Dysfunction Patterns

Question 1

SOB that is worse on exertion, weak voice, weak cough, watery sputum, fatigue, easy to catch a cold, bright-white complexion, spontaneous sweating

Answer 1

Lung Qi Deficiency

Question 2

Dry cough, skin, mouth, thirst, hoarse voice,

Answer 2

Lung Dryness

Question 3

Dry cough (or small amount of sticky sputum), feverish, malar flush, night sweats, 5 palm heat, insomnia, dry mouth, hoarse voice,

Answer 3

Lung Yin Deficiency

Question 4

Cough, fever and chills, itchy-sore throat, stuffy nose, post nasal drip, runny nose with clear watery mucous, sneezing, aversion to cold, occipital HA, stiff neck, body aches. Common cold or flu

Answer 4

Wind-Cold Invasion of Lungs

Question 5

Cough, fever and chills, stuffy nose, runny nose with yellow mucous, occipital HA, body aches, slight sweating, thirst, swollen tonsils….strep throat, bronchitis

Answer 5

Wind-Heat Invasion of Lungs

Question 6

Coughing in bouts, profuse white sputum that is easy to expectorate, oppression of the chest, “clogged-up”, SOB, does not like lying down

Answer 6

Damp-Phlegm Obstructing the Lungs

Question 7

Sudden swelling of the eyes/face gradually swelling to the whole body, bright-shiny complexion, scanty-pale urination, aversion to wind, fever, cough, SOB

Answer 7

Wind-Water Invasion of Lungs

Question 8

Cough, profuse yellow/green and foul smelling sputum, SOB, asthma, oppression of the chest…Bacterial infection

Answer 8

Phlegm-Heat Obstruction the Lungs

Question 9

Cough, breathlessness, splashing sounds in the chest, vomiting of frothy-white sputum, chilliness

Answer 9

Phlegm-Fluids Obstructions the Lungs

Question 10

A) distension in hypochondria and chest, hypochondriac pain, sighing, hiccup
B) melancholy, depression, moodiness, fluctuation of mental state
C) nausea, vomiting, epigastric pain, sour regurgitation, belching, feeling pulsation in epigastrium, stomach churning, abdominal distension, borborygmi
D) unhappiness, “feeling wound up”, feeling lump in throat, difficulty swallowing
E) irregular periods, painful periods, distension of breasts before periods, PMS (esp tension and irritability)

Answer 10

Stagnation of Liver Qi

Question 11

vomiting of blood, epistaxis, painful periods, irregular periods, dark purplish clotted menstrual blood, abdominal pain, “masses” in the abdomen, purple nails/complexion, dry skin, petechiae

Answer 11

Stasis of Liver blood

Question 12

irritability, outbursts of anger, tinnitus, deafness, temporal HAs, dizziness, red face and eyes, thirst, bitter taste, dream disturbed sleep, constipation with dry stools, dark-yellow urine, epistaxis, hematemesis, hemoptysis

Answer 12

Liver FIre Flaring/Rising/Blazing

Question 13

dizziness, numb limbs, insomnia, blurred vision, floaters, scanty menses, amenorrhea, dull-pale complexion, pale lips, muscular weakness, muscle spasms, cramps, withered and brittle nails, dry hair and skin

Answer 13

Deficiency of Liver Blood

Question 14

HA (temples, eyes of lateral aspect of head), dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, irritability, feeling worked-up, shouting in anger

Answer 14

Liver Yang Rising

Question 15

tremors, tics, numbness, dizziness and convulsions or paralysis

Answer 15

Liver Wind Agitating Within

Question 16

HIGH temperature, convulsions, rigidity of the neck, tremor of the limbs, opisthotonos, tetanus, coma in severe cases

Answer 16

Extreme Heat Generating Wind

Question 17

sudden unconsciousness, convulsions, deviation of eye and mouth, hemiplegia, aphasia or difficult speech, dizziness

Answer 17

Liver yang Rising Causing Wind

Question 18

Numbness of limbs, tics, shaking of head, tremor of limbs

Answer 18

Deficient Liver Blood Causing Wind

Question 19

fullness/distension of the hypogastrium, with pain referring to the testes and scrotum, contracton of the scrotum, shrinking of the vagina, pains are alleviated by warmth

Answer 19

Cold in the LIver Channel

Question 20

fever, scanty-dark urine, fullness/pain of the chest and hypochondria, jaundice, bitter taste, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, vaginal discharge, pain-redness- swelling of the scrotum, vaginal itching

Answer 20

Damp Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder

Question 21

irritability, abdominal distension and pain, alternating diarrhea and constipation, stools sometimes dry and small and sometimes loose, flatulence, tiredness

Answer 21

Liver Invading the Spleen

Question 22

irritability, distension/pain/fullness in the epigastrium and hypochondria, sour regurgitation, belching, nausea, vomiting

Answer 22

Liver Invading the Stomach

Question 23

SOB, asthma fullness/stuffiness of the chest/hypochondria, cough, yellow-blood tinged sputum, HA, dizziness, red face, thirst, bitter taste, scanty-dark urine, constipation

Answer 23

Liver Fire Insulting the Lungs