8 Principle Patterns - Full/Empty Conditions Flashcards
List the type of External Causes of Disease
Climactic: Wind Dry Dampness Summer-Heat Cold
List the type of Internal causes of disease
Qi Stagnation Blood Stasis Internal Wind Internal Dampness Internal Cold Phlegm Heat Fire
Full conditions are Excess or Deficient Patterns?
Empty Conditions are Excess of Deficient Patterns?
Full - Excess, Empty - Deficient
Is stagnation a full or empty condition?
Full Condition
Full conditions can be:
Climactic Stagnation of Substance EPF IPF All of the above
All of the above
Full pattern can be the stagnation of substances. List the substances:
Qi - yang, Blood - Yin, or Phlegm
Empty conditions are a deficiency of the:
Yin or Yang Body substances:
QI - Yang or Blood - Yin
Excess Yang is __________heat.
Full
Excess Yang or Full Heat can come from what factors?
EPF - Wind, Cold, Damp, Wind Heat, Summer heat, dry
IPF - Diet, stress, Heat from transformation of other pathologies. ie: Cold/damp can become hot- stagnation becomes heat.
Deficient Yang is Empty ________.
Cold
Symptoms of Excess Yang or Full Heat patterns:
Hint: Excess patterns have BIG symptoms.
Hot- high fever Sweating Thirsty and want cold drinks Dark urine Pulse: rapid and Full Tongue: Red, Thick Full yellow/brown tongue coat
Treatment principle for Full Heat or Excess Yang
Sedate yang
Reduce yang
Reduce PF
Reduce stagnation of yang
Excess Yin or Full Cold can come from what factors?
Also big and full symptoms:
EPF - Wind, Cold, Wind-cold, damp (damp basement)
IPF - Diet with cold and damp foods, Uterus can become cold (cold benches), can penetrate channels (camping in the damp cold), frostbite in joints.
Yin stagnation - Blood and Fluid stagnation (Phlegm)
Symptoms of Full Cold or Excess Yin
Cold, wears sweaters in AC, Excess condition = Severe pain Cold - painful menstrual cramps Back pain Bright White Complexion Pulse - Deep and Slow - Yin Pathogen Pulse - Full condition makes slow but does not occlude or weaken with pressure Tongue- Pale, can be swollen, Full tongue has white coat
Etiology of Empty Cold/ Deficient Yang
Diet - cold or raw diet
Overexertion
Physical work/exercise or physical taxation
Treatment principles for Full Cold or Excess Yin
Sedate Yin
Clear and expel PF
Clear Blood and Phlegm stagnation
Yang deficiency is deficient of healthy yang for qi transformation, transportation, metabolism, digestion, libido, energy.
True or False
True
Yang Deficiency or Empty Cold Symptoms:
This is an empty condition - not as severe symptoms:
Aversion to cold
Cold limbs
Copious, pale urine (because not enough yang qi to transform fluids)
Prefers warm water, not as thirsty
Cocks crow diarrhea (AM) - Chronic and Urgent (not enough yang qi to hold stools together)
Mild Pain - morning stiffness (Deficient Yang)
Fatigue
Pulse: Deep, slow deficient pulse, will occlude with pressure because not enough Qi to fight back under finger and will weaken or disappear.
Tongue: Pale, thin white coat, wet, swollen, a little damp,
Yang Deficiency - Treatment strategy
Tonify Yang - use Moxa
Dryness of mouth, eyes, lips. Slightly thirsty, hot in the later afternoon or evening and has 5 palm heat, hot flashes, and irritable. Tongue has cracks, dry and reddish with peeling. The pulse is rapid and thin and occludes with pressure. What is the pathology?
Yin deficiency - Empty Heat
Width of pulse measures Yin substances (ST fluids, Blood, KI Yin). This pulse is Thin.
Treatment Principle for Empty heat/ Yin Deficiency
Tonify Yin with acupuncture, herbs, diet
List the following Treatment Strategies:
Empty
Full
Empty - Tonifying substance or deficient organ
Full- Sedate or expel PF (IPF or EPF)
8 Principles - List
Interior/Exterior - Location
Hot/Cold - Nature
Full/Empty - PF present and state of Zheng Qi
Yin/Yang
Interior or Exterior pattern:
Skin, muscles, space between skin and muscles, channels, muscles, space where Wei qi and sweat circulates - Coi Li aka: jin-wei matrix.
Exterior - first invaded by EPF
*Note, not all skin conditions are exterior conditions as most dermatology are interior patterns stuck or clearing through skin.
External invasions of wind, climactic factor into channels, Bi Syndrome, painful obstruction - (fly fishing)
Simultaneous fever and chills. Is this exterior or interior pattern?
Exterior
Low grade fever, skin hurts, cold, getting sick
Superficial pulse (independent pulse with light pressure)
Floating pulse - depth push and feel movement out.
All deficiencies and full conditions that are not wind are:
Interior or Exterior
Interior
Thirst, dark urine, restless, agitated, hot tempered, aversion to heat, rapid pulse, red, hot, swollen everywhere, burning sensations, red complexion.
Tongue: Red, yellow coat.
Thick Yellow Tongue - Full or Empty Heat
Full
Thin Yellow tongue - Full or Empty condition
Empty
Full or Empty
Pulse Rapid, Full, Big
Full Heat
Full or Empty
Pulse Rapid and Thin
Empty Heat - Yin Deficiency - Yin fluids are thin and rapid indicates heat.
Describe a Full Cold pulse and Tongue
Pulse: Slow, deep, tight, but does not occlude with pressure.
Tongue: Thick white coat
Describe an Empty Cold Pulse and Tongue
Pulse: Slow, deep, weakens with pressure
Tongue: Pale, thin white coat or wet spit lines
Is stagnation a full or empty condition?
Full
Is deficiency is a full or empty condition? Give examples:
Empty
Deficiency of body substances: Qi (yang), Blood, Jin Ye, Phlegm (yin)
Full conditions have big symptoms. True or False
True
Severe pain is a deficient condition or an excess condition?
Excess
Why does yang deficiency sometimes present with pale, copious urine?
There is not enough yang qi to properly transform fluids.
What is a full/excess condition characterized by?
What is an empty/deficiency condition characterized by?
What is a mixed condition characterized by?
Full - presence of PF and intact Zheng qi
Empty - weak or deficient Zheng qi
Mixed - Presence of pF and weak Zheng qi
Define the 8 Principles
Exterior/Interior - Locatoin
Hot/Cold - Nature
Full/Empty - PF present and state of body - Zheng Qi - Upright Qi
Yin/Yang
What is coi li?
The space between the skin and muscles where wei qi and sweat circulates.
Define the Exterior
Skin, Muscles, Channels, Space between skin and muscles. The place where first invaded by EPF.
True or False:
Most dermatology is an exterior pattern.
False - most dermatology is an interior pattern stuck or clearing through the skin.
Name some external conditions
Invasions of wind of all kinds (wind/heat, wind/cold)
Exterior invasion of climactic factor into the channels
Bi Syndrome - painful obstruction syndrome - cold invades channels
Symptoms of simultaneous fever and chills, is this an exterior or interior pattern?
Exterior
Low grade fever, cold, skin hurts, getting sick, superficial pulse or floating pulse
Describe and interior condition
Hot, fever, thirst, dark urine, restlessness, agitated, hot tempered, aversion to heat, burning sensation.
Pulse: Rapid, Big, Full
Tongue: Red, yellow coat
Describe a cold condition
Aversion to cold, no thirst, pain, pale complexion,
Full cold - sharp cramping pain
Empty cold - Dull pain - yang deficiency - am stiffness
Pulse: Deep, slow, tight,
Pale Tongue. Full - thick white coat, empty thin coat or wet with spit lines
