ch 2 - cold damage

Question 1

In which chapter of the plain question (su wen) is Cold Damage defined?

Answer 1

treatise on heat

Question 2

definition of cold damage from plain questions (su wen)?

Answer 2

“as for heat disease, they all belong to the category of cold damage”

Question 3

characteristic of cold damage in plain questions (su wen)?

Answer 3

heat effusion

Question 4

chapter in the classic of difficulties (nan jing) on cold damage

Answer 4

58th difficulty

Question 5

classic of difficulties (nan jing) 5 types of cold damage

Answer 5

wind, cold, DH, heat, warm

• wind-strike
• cold damage
• damp warmth
• heat disease
• warm disease

Question 6

cold damage discussed in classic of difficulties (nan jing) in 2 different SENSES?

Answer 6

• broad sense (general category described in ‘treatise on heat’ plain questions (su wen)
• narrow sense

Question 7

three questions
1. why is heat disease classified as cold damage

Question 8

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)

Question 9

three questions
3. why zhang zhongjing chose cold damage as the central thread of his work?

Question 10

what is the most important element of chinese medicine? (which all other aspects revolve)

Answer 10

yin and yang!

Question 11

how does the plain questions (su wen) describe yin and yang? quote

Answer 11

“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!”

Question 12

what is the root of disease?

Answer 12

yin and yang

Question 13

what do we mean by opposition of yin and yang?

Question 14

what does it mean that yin and yang are ‘rooted’ in one another?

Question 15

what is the essential INTERACTION of yin and yang?

Answer 15

chapter 5 plain questions (great treatise on the correspondence of yin and yang)
“yang births and yin grows,
yang kills and yin stores.”

Question 16

what is ‘yang births and yin grows, yang kills and yin stores’ discussing?

Answer 16

the transfomation yin and yang through the course of a year
as it affects all living things

Question 17

spring and summer in terms of yin and yang

Answer 17

yang births and yin grows

Question 18

yang transforms the … and yin gives it …

Answer 18

yang transforms the QI
and yin give it FORM

Question 19

yang increases in spring eg.

Answer 19

periods of daylight grow progressively longer
the temperature gradually increases

everywhere a sense of yang Qi increasing unceasingly

Question 20

the myriad of living things belong to what category

Answer 20

yin category of form

Question 21

what the buds of a tree begin to emerge this is example of

Answer 21

yang being release from storage
inducing the growth and blossoming of yin forms

Question 22

yang TRANSFORMS qi

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

yang killing and yin storing relates to

Answer 23

the changes of autumn and winter

Question 24

yang killing means

Answer 24

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

Question 25

the process of emerging and releasing, and process of receiving and storing is expressed in the yellow emperor statement

Answer 25

“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]