Herbal Cures
Herbal Cures
by
Stephen Lau
by
Stephen Lau
Background of Chinese herbs and herbal healing
Herbal healing is an integral part of Chinese medicine, which has utilized Chinese herbs for thousands of years. Over the centuries, there were as many as 5,000 Chinese herbs used in herbal cures, but only a fraction of them have become celebrated herbs in Chinese medicine for herbal healing .
There is a Chinese saying: "You can never draw a line between foods and herbs." In other words, herbal health is a way of life. To illustrate, Asian dandelions and Chinese yams are so mild in effect that they are eaten as foods; many plants are both foods and herbs.
According to The Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine (Nei Ching), the fundamental herbal cures are based on the food-cure principles in Chinese medicine:
(1) Eat cereal grains, meats, fruits and vegetables to stay healthy.
The five cereal grains are the principle nourishments:
ˇ Rice
ˇ Red beans
ˇ Wheat and barley
ˇ Soybeans
ˇ Bloom corns
The five fruits are secondary nourishments:
ˇ Apricots
ˇ Chestnuts
ˇ Peaches
ˇ Pears
ˇ Red dates
The five animals reinforce the energy:
ˇ Beef
ˇ Chicken
ˇ Lamb
ˇ Pork
ˇ Dog meat (in ancient China)
The five vegetables supplant any deficiency:
ˇ Chives
ˇ Green onions
ˇ Leaves of pulse plants
ˇ Scallions
ˇ Vegetable marrow
(2) Treat any disease by herbal remedies.
The Book of Rites in the Chou Dynasty (1122 -255 B.C.) stated five kinds of Chinese herbs for herbal cures:
ˇ Cereal
ˇ Grass
ˇ Stone
ˇ Tree
ˇ Worm
That was the beginning of herbal healing in China.
The Classics of the Agriculture Emperor's Materia Medica in the Han Dynasty (25 - 220 A.D.) was the first Chinese classic exclusively on herbal cures. It listed a total of 365 Chinese herbs: 252 plants, 67 animals, and 46 minerals.
In modern China, Chinese and Western medicine and practices side by side. Today, a mindful patient will always make use of both types of medicine to his or her best advantage in treatment or rejuvenation.
Applications of herbal cures
Chinese medicine is based on the principle of balance and harmony of the yin and the yang. For more information, go to my website Chinese Healing.
Chinese herbs to induce perspiration
Herbal cures, such as mahuang (ask-for-trouble or Chinese ephedra) and hare's ear (chaihu), for the common cold or the influ are herbal remedies that induce perspiration in your body for internal cleansing leading to herbal cures.
Such herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for night sweats or chronic diarrhea.
Herbal cures for inflammation and infection
Use Chinese herbs, such as Asian dandelion, and reed rhizome (lugen), to reduce excessive heat causing inflammation and infection. For example, bronchitis and pneumonia are inflammations of the lungs, and encephalitis is inflammation of the brain.
These Chinese herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for any stomach ailment because they may led to poor digestion, and they are not ideal for the common cold or fever due to their tendency to dehydrate the body.
Herbal healing for pain relief
Use Chinese herbs for arthritis and rheumatism.
According to Chinese medicine, rheumatism is caused by three factors:
ˇ Cold
ˇ Dampness
ˇ Wind
For rheumatism caused by wind ("wandering pain"), use Chinese clematis (temple's holy root), and mistletoe.
For rheumatism caused by dampness ("fixed pain"), use slender acanthopanax root.
Herbal cures to reduce cold in the body
Use evodia to reduce cold in the body, causing cold adominal and stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomitting. These herbal remedies warm the body, and therefore do not provide herbal health for a hot disease.
Due to their warming characteristics, these herbs may lalso ead to herbal healing of an impaired cardiovascular system by enhancing blood circulation.
Chinese herbs to reduce dampness
Dampness in the body may result in puffy limbs and a swelling stomach. Use Asiatic plantain (plant-before-cart) and Asiatic plantain seed (seed-before-cart), and coin grass (longtube ground ivy) to reduce dampness in the body.
Herbal remedies to stimulate the spleen to accelerate excretion of water from the body may result in herbal health for the body.
Herbal cures for dry diseases
Dry diseases can be internal or external.
Internal dry diseases are characterized by:
ˇ Constipation with dry stools
ˇ Cracked lips
ˇ Dry and itchy throat
ˇ Dry skin
ˇ Insomnia
ˇ Scanty urine
External dry diseases are characterized by:
ˇ Constipation with dry stools
ˇ Cracked lips
ˇ Dry and itchy throat
ˇ Dry skin
ˇ Insomnia
ˇ Scanty urine
Use healing herbs to lubricate the lungs for herbal cures of bronchitis, the common cold, and diabetes.
Use Chinese herbs to lubiricate the stomach to cure diabetes mellitus and morbid hunger.
These herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for individuals with weak energy, poor blood circulation, or chronic indigestion.
Wild sesame lubricates the liver and kidneys.
Chinese herbs to induce bodily discharge
Use black false hellebore (insanity grass), a strong herb, and antipyretic dichroa (changshan or mount eternity) to induce vomitting of sputum and undigested foods. If the herb does not work within 20 minutes, use a finger to penetrate the throat to induce vomitting. After vomitting, drink some hot clear soup.
Herbal remedies to induce bowel movements
Use rhubarb (greater yellow root) to induce bowel movements, as well as inflammation of the ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and skin.
Herbal cures for poor digestion
Use Chinese hawthorn as herbal healing of poor digestion, resulting in abdominal pain, belching, nausea, and swelling of the stomach.
Herbal healing for excessive sputum
Use antipyretic dichroa (changshan or mount eternity), snake gourd, and tendril-leaved fritillary bulb to reduce hot and yellowish sputum.
Use sweet apricot, momordica fruit, zuccarini's buttercup, baibu (wild asparagus), and white cynanchum to suppress cough.
These herbs are also good for asthma, tuberculosis of the lymph node, convulsions, and epilepsy.
Chinese herbs to promote energy circulation
Energy in the body circulates just like the blood does. Too slow, too quick, or irregular circulation may lead to problems.
If the energy movement is upwards most of the time, it may cause hiccups and vomitting.
If the energy movement is downwards most of the time, it may cause prolapse of the anus, the stomach, and the uterus.
If the energy movement is too slow, it may cause chest pain and depression.
Qingpi (green orange-peel), dingxiang (cloves), and muxiang (costusroot) are some of those Chinese herbs.
Herbal remedies to regulate blood
Use Siberian mtherwort to promote blood circulation.
Use acrimony and pseudo-ginseng to stop bleeding.
Use two-toothed amaranthus to prevent blood coagulation (not flowing smoothly), which may lead to abdominal pain after childbirth, chest pain, and menstrual pain.
Herbal cures for fainting
There are two types of fainting: "closed type" and "prolapse type."
Use bensoin for "closed type" of fainting, which is charactererized by:
ˇ Closed fists
ˇ Locked jaws
ˇ Rough breathing
ˇ Strong pulse
Use ginseng for "prolapse type" of fainting, which is characterized by:
ˇ Open hands
ˇ Pale complexion
ˇ Weak pulse
Herbal healing to reduce anxiety
Use Oriental arborvitae seed to reduce anxiety, excessive dreaming, forgetfulness, insomnia, and palpitation.
Chinese herbs to stop involuntary bodily movements
Use tuber of elevated gastrodia to stop shaking of the hands and muscular twitching.
Herbal health to correct deficiency
Use Chinese herbs to increase body strength and enhance immune system.
There are four types of deficiency or weakness:
ˇ Energy deficiency - low energy
ˇ Blood deficiency - blood shortage
ˇ Yin deficiency - insufficient bodily fluids
ˇ Yang deficiency - weak kidneys
Use Chinese ginseng, Chinese yam, licorice, and red date to increase energy. Energy deficiency is evidenced in abdominal pain, asthma, diarrhea, fatigue, indigestion, insomnia, low body weight, and shortness of breath.
Use danggui, glutinous rehmannia, and tuber of multiflower knotweed to increase blood circulation. Blood deficiency is evidenced in diabetes, dizziness, forgetfulness, headaches, insomnia, irregular menstruation, muscular twitching, night sweats, palpitations, and ringing in the ears.
Use matromony vine, lily, sealwort (yellow essence), sesame, and white peony to replenish bodily fluids. Yin deficiency is evidenced in diabetes, chronic cough, chronic sore throat, and night sweats.
Use eucommia bark, longspur epimedium, morinda root, snake-bed seed, and snow lotus to strengthen the kidneys. Yang deficiency is evidenced in abdominal pain, blurred vision, cold limbs, frequent urination, impotence, infertility, and seminal emission.
Herbal cures to construct or obstruct movements
Use cherokee rose (golden-tassel seed) to constrict and obstruct movement of semen (premature ejaculation in men) and urination (incontinence).
Use water lily to constrict and obstruct bowel movements to check diarrhea.
Herbal health for longevity health
Herbal health and herbal healing may bring about longevity health. Some common Chinese herbs promote healthy longevity.
Medicinal cornel fruit
It looks like a date, tastes sour. It is also called "sour mountain date." It had been used as an imperial herb for emperors for centuries to prolong life.
It benefits the liver and kidnesy, constricts semen, and checks perspiration.
Morinda root
It is a never-withering creeping vine
It corrects "deficiencies" by strengthening the kidneys. tendons and bones. It is effective for male impotence, which is usually due to weakned kidneys.
Glutinous rehmannia
This dried tuberous root herb (also known as "new place") not only reduces excessive, heat which may damage the heart, liver, and kidneys, but also lubricates the dryness of the body.
It is an effective heart tonic and coagulant.
Steamed glutinous rehmannia
This steamed glutinous rehmannia (also known as "old place") nourishes the kidneys, making grey hair return to former color.
It is effective in arresting vaginal bleeding, semen emission.
Matrimony vine
This herb comes from the seed of a trailing shrub with thorny stalks. It is good for not only healthy longevity but also yourthful beauty.
It corrects deficiencies, especially in the liver and kidneys. It sharpens vision and removes dizziness.
Momordica fruit
Momordica fruit cannot be eatern until is dried by fire. It is also known as the "longevity fruit" in southern China.
It is exclusively used for herbal healing of chronic bronchitis, chronic laryngitis, cough with sputum, and constipation.
Oriental arborvitae seed
This herb, containings little fat, provides herbal health in reducing cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular diseases,
It induces bowel movements, lubricates the body dryness, and removes anxiety.
Sesame
Sesame, also called "barbarian hemp", not only nourishes the liver and kidneys but also lubricates the five viscera.
It also enhances the beauty of the skin .
Slender acanthopanax root bark
This herb is also called "five plus bark" and it belongs to the Chinese family of ginseng.
It strengthens bones and tendons, thereby benefiting rheumatism and weak limbs.
Sweet apricot seed
There are two types of apricot kernel: sweet apricot kernel and bitter apricot kernel.
Sweet apricot seed lubricates the lungs, expels sputum, and suppresses cough, and relieves asthma.
Bitter apricot seed
Bitter apricot seed, which is slightly toxic, suppresses cough and reduces sputum.
To rejuvenate your health, you need natural herbs and natural vitamins and minerals. Get the best herbs as well as the best information on herbal cures and vitamins from Herbal Remedies. Bookmark this site for all your herbal needs.
The Natural Cure Handbook is a comprehensive book on what herbal remedies are and how you can use them to heal mental, physical and spiritual complaints and disorders.
CopyrightŠ by Stephen Lau
Herbal healing is an integral part of Chinese medicine, which has utilized Chinese herbs for thousands of years. Over the centuries, there were as many as 5,000 Chinese herbs used in herbal cures, but only a fraction of them have become celebrated herbs in Chinese medicine for herbal healing .
There is a Chinese saying: "You can never draw a line between foods and herbs." In other words, herbal health is a way of life. To illustrate, Asian dandelions and Chinese yams are so mild in effect that they are eaten as foods; many plants are both foods and herbs.
According to The Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine (Nei Ching), the fundamental herbal cures are based on the food-cure principles in Chinese medicine:
(1) Eat cereal grains, meats, fruits and vegetables to stay healthy.
The five cereal grains are the principle nourishments:
ˇ Rice
ˇ Red beans
ˇ Wheat and barley
ˇ Soybeans
ˇ Bloom corns
The five fruits are secondary nourishments:
ˇ Apricots
ˇ Chestnuts
ˇ Peaches
ˇ Pears
ˇ Red dates
The five animals reinforce the energy:
ˇ Beef
ˇ Chicken
ˇ Lamb
ˇ Pork
ˇ Dog meat (in ancient China)
The five vegetables supplant any deficiency:
ˇ Chives
ˇ Green onions
ˇ Leaves of pulse plants
ˇ Scallions
ˇ Vegetable marrow
(2) Treat any disease by herbal remedies.
The Book of Rites in the Chou Dynasty (1122 -255 B.C.) stated five kinds of Chinese herbs for herbal cures:
ˇ Cereal
ˇ Grass
ˇ Stone
ˇ Tree
ˇ Worm
That was the beginning of herbal healing in China.
The Classics of the Agriculture Emperor's Materia Medica in the Han Dynasty (25 - 220 A.D.) was the first Chinese classic exclusively on herbal cures. It listed a total of 365 Chinese herbs: 252 plants, 67 animals, and 46 minerals.
In modern China, Chinese and Western medicine and practices side by side. Today, a mindful patient will always make use of both types of medicine to his or her best advantage in treatment or rejuvenation.
Applications of herbal cures
Chinese medicine is based on the principle of balance and harmony of the yin and the yang. For more information, go to my website Chinese Healing.
Chinese herbs to induce perspiration
Herbal cures, such as mahuang (ask-for-trouble or Chinese ephedra) and hare's ear (chaihu), for the common cold or the influ are herbal remedies that induce perspiration in your body for internal cleansing leading to herbal cures.
Such herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for night sweats or chronic diarrhea.
Herbal cures for inflammation and infection
Use Chinese herbs, such as Asian dandelion, and reed rhizome (lugen), to reduce excessive heat causing inflammation and infection. For example, bronchitis and pneumonia are inflammations of the lungs, and encephalitis is inflammation of the brain.
These Chinese herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for any stomach ailment because they may led to poor digestion, and they are not ideal for the common cold or fever due to their tendency to dehydrate the body.
Herbal healing for pain relief
Use Chinese herbs for arthritis and rheumatism.
According to Chinese medicine, rheumatism is caused by three factors:
ˇ Cold
ˇ Dampness
ˇ Wind
For rheumatism caused by wind ("wandering pain"), use Chinese clematis (temple's holy root), and mistletoe.
For rheumatism caused by dampness ("fixed pain"), use slender acanthopanax root.
Herbal cures to reduce cold in the body
Use evodia to reduce cold in the body, causing cold adominal and stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomitting. These herbal remedies warm the body, and therefore do not provide herbal health for a hot disease.
Due to their warming characteristics, these herbs may lalso ead to herbal healing of an impaired cardiovascular system by enhancing blood circulation.
Chinese herbs to reduce dampness
Dampness in the body may result in puffy limbs and a swelling stomach. Use Asiatic plantain (plant-before-cart) and Asiatic plantain seed (seed-before-cart), and coin grass (longtube ground ivy) to reduce dampness in the body.
Herbal remedies to stimulate the spleen to accelerate excretion of water from the body may result in herbal health for the body.
Herbal cures for dry diseases
Dry diseases can be internal or external.
Internal dry diseases are characterized by:
ˇ Constipation with dry stools
ˇ Cracked lips
ˇ Dry and itchy throat
ˇ Dry skin
ˇ Insomnia
ˇ Scanty urine
External dry diseases are characterized by:
ˇ Constipation with dry stools
ˇ Cracked lips
ˇ Dry and itchy throat
ˇ Dry skin
ˇ Insomnia
ˇ Scanty urine
Use healing herbs to lubricate the lungs for herbal cures of bronchitis, the common cold, and diabetes.
Use Chinese herbs to lubiricate the stomach to cure diabetes mellitus and morbid hunger.
These herbs, however, do not provide herbal health for individuals with weak energy, poor blood circulation, or chronic indigestion.
Wild sesame lubricates the liver and kidneys.
Chinese herbs to induce bodily discharge
Use black false hellebore (insanity grass), a strong herb, and antipyretic dichroa (changshan or mount eternity) to induce vomitting of sputum and undigested foods. If the herb does not work within 20 minutes, use a finger to penetrate the throat to induce vomitting. After vomitting, drink some hot clear soup.
Herbal remedies to induce bowel movements
Use rhubarb (greater yellow root) to induce bowel movements, as well as inflammation of the ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and skin.
Herbal cures for poor digestion
Use Chinese hawthorn as herbal healing of poor digestion, resulting in abdominal pain, belching, nausea, and swelling of the stomach.
Herbal healing for excessive sputum
Use antipyretic dichroa (changshan or mount eternity), snake gourd, and tendril-leaved fritillary bulb to reduce hot and yellowish sputum.
Use sweet apricot, momordica fruit, zuccarini's buttercup, baibu (wild asparagus), and white cynanchum to suppress cough.
These herbs are also good for asthma, tuberculosis of the lymph node, convulsions, and epilepsy.
Chinese herbs to promote energy circulation
Energy in the body circulates just like the blood does. Too slow, too quick, or irregular circulation may lead to problems.
If the energy movement is upwards most of the time, it may cause hiccups and vomitting.
If the energy movement is downwards most of the time, it may cause prolapse of the anus, the stomach, and the uterus.
If the energy movement is too slow, it may cause chest pain and depression.
Qingpi (green orange-peel), dingxiang (cloves), and muxiang (costusroot) are some of those Chinese herbs.
Herbal remedies to regulate blood
Use Siberian mtherwort to promote blood circulation.
Use acrimony and pseudo-ginseng to stop bleeding.
Use two-toothed amaranthus to prevent blood coagulation (not flowing smoothly), which may lead to abdominal pain after childbirth, chest pain, and menstrual pain.
Herbal cures for fainting
There are two types of fainting: "closed type" and "prolapse type."
Use bensoin for "closed type" of fainting, which is charactererized by:
ˇ Closed fists
ˇ Locked jaws
ˇ Rough breathing
ˇ Strong pulse
Use ginseng for "prolapse type" of fainting, which is characterized by:
ˇ Open hands
ˇ Pale complexion
ˇ Weak pulse
Herbal healing to reduce anxiety
Use Oriental arborvitae seed to reduce anxiety, excessive dreaming, forgetfulness, insomnia, and palpitation.
Chinese herbs to stop involuntary bodily movements
Use tuber of elevated gastrodia to stop shaking of the hands and muscular twitching.
Herbal health to correct deficiency
Use Chinese herbs to increase body strength and enhance immune system.
There are four types of deficiency or weakness:
ˇ Energy deficiency - low energy
ˇ Blood deficiency - blood shortage
ˇ Yin deficiency - insufficient bodily fluids
ˇ Yang deficiency - weak kidneys
Use Chinese ginseng, Chinese yam, licorice, and red date to increase energy. Energy deficiency is evidenced in abdominal pain, asthma, diarrhea, fatigue, indigestion, insomnia, low body weight, and shortness of breath.
Use danggui, glutinous rehmannia, and tuber of multiflower knotweed to increase blood circulation. Blood deficiency is evidenced in diabetes, dizziness, forgetfulness, headaches, insomnia, irregular menstruation, muscular twitching, night sweats, palpitations, and ringing in the ears.
Use matromony vine, lily, sealwort (yellow essence), sesame, and white peony to replenish bodily fluids. Yin deficiency is evidenced in diabetes, chronic cough, chronic sore throat, and night sweats.
Use eucommia bark, longspur epimedium, morinda root, snake-bed seed, and snow lotus to strengthen the kidneys. Yang deficiency is evidenced in abdominal pain, blurred vision, cold limbs, frequent urination, impotence, infertility, and seminal emission.
Herbal cures to construct or obstruct movements
Use cherokee rose (golden-tassel seed) to constrict and obstruct movement of semen (premature ejaculation in men) and urination (incontinence).
Use water lily to constrict and obstruct bowel movements to check diarrhea.
Herbal health for longevity health
Herbal health and herbal healing may bring about longevity health. Some common Chinese herbs promote healthy longevity.
Medicinal cornel fruit
It looks like a date, tastes sour. It is also called "sour mountain date." It had been used as an imperial herb for emperors for centuries to prolong life.
It benefits the liver and kidnesy, constricts semen, and checks perspiration.
Morinda root
It is a never-withering creeping vine
It corrects "deficiencies" by strengthening the kidneys. tendons and bones. It is effective for male impotence, which is usually due to weakned kidneys.
Glutinous rehmannia
This dried tuberous root herb (also known as "new place") not only reduces excessive, heat which may damage the heart, liver, and kidneys, but also lubricates the dryness of the body.
It is an effective heart tonic and coagulant.
Steamed glutinous rehmannia
This steamed glutinous rehmannia (also known as "old place") nourishes the kidneys, making grey hair return to former color.
It is effective in arresting vaginal bleeding, semen emission.
Matrimony vine
This herb comes from the seed of a trailing shrub with thorny stalks. It is good for not only healthy longevity but also yourthful beauty.
It corrects deficiencies, especially in the liver and kidneys. It sharpens vision and removes dizziness.
Momordica fruit
Momordica fruit cannot be eatern until is dried by fire. It is also known as the "longevity fruit" in southern China.
It is exclusively used for herbal healing of chronic bronchitis, chronic laryngitis, cough with sputum, and constipation.
Oriental arborvitae seed
This herb, containings little fat, provides herbal health in reducing cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular diseases,
It induces bowel movements, lubricates the body dryness, and removes anxiety.
Sesame
Sesame, also called "barbarian hemp", not only nourishes the liver and kidneys but also lubricates the five viscera.
It also enhances the beauty of the skin .
Slender acanthopanax root bark
This herb is also called "five plus bark" and it belongs to the Chinese family of ginseng.
It strengthens bones and tendons, thereby benefiting rheumatism and weak limbs.
Sweet apricot seed
There are two types of apricot kernel: sweet apricot kernel and bitter apricot kernel.
Sweet apricot seed lubricates the lungs, expels sputum, and suppresses cough, and relieves asthma.
Bitter apricot seed
Bitter apricot seed, which is slightly toxic, suppresses cough and reduces sputum.
To rejuvenate your health, you need natural herbs and natural vitamins and minerals. Get the best herbs as well as the best information on herbal cures and vitamins from Herbal Remedies. Bookmark this site for all your herbal needs.
The Natural Cure Handbook is a comprehensive book on what herbal remedies are and how you can use them to heal mental, physical and spiritual complaints and disorders.
CopyrightŠ by Stephen Lau
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