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NCCAOM Single Herbs Prep Questions And
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General Taste, Channels, Actions, Cautions of Release Exterior Herbs
ANS✔✔ ¢Acrid, LU, UB



¢Release exterior syndrome

Disperse LU

Diuresis

Vents rashes



¢Caution

Stop when syndrome controlled

Poor body constitution not suitable

Short time decoction



Warm Acrid Herbs that Release the Exterior ANS✔✔ Taste: • acrid

Temperature: • warm

Channels: • LU

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are warm, acrid, and dispersing
• Use caution in patients with qi deficiency, yin deficiency, sweating, or with
long term use

Main Action: • Promotes sweating to release the exterior

External Attack of Wind-Cold: • Fever and chills • Headache, nasal
congestion • Stiff neck, muscle ache • Absence of thirst • Floating pulse

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Cool Acrid Herbs that Release the Exterior ANS✔✔ Taste: • acrid

Temperature: • cool

Channels: • LU, LV

Cautions & Contraindications: • Use caution in patients with deficiency,
sweating, or with long term use Main Action: • Dispel wind-heat to release
the exterior

External Attack of Wind-Heat: • Fever and chills (fever more severe; mild
chills) • Sore throat • Cough with phlegm (thick, yellow, scanty) • Rash •
Eye problems



Herbs that Drain Fire ANS✔✔ Taste: • bitter • sometimes sweet
(moistening) Temperature: • cold

Channels: • LU, ST, HT, LV

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are cold and bitter; they may
damage the Spleen

Main Action: • Clear heat and drain fire

Other • These herbs treat Qi level or Yangming level heat, characterized by
the Four Bigs

sx: High fever • Irritability • Thirst • Delirium • Eye problems



Herbs that Cool the Blood ANS✔✔ Taste: • bitter and sweet • salty

Temperature: • cold

Channels: • LV, HT

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are cold and bitter; they may
damage the Spleen

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Main Action: • Clear heat from the Ying and Xue levels Other • Because heat
at the blood level can damage yin, some of these herbs are sweet and
nourish fluids

SX: They clear heat from the ying (nutritive) level or xue (blood) level with
symptoms such as: • Irritability, restlessness, insomnia, delirium • Bleeding
(nosebleed, vomiting blood, coughing blood, blood in the urine or stool) •
Maculopapular rashes (flat red area with small bumps) • Scarlet tongue,
possibly dry or with prickles



Herbs that Clear Heat and Dry Dampness ANS✔✔ Taste: • bitter

Temperature: • cold

Channels: • ??

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are cold and bitter; they may
damage the Spleen

Main Action: • Clear heat and dry dampness (dysentery, urination problems,
jaundice, skin problems)

Other • These herbs are often combined with Herbs that Drain Fire or Herbs
that Resolve Toxicity

Sx: Diarrhea, dysentery • Urination problems (difficult or painful urination) •
Jaundice • Skin problems (boils, furuncles, carbuncles, eczema) • Vaginal
discharge



Herbs that Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity ANS✔✔ Taste: • bitter

Temperature: • cold

Channels: • ???

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are cold and bitter; they may
damage the Spleen

Main Action: • Clear heat toxicity (skin infections with pus, dysentery, viral
infections)

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Other • Some of these herbs also have anti-cancer properties

SX: Abscess - swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation
of pus

• Boil - skin infection that starts in a hair follicle or oil gland, usually caused
by staphylococcal bacteria

• Furuncle - same thing as a boil

• Carbuncle - red, swollen, and painful cluster of boils that are connected to
each other under the skin

• Sty - a boil that forms in the eyelid



Herbs that Clear Heat from Deficiency ANS✔✔ Taste: • bitter

Temperature: • cold

Channels: • LV, KI

Cautions & Contraindications: • These herbs are cool in temperature; use
caution with weak middle-jiao

Main Action: • Clear heat due to Liver and Kidney yin deficiency

Other • These herbs also treat aftermath of febrile disease where heat has
damaged the yin

SX:Tidal fever or afternoon fever • Malar flush, five center heat (face, palms,
soles) • Night sweats • Seminal emission • Steaming bone disorder • Red
tongue with little coat • Thin, rapid pulse



Downward Draining Herbs ANS✔✔ -Purgatives Taste: •bitter Temp:• Cold •
LI

-Moist Laxatives Taste:• sweet; Temp:• neutral • LI

-Harsh Expellants Taste:• toxic; Temp: • cold

(or hot) Channels: • L KI, LU

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