Question | Answer |
Bai Zhi most often treats which type of headache? | Frontal *Yangming* |
Which exterior releasing herb has acrid and warm properties? | Ma Huang |
Can stop bleeding and relieve exterior syndromes by dispelling pathogenic wind? | Jing Jie |
The most appropriate herb to treat a patient suffering from Wind-Heat attack with a sore and itchy throat is: | Niu Bang Zi |
Releases the exterior, raises Yang Qi, and harmonizes Shaoyang? | Chai Hu |
According to TCM herbal theory, acrid (pungent) substances have the function of: | Dispersing |
Which herb is most appropriate to treat a Taiyang headache? | Qiang Huo |
Correct way to use aromatic herbs in a decoction is to: | Add to decoction less than 10 minutes before end |
The most appropriate type of lead-free pot when preparing decoctions is: | Ceramic |
A possible side effect of Ma Huang is: | Tremors |
Should be wrapped when decocted? | Xin Yi Hua |
Xi Xin should NOT be prescribed to patients in dosages larger than: | 3g |
Counteracts seafood poisoning? | Zi Su Ye |
Can both disperse exterior wind and internal wind? | Fang Feng |
Huang Lian enters which Channels? | Heart, Large Intestine, Liver, Stomach |
Most likely to be used to treat itchy skin due to Damp-Heat? | Di Fu Zi |
Most beneficial to a patient who is irritable? | Zhi Zi |
Eliminates pathological Heat from the Blood? | Sheng Di Huang |
Reduce Lower Jiao damp-heat, and the pattern marked by feet and knees swelling and pain, weakness and atrophy in lower extremities, Lin syndrome, leukorrhea, and damp lesions of skin in lower body? | Huang Bai |
Very bitter and cold, contraindicated in cases of Spleen and Stomach deficient cold, and should not be used in long-term and overdose? | Long Dan Cao |
Summer heat, damp-heat, Shao Yang heat, and Yin Deficiency heat? | Qing Hao |
Clears Lung heat and benefits throat; also, transforms phlegm and can be used for coughing, wheezing with copious sputum, especially due to Lung heat? | She Gan |
Eliminates Heat and stops damp-heat diarrhea or dysentery; clears heat in the Liver channel and clears the eyes; also it can treat painful obstruction from heat? | Qin Pi |
Benefit the throat? | all: Shan Dou Gen, Xuan Shen, and She Gan |
Sores from Damp-Heat or Wind-Heat, including scabies, rubella, and other rashes? Especially useful in cases of profuse yellow pus and pruritus? | Bai Xian Pi |
Which Clear Heat and Toxicity herb can soften nodules? | Lian Qiao |
Most appropriate to treat a phlegm-heat cough? | Zhu Ru |
Toxic internally when used in a raw or untreated form? | Ban Xia |
Moistens the Lung, stops coughing, expels parasites, and kills lice? | Bai Bu |
Expels phlegm, redirects Qi downward, and stops coughing? | Bai Qian |
Transforms phlegm and dissipates goiters? | Hai Zao |
Tian Nan Xing is especially effective for? | Wind-Phlegm in meridians |
Ban Xia and Tian Nan Xing have similar functions, but Ban Xia is especially effective for? | Phlegm-Damp in Stomach and Spleen |
Bai Jie Zi, Bai Qian, and Su Zi each? | stop wheezing AND transform phlegm |
Clears Lung heat, moistens Lung, and nourishes Lung Yin? | Chuan Bei Mu |
Treats voice loss? | Jie Geng |
Su Zi is especially effective at? | Redirects Qi downward and dissolve phlegm |
Indicates the use of Xing Ren? | Many kinds of cough and wheezing syndromes |
Needs to be placed in a filter for decoction? | Both Xuan Fu Hua AND Kuan Dong Hua |
Treats wheezing with swelling and wheezing with shortness of breath caused by Excess Lung-heat syndrome? | Sang Bai Pi |
Treats cough with copious sputum accompanied by a feeling of oppression in the chest and a sore throat or loss of voice? | Jie Geng |
Treats tremors, seizures, or stroke induced by Heat-Phlegm? | Processed Tian Nan Xing w/ bile |
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