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Causes of Disease (External) Flashcards

1
Q

What are the external causes of disease?

A

Weather; 6 of them

cold, heat (fire), dryness, dampness, wind, summer-heat

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What are the internal causes of disease?

A

Emotions

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3
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How can the 6 weather qi cause disease?

A

If the weather is strong and out of balance AND if the body isn’t strong

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4
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Is external weather qi invading an excess or deficiency?

A

Always an excess

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5
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What is a symptom of exterior illness?

A

Cold and hot at same time

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6
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Is wind a yin of yang evil?

A

Yang evil… damages yin and blood

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7
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When does wind invade?

A

After sweeting, while sleeping, or when the defense exterior is week

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8
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Which weather carries other evils with it?

A

Wind

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9
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What part of the body does wind effect?

A

Upper body (wind/wood moves upward and outward)

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10
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Who comes and goes quickly, changes rapidly, moves swiftly, blows intermittently

A

Wind

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11
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Who has constant movement or inappropriate lack of movement

A

Wind

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12
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What weather causes abnormalities in sweating?

A

Wind

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13
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What are the signs that exterior wind invaded?

A

This causes abnormalities in sweating. It causes aversion to wind or cold, fever or a feeling of heat, sneezing, cough, runny nose, stiff neck, headache, itchy throat, floating pulse.

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14
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How to treat when exterior wind invades?

A

Dispel the wind

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15
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What happens when exterior wind invades the channels

A

facial paralysis, or joint stiffness and pain that wanders:; treat by dispelling the wind

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16
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Interior wind is always due to what organ?

A

The liver

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17
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Is cold a yin or yang evil?

A

Cold is a yīn evil and easily damages yáng qì

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18
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How does cold manifest?

A

Patient feels cold in various areas, has aversion to

cold, feels better with heat, likes to eat or drink hot foods. No thirst, pale

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19
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Does cold speed up or slow down activity

A

slow down

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20
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Which weather congeals, stagnates, and contracts?

A

cold

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21
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Is dampness a yin or yang evil?

A

Yin evil, so it impairs yang

22
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Causes of dampness

A

damp weather, humidity, rain, damp environments, wet clothes, wading in water, working in damp places, sitting on damp ground, etc.

eating cold, damp, or raw foods.

23
Q

What part of body does dampness effect?

A

Dampness is heavy and moves downward, so affects the lower body

24
Q

What is a feeling of heaviness associated with?

A

dampness

25
Q

What is turbid, sticky, stagnant, thick, clammy, dirty, and causes persistent diseases

A

dampness

26
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What obstructs qi circultation

A

dampness… causing heaviness and swelling

27
Q

Symptoms of exterior dampness?

A

aching of the whole body, possibly acute digestive upset

28
Q

Symptoms of dampness in the channels/joints?

A

dull ache, swelling, lingering pain, fixed location

29
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What organ is associated with interior dampness?

A

spleen deficiency leading to poor transformation and transportation

30
Q

What causes dryness?

A

dry weather, dry centrally-heated buildings, too much sweating or urination, improper use of drying herbs

31
Q

Which weather consumes fluids

A

dryness

32
Q

How to treat dryness?

A

moisten dryness

33
Q

Is fire a yin or yang evil?

A

Yang evil, so damages yin and blood

34
Q

Which element is associated with fever, thirst, burning pain, the patient wants cold foods and drinks,
aversion to heat, redness, rapid pulse

A

Fire

35
Q

Symptoms: mouth and tongue ulcers, headache, red eyes,

delirium, agitation, restlessness, insomnia, mania.

A

Fire

36
Q

Fire goes together with what other weather

A

wind

37
Q

What weather can can boil the blood and make it leave the vessels

A

fire

38
Q

Toxins are associated with what weather?

A

fire

39
Q

What weather easily harm the organs and become life threatening

A

toxins

40
Q

Which weather only occurs in its own season and never from internal causes?

A

summer heat

41
Q

extreme heat, high fever, aversion to heat, restlessness, thirst, profuse sweating, but absence of sweating later, surging rapid pulse, red tongue

A

summer heat

42
Q

Summerheat frequently combines with ___________-

A

dampness

43
Q

In treating disease we first determine the _______ and _________

A

branch and root

44
Q

In acute disorder we treat the root or branch?

A

branch (ie. stop the bleeding)

45
Q

In chronic disorders we treat the root or branch?

A

root

46
Q

What are the 4 examinations

A

looking, feeling, asking, listening and smelling

47
Q

What is pattern identification?

A

ID disease pattern using the 4 examinations

48
Q

Symptom vs sign

A

symptom is something the patient reports (ir backache). Sign is something dr sees (ie pale complexion)

49
Q

The same disease has _________ treatments. Different diseases have the _________ treatment.

A

different. same

50
Q

Which weather is associated with dizziness, vertigo, convulsions,
tremors, spasms, tingling, numbness

A

wind

51
Q

which weather disturbs the spirit?

A

fire

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