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Dispels cold-dampness, stops pain due to cold, stops bleeding, calms the fetus during pregnancy* - Bensky

This herb is the resin of Styrax tonkinensis.

Bitter, sweet, and slightly cooling, Akebiae Fructus (ba yue zha) promotes the flow of Liver qi, harmonizes the Stomach, and disperses clumping; it also mildly facilitates urination.*

Strengthens the Spleen, Clears Summer-Heat and Dampness, Eliminates Toxins* - Chen: Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology

Raising, acrid-dispersing, warm and drying; especially indicated for pathogenic wind-phlegm in the face and head.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Enriches the Ling yin, drains yin, drains heat from the Heart, stops coughs, quiets the spirit* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tribulus Fruit

Resolves toxicity, expels pus, invigorate the blood, reduces abscesses* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Clears heat, resolves toxicity, disperses, clumped qi, generates flesh, stops pain.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools the blood, stops bleeding, clears heat in the Lungs and Stomach, promotes urination* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Directs the Lung qi downward; suitable for any type of cough; especially good for phlegm in the throat* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Liver blood, extinguishes wind, stops pain, nourishes the Liver and Spleen yin* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Bitter and cold, Pulsatillae Radix (bai tou weng) drains and directs downward, clears heat, cools the blood, and resolves toxicity.*

Cools the blood and reduces heat from deficiency without injuring the yin fluids or blood, vents pathogens, facilitates urination.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Expels damp-heat accumulated in the blood vessels of the muscles and flesh, leads dam-heat out through the urine, stops itching, clears sores, relieves painful obstruction* -  Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Expels damp-heat accumulated in the blood vessels of the muscles and flesh, leads dam-heat out through the urine, stops itching, clears sores, relieves painful obstruction* -  Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Aromatic, warm, releases the exterior, open the orifices (especially the nose), dries dampness; frequently used for wind-cold frontal headaches.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the Spleen qi, dries dampness, quiets the fetus.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Key characteristics: tonifies the Spleen qi, dries dampness, quiets the fetus.* Bensky Materia Medica

Key characteristics: nourishes the Heart blood and yin to calm the spirit, moistens the Kidneys and Large Intestine.* Bensky Materia Medica

Drains heat, resolves fire toxicity, cools the blood, benefits the throat - Bensky*

Dries dampness, transforms phlegm and causes rebellious qi to descend*

Dries dampness, transforms phlegm and causes rebellious qi to descend*

Ban Xia Shui

Fermented Pinellia Rhizoma

Clears heat toxin and dampness, relieves stasis, promotes urination* - Bensky

Glehniae Radix (bei sha shen)

Warms the middle burner, releases constrained cold in the Intestines.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medcine Material Medica, 3rd ed.

Expels dampness, especially from the lower burner, by separating the pure from the turbid.* - Bensky

Acrid-dispersing, aromatically mobilizing and piercing, opens the orifices and disperses fire constraint* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Facilitates the dispersal of upper burner wind-heat, cools and clears the eyes and head, soothes the throat, facilitates the flow of Liver qi and expels turbid filth.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Warmly tonifies the Kidneys and Spleen, stabilizes the essence, secures the urine, aids the Kidneys in grasping qi. - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medcine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Dries dampness, induces sweating, strengthens the Spleen and Stomach, treats atrophy disorders from damp-heat in the lower burner, helps the vision.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Dries dampness, induces sweating, strengthens the Spleen and Stomach, treats atrophy disorders from damp-heat in the lower burner, helps the vision.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Warms the middle, mobilizes the qi, dries turbid dampness.*

Treats constraint from cold-dampness in the middle burner.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Zhi Cao Wu searches out wind, overcomes dampness, disperses cold, stops pain, unbinds areas constrained by phlegm, and reduces swelling. *From: Bensky - Chinese Herbal Materia Medica, 3rd ed., p680-681.

Cools heat, inhibits blood heat - Bensky

Resolves lesser yang disorders and reduces fever; Spreads Liver qi and relieves constraint; Raises and lifts the yang qi; Restores harmony between the Liver and Spleen*

Resolves lesser yang disorders and reduces fever; Spreads Liver qi and relieves constraint; Raises and lifts the yang qi; Restores harmony between the Liver and Spleen*

Chan Tui

Che Qian Cao has "functions similar to those of Che Qian Zi to dispel water, clear heat, brighten the eyes, dispel phlegm and stop coughing." - Chen: Chinese Herbal Herbology and Pharmacology*

Che Qian Cao has "functions similar to those of Che Qian Zi to dispel water, clear heat, brighten the eyes, dispel phlegm and stop coughing." - Chen: Chinese Herbal Herbology and Pharmacology*

Facilitates urination, separates the clear and turbid fluids, guides damp-heat downward and out of the body through the urine.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Facilitates urination, separates the clear and turbid fluids, guides damp-heat downward and out of the body through the urine.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Promotes the flow of qi, dries dampness. - Bensky

Invigorates the blood, transforms stasis, stops pain, cools heat in the blood* - Bensky

Invigorates the blood, transforms stasis, stops pain, cools heat in the blood* - Bensky

Promotes urination and reduces edema; Facilitates the resolution of dampness and heat; Disperses blood stasis.*

Tonifies the Liver and Kidney yin, brightens the eyes, reduces edema - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Cools heat, regulates the qi, stops pain.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Invigorates the blood, unblocks the menses, expels wind, drains dampness.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Chuanxiong Rhizoma enters the Liver channel to warm and unblock the blood vessels, yet its acrid flavor and its relatively light material substance enable it to promote the movement of qi at the blood level.* (from Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed)

Chuanxiong Rhizoma enters the Liver channel to warm and unblock the blood vessels, yet its acrid flavor and its relatively light material substance enable it to promote the movement of qi at the blood level.* (from Chinese Herbal Medicine Materica Medica, 3rd ed)

Anchors and calms the spirit; Nourishes the Kidneys, augments the Liver, and improves hearing and vision; Aids the Kidneys in grasping the qi*

Anchors and calms the spirit; Nourishes the Kidneys, augments the Liver, and improves hearing and vision; Aids the Kidneys in grasping the qi*

Purges clumped heat in the Intestines, cools the blood, removes blood stasis; in its charred from, can stop bleeding* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Purges clumped heat in the Intestines, cools the blood, removes blood stasis; in its charred from, can stop bleeding* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Disperses Cold, Warms the Liver and Kidney. Regulates Qi, Improves Appetite.* - Chen: Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology

Cools the blood, stops bleeding, reduces swelling* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Relies on its heaviness to suppress and direct downward rebellious qi, while cooing Liver fire.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Ascending, vents and disperses exterior pathogens, disseminates and disperses constrained heat above the diaphragm.* - Bensky

Invigorates the blood, tonifies the blood, calms irritability due to blood heat.*

Invigorates the blood, tonifies the blood, calms irritability due to blood heat.*

Invigorates the blood, tonifies the blood, calms irritability due to blood heat.*

Leaches out dampness and facilitates urination; also treats irritability associated with heat.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, alleviates pain* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

Tonifies the blood, invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, alleviates pain* - Bensky:  Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

This items consists of Dang Gui Root Head without the lateral roots. It is considered most tonifying and less invigorating to be blood.*

This items consists of Dang Gui Root Head without the lateral roots. It is considered most tonifying and less invigorating to be blood.

This items consists of Dang Gui Root Head without the lateral roots. It is considered most tonifying and less invigorating to be blood.

This item consists of the lateral rootlets of Dang Gui. This herb is considered less tonifying and more invigorating to the blood.

This item consists of the lateral rootlets of Dang Gui. This herb is considered less tonifying and more invigorating to the blood.

Tonifies the middle burner; augments the Spleen and Lung qi.*

Tonifies the middle burner; augments the Spleen and Lung qi.*

Prepared with sugar / Codonopsis; Radix Praeparata

Clears heat in the Heart and Lungs and directs it downward, unblocks the fluid pathways, leads heat downward and out through the urine.*

Eliminates heat from both excess and deficiency in the blood; used for steaming bone disorder with sweating, and to cool the Lungs.* - Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.