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Classifications of Qi Flashcards

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How many classifications of Qi are there? Give me the number.

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4.

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What are the different kinds of Qi called (classifications based on their specific function and behavior)?

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Primordial Qi.
Pectoral Qi.
Nutritive Qi.
Defensive Qi.

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What are the Chinese terms for the classifications of Qi? Can you name the Mandarin/pin yin version for each?

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Primordial Qi = Yuan (Yang) Qi.
Pectoral Qi = N/A Thorax “Sea of Qi”.
Nutritive Qi = Ying Qi (Nutritive Yin Qi).
Defensive Qi = Wei Qi.

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What classification of Qi is your immune system?

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Defensive Qi a.k.a. Wei Qi!

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What kind of Qi is blood Qi that generates and enriches blood? Deficiency of this kind of Qi can result with a blood deficiency.

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Nutritive Yin Qi a.k.a. Ying Qi!

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What kind of Qi is needed to nourish yin?

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Nutritive Yin Qi or Ying Qi!

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What kind of Qi is the purest part of jing derived from food - it is extracted vitamins and minerals needed for all organs, meridians, and tissues?

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Nutritive Qi!

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What kind of Qi is also called innate Qi because it is created by pre-heavenly and post-heavenly jing?

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Primordial Qi a.k.a. Yuan Qi.

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What kind of Qi is the most important and fundamental classification?

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Primordial Qi a.k.a. Yuan Qi.

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What kind of Qi is the Yang of the body? It’s the motivating life force.

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Primordial Qi a.k.a. Yuan Qi.

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What kind of Qi is stored in the kidney, distributed to the rest of the body via the San Jiao (that transverses all Zang Fu organs), and it is directly related to lifestyle and diet habits?

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Primordial Qi a.k.a. Yuan Qi.

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What kind of Qi deficiency, due to inadequate inherited Qi/prolonged disease/inappropriate lifestyle can result with a widespread deficiency because it controls and contains both yin and yang?

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Primordial Qi a.k.a. Yuan Qi.

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What kind of Qi is the energy accumulated and acquired by the function of the thorax? There the thorax is considered the Sea of Qi.

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Pectoral Qi!

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What kind of Qi combines with Primordial Qi around acupoint STM 30? That kind of Qi nourishes the lungs, voice, and respiration and it carries on to heart and vessels to promote the circulation of blood.

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Pectoral Qi!

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What kind of Qi affects the body temperature, movement, and nourishment of
the limbs as well as the senses?

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Pectoral Qi!

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What kind of Qi has derived from food jing and quick and strong action?

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Defensive (Wei) Qi!

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What kind of Qi regulates the opening & closing of the pores - it regulates sweating and release of body fluids and body temperature?

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Defensive (Wei) Qi!

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What kind of Qi has also extracted from food jing but is the most active and Yang part of it, whereas nutritive Qi is the Yin part?

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Defensive (Wei) Qi!

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