Du Huo

Angelicae Pubescentis Radix

Cold Bird

Properties: Acrid, bitter, warm

Channels: Kidney, Bladder

1. DWD and alleviates pain: for such disorders as wind-cold-damp painful obstructive, especially in the lower back and legs.  Can be used for both acute and chronic conditions.

2. Disperses wind-cold and releases the exterior: for exterior wind-cold together with dampness.

3. Also used for lesser yin disorders: headache and toothache.

Wei Ling Xian

Clematidis Radix

Properties: Acrid, Salty, Warm

Channels: Bladder

1. DWD, UBCC, and alleviates pain: Especially useful for treating wind painful obstruction, as it both releasees the exterior and promotes the movement of qi in the channels.  It can be taken alone as a powder with warm win for pain in the lower back and legs.

2. Softens and transforms fish bones: Fish bones lodged in the throat.

Hai Tong Pi

Erythrinae Cortex

Live Kileen

Properties: Bitter, Acrid, Neutral

Channels: Liver, Kidney, Spleen

1.  DWD & UBCC: Wind-damp painful obstruction especially where there is soreness and pain in the lower back and knees, or spasms of the extremities.  This herb can be used for patterns of either hot or cold depending on the other herbs with which it is combined.

2. Promotes urination and reduces edema: Superficial edema due to dampness

3. Treats itching skin lesions: Used topically for scabies and other skin lesions

4. Used as a gargle: Toothache dud to dental caries.

Mu Gua

Chaenomelis Fructus

Spent Liver

Properties: Sour, Warm

Channels: Liver, Spleen

1. Relaxes the sinews and unblocks the channels: Damp painful obstruction in the extremities, espcially with severe cramping pain, and weakness in the lower back and lower extremeties.  This is one of the more effective herbs for relaxing the sinews!

2. Harmonizes the Stomach and transforms dampness: Abdominal pain, spasms, and cramping of the calves, and edema due to leg qi.  Especially useful for disharmony b/w Liver and Spleen leading to leg problems

3. Reduces food stagnation: For indigestion due to food stagnation.

Can Sha

Bombycis Faeces

Stud Sparrows Live

Properties: Sweet, Acrid, Warm

Channels: Stomach, Spleen, Liver (Earth & liver)

1. DWD: Painful obstruction or damp, itchy rashes

2. Harmonizes Stomach and Transforms Turbid Dampness: Internal obstruction due to turbid dampness: vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, abdominal pain, borborygmus, spasms of the calf muscles

Sang Ji Sheng

Taxilli Herba

KilLer workout

Properties: Bitter, Sweet, Neutral

Channels: Kidney, Liver

1.  Tonifies the Liver and Kidneys, strengthens the sinews and bones, and expels wind dampness: For insufficient Liver and Kidney yin with soreness and pain in the lower back and legs, joint problems, numbness, and weakness and atrophy of the sinews and bones.  Can be used for these problems whether or not wind dampness is present.

2. Nourishes the blood and calms the Womb: For restless fetus or uterine bleeding during pregnancy.  Also promotes lactation.

3. Nourishes the blood and benefits the skin: Dry, scaly skin due to blood deficiency.

Wu Jia Pi

Acanothopanacis Cortex

old Liver, Kid

Properties: Acrid, Bitter, Warm

Channels: Liver, Kidney

1. DWD, Strenghtens Sinews and Bones, Tonic for the Elderly and DD in motor functions of kids: Chronic wind-cold-damp painful obstruction when chronic xu of the Liver and Kidneys generates weak or soft sinews and bones.  This herb is especially useful when the smooth flow of qi and blood is obstructed. It is particularly suitable for the lderly and for developmental delays in the motor functions of children.

2. Transforms dampness and reduces swelling: Urinary difficulty, edema, and cold damp leg qi.

Lu Xian Cao

Pyrolae Herba

Properties: Sweet, Bitter, Warm

Channels: Liver, Kidney

1. DWD and strengthens sinews and bones: Wind-damp painful obstruction and lack of strength in the low back and legs. Can be used alone for this purpose.

2. Stops bleeding: A variety of bleeding disorders including coughing blood, irregular uterine bleeding, and bleeding from trauma.

3. Augments the Kidney and assists their acceptance of qi: Coughing and wheezing from chronic Lung qi deficiency or the failure of the Kidneys to accept qi.

Shen Jin Cao

Lycopodii Herba

Properties: Bitter, acrid, warm

Channels: Liver, Spleen, Kidney

1. DWD: Wind damp painful obstruction, especially when there are problems flexing and extending the joints.

2. Relaxes the sinews and invogorates the collaterals: Swelling and pain due to trauma or blood stasis.

Hai Feng Teng

Piperis Kadsurae Caulis

Properties: Acrid, bitter, slightly warm

Channels: Liver

1. DWD & UBCC: Wind-cold-damp painful obstruction with such symptoms as stiff joints, lower back pain, sore knees, and cramping of the muscles and sinews. Also for pain from trauma.

Qian Nian Jian

Homalomenae Rhizoma

Properties: Acrid, Bitter, Warm

Channels: Liver, Kidney

1. DWD and strengthens sinews and bones: Wind-damp-cold painful obstruction with pain, spasms, or numbness either perceived superficially (in the sinews) or deeply (in the bones).  Because of its strong fortifying action, this herb is also suitable for weakness or softness in the sinews and bones.  It is widely used in treating the elderly, both as an external wash and for internal use.  Also for pain and swelling due to traumatic injury.

Qin Jiao

Gentianne Macrophyllae Radix

Stay aLive GooBer

Properties: Bitter, acrid, Slightly Cold

Channels: Stomach, Liver, GB (Wood and stomach)

1. DWD and soothes sinews and collaterals: wind-damp painful obstruction and cramping, especially in the extremeties.  Can be used for acute or chronic, cold or hot disorders.  Because this substance is slightly cold an dmost other wind-damp herbs are warm, it is particularly useful for hot painful obstruction.

2. Clears heat from deficiency: Yin xu patterns that manifest with fever, including steaming bone disorder.

3. Resolves dampness and reduces jaundice: Jaundice due to damp heat, especially in acute cases and in infants.

4. Moistens the intestines and unblocks the bowels: Dry constipation. This herb is commonly used to counteract the drying qualities of other herbs that dispel wind-dampness.

Sang Zhi

Mori Ramulus

Properties: Bitter, Neutral

Channel: Liver

1. Dispels wind, unblocks the channels, and benefits the joints: Wind-damp painful obstruction with spasms.  Most appropriate for the warm type that affects the upper extremeties.  Also used in formulas for numbness in the extremeties or hemiplegia as sequelae to wind-stroke.

2. Clears edema: for edema, especially when accompanied by joint pain.

Xi Xian Cao

Siegesbeckiae Herba

Liver Kill

Properties: Bitter, Cold

Channels: Liver, Kidney

1. DWD & UBCC: Wind-damp painful obstruciton with pain in the joints.  Because it is good at unblocking the channels and invigorating the collaterals, it is also commonly used for spasms and cramps in the extremities, numbness in the extremeties, and weak legs, including weakness as sequelae of wind-stroke.

2. Clears heat and pacifies the Liver: Ascendant liver yang with such symptoms as headache and dizziness.

3. Clears and transforms damp-heat: Damp-heat sores and itching, wind-damp rash, or other forms of itching.

4. Lowers blood pressure: for hypertension.

Chou Wu Tong

Clerodendri Folium

Properties: Acrid, bitter, sweet, cool

Channel: Liver

1. DWD: wind-damp painful obstruction, numbness in the trunk or extremeties, or hemiplegia.  Also used for eczema

2. Calms Liver Yang: Vertigo and headache due to ascendant liver yang.  Recently used for hypertension.

Luo Shi Teng

Trachelospermi Caulis

Properties: Bitter, Slightly cold

Channel: Liver

1. DWD and unblocks the collaterals: Wind-damp painful obstruction and spasms (Contracture) of the sinews. Especially suitable for painful obstruction that is relatively hot.

2. Cools the blood and reduces swellings: Red, hot, and painful abscesses and other toxic sores. Also used for painful obstruction of the throat.

Kuan Jin Teng

Tinosporae sinesis Caulis

Properties: Bitter, Slightly Cold

Channel: Liver

1. DWD and relaxes the sinews: Hot painful obstruction especially with cramping and stiffness.

2. Relaxes the sinews and unblocks the channels: Redness, swelling, heat, and pain associated with traumatic injury.

Bai Hua She/Qi She

Agkistradon

Properties: Acrid, Salty, Warm, Toxic

Channel: Liver

1. Powerfully unblocks the channels and extinguishes Wind: Chronic wind-dampness with numbness and weakness of the limbs and cramping of the sinews.  Generally used for stubborn cases.

2. Dispels wind from the skin: Dermatosis, numbness of the skin, or any kind of rash. 

3. Dispels Wind from the sinews and settles jitteriness and convulsions: Any kind of spasms, tremors, or seizures. Can be used for facial paralysis or hemiplegia due to windstroke.

She Tui

Serpentis Periostracum

Properties: Sweet, Salty, Neutral

Channel: Liver

1. Dispels wind and stops spasms: Skin lesions due to wind, and for other wind patterns such as childhood convulsions and seizures.

2. Removes superficial visual obstruction: Pterygium or other disorders of the cornea.

Song Jie

Pini Lignum Nodi

Properties: Bitter, Warm

Channel: Liver

1. DWD and stops pain: Wind damp painful obstruction with pain and soreness in the joints. Used primarily when dampness and/or cold predominate.  Also for pain from traumatic injury.

1. Luo Shi Teng (Trachelospermi Caulis)

2.Sang Zhi (Mori Ramulus)

3. Hai Feng Teng (Piperis Kadsurae Caulis)

4. Song Jie (Pini Lignum Nodi)

5. Bai Hua She/Qi She (Agkistradon)

6. She Tui (Serpentis Periostracum)

7. Chou Wu Tong (Clerodendri Folium)

8. Kuan Jin Teng (Tinosporis sinesis Caulis)

1. Qian Nian Jian (Homalomenae Rhizoma)

2. Sang Ji Sheng (Taxilli Herba)

3. Wu Jia Pi (Acanthopanacis Cortex)

4. Xi Xian Cao (Siegesbeckiae Herba)

5. Lu Xian Cao (Pyrolae Herba)

1. Hai Tong Pi (Erythrinae Cortex) Liv, Sp, Kid

2. Mu Gua (Chaenomelis Fructus) Spleen, Liver

3. Can Sha (Bombycis Fructus) Spleen, ST, Liver

4. Shen Jin Cao (Lycopodii Herba) Liv, Sp, Kid

1. Du Huo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix) Kid, BL

2. Wei Ling Xian (Clematidis Radix)

1. Qin Jiao (Gentianne Macrophyllae Radix) Bitter, Acrid, Slightly Cold

2. Xi Xian Cao (Siegesbeckiae Herba) Bitter, Cold

3. Chou Wu Tong (Clerodendri Folium) Acrid, Bitter, Sweet, Cool

4. Luo Shi Teng (Trachelospermi Caulis) Bitter, Slightly Cold

5. Kuan Jin Teng (Tinosporae sinesis Caulis) Bitter, Slightly Cold

1. Hai Tong Pi (Erythrinae Cortex) Bitter, acrid, neutral

2. Sang Ji Sheng (Taxilli Herba): Bitter, sweet, neutral

3. Sang Zhi (Mori Ramulus) Bitter, Neutral

4. She Tui (Serpentis Periostracum) Sweet, salty, neutral

1. Du Huo (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix)

2. Wu Jia Pi (Acanthopanacis Cortex)

3. Shen Jin Cao (Lycopodii Herb)

4. Hai Feng Teng (Piperis kadsurae Caulis)

5. Qian Nian Jian (Homalomenae Rhizoma)

1. Wei Ling Xian (Clemetidis Radix) Acrid, Salty, Warm

2. Bai Hua She/Qi She (Agkistradon) Sweet, Salty, Warm, Toxic

3. She Tui (Serpentis Periostracum) Sweet, Salty, Neutral

1. Qian Nian Jian (Homalomenae Rhizoma) - strenghtens sinews and bones, goes to liver and kidney.

2. Wu Jia Pi (Acanthopanacis Cortex) Strengthens sinews and bones, esp. when qi and blood are obstructed- good for children with dd motor fx and for the elderly. goes to kidney and liver

3. Xi Xian Cao (Siegesbeckiae Herba) goes to liver and kidney. Great for UBCC, spasms and cramps, numbness and weak legs, including weakness as sequelae of windstroke.

4. Du Huo (Angelica Pubesentis Radix) Goes to kidney and bladder - good for acute or chronic bi pain, esp. in low back and legs.

1. Lu Xian Cao (Pyrolae herba) - stops bleeding (from coughing blood, bleeding from trauma, or uterine bleeding)

2. Sang Ji Sheng (Taxilli Herba): nourishes the blood - uterine bleeding during pregnancy.

1. Qian Nian Jian (Homalomenae Rhizoma), Liv, K

2. Wu Jia Pi (Acanthopanacis Cortex) Liv, K

3. Lu Xian Cao (Pyrolae Herba) Liv, K

4. Sang Ji Sheng (Taxilli Herba) Liv, K

1. Mu Gua (Chaenoelis Fructus) Spleen, Liver

2. Shen Jin Cao (Lycopodii Herba) Liv, Spleen, Kid

3. Kuan Jin Teng (Tinosporae sinesis Caulis) Liver

1. Xi Xian Cao - clears and transforms damp-heat: damp heat sores and itching, wind-damp rash, or other forms of itching.

2. Bai Hua She/Qi She - Dispels Wind from the skin - dermatosis, numbness of the skin, or any kind of rash.

3. Hai Tong Pi- Treats itching skin lesions: Used topically for scabies and other skin lesions

4. Can Sha - DWD - painful obstruction or damp, itchy rashes due to wind-dampness

5. Sang Ji Sheng: nourishes blood and benefits the skin: dry scaly skin due to blood xu.

6. Chou wu tong - DWD - for eczema

7. She Tui - Dispels wind and stops spasms - skin lesions due to wind.

1. Wu Jia Pi - transforms dampness and reduces swelling: urinary diffiuclty, edema, and cold damp leg qi.

2. Hai Tong Pi- promotes urination and reduces edema: superficial edema due to dampness.

JUST EDEMA:

1. Sang Zhi -edema with joint pain.