6 Warps of Diagnosis YIN

Question 1

GREATER YANG (tai yang) & GREATER YIN (tai yin) tongue & pulse:

Answer 1

Tongue: white coat

Pulse: floating & moderate

Question 2

GREATER YANG (tai yang) & GREATER YIN (tai yin) Treatment plan:

Answer 2

Warm the center, resolve the exterior

Question 3

GREATER YANG (tai yang) & GREATER YIN (tai yin) s/sx:

Answer 3

• diarrhea
• distention & oppression in the abdomen & stomach duct, lingering abdominal pain
• fever, aversion to cold
• headache

Question 4

GREATER YIN (Tai Yin) disease s/sx

Answer 4

• abdominal pain
• diarrhea
• lack of thirst
• abdominal fullness & vomiting
• inability to hold down food
• cold limbs

Question 5

GREATER YIN (Tai Yin) disease TONGUE & PULSE

Answer 5

Tongue: white, slimy coat

Pulse: deep moderate

Question 6

GREATER YIN (Tai Yin) disease treatment plan:

Answer 6

Warm center, fortify spleen

ST 36, SP 9

Question 7

There are 2 LESSER YIN (Shao Yin) disease categories:

Answer 7

• Cold Transformation
• Heat Transformation

Question 8

LESSER YIN (shao yin) disease cold transformation Tongue & pulse:

Answer 8

Tongue: pale, lilac, wet, white coat

Pulse: fine minute, on the verge of expiry

Question 9

LESSER YIN (shao yin) disease cold transformation s/sx

Answer 9

• ​no heat effusion but aversion to cold
• reversal cold of the limbs
• clear food diarrhea
• desire only to sleep
• retching but inability to eat or vomiting immediately upon ingesting food

Question 10

LESSER YIN (shao yin) disease cold transformation Treatment plan:

Answer 10

Boost yang & restrain yin

Question 11

LESSER YIN DISEASE (shao yin) Heat Transformation TONGUE & PULSE

Answer 11

Tongue: RED

Pulse: FINE RAPID

Question 12

LESSER YIN DISEASE (shao yin) Heat Transformation s/sx

Answer 12

• Heart Vexation & insomnia (yin is deficient so yang cant be subdued @ night)
• Dry mouth & throat (yin deficiency implies deficiency of body fluids → soooo there is dry mouth & throat…even dry skin & eyes)

Question 13

LESSER YIN DISEASE (shao yin) Heat Transformation treatment:

Answer 13

Nourish yin and clear heat

Question 14

REVERTING YIN disease s/sx

Answer 14

• wasting-thirtst
• Qi rushing upward to the heart
• pain & heat within the heart
• hunger with no desire to eat
• vomiting of roundworms after eating
• reversal cold off the limbs
• alternating heat & cold*

Question 15

REVERTING YIN disease tongue & pulse

Answer 15

Tongue: RED

Pulse: Small & Frail

Question 16

REVERTING YIN disease treatment plan

Answer 16

Warm viscera, drain liver, calm stomach, calm roundworms

–OR–

Dispel exterior cold, clear heat

Question 17

COLD DAMP JAUNDICE s/sx

Answer 17

• Dark & dusky yellow eyes, skin, urine
• fear of cold
• huddled body
• oppression in the stomach duct & abdominal distention [oppression/fullness leads to pain]
• sloppy stools
• NO SWEAT

Question 18

COLD DAMP JAUNDICE tongue & pulse

Answer 18

Tongue: pale, white & glossy coat (wet) - swollen

Pulse: deep & slow

Question 19

COLD DAMP JAUNDICE etiology

Answer 19

Yang Brightness (heat & repletion) with damp presentation in the LESSER YANG

Question 20

DAMP HEAT JAUNDICE tongue & pulse

Answer 20

Tongue: Red, slimy yellow coat (swollen)

Pulse: Rapid slippery OR rapid & wiry

Question 21

DAMP HEAT JAUNDICE s/sx

Answer 21

• bright, more tangerine yellow in sclera, skin tone & urine
• SWEAT
• There is glomus that leads to pain
• CONSTIPATION
• interior, heat, repletion

Question 22

DAMP HEAT JAUNDICE etiology

Answer 22

Cold & damp in the Greater yin

Question 23

LESSER YIN with an EXTERIOR pattern s/sx

Answer 23

• Fever
• Aversion to cold
• Headache
• Lack of sweat
• Cold feet

Question 24

LESSER YIN with an EXTERIOR pattern: tongue & pulse

Answer 24

Tongue: pale, thin, white coat

Pulse: deep

Question 25

LESSER YIN with an EXTERIOR pattern: treatment plan

Answer 25

Warm the interior, out-thrust the exterior

Question 26

GREATER YANG and GREATER YIN s/sx

Answer 26

• diarrhea
• distention & oppression in the abdomen & stomach duct, lingering abdominal pain
• Fever, aversion to cold
• headache

Question 27

GREATER YANG and GREATER YIN tongue & pulse

Answer 27

Tongue: white coat

Pulse: floating & moderate

Question 28

GREATER YANG and GREATER YIN treatment

Answer 28

Warm the center resolve the exterior