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Herbs and formulas

Jiang hua



• 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..

PROPERTIES AND ACTIONS OF CHINESE

MEDICINAL HERBS



Natures of herbs

Shi gaoFour natures

Identity

cold , hot , warm and cool ,are also called

the four natures or four xing in TCM

Xiao hui xiang

Bo he

Gan jiang

Pei lan



•

We should know that treating diseases with Chinese medicinalherbs is to make use of their cold or hot nature to correct thephenomena of overabundance of heat or cold in the body torestore them as much as possible to the normal state.Therefore ,on the base of syndrome differentiation , you mustdistinguish heat of cold nature of disease, and have a goodunderstanding of the cold or hot property of Chinese medicinal

herbs,and then selectivel apply corresponding medicinal herbsso that you can achieve the desired results. Such asGanjiang( Rhizoma Zingiberis) and Huanglian (RhizomaCoptidis) can both be used to treat diarrhea, but the former ishot in nature, therefore , used to treat diarrhea of cold typewhile the latter cold in nature is indicated for diarrhea of heattype. If you don’t consider their properties,cold or hot, whenyou apply medicinal herbs to treat heat or cold syndromesrespectively with hot or cold medicineal herbs , you cannotachieve desired results of treatment and even bring avoutharmful results.



Five flavors 五味

•

The five flavors of Chinese medicinal herbs refer tothe five different tastes, pungent, sweet, sour, bitterand salty, which can be tasted by the tongue. Withthe development of the theoty dealing with themedicinal properties , some flavors are summarized

out of clinical actions of Chinese medicinal herbs,therefore , there is a little difference between theflavors of medicinal herbs and the tastes got bytongue. The Chinese medicinal herbs with sameflavor mostly possess similar actions , and the

medicinal herbs with different flavors show differentactions in the treatment, which are shown as follows.



FIVE FLAVORS

Ma huang

Identity

Wu mei

Gan cao

Mang xiao

Pei lan

f f



lifting,lowering,floating and

sinking properties• Lifting,lowering,floating and sinking refer to four different

directions of actions of Chinese medicinal herbs in humanbody when they are taken.

• Varying diseases often appear to bear a tendency to moveupward , downward, towards the exterior or the interior. And forthe state of a disease, they are distinguished into those due toadverse ascending of pathogenic factors and those due to

invasion of pathogenic facors sinking deep;y into the interiorand lowering down to the lower energizer. While treating adisease, according to its different cause, a doctor should selectcorresponding medicinal herbs and make the best use of theirlifting,lowering,floating and sinking actions to help dispelpathogenic factors, correct the disorder of the body’s functions

and restore them to the normal.



•

The lifting and floating medicinal herbsmoving in ascending and outward directionsgenerally exert the effects of invigoratingsplenic yang, reliebing superficies, dispellingwind and cold, and resuscitation, etc.;

• the lowering and sinking medicinal herbsmoving in descending and inward directionsgenerally have the effects of clearing awayheat, lowring the adverse flow of qi, purging,

promoting diuresis, tranquilizing the mind,suppressing the hyperactive yang andstopping wind, and astringing, etc..



01.four natures

• cold – cool belonging toyin , and warm – hot toyang , wheras cold andcool or hot and warm areonly different ,to somedegrees , in theirvariance .

• Generally speaking,Chinese medicinal herbs

with cold –

cool naturecan clear awayheat,purge fire andeliminate toxic material,which are mainly used forheat- syndrome ; Chinesemedicinal herbs withwarm –hot nature havethe action of expellingcold and restoring yang,which are mainly used for

cold –syndrome .

03.Four propertieslifting,lowering,floating

and sinking

02. Five

flavors

NATURES

Diagram



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

• 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



EXPELL EVILL QI

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

• Water : Xiao qing long tang, Zhen wu tang

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

• parasitic disease (roundworm), dyspepsia (bao he wan, zhi shi dao zhiwan)

• Stagnation of qi (Xiao yao san)

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