Body Fluid Flashcards
Body fluid is a general term for normal fluid within the body.
Give common examples.
Sweat, tears, mucus, saliva, gastric juices, and secretions.
Joins with blood within blood vessels.
Flows outside the vessels as interstitial fluid (the fluid found in spaces around cells).
Where is body fluid created?
Generated by food transformed by the spleen.
What is the Mandarin Chinese pinyin word for body fluid?
Jin Ye
Describe Jin of Jin Ye.
Thin body fluid!
Where is Jin found in the human body?
Jin (thin body fluid) is spread through:
Skin
Muscles
Orifices
What does jin do in the human body?
Makes blood moist and nourished. Jin permeates into the blood vessels to combine with blood.
What is ye of jin ye?
Ye is thick body fluid.
What does ye of jin ye do in the human body?
Lubricates:
Skeleton
Joints
Brain (Cerebrospinal fluid)
A patient has a pathological body fluid (jin ye) disorder. It is in a state of disease. Describe the level of jin and ye due to the pathology.
There is a consumption of jin (thin body fluid) and there is an exhaustion of ye (thick body fluid).
Where does body fluid come from (not where is it created in the human body)?
A lot of jin ye/body fluid comes mainly from acquired moisture through food and drink.
What is the process like to produce BF? What does it involve doing?
Digest food
Separate fluid from product
Absorb nutrients and moisture
Transport to the entire body
The process to produce body fluid depends on?
Strong qi.
Strong stomach qi to receive.
Strong spleen qi to transform and transport.
Strong small & large intestine qi to separate clear from turbid.
Strong liver qi to control free flow of products around the body.
What is the result of spleen qi unable to transport fluid correctly?
Accumulation and dampness.
The body fluid does accumulate and become pathologically damp (disease-causing).
Why does the majority of body fluid ascend up to the lung?
Keep it moist.
True or false? Lung qi does disperse body fluid through the breath outward, and also descend them inwardly.
True.
How does kidney qi control the body fluid amount?
Kidney yang adds warmth to turn body fluid into steam that can evaporate the clear fluid from the turbid.
Clear fluid disperses up to the lung and turbid is excreted (sweat, urine, fecal matter, breath, etc).
How is sweat excreated?
Through the skin.
Lung qi controls the opening and closing of the pores.
Yang qi steams the body fluid to create sweat to diffuse through the skin.
How is urine excreted?
Through the bladder.
The most important pathway to excrete turbid jin ye body fluid.
Urine is the final product to complete the metabolic process.
How is fluid excrete through fecal matter?
Water is absorbed through the large intestine via osmosis (spontaneous passage of fluid through a semipermeable membrane).
Reason: to let the large intestine be nourished and function.
A patient is constipated. Which essential substance is affected and why?
Body fluid because of dehydration and lack of body fluid available to moisten the stool.
How does moisture get carried through exhalation?
The majority of body fluids are ascended to the lung. The lung controls respiration. The amount body fluid can be controlled through dispersal via the breath.
*Regulation of body fluid is controlled by actions of what organs?
Spleen
Lung
Kidney
*Functions of body fluid (3)?
Moistening and nourishing
Transforming and regulating
Regulates and neutralizes
Give ways that body fluid moistens and nourishes.
Lubrication:
Viscera
Eyes
Skin
Mucus membranes
Hair
Supple/strong:
Skeleton
Bone marrow
Blood volume and flow to/from organs
