Herbs That Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity

hello there and welcome to another herb review this time we're going over the category herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so again we're still in this very large category of herbs at clear heat and here we're talking specifically about heat toxicity now i'll be honest this is one of my my least favorite categories just because it's a really big category there are a lot of herbs sometimes it's really hard to differentiate what each herb does what makes it special and so sometimes i get students they're like oh we have this huge list of herbs and they all seem the same they all kind of run together it's hard to tell what's what i'm kind of like yeah i agree i feel the same way that's hard to differentiate some of these herbs so what we're going to do here is just kind of go through quickly and kind of point out maybe one or two specialties of each or because i feel like if you start to go into too much detail it just gets really confusing and everything gets jumbled so this one we're kind of it's a large category some of the herbs aren't very commonly used in our formula class so some of those we're just going to go through really quickly and just kind of point out a specialty of each of them so again this category is called herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so we're dealing with something called heat toxicity and again this is kind of weird that it's kind of hard to describe what heat toxicity actually is so the chinese term is and we can say this heat toxicity is an extreme accumulation of heat so this chinese character du means toxin but we have to be careful here because i think when most people hear the word toxin especially in a modern context in alternative medicine they think about like oh i gotta i have these toxins in my body i got to do a detox that i've been i've been eating kale that's not organic oh all these pesticides i need to detox and that's not really what we're talking about at all it turns out this chinese character du on the one hand it can mean real toxins as in poisons or substances in the body so these could be things like snake venom or poison ivy some plant you eat a plant and it's toxic and now you have this toxin that's one possible interpretation of the word do toxin but really we're talking more about an extreme accumulation of heat and it's usually associated with infection so like an infectious disease so here we're going to talk about what he toxicity is and as we go through these herbs it may just be good to know that these herbs belong to this category that these are abstract heat toxicity and then have some general idea of what heat toxicity is so what are some examples of heat toxicity well one is hot swollen painful deep set sores like oils carbuncles and furnace we'll get into exactly what those are but again this is here we're saying skin infection these are various types of skin infection they're often caused by bacteria or viruses and they often involve either very red deep set sores that are swollen and painful or sores with pus again that's a sign of an infection so this isn't just like a rash this is more like you got this big angry looking welt and you're like oh it's got like pus and discharge oozing out of it and you're like uh that looks infected that's what we mean by heat toxicity that's what we mean by skin infection and again in terms of tcm we could say that this is an extreme accumulation of heat a lot of times this pus we could explain that by saying that there's this fire or heat toxicity burning the flesh and that causes the formation of pus though so that plus is flesh that's been burnt by fire or heat toxicity and that's actually why a lot of these herbs enter the stomach channel because the spleen governs the flesh and pus is flesh that's been burnt but because it's heat we say the stomach instead of the spleen i don't know but these herbs enter the stomach channel because of pus and we're dealing with skin infection like carbuncles boils fur uncles deep set angry looking sores and then that we can include like things on the throat think like strep throat when you have a red swollen throat and you got little like pustules and things like that that could be heat toxicity tonsillitis usually due to an infection a viral infection causes things to swell and get red that could also be an example of heat toxicity abscesses which are a collection of pus usually due to infection so we can think of external abscesses like what common one is breast abscess usually happens in nursing mothers that they get some sort of infection either bacterial viral and that cause causes a swollen area with pus and that's breast abscess but this will also be internal abscesses if you have an accumulation of pus inside the body like lung abscess or large intestine abscess that could also be heat toxicity diarrhea or dysentery can also fall under the category of heat toxicity and sometimes people ask what is dysentery how is it different from diarrhea well dysentery we're specifically saying there's inflammation of the large intestine usually the diarrhea is severe it usually comes with some abdominal pain and a lot of times when we talk about heat toxicity we're usually saying there's some blood or pus in the stool i think we talked about this in the damp heat category where we talked about um red and white dysentery is a chinese term and so red and white means blood and pus in the stool and again this is there's severe heat searing the intestines causing bleeding or severe heat searing the intestines and causing the accumulation of pus in the intestines and then you see that come out in the diarrhea in that form of dysentery so dysentery can be a form of heat toxicity another type the epidemic febrile outbreaks can also fall under the category of heat toxicity so this is something we're not just talking about uh people got a cold or you got a little sick and you feel under the weather these are like pandemic type outbreaks these epidemics that are sweeping the countryside that are very contagious they have a very quick onset and are very severe a lot of times those types of diseases fall under the category of heat toxicity as well and we look at historically some of these epidemic outbreaks that happen in china um we usually equate them to things like mumps or encephalitis mumps is something that's it's extremely contagious it causes a lot of swelling around the neck under the parotid glands very contagious very severe causes of fever and a lot of swelling encephalitis swelling of the brain and so these types of severe epidemic outbreaks could be considered heat toxicity as well and that's why actually some of the herbs in this category are said to have antiviral or antibacterial properties because they're dealing with this type of infection infectious disease that can sweep the countryside and cause massive outbreaks so that can be heat toxicity as well and then other things when we talk about toxin we can talk about real toxins that enter the body so we might talk about like snake bite or insect bite but again this is usually these snake bite and insect bites once that venom gets into your skin it causes things like hot swollen painful deep set sores so again this would be a real toxin but it's causing something on the skin that looks like an extreme accumulation of heat so sometimes when you get into insect bites people think like oh does this mean like mosquito bites and i kind of think not really like mosquito bites they're kind of itchy they're kind of annoying but that's not necessarily what we mean by insect bites when they say insect bite thinks more think more like spider bites centipede bites scorpion stings wasp or bee stings something that like if a spider bites you you get this really big red welt that is red painful it's really deep it can be sore to the touch um i had a friend who got bit by a brown recluse uh spider if you get bit by a brown or clue spider go to the hospital because it's very serious but in addition to the treatment he was receiving from the hospital he also used herbs at clear heat toxicity so that kind of thing even if you get like stung by a wasp and for a couple days you might have this red swollen spot that's painful and itchy that might be considered heat toxicity in terms of snake bite and insect bite it's not necessarily like oh i got bit by mosquito and kind of i'm kind of itchy more like something that caused a hot swollen painful deep set sore and then certain symptoms of certain types of cancers and the symptoms that come along with it these might fall into the category of heat toxicity now just to be clear i am not saying that we can use chinese herbs to treat cancer we do not treat cancer in traditional chinese medicine you should not tell your patients you treat cancer you should not advertise that you treat cancer if you do you will lose your license and get sued so what i'm trying to say here is that traditionally or historically when certain cancers arose some of the symptoms that accompanied those cancers may have fallen under the category of heat toxicity or similar types of things we see here and traditionally those herbs may have been used to treat those symptoms but we should be clear that we don't want to get sued so we do not treat cancer directly so these are just some examples of heat toxicity these are the kinds of symptoms we'd be looking for when we would think to use these herbs from the category herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so again we're not trying to like detoxify the liver or anything like that we're dealing with extreme accumulations of heat usually an infection and then sometimes i make this statement heat toxicity is always acute in nature this is something that one of my chinese teachers said this i i seem to remember this when i was learning this category said that heat toxicity is always acute and then i said that again and another teacher said no that's not really true but i still kind of agree with the original with a sentiment of the original statement that just for the sake of simplicity i would say that heat toxicity is usually acute in nature so think about like if you have a skin problem a staph infection you usually don't have a chronic staph infection if you have strep throat you usually don't have chronic strep throat that goes on for years either the strep throat resolves or the infection causes you to die one or the other so we usually don't talk about chronic heat toxicity and sometimes i just like to point this out because we're talking about skin conditions and just to avoid some confusion that there are certain skin conditions like eczema where people have had it since childhood they've had this eczema that comes with the seasons and it's been going on for years and years that kind of condition we probably would not call heat toxicity psoriasis or other things that have been going on for a long time we probably don't necessarily call those heat toxicity but things like when we have a deep set uh angry sore something like you just got bit by a spider or stun like a wasp something that you're breastfeeding and you get a breast abscess people usually don't have chronic breast abscess that goes on for years and years things like that that's what we're talking about in terms of heat toxicity some sort of infection that i mean chronic is kind of a relative term but don't think about like skin problems that have been going on for years and years think more like acute infections causing certain types of skin problems and that's what we mean by heat toxicity and then we should say that many of these herbs can be used topically as well that we can either cook them in the decoction and drink them and take them internally or we can apply them topically usually in their fresh form so a lot of these herbs are flowers so we can just take the flowers and kind of pound them up this motion is me pounding something with a mortar and pestle kind of pound them up to bruise them and make them a little bit pulpy and then apply them directly on the skin as like a poultice so that's another way we can use these herbs is because we're treating skin disorders we can apply them directly to the skin so just to go over some of these terms in a little bit more detail sometimes i talk about these things boils carbuncles for uncles and people like what does that mean let's talk about some of the things that pop up in terms of skin infection and heat toxicity so kind of the general catch-all term we're using it here is abscess like we said this is an extreme accumulation of heat that heat burns the flesh or sears the flesh and causes pus to form or purulent discharge and so that's what we might abscess a area or tissue in the body that's swollen and causes an accumulation of pus so that's just our general term abscess is a swollen area with an accumulation of pus we talk about a boil this is a type of abscess that's this is a skin infection that usually starts in a hair follicle or oil gland usually caused by a staphylococcal bacteria so again when we talk about skin infection think about things like staph infection and the kind of things that would result from that we say fur uncle that's just another name for a boil that's the medical term for a boil when we say a carbuncle it's basically a bunch of boils that got together and formed into one giant super boil and so a cluster of boils that are connected to each other under the skin so looks pretty gross then a stye is the same thing like a boil but it specifically refers to a boil on the eyelid or that forms under the eyelid so these are some of the things we'll encounter when i say skin infection these are some of the things we might be talking about i did not include any pictures here but if you want you can go and do a google image search of some of these things to see what they look like because we're not just talking about like little pimples or little mosquito bites we're talking about big red angry abscesses um that are red swollen and contain pus and again this can also include things like breast abscess or internal abscess like large intestine abscess so these are some things we mean by heat toxicity so general properties of these herbs uh like everything in this category they're going to be bitter in flavor because we're clearing heat draining fire they're going to be cold in temperature because we're dealing with heat the channel is really going to depend on what type type of symptoms we're treating some herbs are better for the skin some herbs are better for lung abscess some herbs are specifically good for diarrhea and dysentery so the channels are going to vary quite a bit depending on what type of heat they treat and like everything we should be cautious because these herbs are cold and bitter so they could damage the spleen these herbs are good for clearing heat toxicity especially like skin infections accumulations of pus but also things like dysentery breast abscess large intestine abscess lung abscess these things with accumulations of pus and viral infections like our epidemic febrile outbreaks and then we can say that some of these herbs have um antibacterial antiviral and there may be some evidence that they could have some anti-tumor properties as well but we have to be very careful about this statement this has not been confirmed these statements have not been approved by the fda so like i said this is a very large category this is a lot of herbs some of these herbs we don't actually use very often but we still have a very large category with a lot of herbs so by and large like i said i i might mostly focus on one knowing which herbs are in this category so just know that when you see one of these herbs know which category belongs to no it belongs to the heat toxicity category and then understand what we mean by heat toxicity when we say heat toxicity we're usually talking about infection or accumulations of pus and if you get put those two together that's going to be most of what you need to know so this is a very large category and again i don't want to go into detail in a lot of these herbs because sometimes that just makes it more confusing so what we're going to go what we're going to do is go through and maybe try to point out some specialties of each herb and just leave it at that so here we go herbs that clear heat toxicity our first two are jin yin hua and lian chao we usually talk about them together jin yin hua lana sara floss jin yin hua and lien chao for scythia fructus lien chiao for scythia fructus so these herbs we usually talk about together because they both generally clear heat toxicity so we see a lot of symptoms of heat toxicity here hot painful sores and swellings especially on the throat breast or eyes large intestine abscess diarrhea with blood or pus so heat toxicity searing the intestines and again this is a flower so it can be used internally in a decoction or externally applied to the skin and same thing with lian chao we just say generally it clears heat toxicity but what makes these two herbs stand out why what we really want to know about them is besides just clearing heat toxicity especially for throat problems they also clear wind heat as well so these herbs we often use in conjunction with cool acrid herbs that release the exterior to treat a condition of wind heat invasion so it turns out this is really convenient because a lot of times wind heat and heat toxicity go together so it's good that we have this herb that can kind of treat both both levels of severity maybe the way to explain it is like this when we said these herbs clear heat toxicity we're saying they're especially good for painful swellings in the throat well the throat it kind of is nicknamed the gate of the lung and so if you have a wind heat invasion a lot of the times this wind heat will come in and it will get trapped in the throat or stuck in the throat and that wind heat will sit there and fester and stagnate and it will turn into heat toxicity and that's why one of our symptoms of wind heat is a red painful swollen sore throat because that heat gets stuck in there and intensifies as it stagnates so kind of a mild one would just be more like kind of a red painful sore throat on the more severe side of the spectrum think like strep throat where it's red swollen painful and you can actually see accumulations of pus so that's kind of our specialty of geniun hua and lianchao is that it it's in this category clears heat toxicity it does clear heat toxicity but it's also used for external invasions of wind heat as well so gini and hua and lien chao it turns out they're used together in a formula called yin chao san honeysuckle and forsythia powder yin chao san so yin means jin yin hua chiao means lien chao so this is our one of our major formulas for an external invasion of wind heat so we see fever and chills simultaneous fever and chills headache thirst cough and sore throat and a rapid floating pulse those were all the signs and symptoms we talked about with uh an external invasion of wind heat and so our main herbs in this formula are geniun-hwa and lian chao so kind of the point i'm trying to make here is one of our main formulas for treating wind heat is called yin chao sun so you should probably remember that jin yin hua and lien chao treat wind heat invasion this kind of tells us that this is a major function of these herbs and then you can see some other herbs here that we've also talked about um neobanzo was in the cool accurate release the exterior category and we said one of neobong's specialty was it treats sore throat so here we're treating sore throat boho dondo true are also in the release the exterior category we talked about those bullhor releasing the exterior and opening the face uh jean g8 we said that's in the warm a could release the exterior but it's good for both wind cold and wind heat so here's an example of jinger treating wind heat don julie and lugen those were in the drain fire category but they also had an action of generating fluids and moisture so when you have this painful red swollen throat lugen can drain the fire but also bring some moisture back to the throat and kind of regenerate those fluids that have been damaged by the heat but again kind of the point here was uh jinyinhua and lianchao they clear heat toxicity but they also uh released the exterior to treat wind heat invasion an example of this is a formula that's named after these herbs jeannie law the name of this herb gene um and our if you look at that character over there the classical classical chinese gene means metal when we talk about the metal phase this is what's the character we use gene here gene specifically means silver or specifically means gold uh gene means gold yin means silver hua means flower this is gold and silver flower or honeysuckle flower so jin hua is honeysuckle flower it's yellow in the middle and white on the petals so it's gold and silver so we call it gold and silver flower jin hua lian chao for cythia fructus is forsythia so that's why the name of this formula is honeysuckle and forsythia those are the common names of jinyin hua definitely remember they also expel wind heat invasion next dachenye and bon long gun again these two we usually talk about together because they're two parts of the same plant they're two parts of the indigo plant yeah means leaf so da changie is indigo leaf gun means root so bon long gun is indigo root and yes these clear heat toxicity i'd say maybe one of our specialties is that these are good for epidemic febrile diseases for um when you have those uh epidemics sweeping the countryside these are especially good for that and these ones we would even say that they have some anti-viral properties uh possibly as well so i know there are some modern practitioners that when they when they're treating a cold and they know that it's a viral infection they might just add in some bon long gun especially if there's sore throat because these are especially good for sore throat so if a person has a viral infection they might add in some bon long gun for it anti-viral properties or maybe if we had that person has a wind heat invasion with really bad sore throat maybe we'll use yin chao song because it's good for sore throat but then we'll add in some bon long gun because it's anti-viral and it's really good for throat problems it also cools the blood for um maculopapia rashes on the skin so kind of like shui those type those similar types of blood heat but again i might remember uh dodging a bon long gun throat problems and epidemic febrile diseases and for the name da ching yay ching is kind of interesting so da means big ching is a color and so ching is a color associated in with a water or with a wood phase and ching is kind it's kind of interesting in terms of colors because a lot of times qing gets translated as blue green for example we have a formula called xiaochinglongtong minor blue green dragon decoction so a lot of people see that like oh blue green does that mean like turquoise like it's half blue and half green turns out no that's not what we mean when we say ching or blue green we're talking about a range of colors that includes both blue and green so we say ching we're not referring to a specific hue we're referring to a range of colors that occur in nature i guess maybe the the the an english analogy to this is when we say blue we actually mean a range of colors we can say sky blue or we can say midnight blue that there are different types of colors so when we say ching we can say sky ching mountain ching bamboo ching these are different shades of colors they're just referred to colors that occur in nature so sometimes that means green sometimes it means blue in this case it really means more like purple so da ching yay is you can see that leaf over there it's purple in color so da means big ching means like indigo or purple and ye means leaf so that's da ching yay ban lang gun again gun means root so that's the root of this plant so these are both two parts of the indigo plant we have another chain here ching dai so qing dai is again a part of this plant this is indigo powder so here we took the leaf of that plant the dachinier and processed it with lime the mineral and it becomes a powder called ching dye so again it's you can look at the powder it's very purple in color this is what they used to dye clothes that if they had some fabric and you wanted to dye indigo this is the powder they would use and i would say this one if it has a specialty i would say it's good for skin problems so swelling macular rashes mumps and other skin eruptions so this weekend it's a powder we can often combine it with um either a liquid or sesame oil or a certain paste and we can apply it externally onto the skin it's also very good for bleeding due to heat especially nose bleed so again it's a powder the way you can use this for nose bleed i had somebody tell me is get a guide tube from one of your needles and you can kind of dip it in dodging it and then you can blow it up the person's nose and will stop a nosebleed so that's another use of da chinese or ching dai but for ching dai i would remember skin problems this may be coincidental but it turns out we have a lot of purple things that treat skin problems so we had a zao is purple da ching yay is purple ching dye is purple purple things tend to treat skin problems i don't know why after that is pugong ying taraksiki herba pu gong ying traxaki herba pugong ying is dandeline flower so this is just the stuff that you find out in your backyard dandelion and so pugong ying clears heat toxicity it's good for swelling pain it discharges pus i would say definitely the specialty of pugong ying is as good for breast abscess and mastitis so if you remember one thing about pugong ying dandeline remember breast abscess and mastitis pugong ying has a very famous action of treating breast abscess and mastitis even to the point where if you create if you had a patient with breast uh with breast abscess and you created a formula and you didn't include pugong ying people would look at it and people would look at you funny they'd be like where's the pugong ying that's how famous this is for treating breast abscess that if you don't include it people will feel like there's something missing so pugong ying think breast abscess and again this is dandelion kind of a funny story about dandelion that i recently learned dandelion comes from french don't de leon don't means teeth like a dentist lyon means lion so dandelion don't leon means tooth of the lion or lion's tooth so i guess the um the petals of the flower looked like a lion's tooth that's why they called it don't leon dandelion the other interesting thing about it is in french it has a nickname piso li which means wet the bed or piss the bed and so even like the the french people knew that uh taking dandelion would promote urination i mean i i think that's kind of funny i think of like uh some french guy being like oh yeah i have made you some tea and you're like like oh this is very good tea what you seeing like oh i'm like oh let's do it i've pieced the bed and anyway um so dandelion is also a nickname pison li so it promotes urination uh to drain dampness for jaundice and lynn syndrome getting rid of that damp heat so maybe that's another way you can remember that pugong ying promotes urination major thing i would remember is breast abscess so pugong dandelion also this can be used internally as a tea or can be applied externally as a poultice again this is just dandelion flowers you'd go out in your backyard and pick the dandelion flowers you could crush it or use a mortar and pestle to kind of pound it or grind it and make it kind of pulpy and then you could just apply that directly externally to an abscess and so it can also be used that way has a very famous very reliable action of treating breast abscess especially pugong dandelion [Music] this is another flower it's another purple one [Music] is violet as in roses are red violets are blue so z means purple hua means flower so this is purple flower and again purple flowers tend to be good for skin problems so we've seen a lot of purple things zitzal da ching yay ching dai now zahuati ding they're all purple and they're all good for skin problems so deep set hot red sores this is also very good for snake bite and insect bite so again if you get by put if you get bit by a poisonous snake please go to the hospital call a doctor go to the hospital but traditionally the hwadi ding was used to treat these snake bites and insect bites things with venom again this is a flower so you could just crush it up and apply it externally so maybe you could try it with wasp stings or something like that by jiangsao patriniai herba by jiang sao this uh like everything it clears heat toxicity it's especially good for pus and it's especially good for large intestine abscess so large intestine abscess or we could even say appendicitis but we have this abscess we have this accumulation of pus we might even see pus coming out in the stool so maybe here we should actually mention both of these actions that it clears heat toxicity and gets rid of pus and it also invigorates blood and it turns out both of these actions together make it a perfect herb for large intestine abscess because usually when we have large intestine abscess there's some combination of heat toxicity with plus but there's also some blood stagnation as well so bai jiang sao treats both of those so by jiang sao think large intestine abscess and then maybe think that when you say large intestinal abscess we're talking about a combination of heat toxicity plus some degree of blood stagnation so bai jiang sao discharges plus and invigorates blood for blood stagnation due to heat chonchinilienne andrographitis herba chuan sheen lien chonchinyan clears heat toxicity its specialty is for clearing heat from the lung so when you have heat causing cough choice in the end might be good or other symptoms of heat in the upper body so again throat problems eyes ears upper body heat then again we have these things it can be applied externally for skin conditions everything can do that in this category it seems like it can also treat diarrhea i'd say its specialty is treating lung heat or heat conditions in the upper body so chuan ching lien lung heat upper body heat by hua sao this is one of my favorite ones to say in chinese hideous diffuser herba by hua sao uh so this one the name is is kind of funny so bai means white hua means flower and the first shu means snake so bai hua shu is white flower snake and so this really this is a type of snake that uh the pattern on its scales looks like a white flower so that's why they call it baihua turns out later we actually learned by huashua as an herb that they would actually sometimes soak this snake in wine and drink it and they would use that as a medicine so that's by hua shu the second shu means tongue and sal means herb or grass so bai hua shu sao is white flower snake tongue herb it turns out there's a snake called white flower snake and the leaves of this plant look like the tongue of that snake so the snake has a forked tongue and the the leaves of this plant look like that fork tongue that's why they call it baihua shirozaw but coincidentally this is also very good for snake bites so you can think that this herb is named after a snake and it's good for snake bites when used externally the other thing that this herb is famous for is we might say it can be used in certain types of cancer things again i'm trying not to be sued here because i don't want to say we we treat cancer but basically there's been some modern research on this herb and some studies may have suggested that this herb might have anti-neoplastic properties or anti-tumor properties but i think this hasn't been confirmed this is something that that's still being done they're still doing studies on this but there have been some studies suggesting that this might be a property of this herb so that's one of the famous uses of this herbs is it may be able to treat the may be used to treat certain symptoms that go along with cancer but again these statements have not been improved by the fda please do not use this to treat any disease but that's that's kind of i would say that's the specialty of bhai hwa we'd say especially the studies were specifically in cancers of the digestive system so if you want to read more about that look at the chen and chen book because they mentioned some of the studies that are used or it's named after a snake it's used for snake what snake bite so that's by hua sao next two are fun ones because they're food herbs is lotus leaf and you do is mung bean lotus leaf and you do mung bean uh i didn't put it here but i think that that u has the two dots on top so it's not ludo it's green bean or mung bean so both of these clear heat toxicity but i'd say both of them if we want to point something out special about them it's that they also clear summer heat as well so hoo yeah lotus leaf clears heat but it's especially good for summer heat and you do mung bean also clears summer heat and both of these can be used in food therapy houye is lotus leaf and when we say used in food therapy we don't you don't really eat lotus leaf because it's really thick and tough and fibrous usually you would either boil it to make a soup and make it like a broth or i think what's common is you would take food and wrap it in lotus leaf and then steam it and that will impart some of that lotus leaf flavor onto it so you might take a rice ball and you'll wrap it in lotus leaf and then put it in a bamboo steamer and that gives the rice this lotus leaf flavor and some of those properties i think it tastes kind of like green tea there are also certain things where you can get a beggar's chicken you take it you take a chicken and you wrap it in lotus leaf and then you wrap it in clay and and bake it and that lotus leaf flavor soaks into the chicken and gives it a a green tea flavor so yeah when we say used in food therapy don't actually eat lotus leaf like a salad we usually use it as like a tea broth or steam something in it but it's especially good for summer heat especially when there's dampness like diarrhea so remember summer heat often comes along with signs of dampness so if we have summer heat and dampness causing diarrhea might be a good one to use yudo is mung bean and here we would just use to cook this in like a congee so you might make some rice and add in some you dou some mung bean into your kanji and cook it real well and this is especially useful when we're dealing with summer heat with thirst so houlier and nudo are both good for summer heat they're both used in food therapy if we want to differentiate them i would say hey is better for like diarrhea dampness whereas ludo is better for thirst but those are two symptoms that often come along with summer heat so i think so far we've learned a couple maybe just a couple herbs for summer heat i think we talked about xiang roo maybe treat summer heat maybe it's better to say it treats wind cold during the summer but we also see a pop-up in summer heat formulas we talked about chihuahua watermelon is very good for summer heat that was in the drain fire category and now we have two more uh judo and houlier treating summer heat so that's udo baito long pulsatilla radix bhai to wang baito wong clears heat toxicity its specialty is dysentery when you see baito wong think dysentery this is one of our main herbs for dysentery so bye to wong think dysentery matrushian portulacai urba again it looks very general that we have a lot of different symptoms of heat toxicity plus damp heat so skin infection uh snake bite and wasp thing very general but if we had a specialty i would say again diarrhea and dysentery this is especially useful when there's tenesmus remember we said tenesmus is this urge to defecate that doesn't go away and sometimes it comes with some cramping or some spasm so matrix yen good for dysentery but especially when we have those symptoms of tenesmus we can also say it induces astringency to um for bleeding conditions it can induce astringence to stop bleeding but i might remember dysentery by champion dictoni cortex by xien p dictoni cortex by cnp clears heat toxicity but here maybe we could say heat toxicity and damp heat so heat toxicity but when there's an element of dampness and well as well so that's going to be certain skin problems when the skin is really moist or there's a lot of pus that might be a sign that it's not just heat toxicity but there's dampness as well um this can be used both internally or externally that we can boil it and i'll like apply it as a wash externally or drink it internally also good for like leukeria vaginal discharge and itching because again that would be a sign of damp heat so bai chanpi think damp heat tufu lings milac is glabry rhizoma smell hackus this one's kind of funny i think of this as the syphilis herb so tufu ling the syphilis herb why do i say that because again this one like like before it clears heat toxicity but also is good for dampness so heat toxicity plus dampness so skin infection when there's a moistness or pus like dampness and turns out that's kind of what syphilis looks like uh two fooling also benefits the joints so when we get that damp knee damp heat gets into the joints it can cause some uh painful joints spasms heaviness it turns out that is also a sign of syphilis and then quite coincidentally tufoling can also be used to treat mercury poisoning and it turns out back in the day mercury was used as a treatment for syphilis so that's why i say to fooling i think of like the syphilis herb that it it causes some skin problems that look like heat toxicity and damp heat it causes some joint pain of damp heat getting into the joints it also treats mercury poisoning those are all oddly associated with syphilis as for the name tufu ling if you had an intro class you may have learned the um in the category herbs that drain dampness we have a very famous herb called fuling poria it's a fungus that grows around the root of a tree so it turns out that this is called tufooling it looks kind of similar to fooling turns out this has nothing to do with fooling it is not in any way related to fooling but we call it tufooling because it has very similar properties to fooling so that when you look at the taste and temperature it's the same it's neutral in temperature it's sweet and bland these are the same properties as fooling and it's good for dampness just like fooling is in the drain dampness category so maybe you can remember that fooling drains dampness well tufu laying is in the heat toxicity category so it treats heat toxicity but it also treats dampness so these two plants are not related but they share a common function of treating dampness that's tufu ling the syphilis herb shando gun who we're still going i think we only have a few more left shondo gun sephora tokenensis radix shondo gun shondo for this one think throat issues shondo gun is good for heat toxicity but we say it clears heat toxicity and benefits the throat because it's good for throat problems like swollen painful throat turns out it's so good at treating throat problems you can eat you can actually drink it as a tea or you can just gargle it and that will help with some of those throat problems again and just in terms of generally clearing heat toxicity can be used for skin infection like everything in this category and this one we might even say it has some it's using the treatment of dealing with symptoms of cancer especially cancers of the throat and lung so that's how good it is at relieving throat problems the these statements have not been approved by the fda please do not use chinese herbs to treat cancer chinese herbs do not treat cancer but shondo gun good for the throat shrigan another one good for the throat so it clears heat toxicity and benefits the throat so you can think about these two shondo gun and sugan are good for the throat and then finally um we have a couple at the end that the reason these uh are an outline they're not uh solid is because these are at least when i was in school these were not on our syllabus i'm not sure if these are on the ncc game list or not but these are herbs that when i was in school these were not on the syllabus but they're still herbs that come up in formulas and they're still herbs that we had in the clinic so i'd like to briefly mention them uh just so you can recognize them mob wool uh lassie osara mob wool this is puffball uh we have a formula as like puffball decoction i was like what's a puffball i think this is a type of fungus it's kind of fuzzy because it has a lot of spores on it i believe this is a type of fungus mob wool its specialty is that it's again good for the throat so again if we have like a a wind heat invasion that turns into heat toxicity and we have this red swore red sore swollen painful throat mob wool might be useful and that's i feel like that's the only time i've seen it come up but i just wanted to mention it so when you get into formula class and you're like this formula has ma bull what is mob wool it's a heat toxicity herb that's especially good for sore throat or loss of voice or cough due to long heat so think about again like a wind heat invasion that turned into heat toxicity we got heat in the lung the throat is the gate of the lung so we got a red sore swollen throat and finally yadanza um brookie fructus this is a seed this is something i'd just like to mention because it has a useful action of treating horns and warts so yadanza is toxic so we don't i've never seen it used internally if you're going to use it internally i think you have to use it very carefully because it can be toxic to the liver and kidneys so the dosage is very small i've never seen it used uh external internally but it is very common to use it externally for corns and warts i think sometimes i use the actual seed and tape it on there but you can also find yadanza oil as a topical application for warts and corns so you have a patient that has warts and you want to use a traditional chinese remedy for it yadanza would be the most famous one and again you can even if you search online you can find adanza oil and it will come with some instructions of how to use it so that's just something i like to mention because it's in this category and it comes up as kind of a remedy for that situation so again this is a very long category with a lot of herbs a lot of them kind of run together so again i think we tried to mention some specialties of each herb to some extent i would say just know that these herbs belong to the category heat toxicity and just know what heat toxicity is we're talking about things like skin infection so abscesses source boils things with pus things like snake bite insect bite causing these big red sores that's the major thing we're talking about is infection this can also be abscesses either external abscesses like breast abscess or internal abscess like lung abscess large intestine abscess and also epidemic febrile diseases so i i say mostly know that because it's hard to differentiate these herbs so just to give you some examples i thought we're at the point where maybe we could go through some formulas and maybe you can see some of these herbs in action then maybe that will clarify some of the actions so we already talked about yin chao-sam this is our major formula for wind heat invasion yin shao-san so we see our our wind heat signs and symptoms fever and chills simultaneous fever and chills but because this is wind heat we're going to see more fever and less chills headache thirst because the heat is drying out the fluids cough because we have wind heat obstructing the flow of qi in the lung so we get cough rebellious qi and then our major symptom for wind heat is sore throat a red sore swollen throat our pulse is floating in rapid floating because we're dealing with an exterior attack the pathogen is on the surface so we feel a pulse at the surface rapid is a sign of heat so these are just very straightforward signs of wind heat invasion if it was just a very mild attack of wind heat we might use that other one we talked about song juyin song yay plus ju hua it's good for like cough and maybe some eye problems but if it starts to sink down and it gets into the throat and into the lungs then we might use yin chao son and again our major ingredients are geniun-hwa and lien chao because they both release the exterior to expel the wind heat invasion but they also take care of this heat toxicity that's in the throat causing a red sore swollen painful throat so genie and hua lianchao definitely remember they clear heat toxicity but they also release exterior wind heat invasion as well because yin chao-san is a formula that you will see come up very often in clinic another one formula we'll get to in formula class is puji chao do yin puji chao du yen again this character tu means toxin so when you say heat toxicity it's so dew means toxin this is universal benefit drink to eliminate toxin or puji universal benefit eliminate toxin drink yin means drink so kind of story behind this one this one was for an epidemic febrile disease that was sweeping the countryside that they had this outbreak of an acute massive febrile disease of the head and face so we see a lot of head and face symptoms strong fever and chills because this is a very strong pathogen that's moving swiftly and penetrating quickly redness swelling and burning pain of the head and face so this is like wind heat and heat toxicity in the face so bad you have inability to open in the eyes because they're swollen dysfunction of the throat red painful swollen you can't swallow because of your throat dryness and thirst because of the heat the tongue is red with a powdery white or yellow coat because we've got that heat floating rapid and forceful floating because next it's an external condition an external attack rapid because of the heat forceful because it's an excess condition this is a strong pathogen a strong excess pathogen causing an excess pulse so this would be an example of heat toxicity it's in the name of the formula eliminate toxin this isn't this was an epidemic febrile disease that was sweeping the countryside and so basically when this outbreak happened a chinese doctor created this formula and they gave it to everybody that's why it's called universal benefit that he just made this generic formula could be given to everybody who had this situation so that's why i call it universal benefit and this is an example of heat toxicity is a severe epidemic febrile outbreak so you can see some herbs you learned there huang qin and huang lian we learned in the last category the damp heat category those were good for clearing damp heat but also clearing heat and heat toxicity as well remember huang chin we said is especially good for the lungs clearing lung heat or clearing upper jowl heat and that's what we're dealing with then we see a bunch of our heat toxicity herbs especially the ones that are good for the throat because we had dysfunction of the throat so remember lien chao or jinhua the enchant are good for throat problems mob wool that's the puff ball that we talked about is especially good for throat problems bon long gun it may have antiviral properties that's good for this epidemic outbreak but bon long again also good for the throat good for throat problems so we see a lot of our heat toxicity herbs especially these ones are good for the throat and the upper body because they're in a formula that's good for the throat and the upper body schwann chen remember we learned that in the cool the blood category schwan chen is scrofularia radix schwann shen scrofularioratix the scrofularioratix is good for scruffula which is a disorder of the throat so again we have an herb from a different category that benefits the throat and it's in this formula because it benefits the throat and then we have some of our cool lacquered release the exterior category so remember we said nuobangsa again here it releases the exterior but it's especially good for the throat releases the exterior but we said it opens up the head and face so this is a febrile disorder of the head and face swelling burning pain of the head and face so boho is opening that up cha'hu and shang ma because they go upward and they vent this heat upward and outward but this is this is an example of a heat toxicity formula and you can see some of our heat toxicity herbs there liancha moabo lienchao banlangen good for these epidemic febrile outbreaks good for especially the throat five ingredient decoction to eliminate toxins [Music] five ingredient shall do eliminate toxin yin is drink so this again obviously by the name xiaoduin is good for heat toxicity this is especially good for all types of heat toxicity affecting the skin so all types of boils and carbuncles with localized redness swelling heat and pain so we can see here we have a bunch of our um heat toxicity herbs like jinyin hua pugong zahuati ding these are all flowers genie hua is gold and silver flower or honeysuckle flower pugong is dandelion zihwadi ding is violet so these are all flowers they're all good for skin problems like boils carbuncles with redness swelling heat and pain so that tells us that these herbs are especially good for skin problems because they're in this formula that treats skin problems by to wong tong pulsatilla decoction by to wong tong bai to wong tong is for dysentery baitawong is our formula for dysentery we specifically say hot dysentery due to heat toxicity searing the stomach and intestines so we have abdominal pain tenesmus defecation with a sensation of burning around the anus you have so much heat it burns when it comes out and diarrhea with blood and pus we say more blood than pus this is a specific thing to know that we're dealing with heat if there's more puffs we might suspect it's more dampness but because there's more blood than pus we know it's heat toxicity and again we see our number one herb for dysentery is by toewong that's the chief herb that's what this formula is named after so uh baito wong tong is a formula for dysentery the chief herb is by to wong you better remember that baito wong is good for diary and dysentery again we see two of our huangs here huang lian and huang bai remember huang lian is in the damp heat category it's especially good for middle jaw heat and diarrhea chin pee is interesting because in bensky qing p was in the damp heat category we also said that's good for diary and dysentery there are other books that put chin pee in this category the heat toxicity category either way we said chin p is especially good for diarrhea and dysentery so basically we took a bunch of herbs that treat diarrhea and dysentery and we put them together in a formula and it's called bi to wong tong but we should definitely remember that bai tuang is good for diary and dysentery and chin pee are good is good for diarrhea and dysentery final one is ching daison ching daison indigo powder chin daison is of course named after ching dai this is indigo that we said this is uh the leaf from the indigo that's been processed with lime to create a powder and so ching daison is a mixture that's good for all types of skin disorders that present with erosion heat swelling itching and pain so this could be acute eczema this could be contact dermatitis allergic dermatitis we say contact dermatitis that include can include contact with plants so things like poison ivy so this is just a general powder that's good for skin conditions due to heat and damp heat so heat toxicity or dampness so here we have qingdao that's the one we learned in this category indigo powder so this is telling us that ching dai is really good for skin problems because it's used in this formula for skin problems shusher gao is interesting remember sure gao we learned in the drain fire category but we said that sure gao can also be applied externally this is an example where sure gau is being used applied externally shu means prepared we can say shu sure gau or duan gal basically take the shirt out and heat it up in a kiln um until it becomes calcined and that makes it very brittle easy to break apart into a powder why is my mail popping up i don't want mail so that's that's an example of sure gal being used externally and then we have huang bai just because it uh clears heat so this is an example of qingdao being used to treat skin problems and again um most of these herbs come in a powder anyway chiang dai sure gao washer are already a powder basically we grind these into a powder and then you can apply it to the skin we have a couple options here like if the skin if you have skin problems due to dampness the skin is probably going to be like moist anyway so you can just put the powder on there and the moistness of the skin will keep it on that's one possibility you could uh mix it with like some sesame oil and apply it as a paste you could mix it with some petroleum jelly and make it more like a plaster you could also when you talked about using herbs like pugong ying or macho chien you can take these flowers and pound it into a poultice until the the flowers get kind of bruised and uh squishy then you could sprinkle some chiangdaes on on top and apply that as a poultice and you're using like the crushed up dandelion as the medium for your poultice but again this is an example of just our heat toxicity herbs these are some examples of heat toxicity and here's where we would use chiang dai to treat skin infection so those are just to give some examples of how these herbs get used in formulas so again very long category if we just wanted to point some things out jeanine hua lianchao those are ones that clear heat toxicity they're good for sore throat but they also release the exterior so genie and hua and lianchao we use for externa external invasions of wind heat the chinese gun both come from the indigo plant they're good for viral infections epidemic febrile outbreaks and also long heat and throat problems ching dae we just talked about is indigo powder it's very good for skin conditions it turns out purple things are very good for the skin pugong is dandelion flower pugong its specialty is breast abscess and mastitis it also promotes urination but pugonging breast abscess mastitis zehua dideng purple flower or violet again purple things are good for skin problems so red deep set angry toxic sores but also snake bite bai jiang sao patrini herba bai jiang sao is our one that's very good for large intestine abscess because it it's good for heat toxicity and plus but also invigorates blood those are both things that come up with large intestine abscess tuan xin yin clears heat toxicity especially heat in the lung bye hua shi sao my favorite one to say bye hua is white flower snake tongue herb it's white flower snake tongue so it's good for snake bites it also has um it might be used for cancer situations and ludo are lotus leaf and mung bean they're good for summer heat baito long dysentery uh bai chan p what'd we say about that uh bai shin p clears heat toxicity and also damp heat so when there's skin problems with a lot of moisture and pus it's also good for other damp heat like vaginal discharge but by shen p think damp heat matrixion another damp heat but this one also diarrhea and dysentery it doesn't show up in baton tongue but it's also good it's kind of kind of very general kind of clears all types of damp heat if we had to say a specialty we would we might say dysentery to fueling another one that treats dampness this is the syphilis one so damp heat skin conditions when there's moisture and pus when that damp heat gets into the joints it can cause joint pain another sign of symphylus also treats mercury poisoning so fooling is good for dampness to fooling is good for heat toxicity and dampness shondo gun and sugan good for throat problems so that is herbs that clear heat toxicity if you want to follow along with these there are some slides on the website so go to tcmstudy.net you can download the slides you can take a practice test those are on tcmstudy.net special thank you to the patreon members for supporting the channel and supporting the website if you would like to join the patreon or contribute to the channel on the website there are some links in the description 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hello there and welcome to another herb review this time we&#39;re going over the category herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so again we&#39;re still in this very large category of herbs at clear heat and here we&#39;re talking specifically about heat toxicity now i&#39;ll be honest this is one of my my least favorite categories just because it&#39;s a really big category there are a lot of herbs sometimes it&#39;s really hard to differentiate what each herb does what makes it special and so sometimes i get students they&#39;re like oh we have this huge list of herbs and they all seem the same they all kind of run together it&#39;s hard to tell what&#39;s what i&#39;m kind of like yeah i agree i feel the same way that&#39;s hard to differentiate some of these herbs so what we&#39;re going to do here is just kind of go through quickly and kind of point out maybe one or two specialties of each or because i feel like if you start to go into too much detail it just gets really confusing and everything gets jumbled so this one we&#39;re kind of it&#39;s a large category some of the herbs aren&#39;t very commonly used in our formula class so some of those we&#39;re just going to go through really quickly and just kind of point out a specialty of each of them so again this category is called herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so we&#39;re dealing with something called heat toxicity and again this is kind of weird that it&#39;s kind of hard to describe what heat toxicity actually is so the chinese term is and we can say this heat toxicity is an extreme accumulation of heat so this chinese character du means toxin but we have to be careful here because i think when most people hear the word toxin especially in a modern context in alternative medicine they think about like oh i gotta i have these toxins in my body i got to do a detox that i&#39;ve been i&#39;ve been eating kale that&#39;s not organic oh all these pesticides i need to detox and that&#39;s not really what we&#39;re talking about at all it turns out this chinese character du on the one hand it can mean real toxins as in poisons or substances in the body so these could be things like snake venom or poison ivy some plant you eat a plant and it&#39;s toxic and now you have this toxin that&#39;s one possible interpretation of the word do toxin but really we&#39;re talking more about an extreme accumulation of heat and it&#39;s usually associated with infection so like an infectious disease so here we&#39;re going to talk about what he toxicity is and as we go through these herbs it may just be good to know that these herbs belong to this category that these are abstract heat toxicity and then have some general idea of what heat toxicity is so what are some examples of heat toxicity well one is hot swollen painful deep set sores like oils carbuncles and furnace we&#39;ll get into exactly what those are but again this is here we&#39;re saying skin infection these are various types of skin infection they&#39;re often caused by bacteria or viruses and they often involve either very red deep set sores that are swollen and painful or sores with pus again that&#39;s a sign of an infection so this isn&#39;t just like a rash this is more like you got this big angry looking welt and you&#39;re like oh it&#39;s got like pus and discharge oozing out of it and you&#39;re like uh that looks infected that&#39;s what we mean by heat toxicity that&#39;s what we mean by skin infection and again in terms of tcm we could say that this is an extreme accumulation of heat a lot of times this pus we could explain that by saying that there&#39;s this fire or heat toxicity burning the flesh and that causes the formation of pus though so that plus is flesh that&#39;s been burnt by fire or heat toxicity and that&#39;s actually why a lot of these herbs enter the stomach channel because the spleen governs the flesh and pus is flesh that&#39;s been burnt but because it&#39;s heat we say the stomach instead of the spleen i don&#39;t know but these herbs enter the stomach channel because of pus and we&#39;re dealing with skin infection like carbuncles boils fur uncles deep set angry looking sores and then that we can include like things on the throat think like strep throat when you have a red swollen throat and you got little like pustules and things like that that could be heat toxicity tonsillitis usually due to an infection a viral infection causes things to swell and get red that could also be an example of heat toxicity abscesses which are a collection of pus usually due to infection so we can think of external abscesses like what common one is breast abscess usually happens in nursing mothers that they get some sort of infection either bacterial viral and that cause causes a swollen area with pus and that&#39;s breast abscess but this will also be internal abscesses if you have an accumulation of pus inside the body like lung abscess or large intestine abscess that could also be heat toxicity diarrhea or dysentery can also fall under the category of heat toxicity and sometimes people ask what is dysentery how is it different from diarrhea well dysentery we&#39;re specifically saying there&#39;s inflammation of the large intestine usually the diarrhea is severe it usually comes with some abdominal pain and a lot of times when we talk about heat toxicity we&#39;re usually saying there&#39;s some blood or pus in the stool i think we talked about this in the damp heat category where we talked about um red and white dysentery is a chinese term and so red and white means blood and pus in the stool and again this is there&#39;s severe heat searing the intestines causing bleeding or severe heat searing the intestines and causing the accumulation of pus in the intestines and then you see that come out in the diarrhea in that form of dysentery so dysentery can be a form of heat toxicity another type the epidemic febrile outbreaks can also fall under the category of heat toxicity so this is something we&#39;re not just talking about uh people got a cold or you got a little sick and you feel under the weather these are like pandemic type outbreaks these epidemics that are sweeping the countryside that are very contagious they have a very quick onset and are very severe a lot of times those types of diseases fall under the category of heat toxicity as well and we look at historically some of these epidemic outbreaks that happen in china um we usually equate them to things like mumps or encephalitis mumps is something that&#39;s it&#39;s extremely contagious it causes a lot of swelling around the neck under the parotid glands very contagious very severe causes of fever and a lot of swelling encephalitis swelling of the brain and so these types of severe epidemic outbreaks could be considered heat toxicity as well and that&#39;s why actually some of the herbs in this category are said to have antiviral or antibacterial properties because they&#39;re dealing with this type of infection infectious disease that can sweep the countryside and cause massive outbreaks so that can be heat toxicity as well and then other things when we talk about toxin we can talk about real toxins that enter the body so we might talk about like snake bite or insect bite but again this is usually these snake bite and insect bites once that venom gets into your skin it causes things like hot swollen painful deep set sores so again this would be a real toxin but it&#39;s causing something on the skin that looks like an extreme accumulation of heat so sometimes when you get into insect bites people think like oh does this mean like mosquito bites and i kind of think not really like mosquito bites they&#39;re kind of itchy they&#39;re kind of annoying but that&#39;s not necessarily what we mean by insect bites when they say insect bite thinks more think more like spider bites centipede bites scorpion stings wasp or bee stings something that like if a spider bites you you get this really big red welt that is red painful it&#39;s really deep it can be sore to the touch um i had a friend who got bit by a brown recluse uh spider if you get bit by a brown or clue spider go to the hospital because it&#39;s very serious but in addition to the treatment he was receiving from the hospital he also used herbs at clear heat toxicity so that kind of thing even if you get like stung by a wasp and for a couple days you might have this red swollen spot that&#39;s painful and itchy that might be considered heat toxicity in terms of snake bite and insect bite it&#39;s not necessarily like oh i got bit by mosquito and kind of i&#39;m kind of itchy more like something that caused a hot swollen painful deep set sore and then certain symptoms of certain types of cancers and the symptoms that come along with it these might fall into the category of heat toxicity now just to be clear i am not saying that we can use chinese herbs to treat cancer we do not treat cancer in traditional chinese medicine you should not tell your patients you treat cancer you should not advertise that you treat cancer if you do you will lose your license and get sued so what i&#39;m trying to say here is that traditionally or historically when certain cancers arose some of the symptoms that accompanied those cancers may have fallen under the category of heat toxicity or similar types of things we see here and traditionally those herbs may have been used to treat those symptoms but we should be clear that we don&#39;t want to get sued so we do not treat cancer directly so these are just some examples of heat toxicity these are the kinds of symptoms we&#39;d be looking for when we would think to use these herbs from the category herbs that clear heat and resolve toxicity so again we&#39;re not trying to like detoxify the liver or anything like that we&#39;re dealing with extreme accumulations of heat usually an infection and then sometimes i make this statement heat toxicity is always acute in nature this is something that one of my chinese teachers said this i i seem to remember this when i was learning this category said that heat toxicity is always acute and then i said that again and another teacher said no that&#39;s not really true but i still kind of agree with the original with a sentiment of the original statement that just for the sake of simplicity i would say that heat toxicity is usually acute in nature so think about like if you have a skin problem a staph infection you usually don&#39;t have a chronic staph infection if you have strep throat you usually don&#39;t have chronic strep throat that goes on for years either the strep throat resolves or the infection causes you to die one or the other so we usually don&#39;t talk about chronic heat toxicity and sometimes i just like to point this out because we&#39;re talking about skin conditions and just to avoid some confusion that there are certain skin conditions like eczema where people have had it since childhood they&#39;ve had this eczema that comes with the seasons and it&#39;s been going on for years and years that kind of condition we probably would not call heat toxicity psoriasis or other things that have been going on for a long time we probably don&#39;t necessarily call those heat toxicity but things like when we have a deep set uh angry sore something like you just got bit by a spider or stun like a wasp something that you&#39;re breastfeeding and you get a breast abscess people usually don&#39;t have chronic breast abscess that goes on for years and years things like that that&#39;s what we&#39;re talking about in terms of heat toxicity some sort of infection that i mean chronic is kind of a relative term but don&#39;t think about like skin problems that have been going on for years and years think more like acute infections causing certain types of skin problems and that&#39;s what we mean by heat toxicity and then we should say that many of these herbs can be used topically as well that we can either cook them in the decoction and drink them and take them internally or we can apply them topically usually in their fresh form so a lot of these herbs are flowers so we can just take the flowers and kind of pound them up this motion is me pounding something with a mortar and pestle kind of pound them up to bruise them and make them a little bit pulpy and then apply them directly on the skin as like a poultice so that&#39;s another way we can use these herbs is because we&#39;re treating skin disorders we can apply them directly to the skin so just to go over some of these terms in a little bit more detail sometimes i talk about these things boils carbuncles for uncles and people like what does that mean let&#39;s talk about some of the things that pop up in terms of skin infection and heat toxicity so kind of the general catch-all term we&#39;re using it here is abscess like we said this is an extreme accumulation of heat that heat burns the flesh or sears the flesh and causes pus to form or purulent discharge and so that&#39;s what we might abscess a area or tissue in the body that&#39;s swollen and causes an accumulation of pus so that&#39;s just our general term abscess is a swollen area with an accumulation of pus we talk about a boil this is a type of abscess that&#39;s this is a skin infection that usually starts in a hair follicle or oil gland usually caused by a staphylococcal bacteria so again when we talk about skin infection think about things like staph infection and the kind of things that would result from that we say fur uncle that&#39;s just another name for a boil that&#39;s the medical term for a boil when we say a carbuncle it&#39;s basically a bunch of boils that got together and formed into one giant super boil and so a cluster of boils that are connected to each other under the skin so looks pretty gross then a stye is the same thing like a boil but it specifically refers to a boil on the eyelid or that forms under the eyelid so these are some of the things we&#39;ll encounter when i say skin infection these are some of the things we might be talking about i did not include any pictures here but if you want you can go and do a google image search of some of these things to see what they look like because we&#39;re not just talking about like little pimples or little mosquito bites we&#39;re talking about big red angry abscesses um that are red swollen and contain pus and again this can also include things like breast abscess or internal abscess like large intestine abscess so these are some things we mean by heat toxicity so general properties of these herbs uh like everything in this category they&#39;re going to be bitter in flavor because we&#39;re clearing heat draining fire they&#39;re going to be cold in temperature because we&#39;re dealing with heat the channel is really going to depend on what type type of symptoms we&#39;re treating some herbs are better for the skin some herbs are better for lung abscess some herbs are specifically good for diarrhea and dysentery so the channels are going to vary quite a bit depending on what type of heat they treat and like everything we should be cautious because these herbs are cold and bitter so they could damage the spleen these herbs are good for clearing heat toxicity especially like skin infections accumulations of pus but also things like dysentery breast abscess large intestine abscess lung abscess these things with accumulations of pus and viral infections like our epidemic febrile outbreaks and then we can say that some of these herbs have um antibacterial antiviral and there may be some evidence that they could have some anti-tumor properties as well but we have to be very careful about this statement this has not been confirmed these statements have not been approved by the fda so like i said this is a very large category this is a lot of herbs some of these herbs we don&#39;t actually use very often but we still have a very large category with a lot of herbs so by and large like i said i i might mostly focus on one knowing which herbs are in this category so just know that when you see one of these herbs know which category belongs to no it belongs to the heat toxicity category and then understand what we mean by heat toxicity when we say heat toxicity we&#39;re usually talking about infection or accumulations of pus and if you get put those two together that&#39;s going to be most of what you need to know so this is a very large category and again i don&#39;t want to go into detail in a lot of these herbs because sometimes that just makes it more confusing so what we&#39;re going to go what we&#39;re going to do is go through and maybe try to point out some specialties of each herb and just leave it at that so here we go herbs that clear heat toxicity our first two are jin yin hua and lian chao we usually talk about them together jin yin hua lana sara floss jin yin hua and lien chao for scythia fructus lien chiao for scythia fructus so these herbs we usually talk about together because they both generally clear heat toxicity so we see a lot of symptoms of heat toxicity here hot painful sores and swellings especially on the throat breast or eyes large intestine abscess diarrhea with blood or pus so heat toxicity searing the intestines and again this is a flower so it can be used internally in a decoction or externally applied to the skin and same thing with lian chao we just say generally it clears heat toxicity but what makes these two herbs stand out why what we really want to know about them is besides just clearing heat toxicity especially for throat problems they also clear wind heat as well so these herbs we often use in conjunction with cool acrid herbs that release the exterior to treat a condition of wind heat invasion so it turns out this is really convenient because a lot of times wind heat and heat toxicity go together so it&#39;s good that we have this herb that can kind of treat both both levels of severity maybe the way to explain it is like this when we said these herbs clear heat toxicity we&#39;re saying they&#39;re especially good for painful swellings in the throat well the throat it kind of is nicknamed the gate of the lung and so if you have a wind heat invasion a lot of the times this wind heat will come in and it will get trapped in the throat or stuck in the throat and that wind heat will sit there and fester and stagnate and it will turn into heat toxicity and that&#39;s why one of our symptoms of wind heat is a red painful swollen sore throat because that heat gets stuck in there and intensifies as it stagnates so kind of a mild one would just be more like kind of a red painful sore throat on the more severe side of the spectrum think like strep throat where it&#39;s red swollen painful and you can actually see accumulations of pus so that&#39;s kind of our specialty of geniun hua and lianchao is that it it&#39;s in this category clears heat toxicity it does clear heat toxicity but it&#39;s also used for external invasions of wind heat as well so gini and hua and lien chao it turns out they&#39;re used together in a formula called yin chao san honeysuckle and forsythia powder yin chao san so yin means jin yin hua chiao means lien chao so this is our one of our major formulas for an external invasion of wind heat so we see fever and chills simultaneous fever and chills headache thirst cough and sore throat and a rapid floating pulse those were all the signs and symptoms we talked about with uh an external invasion of wind heat and so our main herbs in this formula are geniun-hwa and lian chao so kind of the point i&#39;m trying to make here is one of our main formulas for treating wind heat is called yin chao sun so you should probably remember that jin yin hua and lien chao treat wind heat invasion this kind of tells us that this is a major function of these herbs and then you can see some other herbs here that we&#39;ve also talked about um neobanzo was in the cool accurate release the exterior category and we said one of neobong&#39;s specialty was it treats sore throat so here we&#39;re treating sore throat boho dondo true are also in the release the exterior category we talked about those bullhor releasing the exterior and opening the face uh jean g8 we said that&#39;s in the warm a could release the exterior but it&#39;s good for both wind cold and wind heat so here&#39;s an example of jinger treating wind heat don julie and lugen those were in the drain fire category but they also had an action of generating fluids and moisture so when you have this painful red swollen throat lugen can drain the fire but also bring some moisture back to the throat and kind of regenerate those fluids that have been damaged by the heat but again kind of the point here was uh jinyinhua and lianchao they clear heat toxicity but they also uh released the exterior to treat wind heat invasion an example of this is a formula that&#39;s named after these herbs jeannie law the name of this herb gene um and our if you look at that character over there the classical classical chinese gene means metal when we talk about the metal phase this is what&#39;s the character we use gene here gene specifically means silver or specifically means gold uh gene means gold yin means silver hua means flower this is gold and silver flower or honeysuckle flower so jin hua is honeysuckle flower it&#39;s yellow in the middle and white on the petals so it&#39;s gold and silver so we call it gold and silver flower jin hua lian chao for cythia fructus is forsythia so that&#39;s why the name of this formula is honeysuckle and forsythia those are the common names of jinyin hua definitely remember they also expel wind heat invasion next dachenye and bon long gun again these two we usually talk about together because they&#39;re two parts of the same plant they&#39;re two parts of the indigo plant yeah means leaf so da changie is indigo leaf gun means root so bon long gun is indigo root and yes these clear heat toxicity i&#39;d say maybe one of our specialties is that these are good for epidemic febrile diseases for um when you have those uh epidemics sweeping the countryside these are especially good for that and these ones we would even say that they have some anti-viral properties uh possibly as well so i know there are some modern practitioners that when they when they&#39;re treating a cold and they know that it&#39;s a viral infection they might just add in some bon long gun especially if there&#39;s sore throat because these are especially good for sore throat so if a person has a viral infection they might add in some bon long gun for it anti-viral properties or maybe if we had that person has a wind heat invasion with really bad sore throat maybe we&#39;ll use yin chao song because it&#39;s good for sore throat but then we&#39;ll add in some bon long gun because it&#39;s anti-viral and it&#39;s really good for throat problems it also cools the blood for um maculopapia rashes on the skin so kind of like shui those type those similar types of blood heat but again i might remember uh dodging a bon long gun throat problems and epidemic febrile diseases and for the name da ching yay ching is kind of interesting so da means big ching is a color and so ching is a color associated in with a water or with a wood phase and ching is kind it&#39;s kind of interesting in terms of colors because a lot of times qing gets translated as blue green for example we have a formula called xiaochinglongtong minor blue green dragon decoction so a lot of people see that like oh blue green does that mean like turquoise like it&#39;s half blue and half green turns out no that&#39;s not what we mean when we say ching or blue green we&#39;re talking about a range of colors that includes both blue and green so we say ching we&#39;re not referring to a specific hue we&#39;re referring to a range of colors that occur in nature i guess maybe the the the an english analogy to this is when we say blue we actually mean a range of colors we can say sky blue or we can say midnight blue that there are different types of colors so when we say ching we can say sky ching mountain ching bamboo ching these are different shades of colors they&#39;re just referred to colors that occur in nature so sometimes that means green sometimes it means blue in this case it really means more like purple so da ching yay is you can see that leaf over there it&#39;s purple in color so da means big ching means like indigo or purple and ye means leaf so that&#39;s da ching yay ban lang gun again gun means root so that&#39;s the root of this plant so these are both two parts of the indigo plant we have another chain here ching dai so qing dai is again a part of this plant this is indigo powder so here we took the leaf of that plant the dachinier and processed it with lime the mineral and it becomes a powder called ching dye so again it&#39;s you can look at the powder it&#39;s very purple in color this is what they used to dye clothes that if they had some fabric and you wanted to dye indigo this is the powder they would use and i would say this one if it has a specialty i would say it&#39;s good for skin problems so swelling macular rashes mumps and other skin eruptions so this weekend it&#39;s a powder we can often combine it with um either a liquid or sesame oil or a certain paste and we can apply it externally onto the skin it&#39;s also very good for bleeding due to heat especially nose bleed so again it&#39;s a powder the way you can use this for nose bleed i had somebody tell me is get a guide tube from one of your needles and you can kind of dip it in dodging it and then you can blow it up the person&#39;s nose and will stop a nosebleed so that&#39;s another use of da chinese or ching dai but for ching dai i would remember skin problems this may be coincidental but it turns out we have a lot of purple things that treat skin problems so we had a zao is purple da ching yay is purple ching dye is purple purple things tend to treat skin problems i don&#39;t know why after that is pugong ying taraksiki herba pu gong ying traxaki herba pugong ying is dandeline flower so this is just the stuff that you find out in your backyard dandelion and so pugong ying clears heat toxicity it&#39;s good for swelling pain it discharges pus i would say definitely the specialty of pugong ying is as good for breast abscess and mastitis so if you remember one thing about pugong ying dandeline remember breast abscess and mastitis pugong ying has a very famous action of treating breast abscess and mastitis even to the point where if you create if you had a patient with breast uh with breast abscess and you created a formula and you didn&#39;t include pugong ying people would look at it and people would look at you funny they&#39;d be like where&#39;s the pugong ying that&#39;s how famous this is for treating breast abscess that if you don&#39;t include it people will feel like there&#39;s something missing so pugong ying think breast abscess and again this is dandelion kind of a funny story about dandelion that i recently learned dandelion comes from french don&#39;t de leon don&#39;t means teeth like a dentist lyon means lion so dandelion don&#39;t leon means tooth of the lion or lion&#39;s tooth so i guess the um the petals of the flower looked like a lion&#39;s tooth that&#39;s why they called it don&#39;t leon dandelion the other interesting thing about it is in french it has a nickname piso li which means wet the bed or piss the bed and so even like the the french people knew that uh taking dandelion would promote urination i mean i i think that&#39;s kind of funny i think of like uh some french guy being like oh yeah i have made you some tea and you&#39;re like like oh this is very good tea what you seeing like oh i&#39;m like oh let&#39;s do it i&#39;ve pieced the bed and anyway um so dandelion is also a nickname pison li so it promotes urination uh to drain dampness for jaundice and lynn syndrome getting rid of that damp heat so maybe that&#39;s another way you can remember that pugong ying promotes urination major thing i would remember is breast abscess so pugong dandelion also this can be used internally as a tea or can be applied externally as a poultice again this is just dandelion flowers you&#39;d go out in your backyard and pick the dandelion flowers you could crush it or use a mortar and pestle to kind of pound it or grind it and make it kind of pulpy and then you could just apply that directly externally to an abscess and so it can also be used that way has a very famous very reliable action of treating breast abscess especially pugong dandelion [Music] this is another flower it&#39;s another purple one [Music] is violet as in roses are red violets are blue so z means purple hua means flower so this is purple flower and again purple flowers tend to be good for skin problems so we&#39;ve seen a lot of purple things zitzal da ching yay ching dai now zahuati ding they&#39;re all purple and they&#39;re all good for skin problems so deep set hot red sores this is also very good for snake bite and insect bite so again if you get by put if you get bit by a poisonous snake please go to the hospital call a doctor go to the hospital but traditionally the hwadi ding was used to treat these snake bites and insect bites things with venom again this is a flower so you could just crush it up and apply it externally so maybe you could try it with wasp stings or something like that by jiangsao patriniai herba by jiang sao this uh like everything it clears heat toxicity it&#39;s especially good for pus and it&#39;s especially good for large intestine abscess so large intestine abscess or we could even say appendicitis but we have this abscess we have this accumulation of pus we might even see pus coming out in the stool so maybe here we should actually mention both of these actions that it clears heat toxicity and gets rid of pus and it also invigorates blood and it turns out both of these actions together make it a perfect herb for large intestine abscess because usually when we have large intestine abscess there&#39;s some combination of heat toxicity with plus but there&#39;s also some blood stagnation as well so bai jiang sao treats both of those so by jiang sao think large intestine abscess and then maybe think that when you say large intestinal abscess we&#39;re talking about a combination of heat toxicity plus some degree of blood stagnation so bai jiang sao discharges plus and invigorates blood for blood stagnation due to heat chonchinilienne andrographitis herba chuan sheen lien chonchinyan clears heat toxicity its specialty is for clearing heat from the lung so when you have heat causing cough choice in the end might be good or other symptoms of heat in the upper body so again throat problems eyes ears upper body heat then again we have these things it can be applied externally for skin conditions everything can do that in this category it seems like it can also treat diarrhea i&#39;d say its specialty is treating lung heat or heat conditions in the upper body so chuan ching lien lung heat upper body heat by hua sao this is one of my favorite ones to say in chinese hideous diffuser herba by hua sao uh so this one the name is is kind of funny so bai means white hua means flower and the first shu means snake so bai hua shu is white flower snake and so this really this is a type of snake that uh the pattern on its scales looks like a white flower so that&#39;s why they call it baihua turns out later we actually learned by huashua as an herb that they would actually sometimes soak this snake in wine and drink it and they would use that as a medicine so that&#39;s by hua shu the second shu means tongue and sal means herb or grass so bai hua shu sao is white flower snake tongue herb it turns out there&#39;s a snake called white flower snake and the leaves of this plant look like the tongue of that snake so the snake has a forked tongue and the the leaves of this plant look like that fork tongue that&#39;s why they call it baihua shirozaw but coincidentally this is also very good for snake bites so you can think that this herb is named after a snake and it&#39;s good for snake bites when used externally the other thing that this herb is famous for is we might say it can be used in certain types of cancer things again i&#39;m trying not to be sued here because i don&#39;t want to say we we treat cancer but basically there&#39;s been some modern research on this herb and some studies may have suggested that this herb might have anti-neoplastic properties or anti-tumor properties but i think this hasn&#39;t been confirmed this is something that that&#39;s still being done they&#39;re still doing studies on this but there have been some studies suggesting that this might be a property of this herb so that&#39;s one of the famous uses of this herbs is it may be able to treat the may be used to treat certain symptoms that go along with cancer but again these statements have not been improved by the fda please do not use this to treat any disease but that&#39;s that&#39;s kind of i would say that&#39;s the specialty of bhai hwa we&#39;d say especially the studies were specifically in cancers of the digestive system so if you want to read more about that look at the chen and chen book because they mentioned some of the studies that are used or it&#39;s named after a snake it&#39;s used for snake what snake bite so that&#39;s by hua sao next two are fun ones because they&#39;re food herbs is lotus leaf and you do is mung bean lotus leaf and you do mung bean uh i didn&#39;t put it here but i think that that u has the two dots on top so it&#39;s not ludo it&#39;s green bean or mung bean so both of these clear heat toxicity but i&#39;d say both of them if we want to point something out special about them it&#39;s that they also clear summer heat as well so hoo yeah lotus leaf clears heat but it&#39;s especially good for summer heat and you do mung bean also clears summer heat and both of these can be used in food therapy houye is lotus leaf and when we say used in food therapy we don&#39;t you don&#39;t really eat lotus leaf because it&#39;s really thick and tough and fibrous usually you would either boil it to make a soup and make it like a broth or i think what&#39;s common is you would take food and wrap it in lotus leaf and then steam it and that will impart some of that lotus leaf flavor onto it so you might take a rice ball and you&#39;ll wrap it in lotus leaf and then put it in a bamboo steamer and that gives the rice this lotus leaf flavor and some of those properties i think it tastes kind of like green tea there are also certain things where you can get a beggar&#39;s chicken you take it you take a chicken and you wrap it in lotus leaf and then you wrap it in clay and and bake it and that lotus leaf flavor soaks into the chicken and gives it a a green tea flavor so yeah when we say used in food therapy don&#39;t actually eat lotus leaf like a salad we usually use it as like a tea broth or steam something in it but it&#39;s especially good for summer heat especially when there&#39;s dampness like diarrhea so remember summer heat often comes along with signs of dampness so if we have summer heat and dampness causing diarrhea might be a good one to use yudo is mung bean and here we would just use to cook this in like a congee so you might make some rice and add in some you dou some mung bean into your kanji and cook it real well and this is especially useful when we&#39;re dealing with summer heat with thirst so houlier and nudo are both good for summer heat they&#39;re both used in food therapy if we want to differentiate them i would say hey is better for like diarrhea dampness whereas ludo is better for thirst but those are two symptoms that often come along with summer heat so i think so far we&#39;ve learned a couple maybe just a couple herbs for summer heat i think we talked about xiang roo maybe treat summer heat maybe it&#39;s better to say it treats wind cold during the summer but we also see a pop-up in summer heat formulas we talked about chihuahua watermelon is very good for summer heat that was in the drain fire category and now we have two more uh judo and houlier treating summer heat so that&#39;s udo baito long pulsatilla radix bhai to wang baito wong clears heat toxicity its specialty is dysentery when you see baito wong think dysentery this is one of our main herbs for dysentery so bye to wong think dysentery matrushian portulacai urba again it looks very general that we have a lot of different symptoms of heat toxicity plus damp heat so skin infection uh snake bite and wasp thing very general but if we had a specialty i would say again diarrhea and dysentery this is especially useful when there&#39;s tenesmus remember we said tenesmus is this urge to defecate that doesn&#39;t go away and sometimes it comes with some cramping or some spasm so matrix yen good for dysentery but especially when we have those symptoms of tenesmus we can also say it induces astringency to um for bleeding conditions it can induce astringence to stop bleeding but i might remember dysentery by champion dictoni cortex by xien p dictoni cortex by cnp clears heat toxicity but here maybe we could say heat toxicity and damp heat so heat toxicity but when there&#39;s an element of dampness and well as well so that&#39;s going to be certain skin problems when the skin is really moist or there&#39;s a lot of pus that might be a sign that it&#39;s not just heat toxicity but there&#39;s dampness as well um this can be used both internally or externally that we can boil it and i&#39;ll like apply it as a wash externally or drink it internally also good for like leukeria vaginal discharge and itching because again that would be a sign of damp heat so bai chanpi think damp heat tufu lings milac is glabry rhizoma smell hackus this one&#39;s kind of funny i think of this as the syphilis herb so tufu ling the syphilis herb why do i say that because again this one like like before it clears heat toxicity but also is good for dampness so heat toxicity plus dampness so skin infection when there&#39;s a moistness or pus like dampness and turns out that&#39;s kind of what syphilis looks like uh two fooling also benefits the joints so when we get that damp knee damp heat gets into the joints it can cause some uh painful joints spasms heaviness it turns out that is also a sign of syphilis and then quite coincidentally tufoling can also be used to treat mercury poisoning and it turns out back in the day mercury was used as a treatment for syphilis so that&#39;s why i say to fooling i think of like the syphilis herb that it it causes some skin problems that look like heat toxicity and damp heat it causes some joint pain of damp heat getting into the joints it also treats mercury poisoning those are all oddly associated with syphilis as for the name tufu ling if you had an intro class you may have learned the um in the category herbs that drain dampness we have a very famous herb called fuling poria it&#39;s a fungus that grows around the root of a tree so it turns out that this is called tufooling it looks kind of similar to fooling turns out this has nothing to do with fooling it is not in any way related to fooling but we call it tufooling because it has very similar properties to fooling so that when you look at the taste and temperature it&#39;s the same it&#39;s neutral in temperature it&#39;s sweet and bland these are the same properties as fooling and it&#39;s good for dampness just like fooling is in the drain dampness category so maybe you can remember that fooling drains dampness well tufu laying is in the heat toxicity category so it treats heat toxicity but it also treats dampness so these two plants are not related but they share a common function of treating dampness that&#39;s tufu ling the syphilis herb shando gun who we&#39;re still going i think we only have a few more left shondo gun sephora tokenensis radix shondo gun shondo for this one think throat issues shondo gun is good for heat toxicity but we say it clears heat toxicity and benefits the throat because it&#39;s good for throat problems like swollen painful throat turns out it&#39;s so good at treating throat problems you can eat you can actually drink it as a tea or you can just gargle it and that will help with some of those throat problems again and just in terms of generally clearing heat toxicity can be used for skin infection like everything in this category and this one we might even say it has some it&#39;s using the treatment of dealing with symptoms of cancer especially cancers of the throat and lung so that&#39;s how good it is at relieving throat problems the these statements have not been approved by the fda please do not use chinese herbs to treat cancer chinese herbs do not treat cancer but shondo gun good for the throat shrigan another one good for the throat so it clears heat toxicity and benefits the throat so you can think about these two shondo gun and sugan are good for the throat and then finally um we have a couple at the end that the reason these uh are an outline they&#39;re not uh solid is because these are at least when i was in school these were not on our syllabus i&#39;m not sure if these are on the ncc game list or not but these are herbs that when i was in school these were not on the syllabus but they&#39;re still herbs that come up in formulas and they&#39;re still herbs that we had in the clinic so i&#39;d like to briefly mention them uh just so you can recognize them mob wool uh lassie osara mob wool this is puffball uh we have a formula as like puffball decoction i was like what&#39;s a puffball i think this is a type of fungus it&#39;s kind of fuzzy because it has a lot of spores on it i believe this is a type of fungus mob wool its specialty is that it&#39;s again good for the throat so again if we have like a a wind heat invasion that turns into heat toxicity and we have this red swore red sore swollen painful throat mob wool might be useful and that&#39;s i feel like that&#39;s the only time i&#39;ve seen it come up but i just wanted to mention it so when you get into formula class and you&#39;re like this formula has ma bull what is mob wool it&#39;s a heat toxicity herb that&#39;s especially good for sore throat or loss of voice or cough due to long heat so think about again like a wind heat invasion that turned into heat toxicity we got heat in the lung the throat is the gate of the lung so we got a red sore swollen throat and finally yadanza um brookie fructus this is a seed this is something i&#39;d just like to mention because it has a useful action of treating horns and warts so yadanza is toxic so we don&#39;t i&#39;ve never seen it used internally if you&#39;re going to use it internally i think you have to use it very carefully because it can be toxic to the liver and kidneys so the dosage is very small i&#39;ve never seen it used uh external internally but it is very common to use it externally for corns and warts i think sometimes i use the actual seed and tape it on there but you can also find yadanza oil as a topical application for warts and corns so you have a patient that has warts and you want to use a traditional chinese remedy for it yadanza would be the most famous one and again you can even if you search online you can find adanza oil and it will come with some instructions of how to use it so that&#39;s just something i like to mention because it&#39;s in this category and it comes up as kind of a remedy for that situation so again this is a very long category with a lot of herbs a lot of them kind of run together so again i think we tried to mention some specialties of each herb to some extent i would say just know that these herbs belong to the category heat toxicity and just know what heat toxicity is we&#39;re talking about things like skin infection so abscesses source boils things with pus things like snake bite insect bite causing these big red sores that&#39;s the major thing we&#39;re talking about is infection this can also be abscesses either external abscesses like breast abscess or internal abscess like lung abscess large intestine abscess and also epidemic febrile diseases so i i say mostly know that because it&#39;s hard to differentiate these herbs so just to give you some examples i thought we&#39;re at the point where maybe we could go through some formulas and maybe you can see some of these herbs in action then maybe that will clarify some of the actions so we already talked about yin chao-sam this is our major formula for wind heat invasion yin shao-san so we see our our wind heat signs and symptoms fever and chills simultaneous fever and chills but because this is wind heat we&#39;re going to see more fever and less chills headache thirst because the heat is drying out the fluids cough because we have wind heat obstructing the flow of qi in the lung so we get cough rebellious qi and then our major symptom for wind heat is sore throat a red sore swollen throat our pulse is floating in rapid floating because we&#39;re dealing with an exterior attack the pathogen is on the surface so we feel a pulse at the surface rapid is a sign of heat so these are just very straightforward signs of wind heat invasion if it was just a very mild attack of wind heat we might use that other one we talked about song juyin song yay plus ju hua it&#39;s good for like cough and maybe some eye problems but if it starts to sink down and it gets into the throat and into the lungs then we might use yin chao son and again our major ingredients are geniun-hwa and lien chao because they both release the exterior to expel the wind heat invasion but they also take care of this heat toxicity that&#39;s in the throat causing a red sore swollen painful throat so genie and hua lianchao definitely remember they clear heat toxicity but they also release exterior wind heat invasion as well because yin chao-san is a formula that you will see come up very often in clinic another one formula we&#39;ll get to in formula class is puji chao do yin puji chao du yen again this character tu means toxin so when you say heat toxicity it&#39;s so dew means toxin this is universal benefit drink to eliminate toxin or puji universal benefit eliminate toxin drink yin means drink so kind of story behind this one this one was for an epidemic febrile disease that was sweeping the countryside that they had this outbreak of an acute massive febrile disease of the head and face so we see a lot of head and face symptoms strong fever and chills because this is a very strong pathogen that&#39;s moving swiftly and penetrating quickly redness swelling and burning pain of the head and face so this is like wind heat and heat toxicity in the face so bad you have inability to open in the eyes because they&#39;re swollen dysfunction of the throat red painful swollen you can&#39;t swallow because of your throat dryness and thirst because of the heat the tongue is red with a powdery white or yellow coat because we&#39;ve got that heat floating rapid and forceful floating because next it&#39;s an external condition an external attack rapid because of the heat forceful because it&#39;s an excess condition this is a strong pathogen a strong excess pathogen causing an excess pulse so this would be an example of heat toxicity it&#39;s in the name of the formula eliminate toxin this isn&#39;t this was an epidemic febrile disease that was sweeping the countryside and so basically when this outbreak happened a chinese doctor created this formula and they gave it to everybody that&#39;s why it&#39;s called universal benefit that he just made this generic formula could be given to everybody who had this situation so that&#39;s why i call it universal benefit and this is an example of heat toxicity is a severe epidemic febrile outbreak so you can see some herbs you learned there huang qin and huang lian we learned in the last category the damp heat category those were good for clearing damp heat but also clearing heat and heat toxicity as well remember huang chin we said is especially good for the lungs clearing lung heat or clearing upper jowl heat and that&#39;s what we&#39;re dealing with then we see a bunch of our heat toxicity herbs especially the ones that are good for the throat because we had dysfunction of the throat so remember lien chao or jinhua the enchant are good for throat problems mob wool that&#39;s the puff ball that we talked about is especially good for throat problems bon long gun it may have antiviral properties that&#39;s good for this epidemic outbreak but bon long again also good for the throat good for throat problems so we see a lot of our heat toxicity herbs especially these ones are good for the throat and the upper body because they&#39;re in a formula that&#39;s good for the throat and the upper body schwann chen remember we learned that in the cool the blood category schwan chen is scrofularia radix schwann shen scrofularioratix the scrofularioratix is good for scruffula which is a disorder of the throat so again we have an herb from a different category that benefits the throat and it&#39;s in this formula because it benefits the throat and then we have some of our cool lacquered release the exterior category so remember we said nuobangsa again here it releases the exterior but it&#39;s especially good for the throat releases the exterior but we said it opens up the head and face so this is a febrile disorder of the head and face swelling burning pain of the head and face so boho is opening that up cha&#39;hu and shang ma because they go upward and they vent this heat upward and outward but this is this is an example of a heat toxicity formula and you can see some of our heat toxicity herbs there liancha moabo lienchao banlangen good for these epidemic febrile outbreaks good for especially the throat five ingredient decoction to eliminate toxins [Music] five ingredient shall do eliminate toxin yin is drink so this again obviously by the name xiaoduin is good for heat toxicity this is especially good for all types of heat toxicity affecting the skin so all types of boils and carbuncles with localized redness swelling heat and pain so we can see here we have a bunch of our um heat toxicity herbs like jinyin hua pugong zahuati ding these are all flowers genie hua is gold and silver flower or honeysuckle flower pugong is dandelion zihwadi ding is violet so these are all flowers they&#39;re all good for skin problems like boils carbuncles with redness swelling heat and pain so that tells us that these herbs are especially good for skin problems because they&#39;re in this formula that treats skin problems by to wong tong pulsatilla decoction by to wong tong bai to wong tong is for dysentery baitawong is our formula for dysentery we specifically say hot dysentery due to heat toxicity searing the stomach and intestines so we have abdominal pain tenesmus defecation with a sensation of burning around the anus you have so much heat it burns when it comes out and diarrhea with blood and pus we say more blood than pus this is a specific thing to know that we&#39;re dealing with heat if there&#39;s more puffs we might suspect it&#39;s more dampness but because there&#39;s more blood than pus we know it&#39;s heat toxicity and again we see our number one herb for dysentery is by toewong that&#39;s the chief herb that&#39;s what this formula is named after so uh baito wong tong is a formula for dysentery the chief herb is by to wong you better remember that baito wong is good for diary and dysentery again we see two of our huangs here huang lian and huang bai remember huang lian is in the damp heat category it&#39;s especially good for middle jaw heat and diarrhea chin pee is interesting because in bensky qing p was in the damp heat category we also said that&#39;s good for diary and dysentery there are other books that put chin pee in this category the heat toxicity category either way we said chin p is especially good for diarrhea and dysentery so basically we took a bunch of herbs that treat diarrhea and dysentery and we put them together in a formula and it&#39;s called bi to wong tong but we should definitely remember that bai tuang is good for diary and dysentery and chin pee are good is good for diarrhea and dysentery final one is ching daison ching daison indigo powder chin daison is of course named after ching dai this is indigo that we said this is uh the leaf from the indigo that&#39;s been processed with lime to create a powder and so ching daison is a mixture that&#39;s good for all types of skin disorders that present with erosion heat swelling itching and pain so this could be acute eczema this could be contact dermatitis allergic dermatitis we say contact dermatitis that include can include contact with plants so things like poison ivy so this is just a general powder that&#39;s good for skin conditions due to heat and damp heat so heat toxicity or dampness so here we have qingdao that&#39;s the one we learned in this category indigo powder so this is telling us that ching dai is really good for skin problems because it&#39;s used in this formula for skin problems shusher gao is interesting remember sure gao we learned in the drain fire category but we said that sure gao can also be applied externally this is an example where sure gau is being used applied externally shu means prepared we can say shu sure gau or duan gal basically take the shirt out and heat it up in a kiln um until it becomes calcined and that makes it very brittle easy to break apart into a powder why is my mail popping up i don&#39;t want mail so that&#39;s that&#39;s an example of sure gal being used externally and then we have huang bai just because it uh clears heat so this is an example of qingdao being used to treat skin problems and again um most of these herbs come in a powder anyway chiang dai sure gao washer are already a powder basically we grind these into a powder and then you can apply it to the skin we have a couple options here like if the skin if you have skin problems due to dampness the skin is probably going to be like moist anyway so you can just put the powder on there and the moistness of the skin will keep it on that&#39;s one possibility you could uh mix it with like some sesame oil and apply it as a paste you could mix it with some petroleum jelly and make it more like a plaster you could also when you talked about using herbs like pugong ying or macho chien you can take these flowers and pound it into a poultice until the the flowers get kind of bruised and uh squishy then you could sprinkle some chiangdaes on on top and apply that as a poultice and you&#39;re using like the crushed up dandelion as the medium for your poultice but again this is an example of just our heat toxicity herbs these are some examples of heat toxicity and here&#39;s where we would use chiang dai to treat skin infection so those are just to give some examples of how these herbs get used in formulas so again very long category if we just wanted to point some things out jeanine hua lianchao those are ones that clear heat toxicity they&#39;re good for sore throat but they also release the exterior so genie and hua and lianchao we use for externa external invasions of wind heat the chinese gun both come from the indigo plant they&#39;re good for viral infections epidemic febrile outbreaks and also long heat and throat problems ching dae we just talked about is indigo powder it&#39;s very good for skin conditions it turns out purple things are very good for the skin pugong is dandelion flower pugong its specialty is breast abscess and mastitis it also promotes urination but pugonging breast abscess mastitis zehua dideng purple flower or violet again purple things are good for skin problems so red deep set angry toxic sores but also snake bite bai jiang sao patrini herba bai jiang sao is our one that&#39;s very good for large intestine abscess because it it&#39;s good for heat toxicity and plus but also invigorates blood those are both things that come up with large intestine abscess tuan xin yin clears heat toxicity especially heat in the lung bye hua shi sao my favorite one to say bye hua is white flower snake tongue herb it&#39;s white flower snake tongue so it&#39;s good for snake bites it also has um it might be used for cancer situations and ludo are lotus leaf and mung bean they&#39;re good for summer heat baito long dysentery uh bai chan p what&#39;d we say about that uh bai shin p clears heat toxicity and also damp heat so when there&#39;s skin problems with a lot of moisture and pus it&#39;s also good for other damp heat like vaginal discharge but by shen p think damp heat matrixion another damp heat but this one also diarrhea and dysentery it doesn&#39;t show up in baton tongue but it&#39;s also good it&#39;s kind of kind of very general kind of clears all types of damp heat if we had to say a specialty we would we might say dysentery to fueling another one that treats dampness this is the syphilis one so damp heat skin conditions when there&#39;s moisture and pus when that damp heat gets into the joints it can cause joint pain another sign of symphylus also treats mercury poisoning so fooling is good for dampness to fooling is good for heat toxicity and dampness shondo gun and sugan good for throat problems so that is herbs that clear heat toxicity 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Transcript for:Herbs That Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity

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Herbs That Clear Heat and Resolve Toxicity