Review of Terms
Read the medical terms out loud and translate them into Chinese in the spaces provided.
| 1. | drastic purgative water-expelling medicinal ____ | a cathartic that causes copious water discharge for reducing accumulated fluid in anasarca, ascites and pleural effusion |
| 2. | wind-dampness-dispelling and cold-dispersing medicinal ____ | a medicinal that dispels wind-dampness and disperses cold, indicated in wind-dampness arthralgia of cold type |
| 3. | dampness-draining diuretic medicinal ____ | a medicinal that increases urine excretion and water discharge for treating internal retention of dampness |
| 4. | strangury-relieving diuretic medicinal ____ | a medicinal that increases urine excretion and relieves strangury, mainly indicated in the treatment of dampness-heat in the lower energizer with difficult and painful discharge of urine |
| 5. | stasis-resolving hemostatic medicinal ____ | a medicinal that arrests bleeding and at the same time removes stagnant blood which may cause further bleeding |
| 6. | purge the lung to calm panting ____ | a therapeutic method to treat dyspnea caused by accumulation of pathogens in the lung |
| 7. | cough-suppressing medicinal ____ | a medicinal used in treating cough |
| 8. | orifice-opening medicinal ____ | a medicinal, fragrant in flavor, with a resuscitating effect, used for emergency treatment of loss of consciousness in block pattern |
| 9. | securing and astringent formula ____ | any formula chiefly composed of astringents that arrest exhaustive discharges of qi, blood, essence and fluids |
| 10. | tonifying and boosting formula ____ | any formula that reinforces yang, boosts qi, nourishes blood or supplements yin in deficiency conditions |