[su_tooltip style=”bootstrap” position=”north” size=”5″ content=”Chinese Herbalism organizes medicinal substances by the Eighteen Categories. By memorizing these first, your understanding of the Theory and choosing the correct therapy will be greatly enhanced.”]The Eighteen Categories of herbs[/su_tooltip]
Chapter 1 Herbs that Relieve the Exterior
Section 1 Warm, Pungent/Acrid
a. Strongly Relieve Wind-Cold
b. Mildly Relieve Wind-Cold
c. Wind-Cold & Harmonize Stomach
d. Wind-Cold-Damp + Headache
e. Wind-Cold + Nasal Problems
f. Wind-Cold in Summer
Section 2 Cool, Pungent/Acrid
a. Mildly Release Wind-Heat
b. Wind-Heat & Raise Yang Qi
c. Wind-Heat Rash, Throat
d. Wind-Heat Focus Head & Eyes
Release Both W-C & W-H
Chapter 2 Herbs that Clear Heat
Section 1 Herbs that Clear Heat and Drain Fire
a. Clear Yang Ming Channel Heat or Qi Level Heat
b. Drain Liver Fire
c. Clear Heart Fire
d. Clear San Jiao Heat
e. Clear Lung Heat
Section 2 Herbs that Clear Heat and Dry Dampness
a. Clear Heat & Dry Dampness
Section 3 Herbs that Cool Blood and Clear Heat
a. Clear Heat & Cool Blood
Section 4 Herbs that Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity
a. Seasonal Warm-Febrile Disorders
b. Abscess, Sores, & Ulcers
c. Intestinal Abscess/Appendicitis
d. Severe Sore Throat due to Toxic Heat
e. Dysentery & Intestinal Damp-Heat
f. Clear False Heat/Yin Deficient Heat
g. Lung Heat
Section 5 Cancer Herbs
a. Cancer Herbs
Sections 6 Herbs that Clear Summer Heat
a. Clear Summer Heat
Chapter 3 Downward Draining Herbs
Section 1 Purgatives
Section 2 Moist Laxatives
Section 3 Harsh Expellants
Chapter 4 Herbs that Drain Dampness
Section 1 Herbs that Leech out Dampness & Promote Urination
Section 2 Herbs that Drain Damp & Promote Urination Diuretics for Difficult Urination
Section 3 Herbs that Drain Damp-Heat
Chapter 5 Herbs that Dispel Wind-Dampness
Section 1 Wind-Cold-Damp Bi
Section 2 Wind-Damp-Heat Bi
Section 3 Chronic Bi
Chapter 6 Herbs that Transform Phlegm
Section 1 Transform Phlegm-Cold
Section 2 Transform Phlegm-Heat
Section 3 Transform Phlegm-Stop Cough & Wheezing
a. Transform Phlegm-Stop Cough Warm Herbs
b. Transform Phlegm-Stop Cough Cold Herbs
Chapter 7 Aromatic Herbs that Transform Dampness
Section 1 Transform Damp
Chapter 8 Herbs that Relieve Food Stagnation
Section 1 Food Stagnation
Chapter 9 Herbs that Regulate Qi
Section 1 Regulate Liver Qi
Section 2 Regulate Middle Jiao Qi
Section 3 Regulate Chest Qi
Section 4 Move Liver Qi & Stop Pain
Section 5 Regulate Rebellious Qi Lu/St
Chapter 10 Herbs that Regulate the Blood
Section 1 Cool Blood & Stop Bleeding
a. Cool Blood & Stop Bleeding
b. Stop Bleeding by Astringency
c. Stop Bleeding by Invigorating the Blood
d. Stop Bleeding by Warming the Meridians
Section 2 Herbs that Invigorate the Blood
a. Move Qi & Blood, Stop Pain
b. Invigorate Blood & Regulate Menses
c. Invigorate Blood Focus on Trauma
Chapter 11 Herbs that Warm the Interior and Expel Cold
Section 1 Warm the Interior and Expel Cold
Chapter 12 Tonic Herbs
Section 1 Qi Tonics
a. Focus on Tonifying Whole Body Qi
b. Focus on Lung & Spleen Qi
Section 2 Tonify Yang
Section 3 Tonify Blood
Section 4 Tonify Yin
a. Focus on Liver & Kidney Yin
b. Focus on Lung & Stomach Yin
c. Focus on Stomach Yin
d. Focus on Lung & Kidney Yin
Chapter 13 Herbs that Stabilize and Bind
Section 1 Astringe Sweat
Section 2 Astringe Lung Qi
Section 3 Astringe Large Intestine
Section 4 Astringe Kidney Jing (Essence)
Chapter 14 Substances that Calm Shen (Spirit)
Section 1 Substances that Anchor Shen
Section 2 Herbs that Nourish Shen
Chapter 15 Aromatic Substances that Open the Orifices
Chapter 16 Substances that Extinguish Wind and Stop Tremors
Section 1 Anchor Liver Yang
Section 2 Eliminate Liver Wind
Chapter 17 Herbs that Expel Parasites