Causes of Disease (External) Flashcards
What are the external causes of disease?
Weather; 6 of them
cold, heat (fire), dryness, dampness, wind, summer-heat
What are the internal causes of disease?
Emotions
How can the 6 weather qi cause disease?
If the weather is strong and out of balance AND if the body isn’t strong
Is external weather qi invading an excess or deficiency?
Always an excess
What is a symptom of exterior illness?
Cold and hot at same time
Is wind a yin of yang evil?
Yang evil… damages yin and blood
When does wind invade?
After sweeting, while sleeping, or when the defense exterior is week
Which weather carries other evils with it?
Wind
What part of the body does wind effect?
Upper body (wind/wood moves upward and outward)
Who comes and goes quickly, changes rapidly, moves swiftly, blows intermittently
Wind
Who has constant movement or inappropriate lack of movement
Wind
What weather causes abnormalities in sweating?
Wind
What are the signs that exterior wind invaded?
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.
How to treat when exterior wind invades?
Dispel the wind
What happens when exterior wind invades the channels
facial paralysis, or joint stiffness and pain that wanders:; treat by dispelling the wind
Interior wind is always due to what organ?
The liver
Is cold a yin or yang evil?
Cold is a yīn evil and easily damages yáng qì
How does cold manifest?
Patient feels cold in various areas, has aversion to
cold, feels better with heat, likes to eat or drink hot foods. No thirst, pale
Does cold speed up or slow down activity
slow down
Which weather congeals, stagnates, and contracts?
cold
Is dampness a yin or yang evil?
Yin evil, so it impairs yang
Causes of dampness
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.
What part of body does dampness effect?
Dampness is heavy and moves downward, so affects the lower body
What is a feeling of heaviness associated with?
dampness
What is turbid, sticky, stagnant, thick, clammy, dirty, and causes persistent diseases
dampness
What obstructs qi circultation
dampness… causing heaviness and swelling
Symptoms of exterior dampness?
aching of the whole body, possibly acute digestive upset
Symptoms of dampness in the channels/joints?
dull ache, swelling, lingering pain, fixed location
What organ is associated with interior dampness?
spleen deficiency leading to poor transformation and transportation
What causes dryness?
dry weather, dry centrally-heated buildings, too much sweating or urination, improper use of drying herbs
Which weather consumes fluids
dryness
How to treat dryness?
moisten dryness
Is fire a yin or yang evil?
Yang evil, so damages yin and blood
Which element is associated with fever, thirst, burning pain, the patient wants cold foods and drinks,
aversion to heat, redness, rapid pulse
Fire
Symptoms: mouth and tongue ulcers, headache, red eyes,
delirium, agitation, restlessness, insomnia, mania.
Fire
Fire goes together with what other weather
wind
What weather can can boil the blood and make it leave the vessels
fire
Toxins are associated with what weather?
fire
What weather easily harm the organs and become life threatening
toxins
Which weather only occurs in its own season and never from internal causes?
summer heat
extreme heat, high fever, aversion to heat, restlessness, thirst, profuse sweating, but absence of sweating later, surging rapid pulse, red tongue
summer heat
Summerheat frequently combines with ___________-
dampness
In treating disease we first determine the _______ and _________
branch and root
In acute disorder we treat the root or branch?
branch (ie. stop the bleeding)
In chronic disorders we treat the root or branch?
root
What are the 4 examinations
looking, feeling, asking, listening and smelling
What is pattern identification?
ID disease pattern using the 4 examinations
Symptom vs sign
symptom is something the patient reports (ir backache). Sign is something dr sees (ie pale complexion)
The same disease has _________ treatments. Different diseases have the _________ treatment.
different. same
Which weather is associated with dizziness, vertigo, convulsions,
tremors, spasms, tingling, numbness
wind
which weather disturbs the spirit?
fire
