Questions Week 1 & 2

[Guest guest]

Julie J Dibie

 

Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

, B.S., M.Ac.O.M., L.Ac.

Herbs 1: Study Questions

Winter 2005

 

These questions are to prepare for the exams and quizzes. Answers

must be submitted via email weekly. Quizzes and exams will mainly

cover these questions and herb functions and categories. No more

than 5% will be devoted to other information on the syllabus (such

as entering channels, flavors and temperatures

 

Week 1-2

 

1. List the characteristics (desirable or undesirable) of Inferior

medicinals as classified by the authors of Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing

(The Divine Husbandman's Materia Medica).

A= Inferior medicinals specifically treat disease or severe symptoms

short term and usually are somewhat toxic.

 

2. What general properties are possessed by medicinals with a cold

temperature and a bitter taste?

A=Cold temperature and bitter taste descends, drains and dries.

 

3. Which tastes and temperatures (qi) are contraindicated for

bleeding from the nose (epistaxis) due to lung heat?

A=Hot temperature and bitter taste.

 

4. What are important points to remember about entering channels for

medicinals?

A= Entering channel means what effect the given herb has on the

specific channel or area of body.

 

5. What is the key conceptual shift in Chinese medicine embodied in

the Huang Di Nei Jing/ Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal

Medicine?

A= Naturalistic observation rather than shamanism or magic.

Medicine based on natural rules and relationships of nature

 

 

6. Describe the differences in content and general organization of

the Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage) and Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (The

Divine Husbandman's Materia Medica).

 

A=Shang Han Lan introduced the six channel pattern identification

for diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by exterior wind and

cold, while Shen Nong Den Cao introduced agriculture and aninal

husbandry tasted " hundred herbs " . He Is the lengendary patron of

herbal medicine.

 

7. The choice of medicinals for given disease patterns is governed

and informed by knowledge of the specific qualities of medicinals.

Demonstrate the role of taste, qi (temperature), upbearing and

downbearing, and entering channels of medicinals by indicating which

of each would be required to treat the patterns listed below. Please

explain the rationale behind your choices.

a. Spleen and kidney yang vacuity with enduring diarrhea

A=Shen - upbearing, astringent, sour, acrid, sweet, warm, and hot.

b. Repletion heat in the yang ming with high fever, profuse

sweating, and thirst.

A=Jiang- downbearing, sour, bitter, cold, acrid.

 

(Example: for treating depressed fire in liver and gallbladder

causing ear pain we would look for a medicinal which was bitter,

cold, downbearing, and which enters the liver and gallbladder

channels.)

 

 

 

Matching: Correlate the combination of tastes and temperature (qi)

with the corresponding treatment strategy listed below. Write the

letter of the correct choice from the lettered list below in the

space provided on the left.

 

__e__1) Bitter, acrid, cold

__c__2) Sweet, cold

__b__3) Aromatic, bitter, bland

__g__4) Bitter, cold, sweet

__h__5) Hot, acrid

__f___6) Sweet, sour, warm

__a__7) Salty, cold

__d__8) Sweet, bland, hot

 

a. Softens hardness accompanying a phlegm heat condition

b. Fortifies spleen and drains dampness downward

c. Nourishes yin and clears heat

d. Warms and supplements the spleen and disinhibits (promotes)

urination

e. Disperses qi stagnation and clears heat

f. Astringes leakage due to yang qi vacuity (deficiency)

g. Drains repletion (excess) heat and engenders fluids

h. Disperses cold obstruction and warms the interior

 

Which medicinal should appear in a formula for this man

[Guest guest]

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> On Behalf Of juliedibie

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> 3. Which tastes and temperatures (qi) are contraindicated for

> bleeding from the nose (epistaxis) due to lung heat?

> A=Hot temperature and bitter taste.

[Jason]

Isn't xue yu tan bitter and treats epistaxis?

 

-Jason