Diarrhea & Constipation

Question 1

3 external pathogenic factors that cause diarrhea

Answer 1

Cold, damp, & summer heat

Question 2

Irregular eating and over eating can cause diarrhea and or constipation
T/F

Answer 2

T

This causes SP qi xu

Question 3

Acute onset with exterior symptoms:

Fever, aversion to cold =

Answer 3

Invasion of damp/cold/heat

Question 4

Foul smelling with abdominal pain and borbygymus =

Answer 4

Retention of food

Question 5

Abdominal distention, belching, & a fluctuating emotional state =

Answer 5

LV qi invading SP

Question 6

Frequent and watery stool

Answer 6

Long term SP and ST xu

Question 7

Early morning, abdominal pain, borbygymus + cold abdomen =

Answer 7

KD yang xu

Question 8

Pale and yellow stool

Answer 8

LV and GB damp heat

Question 9

Very dark stool

Answer 9

Heat

Question 10

Very watery stool

Answer 10

Cold

Question 11

Foul smelling with a burning sensation

Answer 11

Heat

Question 12

Important ST point for resolving dampness

Answer 12

ST 40

Question 13

Pebble like & dry stool

Answer 13

Heat

Question 14

Pebble like and not dry

Answer 14

LV qi stagnation

Question 15

Long, thin, pencil shaped stool can be a SP qi xi, but also can be a indication of ….

Answer 15

Bowel cancer

Question 16

Well formed & Moist

Answer 16

Normal

Question 17

Dry & intense thirst for copious amounts of cold water=

Answer 17

heat

Question 18

Dry & dry mouth with desire only to sip

Answer 18

Yin xu

Question 19

Watery and explosive =

Answer 19

Damp cold

Question 20

Watery, frothy and yellow

Answer 20

damp heat

Question 21

Severe cramping pain

Answer 21

Cold invasion

Question 22

Abdominal distention, no cramps =

Answer 22

LV qi stagnation

Question 23

Difficult BM needing great effort, feeling exhausted after =

Answer 23

Qi or yang xu

Question 24

Loose stool which are hard to expel =

Answer 24

SP qi xu WITH LV qi stagnation

Question 25

Pale =

Answer 25

Damp heat in GB

Question 26

Green =

Answer 26

Cold, typical in children

Question 27

Chronic interior heat will have this type of stool

Answer 27

Dry and infrequent movements

Question 28

Acute heat in febrile disease will have this type of stool

Answer 28

Dry, with profuse sweating

Question 29

LV qi stagnation will have this type of stool

Answer 29

Pebble shaped, not dry, desire to go but difficult

Question 30

Qi xu will have this type of stool

Answer 30

Desire to go, requires great effort, exhausting, pencil shaped but not dry

Question 31

Blood xu stool will look like this

Answer 31

Dry and difficult

Question 32

Yang xu will have this type of BM

Answer 32

Difficult movement, exhausting, not dry and sweating after the movement

Question 33

Cold BM will look like this

Answer 33

Difficult movement, not dry, no movement for several days, cramping with abdominal pain