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望诊Diagnosis: Observation Flashcards

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Face Color Red: Whole face red

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Excess Heat

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Face Color Red: Red cheekbones (malar flush) + tidal fever, night sweating

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Deficiency Heat

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Face Color White: Dull White

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Blood Deficiency

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4
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Face Color White: Bright White

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Yang Deficiency

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5
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Face Color White: Bluish White

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Excessive Cold

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Face Color Yellow: Sallow Yellow

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SP/ST deficiency or Blood Deficiency

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7
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Face Color Yellow: Smoky Dull Yellow

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Damp Heat

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Face Color Yellow: Dull Pale Yellow

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Cold Damp in SP/ST

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Face Color Yellow: Ash Like Yellow

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Long Standing Damp

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Face Color Yellow: Clear and Moist Yellow In between eyebrows

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ST qi recovering after illness

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Face Color Yellow: Dried up and withered looking in between eyebrows

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Poor prognosis

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12
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Face Color Yellow: Entire body (Yang type: bright orange I Yin type: smoky dark)

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Jaundice

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13
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Face Color Green: Green Face

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LV patterns, Interior Cold, Pain or LV Wind

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Face Color Green: Green complexion with red eyes

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LV fire

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15
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Face Color Green: Green color on nose

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Qi Stagnation

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Face Color Green: Dark Reddish-Green Complexion

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LV Qi stagnation turning into heat

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Face Color Blue: White-blue

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Chronic pain, cold

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18
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Face Color Blue: Dull Blue

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Severe heart yang deficiency

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Face Color Blue: Blue-purple face and lips pain in chest

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Heart blood stasis

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20
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Face Color Blue: Blue-purplish face & lips + high fever, violent movement of limbs

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LV wind (infantile convulsion)

21
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Face Color Black:

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Cold, Pain, or KD disease (esp. KD Yin def.)

22
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Face Color Black: Dark complexion without brightness + scaly skin

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Prolonged blood stasis

23
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Eye Signs: Dull White Corners

24
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Eye Signs: Pale White Corners

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Blood Deficiency

25
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Eye Signs: Red Sclera

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Eye Signs: Yellow Sclera

27
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Eye Signs: Whole eye red painful swollen

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LV Fire /Wind heat

28
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Eye Signs: Swelling under eyes

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KD deficiency

29
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Eye Signs: Grey and scattered spots like clouds

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Iinjuries causing Qi stagnation

30
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Eye Signs: Black spots surrounded by a grey, cloud-like halo

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Both Qi and Blood injuries

31
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Eye Signs: Red, clearly visible, spiral shaped veins

32
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Correspondence of Eye area to Organs:

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Corner-Heart 
Upper eyelid- Spleen 
Lower eyelid -Stomach 
Sclera- Lung 
Iris- Liver 
Pupil -Kidney
33
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Limbs : Swelling

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Damp Bi; Damp-Heat Joints red and hot to touch; Damp Bi against a background of LV Blood deficiency

34
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Limbs: Edema

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LU Yang deficiency: Pitting edema of the hands
KD Yang deficiency: Pitting edema of the feet
SP Yang deficiency: Pitting edema of the four limbs Dampness: Edema of the four limbs (Damp-Heat or Damp-Cold)
Qi stagnation: Edema of the four limbs (non-pitting)
Wind-Water invading LU: Acute edema of the hands and face

35
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THENAR EMINENCE

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Bluish venules : ST Cold
Bluish and short venules : Empty pattern
Red venules : ST Heat
Purple venules : ST Blood stasis

36
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Skin Signs: Papules

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Heat in LU/ST

Papulesare elevated lesions usually

37
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Skin Signs: Macules

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Blood level disharmony (Red: Blood-Heat I Purple: Blood stasis I Bluish: Blood-Cold)

(Maculesare flat, nonpalpable lesions usually<10 mm in diameter. Chang in color)

38
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Skin Signs: Vesicles

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Dampness

Vesiclesare small, clear, fluid-filled blisters

39
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Dry Skin

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LV Blood Deficiency

40
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Itching Skin (Pruritus )

41
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Skin Plagues

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Plaquesare palpable lesions>10 mm in diameter that are elevated or depressed compared to the skin surface. Plaques may be flat topped or rounded. Lesions ofpsoriasisandgranuloma annularecommonly form plaques.

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Nodule

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Nodulesare firm papules or lesions that extend into the dermis or subcutaneous tissue. Examples includecysts,lipomas, andfibromas.

43
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Bullae

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Bullaeare clear fluid-filled blisters>10 mm in diameter. These may be caused by burns, bites,irritant contact dermatitisorallergic contact dermatitis, and drug reactions.

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Pustule

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Pustulesare vesicles that contain pus.

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Urticaria

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Urticaria(wheals or hives) is characterized by ELEVATED LESIONS caused by localized edema. Wheals are pruritic (ITCHY) and red

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Purpura

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Purpurais a larger area of hemorrhage that may be palpable.

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Ulcer

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Ulcersresult from loss of the epidermis and at least part of the dermis.

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Erosion

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Erosionsare open areas of skin that result from loss of part or all of the epidermis

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Rash

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Rash is a general term for a temporary skin eruption

TCM Review: Foundations (29 decks)

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