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Blood Flashcards

1
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What is the house of blood?

A

Blood vessels! Because blood circulates the whole body inside of them.

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What is the Chinese word for blood?

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Xue

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3
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Could blood be called a yin or yang essential substance?

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Yin!

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What two components create blood (blood is composed of)?

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Nutritive (yin) qi, and jin body fluid created by jing (jin not ye).

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5
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_________ can also be converted into blood.

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Jing (essence) - to us stem cells, which create red and white blood cells.

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What two organs create nutritive qi to transform food into nutrients (vitamins, minerals, etc).

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Spleen and stomach.

This nutritive qi permeates BLOOD* via BODY FLUID* to deeply enrich the QUALITY* of the blood.

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7
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What two deficiencies create or result with a blood deficiency?

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Body fluid and nutritive qi

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What two important things are responsible for the production of nutritive qi (essential for blood)?

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Robust spleen and stomach! And, a balanced diet.

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9
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Describe or name the two kinds of blood deficiency.

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Lacking body blood QUALITY or QUANTITY.

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True or false? Jing (essence/stem cells) & blood are inter-promoting and inter-dependent.

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True!

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Where is Jing (essence/stem cells) stored in the body? At what organ?

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Kidney.

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Where is blood stored in the body? At what organ?

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Liver.

Sufficient kidney jing (essence) supplies nourishment for the liver, where blood is stored.

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13
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As __________ enters the liver it is transformed into blood.

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Jing (essence).

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14
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What are the two things that are the deepest form of nourishment with a common source?

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Blood, and jing (essence).

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Blood is produced by what two organs?

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Spleen and stomach.

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16
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Blood is coordinated by what three organs?

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Liver, kidney, and heart.

17
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True or false? Circulation is necessary for all functions and activity within the body.

A

True!

18
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Circulation is governed in part by _______ and _______ of blood.

A

Quality and quantity.

Because if blood is deficient it will lack the volume (fluid amount) needed to create force (push against the vessel wall to move blood and raise blood pressure) and will become STAGNATED (stuck).

19
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Does temperature have to do with blood circulation? If so, how?

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Cold blood “lava” = clots, solidified, coagulated.

Hot blood “lava” = rampant flow, nose bleeds, exploding effect.

20
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The circulation of blood is dependent on the movement generated by _______.

A

Qi!

If qi is abundant then blood can circulate with vitality. That action in turn does promote qi generation.

21
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Qi controls what two blood actions?

A

Blood movement and direction.

22
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Describe the result of extreme blood qi increase and decrease.

A

As qi raises or can be discovered in abundance = contained blood.

Deficient qi = blood stagnation or leakage.

The blood flow control and movement functions change.

23
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Give 4 examples of blood vessel wall integrity (opened/closed) changes that directly affect circulation.

A

Injuries, surgeries (cuts), pressures (cutting off circulation), and blockage caused by inappropriate diet.

All interrupt smooth blood flow through the vessels (house the blood).

24
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Functions of blood? Blood is the ultimate body source of what two things?

A

Yin and nourishment.

25
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Functions of blood? What three reproductive fluids can blood also be responsible to create?

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Breast milk, semen, and menstrual blood.

26
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Functions of blood:

Blood is a material for mental function as a result of nourishment to what two marrow parts?

A

Brain and bone marrow.

Blood carries deeply nourishing yin qi around the body. Therefore, abundant blood ensures abundant vitality, strong mental activity, and control.

27
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Functions of blood? Blood deficiency can result with what marrow change? Why?

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Causes the marrow to wither or dry up.

Leads to lack of mental control and coordination. Clinical examples are dizziness, dreamfulness, amnesia, restlessness, dementia.

28
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If you have blood deficiency (from breast feeding, inappropriate diet, menstrual cycle, drained of semen, etc.) describe four food colours and examples you need to eat to build blood back up.

A

Green (dark green leafy vegetables), purple (cabbage, onion, garlic), red (quinoa), and blue (blueberries, blackberries, chia seeds) food.

Green, purple, red, and blue are the colours of blood and blood vessels.

29
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Blood is made in the ____________.

A

Spleen!

30
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Blood is stored in the __________.

A

Liver!

31
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Blood is moved by the __________.

A

Heart!

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