Class 1 Flashcards
What is an Herb?
Any substance, organic or inorganic, that is used for medicinal purposes.
What are the 6 Pathogenic Factors?
Wind Heat Dampness Cold Dryness Summer heat
What is an inorganic substance?
Inorganic substances are of mineral origin, such as sand, salt, iron, and calcium.
What is an Organic substance?
Organic Substances are usually of plant or animal origin and contain carbon.
Wind
Nature: Yang
Season: Spring
Affects the upper part of the body
Usually accompanies another pathogen while attacking the body, such as cold, damp, or heat.
Associated with movement and migratory pains
Characterized by sudden onset
Cold
Nature: Yin
Season: Winter
Affects the Stomach, Large Intestine, and Uterus.
Characterized by contraction and slowness.
Symptoms: severe sharp pain that is often relieved by heat, contraction of muscles and sinews causing restricted movement of the limbs, chills, no sweating, no thirst.
Heat
Nature: Yang
Season: Summer
Characterized by Shen disturbance and reckless movement of blood causing bleeding
Symptoms: fever, red face, irritability, mania, delirium, bleeding, dark urine
Damp
Nature: Yin
Season: End of Summer
Affects spleen
Characterized by: heaviness, turbidity, and lingering
Symptoms: loose stools, diarrhea, cloudy urine, leucorrhea, heaviness of the head and body, pain that is heavy and sore, loss of appetite, and edema.
Dryness
Nature: Yang
Season: Autumn
Affects Lung
Characterized by lack of moisture
Symptoms: dry lips, cracked skin, dry stools, dry cough, and asthma
Summer Heat
Nature: Yang
Season: Summer
Characterized by dispersion and consumption of body fluids by heat. Often accompanied by dampness which is due to humid weather
Symptoms: high fever, sweating, fatigue, headache, and diarrhea
What are the Seven Emotions?
Anger Fear Fright Grief Joy/decadence Melancholy/sadness Worry/pensive was
What are the Eight Principles?
Yin-Yang
Interior-Exterior
Deficiency-Excess
Cold-Heat
What is the principle of Yin-Yang?
Determines the nature of the disease
What are Yin symptoms?
Characterized by deficiency of Yang Qi with the presence of cold or damp.
What are Yang symptoms?
Characterized by an excess of Yang Qi in the body causing heat conditions.
What is the principle of Interior-Exterior?
Determines the location of the disharmony.
What does the Exterior pertain to?
Exterior pertains to the surface of the body such as skin, hair, muscles, and the superficial branches of the meridians.
What does the Interior pertain to?
Interior pertains to the organs as they are known in TCM; the Zang-Fu.
What is the principle of Deficiency-Excess?
Determines the strength of the pathogen in relation to the body’s Qi. Knowing if the disease is deficiency or excess will determine the type of treatment.
What does the weakness of the body’s Qi indicate?
Deficiency syndrome
What does the strong body Qi indicate?
Excess syndrome
What is the principle of Cold-Heat?
Determines the nature of the disease.
Heat syndrome have an excess of what?
Yang Qi
Cold syndromes have an excess of or a deficiency of?
Excess of Yin (cold/damp)
Deficiency of Yang Qi.
