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Herb Zoo Card Animals and descriptions

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Animal
Description
Aromatic/Transform Damp   skunk, because they are so aromatic  
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Aromatics that open the Orifices   Musk Ox (musk oil is one of these herbs) Bovine (ox or cow) stones are another herb in this category so musk and ox together for a Musk Ox  
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Calm / Anchor/Settle Spirit   Elephant: the herbs are heavy in this category as is an elephant. Elephants are also considered a calm animal  
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Clear Heat / Cool Blood   Artic Fox, an animal from a cool environment, being a carnivore is associated with blood  
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Clear Heat / Drain Fire   walrus live in cold water, this category is amde of cold herbs  
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Clear Heat / Dry dampness   cool cat, cool and cold herbs and cats hate dampness  
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Clear Heat / Relieve Toxicity   Belgua whale, to match teh enormity of toxicity and tehy too live in cold water  
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Dipel wind-damp   sea gull, which live in windy and damp areas  
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Downward Draining / Harsh Expellants   vulture, harsh animal, like the herbs in this category  
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Moist Laxatives   frog, oistening herbs like the skin on a frog  
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Purgatives   snake, snakes are shaped like an interestine, and like a plumber's snake are used to clear the pipes  
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Dry Dampness (diuretics)   pig, the pictures of a damp body type  
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Expel Parasites   anteater, has a long, skinny nose that resembles a worm  
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External Applications   monkey, an animal that scratches his skin a lot; just like you wouldi fyou had sores on your skin  
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Extinguish wind / stop tremores   rhino, armored to stop the wind, an irritable animal (knd of LVery)  
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Hemostatic / stop bleeding   black widow, a blood thirsty spider  
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invigorate blood   road runner, fast running animal like the herb that get your blood moving quicker  
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Nourish Herart and Calm Spirit   deer, like a dear heart, calming animal  
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Regulate Qi   beaver, regulates water and wood, like the herbs that regulate qi  
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Relieve cough and wheezing   puffin, like someone who's coughing and puffing air  
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Relieve Food Stagnation   hippo, any animal that eats that much must have food stagnation  
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Relieve summerheat   penguin, cool weater bird that couldn't take the summer heat  
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Spicy-cool-release exterior -   polar bear, a cool weather animal with a spiky hair cut  
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Spicy-warm-release exterior   porcupine, a spiky animal from a warmer climate  
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Stabilize and bind (astringements)   camel, a camel knows how to gold thing in, like astringent herbs  
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Tonify blood   vampire bat, have an affinity for blood  
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Tonify Qi   Ferret, an animal with non-stop energy  
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Tonify Yang   grizzly bear, the symbol of yang-type strength  
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Tonify Yin   turtle, symbolizes the idea of yin (slow, solid) and some herbs in the category are turtle shells  
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Transform Phlegm Cold   St. Bernard Dog - drooling dog to remind you of all the phlegm, a blue dog for cold phlegm  
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Transform Phlegm Heat   St. Bernar Dog, a drooling dog to remind you of phlegm, RED dog for heat  
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Warm Interior / Expel Cold   Lion, strong animal from the Savannah to match the strong hot herbs  
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