Category: X

Adapted to growing and reproducing in areas with low water availability.  

Plant adapted to growing and reproducing in areas with low water availability.  

With adaptations for low water availability.  

A plant adapted to areas with low water availability.  

Where flowers are pollinated with pollen from another plant (within the same species).  

Of dry areas.  

Placed after a genus name and before a specific epithet to indicate hybrid origin.  

In very general terms, health and disease is seen in Chinese medicine as being a balance of the body’s strength and resistance vs. the strength of pathogenic forces that attack the body. Xie Qi is a general term for the pathogenic forces that attack the body. Contrast with Zheng Qi. There is a saying that…

A consumptive condition which manifests as thirst, excessive hunger, profuse urination, and weight loss (similar to diabetes). It can be differentiated into three patterns: Upper Xiao, which mainly presents as thirst; Middle Xiao, which mainly presents as hunger; and Lower Xiao, which mainly presents as profuse urination.  

Recurrent sudden brief attacks with altered consciousness, loss of spirit, pale complexion, upward staring by the eyes, clenched jaw, foaming at the mouth, and convulsions of the extremities. In some cases, there is squealing like a goat or pig. This is why it is also called Yang Xian Feng (goat epileptic wind).