final

Question 1

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Palpitation, cough and panting, shortness of breath, fatigue, and symptoms worse with exertion. There are also may have chest oppression, copious thin sputum, pale facial complexion, dizziness, spontaneous sweating, weak and low voice. A pale tongue with white coating, and deep and weak pulse

Answer 1

Heart and Lung Qi Xu

Question 2

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Palpitation, poor memory, insomnia, dream disturbs sleep; poor appetite, abdominal bloating and loose stool, fatigue; dizziness, subcutaneous bleeding, light and scanty menstruation bleeding, spotting or prolong menstruation bleeding, pale tender tongue, and a thready and weak pulse

Answer 2

Heart Blood and Spleen Qi Xu

Question 3

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

palpitations, poor memory, insomnia, dream disturbed sleep; dry eyes, blurry vision, dry and withered nails, numbness or spasms of extremities; irritability, dizziness, tinnitus, pale facial complexion, light and scanty menstruation or amenorrhea, a pale tongue with white coating, and a thready and weak pulse

Key points: palpitations, poor memory, numbness, irritability, plus blood deficiency pattern signs and symptoms.

Answer 3

heart and liver blood xu

Question 4

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

palpitations, edema on the face and lower extremities, scanty or difficult urination, fear of cold, cold limbs, physical and mental fatigue, sleepiness, dark and dim facial complexion and purplish lips, pale and purple tongue, a white slippery tongue coating, and a deep, faint and thready pulse

• Key points: palpitations, edema, plus yang deficiency symptoms.

Answer 4

heart and kidney yang xu

disharmony bw heart and kidney

Question 5

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical Manifestation: fever that is higher during the night and mild during the day, insomnia, restless, canker sores, dry mouth, thirst and preference for cold drink, scanty dark urine with burning pain, deep red tongue; and a forceful and rapid pulse
* Key points: canker sores, fever, burning and painful urination

Answer 5

heart fire pouring downwards

heart fire transmission into small intestine

Question 6

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: chronic cough or asthma with profuse sputum, feeble voice, dislike of speaking, shortness of breath, general fatigue; poor appetite, abdominal bloating and distention, loose stools; pale complexion, and a deficient pulse. Edema is seen in severe cases.

• Key Points: poor appetite, loose stools, cough, asthma and shortness of breath, accompanied by general qi deficiency symptoms

Answer 6

spleen and lung qi xu

Question 7

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestations: pale complexion, cold limbs and body, SOB, lassitude, lower back and knee ache and weakness, or lower abdominal cold pain, chronic loose stools or early morning diarrhea, watery stool with undigested food, edema, and difficult urination. Other signs include: a pale and tender tongue, with white slippery coating, and a deep, weak and slow pulse.

• Key points: edema, loose stools, abdominal or lower abdominal pain which is relieved by warmth, and accompanied by general deficiency cold symptoms

Answer 7

spleen and kidney yang xu

Question 8

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestations: poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, belching, hiccup, epigastria pain, bloating and distention, diarrhea, loose stools, or constipation; a thick greasy tongue coating, and a slippery pulse

• Key points: poor appetite, nausea, belching, irregular bowel movements, general gastro- intestines symptoms, etc.

Answer 8

disharmony bw spleen and stomach

Question 9

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: dry cough with little or no sputum, and sputum may contains blood, hoarse voice, weakness and achy on lower back and knees, malar flush, night sweating, tidal or low grade fever, fatigue, nocturnal emission, five center heat sensation, insomnia, scanty urination, and constipation. Tongue is red with little or no coating, pulse is thread and rapid.

• Key Points: cough with scanty sputum, low back or lower extremities weak and ache, accompany with yin deficiency symptoms

Answer 9

lung and kidney yin xu

Question 10

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: dizziness or vertigo, blurry vision, tinnitus, poor memory, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, dream disturbed sleep, hypochondriac pain, knee and lower back aching and weakness, five center heat sensation, night sweating, hectic fever. Spermtorrhea in male, and scanty and short menstruation for female. A red tongue or crack tongue, with scanty coating, a thin and wiry pulse

• Key Points: Weakness of the low back and knee, hypochondriac pain tinnitus, dizziness, seminal emission plus deficiency heat symptoms

Answer 10

liver and kidney yin xu

Question 11

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: Distention and pain in abdominal and hypochondriac area, sigh frequently, depression, irritability, easily anger, poor appetite, bloating, loose stool with incomplete feeling, or rumbling sound in intestine, gas, or abdominal pain and diarrhea, pain will relieve after diarrhea, or watery stool. White tongue coating, wiry or weak pulse

• Key Points: distension and pain the hypochondriac region, abdominal pain and intestinal rumbling, irregular bowl movement (irritability bowl syndrome) poor appetite, etc..

Answer 11

Liver qi stag with Spleen qi xu

(wood overacting)

Question 12

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: distention, and pain in epigastria and hypochondriac area, belching, hiccup, nausea or even vomiting, acid regurgitation, depression, irritability, sigh, poor appetite. Thin white or thin yellow coating, and wiry, slight rapid pulse

• Key Points: distending pain in hypochondriac and abdominal region, with hiccup or belching

Answer 12

liver and stomach disharmony (stagnation)

Question 13

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: hypochondria burning pain, irritability, easily anger, dizziness, distention headaches, red face and eye, bitter taste in the mouth, paroxysmal cough, or even cough with blood, scanty yellow sticky sputum, a red tongue with thin yellow coating, and wiry and rapid pulse.

• Key points: cough, or cough with blood, burning pain sensation in the chest or hypochondria region, irritability and easy angry, accompany with internal excess heat symptoms.

Answer 13

liver fire attacking the lung pattern

(liver fire with lung qi rebellion)

Question 14

Name the Zang Fu Pattern:

Clinical manifestation: alternative chill and fever, distention pain in hypochondriac region; bitter taste in the mouth, thirst without large fluid intake, nausea, poor appetite, alternately constipated or loose stool, yellowish urine, body and eyes jaundiced, abdominal distention, fever, vaginal discharge or itching; scrotum itching or swollen. A yellow greasy tongue coating, and a wiry and rapid pulse.

• Key points: hypochondriac distension, poor appetite, abdominal bloating, yellow skin and eyes, itching in genital area, accompany with damp heat symptoms

Answer 14

Damp-heat in Liver and GB pattern

(yang jaundice)

Question 15

8 Principle Pattern:

acute onset, mild symptoms, short course and easy to be cured

Symptoms and signs: aversion to cold (chills) and fever, headache, nasal congestion and running nose, cough, body ache, normal tongue with white or slight yellow coating, and a superficial pulse.

Key point: Chills and fever, superficial pulse

Answer 15

Exterior Pattern

Question 16

8 Principle Pattern:

mild chills
high fever
sweat
sore throat!!!
thin white or thin yellow tongue coat
superficial and rapid pulse
thirsty
maybe red tongue

Answer 16

exterior heat

Question 17

8 Principle Pattern:

severe chills
mild fever
yes sweat = deficiency
no sweat = excess
no sore throat
thin white tongue coat
superficial and tight pulse
general body aches

Answer 17

exterior cold

Question 18

8 Principle Pattern:

exterior excess vs exterior deficiency

1. sweating and superficial, MODERATE pulse
2. no sweating, superficial and TIGHT pulse

Answer 18

1. ext xu
2. ext shi

Question 19

8 Principle Pattern:

chronic, gradually onset, long course. Deeper located, symptoms are more severe and complicated, and most related with zhang-fu organs.

Symptoms and signs: fever OR chills, thirst and desire to drink, nausea, vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, poor appetite, abdominal distention and pain, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia, delirium, etc., a red, or crimson, blue, purple tongue with yellow greasy, or gray tongue coating, and a deep pulse.

Answer 19

interior pattern

Question 20

8 Principle Pattern:

aversion to cold, or afraid (intolerance) of cold, preference for warmth, tastelessness in the mouth, absence of thirst, pale face, cold limbs, lying with the body curled up, loose stool, copious clear urine, pale tongue with white moist coating, slow or tight pulse.

Answer 20

cold pattern

(results from exopathogenic cold or interior yang xu)

Question 21

8 Principle Pattern:

excess cold vs deficiency cold:

1) dislike/aversion to cold, abd pain worse with pressure, diarrhea with borborygmus, thick white coat, slow and tight pulse

2) afraid of cold, abd pain relieved by pressure, morning diarrhea, thin white coat/no coat, slow and weak or deep pulse

Answer 21

1 = excess

2 = deficiency

Question 22

8 Principle Pattern:

external cold vs internal cold:

1) acute, slight fever, aversion to cold (not relieved by covering up), normal tongue/thin white coat, superficial and tight pulse

2) chronic, no fever, afraid of cold (relieved when covered up), pale with thick moist white coating, deep slow and weak or tight pulse

Answer 22

1 = external

2 = internal

Question 23

8 Principle Pattern:

fever, aversion to heat, thirst and desire to drink cold water, red face and eyes, irritability, restlessness, constipation, yellow brown and scanty urine, red tongue with yellow dry coating, rapid pulse.

Answer 23

heat pattern ( exogenous or yin xu)

Question 24

8 Principle Pattern:

excess heat vs deficiency heat:

1) high fever, thirst with desire for cold drinks, whole face red, daytime sweat, whole body feels hot, red with thick/greasy/yellow coat, rapid forceful pulse.

2) low grade fever, malar flush, thirst with desire for warm drinks, night time sweating, 5 center heat, red with little/no coating, rapid and thready pulse

Answer 24

1 = excess
2= deficient

Question 25

8 Principle Pattern: due to body’s function hypoactive. These include physical and mentally fatigue, pale facial color, emaciated and weak bodily form, palpitation, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating or night sweating, loose stool, a pale and tender tongue, and a deficiency, thin and forceless pulse.

Answer 25

deficiency

Question 26

8 Principle Pattern: symptoms and signs due to body’s functions hyper active. These include excitation or vexation and agitation, strong and rough breath, loud voice, distention and fullness of the chest, pain which resistant to pressure, constipation with hard stool, painful urinary or dribbling or inhibited urination. A rough tongue and an excess and forceful pulse

Answer 26

excess

Question 27

8 Principle Pattern: profuse warm and sticky sweating, feverishness of the body surface, irritability, aversion to heat, thirst and desire for cold drink, hasty breath, wrinkly skin, scanty urine, red face, a red dry tongue, and a rapid, thin and weak pulse

Answer 27

yin collapse

Question 28

8 Principle Pattern: oily cold sweating with no taste, bluish complexion, feeble breath, intolerance of cold, no thirst, prefer to drink warm water, coma, cold limbs, a moist tongue and a faint pulse.

Answer 28

yang collapse

Question 29

8 Principle Pattern Headache, body ache, aversion to cold, fever, cold limbs, abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhea, slow pulse

Answer 29

cold in both the exterior and interior

Question 30

8 Principle Pattern

Question 31

8 Principle Pattern Fever, mild chills, sore throat, asthma, sweating, thirst with profuse drinking, vexation, delirium, constipation, scanty urine, red prickly tongue with dry and yellow coating, rapid pulse

Answer 31

heat in both exterior and interior

Question 32

8 Principle Pattern Chills and fever, headache, body- ache, thirst and desire to drink, restlessness

Answer 32

exterior cold with interior heat

Question 33

8 Principle Pattern Fever, sweating, sore throat indigestion, loose stool, clear urine, flabby tongue with slight yellow coating

Answer 33

exterior heat with interior cold

Question 34

8 Principle Pattern Chills and fever, no sweating, headache, body ache, abdominal pain and distention, constipation, scanty urination, excess pulse

Answer 34

excess of both exterior and interior

Question 35

8 Principle Pattern Spontaneous sweating, aversion to wind, dizziness, palpitation, poor appetite, loose stool, deficiency pulse

Answer 35

deficiency of both exterior and interior

Question 36

8 Principle Pattern Spontaneous sweating, fever, aversion to wind, abdominal distention and pain aggravated by pressing, constipation and thick coating

Answer 36

exterior deficiency with interior excess

Question 37

8 Principle Pattern Aversion to cold, fever, no sweating, headache, body- ache, abdominal pain relieve by pressure, poor appetite, vomiting, loose stool

Answer 37

exterior excess with interior deficiency

Question 38

8 Principle Pattern Foul breath, toothache, thirst with desire for cold drinking, or heat sensation in the chest, vexation, abdominal pain and relieves by warmth, loose stool, cold legs and feet, impotence, leucorrhea

Answer 38

heat above, cold below

Question 39

8 Principle Pattern Abdominal cold pain, nausea, vomiting with clear fluids, meanwhile, there are painful and frequency urine with burning sensation, scanty and brown color Urine

Answer 39

cold above and heat below

Question 40

8 Principle Pattern Epigastric focal distention, fullness and tightness with very slight or no pain, dry heaves or frank vomiting, borborygmus with diarrhea, poor appetite

Answer 40

heat and cold complex in the middle jiao

Question 41

8 Principle Pattern Exogenous febrile disease, high fever, sweating, constipation, red tongue and rapid and excess pulse, then appear thirst, dry mouth and desire to drink cold water which body fluids insufficient signs

Answer 41

deficiency within excess

Question 42

8 Principle Pattern There are broad symptoms and signs, such as 1. weak constitution patient, recurrent attacked by exopathogens 2. qi deficiency lead water retention or phlegm. accumulation 3. qi deficiency lead blood stagnation

Answer 42

excess within deficiency

Question 43

8 Principle Pattern Such as cough with profuse yellow stick mucus, shortness breath, fatigue, a slight red tongue with teethmark, a yellow greasy coating, and slippery and weak pulse

Answer 43

excess co-exist with deficiency

Question 44

8 Principle Pattern Red face, fever, thirst and a large pulse. However, further observation will reveal that red face, but it is intermittent hectic flush; although the fever and thirst, there are prefers warmth and hot drinks; although the body is hot, there is a desire to be covered; the pulse are large, but without strengthen. Simultaneously there also are cold limbs, clear urine, loose stool, a pale tender tongue, with a white moist coating, etc. cold symptoms and signs

Answer 44

true cold with false heat

Question 45

8 Principle Pattern feels cold, cold limbs, diarrhea, black tongue coating and deep pulse. However, feels cold, but there are no desire to warmth, but rather an aversion to heat; cold limbs, but cold feeling only occurs on feet or hands, below elbow and knees, or only cold sensation on fingers and toes, the chest area feel warm or hot; although diarrhea, but stool with fetid odor; although the pulse is deep, it is rapid and forceful. Simultaneously there is thirst, and preference for cold water, a red tongue with yellow coating, scanty and yellow urination, etc.. which are heat signs

Answer 45

true heat, false cold

Question 46

8 Principle Pattern fatigue, indolence of speaking, poor appetite, vertigo, loose stool, etc. but further examination of the patient will show a sonorous voice, coarse breathing, deep, slow but forceful pulse, distension and fullness in the abdomen, a red tongue with dark yellow coating ex: patient with depression feels better after exercising

Answer 46

true excess with false deficiency

Question 47

8 Principle Pattern constipation, scanty urination, abdominal distention, fullness and pain, asthma, and a wiry pulse. However, the constipation with small amount of soft stool; scanty urination, but clear color; abdominal distension, fullness and pain may be improved at times, and it not rather aggravated by but relieve by pressure; asthma but with shortness of breath; the pulse is wiry, but it is also weak on heavy palpation.

Answer 47

true deficiency with false excess

Question 48

8 Principle Pattern what determines true and false of excess and deficiency patterns?

Answer 48

1. strength of pulse 2. toughness of tongue 3. volume of voice 4. patient constitution, cause of dz

Question 49

Etiology: -exterior -moving -yang type -up and out

Answer 49

wind

Question 50

Etiology: chills + fever, superficial pulse, sneezing, sweat, moderate pulse

Answer 50

wind

Question 51

Etiology: chills + fever, superficial pulse, HA, cough with white sputum, body ache, tight pulse

Answer 51

Wind Cold

Question 52

Etiology: chills + fever, superficial pulse, sore throat, sweat, rapid pulse

Answer 52

wind heat

Question 53

Etiology: chills + fever, superficial pulse, wrapped HA, body ache, heaviness, phlegm, slippery pulse

Answer 53

wind dampness

Question 54

Etiology: joint pain which doesn't have fixed location

Answer 54

wind Bi

Question 55

Etiology: fever, aversion to wind, edema, puffy face, swollen eyelids, difficult urination

Answer 55

wind water

Question 56

Etiology: skin itch without fixed location, rashes that appear suddenly and spread rapidly, worse when exposed to wind

Answer 56

wind rash

Question 57

Etiology: mouth and eye deviates to one side suddenly, numbness, drooling

Answer 57

wind attacks collaterals

Question 58

Etiology: rigidity, spasms, lockjaw, opiosthotonos, convulsion

Answer 58

tetanus (wind)

Question 59

Etiology: Chills and fever, no sweating, headache, body ache, cough with thin white sputum, nasal congestion, normal tongue, a superficial and tight pulse

Answer 59

cold attack the exterior

Question 60

Etiology: Abdominal cold which is relieved by warmth, vomiting with clear fluids, borborymus and loose stool, a deep tight pulse or a wiry pulse

Answer 60

cold directly attack internal

Question 61

Etiology: Joint pain and cramping, difficulty bending and stretching, symptoms aggravated by cold.

Answer 61

cold bi

Question 62

Etiology: Fever, profuse sweating, thirst, scanty urine Fatigue, lassitude, feeble and rapid pulse Nausea, vomiting, bloating, loose stool summertime/dampness

Answer 62

summer-heat attack

Question 63

Etiology: restlessness, irritability, vexation, sudden fever, sweating, thirst, hasty breathing, fainting, loss of consciousness, cold limbs, deep red or crimson tongue, large feeble pulse long exposure to sun or staying in hot/poorly ventilated area

Answer 63

sunstroke

Question 64

Etiology: Acute onset with high fever, profuse sweating, irritability, thirst, Coma, convulsion or even opisthotonus, trismus heat invades and transfers into body rapidly, impairs body fluids and qi, generates wind

Answer 64

summer warm

Question 65

Etiology: Aversion to cold, fever, wrapped and heavy headache, suffocated sensation in the chest, poor appetite, bloating, nausea, no thirst, heavy and aching limbs, general lassitude and heaviness, greasy coating, superficial and slippery or soft pulse

Answer 65

dampness attacks the exterior

Question 66

Etiology: Wrapped heavy headache, heavy and aching limbs, general lassitude

Answer 66

invade by dampness

Question 67

Etiology: Joint pain, numbness, stiffness with heavy sensation, may have some degree of swelling, worse in the low extremities

Answer 67

dampness bi

Question 68

Etiology: Un-surfaced fever, fever aggravated in the afternoon, and not relieves after sweating, it may linger for days or weeks. Bloating, nausea, lassitude, heavy limbs, poor appetite, sticky stool and incomplete feeling after defecation.

Answer 68

damp-warm

Question 69

Etiology: Small, fluid-filled bumps that become moist and ooze. And red, crusted, or open lesions may appear on any area affected

Answer 69

damp-rashes eczema

Question 70

Etiology: Fever with sweating, thirst, dry throat, cough with chest pain, or with little sticky bloody sputum, scanty urine and dry stool. Dry yellow coating, and superficial rapid pulse

Answer 70

warm dryness (autumn)

Question 71

Etiology: Slight headache, aversion to cold, no sweating, cough with little sputum, itching throat, nasal congestion, dry nose and mouth, white coating, superficial pulse

Answer 71

cool dryness (winter)

Question 72

Etiology: High fever worse between 3-5 pm, sweating, thirst and desire for cold drink, irritability, constipation, surging pulse Fever worse in the evening, thirst but no desire to drink, irritability, insomnia, deep red or crimson tongue, rapid pulse Various types of bleeding or macule papule eruptions, irritability, uneasiness, coma, delirium, convulsion

Answer 72

excess fire

Question 73

Etiology: boils, sores, skin ulcers, abscesses, local redness, swelling

Answer 73

virulent fire (heat toxicity)

Question 74

Etiology: insomnia, inability to concentrate, palpitations. In severe cases, the patient may present with incoherent speech, erratic or manic behaviors such as disorientation or mental confusion, or abnormal and constant laughing without reason.

Answer 74

excess joy heart

Question 75

Etiology: red face and eyes, emotional depression, easily angered, dizziness, headache, chest oppression and frequent sighing, distension and pain in the hypochondria and breast area, and plum-pit syndrome. In severe cases, vomiting or cough with blood, or sudden fainting can be seen. Wiry pulse

Answer 75

anger liver, spleen, stomach

Question 76

Etiology: deeply depressed, cough with copious thin white sputum, shortness of breath, poor appetite, abdominal distention, loose stools, weak limbs, and a forceless, deficient, or choppy pulse

Answer 76

worry lung, spleen

Question 77

Etiology: fatigue and lack of energy, poor appetite, abdominal bloating which is worse after eating, loose stools, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, poor memory, an emaciated body, dim and yellowish facial complexion, and a deep and thin, or knotted pulse.

Answer 77

pensiveness heart and spleen

Question 78

Etiology: shortness of breath, physical and mental fatigue, a dislike talking, spontaneous sweating, sorrow and easy crying, a pale complexion, and a thin, forceless pulse, or a choppy pulse.

Answer 78

grief or sorrow lung and heart

Question 79

Etiology: confusion, panic, overwhelming feelings of fear, nervousness, paranoia and delusion to be arrested (persecution), alternating pale and flushed face, muscular flaccidity and cold extremities, spermatorrhea, incontinence, and a deep pulse.

Answer 79

fear kidney and heart

Question 80

Etiology: easily frightened, anxiety, difficult or shortness of breath, fright palpitations, inability to speak and starring of the eyes, fatigue, sweating, restlessness, insomnia, nightmare, and a wiry or moving pulse

Answer 80

fright or shock heart and kidney

Question 81

Etiology: which organ is affected with any excess emotion?

Answer 81

heart

Question 82

Etiology: Abdominal pain, foul belching, sour regurgitation, distention, dislike food, nausea, vomiting or even diarrhea. Thick tongue coating, slippery pulse

Answer 82

food stagnation/overeating aka abnormal ingestion

Question 83

Etiology: Body heaviness, cough with profuse thin phlegm, obesity, distress or pain in the chest area, abdominal bloating, distention, borborygmi, loose sticky stool, thick greasy coating, slippery pulse

Answer 83

damp phlem overeat aka abnormal ingestion

Question 84

Etiology: Indefinable epigastric discomfort, dull pain, worse with an empty stomach and discomfort after eating, vomiting with clear sour fluids, food sensitive or allergy.

Answer 84

stomach qi and yin xu aka insufficient food intake

Question 85

Etiology: Fatigue, under weight, dizziness, malnutrition and poor development

Answer 85

qi and blood xu aka insufficient food intake

Question 86

Etiology: Frequent sickness, weak constitution

Answer 86

antipathogenic qi insufficient aka insufficient food intake

Question 87

Etiology: raw, uncooked, cold foods hot spicy foods greasy oily, dairy, sweets, alcohol

Answer 87

food cravings aka overindulgence

Question 88

Etiology: intake of unclean, decayed, poisonous food. impairs the sp/st causing GI issues

Answer 88

unhygienic diet

Question 89

Etiology: activities and what they can damage: excess lifting = kd and low back using eyes = ht blood lying down = lung qi sitting = muscles (sp qi) standing = bones (kd) exercise = sinews (liver)

Answer 89

physical overstrain

Question 90

Etiology: palpitations, amnesia, insomnia, sleepiness, anorexia, abdominal distension, loose stools

Answer 90

mental overstrain (ht and sp disorders)

Question 91

Etiology: dizziness, tinnitus, lassitude, low back pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, and impotence. In males, clinical manifestations include spermatorrhea, seminal emissions, and premature ejaculation. In females, there may be irregular menstruation or leukorrhagia.

Answer 91

sexual overstrain (kidney essence xu)

Question 92

Etiology: cough w profuse phlegm, wheezing, diff breathing, chest distress, palpitations, sharp pain, mental confusion, somnolence, n/v, numbness, limb stiffness, deviation of mouth/eyes, subQ nodules, inflammation, dizziness, vertigo, plum pit, enlarges joints, aches are caused by:

Answer 92

phlegm (affects entire body)

Question 93

Etiology: Chest oppression, cough with profuse clear thin sputum, shortness of breath or dyspnea and inability to lie flat, edema which worse on legs. (congested heart failure in biomedicine) Chest pain and distention, in which induce or aggravate by cough, sneezing or deep breath, may only in one side or both side involved. (pleurisy in biomedicine) Abdominal bloating and distention, borborygmus, vomiting with clear sticky fluids Limbs edema, heaviness of the body, no sweating, scanty urination. (uremia in biomedicine) Abdominal swelling distention, and is taut, and the navel is flat or even pushed out. Scanty urine. (ascites in biomedicine) are all symptoms of:

Answer 93

rheum propping rheum suspended rheum phlegm rheum spillage rheum abdominal water

Question 94

Etiology: Pain (piercing, boring, or stabbing) which is aggravate at night, refuses pressure and is in a fixed location. Dark complexion, purple lips, masses or lumps that do not move, bleeding with dark blood and dark clots, squamous and dry skin, menorrigea, amenorrhea, or dysmenorrhea. A purple tongue or dark spot on the side of tongue, possibly distended and purple veins under the tongue. A choppy, irregular pulse.

Answer 94

blood stagnation

Question 95

6 channel: early stage febrile attack aversion to wind, fever, *sweating*, superficial and *moderate* pulse, gui zhi tang

Answer 95

tai yang channel wind attack

Question 96

6 channel: chills + fever, *no sweating*, superficial and *tight* pulse, ma huang tan

Answer 96

tai yang channel wind cold

Question 97

6 channel: chills + fever, *difficult urination*, superficial pulse, edema, sweat, distention (ub sxs)

Answer 97

Tai Yang fu water retention ext wh/wc + internal water

Question 98

6 channel: normal urine, *tar-like stool*, blood in urine, hard lower abd, manic behavior, *choppy* pulse

Answer 98

tai yang fu blood retention blood stag in LJ + heat

Question 99

6 channel: 4 bigs, desire for cold water, irritable/coma, red face, dry yellow tongue, surging large pulse, perfuse sweat

Answer 99

yang ming channel

Question 100

6 channel: tidal fever (3pm), abd pain *resistant to touch*, severe constipation, coma/delirium/mania, thick dry yellow coat, dark brown coat with thorns, deep + forceful pulse

Answer 100

yang ming fu

Question 101

6 channel: alt chills and fever, poor appetite, chest/hypochondriac fullness & distention, wiry pulse

Answer 101

shaoyang

Question 102

6 channel: abd pain relieved by warmth/pressure, cold limbs, loose stool, poor appetite, no thirst, pale tongue w/ white coat, slow/deep/weak pulse

Answer 102

tai yin channel

Question 103

6 channel: cold limbs, intolerance of cold, chronic loose stool, cock's crow diarrhea, listless, no desire to drink, pale tongue, deep slow faint pulse

Answer 103

shao yin cold (ht and kd yang xu)

Question 104

6 channel: 5 center heat, irritability, insomnia, dry mouth/throat, red tongue w little/no coat, thready + rapid pulse

Answer 104

shaoyin heat (ht and kd yin xu)

Question 105

6 channel: final stage, heat above cold below thirst, hunger with no desire to eat, running piglet, heartburn, vomit, vomit w roundworms after eating, loose stools, cold limbs

Answer 105

jueyin

Question 106

wen bing: location: lung, skin, hair cxs: ext wind heat sxs sxs: chills and fever, HA, sore throat, red tongue tip, thin coating, superficial and rapid pulse

Answer 106

wei level

Question 107

wen bing: location: lung, diaphragm, st, sp, ints, gb cxs: interior excess heat sxs sxs: high fever, profuse sweating, severe thirst, red tongue, surging pulse 4 BIGS

Answer 107

qi level

Question 108

wen bing: location: heart, pc cxs: sx caused by excess heat disturbing shen sxs: fever which is aggravated at night, irritability, delirium, loss of consciousness, deep red tongue, thin and rapid pulse

Answer 108

ying level

Question 109

wen bing: location: ht, lv, kd cxs: wind or bleeding due to excessive heat sxs: fever which is aggravated at night, irritability, bleeding, convulsions, tremors

Answer 109

xue level

Question 110

san jiao: location: ___ sxs: chills and fever, sore throat, thirst, cough, red tongue tip, thin yellow coat, superficial and rapid pulse location: ____ sxs: high fever worse in evening, irritability, delirium, unconsciousness, stiff tongue, deep red tongue, rapid pulse

Answer 110

upper jiao Lu Pc

Question 111

san jiao: location: ___ sxs: high fever worse in afternoon (3-5), thirst, constipation, abd pain, distention, red tongue, yellow dry coat, deep forceful pulse location: ___ sxs: unsurfaced fever, lassitude, abd distention and bloating, nausea, yellow greasy coat, slippery pulse

Answer 111

middle jiao St Sp

Question 112

san jiao: location: ___ sxs: low grade fever, hot palms and soles, red face, dry mouth, black teeth, cracked lips, deep red tongue, big pulse with root location: ___ sxs: high fever, extreme cold limbs, tongue and scrotal contraction, limbs, twitch, tremor or spasm, deep red tongue, weak pulse

Answer 112

lower jiao kd lv

Question 113

5 element diagnosis for: hypochondriac pain, irritability, loose stools, poor appetite

Answer 113

wood overacting on earth

Question 114

5 element diagnosis for: cough, asthma, distention in chest and hypochondriac

Answer 114

wood insulting metal

Question 115

5 element diagnosis for: hot flush, dry mouth, insomnia, dizziness, low backache, night sweating

Answer 115

fire insulting water

Question 116

5 element diagnosis for: phlegm in chest, cough, tiredness

Answer 116

earth failing to generate metal

Question 117

5 element diagnosis for: dizziness, blurred vision, HA, vertigo

Answer 117

water failing to generate wood

Question 118

5 element diagnosis for: palpitation, insomnia, sob

Answer 118

metal insulting fire

Question 119

5 element diagnosis for: loose stools, edema, tiredness, weakness of limbs

Answer 119

water insulting earth