ch 2 - cold damage Flashcards
In which chapter of the plain question (su wen) is Cold Damage defined?
treatise on heat
definition of cold damage from plain questions (su wen)?
“as for heat disease, they all belong to the category of cold damage”
characteristic of cold damage in plain questions (su wen)?
heat effusion
chapter in the classic of difficulties (nan jing) on cold damage
58th difficulty
classic of difficulties (nan jing) 5 types of cold damage
wind, cold, DH, heat, warm
- wind-strike
- cold damage
- damp warmth
- heat disease
- warm disease
cold damage discussed in classic of difficulties (nan jing) in 2 different SENSES?
- broad sense (general category described in ‘treatise on heat’ plain questions (su wen)
- narrow sense
three questions
1. why is heat disease classified as cold damage
three questions
2. how can one disease of cold damage also includ so many other types of diseases (wind strike, damp warmth, heat disease, warm disease)
three questions
3. why zhang zhongjing chose cold damage as the central thread of his work?
what is the most important element of chinese medicine? (which all other aspects revolve)
yin and yang!
how does the plain questions (su wen) describe yin and yang? quote
“yin and yang are the dao (the way) of heaven and earth, the warp and weft of the myriad things, the father and mother of all change, the root of birth and death, the palace of the spirit light. To cure disease we must seek the root!”
what is the root of disease?
yin and yang
what do we mean by opposition of yin and yang?
what does it mean that yin and yang are ‘rooted’ in one another?
what is the essential INTERACTION of yin and yang?
chapter 5 plain questions (great treatise on the correspondence of yin and yang)
“yang births and yin grows,
yang kills and yin stores.”
what is ‘yang births and yin grows, yang kills and yin stores’ discussing?
the transfomation yin and yang through the course of a year
as it affects all living things
spring and summer in terms of yin and yang
yang births and yin grows
yang transforms the … and yin gives it …
yang transforms the QI
and yin give it FORM
yang increases in spring eg.
periods of daylight grow progressively longer
the temperature gradually increases
everywhere a sense of yang Qi increasing unceasingly
the myriad of living things belong to what category
yin category of form
what the buds of a tree begin to emerge this is example of
yang being release from storage
inducing the growth and blossoming of yin forms
yang TRANSFORMS qi
true qi character ‘heat up emptiness’ - heat to transform qi (jing>qi>shen)
fire transforms
heat transforms
The First Law of Thermodynamics ‘conservation of energy’
states that- energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another.
or
The total energy in a system remains constant, although it may be converted from one form to another.
yang killing and yin storing relates to
the changes of autumn and winter
yang killing means
is complementry to yang births (releasing of yang, the release of energy)
yang kills (yang energy is retrieved and put back into storage) aka yang abating or yang terminating
and the myriad of things no longer receive this supply of energy, their growth. slows to a stop, they wane and wither
the process of emerging and releasing, and process of receiving and storing is expressed in the yellow emperor statement
“utmost yang must become yin, utmost yin must become yang”
[this is like when i got so fed up with my mind controlling me, that it became me controlling it]
