Class 10

Question 0

What are two methods of prevention and nourishing life in a Sick Person?

Answer 0

Early diagnosis and treatment

Safeguard threatened areas (keep disease from spreading)

Question 1

What can a person be mindful of to benefit their Right Qi?

Answer 1

Spirit, emotions
Regular lifestyle
Exercise, diet
Preventative moxibustion and herbs

Avoid evils

Question 2

What is the Channel and Network Vessel System?

Answer 2

The pathways of Qi and blood pervading the whole body, connecting the bowls and viscera, the limbs and joints.

Question 3

The channels are the main pathways of _____ and ______.

Answer 3

Qi , blood

Question 4

What are the network vessels and what do they do?

Answer 4

The network vessels are smaller branches ensuring the supply of Qi and blood to all localities.

Question 5

Define “Channel”

Answer 5

Any of the main pathways of Qi and blood.

Question 6

How many regular/main channels are there?

Answer 6

12

Question 7

What do the 12 Main Channels do? (Where do they go etc)

Answer 7

Each channel ‘homes’ to its own organ and ‘nets’ to its paired organ, connecting bowels and viscera that stand in interior-exterior relationship.

Question 8

The 12 Channels have the function of… Providing…

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Define ‘Twelve Cutaneous Regions’

Answer 9

Areas of the skin lying on and corresponding to each of the twelve channels

Question 10

Define ‘Twelve Channel Sinews’

Answer 10

Sinews following the path of the channels, together filling the entire surface of the body.

Question 11

Morbidity of the Twelve Channel Sinews includes:

Answer 11

Bi Obstruction
Hypertonicity
Slackening

Question 12

Define ‘Twelve Channel Divergences’

Answer 12

Branches of each of the 12 channels that reach deeper parts of the body and then return to the primary channel

Question 13

What is the function of the Twelve Channel Divergences?

Answer 13

They have the function of complementing the main pathways by providing a link between the yin and yang channels

Question 14

Define “Network Vessels”

Answer 14

Branches of the channels that enmesh the body

Question 15

How many diverging network vessels are there?

Answer 15

15

Question 16

The 15 Diverging Network Vessels include:

Answer 16

The larger network vessels of the 12 regular channa, Du and Ren, as well as the great network vessel of the spleen

Question 17

Define “Grandchild Network Vessels”

Answer 17

Any of the finer branches of the network vessels

Question 18

Floating or superficial network vessels are also know as…

Answer 18

Blood network vessels

Question 19

Define Floating/Superficial/Blood network vessels:

Answer 19

Small branches of the network vessels in the surface of the body. These are actual blood vessels.

Question 20

The channels manage _____. The network vessels manage _______.

Answer 20

The channels manage Qi. The network vessels manage blood.

Question 21

Characteristics of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels:

Answer 21

Do not home to any organs

Have no interior-exterior relationships

Question 22

What is the function of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels?

Answer 22

The function of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels is to supplement the insufficiencies of the other channels.

Question 23

Name the Eight Extraordinary Vessels

Answer 23

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)

Question 24

What are the Three Types of Points?

Answer 24

1. Channel point
2. Non-channel point (aka extraordinary points)
3. Ouch point, sensitive on pressure. Could be a channel point, a non-channel point, or neither.