Describe the Following Traditional Chinese Medicine Flashcards

Sweet, Bland, Cold

Heart, Small Intestines, Stomach

1. Clears heat and eliminates irritablility

2. Promotes urination and clears damp-heat

1. Heat patterns with irritability and thirst. Also used for mouth sores and swollen, painful gums due to heat in the Heart or Stomach channels.

2. Rough, scanty, painful urination. Especially useful for heat in the small Intestine channel with the above symptoms plus irritability and a dark-red tip on the tongue.

Sweet, Cold
Bladder, Heart, Stomach

1. Clears summer heat and generates fluids

2. Promotes urination and expels JaunIdice

1. Summer heat patterns, especially those with significant thirst and dark, scanty urine and dry heaves

2. Recently used as an adjunct in the treatment of icteric hepatitis

Bitter, Acrid, Cold

Gallbladder, Liver

1. Clears liver fire and brightens the eyes

2. Clears heat and dissipates nodules

3. Treats hypertension

1. Upward blazing of liver fire with red, painful, or swollen eyes, or headache and dizziness. Also used for eye pain that increases in the evening due to Liver deficiency, espcially when the eyes are neither red nor swollen.

2. Neck lumps or nodules, as in scrofia, lipoma, swollen glands, or goiter due to phlegm-fire. Also used for similar nodules in the inguinal canal and other parts of the body.

3. Recently used for hypertension, especially when accompanied by Liver fire or patterns of ascending yang.

Acrid, Salty, Cold

Heart, Stomach, Kidney

1. Clears heat and drains fire

2. Used for burns and sores

1. High fever, irritability, and thirst from heat in the qi level. Especially used for warm pathogenic diseases that occur during the summer

2. Applied topicallyfor burns and such problems as sore throat and oral ulcers

Bitter, Cold

Heart, Pericardium

1. Drains Heart fire

2. Stops bleeding and binds the essence

1. Warm-heat pathogen disease where heat collapses into the Pericardium channel, causing mental confusion or delirium. Also for insomnia or irritability (Shen) due to excessive Heart fire.

2. Used as a powder for vomiting of blood or spermatorrhea