Gui Zhi

Indication:

WIND COLD-severe chills and fever, HA, body ache due to excess

Bi syndrome due to wind cold damp

Xing Ren

Indications:

Cough and asthma due to WIND COLD

and LU heat

Fang Feng

Indications:

exterior patterns for WC or WH, measles and skin eruptions, carbuncles, blood in stool/urine, excessive menses, diarrhea

Cang Er Zi

Indications:

Common cold with HA, nasal congestion, and runny nose due to WC, sinus problems, loss of smell

Ju Hua

Indications:

1) fever, aversion to light, sweating, cough, HA, and thirst due to WH,

2) HA, vertigo, red swollen painful eyes due to Lv yang rising

Sheng Ma

Indications:

1) early stage measles, HA, fever

2) incomplete eruption of measles, fever

Zhi Mu

indications:

1) 4 Bigs: high fever, profuse sweating, great thirst, surging pulse due to heat in the qi level

2) Xiao Ke (UJ) dry mouth and tongue, great thirst due to Lu heat

Shi Gao

Indications:

1) St heat: toothache, bleeding, swollen, painful gums, oral ulcers

2) HA due to WH entering orfices

Dan Dou Chi

Indications:

1) irritability and agitation, insomnia, during or after warm febrile disease

2) external contraction of WH of febrile disease

Lu Gen and ?

Bai Mao Gen

Indications:

1) fever, thirst, irritability due to warm febrile disease of WH

2) cough/wheezing due to Lu heat

3) measles due to toxic heat

4) UTI w fever, dysturia or edema

5) nausea vomiting due to St heat

6) epidemic hemorrhagic fever

Dan Shen

Indications:

1) Blood heat: epistaxis, purpura

2) blood stasis: irregular menses, postpartum ab pain

3) low grade fever due to yin xu

4) hot, red, swollen, painful joints due to heat bi

Bai Shao

Indications:

1) blood heat, chronic low grade fever

2) yin and body fluid xu

3) chest and hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain

4) blood xu w heat stasis: irregular menses

Cang Zhu

Indications: 

1) damp heat pouring down to lower part

2) damp heat in genital area

3) red swollen, hot, painful joints due to wind damp heat bi syndrome

Mu Xiang

Indications:

1) Dysentery w ab pain, tenesmus due to damp heat and qi stag in lower jiao

Lian Qiao

Indications:

1) cold and influenza due to WH

2) warm febrile disease

3) HA, eye pain, sinusitis, swollen throat

4) skin eruption

skin inflammation due to toxic heat

Lian Qiao

Indications: 

1) mouth and tongue ulcer, sore throat due to Heat

2) red swelling, carbuncle, acute febrile due to maculopapular rash

Xuan Shen

Indications:

1) painful, red, swollen throat due to yin xu heat or excess fire that damages yin

Mu Li

Indications:

1) neck lumps or nodules like scrofula, lipoma, goiter, swollen glands

2) inguinal nodules and other parts of body

Gan Cao

Indications:

1) Summer heat and damp: fever, restlessness, thirst, diarrhea

2) damp heat or UB marked by dark urine, difficulty, and painful urination or urinary stone

Bie Jia

Indications:

1) steaming bone fever, night sweat, cough due to yin xu

2)malaria

3) later stage of warm febrile disease

Huang Bai

Indications:

1) Yin xu heat

2) excessive sexual drive, easy erection due to deficient fire and hyperactive ming men fire

3) dysuria due to yin xu and yang cant transform

Mang Xiao

Indications:

1) constipation w hard dry stools, and ab pain due to heat accum

2) constipation w high fever, tidal fever, mental confusion due to excess heat in yang ming fu

3) chronic or severe constipation due to heat

Fu Zi

Indications: 

1) constipation, ab pain, aversion to cold due to cold accum

Rou Cong Gong

Indications:

1) Constipation due to body fluid xu after febrile disease (giving birth)

2) constipation due to blood xu, esp for elderly/deficient

Xing ren

Indications:

1) chest epigastric, and lower abdominal pain due to qi stag and blood stasis

2) constipation of def type due to dryness in LI

3) Constipation of excess type due to qi stag