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Diagnostic Method and Pattern Diagnosis Flashcards

1
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What is Bian Zheng?

A

The diagnostic system involving identifying pertinent clinical signs

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What is Si-zhen?

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The Four diagnostic methods

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What are the four diagnostic methods?

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  1. Inspection
  2. Hearing/smelling
  3. Inquiring
  4. Palpation
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Inspecting includes what for diagnosis?

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Examine the tongue characteristics and color patterns

Observe the Shen

Observe the general body condition

Evaluate the quality and luster of the hair and skin

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Hearing/smelling includes what for diagnosis?

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Listen to the voice quality (muffled, weak, strong and/or robust)

Listen to breathing

Auscultate heart and lungs

Note odors from the body

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Inquiring includes what for diagnosis?

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Question owner about medical history

Question owner about temperature-preferences, diet, personality, activity, clinical signs

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Palpation includes what for diagnosis?

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Feel the pulses

Palpate the Meridians

Palpate the Back-Shu (association) points and Front-Mu (alarm) points for sensitivity

Palpate abdomen, lymph nodes, joints

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A wet pale tongue indicates what pattern?

A

Qi deficiency

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A dry pale tongue indicates what pattern?

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Blood deficiency

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A red tongue indicates what pattern?

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Heat: Yin deficiency or excess heat

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A red tongue tip indicates what pattern?

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Heart fiire

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Red sides of the tongue indicates what pattern?

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Liver Heat/Fire

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A deep red tongue indicates what pattern?

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Heat with Yin deficiency

Severe heat, Yin deficiency

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A purple tongue indicates what pattern?

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Qi or Blood stagnation

Cold pattern

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A lusterless yellow tongue indicates what pattern?

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Damp

Spleen deficiency

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A bright yellow tongue indicates what pattern?

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Liver Damp-Heat

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A thin white tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Exterior pattern

Wind-Cold

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A thick white tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Cold

Cold-Damp

Phlegm

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A dry grey-black tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Heat

Yin defiiciency

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A wet grey-black tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Yang deficiency

Cold

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A dry tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Yin or Blood deficiency

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A wet tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Yang or Qi deficiency

Damp-Cold

Water-Damp

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A sticky tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Phlegm

Damp

Food stasis

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A crusty tongue coating indicates what pattern?

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Indigestion

Food retention

Phelgm

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25
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A pale swollen tongue shape indicates what pattern?

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Kidney Yang deficiency

Spleen Qi deficiency

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26
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A red swollen tongue shape indicates what pattern?

A

Extreme heat pattern

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27
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A soft small tongue shape since birth indicates what pattern?

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Kidney Jing deficiency

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A pale, soft, small tongue shape indicates what pattern?

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Qi and/or Blood deficiency

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29
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A quivering, soft, small tongue shape indicates what pattern?

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Internal wind

Severe deficiency of Qi/Yang/Blood

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30
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A patient with extremely dry skin, dandruff and coarse hair indicates which pattern?

A

Blood deficiency

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31
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Straining to urinate and frequent posturing to urinate indicates which pattern?

A

Bladder Damp Heat

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32
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A lack of thirst typically accompanies which pattern?

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Cold-damp pattern

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33
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Eating only fresh grass or raw/wet foods indicates which (2) patterns?

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Stomach Heat

Stomach Yin deficiency

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34
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A loss of appetite may indicate which (4) patterns?

A

Spleen Qi deficiency

Stomach food stasis

Excess heat (febrile disease)

Disease of the oral cavity

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35
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A ravenous appetite indicates which (2) patterns?

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Stomach Heat

Stomach Yin deficiency

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36
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Preference for hay, grain or dry food indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Stomach Heat

Stomach Yin deficiency

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37
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Polydipsia with small amounts of drinking multiple times indicates which pattern?

A

Yin deficiency

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38
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Polydipsia with a large amount drank at one time indicates which pattern?

A

Excess heat

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39
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Dry feces and constipation indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Excess Heat

Large Intestine Yin deficiency

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40
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Water or soft feces indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Spleen Qi deficiiency

Spleen Cold-Damp

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41
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Bloody diarrhea with or without mucous indicates which pattern?

A

Damp-Heat

42
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Red and short urination indicates which pattern?

A

Heat

43
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Urinary incontinence indicates which pattern?

A

Kidney Qi deficiency

44
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Clear and long urination indicates which (3) patterns?

A

Kidney Qi deficiency

Kidney Yang deficiency

Cold patterns

45
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Hematuria indicates which pattern?

A

Bladder Damp-Heat

46
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Apparent painful urination (stranguria) with dribbling indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Bladder Damp-Heat

Kidney/Bladder Stone

47
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Bladder atonia, upper motor neuron bladder, urine retention all indicates which pattern?

A

Bladder paralysis

48
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Dull or cloudy eyes indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Shen Loss

Zheng Qi deficiency pattern

49
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Injected sclera +/- conjunctiva with deep red blood vessels indicates which pattern?

A

Heart heat

50
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Pale conjunctiva indicates which pattern?

A

Blood deficiency

51
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Blepharospasm, squinting, +/- drooping eyelids indicates which pattern?

A

Spleen Qi deficiency

52
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Inherited cataracts indicates which pattern?

A

Kidney Jing deficiency

53
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Blepharitis, injected sclera, and inflamed conjunctiva indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Liver Heat

Liver Yang Rising

54
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KCS indicates which (3) patterns?

A

Liver Heat

Liver Yin/Blood deficiency

Kidney Yin and/or Jing deficiency

55
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Lack of ear movement may indicate which pattern?

A

Qi deficiency and fatigue

56
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Hot ears indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Heat pattern

Yin deficiency

57
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Hot ears, appears nervous and frightens easily indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Heart Heat
Hart Yin deficiency

58
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Distended auricular blood vessels indicates which pattern?

A

Exterior heat

59
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Cold ears indicates which patterns?

A

Cold patterns including Yang deficiency

60
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Inflamed ears or malodorous, yeasty, and wet or waxy discharge indicates which pattern?

A

Gallbladder Damp-Heat

61
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Sneezing, serous nasal discharge indicates which pattern?

A

Wind-Cold Pattern

62
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Thick, yellow mucoid nasal discharge indicates which pattern?

A

Lung-Heat

63
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Turbid, and serosanguineous nasal discharge indicates which pattern?

A

Sang-Huang (sinusitis)

64
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Depigmentation of nasal planum indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Qi deficiency

65
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Hyperkeratosis and cursing of the nasal planum indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Heat

66
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Dry or crusty nose indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Blood deficiency

Lung Yin deficiency

67
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Acute or bright nosebleed indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Trauma

Excess heat

68
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Chronic, or dark nosebleed indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Qi deficiency

Local blood stagnation

69
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Flehmen Response (raising upper lip like a smile) indicates which pattern?

A

Stomach Qi stagnation (colic)

(also can be normal for a horse)

70
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Drooping lower lip indicates which pattern?

A

Spleen Qi deficiency (or advanced age)

71
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Pale lips indicate which (2) patterns?

A

Qi deficiency

Blood deficiency

72
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Hyperemic (red) and dry lips indicate which (2) patterns?

A

Yin deficiency

Heat pattern

73
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Loud and coarse voice indicates which pattern?

A

Excess pattern

74
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Weak, quiet and hoarse voice indicates which pattern?

A

Qi deficiency pattern

75
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Forceful, long, and coarse wheezing indicates which pattern?

A

Excess pattern

76
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Shallow and weak breaths indicate which pattern?

A

Qi deficiency pattern

77
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Forceful, loud cough indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Excess Heat

78
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Weak cough indicates which pattern?

A

Qi deficiency pattern

79
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A productive cough indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Yin deficiency

Lung Heat

80
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Non-productive, dry cough indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Yin deficiency

Lung Heat

81
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An acute cough that occurs during the daytime indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Excess Heat

82
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Chronic cough that only occurs during the day indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Qi deficiency

83
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Chronic cough that only occurs during the night indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Yin deficiency

84
Q

Cough, dyspnea or asthma that is present during the day and at night indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Lung Yang/Qi deficiency

Kidney Yang/Qi deficiency

85
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Careful and quiet chewing indicates which pattern?

A

Stomach Heat

86
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Chewing without food indicates which pattern?

A

Stomach Qi Stagnation

87
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Increased gut sounds indicates which pattern?

A

Cold

88
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Decreased gut sounds indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Spleen Qi deficiency

Qi stagnation

89
Q

Sour-smelling mouth with a greasy, yellow coating indicates which pattern?

A

Stomach stasis

90
Q

Foul mouth odor indicates which pattern?

A

Stomach Heat

91
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Bad smell (rotten fish) indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Heart Fire

Stomach Fire

92
Q

Grey-yellow, thick, and malodorous nasal discharge indicates which pattern?

A

Lung excess heat

93
Q

Thick, yellow nasal discharge with dead-body smell indicates which pattern?

A

Lung Heat with Phlegm

94
Q

Sticky, grey, and malodorous nasal discharge from only one nostril indicates which pattern?

A

Sang Huang (pus in paranasal sinuses)

95
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Yellow, thick, turbid pus with fetid smell indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Excess Heat/Fire pattern

Yang pattern

96
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Grey-white, watery pus without foul odor indicates which pattern?

A

Combo of Qi-Blood deficiency and Heat-Toxin

97
Q

Watery stool without odor indicates which pattern?

A

Spleen Qi deficiency

98
Q

Sour and soft stool indicates which pattern?

A

Food stasis

99
Q

Malodorous, bloody and mucoid stool indicates which pattern?

A

Damp-Heat

100
Q

Small amount of malodorous urine with blood indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Excess Heat Pattern

Bladder Damp Heat

101
Q

Large amounts of clear urine with no smell indicates which (2) patterns?

A

Deficient Cold

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Veterinary TCVM Acupuncture (21 decks)

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