四診

Question 1

望聞問切

Answer 1

inspection
listening and smelling
inquiry
palpation

Question 2

skin colour- white means?

Answer 2

vacuity of blood and Qi,

cold

Question 3

skin colour- yellow ?

Answer 3

vacuity of Qi and blood

dampness in body

Question 4

skin colour- red ?

Answer 4

heat and fire

Question 5

deep red of skin?

light red of skin?

Answer 5

deep red- strong exogenous heat

light red- vacuity heat

Question 6

skin colour- blue complexion ?

Answer 6

cold, pain, blood stasis

Question 7

skin colour- black complexion

Answer 7

vacuity of kidney-qi and kidney-yang

cold, blood stasis or water retention

Question 8

舌胖大

Answer 8

enlarged tongue

->qi vacuity or presence of water-damp

Question 9

齒痕

Answer 9

teeth-marked tongue

Question 10

舌淡胖大

Answer 10

pale tender soft enlarged tongue

Question 11

瘦薄舌

Answer 11

thin tongue

-> insufficiency of yin liquid

Question 12

舌裂

Answer 12

fissured tongue

-> insufficiency of the fluids

Question 13

舌起芒刺

Answer 13

prickly tongue

Question 14

地圖舌

Answer 14

geographical tongue

-> yin vacuity

Question 15

舌色- 瘀點

Answer 15

stasis speckles

Question 16

舌色- 淡紅舌

Answer 16

pale red tongue

Question 17

舌色- 淡白舌

Answer 17

pale tongue (vacuity of qi and blood)

Question 18

舌色-舌紅

Answer 18

red tongue (vacuity heat 虛熱 or repletion heat 實熱)

Question 19

舌色- 絳紅

Answer 19

crimson tongue

into blood aspect (血分)

Question 20

舌色- 紫

Answer 20

purple tongue

impaired flow of blood and qi

Question 21

舌色- 鏡面舌

Answer 21

mirror tongue

• > severe yin humor depletion;
• > damage to yin by intense heat

Question 22

舌苔-
白
黃
灰
黑
薄
厚

Answer 22

white fur
yellow 
gray 
black 
thin 
thick

Question 23

白苔意義

Answer 23

thin-early stage of illness, with diseases evil still in exterior

thick: sticky or greasy phlegm or cold-dampness accumulation

Question 24

黃苔意義

Answer 24

heat in interior;

thin and smooth yellow coating: pathogenic evil just entered interior, heat not yet damaged fluids

thin and dry fur: heat evil is established and damaged fluids

Question 25

發熱、身熱

Answer 25

heat effusion/ fever

Question 26

壯熱

Answer 26

high/ vigorous fever

Question 27

惡寒

Answer 27

without aversion to cold

Question 28

畏寒

Answer 28

Fear of cold

Question 29

五心煩熱

Answer 29

vexing heat in the five hearts

Question 30

潮熱

Answer 30

tidal heat

Question 31

多汗 大汗

Answer 31

profuse sweat

Question 32

自汗

Answer 32

spontaneous sweating

Question 33

盜汗

Answer 33

night sweating

Question 34

冷汗

Answer 34

cold sweating

Question 35

戰汗

Answer 35

shiver sweating

Question 36

無汗

Answer 36

absence of sweating