Review Of Herbs And Formula

Herbs and formulas Jiang hua

PROPERTIES AND ACTIONS OF CHINESE MEDICINAL HERBS • •

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The reason that Chinese medicinal herbs can prvent and treat disease is due to their various internal natures. The properties and actions of Chinese mecicinal herbs refer to their natures and effects relating to treatments, and they are the essential basis of the analyses and clinical usage of Chinese medicinal herbs ,and are also summarized in medical practice and on the basis of the theories of yin-yang , zangfu, meridian, and therapeutic principles of traditional Chinese medicine,etc.. The theories of their properties are mainly summarized as the four natures and five flavors,floating and sinking,meridian tropism,and toxity,etc..

Natures of herbs cold , hot , warm and cool ,are also called

Four natures

the four natures or four xing in TCM

Shi gao

Gan jiang Pei lan Bo he

Identity

Xiao hui xiang

• We should know that treating diseases with Chinese medicinal herbs is to make use of their cold or hot nature to correct the phenomena of overabundance of heat or cold in the body to restore them as much as possible to the normal state. Therefore ,on the base of syndrome differentiation , you must distinguish heat of cold nature of disease, and have a good understanding of the cold or hot property of Chinese medicinal herbs,and then selectivel apply corresponding medicinal herbs so that you can achieve the desired results. Such as Ganjiang( Rhizoma Zingiberis) and Huanglian (Rhizoma Coptidis) can both be used to treat diarrhea, but the former is hot in nature, therefore , used to treat diarrhea of cold type while the latter cold in nature is indicated for diarrhea of heat type. If you don’t consider their properties,cold or hot, when you apply medicinal herbs to treat heat or cold syndromes respectively with hot or cold medicineal herbs , you cannot achieve desired results of treatment and even bring avout harmful results.

Five flavors（五味） • The five flavors of Chinese medicinal herbs refer to the five different tastes, pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty, which can be tasted by the tongue. With the development of the theoty dealing with the medicinal properties , some flavors are summarized out of clinical actions of Chinese medicinal herbs, therefore , there is a little difference between the flavors of medicinal herbs and the tastes got by tongue. The Chinese medicinal herbs with same flavor mostly possess similar actions , and the medicinal herbs with different flavors show different actions in the treatment, which are shown as follows.

FIVE FLAVORS Ma huang

Mang xiao

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Pei lan

Gan cao Wu mei

lifting,lowering,floating and sinking properties • Lifting,lowering,floating and sinking refer to four different directions of actions of Chinese medicinal herbs in human body when they are taken. • Varying diseases often appear to bear a tendency to move upward , downward, towards the exterior or the interior. And for the state of a disease, they are distinguished into those due to adverse ascending of pathogenic factors and those due to invasion of pathogenic facors sinking deep;y into the interior and lowering down to the lower energizer. While treating a disease, according to its different cause, a doctor should select corresponding medicinal herbs and make the best use of their lifting,lowering,floating and sinking actions to help dispel pathogenic factors, correct the disorder of the body’s functions and restore them to the normal.

• The lifting and floating medicinal herbs moving in ascending and outward directions generally exert the effects of invigorating splenic yang, reliebing superficies, dispelling wind and cold, and resuscitation, etc.; • the lowering and sinking medicinal herbs moving in descending and inward directions generally have the effects of clearing away heat, lowring the adverse flow of qi, purging, promoting diuresis, tranquilizing the mind, suppressing the hyperactive yang and stopping wind, and astringing, etc..

Diagram 01.four natures • cold – cool belonging to yin , and warm – hot to yang , wheras cold and cool or hot and warm are only different ,to some degrees , in their variance . • Generally speaking, Chinese medicinal herbs with cold – cool nature can clear away heat,purge fire and eliminate toxic material, which are mainly used for heat- syndrome ; Chinese medicinal herbs with warm –hot nature have the action of expelling cold and restoring yang, which are mainly used for cold –syndrome .

02. Five flavors

NATURES

03.Four properties lifting,lowering,floating and sinking

FORMULA 1

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(Du shen tang )

(Er xian tang)

( San ao tang) (San zi yang qin tang)

(si junzi tang) (si wu tang) (si ni san ) (si ni tang)

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( wu wei yi gong san) (wu wei xiao du yin)

(liu wei di huang wan)

(qi wei bai zhu yin)

(ba wei shen qi wan) (ba zheng san) (ba zhen tang)

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(jiu wei qiang huo wan)

(shi quan da bu wan)

TONIFY ZHENG QI • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Qi: Lung qi: Yu ping feng san Spleen qi: Buzhong yi qi wan Kidney qi: Shen qi wan Blood Heart blood ：Zhi gan cao tang Liver blood ：Si wu tang Both qi and blood Dang gui bu xue tang Gui pi wan Essence Yang jing zhong yu tang ( si wu tang –chuanxiong, +shan zhuyu, 3 months) Shou tai wan ( Tusizi , sang ji sheng , xu duan ,e jiao) secure the fetus . Jin : Zeng ye tang

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Ye: Da bu yin wan

EXPELL EVILL QI • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Wind External wind :jiu wei qiang huo tang Internal wind : zhen gan xi feng tang Coldness External coldness: Ma huang tang Internal coldness : Li zhong tang Summerheat : Huoxiang zheng qi san, xin jia xiang ru yin Dampness External dampness : Qiang huo shen shi tang Internal dampness: Longdan xie gan tang Dryness : Zengye tang , qing zao jiu fei tang Fire Excess fire: Huanglian xie xin tang , danggui longhui wan Deficiency fire: zhibai di huang wan , bai he gu jin tang Toxicity : Xian fang huo ming yin, Huang lian jie du tang, yanghe tang, tuoli toudusan

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Phlegm: basic formula: er chen tang, can be alternated according to the phlegms situation: cold, heat, deficiency,dry, damp, old)

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Water : Xiao qing long tang, Zhen wu tang

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Blood stasis:Tao hong si wu tang，xuefu zhuyu tang, shaofu zhu yu tang.

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parasitic disease (roundworm), dyspepsia (bao he wan, zhi shi dao zhi wan) Stagnation of qi (Xiao yao san)

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