Herbs

Salvia root

Moves blood and cools, with a special relationship to the heart in texts.

Uncaria vine

Cools the liver and extinguishes wind. Hooks are the medicinal part.

Phellodendron bark

Clears damp-heat in the lower body in textbook language.

Coptis rhizome

Very bitter, very cold. Clears heat in the heart and stomach in textbooks.

Scutellaria root

Clears heat and dries damp, especially in the upper burner and the gut.

Honeysuckle flower

A sweet cold flower for heat in the upper body.

Chrysanthemum flower

Cools the head and is the flower students learn for the eyes.

Forsythia fruit

Clears heat-toxin and is usually written with honeysuckle.

Gypsum

A mineral that texts use for big heat and big thirst.

Anemarrhena rhizome

Clears heat and also moistens, unlike the drying bitters.

Gardenia fruit

Drains heat and irritability through the three burners, in the usual phrase.