Eight Principles Flashcards
Define Syndrome
pathological summary of location, cause, nature
Differentiate Locations
Space: HT, KD, bone, mouth, tendon, great yang meridian
Level: defensive qi, nutritive level, blood, lower burner, middle burner
Differentiate Cause/Nature
Abstract: heat, cold, yin, yang, excessive, deficiency
Concrete: water retention, food retention, blood stasis, dampness
2 things that’s included in the Space Location?
- Zang-Fu organs/internal organs
- Meridians/channels
Summarize the 8 Principles
Exterior/Interior: location of the disease
Heat/Cold: nature of the disease
Excessive/Def: pathological change of disease
Yin/Yang: category of disease
What is Exterior Syndrome?
Invasion of 6 pathogenic factors. Enters through mouth, nose, skin. This is the early stage of exterior disease
Clinical Manifestations of Exterior Syndrome?
- Fever
- Aversion to Cold
- Aching head/body
- Thin tongue coating
- Floating pulse
Exterior Cold/Wind/Heat Syndrome requires what?
Requires Wind to enter the body as Wind blows open the skin pores, allowing pathogen to enter
What is Interior Syndrome?
Internal organs are affected. Disharmony of: Zang-Fu organs, qi-blood, and bone marrow
What are the 3 causes of Interior Syndrome?
- Failure to cure exterior syndrome, allowing illness to enter the body
- Exterior pathogen directly attacks viscera
- Disharmony of emotion, diet, lifestyle, chronic fatigue
Clinical Manifestations of Interior Syndrome?
- Tidal fever, heat w/o cold, cold w/o heat
- Stomach or abdominal pain, vomiting
- Scanty coating
- deep pulse
What is Semi-Exterior and Semi-Interior?
A stage that pathogenic factors transmit from exterior to interior. Also called Shao Yang Syndrome.
Clinical Manifestations of Shao Yang Syndrome?
- Alternating feeling of cold and heat
- Fullness or ache in epigastrium and hypochondrium
- Blurred eyes
- Wiry pulse
Define Cold and Heat Syndrome.
Nature of a disease. Reflect wax and wane of yin yang in the body
Describe Cold Syndrome.
Cold in nature.
Exterior: pathogenic cold invades the skin
Interior: cold attacks the viscera = excessive / yang constitution = def