8 principles Diagnosis

Question 1

What do EPFS affect?

Answer 1

Hair, skin, muscles and channels

Question 2

Symptoms of wind-cold?

Answer 2

Severe chills, mild fever, no sweating, absence of thirst
Tongue: thin, white, moist
Pulse: Floating, tight

Excess: Absence of sweating, severe body aches, pulse: Tight

Deficiency: Mild body aches, slow pulse

Question 3

Wind heat symptoms?

Answer 3

Mild chills, severe fever, no sweating or sweating, thirst
Tongue: Thin and yellow coating
Pulse: floating and rapid

Excess: Abcense of sweating, sever body aches, pulse tight

Deficiency: Sweating, mild body aches, pulse slow

Question 4

What does full/excess epf pattern mean?

Answer 4

That Wei Qi is still strong and fighting the pathogen

Question 5

What does empty/deficient mean?

Answer 5

Wei Qi is weak

Question 6

Fixed pain, often only one joint is affected , relieved by the application of heat

Answer 6

cold bi syndrom

Question 7

Severe pain, joints are hot and swollen

Answer 7

heat bi syndrome

Question 8

Swelling and heaviness of the joints

Answer 8

Damp bi syndrome

Question 9

Pain moves from joint to joint

Answer 9

Wind bi syndrome

Question 10

3 Types of internal disease?

Answer 10

1. Internal organ disharmony
2. Affects the internal organs and bones
3. Zang fu disharmony

Question 11

Symptoms of an excess pattern

Answer 11

vigor, agitation, loud voice, coarse breathing, distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen, pain made worse by pressure, constipation, tenesmus, dysuria

Question 12

Symptoms of a deficient pattern

Answer 12

Weak, listlessness, lassitude, weak breathing, dislike of speaking, pale, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, poor memory, spontaneous and night sweating, nocturnal emissions, nocturnal enuresis, pain alleviated by pressure, pale tongue with little or no coating, pulse of deficient type

Question 13

Shortness of breath (dyspnea), rapid breathing, sticky sweat, hot skin, thirst, dislikes heat, desire cold drinks, flushes face, irritable, warm hands, tongue: red with a dry coat, pulse: deficient and rapid

Answer 13

Yin collapse

Question 14

Feeble breathing, coold skin, cold limbs, profuse cold sweat, dislikes cold, desire hot drinks, listless, tongue pal with moist coating, pulse thready deficient, and fading (end stage pulse)

Answer 14

Yang collapse

Question 15

Half interior and half exterior syndrome

Answer 15

Shao yang, Wei Qi is not strong enough, alternating chills and fever, fullness in chest and hypochondrium, vomiting, anorexia, Bitter taste in mouth, blurred vision, pulse: wiry

Question 16

Cold on the exterior, heat on the interior

Answer 16

pre existing heat and then contracts wind-cold

Question 17

Heat on the exterior, cold on the interior

Answer 17

Pre-existing cold condition and then contracts wind-heat

Question 18

Heat above, cold below

Answer 18

Heat in the upper part of the body (thirst, irritability, sour regurgitations, bitter taste, mouth ulcers, suffocations and heat in the chest.

Cold in the lower part of the body (loose stools, abdominal pain relieved by warmth, borborygmi and profuse pal urine