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Asian Med Flashcards

1
Q 
Yin / Yang?
	Liver
	Heart
	Pericardium
	Spleen
	Lung
	Kidney
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Yin

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Yin / Yang?
	Gallbladder
	Small intestine
	Stomach
	Large intestine
	Urinary bladder
	Triple warmer
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Yang

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Fire Organs

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 Heart
 Small intestine
 Pericardium
 Triple warmer

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Earth Organs

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 Spleen

 Stomach

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Metal Organs

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 Lung

 Large intestine

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Water Organs

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 Kidney

 Urinary bladder

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Wood Organs

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 Liver

 Gallbladder

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Fire

Color
Season
Emotion
Taste

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red,
summer
joy
bitter

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Earth

Color
Season
Emotion
Taste

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late summer or last 18 days
yellow
worry
sweet

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Metal

Color
Season
Emotiona
Taste

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autumn
sadness
white
pungent

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Water

Color
Season
Emotion
Taste

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winter
black
fear
salty

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Wood

Color
Season
Emotion
Taste

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spring
green
anger
sour

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yin excess = heat/cold?

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cold

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yang excess = heat/cold?

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heat

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yin deficiency = heat/cold?

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heat

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yang deficiency = heat/cold?

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cold

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 Sx = chills and fever, sore limbs, runny nose, cough, aversion to wind, cold or heat

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exterior

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 Forceful movement, excessive appetite, loud and full voice, extreme restlessness, anything aggravated by pressure, rest or by adding more to it, more than normal output of bodily secretion (mucus, gas, stool but NOT urine), irritability, heavy breathing, full forceful pulse, thick tongue coating, swollen tongue, acute condition and/or onset

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excess

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 Frail and weak movement, feeble voice, shallow and weak breathing, listlessness, low energy, anything alleviated by pressure, made worse by movement (end of the day) or made better by adding more to it, spontaneous sweating, empty, thin, forceless or weak pulse, pale tongue with little or no coating, chronic conditions

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deficiency

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 Craves warmth, aversion to cold, cold limbs and body, pale complexion, lack of thirst, loose stool (but NOT dysentery smelly type), clear and profuse urine, sleepiness, severe localized pain, white tongue coating (not always), slow pulse

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cold

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 High fever, desires cold, aversion to heat, heat sensation, red face, eyes & complexion, rapid breathing, thirst for cold drinks, constipation, scanty, dark and yellow urine, restlessness, rapid pulse, yellow tongue coating, red body

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heat

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Excess Exterior

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 ALL exterior syndromes are excess by definition

23
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Exterior Deficiency

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no such thing

24
Q

 Runny nose with clear or white d/c, cough with clear/white sputum, body aches

VS

 Runny nose with yellow d/c, cough with yellow sputum, sore throat

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Exterior Cold

vs

Exterior Heat

25
Q

 Coarse, heavy breathing, loud voice, irritability, fullness in the chest, abdominal distention, constipation, rough tongue body with a thick coat, forceful pulse

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Excess Interior

26
Q

 Feeble/weak breathing, apathy, lassitude, dizziness, pale tongue? With thin white coat?, deep and weak or thin pulse

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Interior Deficiency

27
Q

 Chills, cold limbs, no thirst, loose stools, clear or profuse urine, deep and slow pulse, pale tongue with white coat

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Interior Cold

28
Q

 Higher fever, thirst, irritability, flushed face, constipation, deep yellow, scanty urine, red tongue with yellow coat, rapid and forceful pulse

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Interior Heat

29
Q

Everywhere in the human body, Root of the human body

Functions: promoting, warming, defence, checking, nourishing, qi hua (controls the Qi of the body)

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Qi

30
Q

Primary Qi, Source Qi, rooted in Kidneys

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Yuan Qi

31
Q

Combines all forms of Qi (Meridian Qi) = overall vitality

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Zang fu Organ Qi

32
Q

Functions: nourishment and moisture, nourishes hair, sinews, bones and bowels, foundation mental activities, nutrition

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Blood

Food Qi (from Spleen) goes to the chest and with the influence of Yuan Qi (Kidneys), the Heart makes red BLOOD

33
Q

Jing / Essence

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Yin form of Source Qi, congenital yin part of you
Disharmonies manifest as improper maturation, sexual dysfunction, infertility, early aging, congenital defects
Decreased by ejaculations in men and by pregnancies in women
Can’t directly increase essence but one can better utilize it

34
Q

Jing cycle men / women

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8 / 7

35
Q

Most immaterial & subtle, depends on Essence and Qi

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Shen (Mind)

36
Q

 Yang in nature
 Usually used as a source of other factors to enter
 Arises quickly and changes rapidly
 Moves around
 Lungs are affected first (External Wind)
 Liver affected for Internal Wind (causes itches, tremors or convulsions, stiffness, paralysis)

	Aversion to cold and/or wind
	Sneezing
	Cough white d/c
	Runny nose with white d/c
	Body stiffness and aches
A

Wind

37
Q 
	Injures yang
	Contracts and congeals
	Clause clear discharge
	Sleepiness
	Severe localized pain improved by heat
	White tongue coating and body discharges
	Slow pulse
	Craves warmth, aversion to cold, cold limbs
	Pale complexion
	Lack of thirst
	Loose stool
	Clear and profuse urine (day or night; any at night too much depending on age)
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Cold

38
Q 
	Yang in nature
	Blazes upwards
	Drying – damages Blood and Yin
	May cause bleeding
	Potential to generate Wind
	Affects the mind

 High fever, desires cold, aversion to heat, heat sensation
 Redness – skin, face, eyes & complexion
 Thirst
 Constipation, dry stools and /or foul smelling discharge
 Scanty, dark yellow urine
 Restlessness, irritability
 Bleeding symptoms – cough, vomit, nose, gums, urine, stool, skin
 Yellow tongue coating and other body discharges

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Heat

39
Q

 Excess of Yin
 From damp environment (clothes, living, wading, diet)
 Sticky and difficult to get rid of
 HEAVY AND SLOW

	Feeling of heaviness, pain worse with damp
	Anything swollen and/or oozing
	No appetite, boating
	Cloudiness of d/c
	Internal organs – organ specific
	Channels – pain or heaviness in head
	Skin - oozing
A

Dampness

40
Q

 Usually from very dry and/or hot weather, internal heat, drying warming foods and/or herbs
 All symptoms are DRY
 Internal dryness is from Yin deficiency (can result from excess Heat too)

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Dryness

41
Q

 Yang in nature
 Only in the “summer”
 Like a heat stroke
 Combo of Heat and Damp

	Aversion to heat
	Sweating/no
	Headache
	Scanty dark urine
	Dry lips
	Feeling of heaviness
	Irritability
	Thirst, no thirst if severe
	May see delirium, slurred speech and unconsciousness
A

Summer Heat

42
Q 
	Aversion to cold
	Sneezing
	Cough with yellow d/c
	Runny nose with yellow mucus
	Itchy and/or sore throat
	Swollen tonsils
	Pulses: maybe superficial, but usually no change
	Tongue: no change from normal
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WInd Heat

43
Q

 Tremors, tics
 Severe dizziness, vertigo
 Numbness
Severe cases convulsions, unconsciousness, hemiplegia, deviation of mouth/tongue (can come from severe heat)

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Internal Wind

44
Q

bitter taste

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Full Heat

45
Q

Fire deficiency

A

undernourish Earth

fire insulted by Metal

46
Q

Earth excess

A

overdraws from Fire

overcontrols Water

47
Q

6 pathogenic factors

A 
wind 
cold
heat
dampness
dryness
summer heat
48
Q

8 principles

A 
exterior
interior
excess
deficiency
cold
heat
yin
yang
49
Q

movement 5 elements

A

fire: up
metal: contraction
water: down
wood: expansion
earth: central

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