Causes of Disease (External)

Question 1

What are the external causes of disease?

Answer 1

Weather; 6 of them

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

Question 2

What are the internal causes of disease?

Answer 2

Emotions

Question 3

How can the 6 weather qi cause disease?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Is external weather qi invading an excess or deficiency?

Answer 4

Always an excess

Question 5

What is a symptom of exterior illness?

Answer 5

Cold and hot at same time

Question 6

Is wind a yin of yang evil?

Answer 6

Yang evil… damages yin and blood

Question 7

When does wind invade?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Which weather carries other evils with it?

Answer 8

Wind

Question 9

What part of the body does wind effect?

Answer 9

Upper body (wind/wood moves upward and outward)

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Wind

Question 11

Who has constant movement or inappropriate lack of movement

Answer 11

Wind

Question 12

What weather causes abnormalities in sweating?

Answer 12

Wind

Question 13

What are the signs that exterior wind invaded?

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

How to treat when exterior wind invades?

Answer 14

Dispel the wind

Question 15

What happens when exterior wind invades the channels

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Interior wind is always due to what organ?

Answer 16

The liver

Question 17

Is cold a yin or yang evil?

Answer 17

Cold is a yīn evil and easily damages yáng qì

Question 18

How does cold manifest?

Answer 18

Patient feels cold in various areas, has aversion to

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

Question 19

Does cold speed up or slow down activity

Answer 19

slow down

Question 20

Which weather congeals, stagnates, and contracts?

Answer 20

cold

Question 21

Is dampness a yin or yang evil?

Answer 21

Yin evil, so it impairs yang

Question 22

Causes of dampness

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

What part of body does dampness effect?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is a feeling of heaviness associated with?

Answer 24

dampness

Question 25

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

Answer 25

dampness

Question 26

What obstructs qi circultation

Answer 26

dampness... causing heaviness and swelling

Question 27

Symptoms of exterior dampness?

Answer 27

aching of the whole body, possibly acute digestive upset

Question 28

Symptoms of dampness in the channels/joints?

Answer 28

dull ache, swelling, lingering pain, fixed location

Question 29

What organ is associated with interior dampness?

Answer 29

spleen deficiency leading to poor transformation and transportation

Question 30

What causes dryness?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Which weather consumes fluids

Answer 31

dryness

Question 32

How to treat dryness?

Answer 32

moisten dryness

Question 33

Is fire a yin or yang evil?

Answer 33

Yang evil, so damages yin and blood

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fire

Question 35

Symptoms: mouth and tongue ulcers, headache, red eyes, | delirium, agitation, restlessness, insomnia, mania.

Answer 35

Fire

Question 36

Fire goes together with what other weather

Answer 36

wind

Question 37

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

Answer 37

fire

Question 38

Toxins are associated with what weather?

Answer 38

fire

Question 39

What weather easily harm the organs and become life threatening

Answer 39

toxins

Question 40

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

Answer 40

summer heat

Question 41

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

Answer 41

summer heat

Question 42

Summerheat frequently combines with ___________-

Answer 42

dampness

Question 43

In treating disease we first determine the _______ and _________

Answer 43

branch and root

Question 44

In acute disorder we treat the root or branch?

Answer 44

branch (ie. stop the bleeding)

Question 45

In chronic disorders we treat the root or branch?

Answer 45

root

Question 46

What are the 4 examinations

Answer 46

looking, feeling, asking, listening and smelling

Question 47

What is pattern identification?

Answer 47

ID disease pattern using the 4 examinations

Question 48

Symptom vs sign

Answer 48

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

Question 49

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

Answer 49

different. same

Question 50

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

Answer 50

wind

Question 51

which weather disturbs the spirit?

Answer 51

fire