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Body Fluids Flashcards

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Types of body fluids?

A

Jinye
Jin…..Moist /saliva of strong mobility
Ye……Thick/dense/turbid of week mobility

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

Lung?

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Disperse and descend

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

Kidney?

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Dominate water, evaporating and transforming qi

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

Spleen?

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Transforms and transports

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

Small intestine?

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Separates clear from turbid

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

Bladder?

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Controls qi transformation and function

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Body fluid metabolism of zang fu organs,

San jiao

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Passageway for the distribution of body fluids

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The bladder function of qi transformation is dependent upon and controlled by?

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Kidney yang

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Which organs are involved in the process of turning external fluid into body fluids?

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SP/ST
SI/LI
LUNG
KIDNEY

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What organ “regulates the water passage ways”

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Lung

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Kidneys relationship to body fluids?

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Vaporize part of the fluid they receive from lung and

Send back up to lung to moisten them

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Kidney yang relationship to the transformation of body fluids?

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  • Kidney’s provide essential heat to the spleen
  • Kidney’s help SI to separate pure/impure
  • Kidney’s provide qi to the bladder for qi transformation
  • kidney’s help San Jiao transform and excrete fluids
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Kidney yang relationship with SI’s function of separating fluids

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Provides necessary heat for separation of clear and turbid to take place

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Bladder transformation using kidney yang

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Qi and heat needed to transform is provided by kidney yang

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‘The triple burner is the official in charge of irrigation and it controls the water passages “
The upper Burner.. is compared to mist and…

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Helps spleen to direct pure fluids upwards and helps lungs disperse pure fluids to space under the skin

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‘The triple burner is the official in charge of irrigation and it controls the water passages “
The middle burner ….is compared to “muddy pool” and?

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Helps the stomach to churn fluids, and directs impure part of fluid downwards.

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‘The triple burner is the official in charge of irrigation and it controls the water passages “
The lower burner ……compared to “drainage ditch”

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Helps the SI, bladder and kidney to transform, separate, and excrete fluids

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The stomach is the “source” of body fluids

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Fluids must first enter the stomach and from there they are transformed and transported to the spleen.

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Relationship between qi and body fluids

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Qi transforms and transports fluid,without this damp would happen.
Qi consolidates, when deficient body fluids may seep out.
Qi produces body fluids

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Relationship between blood and body fluids

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Mutual nourishment
Body fluids replenish blood,making it thinner so it doesn’t stagnate
Blood nourish body fluids
Blood and body fluid are yin

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Body fluid patterns include

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XU of body fluids
Edema [retention]
Phlegm

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Insufficient body fluid pattern looks like?

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Dry, dry mouth,throat,lips skin and hair thirst and dark scanty urine because urine is cooked up from heat

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When there is a yin XU the tongue is red, is there coat or no tongue coat

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No coat because it’s XU heat

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Insufficient body fluid pulse would be ?

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Thin, fails to fill the vessels

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Body fluids fail to transform pattern is?
Retention, water accumulates inside the body
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Yin edema looks like?
Chronic, starts from leg[lower body] cold and XU
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Yang edema looks like?
Acute, start from from eye,face upper body, heat and XS
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Edema caused by lung yang XU affects top, middle or low part of body?
Top, hands and face,can be caused by invasion of exterior wind cold interfering with diffusing or descending
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Edema caused by spleen yang XU affects top, middle or low part of body?
Middle part of body, abdominal swelling as well as limbs
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Edema caused by kidney yang XU affects top, middle or low part of body?
Lower, ankles and legs
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Etiology of yang edema from Exopathogens attack, wind is upward and outward…. Lung fails to descend and distribute ?
Damp/water accumulation ….starts on upper body
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Etiology of yang edema from Exopathogens attack, …. Bladder qi transformation function disorder?
Difficult and scanty urine….not transforming
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Etiology of yang edema from Exopathogens attack, | Defensive qi obstructed?
Chills, fever and superficial pulse
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Etiology of yang edema from Exopathogens attack, | Channels and collaterals obstructed
Body and headache
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Yang edema; skin water pattern symptoms ?
Entire body pitting edema, sub acute onset, body heavy, distention,poor appetite.
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When spleen fails to transport and transform leading to yang edema
Damp,bladder fails to transform qi, spleen and stomach dysfunction
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Yin edema, main water pattern is also called?
Kidney yang XU,
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Symptoms of yin edema
Repeated relapse Pitting below the waist, Epigastric distention,weak limbs, cold body, prefers warmth,pale complexion, pale tender tongue, white and slippery coating, deep slow pulse
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Yin edema, chronic, | spleen yang XU fails to transport and transform, what is the pattern ?
Poor appetite,loose stool,distention | Damp …putting edema
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Yin edema ,chronic Kidney yang XU fails to warm and transform qi What is the pattern?
Cold body and limbs, scanty urine low back pain and ache
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Yin edema, stone water pattern definition
Severe abdomen swelling, distention caused by liver and kidney yang xu
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Symptoms of yin edema : stone water pattern
Severe abdomen, swelling distention , hard like a stone Leg,ankles, shortness of breath, fatigue and frequent urination and low back pain. Depression,melancholy sinking sensation in hypochondrium , pale tongue with thick white coat and deep weak pulse.
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Yin edema :stone water kidney yang xu, fails to promote and warm, what is the symptom ?
Fatigue, shortness or breath, deep weak pulse and pale tongue
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Yin edema :stone water kidney yang xu, qi transformation fails to metabolize water . What is the pattern?
Edema, frequent urination with thick greasy coating, hard stone abdomen swelling
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Yin edema :stone water liver yang xu fails to warm, coldness condenses and obstruction in the liver channel symptom
Hardness in lower abdomen , like stone
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Yin edema :stone water liver yang xu fails to coarse and discharge symptom
Depression,sinking sensation in the hypochondrium

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