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I am looking at training at the school for a month in September. I was just wondering how many students are currently training at Mount Wudang.

I have been training Wing Chun Kuen for 13 months now, and previous experience of Wado Ryu Karate (3 years) and also some (very limited lol) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo. Cant wait to train, listen and talk with fellow martial artists, exchanging techniques and methods.

I am especially intersted in learning Shing I boxing, but would also like to add some long range techniques to my Gung Fu (wing chun being very close ranged combat.. obviously ;p)

Daniel]]>
I am looking at training at the school for a month in September. I was just wondering how many students are currently training at Mount Wudang.

I have been training Wing Chun Kuen for 13 months now, and previous experience of Wado Ryu Karate (3 years) and also some (very limited lol) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo. Cant wait to train, listen and talk with fellow martial artists, exchanging techniques and methods.

I am especially intersted in learning Shing I boxing, but would also like to add some long range techniques to my Gung Fu (wing chun being very close ranged combat.. obviously ;p)

Daniel]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=71 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:23:21 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=71
My name is Sean. I am currently learning Wudang martial arts, as well as Taijiqaun, Xinyiquan, Baguazhang, and Shaolin. My teacher learned from traveling monks that stayed with his teacher, Grand Master Ark Yuey Wong. Unfortunately, his teacher passed away and does not have any contact with the monks that taught him. I am looking for the poems to the forms I am learning, since his teachers showed him the forms applications and secrets, and thats it, and gave him nothing in writting. We like to keep our teaching Traditional, so I came to you for help. Most of the poems, I been told are names of sections, not names of individual movements, which means releasing the poems should not release any of Wudang's secrets. Please, if there is anything you can do to help, please email me. Thank you.]]>
My name is Sean. I am currently learning Wudang martial arts, as well as Taijiqaun, Xinyiquan, Baguazhang, and Shaolin. My teacher learned from traveling monks that stayed with his teacher, Grand Master Ark Yuey Wong. Unfortunately, his teacher passed away and does not have any contact with the monks that taught him. I am looking for the poems to the forms I am learning, since his teachers showed him the forms applications and secrets, and thats it, and gave him nothing in writting. We like to keep our teaching Traditional, so I came to you for help. Most of the poems, I been told are names of sections, not names of individual movements, which means releasing the poems should not release any of Wudang's secrets. Please, if there is anything you can do to help, please email me. Thank you.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=70 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:42:39 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=70
I have had dreams of Mt. Wudang since I was young. Dreams of the staircase, dreams of snows and a cave, dreams of writing in Chinese and teaching others, dreams of helping others heal. Until recently, I did not know that it really existed. I just thought it was some fantasy dream. I now believe I am supposed to "return" there for some reason. Maybe your school and what it offers is the reason. I don't know.

Thank you again, for answering my questions.

Sincerely,

Mark DuMars
764 Chestnut Street
Manchester, NH 03104]]>
I have had dreams of Mt. Wudang since I was young. Dreams of the staircase, dreams of snows and a cave, dreams of writing in Chinese and teaching others, dreams of helping others heal. Until recently, I did not know that it really existed. I just thought it was some fantasy dream. I now believe I am supposed to "return" there for some reason. Maybe your school and what it offers is the reason. I don't know.

Thank you again, for answering my questions.

Sincerely,

Mark DuMars
764 Chestnut Street
Manchester, NH 03104]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=68 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:26:01 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=68 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=49 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:51:09 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=49 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=48 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:57:03 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=48
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]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=47 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:35:31 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=47 Herba Pogostemonis

Source
The branch and leaf of Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth., family Labiatae.

Characteristics
A perennial herb, 30-80 cm high. Aged basal stem rounded, upper stem square; its cross section pith in the center. leaves opposite, ovate, 4-9 cm long, 3-7 cm broad, apexes obtuse-rounded, margins irregularly serrate. The whole plant covered by down. The commercial drugs are yellow-green, leaves wrinkled and mostly separated, branches cut into segments, flower rare. Aromatic in odour. Acrid in taste, slightly warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach and lung channels.


Indication
1. Eliminate dampness from the middle jiao: For dampness-syndrome involving the spleen with fullness of the chest and epigastrium, anorexia and greasy feeling in the mouth, usually used together with Rizizoma Atractylodis, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, etc.; for summer-heat dampness syndrome and summer-heat febrile disease, used together with drugs for expelling dampness, such as Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Talcum, etc.; also for thrush, mycotic enteritis and vaginitis.
2. Regulate the middle jiao and stop vomiting: For dampness-retention syndrome with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and morning sickness.
3. Eliminate summer-heat and expel the affection of exogenous summer-heat and dampness: For affection of exogenous wind-cold with retention of dampness in the interior manifested as chilliness, fever, heaviness and pain of the head and the body, fullness of the chest, nausea, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Its aromatic component promotes the secretion of gastric juice and digestive function, relaxes the gastrointestinal spasm and reduces the abnormal fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Bacteriostatic.

Administration Decoction: 3-10g, (decocted later); 30-60g both orally and topically for thrush and mycotic vaginitis.]]> Herba Pogostemonis

Source
The branch and leaf of Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth., family Labiatae.

Characteristics
A perennial herb, 30-80 cm high. Aged basal stem rounded, upper stem square; its cross section pith in the center. leaves opposite, ovate, 4-9 cm long, 3-7 cm broad, apexes obtuse-rounded, margins irregularly serrate. The whole plant covered by down. The commercial drugs are yellow-green, leaves wrinkled and mostly separated, branches cut into segments, flower rare. Aromatic in odour. Acrid in taste, slightly warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach and lung channels.


Indication
1. Eliminate dampness from the middle jiao: For dampness-syndrome involving the spleen with fullness of the chest and epigastrium, anorexia and greasy feeling in the mouth, usually used together with Rizizoma Atractylodis, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, etc.; for summer-heat dampness syndrome and summer-heat febrile disease, used together with drugs for expelling dampness, such as Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Talcum, etc.; also for thrush, mycotic enteritis and vaginitis.
2. Regulate the middle jiao and stop vomiting: For dampness-retention syndrome with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and morning sickness.
3. Eliminate summer-heat and expel the affection of exogenous summer-heat and dampness: For affection of exogenous wind-cold with retention of dampness in the interior manifested as chilliness, fever, heaviness and pain of the head and the body, fullness of the chest, nausea, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Its aromatic component promotes the secretion of gastric juice and digestive function, relaxes the gastrointestinal spasm and reduces the abnormal fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Bacteriostatic.

Administration Decoction: 3-10g, (decocted later); 30-60g both orally and topically for thrush and mycotic vaginitis.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=46 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:33:06 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=46 Rhizoma Atractylodis

Source
The rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. or A. chinensis (DC.) Koidz., family Cornpositae.


Characteristics
A. Lancea. Rhizome irregularly catenulate or nodular, slightly curved, occasionally branching, 3-10 cm long, 1-2 cm in diameter. Cork grey-brown, with wrinkles and fibrous root scars, stem base or scars remaining at the tip. Prepared by crosscutting; section yellow-white, showing numerous orange oil spots, named 'cinnabar spots'. White trichomatic crystals separating out on long exposure. Strongly aromatic. A. chinensis: Similar to the former, but oil spots lesser and odour lighter. Both are acrid and bitter in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
1. Deprive dampness and activate the spleen: For domination of dampness and dampness-retention syndrome involving spleen-yang with fatigue, sleepiness, feeling of fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, abdominal distension and turbid, thick and greasy fur; for domination of dampness with watery diarrhea, usually used together with Pericarpiurn Citri Reticuiatae, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, such as Powder for Regulating the Function of Stomach. Also for downward attack of dampness with leucorrhagia and stranguria with turbid urine.
2. Expel wind and eliminate dampness: For arthralgia of dampness type with swelling and pain of joints, usually used together with Cortex Phellodendri (Powder of Phellodendri and Atractylodis), for those with prominent heat and together with Herba Asari and Radix Aconiti for those with prominent cold.
3. Promote sweating to expel cold from the body surface: For affection of exogenous wind-cold-dampness with chilliness, fever, heaviness and pain of the head and anhidrosis, usually used together with Rhizorna seu Radix Notopterygli, Radix Ledebourieliae, etc.; also for darnpness toxin attacking the superficies, such as eczema and pustulosis.
4. Remove nebula to improve the visual acuity: For night blindness, cataract, internal and external oculopathy.


Pharmacological Action
1. Gastric perfusion of its decoction lowers the level of blood sugar in rabbits with alloxan diabetes.
2. Gastric perfusion of its decoction increases excretion of sodium and potassium in rats without diuresis.
3. Its volatile oil and other two active components, eudesmol and hinesol, inhibit the growth of esophageal cancer cells in vitro.
4. Clinically effective for the treatment of night blindness and keratomalacia resulting from lack of vitamin A

Administration Decoction: 3-10g.]]> Rhizoma Atractylodis

Source
The rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. or A. chinensis (DC.) Koidz., family Cornpositae.


Characteristics
A. Lancea. Rhizome irregularly catenulate or nodular, slightly curved, occasionally branching, 3-10 cm long, 1-2 cm in diameter. Cork grey-brown, with wrinkles and fibrous root scars, stem base or scars remaining at the tip. Prepared by crosscutting; section yellow-white, showing numerous orange oil spots, named 'cinnabar spots'. White trichomatic crystals separating out on long exposure. Strongly aromatic. A. chinensis: Similar to the former, but oil spots lesser and odour lighter. Both are acrid and bitter in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
1. Deprive dampness and activate the spleen: For domination of dampness and dampness-retention syndrome involving spleen-yang with fatigue, sleepiness, feeling of fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, abdominal distension and turbid, thick and greasy fur; for domination of dampness with watery diarrhea, usually used together with Pericarpiurn Citri Reticuiatae, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, such as Powder for Regulating the Function of Stomach. Also for downward attack of dampness with leucorrhagia and stranguria with turbid urine.
2. Expel wind and eliminate dampness: For arthralgia of dampness type with swelling and pain of joints, usually used together with Cortex Phellodendri (Powder of Phellodendri and Atractylodis), for those with prominent heat and together with Herba Asari and Radix Aconiti for those with prominent cold.
3. Promote sweating to expel cold from the body surface: For affection of exogenous wind-cold-dampness with chilliness, fever, heaviness and pain of the head and anhidrosis, usually used together with Rhizorna seu Radix Notopterygli, Radix Ledebourieliae, etc.; also for darnpness toxin attacking the superficies, such as eczema and pustulosis.
4. Remove nebula to improve the visual acuity: For night blindness, cataract, internal and external oculopathy.


Pharmacological Action
1. Gastric perfusion of its decoction lowers the level of blood sugar in rabbits with alloxan diabetes.
2. Gastric perfusion of its decoction increases excretion of sodium and potassium in rats without diuresis.
3. Its volatile oil and other two active components, eudesmol and hinesol, inhibit the growth of esophageal cancer cells in vitro.
4. Clinically effective for the treatment of night blindness and keratomalacia resulting from lack of vitamin A

Administration Decoction: 3-10g.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=45 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:29:41 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=45 Semen Alpiniae Katsumadai

Source
The seed masses of Alpinia Katsumadai Hayata, family Zingiberaceae.


Characteristics
Seed masses spherical, 1.5-3.0 cm in diameter, dividing into three segments separated by diaphragms, each of which contains numerous seeds adhesing together. Single seed ovate-multisided, 3-5 mm long, covered with light brown membranous aril, with a longitudinal grooved raphe on one side, and a hilum at one end. Aromatic in odour. Acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
Deprive dampness and expel cold, strengthen stomach and stop vomiting: For cold-dampness or deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach with fullness and distending pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, usually used with Fructus Amomi, Rhizoma Alptriiae Officinarum, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Antiemetic.
2. Its decoction of lower than 1% concentration stimulates, while that higher than 1% inhibits the intestines of guinea-pigs in vitro.

Administration Decoction:
3-10g (decocted later).]]> Semen Alpiniae Katsumadai

Source
The seed masses of Alpinia Katsumadai Hayata, family Zingiberaceae.


Characteristics
Seed masses spherical, 1.5-3.0 cm in diameter, dividing into three segments separated by diaphragms, each of which contains numerous seeds adhesing together. Single seed ovate-multisided, 3-5 mm long, covered with light brown membranous aril, with a longitudinal grooved raphe on one side, and a hilum at one end. Aromatic in odour. Acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
Deprive dampness and expel cold, strengthen stomach and stop vomiting: For cold-dampness or deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach with fullness and distending pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, usually used with Fructus Amomi, Rhizoma Alptriiae Officinarum, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Antiemetic.
2. Its decoction of lower than 1% concentration stimulates, while that higher than 1% inhibits the intestines of guinea-pigs in vitro.

Administration Decoction:
3-10g (decocted later).]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=44 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:26:24 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=44 Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis

Source
The dried bark and bark of branch, root of Magnolia officinalis Rehd. et Wils. or M. officinalis Rehd. et Wils var. biloba Rehd. et Wils., family Magnoliaceae.


Characteristics
1. Dried bark crimple, cut into 30-40 cm long and 0.2-0.7 cm thick; outer surface grey-brown, coarse, scaly or easily peeled off, with elliptic lenticella and longitudinal wrinkles, yellow-brown when peeled off the coarse surface; inner surface smooth purple-brown, with fine longitudinal striae, oil traces appearing when cut with nails. Prepared by crosscutting, the section showing granular and oleaginous, and separating out bright silvery magnolol crystals on the surface after long exposure. Aromatic in odour.
2. The bark of branch and root thin, crimple, slightly aromatic. Both are bitter and acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine channels.

Indication
1. Activate circulation of vital energy, deprive dampness, keep the adverse energy downward and relieve dyspepsia: For abdominal distension and pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation or loose stool due to stagnation of dampness in the middle-jiao or indigestion and stagnation of vital energy. It is an important drug for relieving distension. For fullness of dampness type, used together with Rhiroma Atractylodis and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae; for fullness of asthenic type, used together with Fructus Aurantii Immaturus and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei; for fullness due to indigestion, used together with Semen Raphani and Pericarpium Arecae; for retention of dampness-heat in the middle-jiao manifested as fullness in the chest and upper abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, and yellowish and greasy fur, used together with Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Pin elliae.
2. Calm the adverse rising energy and relieve dyspnea: For shortness of breath due to adverse rising of lung energy, used together with Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Fructus Perillae, Radix Peucedani, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Broad-spectrum antibacteriaL
2. Magnocurarine, one of the active components, can relax striated muscles.
3. Its decoction stimulates the smooth muscles of intestines and bronchi in rabbits in vitro.
4. Magnocuraine may also lower blood pressure and accelerate heart rate.

Administration Decoction:
9g (decocted later).

Caution
Prolonged boiling will increase its toxicity.]]> Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis

Source
The dried bark and bark of branch, root of Magnolia officinalis Rehd. et Wils. or M. officinalis Rehd. et Wils var. biloba Rehd. et Wils., family Magnoliaceae.


Characteristics
1. Dried bark crimple, cut into 30-40 cm long and 0.2-0.7 cm thick; outer surface grey-brown, coarse, scaly or easily peeled off, with elliptic lenticella and longitudinal wrinkles, yellow-brown when peeled off the coarse surface; inner surface smooth purple-brown, with fine longitudinal striae, oil traces appearing when cut with nails. Prepared by crosscutting, the section showing granular and oleaginous, and separating out bright silvery magnolol crystals on the surface after long exposure. Aromatic in odour.
2. The bark of branch and root thin, crimple, slightly aromatic. Both are bitter and acrid in taste, warm in nature, and attributive to spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine channels.

Indication
1. Activate circulation of vital energy, deprive dampness, keep the adverse energy downward and relieve dyspepsia: For abdominal distension and pain, nausea, vomiting, constipation or loose stool due to stagnation of dampness in the middle-jiao or indigestion and stagnation of vital energy. It is an important drug for relieving distension. For fullness of dampness type, used together with Rhiroma Atractylodis and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae; for fullness of asthenic type, used together with Fructus Aurantii Immaturus and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei; for fullness due to indigestion, used together with Semen Raphani and Pericarpium Arecae; for retention of dampness-heat in the middle-jiao manifested as fullness in the chest and upper abdomen, vomiting, diarrhea, and yellowish and greasy fur, used together with Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Pin elliae.
2. Calm the adverse rising energy and relieve dyspnea: For shortness of breath due to adverse rising of lung energy, used together with Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Fructus Perillae, Radix Peucedani, etc.


Pharmacological Action
1. Broad-spectrum antibacteriaL
2. Magnocurarine, one of the active components, can relax striated muscles.
3. Its decoction stimulates the smooth muscles of intestines and bronchi in rabbits in vitro.
4. Magnocuraine may also lower blood pressure and accelerate heart rate.

Administration Decoction:
9g (decocted later).

Caution
Prolonged boiling will increase its toxicity.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=43 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:23:04 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=43 Herba Eupatorii

Source
The branch and leaf of Eupatorium fortunei Turcz., family Compositae.


Characteristics
A perennial herb, 30-80 cm high. Stem rounded, less branching, yellow-green, with fme and longitudihal striae. Leaves opposite, usually tri-cleft, margins serrate. Capitulum in corymbose arrangement, flowers purple. The commercial drugs with leaves wrinkled, stem cut into sections, flower rare. Acrid in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
1. Eliminate dampness from the middle jiao: For dampness-retention syndrome involving the spleen and stomach with feeling of fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and feeling of sweetness and greasiness in the mouth.
2. Clear away summer-heat: For affection of exogenous summer-heat and dampness with chilliness, fever, fullness in the head and feeling of oppression in the chest.


Pharmacological Action
The active components, p-cymene and neryl acetate, inhibits the influenza viruses.

Administration Decoction: 3-10g (decocted later).]]> Herba Eupatorii

Source
The branch and leaf of Eupatorium fortunei Turcz., family Compositae.


Characteristics
A perennial herb, 30-80 cm high. Stem rounded, less branching, yellow-green, with fme and longitudihal striae. Leaves opposite, usually tri-cleft, margins serrate. Capitulum in corymbose arrangement, flowers purple. The commercial drugs with leaves wrinkled, stem cut into sections, flower rare. Acrid in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to spleen and stomach channels.

Indication
1. Eliminate dampness from the middle jiao: For dampness-retention syndrome involving the spleen and stomach with feeling of fullness and oppression in the chest and abdomen, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and feeling of sweetness and greasiness in the mouth.
2. Clear away summer-heat: For affection of exogenous summer-heat and dampness with chilliness, fever, fullness in the head and feeling of oppression in the chest.


Pharmacological Action
The active components, p-cymene and neryl acetate, inhibits the influenza viruses.

Administration Decoction: 3-10g (decocted later).]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=42 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:01:33 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=42
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]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=41 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:15:48 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=41 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=40 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:42:04 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=40 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=39 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:09:15 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=39 paper writing service are important for students as achieving good grades based on the marking of these papers by instructors contributes to their final grades. There are some guidelines in order to write organized academic papers which could be followed easily step wise. In this way students can easily understand, draft, research, organize and generate well-versed academic papers in no time.]]> paper writing service are important for students as achieving good grades based on the marking of these papers by instructors contributes to their final grades. There are some guidelines in order to write organized academic papers which could be followed easily step wise. In this way students can easily understand, draft, research, organize and generate well-versed academic papers in no time.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=38 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:41:16 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=38 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=37 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:14:50 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=37 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=36 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:47 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=36 Source
Rhizome of Imperata cylindrica (L.) beauv.var. major (Nees) C.E. Hubb., family Gramineae.


Characteristics
Rhizome slender round-striped, rarely branching, 30-60 cm long, 2-4 mm in diameter; surface yellow-white, nodes visible, with remnant scale leaves, root and bud scars. Fracture showing radial gaps on the epidermis and a small pore in the middle. Sweet in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to lung, stomach and urinary bladder channels.

Indication
1. Cool the blood and stop bleeding: Generally used for hematuria and metrorrhagia, also for hemoptysis, hematemesis and epistaxis, especially for bleeding due to blood-heat.
2. Clear away heat and promote diuresis: For stranguria of heat type, edema, dysuria, jaundice, etc. The herb has the advantage of promoting diuresis without damaging yin.
3. Clear away heat from the lung and stomach: For febrile diseases with excessive thirst and diabetes, vomiting due to stomach-heat, dyspnea due to lung-heat.


Pharmacological Action
1. Its aqueous infusion exerts a significant diuretic effect in experimental animals.
2. Shortening clotting time and bleeding time, and decreasing the permeability of blood vessels.
3. Inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus dysenteriae.

Administration Decoction: 15-30g; 30-60g of fresh herb.]]> Source
Rhizome of Imperata cylindrica (L.) beauv.var. major (Nees) C.E. Hubb., family Gramineae.


Characteristics
Rhizome slender round-striped, rarely branching, 30-60 cm long, 2-4 mm in diameter; surface yellow-white, nodes visible, with remnant scale leaves, root and bud scars. Fracture showing radial gaps on the epidermis and a small pore in the middle. Sweet in taste, cold in nature, and attributive to lung, stomach and urinary bladder channels.

Indication
1. Cool the blood and stop bleeding: Generally used for hematuria and metrorrhagia, also for hemoptysis, hematemesis and epistaxis, especially for bleeding due to blood-heat.
2. Clear away heat and promote diuresis: For stranguria of heat type, edema, dysuria, jaundice, etc. The herb has the advantage of promoting diuresis without damaging yin.
3. Clear away heat from the lung and stomach: For febrile diseases with excessive thirst and diabetes, vomiting due to stomach-heat, dyspnea due to lung-heat.


Pharmacological Action
1. Its aqueous infusion exerts a significant diuretic effect in experimental animals.
2. Shortening clotting time and bleeding time, and decreasing the permeability of blood vessels.
3. Inhibiting the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus dysenteriae.

Administration Decoction: 15-30g; 30-60g of fresh herb.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=35 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:38 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=35 Source
Herb of Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb., family Rosaceae.

Characteristics
A herb, about 1 meter tall, covered by white hairs. Stem round. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound; leaflet ovate, unequal in size, alternately arranged; margin serrate. Raceme terminal. Flowers small and yellow. Bitter and astringent in taste, slightly warm in nature and attributive to lung, spleen and liver channels.


Indication
1. Stop bleeding by astringing: For various kinds of bleeding, such as hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hemafecia, metrorrhagia, etc.
2. Clear away toxic material and kill parasites: For skin infection, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, dysentery and malaria. Recently, usea for bacterial food poisoning, and trichomonas vaginitis (external use of concentrated decoction).


Pharmacological Action
1. Its active component agrimonine is a hemostatic.
2. Cardiotonic in experimental animals.
3. Trichomonacidal.

Administration Decoction: 9-15g.]]> Source
Herb of Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb., family Rosaceae.

Characteristics
A herb, about 1 meter tall, covered by white hairs. Stem round. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound; leaflet ovate, unequal in size, alternately arranged; margin serrate. Raceme terminal. Flowers small and yellow. Bitter and astringent in taste, slightly warm in nature and attributive to lung, spleen and liver channels.


Indication
1. Stop bleeding by astringing: For various kinds of bleeding, such as hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hemafecia, metrorrhagia, etc.
2. Clear away toxic material and kill parasites: For skin infection, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, dysentery and malaria. Recently, usea for bacterial food poisoning, and trichomonas vaginitis (external use of concentrated decoction).


Pharmacological Action
1. Its active component agrimonine is a hemostatic.
2. Cardiotonic in experimental animals.
3. Trichomonacidal.

Administration Decoction: 9-15g.]]> http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=34 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:28:06 -0500 http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=34 Source
The shell of Haliotis diversicolor Reeve, H gigantea discus Reeve and H ovina Chemnitz, family Haliotidae.

Characteristics
A spiral single shell, outer surface elliptical, inner surface auriculate, 3-9 cm long, 2-5 cm broad, 2-3 cm high or more. Dorsal side slightly protruding, coarse, grey-brown; umbo deviated to one side, slightly protruding, with dextrorotatory stflae and growth lines; a row of respiratory pores arranged from the umbo downwards along the right margin of the shell, about 30 in number, the last 4-9 of which open at the same level of the outer surface. The ventral side is a broad shell opening. Inner surface shining like pearls. Prepared as white powder. Salty in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to liver channel.


Indication
1. Calm the liver, benefit yin and suppress the sthenic yang: for sthenia of liver-yang or deficiency of yin leading to hyperactivity of yang manifested as dizziness, headache, tinnitus, irritability and insomnia.
2. Clear away liver-fire to improve visual acuity: For conjunctivitis of liver-heat type, used together with Spica Phineline and Semen Cassiae; for night blindness, used together with Rhizoma Atractylodis; for blurring of vision due to liver-deficiency, used together with Fructus Lycii and Semen Cuscutae; for nebula, ointment should be applied topically.
3. Antacid and analgesic: For stomachache and regurgitation.


Pharmacological Action
1. Improves eyesight.
2. Haemostatic.

Administration Decoction:
15-30g, crushed and decocted first. Powder: 2-3g bid or tid.
External use: Appropriate amount.]]> Source
The shell of Haliotis diversicolor Reeve, H gigantea discus Reeve and H ovina Chemnitz, family Haliotidae.

Characteristics
A spiral single shell, outer surface elliptical, inner surface auriculate, 3-9 cm long, 2-5 cm broad, 2-3 cm high or more. Dorsal side slightly protruding, coarse, grey-brown; umbo deviated to one side, slightly protruding, with dextrorotatory stflae and growth lines; a row of respiratory pores arranged from the umbo downwards along the right margin of the shell, about 30 in number, the last 4-9 of which open at the same level of the outer surface. The ventral side is a broad shell opening. Inner surface shining like pearls. Prepared as white powder. Salty in taste, mild in nature, and attributive to liver channel.


Indication
1. Calm the liver, benefit yin and suppress the sthenic yang: for sthenia of liver-yang or deficiency of yin leading to hyperactivity of yang manifested as dizziness, headache, tinnitus, irritability and insomnia.
2. Clear away liver-fire to improve visual acuity: For conjunctivitis of liver-heat type, used together with Spica Phineline and Semen Cassiae; for night blindness, used together with Rhizoma Atractylodis; for blurring of vision due to liver-deficiency, used together with Fructus Lycii and Semen Cuscutae; for nebula, ointment should be applied topically.
3. Antacid and analgesic: For stomachache and regurgitation.


Pharmacological Action
1. Improves eyesight.
2. Haemostatic.

Administration Decoction:
15-30g, crushed and decocted first. Powder: 2-3g bid or tid.
External use: Appropriate amount.]]>