
3. Clear heat resolve toxicity - Facial Mask - External use - Sores, etc.

1. Invigorate Xue & regulate meridians - Include Traumatic OB/GYN
2. Move Qi - Relieve pain (Bleeding during intercourse - Warm frebile disease - In low dose harmonize blood - Blood & Qi disharm)

1. Invigorate blood and break up blood stasis - OB/GYN - P/R stagnation - Lung/LI Absess
2. Moisten intestine - Relieve constipation

1. Invigorated blood and expel blood stasis - Chuan Niu Xi
2. Tonify liver and Kidney - Strengthen bones & sinew - Huai Niu Xi
3. Clear damp heat lower Jiao - Lin syndrome - Luekkehera - 4 magical powder
4. Guide down - a. Fire or heat go down - b. Guide Qi Xue down - c. Nosebleed, hiccups, etc. - d. GB & KD stones - e. Assist dead fetus

1. Invigorate blood - Menses
2. Move blood stagnation - dispel blood stasis
3. Promote urination - Not to strong
4. Not toxic

1. Move blood - Relieve pain - Better abdominal pain
2. Dispel Xue stasis - Move blood with cause Xue stasis
3. Childhood malnutrition impairment - Stay stop digestion, this helps stagnation
4. Wrap (incomplete Ren Shen)

1. Invigorate blood and channels
2. Reduce swelling - Prostititis - Breast - Famous
3. Promote lactation

1. Move Qi blood - Open MJ & unblock channel
2. Open and unblock herb
3. Promote urination D/T blockage (no so common)

1. Invigorate blood, dispel stasis
2. Clear heat cool Xue - Goes to blood level - Frebile disease, blood under skin - Very moving herb - Patient has crimson tongue
3. Clear liver fire

1. Invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis
2. Clear heat - Resolve toxicity
3. Drain heat downward, transform phlegm, stop cough

1. Invigorate channels - Expel wind
2. Expel phlegm
3. Benefit breasts

1. Dispel blood stasis - Alleviate pain - Traumatic injury - Sprain
2. Stop bleeding
3. Generate flesh - Help ulcers - skin
4. Powder is best way - Chest stasis & abdominal pain - Resin from tree - Heals internal injuries - External bleeding move - Chronic sores or skin ulcerations - Powder external

1. Treat traumatic injury - Sprain - Fracture - Contusion - Post partum abdominal pain - Internal bleeding move (Invigorate Xue - Reduce swelling)
2. Low dose can harmonize Xue - High dose can break stasis
3. Stop bleeding

1. Breakup and drives up blood stasis - Wide variety - Internal masses, tumors, cancers - Stubborn abdominal pain - Painful periods
2. Renew sinews and bones - For traumatic injury - Toxic - Strengthen -preserve in wine
3. Breakup stubborn masses/stasis - Powder - Famous to put on tongue for numbness

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Herbs that Scatter Blood Stagnation & Breakup Masses

1. Breakup blood stagnation - Good at moving Qi - Qi Xue stagnation - Very strong
2. Dissolve accumulation - Chest and Abdomen congestion - Food stagnation, no apetite
3. Power is stronger - Modern cancer
    

1. Break up blood stagnation - Better at moving Xue
2. Dissolve accumulation - Qi/Xue/Phlegm - Accomp. - Move chest congestion
3. Not to be used during pregnancy

1. Break up and drives out blood stasis - Strong
2. Abdominal lumps - Pain - No period
3. Break up immovable masses
4. Break up phlegm masses & nodules - Treat stubborn asthma
5. Slightly toxic - Use more as a powder

1. Invigorate Qi & Xue - Traumatic injury (mild) - (Little more Qi)
2. Relax sinews and bones - muscle
3. Reduce swelling

1. Invigorate Qi and Xue ( little more Xue)
2. Relax sinews & bones - muscle
3. Reduce swelling - Generate flesh
4. More allergeric

1. The shell of the ant eater
2. Stubborn - Cancer - Masses - Valuable
3. Insufficient Lactation

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Herbs that Warm Interior

1. Yang collapse - Reuse - #1 herb for this
2. Supplement fire/assist Yang
3. Expel excess cold - Relieve pain
4. Must precook
    

1. Warm middle Jiao - Disperse cold - Fresh saint herb - Love the Mj
2. Rescue the Yang - Expel internal - "Sini Teng"
3. Warms the lungs - Transform phlegm cold
4. Warm meridians - Stop bleeding

1. Warm kidney - Ming men fire - Help activate kidney yang - Mainly lower Jiao
2. Dispel cold - Relieve pain - Cold stagnation hernia
3. Lead fire back to its source - Xu fire - Kidney
4. Encourage generation Qi & blood - Help tonic herbs absorb

1. Warm the liver - Dispel cold/Pain - Hernia pain - Cold in Jie Yin channel - Vertex head arch - Internal cold - Liver channel
2. Warm the middle - Stop vomiting - Nausea - D/T cold
3. Diarrhea - Fortify Yang - Morning Diarrhea
4. Lead fire downward

1. Hernia pain - Cold liver
2. Stomach pain - Regulate Qi - Harmonize stomach

1. Warm the middle Jiao - Relieve pain D/T cold - Mostly excessive cold

1. Warms middle Jiao - Direct Qi downward
2. Hernia - Liver cold
3. Dispel cold - Repigastric area
4. Warm kidney - Kidney yang Xu
5. Antagon with Yu Jin

1. Warm the middle
2. Kills parasites - Alleviate pain

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Herbs that Tonify Qi

1. Replenish primary Qi - Yuan Qi - #1 herb Qi tonify Yuan Qi
2. Spleen Qi and lung Qi Xu - symptoms
3. Heart Qi Xu - Calm shen with correct dosage
4. Generate Jin/Ye - By tonify Qi - Produce Jin Ye - Impotence
5. Tonify Xue - By tonifying Qi
6. Bleeding - By tonify spleen Qi - "Du Shen Tong"
    

1. Compare with Ren Shen - Not as strong Qi tonify as Ren shen - But can nourish Yin - Jin Ye - A cooler herb - 1 capsule a day

1. Tonify Mj - Qi - Middle Jiao Qi Xu
2. Tonify lung Qi - Cough/Asthma - Easy catch cold
3. Generate Jin Ye - By tonify Qi
4. Help release exterior - By strengthen the lung Qi - Wei Qi - (Comparative) - (Replacement - Ren Shen)

1. Tonify splenn Qi - Spleen Qi Xu signs
2. Generate Jin Ye - Jin Ye Xu - Dry cough/Thirsty after Febrile Disease (Lung Qi where here is Jin Ye Xu) - China more young people use)

1. Popular tonify immune system
2. Tonify Qi -(Goes to MJ - Strengthen MJ-Digestion - Spleen Qi Xu) (Xue disorder - Stop bleed) - Tonify blood - *Post stroke - Lowers blood sugar)
3. Tonify wei - Immune/defense - Tonify lung Qi
4. Promote urination/Reduce swelling
5. Chronic alceration (Like diabetic patients) - Internal
6. Can use large doses

1. Tonify spleen Qi - MJ Qi - Specialty
2. Dry dampness - Promote urination (Also tonify MJ to deal with dampness) - Wind cold damp Bi - Edema - MJ dampness - D/T - MJ Xu
3. Spontaneous sweating - Stop sweating
4. Calm the fetus - Nausea - MJ issues - Pain - Fatigue - Cause of spleen Qi (D/T spleen Qi Xu) (Dry fry - Tonify spleen Qi)

1. Tonify Qi & nourish Yin
2. Strengthen lung Qi & Yin Xu/Spleen Qi Xu - Kidney Qi
3. Consolidate essence & bind
4. Very good for Diabetes - Lower blood sugar - Not for masses - Not for excess disorders)

1. Tonify Qi - Spleen Qi - Heart Qi - irregular pulse beat - Arrithymia - Palpations/SOB
2. Dispel phlegm & stop cough - Use tablets - Can hold 4 small tablets in mouth before beverage - Stop cough
3. Clear heat & detoxify - Detoxify the toxins of 100 herbs - Good for hereb poison, not so much food poison
4. Moderate spasms & relieve pain
5. Harmonize action of herbs in prescriptions - Example: Can use in Da Huang to moderate its strength - Can lift up - Slow down - Strengthen - Weak

1. Tonify MJ & Qi - Qi - MJ - St/Sp - MJ Qi Xu - Xue - Nourish - Calm spirits - Nourish Heart Qi Xu
2. Nourish Xue - Calm shen - Heart Qi & Xue
3. Harmonize property of other herbs - Often used with Shen Jiang - 2 pieces each - Help harmonize formula - Aides digestion - Harmonize Ying & Wei - Exterior

1. Tonify spleen Qi & Yin
2. Moisten lung - Lung Qi & Yin Xu
3. Tonify kidney essencce
4. Diabetes - Decrease blood sugar
5. Mixed with moving herbs - Chen Pi

1. Tonify spleen Qi
2. Tonify Mj - Alleviate pain - Xiao Jian Zhong Tang - Gui Zhi Tang plus sugar
3. Moisten lungs - Stop cough - Lung Yin Xu cough

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Herbs that Tonify Blood

1. Tonify blood & nourish Yin - Menses - Dizzy - Palpations - Insomnia
2. Nourish Yin - Liver & Kidney Yin Xu
3. Wasting & thirsting disease
4. Replenish essence & marrow - Withered - Dry - Dizzy - Premature aging
    

1. Prepared - Zhi Shou Hu - Tonify essence & blood, blacken hair - Secure essences & stop leakage - Sperm - Luekherra
2. Raw - Treat malaria - Detox. - Sores - Moisten intestines - Constipation - Expel wind from skin by raising Xue (Mr. Hu - Family lives forever)

1. Tonify Xue - Invigorate Xue - Dispense cold - Bi Syndrome
2. Regulate menses & relieve pain
3. Moisten intestines - Constipation - D/T Xue Xu
4. Reduce swelling - Expel pus - Generate flesh - Promote circulation
5. Treat coughs - D/T - W/C

1. Tonify Xue regulate menses - OB/GYN - Can use up to 50 grams - #1 herb to nourish liver blood
2. Calm liver - Relieve pain - Liver wind D/T Xue Xu
3. Preserve Yin/Adjust Ying & Wei
4. Balance hormones

1. Tonify blood & stop bleeding - Menses - Cough - Nose
2. Nourish Yin - Moisten dryness - Especially long term
3. Very cloying - Easy - Give bad breath - Lack app.
4. Dissolve in boiling decoction at end

1. Tonify liver & kidney - Slow to tonify
2. Benefit essence - Brighten eyes - Dry (night) - Macular degeneration - Tea
3. Enrich Yin - Moisten lungs
4. Hypertension Tea - Jin Yin Hua

1. Tonify blood - Enrich Yin
2. Moisten intestines
3. Insomnia

1. Tonify heart/Spleen, Blood and calm spirit - Good student herb - Because they tax the heart and spleen

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Herbs that Tonify Yang

1. Tonify Kidney Yang - All kidney Yang stuff
2. Tonify Du Mai - Essence/Blood also - Strengthen sinews/Bones - Cold on DU/Or weak
3. Strengthen tendons & bones - Kidney tonify - Helps bones
4. Regulate chong - Ren - Stabilize Dai
5. Tonify/Nourish Qi/Xue - Help tx chronic ulceration D/T Kidney Qi
    

1. Tonify Kidney yang & lung Qi - Great for Asthma - Several functions : Kidney yang xu - Diarrhea - Libido
2. Replenish essence & blood - animal product does this

1. Tonify kidney and strengthen Yang - Not as strong as Lu Rong - More gradual & evenly tonify - Good for several functions
2. Tonify Lung yin - Relieve Asthma - Dry - Blood cough
3. Stop bleeding

1. Nickname - Ren Shen in desert
2. Tonify Kidney Yang- not as hot as 1st  2 herbs - Sex, etc.
3. Tonify essence & blood - Not a pure Yang tonic - Can help Yin
4. Warm the uterus - Favorite uterus Xu cold - Infertility - Excess bleed
5. Moisten intestines - Yang Qi Xu up to 30 grams

1. Tonify kidney Yang - All the stuff - Pus - Sex - Usually use this with Rou Cong Rong
2. Replenish the essence & blood - Sinews - Maybe post stroke
3. Moisten intestines -Constipation Kidney Yang Xu with Jin Ye Xu & Qi Xu

1. Sex hormone - Libido
2. Tonify Kidney Yang - Famous to improve Libido
3. Expel wind cold dampness  Bi syndrome
4. Can tonify Yang & Yin - Liver Yin - Help Yang rising

1. Tonify Kidney Yang
2. Strengthen tendons & sinews - Weak joints - Ankles - Knees - By tonify kidney Yang
3. Expel wind damp cold - Bi syndrome

1. Tonify Kidney Yang - Strengthen back and knees
2. Warm the lung - Help kidney grasp Qi
3. Moisten intestines - Constipation D/T - Jin Ye Xu or Xue Xu (Helps prevent dampness) - Use in conjee

1. Tonify kidney & Yang - Good for cold pain in back and knee - Impotence
2. Consolidate essence - Preserverance - Incontinence - Leaking
3. Warm spleen & stop diarrhea - Morning diarrhea
4. Tonify Kidney - Hold Qi to stop Asthma
5. Recently - Alopecia - Psoriasis - Vitiligo

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Warm Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

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Warm Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

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Warm Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

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Warm Acrid Herbs that Release to the Exterior

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