Drain Fire

Matching: Ya Zhi Cao

Clears heat and drains fire. Clears heat and unblocks painful urinary dribbling.

Matching: Han Shui Shi

Clears heat and drains fire. Also used for burns and sores.

Matching: Xi Gua

Clears summerheat and generates fluids. Also promotes urination and expels jaundice.

Which herb has these actions? (Hint: Cools Liver fire, disperses clumps, benefits the eyes)

• Clears liver fire and brightens the eyes

• Clears heat and dissipates nodules

• For Hypertension

Xi Ku Cao

Which herb has these actions? (Hint: Clears heat from the heart and pericardium)

• Drains Heart Fire

• Stops Bleeding and binds the essence

Lian Zi Xin

Which herb has these actions? (Hint: resolves constrained heat, directs damp-heat downward and out through the urine, cools the blood, breaks up toxic accumulations)

• Drains heat and eliminates irritability

• clears heat and resolves dampness

• cools the blood and resolves toxicity

• reduces swelling and moves blood stasis due to trauma

Zhi Zi

Which herb has these actions? (hint: cools heat, generates fluids, resolve toxicity, reduces swelling, invigorates the blood)

• Drains heat and generates fluids

• clears and drains Lung heat, transforms phlegm, and moistens lung dryness

• resolves toxicity and expels pus

Tian Hua Fen

Which herb has these actions? (hint: clears fire and nourishes the yin of the lungs, stomach, and kidneys)

• clears heat and drains fire

• enriches the yin and moistens dryness

• generates fluids and clears heat

• ameliorates the dryness of tonifying or warming substances

Zhi Mu

Which herb has these actions? (hint: disperses wind-fire to cool the eyes, moistens the intestines, nourishes the liver and kidney yin, with both ascending and descending actions)

• clears the liver and they eyes

• calms the liver and anchors the errant yang

• moistens the intestines and unblocks the bowels

• recently used to prevent atherosclerosis, it lowers both blood pressure and serum cholesterol

Jue Ming Zi

Which herb has these actions? (Hint: Very cold, excels at cooling lung and stomach fire, while also dispersing to vent the exterior and release the muscle layer)

• clears heat and drains fire

• clears heat from excess from the lungs

• clears blazing stomach fire

• for eczema, burns, and ulcerates sores (calcinated form)

Shi Gao

Which herb has these actions? (Hint: leaches out dampness and facilitates urination; also treats irritability associated with heat)

• clears heat and eliminates irritability

• promotes urination and clears damp heat

Dan Zhu Ye

Matching: Mi Meng Hua

Benefits the eyes by tonifying liver yin and cooling liver heat

Matching: Qing Xiang Zi

Clears wind heat, drains liver fire, and improves the vision. Recently used for hypertension associated with ascendant Liver Yang.

Matching: Gu Jing Cao

Disperse wind-heat, brightens the eyes, and eliminates superficial visual obstruction

Which herb has these actions (Hint: cools the lungs and stomach, generates fluids without being cloying, alleviates nausea, promotes urination)

• clears heat and generates fluids

• clears head and promotes urination

• encourages rashes to surface

Lu Gen

Which herb has these actions? (hint: cools, moistens, facilitates urination)

• clears summerheat and generates fluids

• promotes urination and expels jaundice

Xi Gua