Body Fluid

Question 1

Body fluid is a general term for normal fluid within the body.

Give common examples.

Answer 1

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).

Question 2

Where is body fluid created?

Answer 2

Generated by food transformed by the spleen.

Question 3

What is the Mandarin Chinese pinyin word for body fluid?

Answer 3

Jin Ye

Question 4

Describe Jin of Jin Ye.

Answer 4

Thin body fluid!

Question 5

Where is Jin found in the human body?

Answer 5

Jin (thin body fluid) is spread through:

Skin
Muscles
Orifices

Question 6

What does jin do in the human body?

Answer 6

Makes blood moist and nourished. Jin permeates into the blood vessels to combine with blood.

Question 7

What is ye of jin ye?

Answer 7

Ye is thick body fluid.

Question 8

What does ye of jin ye do in the human body?

Answer 8

Lubricates:

Skeleton
Joints
Brain (Cerebrospinal fluid)

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

There is a consumption of jin (thin body fluid) and there is an exhaustion of ye (thick body fluid).

Question 10

Where does body fluid come from (not where is it created in the human body)?

Answer 10

A lot of jin ye/body fluid comes mainly from acquired moisture through food and drink.

Question 11

What is the process like to produce BF? What does it involve doing?

Answer 11

Digest food
Separate fluid from product
Absorb nutrients and moisture
Transport to the entire body

Question 12

The process to produce body fluid depends on?

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

What is the result of spleen qi unable to transport fluid correctly?

Answer 13

Accumulation and dampness.

The body fluid does accumulate and become pathologically damp (disease-causing).

Question 14

Why does the majority of body fluid ascend up to the lung?

Answer 14

Keep it moist.

Question 15

True or false? Lung qi does disperse body fluid through the breath outward, and also descend them inwardly.

Answer 15

True.

Question 16

How does kidney qi control the body fluid amount?

Answer 16

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).

Question 17

How is sweat excreated?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

How is urine excreted?

Answer 18

Through the bladder.

The most important pathway to excrete turbid jin ye body fluid.

Urine is the final product to complete the metabolic process.

Question 19

How is fluid excrete through fecal matter?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

A patient is constipated. Which essential substance is affected and why?

Answer 20

Body fluid because of dehydration and lack of body fluid available to moisten the stool.

Question 21

How does moisture get carried through exhalation?

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

*Regulation of body fluid is controlled by actions of what organs?

Answer 22

Spleen

Lung

Kidney

Question 23

*Functions of body fluid (3)?

Answer 23

Moistening and nourishing
Transforming and regulating
Regulates and neutralizes

Question 24

Give ways that body fluid moistens and nourishes.

Answer 24

Lubrication:
Viscera
Eyes
Skin
Mucus membranes
Hair

Supple/strong:
Skeleton
Bone marrow
Blood volume and flow to/from organs

Question 25

Give ways that body fluid transforms and regulates.

Answer 25

Prevent blood stagnation and drying (regulates blood function by maintaining volume).

Regulates hydration levels by seeping out of the blood and into the intestinal space to rectify dehydration.

Body fluid combined with nutritive qi to transform into blood under the control of the heart yang (to go thoughout the body).

Question 26

How does body fluid regulate and neutralize?

Answer 26

Body fluid is yin liquid and can balance yin and yang.

Controls body temperature (inhibit yang and reduce heat).

Body fluid deficiency results with excess yang (increase body temperature and dryness).

If the body is cold, body fluid is not excreted via sweat - and is regulated by the kidney and bladder.

Body fluid removes toxins by diluting them prior to bladder excretion.

Body fluid neutralizes the body, maintaining correct pH balance for physiological functions.

Question 27

True or false? Blood is Jin Ye (Body Fluid)?

Answer 27

FALSE!!!!! Body fluid is a part of blood.