Energetics 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of Energetics?
Flow of energy in the human body
How else is the this flow known?
China- Qi
India- prana
What is the first basic principle of energetic?
Bridge between modern and ancient. Shortcut to understanding herbs, foods, pathologies and people.
How can illness be described as effectic energetics?
Blockage or insufficiency of the vital force.
What is the understanding of energetics focused on finding out?
Where the force is blocked or depleted and working to restore this flow.
What is the doctrine of Humours?
Name given to Greco- Roman medical tradition.
What did Empedocles outline?
4 Elements Air, Fire, Water, Earth.
What did Aristotle outline?
5 qualities hot, cold, moist, dry, neutral
What did Hippocrates introduce?
4 humours
What are the 4 humours?
Blood, yellow bile, phlegm, black bile
What are the 5 qualities assigned to each element and humour?
Hot, dry, cold moist and neutral
What qualities is the element Air?
Warm moist
What body part is the element of air linked to?
Lungs, chest, thorax
What qualities is the element fire?
Hot and dry
What body part is the element of fire linked to?
Digestive enzyme/ fire of digestion/ muscles {heat generation}
What qualities has the element water?
Cold and moist
What body part does the element water govern?
Vital fluids/ kidneys/ urinary tract / bladder
What qualities does the earth element have?
Dry and cold
What areas of the body does Earth govern?
Bone, joints and structures
What are the qualities of Heat in the body?
Hot, swollen, tender
Examples of the qualities of heat in the body
Inflmmantion, fever, itis
Diagnostic: Pluse indicators of heat
Rapid pulse
Diagnostic heat: tongue
Red, elongated
What good can heat do in the body to pathogens?
Drive out impurities to clear pathogens
What are the qualities of cold in the body?
Pale, dark. Inactive
Examples of the qualities of cold in pathologies?
Chronic fatigue, hypothermia
Diagnostic cold: pulse
Deep and slow
Diagnostic, cold, tounge
Dark, purple
What good can cold do to tissues in the body?
Binds and tightens
What are the qualities of moist in the body?
Lack of tone, respiratory discharge, skin discharge
Examples of qualities of moist in pathologies
Phlegm, diarrhoea, Odema
Diagnostic moist, pulse
Relaxed, obsecure
Diagnostic moist tongue
Wet and coated
Good qualities about moist to tissues in the body?
Nourishes and lubricates tissues
What are the qualities of dry n the body?
Withered, atrophy , weak
What are example of dry qualities in pathologies
Dry skin, loss muscle mass, osteroprosis
Diagnostic dry pulse
Weak, tense
Diagnostic dry tongue
Dry
Why was the quality of neutral prized in hippocratic medicine?
Equal and perfect balance
Why were the 4 humours conceived?
4 fluids that match the 4 elements which permeate the body and influence health
What are the four humours (including the linked element)
Blood (air) Sanguine
Yellow bile (fire) choleric
Phlegm (water) phlegmatic
Black bile (earth) melancholic
What element does blood/ sanguin link to?
Air
What season does Sanguine link to? (Think S)
Spring
Where does Sanguine come out of balance?
Over consumption. Lots of blood but low quality. Weight gain.
How can you improve sanguine
Red berries, minimise consumption of rich foods
What element links to yellow bile / choleric
Fire
What season does choleric link to ?
Summer
Personal traits of choleric people?
Action lead
Signs yellow bile/ choleric out of balance
Hot constitution. Eczema. Indigestion. Heartburn. Over stimulated when sleeping.
Treatment for choleric people
Cool foods. Juice. Calm atmosphere. Bitter tonics
What element in phlegm
Water
What season is phlegm
Autumn
Signs phlegm is out of balance in the body
Cold and wet conditions. Reoccurring coughs
, excess mucous, Catarrha. Lymph stagnation
Treatment for phlegm out of balance
Avoid cold foods. Promoted stimulating drying herbs, ginger, cayenne, garlic, black pepper
What element does black bile link to?
Earth
What season links to black bile
Winter
Signs black bile is out of balance in the body
Harder to clear. Nervous humour.
Treatment for black bile
Avoid foods hard on digestion. Nourish blood foods berries, spinach
What were some methods of treatment for hum oral medicine?
Blood letting and purging
In addition to physicians intervention what else had to be done?
Sleep, diet, exercise, excretions, emotions
