Class 10 Flashcards
What are two methods of prevention and nourishing life in a Sick Person?
Early diagnosis and treatment
Safeguard threatened areas (keep disease from spreading)
What can a person be mindful of to benefit their Right Qi?
Spirit, emotions
Regular lifestyle
Exercise, diet
Preventative moxibustion and herbs
Avoid evils
What is the Channel and Network Vessel System?
The pathways of Qi and blood pervading the whole body, connecting the bowls and viscera, the limbs and joints.
The channels are the main pathways of _____ and ______.
Qi , blood
What are the network vessels and what do they do?
The network vessels are smaller branches ensuring the supply of Qi and blood to all localities.
Define “Channel”
Any of the main pathways of Qi and blood.
How many regular/main channels are there?
12
What do the 12 Main Channels do? (Where do they go etc)
Each channel ‘homes’ to its own organ and ‘nets’ to its paired organ, connecting bowels and viscera that stand in interior-exterior relationship.
The 12 Channels have the function of… Providing…
The twelve channels have the function of interlinking the bowels and viscera and providing a network of Qi and blood by which the whole body is nourished.
Define ‘Twelve Cutaneous Regions’
Areas of the skin lying on and corresponding to each of the twelve channels
Define ‘Twelve Channel Sinews’
Sinews following the path of the channels, together filling the entire surface of the body.
Morbidity of the Twelve Channel Sinews includes:
Bi Obstruction
Hypertonicity
Slackening
Define ‘Twelve Channel Divergences’
Branches of each of the 12 channels that reach deeper parts of the body and then return to the primary channel
What is the function of the Twelve Channel Divergences?
They have the function of complementing the main pathways by providing a link between the yin and yang channels
Define “Network Vessels”
Branches of the channels that enmesh the body
How many diverging network vessels are there?
15
The 15 Diverging Network Vessels include:
The larger network vessels of the 12 regular channa, Du and Ren, as well as the great network vessel of the spleen
Define “Grandchild Network Vessels”
Any of the finer branches of the network vessels
Floating or superficial network vessels are also know as…
Blood network vessels
Define Floating/Superficial/Blood network vessels:
Small branches of the network vessels in the surface of the body. These are actual blood vessels.
The channels manage _____. The network vessels manage _______.
The channels manage Qi. The network vessels manage blood.
Characteristics of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels:
Do not home to any organs
Have no interior-exterior relationships
What is the function of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels?
The function of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels is to supplement the insufficiencies of the other channels.
Name the Eight Extraordinary Vessels
Dū (governing) Rèn (controlling or conception) Chōng (thoroughfare) Dài (girdling) Yáng and Yīn Qiāo (yáng and Yīn springing) Yáng and Yīn Wéi (yáng and Yīn linking)
