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What is the Pin Yin for Immortal’s Formula for Sustaining Life?

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Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin

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What is the action of Immortal’s Formula for Sustaining Life?

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clear heat and resolve fire toxin,
reduce swelling and promote the discharge of pus,
invigorate blood and alleviate pain
-Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin-

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What are the herbs in Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin?

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Bai Zhi 
Chen Pi 
Chi Shao 
Chuan Shan Jia 
Dang Gui Wei 
Fang Feng 
Gan Cao 
Jin Yin Hua 
Mo Yao 
Ru Xiang 
Tian Hua Fen 
Zao Jiao Ci
Zhe Bei Mu  
Immortal's Formula for Sustaining Life
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Which formula that moves down and is cold can be used for similar presentation as Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin?

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Huang Lian Jie Du Tang

but Immortal’s Formula for Sustaining Life is warm, moves up and is lifting - they both clear fire toxins

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What is the action of Five Ingredient Powder?

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Clear Heat 
Resolve Toxicity 
Cool the Blood 
Reduce Swelling 
-Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin-
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What is the Pinyin for Five Ingredient Powder?

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Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin

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What are the herbs in Five Ingredient Powder?

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Jin Yin Hua
Pu Gong Yin
Tian Kui Zi
Ye Ju Hua
Zi Hua Di Ding
-Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin-
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What category do all the ingredients in Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin belong to?

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Clear Heat Relieve Toxicity

-Five ingredient powder-

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What is the latin for Tian Kui Zi?

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Semiaquilegiae Radix

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What formula is like an “herbal antibiotic”?

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Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin - Five Ingredient Powder.

Although there is no evidence as to which bacteria, if any, the herbs are effective against.

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What could the danger of using Five Ingredient Powder be?

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All cool/cold herbs that clear heat - could lower fever prematurely - preventing it from doing its job fighting pathogen.

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What is the action of Four Valiant Decoction for Well-Being?

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Clears heat and resolves toxicity
nourishes yin
invigorates blood and alleviates pain

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What are the herbs in Si Miao Yong An Tang?

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Jin Yin Hua
Xuan Shen
Dang Gui
Gan Cao
-Four Valiant Decoction for Well-Being-
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What makes Four Valiant Decoction for Well Being different from the other formulas?

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Yin Nourishing

-Si Miao Yong An Tang-

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What is the action of Six Miracle Pill?

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Resolves fire toxin
reduces swelling
alleviates pain

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What formula will we never use?

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Liu Shen Wan - Six Miracle Pill

All toxic or endangered ingredients

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What are the ingredients of Liu Shen Wan?

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Niu Huang
Zhen Zhu
Chan Su
Xiong Huang
Bing Pian
She Xiang
-Six Miracle Pill-
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What is the action of Balmy Yang Decoction?

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Warms Yang
Tonifies the Blood
Disperses Cold
Unblocks areas of Stagnation

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What are the herbs in Yang He Tang?

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Shu Di Huang
Lu Jiao Jiao
Rou Gui
Pao Jiang
Bai Jie Zi
Ma Huang 
Gan Cao
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Which formula treats Yin-type abscesses?

A

Balmy Yang Decoction

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Which herb in Balmy Yang Decoction is dosed high and why?

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Shu Di Huang - to protect and nourish the yin in a very warming and drying Yang promoting formula.

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What is the action of Reed Decoction?

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Clears heat from LU
transforms phlegm
Drives out blood stasis
discharges pus

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What about the ingredients of Wei Jing makes it a good heat clearing formula for the internal LU abscesses?

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Made of Seeds:
Yi Yi Ren
Dong Gui Zi
Tao Ren
( and Wei Jing)
three seeds drain and purge while Wei Jing creates a river that moves the heat out
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What is the action of Da Huang Mu Dan Tang?

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Drains Heat
breaks up blood stasis
disperses clumping
reduces swelling

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What are the herbs in Rhubarb and Mouton Decoction?

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Da Huang
Mang Xiao
Mu Dan Pi
Tao Ren 
Dong Gua Zi
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Reed Decoction and Da Huang Mu Dan Tang share some herbs - which do they share and what makes them different?

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Dong Gua Zi and Tao Ren are in both formulas.
both formulas are for internal abscesses.
Da Huang Mu Dan Tang has no lifting herbs and moves only down.