Taste mnemonics 1, pungent: “can disperse, can move”, that is, has the effect of dispersing, moving Qi and blood. Generally speaking, the medicine of relieving symptoms, moving qi and invigorating blood has a pungent taste. Therefore, pungent medicines are mostly used to treat the evidence of superficial and qi-blood blockage. For example, Su Ye disperses wind and cold, Mu Xiang moves Qi and removes distension, and Chuan Xiong invigorates Blood and resolves blood stasis. In addition, the Inner Classic says: “Pungent to moisten.” This means that pungent herbs also have the function of moistening and nourishing, such as Zhan Dong Hua to moisten the lung and relieve cough, and Cuscuta to nourish and tonify the kidney. Most of the pungent herbs to the line for the function of dispersal, so “pungent run” said lack of representation. 2, Gan: “can tonic, can and, can slow”, that is, has a tonic, and neutral, and harmonize the medicinal properties and slow the role of pain. Generally speaking, nourishing and tonic, harmonizing the medicinal properties and stopping the pain of the drug has a sweet taste. Sweet-tasting drugs are mostly used to treat weakness of vital energy, pain in the body and harmonize medicinal properties, poisoning relief and other aspects. For example, ginseng is a great tonic for vital energy, rehmannia nourishes essence and blood, syrup eases the pain, licorice harmonizes the medicinal properties and relieves the poisoning of medicine and food, etc. 3, acid: “can collect, can astringent”, that is, with astringent, solid astringent effect. General solid surface to stop sweating, astringent lung to stop cough, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, solid semen to shrink urine, solid collapse to stop the belt of the drug has a sour taste. Acidic medicines are mostly used to treat body deficiency and sweating, lung deficiency and prolonged cough, prolonged diarrhea and intestinal slippage, spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea, urinary emission and frequent urination, and collapse of the belt. Such as Wu Wei Zi solid table to stop sweating, Wu Mei astringent lung cough, Wu Bei Zi astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, Cornus officinalis astringent sperm and stopping spermatorrhea, and red stone fat solid collapse to stop the belt. 4, bitter: “can drain, can dry, can be firm”, that is, with clearing fire and heat, drainage of Qi rebellion, pass defecation, dry damp, firm Yin (diarrhea fire to store Yin) and other effects. Generally speaking, the drugs that clear heat and fire, lower gas and asthma, lowering rebellion and stopping vomiting, opening the stool, clearing heat and drying dampness, bitter warmth and drying dampness, and diarrhea of fire to store yin mostly have a bitter taste. Bitter medicines are mostly used to treat heat, fire, asthma, vomiting, constipation, dampness, yin deficiency and fire. Such as scutellaria, mast to clear heat and diarrhea, almond, scape hebecarpa to lower the gas and calm asthma, half asia, Chen Pi to lower rebellion and stop vomiting, rhubarb, heliotrope diarrhea heat and laxative, gentian grass, Huang Lian to clear heat and dry dampness, atractylodes, thick park bitter warm and dry dampness, Zhi Mu, Huang Bai diarrhea fire and store yin, etc. 5, salty: “can be down, can be soft”, that is, has a diarrhea to open the stool, softening the effect of scattering knots. Generally speaking, laxative or laxative and softening hard, dissipating lumps of drugs with a salty taste, salty drugs are used to treat dry stools, phlegm, gall tumors, masses and other evidence. Such as mangosteen diarrhea heat and laxative, seaweed, oyster to dissipate galls, turtle nail to soften the hardness and eliminate the disease. Comparison and memorization method 1. South and North sage: The properties and functions of South and North sage are basically similar. However, in terms of nourishing Yin, clearing heat, the efficacy of the body, South ginseng force than North ginseng; on the role of phlegm; South ginseng is better than North ginseng, and has the benefit of Qi. 2, maitake and asparagus: both are cold, both can nourish the lung yin, and are often used for each other. But asparagus cold moist power is stronger than maitong, long in nourishing kidney yin and clearing down the deficiency fire; maitong is cold moist power is weaker, biased in nourishing the stomach, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart to remove annoyance. Both in the role of parts of the upper and lower. 3, turtle nail and turtle nail: both can nourish yin and clear heat, submerge yang and calm wind, used to treat yin deficiency fever, yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang and yin deficiency wind and other evidence, often must be used for each other. But comparing their power, there are slight differences among the same, that is, the nourishment of yin is dominated by turtle nail, and the submergence of yang is dominated by turtle nail. Therefore, if you want to nourish yin, you should use turtle nail; if you want to reduce night fever and cool the bones, you should use turtle nail. Turtle nail can soften and disperse knots, and is often used for treating obstruction and malaria, which is the strength of turtle nail, but turtle nail does not have this effect. However, turtle nail can nourish the kidney and strengthen the bones, cure the waist and knee soreness and weakness, fontanelle does not fit, and fix the menstruation and stop bleeding, nourish the blood and nourish the heart, etc., turtle nail is rarely used. 4, angelica and rehmannia: both for the blood commonly used to treat blood deficiency of the evidence. But angelica and into the heart, spleen and two meridians, taste pungent, can activate the blood, regulate menstruation, stop pain, laxative. It can also stop prolonged cough and asthma. It is an important medicine for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, and menorrhagia due to blood deficiency and stagnation. It is also effective in treating cold and deficiency pains, rheumatic paralysis, bruises and bruises, and carbuncles and sores due to its ability to invigorate blood, relieve pain, and warm and disperse cold stagnation. Also, it can be used to treat blood deficiency, constipation, and chronic coughing and asthma. Angelica can be used in the early stage of sores and ulcers to invigorate blood and relieve swelling and pain; it can also be used after sores and ulcers have been ulcerated and there is a deficiency of blood and Qi to replenish blood and regenerate muscle, so it is commonly used in surgery. It is commonly used in surgery to nourish the liver and kidney, and to nourish Yin and blood deficiency. It can nourish blood, treating blood deficiency, dizziness, palpitation and insomnia, menstrual disorders, and menorrhagia; it is also good at nourishing yin, treating kidney yin deficiency, such as hot flashes and bone vapor, night sweating, seminal emission, and thirst. The liver and kidney essence and blood deficiency of the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, premature graying of the hair, etc., and can benefit the essence and fill the marrow. 5, angelica and white peony: both into the liver, spleen meridian are able to nourish the blood and regulate menstrual pain. The same can be used to treat blood deficiency and yellow, dizziness and palpitations, menstrual disorders, menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea and other evidence. Angelica sinensis is sweet in taste, warm in nature, enters the heart meridian, can both nourish the blood and invigorate the blood, and can also nourish deficiency and dispel cold, so blood deficiency, blood stasis, blood cold menstrual disorders, menorrhagia can be used, as a blood tonic and gynecological menstrual regulation of the important medicine. It can also be used for blood deficiency, intestinal constipation and constipation. White peony is bitter, sweet, sour and slightly cold, it is used to nourish blood and astringent yin, nourish blood, soften liver and relieve pain, for pain in the chest, hypochondrium and extremities caused by liver yin deficiency, blood deficiency and liver exuberance, liver qi discomfort and liver and spleen disharmony. It can also calm the liver and suppress Yang, astringent effect of Yin to stop sweating, used for headache and dizziness, irritability and anger due to hyperactivity of liver Yang; used with cinnamon branch, and has the effect of harmonizing the Ying and Wei, can be used for the treatment of external wind and cold, should not and sweating service wind, can also be used for Yin deficiency night sweating. 6, white peony and red peony: white peony and red peony, both taste bitter slightly cold, both into the liver meridian, both can relieve pain. However, white peony is good at astringing Yin, nourishing blood and calming the liver; red peony is good at clearing heat and cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis and clearing liver fire. In application, Bai Shao treats symptoms of blood deficiency, yin deficiency and hyperactivity of liver yang, such as irregular menstruation and sweating due to blood deficiency or yin deficiency with heat, and dizziness and tinnitus due to hyperactivity of liver yang, and irritability, etc.; Red Shao treats symptoms due to blood heat, blood stasis and liver fire, such as epistaxis due to heat entering the blood, menorrhagia and obstruction, carbuncles and sores due to blood heat and stagnation, and red eyes and cataracts due to liver fire. Both can relieve pain, but white peony mainly treats pain caused by blood deficiency or yin deficiency of the liver, while red peony mainly treats pain caused by blood-heat stagnation. 7, Dihuang and Shu Dihuang: Raw Dihuang and Shu Dihuang can both nourish Yin and nourish Yin. However, raw Di Huang is sweet and bitter, cold, can clear heat and cool the blood, nourish Yin and generate fluid. It is mainly used to treat warm diseases in which heat enters the blood, with a vivid tongue and thirst, blood fever and epistaxis, and internal heat and thirst in yin deficiency. Radix Rehmanniae is sweet and slightly warm. It is mainly used for deficiency of liver and kidney yin, nourishing blood and nourishing yin and benefiting essence. It is mainly used for treating blood deficiency and yin deficiency, essence and blood deficiency, such as hot flashes and bone steam, night sweating and spermatorrhea, lumbar and knee weakness, palpitation and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, premature graying of hair and thirst, without the function of clearing heat and cooling blood. 8, Wu Wei Zi and plum: the two drugs have astringent lung cough, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, thirst effect. Used for prolonged cough, prolonged diarrhea, thirst and thirst. However, Wu Wei Zi can nourish the kidney, consolidate essence, astringent sweat, benefit Qi and tranquilize the mind, and is used for: asthma and cough of lung and kidney deficiency; seminal emission, slippery sperm; spontaneous sweating, night sweating; and Wu Mei has the function of relieving roundworm and pain, stopping bleeding and eliminating sores. It is used externally to eliminate sores and toxins and to treat the external protrusion of pterygium. 9, nutmeg and cardamom: the two drugs can be warm in the shape of gas, available for the treatment of deficiency of cold gas stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, less food and vomiting. But nutmeg is long in astringent intestines to stop diarrhea, and can warm the spleen, suitable for the spleen and kidney deficiency cold or spleen and stomach deficiency cold long diarrhea more than the evidence. Cardamom is mainly for the treatment of dampness stagnation in the middle jiao, stomach cold vomiting, long in aromatic dampness. 10, lotus seeds and gorgonians: the two drugs are sweet and astringent, mainly to the spleen and kidney meridians. Both drugs can benefit the kidneys and fix the essence, nourish the spleen to stop diarrhea, stop the belt, tonic and astringent, mainly for the treatment of kidney deficiency spermatorrhea, urine loss; spleen deficiency food, diarrhea; spleen and kidney deficiency belt. But lotus seeds can enter the heart meridian to nourish the heart, and is used to treat deficiency annoyance, palpitations and insomnia. And gravy in the benefit of the spleen and kidneys to fix astringency, and can remove dampness to stop the belt, for the deficiency of the common medicine for the evidence of hypochondriac. 11, safflower and peach kernel: common: heart and liver meridian; blood-breaking products have the function of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. They are often used in the treatment of gynecological blood stagnation, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, obstruction of the masses, postpartum abdominal pain, internal medicine chest paralysis and heart pain, and injury bruising and bruising. Differences: ① safflower: warm, pungent and warm, and can resolve blood stasis and eliminate swelling, treating carbuncles, sores and poison, measles, rash, color is not red and live. ② Peach kernel: neutral, bitter-sweet, moistening and descending, breaking stasis and generating new for a long time; also can laxative and laxative, treating intestinal carbuncle, pulmonary carbuncle, blood storage and fever, and constipation with dry intestines; also can stop cough and calm asthma, treating cough and asthma. 13. Chuanxiong and Salvia: Common points: ① Both are used to invigorate the blood and regulate the blood regularly. They are used to treat menstrual disorders, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, symptomatology, postpartum stasis, chest paralysis and heartache, pain in the abdomen and abdomen in internal medicine, and blood stagnation in surgery, such as carbuncles and sores, and bruises and injuries. Differences: ① Chuanxiong: warm in nature and pungent in taste, and can dispel wind and relieve pain, so it is suitable for blood stasis with cold or with qi stagnation, and for treating liver depression and qi stagnation, various headaches and wind-cold damp paralysis. Salvia miltiorrhiza: bitter taste, slightly cold, and good at cooling the blood, so it is suitable for blood stasis and blood heat of the internal and external evidence of women, and treatment of rheumatic paralysis; can also clear the heart and calm the mind, regardless of external and internal injuries of blood heat and distress sleeplessness. 14, Chuanbei and Zhebei: both cold and moist, can clear heat and resolve phlegm, moisten the lungs to stop coughing, disperse knots, for the treatment of hot phlegm, dry phlegm to be by, can also be used to treat scrofula sores and carbuncles. However, Szechuan Bayberry is mainly produced in Sichuan, which is moist and sweet in nature, especially suitable for lung deficiency and prolonged cough; Zhejiang Bayberry is mainly produced in Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province, which is bitter in nature and bitter to drain, and is mostly used for coughs of phlegm and fire, wind-heat coughs and scrofula, carbuncles and other evidence of external sensation and heat toxicity. 15, bitter almond and sage: both have cough and asthma, laxative function, but the almond is slightly warm, clinical evidence can be used with wind-heat, dry heat, lung heat and other cough and asthma; and sage is long in lowering phlegm, mostly used for phlegm congestion, cough and asthma, chest and diaphragm full of evidence. 16, bitter almond and peach kernel: the two drugs have laxative function. But the bitter almond is long in coughing and asthma, mostly used for coughing and asthma evidence. And peach kernel is good at activating blood circulation and dispelling blood stasis, which is used for dysmenorrhea, menstrual stagnation, postpartum abdominal pain, obstruction of the abdomen, obstruction of the abdomen, pain from bruises and bruises, and canker sores, intestinal canker sores, etc. It is used as an adjunct in the treatment of cough and asthma. 17.Mulberry Bark and Scapularia: both of them can relieve lung and asthma, diuresis and swelling. However, Mulberry Bark is mostly used for coughing and asthma with lung heat and phlegm, which can clear the lung and eliminate phlegm while lowering gas and asthma. It can clear the lung and eliminate phlegm, and lower the air and calm asthma. Scapularia scabra is mostly used for the actual evidence of phlegm and cough and asthma, and it is very effective in treating cough and asthma with phlegm. As for diuretic and swelling, Morinda citrifolia is mainly used for edema with swelling and unfavorable urination, and also has certain hypotensive effect. It is used for edema and unfavorable urination to diuretic and decongestant. It is used for edema, water accumulation in chest and abdomen, unfavorable urination. 18, sour date and cypress kernel: both are nourishing and calming to the heart and mind, and are often used for the treatment of yin and blood deficiency and mind disorder. But sour date kernel is good for liver blood, more suitable for the heart and liver blood deficiency of the heart and restlessness, and can astringent sweat, can treat physical deficiency of spontaneous sweating, night sweating; cypress kernel is good for the treatment of heart yin deficiency and heart and kidney non-interaction of the heart and restlessness, and can laxative, can treat intestinal dry constipation. 19, cassia seeds and stone cassia: the two drugs have the effect of clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. But stone cassia has the function of calming the liver and submerging Yang for dizziness; cassia laxative is suitable for heat constipation or intestinal dry constipation evidence. 20, dragon bone and oyster: the two drugs can pacify the liver and submerge Yang, astringent and solid astringent, often must be used for the treatment of hyperactivity of liver and Yang and slippery incontinence evidence. However, oyster can also soften the hardness and disperse the knots as well as control acid, which can treat phlegm and scrofula, excessive stomach acid, etc.; keel bone can also calm the mind, which can be used to treat the mind and nervousness, and calcined keel can be used externally to collect dampness and astringent sores, which can treat eczema and wet sores, etc. 21, antelope horn and niuhuang: the two drugs have the function of clearing heat and sister poison commonly used in warm fever, but niuhuang sister poison power, there is a wind to stop spasms, phlegm and open the orifice of the function. And antelope horn also has the effect of calming the liver and wind, clearing the liver and eyes. 22, hooked vine and asparagus: the two drugs can quench the wind and stop spasms, pacify the liver and submerge Yang, commonly used to treat the liver wind within the movement, epileptic convulsions, and hyperactivity of the liver Yang headache, dizziness, dizziness and other evidence. But hooked vine can clear heat, especially in the heat of the wind and liver Yang-heat disease; Tianma is flat, regardless of the cold and heat are available, and can expel rheumatism, stop paralysis, can be used to treat rheumatism paralysis and numbness of the limbs, hand and foot pain and other evidence. 23, the whole scorpion and centipede: the two drugs can quench the wind and stop spasms, and can search the wind, pass through the channels to relieve pain, attack the poison and disperse the knots, the two drugs are often used for the treatment of liver wind, wind in the meridians, rheumatism, stubborn headache, sores, swelling and poison, scrofula and other diseases. The two drugs are toxic, but the centipede is slightly more warm, dry and toxic. 24, musk and ice chips: are pungent, aromatic products, strong, both have the function of opening the body and awakening, the two often have to be used for the main treatment of closed evidence of dizziness. However, musk is warm and fragrant, and has a very strong effect of opening the body and awakening the mind, and has a strong scurrying power, which is the key medicine to awaken the mind and revive it. The power of ice chips is not as strong as that of musk, and it is bitter and slightly cold, so it is more suitable for treating fever. It can also be used to treat blood stasis, obstruction, bruises, paralysis, obstructed labor, stillbirth, and sore throat. Ice chips are bitter and cold in nature, and also have the effect of clearing heat and toxicity and relieving pain, and can be used to treat fire and redness of the eyes, swelling and pain, throat paralysis, mouth sores and heat poison sores, swelling and pain, ulcers that do not converge. 25.Ginseng and Radix Codonopsis: both can nourish the spleen and benefit the lung, and produce fluid and nourish blood. Both can be used for deficiency of spleen qi, such as weakness and lassitude, loose food and stools; deficiency of lung qi, such as coughing and shortness of breath, whispering and deficiency of qi and blood. However, ginseng is a great tonic for vital energy and is an important medicine for treating critical symptoms of qi deficiency and pulse weakness. Ginseng can also benefit Qi and tranquilize the mind, benefit Qi and blood, benefit Qi and blood intake, and benefit Qi and yang, so it can be used for thirst and thirsty symptoms of Qi and fluid deficiency, palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness symptoms of Qi and blood deficiency and mental disturbance, blood deficiency symptoms, bleeding symptoms and impotence symptoms of Qi and blood deficiency. Ginseng is similar to ginseng in its efficacy in nourishing the spleen and lung, nourishing the blood, and helping to dispel evil, so in ancient and modern formulas, ginseng is used to treat general spleen and lung qi deficiency and blood deficiency with less severe symptoms. However, the party ginseng does not have the function of replenishing the vital energy and restoring the pulse and fixing the detachment, although it is used in large doses, it cannot replace ginseng to benefit the vital energy and fix the detachment. 26, ginseng and astragalus: both are commonly used to nourish qi, and can enhance each other’s function of nourishing qi. The difference is that ginseng can replenish the heart, spleen and lung Qi, and it can replenish the vital energy, restore the pulse to fix off, calm the mind and increase wisdom, which is the first important medicine for treating the Qi deficiency of internal injuries; Huang Qi is mainly used to replenish the Qi of the spleen and lung, which is not as strong as ginseng, but the warming power is stronger than the person, and it can fix the table and stop sweating, and it is good at replenishing the Qi of the muscle surface, so Huang Qi is commonly used for the deficiency of the table. Its benefit to the body to fix the table, to poison the muscle, diuretic and swelling, etc., is ginseng is not or less than the efficacy. 27, astragalus and atractylodes: both can nourish the qi, promote water, stop sweating. The difference: Astragalus can spleen, lung double tonic, Bai Zhu only replenish Qi and strengthen the spleen; Astragalus is long in replenishing Qi and ascending Yang, applicable to Qi sinking, prolapse and dirty Qi prolapse; Bai Zhu is long in strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, spleen deficiency and loss of transportation, but also see water and dampness within the stop; Astragalus is sweet and warm, the power of replenishing Qi is stronger, the main treatment of qi deficiency caused by edema, urinary inconvenience; Bai Zhu treats water and dampness within the stopping of the evidence, although the main evidence of qi deficiency, but dampness and deficiency is not obvious. It can also be applied; Huang Qi is beneficial to the body and solid surface, the power to stop sweating is better than Bai Zhu. 28, Atractylodes macrocephala and Atractylodes macrocephala: both can dry dampness and strengthen the spleen, used for spleen deficiency and dampness. But Cang Zhu is mainly dry damp, and can dispel wind and damp, sweating and dispersing surface evil, often used in dampness blocking the middle Jiao, wind-cold damp paralysis; and Bai Zhu is to strengthen the spleen, and can fix the table to stop sweating, water, and fetus. 29, eucommia and sequestra: both can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the tendons and bones, stop bleeding and calm the fetus, heal injuries and renew fractures. The liver and kidneys, so the general treatment of liver and kidney deficiencies of the waist and knee pain, lower limb impotence, fetal restlessness, etc., to use the eucommia is superior, and can lower blood pressure; sequelae tonic but not stagnant, the shape but not drainage, for the liver and kidneys, the important medicine to promote the tendons. Where the liver and kidney deficiency lumbar pain and foot weakness, rheumatism paralysis, fetal movement to fall, menstrual leakage, and fall injury, fracture swelling pain and other blood stagnation of the evidence, can be used. The function of the continuum is similar to that of the eucommia, but in the use of each focus. The taste and bitter pungent, tonic in the form, to regulate the blood vessels, tendons and bones for the important, so commonly used to treat bruises, fractures, swelling and pain, and can stop the leakage. 30, half asia and tiannanxing: the two drugs are pungent and warm poisonous, both can dry damp phlegm, warming cold phlegm, the main treatment of damp phlegm, cold phlegm evidence, external use can reduce swelling and pain, used to treat sores and swelling and poisonous snake bites. But the half summer is good at treating damp phlegm from the internal organs, and can lower the rebellion and stop vomiting, eliminate gangrene and disperse knots, often used in a variety of phlegm and dampness, vomiting, and gangrene, knotted chest and other evidence; Tiannanxing is good at treating wind phlegm of the meridians, and can dispel wind and stop spasm, mostly used to treat wind phlegm dizziness, stroke, epilepsy and tetanus and other evidence. 31, cinnabar and magnet: the two drugs have the function of calming the heart and tranquilizing the mind. But vermilion is also used for sores, swelling and poisoning, malaria and other evidence; vermilion is used internally or externally to clear heat and sisters poison. The magnet is still used for liver and kidney deficiency, deafness of the eyes; kidney deficiency and wheezing and other evidence. 32, eucommia and sequestra: both can nourish the liver and kidneys, strengthen the tendons and bones, stop bleeding and fetus, heal injuries and renew fractures. The liver and kidneys, so the general treatment of liver and kidney deficiencies of the waist and knee pain, lower limb impotence, fetal restlessness, etc., to use eucommia is superior, and can lower blood pressure; sequelae tonic but not stagnant, the shape but not drainage, for the liver and kidneys, the important medicine to promote the tendons. Where the liver and kidney deficiency lumbar pain and foot weakness, rheumatism paralysis, fetal movement to fall, menstrual leakage, and fall injury, fracture swelling pain and other blood stagnation of the evidence, can be used. The function of the continuum is similar to that of the eucommia, but in the use of each focus. It is a bitter and pungent tasting herb, which has a shape in the tonic, and is used to regulate the blood vessels and to renew the tendons and bones, so it is often used to treat bruises, fractures, swelling and pain, and to stop collapse and leakage.