\[ **BT: [[human beings#the practice of medicine and the care of health]]** ] --- # Chinese medicine ## disorders ### Yin deficiency [[Yin deficiency is due to the excess consumption of vital materials including Fluid, Essence and Blood or to fever impairing those materials. It may lead to a relative overabundance of Yang.]][^1] ## materia medica - [[barberries]] - [[caterpillar fungus]] - [[starwort root]] - [[tongue fern]] + ↬ [Chinese Herbal Medicine Database](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database) (420 herbs used in TCM) + ↬ [Traditional Chinese Medicine Portal](https://www.meandqi.com/) (herbs, symptoms, formulae, etc) %% TCM-related alt names for Tiny Herb accounts: - [sargassum](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/sargassum) - [golden thread](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/goldthread-rhizome) - [forsythia](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/forsythia-fruit) - [ephedra](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/ephedra) - [akebia](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/akebia-stem) - [evodia](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/evodia-fruit) - [realgar](https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database/realgar) (actually a mineral) %% ## related concepts - See also: - [[Sānbǎo 三寶 (Three Treasures)]] - [[philosophy, Chinese]] - [[Daoism]] [^1]: Jing-Nuan Wu, *[[Wu, An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica, 2005|An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica]]* (Oxford University Press, 2005), ‘Yin Deficiency’.