Common Cold Flashcards
Wind Cold Symptoms
Severe chills, mild fever, no sweating or mild sweating, headache, general aching or soreness of limbs, nasal obstruction, sneezing, clear nasal discharge, itchy throat, coughing up thin white sputum, no thirst or with slight thirst
Cold Syndromes
Wind Cold
Wind Heat
Summer-Heat with Damp
Wind Cold Tongue and Pulse
T: Normal,Thin, white coat
P: Superficial, tense or soft
Wind Cold POT
Relieve exterior with acrid warm herbs
Wind Cold Points
GV 16 UB 12 GB 20 LU 7 LI 4
Wind Heat Symptoms
Severe fever, mild chills, sweating, distending or pounding headache, nasal obstruction, white or yellow sticky nasal discharge, congested and sore throat, coughing up yellow or white sticky sputum, thirst or mild thirst
Wind Heat Tongue and Pulse
T: red tip, thin white, dry or thin yellow coat
P: Superficial rapid
Wind Heat POT
Relieve the exterior with acrid cool herbs
Wind Heat Points
GV 14 LI 11 SJ 5 LI 4 LU 10 LU 11
Summer-Heat with Damp Symptoms
Mild chills, fever, mild sweating, heavy sensation in head or whole body, cough with sticky sputum, dizziness, irritability, stuffiness in chest, poor appetite, no thirst, abdominal distension and pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea with foul smelling stools
Summer-Heat with Damp Tongue and Pulse
T: red tip, thin or thick yellow sticky coat
P: superficial rapid, slippery or soft
Summer-Heat with Damp POT
Clear summer heat
Remove damp to relieve the exterior
Summer-Heat with Damp Points
GV 14 LI 4 SJ 5 ST 36 SP 9 CV 12
Cold Etiology
EPF Invasion —> HEAT- Summer Heat –>Skin:
Abnormal
functioning of pores
Mouth/nose: Impair lungs dispersing and descending
COLD- Damp —> Spleen: abnormal transportation/
transportation
Stomach: Adverse ascending of ST Qi
Cold creates deficiency constitution: Qi Deficiency
Yang Def
Blood Def
Yin Def
Cold Definition
Contagious virus of the upper respiratory tract
Upper: nose, mouth, throat
Lower: lungs