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)
