• Herbs that Tonifies
• Herbs that Release the Exterior
• Herbs that Regulate the Blood
• Herbs that Transforms the Phlegm and Stops Coughing
• Substances that Calms the Spirit
• Substances that Extinguishes Wind and Stops Tremors

Actions and Indications:

1. Sedates the Heart and settles tremors and palpitations. Also used for disharmony of the Heart and spirit wherein the patient is easily frightened or angered.

   
   
2. Clears the Liver and eliminates superficial visual obstructions: blurred vision due to pterygium or other superficial disorders of the eye.
   
   
3. Promotes healing and generates flesh: used topically as a powder for chronic, non-healing ulcers or macerated areas.
   
   

Actions and Indications:

1. Calms the spirit, augments the Heart qi, and tonifies the Heart blood: for insomnia, fright and palpitations, and forgetfulness associated with insufficient Heart qi and blood failing to nourish the spirit.
   
2. Tonifies the Lung qi; transforms phlegm, and stops coughs and wheezing: for cough and wheezing in patients with cold from deficiency or phlegm-dampness.
   
   
3. Tonifies the qi, nourishes the blood: for deficiency consumption with shortness of breath, lack of appetite, and either icy extremities or irritability with a dry mouth.