External Causes of Disease - 21

Question 1

What are the 6 climactic factors

Answer 1

• Wind,
• cold,
• summer heat,
• dampness,
• dryness, and
• fire

Question 2

Climate becomes a cause of diease only when it is either _________ or ___________

Answer 2

excessive or unseasonable

Question 3

Each climactic factor is related to a yin organ. List them

Answer 3

• Wind - LV,
• cold - KI,
• summer heat - HE,
• dampness - SP,
• dryness - LU, and
• fire - HE

Question 4

What does Chinese medicine see bacteria and viruses as systemically

Answer 4

caused by exterior climactic factors

Question 5

What are the 6 stages (Shang Han)

Answer 5

1. Tai yang,
2. Yang Ming,
3. Shao Yang,
4. Tai Yin,
5. Shao Yin,
6. Jue yin

Question 6

True or false Wind heat has a strong tendency to turn into interior heat rapidly

Answer 6

True

Question 7

characterized by fever, pathogenic enters through mouth or nose

Answer 7

Wind heat

Question 8

Once on the interior, the Heat tends to injure ____ rather quickly

Answer 8

Yin

Question 9

What are the 4 levels of change resulting from an invasion of wind heat in a warm disease

Answer 9

1. Defensive Qi - Wei;
2. Qi;
3. Nutritive Qi - Ying;
4. Blood - Xue

Question 10

Originally diseases from exterior pathogenic factors were considered to be caused only by _______

Answer 10

cold

Question 11

What are some examples of warm diseases

Answer 11

influenza, mononucleosis, measles - rubella, meningitis, polio, encephalitis and SARS

Question 12

A person has symptoms of sore throat, sneezing, aversion to cold, fever, slight sweating, toncillitis, thirst and a floating rapid pulse

Answer 12

exterior invasion of wind heat

Question 13

What are some of the climates as causes of disease

Answer 13

• air-conditioning,
• refrigerated storerooms,
• hot kitchens,
• steel plants

Question 14

What can cause an interior pattern of yin deficiency

Answer 14

Overwork or excessive sexual activity

Question 15

How does an exterior pattern become and interior pattern

Answer 15

it penetrates into the interior

Question 16

When a pathogenic factor is considered - invasion of external pathogen, where is this

Answer 16

Cou Li

Question 17

signs and symptoms: arise suddenly and change rapidly, pain from joint to joint

Answer 17

Exterior wind

Question 18

signs and symptoms: contraction, intense pain and watery discharges,

Answer 18

cold

Question 19

Signs and symptoms: invasion of the body gradually and causes turbid, sticky discharges, feeling of heaviness in the joints and body, swelling

Answer 19

Damp

Question 20

Signs and symptoms: dried body fluids

Answer 20

dryness

Question 21

signs and symptoms: heat, thirst, and mental restessness

Answer 21

Heat and fire

Question 22

What are the two major symptoms of exterior pathogenic factors

Answer 22

aversion to cold and fever occurring simultaneaously

Question 23

What are the 4 degrees of aversion to cold, in ascending order of severity

Answer 23

aversion to wind, fear of cold, aversion to cold, shivers

Question 24

Fever - explain what that means physiologically

Answer 24

emission of heat, not necessarily a raised temperature: patients forehead, dorsum of hands hot to touch

Question 25

What are the three possibly degrees of fever

Answer 25

1. Strong pathogenic factor and strong Zheng Qi: high fever
2. Strong pathogenic factor with weak Zheng Qi, or visa versa: med fever
3. Weak pathogenic factor and weak Zheng Qi: low fever or no fever

Question 26

What is fever due to

Answer 26

the struggle between the bodies Qi and exterior pathogenic factors

Question 27

The intensity of the fever is directly proportional to what

Answer 27

both the intensity of the pathogenic factors and the strength of the bodies Qi

Question 28

Invasion of exterior pathogenic factors resulting from and exterior pattern, what would this look like

Answer 28

Exterior pattern, location exterior - dermis, simultaneous aversion to cold and fever

Question 29

Invasion of exterior pathogenic factors without an exterior pattern

Answer 29

Exterior cold penetrated organs directly without development of exterior pattern with aversion to cold and fever.

Question 30

Invasions of exterior pathogenic factors resulting in obstruction of muscles and channels

Answer 30

invade the muscles, sinews and channels causing obstruction of Wei Qi in Luo and sinew channels = joint pain. Bi syndrome - painful obstruction syndrome

Question 31

Bi syndrome

Answer 31

painful obstruction syndrome

Question 32

What are the primary causes of Bi syndrome

Answer 32

wind, cold, and dampness in its initial stages

Question 33

consequences of invasions of external pathogenic factors without exterior pattern

Answer 33

Cold invades:

• ST causing acute epigastric pain and vomiting.
• Intestines causing acute diarrhea and abd. pain.
• Uterus causing acute dysmenorrhoea.

Patient will not go through aversion of cold fever.

Question 34

consequences of invasions of external pathogenic factors obstructing muscles and channels

Answer 34

Bi syndrome