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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Emotions: do normal emotions cause disease?

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Emotions: do normal emotions cause disease?
Normal emotions do not affect disease, however extreme emotions or holding onto emotions for an extended period of time can affect the body and in turn cause disease

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Heart and the Affect of Emotions:

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Heart and the Affect of Emotions: damage from emotions will always affect the heart as well as the organ corresponding to the emotion

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Over a long time, emotions can make ____ in the body?

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Over a long time, emotions can make fire in the body?

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Excessive emotions make qi…

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

Excessive emotions make qi flow improperly

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

When qi flows improperly…

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

When qi flows improperly, it accumulates rather than circulates

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

When qi accumulates…

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Internal Causes of Disease; Seven Affects

When qi accumulates heat is produced, because qi is hot

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy damages (organ):

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy damages (organ): the heart

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy causes qi to…

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy causes qi to slacken (move slowly or relax)

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy leads to…

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Joy; Xi

Excess joy leads to heart fire or heart yin deficiency heat: mania, unceasing laughter

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Anger; Nu

Excessive anger damages (organ):

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Anger; Nu

Excessive anger damages (organ): the liver (smooth flow of qi)

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Anger; Nu

Excessive anger causes qi to…

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Anger; Nu

Excessive anger causes qi to rise

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Anger; Nu

Expressed anger or rage causes (or is caused by)…

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Anger; Nu

Expressed anger or rage causes (or is caused by) liver yang, or liver fire

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Anger; Nu

Symptoms of excessive anger are mostly located…

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Anger; Nu

Symptoms of excessive anger are mostly located in the head: headache, red face and tongue, wiry pulse, etc.

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Anger; Nu

Anger includes:

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Anger; Nu

Anger includes:
Resentment, bitterness, irritability, frustration, depression

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Anger; Nu

Unexpressed anger causes?:

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Anger; Nu

Unexpressed anger causes?: Liver qi constraint

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Thought; Si

Excessive thought damages (organ):

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Thought; Si

Excessive thought damages (organ): spleen

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Thought; Si

Excessive thought leads to:

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Thought; Si

Excessive thought leads to: weaken spleen function, causing fatigue, loss of appetite, loose stools, phlegm

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Thought; Si

Thought includes:

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Thought; Si

Thought includes:
Pensiveness
Worry
Obsession or preoccupation
Mental work or studying
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Sorrow; Bei

Excessive sorrow damages (organ):

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Sorrow; Bei

Excessive sorrow damages (organ): lungs

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Sorrow; Bei

Excessive sorrow causes:

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Sorrow; Bei

Excessive sorrow causes: qi to disperse (dissolve, scatter)

Lung qi deficiency- breathlessness, fatigue, crying, sighing

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Sorrow; Bei

Sorrow includes:

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Sorrow; Bei

Sorrow includes:
Sadness
Grief
Anxiety

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Anxiety; You

Excessive anxiety damages (organ):

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Anxiety; You

Excessive anxiety damages (organ): lungs and spleen

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Anxiety; You

Excessive anxiety leads to:

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Anxiety; You

Excessive anxiety leads to: qi binding

Worry and anxiety damage the spleen causing fatigue, loss of appetite, loose stools

It also binds lung qi causing breathlessness, stiff shoulders, and neck

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Fear; Kong

Excessive fear damages (organ):

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Fear; Kong

Excessive fear damages (organ): kidneys

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Fear; Kong

Excessive fear causes:

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Fear; Kong

Excessive fear causes: qi to descend

Depletes kidney qi causing bed wetting or incontinence

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Fright (Shock); Jing

Excessive fright damages (organ):

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Fright (Shock); Jing

Excessive fright damages (organ): kidneys (and heart)

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Fright (Shock); Jing

Excessive fright causes:

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Fright (Shock); Jing

Excessive fright causes: derangement of qi. Fright makes qi chaotic

Palpitations
Breathlessness
Insomnia
Night sweating
Dry mouth
Dizziness
Tinnitus
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Neither External Nor Internal Causes of Disease

Also known as Neutral Causes. This includes:

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Neither External Nor Internal Causes of Disease

Also known as Neutral Causes.

This includes:
Improper Diet
Work and Rest
Sexual Taxation
Trauma
Improper Medical Treatment
Parasites and Toxins
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Improper Diet

Improper diet includes:

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Improper Diet

Improper diet includes:
Overeating or malnutrition

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Improper Diet

Improper diet damages (organ):

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Improper Diet

Improper diet damages (organ):
Spleen and Stomach (middle jiao)

Eventually all of the organs will suffer since post-heaven qi is affected

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Improper Diet

Overeating causes:

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Improper Diet

Overeating causes: phlegm and dampness

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Improper Diet

The five flavors are:

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Improper Diet

The five flavors are:
Sour (wood)
Bitter (fire)
Sweet (earth)
Acrid or spicy (metal)
Salty (water)
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Improper Diet

The qi of food can be:

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Improper Diet

The qi of food can be:
Hot
Warm
Neutral
Cool
Cold
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Improper Diet

Eating too much cold raw food:

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Improper Diet

Eating too much cold raw food: puts out digestive fire of spleen yang

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Work and Rest

Taxation (lao overwork) causes:

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Work and Rest

Taxation (lao overwork) causes: consumption of qi

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest impairs:

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest impairs: circulation of qi-blood

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest affects (organ):

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest affects (organ): the spleen, which leads to poor transportation and transformation

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest engenders:

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Work and Rest

Excessive rest engenders: phlegm and dampness because qi moves and transforms fluids

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Work and Rest

Activity moves…

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Work and Rest

Activity moves qi and scatters dampness

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Sexual Taxation

Excessive sexual activity injures…

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Sexual Taxation

Excessive sexual activity injures kidney essence and yin

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Sexual Taxation

In men:

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Sexual Taxation

In men: mainly through ejaculation

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Sexual Taxation

In women:

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Sexual Taxation

In women: includes pregnancy and childbirth

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Sexual Taxation

Traditionally, one should not have sex when:

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Sexual Taxation

Traditionally, one should not have sex when:
Drunk or angry
Ill or exhausted
The weather changes drastically
Late night or after a long journey
The woman is menstruating, pregnant, nursing, or just after she has given birth

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Trauma

Trauma includes:

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Trauma

Trauma includes: 
Gunshots
Cuts
Bruises
Burns
Fractures
Sprains
Insect bites, snake bites, animal bites, etc.
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Trauma

Trauma causes:

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Trauma

Trauma causes: stagnation of qi and stasis of blood in the channels and network vessels

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Trauma

Stagnation may remain…

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Trauma

Stagnation may remain even after the flesh and bones have healed

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Constitution

Constitution is:

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Constitution

Constitution is: the fundamental physical and mental make-up of a person composed of essence, qi, and spirit, but essence is the foundation

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Constitution

Ability to avoid disease:

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Constitution

Ability to avoid disease:
While disease causes are external, internal, and neutral, we cannot forget that the ability to avoid disease is also based on the body’s right qi and constitution

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Constitution

Dependent on:

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Constitution

Dependent on: parents’ health especially at the time of conception, and the mother’s health during pregnancy

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Constitution

Constitution cannot…

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Constitution

Constitution cannot be changed for the most part. It can only be changed within limits by healthy lifestyle and qiqong

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Constitution

Constitution helps determine…

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Constitution

Constitution helps determine prognosis, as well as resistance to disease

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Quality:

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Quality: right qi is yang, life and evil qi is yin, death (this is quality, not quantity)

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Quantity:

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Quantity: right qi is the sum of all healthy qi and substances in the body that resist disease

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Balance is Health, Imbalance is Disease

For disease to occur:

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Balance is Health, Imbalance is Disease

For disease to occur: there must be an imbalance within the body

In most cases, an evil cannot invade unless there is already an underlying insufficiency of right qi

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Root and Branch:

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Conflict Between Right Qi and Evil Qi

Root and Branch:
Right qi is the root and evil qi is the branch

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Treatment should…

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Treatment should mobilize the right qi to defeat the evil

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Supplementation in Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess:

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Supplementation in Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess:
You must be careful not to supplement the evil
You must also be careful not to take the evil deeper if is is still on the exterior

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Supplementation:

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Supplementation: for deficiency. Invigorates resistance, strengthens whatever is weak, restores function or substance

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Draining:

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Draining: an offensive method for excess. Attacking the evil. Eliminates evils, reduces, expels, transforms, or scatters evils or accumulations

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

You can supplement…

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

You can supplement yin, yang, qi, blood, or any type of organs (especially spleen and kidney)

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (first or strongest):

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (first or strongest): drain the evil

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (when evil is resolved):

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (when evil is resolved): strengthen the body

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (when there is evil):

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (when there is evil): supplementation can strengthen the evil

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (supplementation should be primary):

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Supporting the Right and Dispelling the Evil Qi

Situations with Mixed Deficiency and Excess (supplementation should be primary): only if the patient is too weak to receive draining treatment

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

Heat:

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

Heat: is from yang excess or yin deficiency

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

Cold:

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

Cold: is from yin excess or yang deficiency

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

In addition to heat and cold, yin and yang disharmony can manifest between:

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Disharmony of Yin and Yang

In addition to heat and cold, yin and yang disharmony can manifest between:
Zang-viscera (yin) and fu-bowels (yang)
Blood (yin) and qi (yang)
Ying-construction (yin) and wei-defense (yang)
Interior (yin) and exterior (yang)
Descending (yin) and ascending (yang)

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Abnormal Descending and Ascending of Qi

The qi mechanism:

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Abnormal Descending and Ascending of Qi

The qi mechanism: the functional relationships between organs, channels, substances, yin and yang, are maintained by ascending, descending, entering (sinking), and exiting (floating), of qi

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Abnormal Descending and Ascending of Qi

Spleen and Stomach:

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Abnormal Descending and Ascending of Qi

Spleen and Stomach: they are central so they pivot the body and are most important. They also provide the material basis for post-heaven nourishment

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Disharmony of yin and yang:

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Disharmony of yin and yang: quantity

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Right versus evil:

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Right versus evil: quality

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Abnormal ascending and descending:

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Three Types of Pathological Processes

Abnormal ascending and descending: movement

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Improper Diet

Eating Unclean Foods:

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Improper Diet

Eating Unclean Foods: contaminated, spoiled, or toxic foods, parasites

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