1.
Sweet acrid very cold
LU ST
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire (high fever)
2. Clear Stomach Fire (toothache and headache)
3. Clear Lung Heat (thick phlegm, asthma)
4. Generate Fluids (severe thirst)
5. Eliminate Irritability (caused by heat)
6. Promote Healing (ruptured wounds, eczema, burns)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
2.
Bitter sweet cold
LU ST KD
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire (ST & LU)
2. Nourish Yin – Treat Deficient Heat (KD) (bone heat, tidal fever, nightsweating, restlessness…)
3. Moistens Dryness - Treat Diabetes (due to yin deficiency)
(good for excess heat –ST and LU, and yin deficient empty heat - KD)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
3.
Bitter cold
HT LU ST SJ
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire from Three Jiao –upper, middle, and lower (esp HT, LU, ST, SJ)
2. Eliminate irritability
3. Clear Heat – Dry Dampness (good for yang jaundice)
4. Clear Heat – Cool Blood , Stop Bleeding
5. Resolve Toxicity – Reduce swelling (used topically)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
4.
Sweet bland cold
HT LU SI
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire (fever) (HT heat (mouth ulcers, infantile febrile convulsions) and ST heat – bad breath, excessive hunger)
2. Eliminate Irritability (restlessness)
3. Generate Fluids (thirst)
4. Promote Urination (to expel heat)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
5.
Acrid bitter cold
LV GB
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire (LV) (swelling, red face and eyes, dizziness, headache…)
2. Dissipate Nodules - Goiter and Scrofula (caused by stagnation of both phlegm and fire)
3. Lower Blood Pressure (especially when accompanied by LV fire or patterns of ascending yang)
4. improves vision
5. removes stasis and reduces swelling
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
6.
Bitter cold
HT PC
1. Clear Heat – Drain Fire (HT) (insomnia, irritability)
2. Stop Bleeding (vomiting blood)
3. Bind the essence (ex: spermattorrhea)
(for warm heat pathogen diseases where heat collapses into PC channel causing mental confusion or delirium.)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
7.
Sweet cold
LU ST
1. clears heat and purges fire (esp in LU (cough and thick phlegm) and ST (vomiting and nausea))
2. generates fluids; promotes production of fluids to relieve thirst (dry mouth and severe thirst)
3. eliminate irritability
4. stops vomiting (and nausea due to ST heat)
5. promote urination
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
8.
Bitter sweet salty and slight cold
LV LI KD
1. clears heat –drain LV fire; promote vision (red, swollen, painful eyes)
2. moistens the intestines to promote defecation
3. benefit Eyes - improve vision (photosensitivity, nightblindess, loss of vision without visible changes to eye)
4. Lower blood pressure & cholesterol
5. Subdue LV Yang (headaches, dizziness…)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
9.
Bitter slightly cold
LV
1. Clear Heat – Drain LV Fire (redness, swelling, pain of eyes)
2. Benefit Eyes (ex: “nebulas” and blurry vision)
3. Lower Blood Pressure (due to rising of LV yang)
4. Subdue LV Yang
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
10.
Sweet and slightly cold
LV
1. Clear Heat – Drain LV Fire (swelling, redness and pain in eyes)
2. Benefit Eyes – Improve vision (blurred vision and “nebula”)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
11.
HT LV ST
bitter salty
1. Cool the Blood – Clear Heat; Stop Bleeding (any bleeding caused by heat) (thick, dark red blood, normally a large amount of blood (excess)) (from blood level)
2. Drain Fire; Resolve toxicity (from qi level)
3. Calm Spirit (clear heat from Ying level); Stop Tremors (wind)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
12.
Sweet bitter cold
HT LV KD
1. Cool the Blood; Clear Heat (Heat in Blood Level)
2. Clear HT Heat (irritability, insomnia, palpitations…)
3. Nourish Yin (yin def with heat signs/yin that is injured by heat)
4. Moisten LI; treat constipation (due to yin def)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
13.
KD LU ST
Sweet salty bitter cold
1. Clear Heat - Cool Blood; Stop Bleeding
2. Nourish Yin (heat injuring the yin/causing yin def)
3. Clear Heat - Resolve Toxicity (esp good for sore throat, skin conditions)
4. Softens Nodules
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
14.
Acrid bitter slightly cold
HT LV KD
1. Clear Heat, Cool the Blood, Stop Bleeding
2. Clear LV heat
3. Invigorate Blood; remove blood stasis
4. Resolve Toxicity (topical use = skin infections, sores)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
15.
Sweet cold
HT LV
1. Clear heat, Cool Blood (heat in blood level)
2. Resolve Toxicity; Vents Rash (Very good for heat related skin conditions and itching… burns, eczema, etc)
3. Slight Function Invigorate Blood; Remove Blood Stasis
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
16.
Sweet bland cold
LU KD
1. Clear deficient heat
2. Cool the blood
3. Clear LU heat (causing cough)
(very good to treat steaming bone fever)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
17.
Bitter salty cold
LV ST
1. Clear deficient heat
2. Cool the Blood; Stop Bleeding
3. Promote Urination; Treat Lin Syndrome (ie: chronic or acute UTI) (2 out of 5 Lins – Heat and blood lin)
4. Resolve Toxicity (ex: from poisonous snake bites, skin infections, sore throat) (detoxifies poisons already absorbed) (internally and externally for heat toxicity)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
18.
Sweet slightly cold
LV ST
1. Clear deficient heat
2. Clear Heat from infantile malnutrition (due to parasites in body ---bloated abdomen, low grade fever) (mainly treats the low grade fever)
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
19.
Bitter cold
HT LV ST LI
1. Clear Deficient Heat
2. Clears Heat; treats low grade fever from infantile malnutrition
3. Clear Heat; Dry Dampness
A. 
B. 
C. 
D.