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Applying yin and yang in tongue and pulse Flashcards

1
Q

Is this a yin or yang deficiency?

A

Yin deficiency: Absence of tongue coating, and signs of empty heat?

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2
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Is this a yin or yang deficiency?

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Yang deficiency: pale tongue body colour, coating dependent on accumulation of dampness

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3
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What does a yin-deficient pulse look like?

A

Fast, thin pulse

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4
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What does a Yang deficient pulse look like?

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deep, slow, weak pulse

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5
Q

What is the order and the names of the pulse positions?

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Cun: closest to the wrist before guan (superficial)
Guan: second position (opposite of styloid process (middle)
Chi: Proximal to the elbow (deep)

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6
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What organ is the chi associated with on each radial pulse?

A

Kidney

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7
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What organ is each guan associated with on each radial pulse?

A

R- spleen
L- Liver

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8
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What organ is the cun associated with on each radial pulse?

A

R- Lung
L- Heart

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9
Q

Study pulse positions:

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10
Q

Is this a yin or yang excess?

A

Yang excess

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11
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Is this a yin or yang excess?

A

Yang excess

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12
Q

Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

A

Yin excess

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13
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Yin or yang excess or deficiency?

A

Yang deficiency

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14
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Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

A

Yin deficiency

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15
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Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

A

Yang deficiency

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16
Q

What order is the generating cycle?

A

Fire creates earth
earth creates metal
metal creates water
water creates wood
wood creates fire

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17
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What is the controlling cycle?

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Fire controls metal
metal controls wood
wood controls earth
Earth controls water
water controls fire

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18
Q

What does the insulting cycle entail?

A

When an element backlashes it’s controller.

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19
Q

what yin and yang organs are associated with the fire element?

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YIn: Heart
Yang: Pericardium, san jiao (triple warmer)

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20
Q

What yin and yang organ is associated with metal?

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YIn: lung
Yang: large intestine

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21
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What yin and yang organ is associated with earth?

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Yin: Spleen
Yang: stomach

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22
Q

What yin and yang organs is associated with water?

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Yin: Kidney
Yang: Urinary bladder

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23
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What yin and yang organs are associated with wood?

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YIn: liver
Yang: gallbladder

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24
Q

Are these yin or yang organs?

A

Yin organs

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25
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What are the five elements used for?

A

Explain the properties of the organs, their mutual relationship, and pathological changes.

26
Q

What are the elemental qualities of the wood?

A

can be bent and straightened (workable and solid)

27
Q

What are the elemental qualities of earth?

A

Permits sowing , growing, and reaping (nutrition)

28
Q

What are the elemental qualities if metal?

A

can be molded and hardened (solid and moldable)

29
Q

What are the elemental qualities of water?

A

moistens downwards
(fluid and moveable)

30
Q

What are the elemental qualities of fire?

A

Flares upwards (combustible and warming)

31
Q

Wood creates fire from what?

A

burning

32
Q

fire creates earth from what?

A

ashes

33
Q

Earth creates metal by what?

A

hardening

34
Q

Metal creates water by what?

A

containing

35
Q

Water creates wood by what?

A

nourishing

36
Q

Fire controls metal by what?

A

melting

37
Q

Metal controls wood by what?

A

cutting

38
Q

wood controls earth by what?

A

shading/covering

39
Q

Earth controls water by what?

A

damming

40
Q

Water controls fire by what?

A

extinguishing

41
Q

When the controller is in excess relative to the controlled, pathology will exist in the what?

A

the controlled

42
Q

When the controller is in deficiency relative to the controlled, pathology will exist in what?

A

the controller

43
Q

When does backlashing occur?

A

When the controller is relatively weaker than the controlled.

44
Q

What is the elemental directions of each element?

A

fire: upward
water: downward
earth: central
Wood: expansion
Metal: contraction

45
Q

Which season goes with which element?

A

fire: summer
water: winter
metal: fall
wood: spring
Earth: late summer or last 18 days of every season

46
Q

What conditions can occur when an element is deficient?

A

1) fail to nourish the child on the generating cycle
2) allow an insult to occur on itself by creating relative excess (yin deficiency and heat symptoms)

47
Q

What conditions can occur when an element is in excess?

A

1) Draw excessively from the mother
2) Over-act on the controlling cycle (Yang excess causing dry symptoms)

48
Q

Name the organs, emotion, sense, taste, and season of fire.

A

Organs: heart (yin), small intestine/pericardium/san jiao (yang)
emotions: Joy & anxiety
sense: speech and taste
Taste: bitter
Season: summer

49
Q

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, sense, taste, season, and climate of earth.

A

Organs; spleen (yin), stomach (yang)
Secretion: Saliva
Emotions: pensiveness, overthinking
Flavor: Sweet
Sense: taste
Season: late summer or the last two weeks of each season
climate: moist & thunderous

50
Q

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, sense, taste, and season of metal.

A

Organs: lung (yin), large intestine(yang)
secretion: mucous
Emotions: sadness & grief
Sense: smell
Taste: pungent
Season: autumn

51
Q

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, flavor, sense, and season of water.

A

Organs: Kidney (yin), urinary bladder(yang)
secretion: urine
Emotions: fear & shock
Flavor: Salty
sense: hearing
season: winter

52
Q

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, flavor, sense, and season of wood.

A

Organs: liver (yin), gall bladder (yang)
secretions: tears
Emotions: anger & jealousy
Flavor: sour
Sense: vision
Season: spring

53
Q

Study the element chart:

A

study study study

54
Q

What element generates water element?

A

Metal

55
Q

What element does the wood element generate?

A

fire

56
Q

What element is generated by the spleen?

A

Earth

57
Q

What element commands the metal element?

A

Fire

58
Q

What element is commanded by water?

A

fire

59
Q

What element is commanded by the heart?

A

fire

60
Q

What element insults fire element?

A

Metal

61
Q

What element is insulted by the earth element?

A

Wood

62
Q

What element insults the kidneys?

A

Fire

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