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Herbs that Drain Fire

hello there and welcome to another video this time we are reviewing the single herb category herbs that drain fire as always you can go to the website to get the notes and flash cards if you want to follow along there are links to that in description below but let's go ahead and get started so what we're starting here is we have this really big kind of annoying category called herbs that clear heat this is a very large category with a lot of sub-categories we have herbs that drain fire herbs that cool the blood herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity herbs that clear heat and dry dampness herbs that clear heat from deficiency so this is a really large category and with each of these subcategories we're just clearing different types of heat from different parts of the body now i've had some people ask when we go through all these sections or what's going on here are these different intensities of heat are so is some heat more severe and i wouldn't necessarily think of it like that like i said i think we can just say we're clearing different types of heat from different areas of the body and so this could be excess heat versus deficiency heat it can be heat combined with other things like damp heat or things like that but just kind of the overall idea here is we're clearing different types of heat from different parts of the body and so to start out this category uh our first subsection is herbs that drain fire herbs that drain fire so what does this mean herbs that drain fire sorry i forgot to turn my music off that's going to be annoying so what do we mean by herbs that drain fire so first of all what is fire um fire can mean different things depending on the context here when we say fire we just mean an intense form of heat so we can talk about heat that transforms into fire and so that's just telling us that these herbs are clear a very intense form of heat in fact the herbs that we're going to look at are some of the coldest herbs we have because we're clearing this intense heat or we're clearing this fire and then we specifically say herbs that drain fire what do we mean by herbs that drain fire well draining is one of our treatment strategies and maybe what we can say is here we're implying that when we say drain fire one we're implying that the heat is at the interior level so in our last category cool acrid herbs that release the exterior there we were dealing with heat but it was heat at the exterior so there our treatment strategy was to use acrid herbs that disperse the heat or we could say our treatment strategy was to promote sweating to push the heat out well that was because well the heat was on the exterior we could do that because the heat was at a very superficial level but now when we're talking about herbs that drain fire we're talking about intense heat at the interior level so that's this is no longer an option we can't just promote sweating to push the heat out it's too deep in so instead we have to employ a technique of draining so here we're using cold bitter herbs that drain the interior heat whereas before with cool actors that really seeks here we're using acrid herbs that promote sweating and push the heat out here we're using cold bitter herbs that drain the heat so what does this heat look like or what does this fire look like well it kind of depends on where the heat is in the body like it's going to affect the different organs differently so if we have heat and lung that's going to disrupt the flow of chi and so we're going to get rebellious chi or cough if that heat dries out or cooks down the fluids in the lung we're going to get cough with thick yellow sticky difficult to expect rate phlegm because that heat has cooked down the fluids in severe cases we could get cough with blood streak sputum that the heat is actually drying things out so much and the heat is so intense we get bleeding in the lung until we get coughed with blood streaked sputum we could have heat in the stomach heat in the stomach can cause things like hunger and bad breath that heat in the stomach organ can travel up the stomach channel and cause things in the mouth like mouth sores bleeding gums toothache and things like that we could have heat in the heart with heat in the heart we might have we might feel a sensation of heat in the chest but that heat could also start disturbing the shen giving us certain shen problems like irritability insomnia anxiety because the heat is disrupting the shen the shen can't come home and peacefully house itself in the heart we could have heat in the liver and that heat in the liver remember we said the liver is connected to the eye so that heat in the liver can go up the liver channel into the eyes and we get dry red eyes uh that heat can also go upward causing things like headache and dizziness so the signs and symptoms of heat are going to depend on where that heat is in the body another thing we're going to want to look at with these herbs that drain fire is let's go back and talk about shanghan loon and one being so remember uh we had two kind of competing theories about how febrile diseases uh travel through the body so on the one hand we had the cold damage school the shanghan loom that said that febrile diseases are caused by cold pathogens that penetrate the body through the six levels taeyang yang ningxia yong tanyan chalyan joyin kind of our competing theory was the warm disease school or the wen bing school that said that febrile diseases are caused by heat that penetrates through the four levels or the four aspects and those are wei qi yin and shui so in our previous category cool acrid herbs that release the exterior we said like that was heat at the way level at the defense aspect there we had this heat attacking the body from the outside it was kind of in the superficial layers of the body so we used cool acrid herbs to disperse that heat or vent that heat outwards we used herbs like sangie and jihua or we use herbs like mint leaf to disperse the heat outwards well let's say that we were not successful at getting rid of that heat at the superficial level and the heat started to sink further in well when it does that our next stop is the chi level so when the heat gets to the qi level it's no longer the exterior it's a little bit deeper and it's more like internal heat so what are the signs and symptoms we're going to see well it turns out that heat at the chi level is characterized by the four bigs in chinese this is called the four big or the four great symptoms so the four bigs are big fever and notice here when we say big fever we mean big fever without chills again when we were in that cool i could release the exterior category we had simultaneous fever and chills and that was a battle between the upright chi and the evil qi and there was this problem of yang qi not being able to get diffused over the surface of the body and that's why we felt chills well now that the heat is at a deeper level with qi level heat we have big fever with no chills and so this is a sign that the heat is deeper in the body that's why we see fever with no chills we have a big sweat basically you're hot and you get sweaty or you can say that the heat is steaming the fluids and pushing them outward so we see a great sweat or a big sweat then we have big thirst and vexation some a lot of times people just say big thirst but it's kind of implied in parentheses big thirst and vexation so big thirst basically that heat is steaming the fluids it's damaging the fluids the fluids are being lost through the sweat so you have a lack of fluid so you have thirst we say a big thirst or a great thirst and it's kind of implied here we see big thirst and vexation vexation is just the nigel weissman word for irritability basically you're you're hot and irritable so you have a big thirst and you're also vexed or irritable because that heat is uh making you hot and bothered then we also have a big pulse here when we say a big pulse we mean a rapid flooding pulse or a rapid surging pulse and so on the one hand remember that heat causes things to speed up so heat at this interior level is going to cause the blood to speed up and that's why i feel the pulse as rapid you can also think that heat causes things to expand and so that's why we see a big pulse or a large pulse when we say big we mean big in diameter that when you feel the vessel under your fingers it feels large in diameter a big pulse or a large pulse is the opposite of a thin thin pulse spine pulse thready pulse hemai that's referring to uh you feel the vessel and has a very small diameter we're looking for a pulse when we feel the vessel it has a very large diameter so that's what we mean when we say big pulse so in our category herbs that drain fire we're not only clearing heat from various organs in the body like the lung the stomach the heart the liver we can also use these herbs to clear chi level heat in terms of the wenbing and that chi level heat is characterized by the four bigs or the four great symptoms big fever big sweat big thirst and vexation and a big pulse so that's how we characterize it in the when being we also talk about the shanghain loom and this is going to be a little bit weird because remember we said that the shanghain loom is a theory of cold damage it's how cold penetrates through the six levels whereas the when being is the warm disease school it's how heat penetrates through the four levels well it turns out with the shanghan loon yeah our first our first level is the taiyong level so that's like an exterior attack of wind cold but as it gets deeper its next stop is the yangming level and it turns out as it gets deeper that cold actually transforms into heat so we talk about a taiyon condition that's a condition of exterior cold when you talk about a yang ming condition that's actually a condition of interior heat and so it turns out that these two stages overlap that when we talk about the shanghan loon yang ming is the same as qi level heat in the wen bing so if you're talking in chong hong loon and you say yang ming channel heat that's actually the same thing as chi level heat in the one being both of them are characterized by the four bigs big fever big sweat big thirst and vexation and a big pulse so for now we can just think that if you see yangming channel heat or chi level heat those two things are the same thing we're dealing with the four bigs how do we treat it we use herbs from this category herbs that drain fire and so it turns out actually i think in some of the older books they actually instead of naming those category herbs that drain fire they actually name the category herbs the clear qi level heat because that's what we're doing here but we also use these herbs in different contexts depending on where that heat is in the body so we look at the properties of the herbs these herbs are bitter in flavor remember we said the bitter flavor clears heat and drains fire and in this category we're clearing heat and draining fire so it makes sense that these herbs are bitter in flavor the some of these herbs are also sweet as well just implying that they have an ability to moisten or an ability to generate fluids remember we said the sweet flavor is tonifying or the sweet flavor is moistening and this is kind of convenient because a lot of times when you have heat that heat dries out the fluids so the fact that these herbs are also sweet in flavor it's kind of like we're doing two things at once we're both clearing the heat and draining the fire but also replenishing some of those lost fluids in terms of temperature these herbs are cold in temperature some of them we say are very cold in temperature that these are some of the coldest herbs in our materia america um so we're we're going to actually actually have to be careful with that because these herbs are just so cold they're not like a little bit cool they're very cold the entering channels are going to depend on where we're clearing the heat from again we can clear heat from various parts of the body we can clear heat from the lung for cough with thick yellow sputum we can clear heat from the stomach for things like hunger bad breath things like that we can clear heat from the heart for things like shen problems insomnia anxiety palpitations we can clear heat from the liver especially for things like eye problems headache or dizziness so the channels are really going to depend we have a lot of options and that's something what we're going to want to pay attention to as we go through these herbs is all of these herbs are clear and heat we want to know where are they clearing the heat from what's their specialty in terms of clearing heat and if we know where they're clearing heat from that's going to tell us what channels that herb enters of course precautions and contraindications we're dealing with very cold herbs and we know that the spleen has an aversion to cold so we have to be careful about these whole herbs damaging the spleen so it's kind of like if you have a patient and you're talking about food therapy if you had a patient with a weak spleen you might tell them don't eat cold foods like ice cream and smoothies well here we're going to have to have the same problem with herbs if we have this patient with a weak spleen we're going to want to be careful about giving them cold herbs that could potentially damage the spleen we're also going to want to be careful about using these herbs long term that even if they when they first come in they don't have a weak spleen if you give them these very cold herbs for weeks or months on end you could damage their spleen and they could end up with spleen problems because of the herbs that you gave them so we have to be careful and monitor for that throughout the course of treatment main action is a clear heat and drain fire that's the name of the category so we're clearing heat again we're using the bitter flavor to drain the heat and then we could say that these herbs treat chi level heat or yang ming level heat so qi level heat yang ming channel heat are the same thing they're both characterized by the four big or four great symptoms big fever big sweat big thirst and vexation and a big pulse so that's what we're treating with these herbs so let's go ahead and look at the herbs [Music] you only have a few two four six eight nine herbs so a little bit of a shorter category compared to our first two so herbs that drained fire our first herb is sure gao gypsum fibrosum sure gao gypsum vibrosum sure cow is gypsum gypsum is a mineral apparently it's the stuff that we use in drywall and so that's it's a very readily available mineral and we use it to build houses but here we're using internally and sure gao gypsum fibrosum it's in the category herbs that drain fire so of course its main action is to clear heat and drain fire but we need to ask ourselves what kind of heat well sure gao gypsum fibrosum is one of our main herbs or medicinals to clear chi level heat or yangming channel heat again characterized by the four bigs big fever big thirst big sweat and vexation and a big pulse so we could say this is our representative herb for qi level heat or sure gau gypsum fibrosum is our representative herb for yangming channel heat so that's going to be the main function of sure gao is clearing this qi level or yang ming channel heat but besides that we also see that sure gauge enters the lung and stomach channel so sure gauge clears long heat clears excess lung heat or replete long heat again if we have this heat in the lung this interior heat one this could block the the chi dynamic this could block the diffusion or the purity of down bearing of the lung chi so we'll end up with cough or rebellious cheat then we also said that this heat can cook down the fluids of the lung so we get cough with thick yellow sticky difficult to expect rate sputum so when we talk about these herbs that clear heat and drain fire we want to know where do they clear heat from surgau gypsum fibrosum clears heat from the lung and so maybe we can look at an example of this in formulas if you're in single herbs you don't really need to know formulas but sometimes i like to bring them up just because it can give you a good example but one of the formulas where this presents is moshing shergantong ephedra apricot kernel gypsum and licorice decoction moshing sherganton so you can see this has an herb that we learned before ma huang ephedra herba remember we said mahuang ephedra herba is one of our best herbs for treating coughing and wheezing however it's warm in temperature well with this formula moshing shrigantang we can uh see that this is uh treating a a syndrome of lung heat so here we see sure gao is there to clear the lung heat so we're using mah huang and shinren to stop cough we're using sure gao to clear long heat and that tells us that this formula is for cough and wheezing due to heat in the lung so that would be one example of using sure gao to clear long heat and we're going to see that come up in quite a few formulas so sure gao besides clearing qi level or yang ming channel heat it also clears with long heat and it also clears blazing stomach fire or clear stomach heat so what does stomach heat look like well if we have a lot of heat in the stomach we'll see like excess hunger and unquenchable thirst and also bad breath is kind of a key symptom for a stomach fire or a classical symptom for stomach fire when we have that heat in the stomach organ it can also travel up the stomach channel into the face and go see symptoms in the head and face like headache toothache painful or bleeding gums or mouth sores remember the yangming channels encircle the lips so the stomach channel goes around the lips the large intestine channel goes around the lips if we have heat there we can get sores around the mouth and lips so sure gal besides clearing lung heat it also clears stomach heat as well so again we could look at an example of this in a formula we have a formula called she huangsan drain the yellow powder she huangsan drain the yellow here yellow is referring to the earth element which refers to the spleen stomach and here we can see that sure gao is our chief herb there because it's clearing stomach heat so what does this look like what does the stomach heat look like we have mouth ulcers again because the heat went up to the channel into the mouth bad breath when you have that fire kind of rotting things in the stomach you end up with foul breath thirst that heat in the stomach is drying out the fluid so you feel intense thirst frequent hunger it's like you have this insatiable appetite because there's this fire in your stomach that's burning everything up so you want to put more fluid on it dry mouth and lips because again our young wing channels encircle the lips epistaxis means nosebleed these yangming channels also go to the nose think about like li 20 is next to the nose that's where the stomach channel starts so we can get that heat up there causing bleeding in the nose uh tongue thrusting in children i think is kind of a funny one but it's like there's this heat you'll stick your tongue out like a snake irritability begin because you're hot and irritable so these are some some classic signs of stomach heat or stomach fire and so shie huang san is a formula that can treat that but our point for single herbs here is the chief herb here is sure gao sure gao is a very good herb for treating stomach heat so besides that we also have this note down here that we can use a prepared form of sure gal called shusher gao and that can be applied topically for certain heat conditions such as eczema burns and sores so if you remember when we talked about the different ways to prepare herbs we called that powder the methods of preparation when it came to certain minerals one of our options for preparing it was calcining it basically you heat it up in an oven to like 1200 degrees until it turns red hot and that can change some of the properties of the herbs in the case of sugar also what it does is uh sure gal in its raw form is very difficult to crush into a powder but once you calcine it it becomes very easy to crush into a powder so uh you can use this shoe sure gao or duan sure gal and then grind it in a mortar and pestle and get it into a powder and then you can mix it with something to make a paste and apply it topically for these types of skin conditions like eczema burns and sores and so that's another form of sugar you might see as far as i know a shoe sure gao or dwan sure gal when when you order it it comes already in a powdered form so after they calcine it just automatically gets powdered uh as far as i know this should not be used internally that it can kind of turn into cement into your stomach so you shouldn't mix it with water and take it internally but now when it's a powder it's very easy to apply topically you can make this what's the name of this formula i used to i used to do this as an example of a class and now i can't do it ching dai gao so there's actually a very famous formula called um or a topical formula called ching dai gao and one of its ingredients is um sure gao that's probably neither here nor there but that's an example of using sure gal topically to treat things like eczema burns and sores so let's look at the properties of suregao one notice the temperature says it's very cold in temperature and so sure gao is one of our coldest medicinals or one of our coldest herbs in the materia medica basically it's kind of like a tie between sure gao and huang lian sure gal is one of the coldest herbs in our materia medica so we definitely have to be careful in cases of a spleen qi deficiency we definitely have to be cautious that using this herb can damage the spleen because of its cold properties so we should probably only use it when we're sure that we have this lung heat or the stomach heat the taste is a little bit interesting the taste is sweet and accurate and that's kind of really inconvenient um because basically we we started out this by saying that we're draining fire the way we drain fire is by using the bitter flavor and then we get to our first herb sure gow and it turns out sugar is not bitter in flavor sure gao's sweet and acrid in flavor so why is that it's kind of a subtle thing where like technically what sure gao is it's more using an acrid flavor to disperse interior heat and that's a little bit weird and that will kind of come up when we get into formulas class so i don't want to get too detailed about it right now but that is just uh if you're like want to get real nerdy about herbs that is a kind of strange property of suregao is even though we put it in this category of herbs that drain fire it's actually acrid in flavor and it has a more of a dispersing effect and there are certain situations where we want to make use of that like in our formula huang's on but for herbs1 i think that's a little bit too detailed we don't necessarily need to go into detail on that but if you're wondering why is this herb acrid in flavor instead of bitter that's why it's because it has more of a dispersing effect rather than just a draining effect but then we also say it's sweetened flavor and again this is implying that has a moistening ability that this heat tends to dry things out so this kind of has a little bit of a moistening ability channels entering channels very straightforward sure gal gypsum fibrosum treats lung heat and stomach heat so its entering channels are the lung channel and stomach channel and enters the lung and stomach to clear lung and stomach heat notice the dosage is larger than average 15 to 60 grams according to bensky and again this is very common whenever we have shells minerals or heavy medicinals that they tend to have a larger than average dosage just because they're more dense and so it's kind of like if you have something really heavy if we just had like nine grams of sugar out it would just be like a little speck of dust because it's heavy we need to like have a good amount in our pot so we have to use a larger dosage of sugar 15 to 60 grams just because it's a heavy mineral and then what can happen here is sometimes people look at this they say oh sure gal gypsum fibrosum it's very cold it's one of our coldest medicinals we have to be careful not to damage the spleen and so because of that they'll try to use a smaller dosage and think oh it's a cold herb i better use a smaller dosage so i don't damage the spleen turns out that's not how it works if you use a if you try to use a small dosage really nothing's going to happen if you want sure gao gypsum fibrosum to be effective you need to use this larger dosage and what that means is if you're going to use sure gal one make very sure that you really need it that the the person actually has a condition of excess heat and then number two if you're going to use it use it at its full strength get in and then get out so use it and when it's effective then stop using it and so you don't want to kind of muddle this up by saying oh it's a very cold herb i better use a small dosage that's not the way to do it use this 15 to 60 grams but once the effect is done stop using it so you don't end up damaging the spleen with this very cold herb and finally sure gal what we can say is again this is gypsum it's a mineral it's something that we use in drywall so if you go to home depot and go into the drywall section you'll see everything says gypsum all over it this is actually what we're talking about is sure gao and in chinese shi stone gau means paste so sure gao is stone paste so sure when we when we talked about our plant parts we talked about different plant parts like means [Music] means stem well here sure means stone and we're going to see that come up a couple times in some of our herb names that when you have certain minerals we're going to see the word sure come up so we here this might be our first one sure gao later we're going to learn herbs like washer which is talcum powder another mineral shurjui ming is abalone shell so it's a type of it's not a stone but it's a shell it still has sure in the name so this is another chinese term that you might see used as well i think sure is also used as a last name as well i had a chinese teacher once her name was her family name was shure and i think it was the same character so you might also hear come across people named sure so that is sure gao gypsum fibrosum this is a very important herb because it's our representative herb for yangming channel heat so it's going to come up a lot in the in the shanghan loon it's our representative verb for qi level heat so it's going to come up a lot when we talk about wending formulas and then it's also very good for clearing lung heat and stomach heat so sure gal gypsum fibrosum remember qi level heat or yangming channel heat characterized by the four bigs remember lung heat remember stomach heat remember it has a larger than average dosage so that is sure gao gypsum fibrosum our next one is chiramu anamorena rhizoma germu anna moreno rhizoma so jeremy at least at the beginning it's actually very similar to sure gao when germu and moreno rhizoma clears heat and drains fire and again what we mean by that is it clears chi level heat or yang ming channel heat characterized by the four bigs and it clears lung and stomach heat so this is very similar to sure gown those in those major functions so in terms of clearing qi level heat or yangming channel heat it turns out that we often use sure gao and germu together as paired herbs in fact both of these herbs come come up in the formula by hutong white tiger decoction it turns out that bai hutong white tiger decoction is our main formula for chi level heat or for yangming channel heat characterized by the four bigs and so these two herbs sure gal and jeremy are used together in this formula so that's kind of why we can say that they're paired herbs because they both have a function of clearing qi level heat and we use them together in this formula turns out the name i the name of this formula i think is kind of is kind of neat it's very poetic white tiger decoction it turns out when we talk about the five phases or the five elements on the one hand each element has its own color like the color of metal is white the color of wood is green the color of fire is red besides that each of the five elements has a direction associated with it so fire is the direction of south water is the direction of north wood is the direction of east metal is the direction of west earth is at the center so besides a color and a direction there's also this idea of the four animals or i think it might be called the four spirits but each each uh each phase and each direction has an animal named after it or associated with it as well so you have the red phoenix of the south the black turtle of the north the green dragon of the east and the white tiger of the west so the name of this formula by futong white tiger decoction is in reference to the metal phase and the white tiger of the west and the season of autumn so it's like you got all this heat this blazing stomach fire this you got these four bigs uh you got a big fever you're sweating profusely you're thirsty you just keep drinking cold water and you're still thirsty you got all this heat well when you take baihutong it's like this cool autumn breeze is coming through and cooling everything down so that's what that's why we name that form the baihutong white tiger decoction it's a reference to the five phases and specifically the five animals the white tiger of the west and the season of autumn is cooling that heat so again that that whole story was about the um qi level heat or yangming channel heat and the four bigs and we use it by hutong because it has both sure gao gypsum fibrosum and this herb germu and moranorizoma so those are two major herbs for qi level heat or yangming channel heat besides that germu and marine rhizoma also has a very good action of clearing deficiency heat and also tonifying in and moistening dryness we say clear heat from deficiency here i just have written down for heat signs due to kidney in deficiency what are heat signs due to kidney in deficiency well we have things like tidal fever or basically hot flashes night sweats and sweating at night five center heat heat in the palms and chest malar flush redness in the face we also have something called steaming bone disorder if our kidney in deficiency is so severe we have so much heat it feels like the bones are steaming so germu and morenorizoma is a very good herb for both clearing the deficiency heat and also tonifying in and moistening dryness so this is going to come up a lot when we deal with kidney yin deficiency it turns out we have another formula one of our major formulas for tonifying kidney yin is called lyowe dihwangwan sixth ingredient with romania pill and so lyowei di huang wan by itself is just good for tonifying kidney in but if we want to tonify kidney in and clear the deficiency heat to treat those symptoms of heat like hot flashes and night sweats then we modify the formula and it becomes dr by di wan when we say durbay the juror means this herb germu and so this is this is a kind of a very commonly used formula especially when we're dealing with like women going through menopause this is a very commonly used formula dur by di huang wan and the point here is durbaid hongwan the juror in the name means germu and it's there because it's clearing deficiency heat so maybe that's what you can think of when we talk about deficiency heat may be an easy thing to think of is women going through menopause hot flashes night sweats five center heat malar flush heat in the face things like that so jeremy again it's cold in temperature like most of these and this one is both bitter and sweet bitter because it's clearing the heat and draining fire and by that we mean qi level or yonging channel heat but we also mean lung and stomach heat but then we say it's sweet because it's generating fluids or moistening dryness so it also has a sweet flavor and so probably what we should remember about geramu anamorenorisoma is maybe what we can say is this is an herb that clears both excess heat and deficiency heat so in terms of clearing heat jeremy is good for both excess and deficiency when we say that germu clears excess heat we mean it clears lung and stomach heat when we say that germu clears deficiency heat we're talking about kidney yin deficiency tidal fever night sweats and things like that so that's probably the important thing to know about germu and a moreno rhizoma as for the name jermu means know your mother or i don't think recognize your mother know your mother or be familiar with your mother and so i've heard a couple stories about why it has this name uh once somebody told me this there was this elaborate story about uh there was this boy and he had a mother i mean i guess most boys have a mother at some point there was this boy and he had a mother but then i guess they were like walking through the mountains and the boy got lost or something like that they got separated and so they were apart for a long time the boy grew up and became a doctor but he could never find his mother and years later when he was walking through the mountain he came across this sick woman and he recognized that this woman was his mother and based on her signs and symptoms he gave her this herb that was germu and he named that herb recognize your mother know your mother be familiar with your mother and so that was a very nice poetic story it turns out lee shir jen's explanation for this is he thinks that the plant looks like maggot larva crawling towards their mother and so that's the that's why it's named jeremy this is because these maggots the the maggot babies are crawling towards their maggot mother and they know their mother or they're familiar with their mother and that's why we call it germu that sounds kind of gross to me so jeremy but i think it's good to remember germu know your mother because when you think of mothers you can think of menopause and when you think of menopause you can think of kidney in deficiencies so you can remember that germu is good for kidney in deficiency or germu clears deficiency heat because your mother is going through menopause i also think of the latin name anamorena when you look at it kind of looks like amenorrhea which is like menopause so that's how i remember that germo clears deficiency heat but we should also not forget that it also clears lung and stomach heat as well so germu and moreno rhizoma remember that it clears excess heat as in lung and stomach heat remember that clear deficiency heat as in kidney yin deficiency so that's germu and the morenorizoma next is jerza gardenia fructus jerzhurza gardenia fructus [Music] so jerza gardeniofructus of course it clears heat and drains fire maybe what we should know here is its specialty is that it clears heat from all three jowl it clears heat from anywhere in the body and uh maybe what we can also say is its way of clearing heat when we say it drains heat or drains fire we're literally meaning uh it drains it out through the urine so it guides the heat out through the urine but the important thing is it drains heat from all three jiao so notice when we look at our channels we got a lot of channels because it's clearing heat from a lot of different places and notice that one of those channels is the san jiao channel or the triple burner channel because it's clearing heat from all of the three jiao so it enters the saan zhao channel to clear all that heat so for clear heat and drain fire we say it clears heat from all three gel we also say it uh treats shen disorders due to heat like irritability insomnia delirious speech so we kind of mentioned this in the last one if you remember in cool accurate herbs that released the exterior we talked about the herb dondo sure prepared soybean and remember we said that there is this kind of funny action that dondo true eliminates irritability and that comes up in one formula the name of that formula is jerzong has two ingredients jerzu and dondo chur and so that's why it has the name jertsachertong and this is the formula that's uh it's a shanghan loon formula and specifically for irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease so if you have a febrile disease you have this heat you take some herbs you get rid of the heat you're over your febrile disease but you have some lingering heat that you got rid of all the symptoms like the fever and all that stuff but you have some lingering heat and it's causing you some irritability and some heat in the chest then we can use these herbs dirt and dondo trigger to help with that irritability so that's why it comes up here in terms of treating irritability really that comes up in one formula really what i remember i think the clear heat from all three dial is going to be a little bit more important besides clearing heat and draining fire it also clears damp heat and this is something that we'll talk a little bit more about when we get to the category herbs that clear heat and dry dampness because we have an entire category that clears damp heat also in the drain dampness category we have an entire subsection that besides that also clear stampede but here basically we can say that damp heat is a combination of heat and dampness and that's actually really annoying because like dampness is a yin pathogen and heat is a young pathogen so it's like this combination of this like sticky yin and yang and it's really hard to get rid of so luckily we have certain herbs that are good for clearing damp heat jutsu is one of them our main symptoms or remain syndromes associated with damp heat are going to be lynn syndrome and jaundice so i'm not sure if we've talked about what lynn syndrome is lynn syndrome lin so we're going to see this come up a little bit in this category or is it treat lin syndrome but we're definitely going to see it come up in later categories when we're going to see this action these are abstract lynn syndrome what is lynn syndrome lin is the chinese term sometimes uh bensky translates this as painful urinary dribbling and i think why nigel weissman translate this as urinary stranguary which is a very funny word at first i thought stranguly that can't be a real word but then i looked it up on google turns out there is a word called there that is an actual word in english that's not just something that nigel westman made up uh basically we're talking about difficult painful urination like a urinary tract infection so i kind of think of like strangurie like somebody's strangling your urethra and the urine can't get out and that's urinary stranguring but basically we're talking about difficult urination rough scanty painful dribbling urination so in chinese the word lin think about like when you have a faucet and the faucet is dripping even if you try to turn the the knob all the way the faucet is still dripping out just little drips one after the other in chinese that's called lin and so if your urination is like that like it's kind of like if you have a uti it's like oh you feel this urgency you really have to go but then when you get to the bathroom it's like only a little bit drips out and it's not it's not like a smooth flow it's a rough dripping sort of thing sometimes it's painful sometimes it's burning sometimes there's blood in the urine that's lynn syndrome and so in this situation when we're talking about damp heat what we're saying here is a there's a damp heat pathogen blocking the smooth flow of urine and so it's that damp heat that's causing this lens syndrome and so that's when we say lynn syndrome due to damp heat that's something that jerza can treat and we have that come up a couple times so we have a very a famous formula for lynn syndrome or uti which is called bajongsan a rectification powder like the name suggests it has eight herbs in it most of these herbs come from the category herbs that drain dampness but it turns out one of the other herbs is girtsa gardenia fructus so we're going to see that come up a lot that jerza gardenia fructus also has an action of clearing damp heat as well both for lynn syndrome and also for jaundice jaundice is when your skin turns yellow and so basically you have this damp heat that damp heat is turning your skin yellow and again that's going to come up we have a formula called yin chen hao tong which is specifically for jaundice but uh jerza is also for damp heat jaundice so definitely remember that it clears heat and drains fire from all three gel also clears damp heat again guiding it out through the urine oh man cools blood and stops fleeing so dirt's a gardenia fruit just clears all types of heat it also clears heat like we'd say clear seat from the blood level that um i don't know if we talked about this yet but when it comes to bleeding we have a couple causes of bleeding we can have bleeding due to blood stagnation we have bleeding due to cold we've got bleeding due deficiency we can also have bleeding due to heat and that's something we'll talk about more in the next section but here uh it cools the blood and stops bleeding for a nosebleed vomiting blood blood in the stool blood in the urine again blood in the urine that's like a uti and kind of the idea here is remember heat causes things to speed up that's why you have a rapid pulse well it turns out when the heat is severe or the heat is at the blood level the heat can cause the blood to speed up so much that it begins to move recklessly or frenetically outside of the vessels so there's so much heat the blood is speeding up so much that you end up with bleeding what kind of bleeding things like nose bleed vomiting blood blood in the urine blood in the stool and so that's what we're treating here with jerzo and again we can use it charred to stop bleeding so remember i think we said the same thing in our first category warm active herbs that release the exterior we have the herb ginger schizo in the peta herba it's really good for releasing the exterior it's really good for venting rashes but what we also said is it can be used charred to stop bleeding when you prepare it this way the name becomes jingje tan chard jingjie well here we have the same thing going on jirza can be used to cool the blood and stop bleeding but for that we prepare it by charring it and becomes jerzon charred jerzo so that's another function of jerza gardenia fructus clears all kind of heat it can also be used topically it can be used topically either for sores like heat toxicity type sores with pus or can be used topically for injury and trauma or knocks and falls it turns out um we have a famous formula it's uh the formula is san huang san three yellows powder but has this nickname herbal ice and it gets that nickname because whenever you injure yourself and you have a lot of redness and swelling and pain in in modern and western times you a doctor might tell you to put ice on it to reduce the inflammation well in traditional chinese medicine they one they didn't have ice and number two we don't like ice we don't like cold we think cold makes things worse in terms of ice but we would use this herbal preparation sand wonkson to put it on there that it not only clears heat and reduces inflammation but it also invigorates blood to help with the injury and trauma anyway the point of all this is it turns out you can modify saan huang san to include to help with injury and trauma or knocks and falls so that's dirtza again it's cold and bitter it's cold because we're clearing heat it's bitter because we're clearing heat and draining fire and then just pay attention it it enters a lot of different channels because it clears a lot of different types of heat it's clearing heat from everywhere in the body so clears heat from all three gel it's treating that irritability so it enters the heart channel it's clearing heat from all three gel so it enters the three jiao channel the saanjal or triple warmer channel so just remember it clears heat from all three gel it's good for damp heat when you say damp heat we mean lynn syndrome or difficult urination and we mean jaundice that you're turning yellow and it can also cool the blood to stop bleeding for that we use it charred just like many of our stop bleeding herbs so that's jerza gardenia fructose don julie is loafetery herba don julie lofateri herba so don julie with each of these herbs they clear heat and drain fire but we want to know where do they clear heat from or what's their specialty with don julie we can definitely say its specialty is that it clears heart heat so don julie low federi herba is special for clearing heart heat so now we have to ask ourselves what does heart heat look like well it turns out when we talk about heart heat there are three main things we want to think about number one is shen problems that could be irritability insomnia anxiety palpitations actually go under the category of shen problems as well and so remember in your fundamentals class we talked about how the heart houses the shen the heart houses the spirit well turns out if we have heat in the heart then the the shen the spirit gets kind of restless the shen can't come home and be calm so you get you get all these symptoms like irritability restlessness insomnia anxiety just because that heat is disturbing the heart and you can also get palpitations like your heart is racing or you can feel your heart pounding in your chest um sometimes this is difficult because when we get patients we say oh do you have palpitations and they're like what does that mean i think in western medicine palpitations really just refers to the heart rate that if you feel like your heart is beating very fast they would say oh that's palpitations or tachycardia i think really what we mean is not only maybe your heart is beating fast but you can feel it pounding in your chest that normally if you're just going about your day you shouldn't be able to feel your heart pounding but you can think about like if you have to give a speech in front of a large crowd of people and you get really nervous you can start feel you can feel your heart pounding and that would be palpitations a more severe form of this would be like if a person has an anxiety attack sometimes people people are having an anxiety attack and they think they're having a heart attack because they can feel this tightness in their chest and this pounding in their heart we would call that palpitations others you can feel your heart beating in your chest so that so one possibility for that is heart heat so heart heat we're looking at number one shen problems uh insomnia anxiety irritability palpitations number two we can might see mouth sores or tongue sores remember that we say the heart sprouts in the tongue so if you have heat in the heart we can have that heat go up into the tongue and cause tongue sores or mouth sores so that's another symptom associated with heart heat number three we're again talking about urination problems uh difficult scanty rough painful urination and again this is a this is a little bit weird the way we explain this is really weird when the the kind of explanation we give we call this heart heat pouring into the small intestine so what does that mean well remember that the in terms of yin yang pairs the heart and small intestine are yin yang pears so if you have heat in the heart that heat can transfer into the yin yang pair the small intestine then it turns out that the small intestine is paired with the urinary bladder through its tai yang relationship so it's kind of like heat in the heart gets transfers over to its interior exterior repair the small intestine and heat in the small intestine gets transferred into its taiyong pair the urinary bladder and we end up with urination problems so basically when we say that don juliet lofeteri herba treats heart heat these are the three things we're talking about we're talking about shen problems mouth sores or tongue ulcers and difficult urination and so then down here we say that uh number two john don juliet promotes urination to treat lynn syndrome again this is really just urination problems due to heart heat pouring into the small intestine so don julie we should definitely think about heart heat and we can specifically think about heart heat pouring into the small intestine and so it turns out that this does come up in one of our formulas we have a formula we need to click on the right button we have a formula called voucher son guide out the red powder dow church on guide out the red powder and again here uh red is referring to the color of fire and the heart so guide out the red we're kind of implying we're draining heat from the heart and so here you can see uh shang huang mutong our herbs that we'll talk about later but don julie is here as one of our major herbs that clears heart heat alleviates irritability by clearing heat from the heart so what does this look like here we have a heart heat a heart fire flaring up our heart heat pouring in the small intestine but what do our symptoms look like so here we have irritability with a sensation of heat in the chest you got heat in the heart your heart is in your chest so you feel heat in the chest thirst with a desire to drink cold beverages red face fever those are all just signs of heat maybe sores around the mouth and here again we're talking about the heart sprouts in the tongue so we have heat in the heart we can get sores in the tongue or around the mouth dark scanty urine or rough urination again this is due to heart heat pouring into the small intestine heart heat goes in the small intestine small intestine goes into the bladder and so we get difficult or rough urination again sores on the tongue because the heart sprouts in the tongue uh painful urination urination short and hesitant as an unsmooth urination uh hematuria you'd go so far as to have blood in the urine and so again even when we look at this formula dowtrus on that clears heart heat we see these same symptoms and so the fact that don giulier is in this formula is telling us that don juliet is going to be a major herb for treating symptoms of heart heat and specifically heart heat pouring into the small intestine so that's don giulier lofiteri herba the i guess maybe we'll look at the properties this is cold in temperature it's also sweet and bland in flavor so sweet again implying it has some moistening ability but remember the bland flavor when we talked about the five flavors one of them was bland which is kind of weird because bland doesn't really sound like a flavor but when we talked about the five flavors we had the five main ones and then a couple extra bland was kind of an extra flavor and remember that bland promotes urination the bland flavor promotes urination and that's what don giulia is doing is it's promoting urination to treat this difficult rough painful urination that we're promoting the urine to get that heat out entering channels look pretty look pretty straightforward the street's heart heat heart heat pouring in the small intestine so it enters the heart and small intestine channels stomach maybe the way i would think about the stomach channel is that again we're talking about sores around the mouth we could also call that stomach heat so i'd say maybe that's why we could say it enters a stomach channel as well as for the name don actually means bland so when we talk about the five flavors there are seven five flavors bland in chinese is dan means bamboo and yee means leaf ea is one of our plant parts like we had zutsuye the shiso leaf we had sange is a mulberry leaf well here we have don julie which is bland bamboo leaf so don juliet literally means bland bamboo leaf and so maybe if you remember it's bland in flavor you can remember it has something to do with promoting urination and here we were specifically talking about heart heat pouring into the small intestine causing difficult urination so that's don julie lofeteri herbo next is shakutsau brunelli spika shakutsao pronelli spika again all these herbs were clearing some sort of heat shakuta we probably want to know that it clears liver heat specifically so we say it clears liver heat and brightens the eyes so if you remember when we talked about uh when we were in the wind heat category cool acrid herbs that released the exterior we talked about this idea this function of brightening the eyes we have certain herbs that have a function of brightening the eyes when we talk about eye problems there are three causes of eye problems we can have wind heat causing eye problems we can have liver heat liver young rising causing eye problems or it can have liver yin deficiency and liver blood deficiency that if there's not enough yin and blood nourishing the eyes we can get certain eye problems and there we can even say like vision problems like poor night vision blurry vision things like that but normally uh when well we have these three causes some herbs do all three we talked about uh sange and juhua are very good for brightening the eyes well here we have another herb that's very good for brightening the eyes shaakutsao clears liver heat to brighten eyes for red painful swollen eyes due to liver heat we can also think about a headache and dizziness that's more that's again like liver heat liver young rising that liver heat is rising up into the head giving us headache dizziness maybe even ringing in the ears things like that so shakutal is a very important herb for clearing liver heat besides clearing heat it also clears heat and dissipate nodules and so this is when you have some phlegm and you get some heat in there it can turn into phlegm heat and that phlegm heat can congeal in the channels and cause nodules and so neck lumps scrofula goiter those are all lumps or nodules in the neck and uh or lipomas uh fatty deposits swollen glands again there's kind of implied work in the neck due to phlegm heat so shakutz out is also for nodules due to heat specifically phlegm heat and then kind of a modern something modern research has discovered is that shyakutsao does have a very good action of lowering high blood pressure and this kind of makes sense because we shouldn't make a one-to-one uh relationship but high blood pressure is kind of like liver young rising and so the fact that shakutsa is really good for clearing liver heat kind of makes sense that's good for for high blood pressure and so when we go back and look at these you can think about uh think about a very wood person a very livery person someone who's really angry they're they're loud and they're shouting they got this vein popping out of their forehead because they're loud all the time if they have all this liver heat they probably have red blood shot eyes as well um they probably have high blood pressure think about like when you get angry and stressed out your blood pressure goes up there your veins start popping out of your forehead you get these red blood shot eyes if it's really bad you get headache and dizziness and so that's like liver heat you can use something like shakuta to clear that liver heat so we look at the properties again cold and bitter makes sense accurate it's also accurate so it's kind of like we're draining the heat and dispersing the heat at the same time but i would just remember cold and bitter because we're in this category entering channels pretty straightforward we're clearing liver heat so this enters the liver channel enters the liver and gallbladder channel the two wood channels so we're treating all these liver symptoms so we enter the liver and gallbladder channel and then notice the dosage is larger than average 9 to 15 grams and really the only reason for this is you need more of it for it to be effective sometimes we say that with certain herbs if they're like heavy minerals we use a larger dosage if they're toxic we use a smaller dosage there's really nothing like that it just turns out in order for this herb to be effective we need a larger than average dosage and it turns out that that's actually kind of annoying because xiaku tsao if you have your sample it's kind of light and fluffy so even nine grams of shakuta it takes up a lot of room if you go up to 15 grams of shakutsa it's like a lot of shakutsal and so sometimes we would even just prescribe this as a tea that you could just give your patient shyakutsao and have them pour boiling water over it and drink it as a tea and that's very good for things like liver heat eye problems and it's really good for things like lowering high blood pressure but it turns out like if you have like if you have like a nalgene bottle or something and you put 15 grams of shaku it's gonna fill up most of your most of your tea bottle just with the 15 grams of shokuts out there's like barely any room for water because 15 grams of shaku tiles actually takes up a lot of space so that's kind of annoying but it turns out for shock it's out you do need a larger dosage as for the name shakutsa i think shakutsa means summer withering herb tsao just means herb or grass sha means summer ku means and so i'm assuming that this is a plant that by the time summer comes around it already starts to wither i'm assuming that's where it got its name but i'm not really sure but shakuta i believe means summer withered herb i'm not sure that helps you remember the functions but that's what shakuta means so shakutsal i definitely remember liver heat specifically clears liver heat to brighten eyes shakutsa pranelli spika clears liver heat to brighten eyes next is she truly fructus she was a truly fructis both our first own she was a truly fruitus is watermelon so watermelon you can think that its main function is it clears heat and specifically it clears summer heat so remember so remember in fundamentals class we talked about the six evils uh heat cold wind dampness dryness and summer heat those were the six environmental tea or the six evils and what we said about this is heat cold damp nostrinus wind those could be external or internal you can have an external attack of wind heat you can have an external attack of dryness you're gonna have an external attack of cold or you could have internally generated heat you can have internally generated cold you can't have internally generated wind it turns out summer heat is only external you can only have an external contraction of summer heat there's no such thing as internal summer heat and so what is summer heat summer heat is heat that happens during the summer it's really as simple as that we could kind of relate this to if a person gets sun stroke or heat stroke we would say that's summer heat it's the heat of the summer turns out we can we can technically have two types we can have summer heat heat or we can have summer heat dampness and so it's kind of implied that there's some bit of dampness going on here whenever we have summer heat but we can have summer heat with heat predominant or you can have summer heat with dampness predominant and our symptoms are going to look slightly different but here we just say in general she was a truly fruitless watermelon clears summer heat so first think about you're out in the summer you got heat stroke you're very thirsty dark scanty urine either because you've lost so many fluids you don't you have dark scanty urine or you can think of that summer heat dampness that there's a summer heat damp pathogen blocking the smooth flow of urine so we have urination problems and dry heaving again think of like heat stroke or sun stroke those are things that can happen so shiguoi clears that summer heat it also generates body fluids so if you're in a condition of heat stroke or sun stroke probably you've lost a lot of fluids well it turns out eating watermelon can help replenish those fluids so we say generates body fluids you can think that chigua watermelon is very juicy so that's how it uh generates body fluid and sometimes this might be more effective that if you just drink plain water that doesn't have any electrolytes in it they'll just go right through you but if you eat watermelon that can actually the juiciness can actually help rehydrate you better than just plain drinking water and then we can also say it promotes urination so again if we have this summer heat dampness causing dark scanty urine the the urine is not flowing smoothly we can promote urination to help smooth out the flow of that urine we can also say it's good for edema and jaundice again jaundice is usually a damp heat condition and it's turning your skin yellow so by generating the fluids we're kind of helping clear out the heat and then we're promoting urination to drain that damp heat jaundice i believe that shiguoi is better for jaundice we can also use watermelon peel or watermelon rind chihuahua pea that's especially good for promoting urination but more for edema so shigua-pi the watermelon rind promotes urination it's a really good promoting urination but more for edema whereas chigua the actual fruit the flesh is good for promoting urination but more for jaundice treating that damp heat so that's watermelons to truly fructose the dosage we say the dosage is 15 to 30 grams really you never use xigwa in a decoction you never use it as a formula shigua watermelon you use as food therapy so think about it's hot during the summer the way you cool off is by eating watermelon if you try to eat watermelon during the winter people are going to look at you funny you're like why are you eating watermelon during the winter you should be out drinking pumpkin spice lattes because cinnamon ginger and clove are very warming they're good winter time spices whereas watermelon and lemonade and mint are good summertime things so chicwa watermelon is good for summer heat the next two are kind of similar tienhua fan and lu gun they're very similar let's go through the first tianhuafen in clearing heat it's specifically good for clearing lung and stomach heat so again we see a thirst can if the lung if the stomach fluids are damaged that you have stomach inefficiency or something like that you could have uh thirst and irritability but heat in the lung cough with thick yellow difficult to expect rate sputum or here the heat can can be so bad we can have cough with blood streaked sputum that there's this heat in the lung it's actually causing bleeding so we get cough with blood streaked sputum so tienhofen clears lung in stomach heat tianhuafen also generates body fluids and here we say generating body fluids is the same as saying tonifies lung and stomach yin so remember when you talk about like water metabolism in the fluids we say the lung governs the water passages and he said the stomach is the source of fluids so when we say generate body fluids we can say tonify lung and stomach yin and this is versus tonifying liver and kidney in those are kind of two different things when you say tonify again we can say tonify lung and stomach ian and that's more about generating fluids and alleviating thirst we're going to say tonify liver and kidney in and that's more about the the true yin of the kidneys when we talk about those things like night sweats five center heat stuff like that that's more liver and kidney in whereas lung and stomach in it's kind of like saying generates body fluids so if you see those two we can kind of use them interchangeably so again chiang hwa fen is slightly sweet in flavor because it has this moistening property ability to generate fluids so if you have heat in the lung causing cough with thick or blood streak sputum you're going to want to use some some get get some fluids in there to moisten things and help cool down that heat so tmfn also generates fluids also resolves toxicity and expels plus and again heat toxicity is something we'll talk about in the next couple categories because we have an entire category of herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity for now we can just say that heat toxicity we're talking about skin infection or skin sores like sores with pus so we say carbuncles that means like a boil an infected hair follicle uh when those carbuncles group together into and form one big sore that's called a fur uncle so carbuncles fur uncles sores uh swords with yellow sticky foul smelling pus and that's another way we can kind of differentiate some of our sores that if we have like a like more of a blister with like a clear uh clear thin fluid we might say oh that's more like dampness whereas if we have like a thick yellow sticky foul smelling pus more likely it's heat or heat toxicity and then another one is breast abscess which is just a kind of sore something with pus in it but it's on the breast and so that's that happens a lot with um if you're breastfeeding and things get clogged or the things get infected it's very easy to have breast abscess as well so this would be one possibility so chiang hwa fen clears lung and stomach heat generates body fluids and also clears heat toxicity as in carbuncles soars and boils like we said lu gun is very similar lugen very similar things clears lung and stomach heat so again for thirst irritability cough with thick or blood streaked phlegm so clearing heat from the lung and stomach it also generates body fluids aka tonifies lung and stomach yin so it's giving us fluids as well we say that lugen is better at this than tian hua fen that lugen is sweet in flavor when we said that uh tian hua fen is slightly sweet so it has a little bit of a moistening it's bitter so maybe it's better for clearing heat but it's slightly sweet so it has a little bit of a moistening whereas lugen is straight up sweetened flavor so it's better at tonifying better at moistening and then the the way to differentiate these is lugen is better at promoting urination again to treat lynn syndrome this dark rough scanty painful urination and so part of that generate you can think maybe it generates fluids it's better at doing that so it also promotes urination so lugan and tianhua fen very similar very good for both clearing lung heat especially and for generating fluids and then maybe the way we can differentiate them is chen hua fen better for heat toxicity related abscesses sores and boils whereas lugan better for promoting urination and maybe we could say this does come up in a formula remember when we were talking about uh wind heat one of our formulas for wind heat was song juyen hopefully this is the right one yeah so uh if we have an external attack of wind heat we're talking about cough and um song yay was especially good at moistening the lungs due to wind heat so we use sonya and juhua because they release the exterior and our main formula for that was song julian we'll notice here kind of as a supporting herb we also see lugen is there because it clears heat and generates fluids so if you have an external attack of wind heat you've got this dry cough you not only want to release the exterior you might want to clear some heat and generate fluids as well so that's why we're using lugan in this formula to do that so lugan also generates fluids in the lung to help with some of that dryness so chiang hua fen and lugan very similar clearing lung and stomach heat generating body fluids maybe just remember the difference is chianwa fen better for heat toxicity related skin infection glue gun better for promoting urination to treat lynn syndrome so that was lugen phragmitis rhizoma next is jouer mingza [Music] here's another one we're clearing heat drain and fire but we're specifically clearing liver heat so this is another one that clears liver heat to brighten eyes so this one very similar to shakutsaw both of these are for clearing liver heat specifically for brightening the eyes so eye problems headache and dizziness again if we have this liver heat it tends to rise up into the head giving us things like headache and dizziness so jouer mingza clears liver heat to brighten eyes but also treats things like headache and dizziness what's different about this one is jouer mingza cassia semen also moistens the large intestine and again this is just a common property of seeds the word means seed so jewemingza is a seed seed seeds tend to be oily in nature so they tend to have this effect of lubricating the large intestine to treat constipation if you remember we had a similar thing going on with nyobangsa in the cool accurate release exterior category nyobanzo bird oxy again means seed so neobangza is a seed because it's a seed it's very oily those oils gently lubricate the large intestine to relieve constipation so nyobanza is another example of a seed that moistens the large intestine and here we have jewemingza is a seed that moistens the large intestine and then kind of like shakutsal juemingza it not only lowers high blood pressure it lowers high cholesterol as well so again you can think of this like a liver thing when you're stressed out you got high blood pressure and high cholesterol joey ming's it turns out according to modern research can lower both high blood pressure and high cholesterol so that can make it useful but for joy mingza uh definitely kind of kind of group it together with shakuta that both joey mingza and shakutal clear liver gallbladder heat clears liver heat to and eyes maybe remember we said that shakuta is good for a goiter scrapula and nodules on the neck whereas juemingza is better because it's a seed it moistens the large intestine the name of this one is kind of interesting jue mingza uh it turns out this herb is actually named after a different herb sher jui ming so later we're going to learn uh this is at the very end at the um extinguish wind category um we learn a shell abalone shell named shirjui ming it turns out shirjui ming has a very famous very reliable action of clearing liver heat to brighton eyes so sher jouey ming is very famous for brightening the eyes it turns out later they found this seed is very good at brightening the eyes so they named it after sher juei ming so these two things are not related one is a shell and one is a seed so it's not like they're they're two plants that are related they're completely different but the thing that they have in common is they're both good for clearing liver heat to brighten eyes so maybe that's how i can remember that jouer mingza is very good at clearing liver heat and brightening the eyes it's so good at clearing liver heat and brightening the eyes we named it after this other shell that clears liver heat and brightens the eyes so jouer mingzhou clears liver heat and brightens eyes and the nose the the middle character there ming means bright or brightness so we talk about like yang ming disorder yang brightness that's the that's the character we use ming that character um it's made up of two parts the the part on the left is the sun the part on the right is the moon so it's like you got the light of the sun and the light of the moon you put them together and you get brightness anyway maybe you can remember that in juey mingza the ming means brightness so jue mingza brightens the eyes so that's joey mingza cassia semen clears liver heat to brighten eyes it's also a seed it's oily so it moistens the large intestine and it lowers both high blood pressure and high cholesterol so draining the cassie i seen in and finally this one is uh lianza sheen this one when i was in school this was not on our syllabus this herb is not on the nccom herb list but i still like to talk about it because it turns out it's it's it's usually at least when i was in school i believe it was in our school clinic uh herb room and when i practiced i've had it in our in our clinic as well so this is one that it might not be on the nccum list but it's something that can be very useful in clinical practice leanne zachine lienze lumbinus means lotus seed so this is a like a lotus plant this is loya seed sheen means heart so this is like lotus seeds have this little uh i don't know what it's called like a pith it has this little thing in the middle uh that's that can be taken out from inside the seed and so that's what the enzyme is this little pith in the middle of a lotus seed that's the enzyme and so it's in this category clear heat drain fire so of course it clears heat and drains fire this is another one that's specifically good for clearing heart heat so things were like so again we said our symptoms of heart eat our shen problems like irritability insomnia anxiety here we can even say um delirium and confusion it's also good for sores and the mouth and tongue leon's asian also stops bleeding and secures essence i'm not sure that's really so important whenever i've used leon's machine it's for the first function of clearing heart heat now what's convenient about this one is lianzashin is you can prescribe it as a single herb and you can basically give someone a little baggie of lian's machine and just have them take a pinch and pour boiling water on it and prepare it as a tea so if you don't want to take the time to cook a full decoction where you have to get all these herbs together and soak them and then boil them for 30 minutes lian's a sheen might be a convenient thing to try first that you can just pour boiling water on it and make it as a tea and so it's especially good for like insomnia due to heart heat and so that's why we can even prescribe it as a single herb for insomnia due to heart heat oh yeah that's in the note down there leonza lienza sheen can be taken as a single herb for insomnia do the heart heat it's also used as a folk remedy for childhood insomnia by making it into a pillow i might be misremembering this but i believe this is called upside down sleeping pattern so if you have upside down sleeping pattern battery in children this does not mean that the child is physically upside down but we mean that upside down sleeping pattern we mean that you have a child that is sleeping during the day but awake at night and i'm assuming that this means like infants i'm not sure that like if you have like a five or six year old i'm not sure that's what they mean but like if you have like a newborn baby they kind of sleep whenever but if they're like sleeping during the day and then they're keeping you up at night we call that upside down sleeping pattern and in that case you can actually take lyenza sheen and make it into a little pillow and just having them sleep on it it can be effective and that sounded really weird uh basically like somebody told me like that it's like it's not a real thing can herbs really work like you don't even take them internally you just put them under your head and the herbs still work and then i had a patient with a baby that she tried it and was like oh yeah it really worked so that's kind of interesting but that's kind of like a folk remedy for uh [Music] childhood insomnia lienzichine lotus seed heart again seed sheen means heart so this is the heart of that seed it's a little green pithy thing that's inside of lotus seed but that is liansashin and those are our herbs that drain fire so we can go go through and do a little review so first of all basically um you definitely want to know the first do sure gao and jermu those are representative herbs for chi level heat or for yang ming channel heat characterized by the four bigs big fever big thirst big sweat big pulse so sure gao and jeremu appear together in the formula by hutong and that's our representative formula for qi level our yangming channel heat so we definitely want to remember that sure gao and germu treat chi level or yangming channel heat besides that we want to know when we go through these herbs each of these herbs clears heat each of these herbs clears heat and drains fire what kind of heat is it clearing so sure gal besides the yangming channel or qi level heat sure gao gypsum fibrosum clears lung and stomach heat so remember we saw that in cough with thick yellow sticky difficult to expect rate sputum but we also saw that in stomach heat like hunger thirst bad breath so sure gal gypsum fibrosum clears lung in some heat germu same thing clears lung and stomach heat but it also clears heat from deficiency so germu is special because it clears both excess heat and deficiency heat when we say excess heat we mean lung and stomach heat when we say deficiency heat we mean kidney yin deficiency dirt's a gardenia fructus clears heat from all three jiao jirtsa gardenia fructus is also good for clearing damp heat so um jaundice and lynn syndrome damp heat turning your skin yellow uh damp heat obstructing the smooth flow of urine causing uti-like symptoms so jerza clears heat from all three gel jerza clears damp heat also cools blood and stops bleeding don julie lofeteri herba don juliet is bland bamboo leaf don ji specialty is clearing heart heat again heart heat we mean we mean three things shen problems irritability insomnia anxiety palpitations mouth and tongue sores and urination problems due to heart heat pouring into the small intestines so don giulia good for heart heat pouring into the small intestine shakutal pernelli spika is good for clearing liver heat so clears liver heat to brighten eyes so dry eyes red eyes itchy swollen eyes due to liver heat bloodshot eyes due to liver heat shakutsal good for clearing liver heat to brighten eyes it also includes things like dizziness and headache due to liver heat shock utah this one also is good for neck nodules not sure that's super important i would really think of shock utah clears liver heat do brighton eyes also lowers high blood pressure uh higua is watermelon you eat watermelon during the summer shigua is good for summer heat shiguois watermelon it's very juicy so it's good for generating fluids so if you're dehydrated during the summer you have heat stroke shigua will also generate the body fluids and help promote urination chiang hwa fan and lugan very similar again they clear lung and stomach heat like our first two they clear lung and stomach heat and they're very good at generating body fluids if we wanted to differentiate them we might say that tianhoufen is better for heat toxicity related skin sores things with pus we're specifically looking at sores with thick yellow sticky foul smelling pus whereas lugan is um better for promoting urination but tianhoufen very good for clearing long and stomach heat and very good for generating body fluids jue mingza kind of similar to shakutau shakusa and juey mingza are two ones for clearing liver heat to brighten eyes uh jewemingza because it's a seed it also moistens the large intestine and you aiming besides just clearing um besides lowering high blood pressure it also lowers uh high cholesterol as well but jiakuzao and joy mingza are both very good for clearing liver heat to brighten eyes so that is our category herbs that drain fire so again um if you want to if you if you haven't gotten the slides or the flash cards you can download those from the website so if you go to the website tcmstudy.net go to the herbology one tab and there you can um we have herbs that drain fire there's slides i'll put the flash cards up there uh there's also if you want to test yourself you can take a practice test so we have which form of jerza is best for stopping bleeding well this isn't just this doesn't just apply to girtsa this applies to all of our herbs that stop bleeding if you want to emphasize an herb's ability to stop bleeding you char it so charjurtza is jertsakan cools the blood stops bleeding which of these herbs clears blazing stomach fire for headache toothache and painful swollen gums we got a couple that were good for um clearing stomach heat but let's go through here joinings uh does that clear stomach heat clear blazing stomach fire no dreamings or clears liver uh heat she was that was watermelon that's better for stomach heat shakuta another one better for liver heat so our answer here is sure gao clear stomach heat like in the formula shikhwang song so this is something you can go on the website you can go through and take a practice test as always we like to say special thank you to the patreon members for supporting the the channel the website and everything that goes on basically this video is brought to you thanks to the support of viewers like you so thank you for your support if 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