generates fluids and yin astringent and can control perspiration and diarrhea (yin)

Foundations & Diagnosis I (Week 1) Flashcards by Jennifer Hennings

In cycle

Yin within Yang

12pm - 6pm

Autum

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In Cycle

Yang within Yang

6am - 12pm

Summer

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Yang within Yin

  - Time
  - Season 
  - Pulse

time: Second half of the night
season: Spring
pulse: Rolling
Tense

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Yang within Yang

-pulse

~Superficial 
~Rapid
~Excess
~String-Taut
~Abrupt

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Yin within Yang

-pulse

Surging

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Yin within Yin

 - time
 - pulse

time: first half of the night
pulse: Deep
Deficient

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5 Aspects of Yin and Yang Relationship

- give example of each

opposition
Interdependence
Inter-consuming-supporting
Inter-transforming
Infinite Divisibility

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fire, light, sun, round, time, east, south, left, immaterial, energy is opposition yin or yang?

yang

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water, darkness, moon, flat, space, west, north, right, material, matter is opposition of yin or yang?

yin

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exterior, heat, excess, restless, acute, rapid changes, stretch out, red face, coarse breathing, thirst is what aspect of yin yang realtionship?

opposition of yang

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interior, cold, deficiency, quiet, chronic, lingering disease, curl up, pale face, shallow breathing, not thirst is part of what 5 aspects of yin yang relationship?

opposition of yin

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Yin and Yang cannot exist without the other

Interdependence of Yang

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Yin organs depend on the Yang organs to produce Qi and Blood.
Yang organs depend on the Yin Organs for their nourishment deriving from Blood and Essence.

Example of Interdependence of Medicine

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Yin corresponds to nutrient substance, and Yang to functional activities.
Without structure (Yin), the function (Yang) could not perform.

Interdependence of Nature

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yin and yang are in a constant state of change for preserving the balance.

Mutual Consuming

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In summertime the weather is hot (Yang), and we sweat (Yin) more.
When the external temperature is very cold (Yin), the body starts trembling (Yang).

Nature of Mutual-Consuming

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Yin and Yang can change into one another.

Inter-transformation

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Day turns into night
Excessive work (Yang) without rest induces extreme deficiency (Yin) of the bodies energies.
Excessive jogging (Yang) induces a very slow (Yin) pulse.
Excessive consumption of alcohol creates a pleasant euphoria (Yang) which is quickly followed by a hang-over (Yin).

Nature of Inter-Transformation

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Comparison of Mutual-Consumption & Inter-transformation

Mutual Consumption= Quantitative Change (Balance & Homeostasis)
Inter-transformation= Qualitative Change (8 Principles)

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Yin and Yang aspects can be further divided into Yin Yang

Infinite Divisibility

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Yin remains inside to act as a guard for Yang, and Yang stays outside to act as a servant for Yin

Classic Source of Inter-Dependence (CAM)

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Sheng

generating

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controlling

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Function of Sour

generates fluids and yin
astringent and can control perspiration and diarrhea

(yin)

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Side-effects of Sour

*makes phlegm worse | yin

Side-effects of Bitter

*injures Spleen, injures Yin | yin

Side-Effects of Sweet

*creates Damp | yang

Functions of Pungent

* scatters * used to expel pathogenic factors (yang)

Side-Effects of Pungent

Injures Yin | Yang

Functions of Salty

* flows downward, softens hardness * treat constipation and swelling (yin)

Side-Effects of Salty

Injures Fluids | Yin

Precautions: Sour & Tissues

* sour taste goes to the nerves | * used sparingly if person suffers from chronic pain

Precautions: Sour & Organs

*if Spleen is diseased one should not eat SOUR foods

Precautions: Bitter & Tissues

* bitter taste goes to the bones | * excess of it should be avoided in bone disease

Precautions: Bitter & Organs

* if Lung is diseased one should not eat bitter foods | * bitter goes to the heart

Precautions: Sweet & Tissues

* sweet taste goes to the muscles | * excess of it can cause weakness of the muscles

Precautions: Sweet & Organs

*if Kidney is diseased one should NOT eat SWEET foods

Precautions: Pungent & Tissues

* pungent taste scatters Qi | * avoided in Qi Deficiency

Precautions: Pungent & Organs

*liver is diseased one should NOT eat PUNGENT foods

Precautions: Salty & Tissues

* salty taste can dry the blood | * avoided in Blood Xu

Precautions: Salty & Organs

*if heart is diseased one should NOT eat SALTY

Wood is nourished by what taste

Sweet

Metal is nourished by what taste

Sour

Water is nourished by what taste

Bitter

Fire is nourished by what taste

Pungent

Earth is nourished by what taste

Salty

Major Organ of: Jing (Essence)

Kidney

Major Organ of: Qi

Lung

Major Organ of: Blood

Liver

Major Organ of: Body Fluids

Spleen

Major Organ of: Shen (Spirit)

Heart

3 Treasures

1. Shen (Spirit) 2. Qi (Qi) 3. Jing (Essence)

3 Levels that correspond to the 3 Treasures

* Heaven = Shen (yintang) * Human = Qi (Ren17) * Earth = Jing (Ren4)

3 Organs corresponding to 3 treasures

``` Shen = Heart Qi = Spleen/Stomach Jing = Kidney ```

2 Sources of Jing

1. Pre-heaven | 2. Post-heaven

Pre-heaven Essence Root is

Kidney

Post Heaven Essence Root is

Spleen and Stomach

Pre-heaven Essence Yin and Yang

* Yin- Kidney Essence | * Yang- Mingmen Fire (Fire of Life Gate)

Post-heaven Essence is stored in the....

Kidney

Draw out Jing

see page 9, HB Kim

Mingmen Fire and Essence: Ren

Ren4- nourishes pre-heaven essence ren->pre-heaven essence->heart

Mingmen Fire and Essence: Du

*DU4- nourishes post-heaven essence Du->post-heaven essence->heart

Mingmen Fire and Essence: Chong

*nourishes both Du and Ren Ren Du Ren1->Chong->heart

Age 14 (7x2)

*The dew of heaven (menstruation) arrives, the REN channel begins to flow, the CHONG channel is flourishing, the periods come regularly and she can conceive

Age 21 (7x3)

*Kidney essence peaks, the wisdom teeth come out and growth is at its upmost

Age 28 (7x4)

*Tendons and bones become strong, the hair grows longest and the body is strong and flourishing.

Age 16 (8x2)

*Kidney energy is even more abundant, the dew of Heaven (sperm) arrives, the Essence is luxuriant and flowing, Yin and Yang are harmonized and he can produce a child.

Age 24 (8x3)

*The kidney energy peaks, tendons and bones are strong, the wisdom teeth appear and growth is at its peak.

Age 32 (8x4)

*Tendons and bones are at their strongest, | and the muscles are full and strong.

List the steps of Qi

Qing Qi (Air Qi) and Gu Qi (Food Qi) => Zong Qi (Gathering Qi) zong qi + Yuan qi (original qi) -> Zhen Qi (true qi) Zhen qi => makes Wei Qi (defensive qi) or Ying Qi (Nutritive Qi)

Qing Qi

Air Qi

Gu Qi

Food Qi

Zong Qi

* Pectoral Qi | * Gathering Qi

Yuan Qi

Original Qi

Zhen Qi

True Qi

Wei Qi

Defensive Qi

Ying Qi

Nutritive Qi

Zangfu Qi

Organ Qi

Zhong Qi

Central Qi

Zheng Qi

Upright Qi

Functions of Zong Qi

*Air Qi + Food Qi *stored in the chest *promotes Lung's function of controlling respiration *promotes Heart's function of dominating the blood and vessels ~essentially controls qi of Lung and Heart~

what point supports Lung and Heart?

Lu 9

Functions of Yuan Qi

* Derived from congenital Essence * Supplemented & nourished by Food Essence (post-heaven essence) * takes root in the Kidneys * spreads to the entire body via San Jiao!!

Functions of Zhen Qi

* Merdian Qi | * last stage of transformation of Qi

Functions of Wei Qi

* circulates outside the vessels * protect the surface, defend the body against pathogens * control opening and closing of the pores * moistens the skin and hair * readjusts body temperature, and warm-up zangfu organs

Very important function of wei qu

*Readjust the temperature & warm up the zang-fu organs

what is the circulation of wei qi?

50 times in 24 hours

How many times during the day does the wei qi circulate?

25 times: Taiyang => Shaoyang => Yangming

How many times during the night does the Wei Qi circulate?

25 times: K => H => Lu => Liv => Sp | (starts with kidney...follows controlling cycle)

Functions of Ying Qi

* Circulate in the vessels | * produce blood and to circulate with it

Functions of Zhong Qi

*True Qi of Spleen/Stomach

Functions of Zheng Qi

*Defensive Qi + Nutritive Qi + Kidney Essence

Functions of Qi according to CAM

1. Promoting 2. Warming 3. Defensive 4. Checking 5. Activities of Qi 6. Nourishing

Functions of Qi (Gio.)

1. Transporting 2. Warming 3. Protecting 4. Holding 5. Transforming 6. Rising

Direction of the Lung

Descending

Direction of the Liver

All directions (w/San Jiao)

Direction of the Stomach

Descending

Direction of the Spleen

Ascending

Direction of the Heart

Descending

Direction of the Kidneys

Kidney Water: Ascending | Kidney Qi: Descending

What organ(s) make Blood?

Heart, Spleen, Kidney

Two material sources of Blood

1. Spleen/Stomach (post-heaven) | 2. Kidney Essence (pre-heaven)

5 Functions of Blood

1. Nourishes the body 2. Circulates with Nutritive Qi 3. Moistens the body 4. Houses the Mind 5. Determines menstruation

Heart _________ Blood

heart GOVERNS blood.

Spleen __________ Blood.

spleen MAKES blood

Liver __________ Blood

liver STORES blood

1st Organ to separate pure from impure

Spleen

Official that separates pure from impure

Small Intestine

San Jiao - Upper Burner

Mist

San Jiao - Middle Burner

Maceration Chamber

San Jiao - Lower Burner

Drainage Ditch

Jin (Fluid) is yin or yang?

yang

Ye (Liquids) is yin or yang?

yin

Clear, light and thin-watery is Jin or Ye?

*Jin (Character)

More turbid, heavy and dense Jin or Ye?

*Ye (character)

Jin (Fluid) Circulate...

*with defensive Qi on the Exterior

Ye (Liquids) Circulate....

*with Nutritive Qi in the Interior

Jin (Fluids) move...

*quickly

Ye (Liquids) move....

*relatively slowly

Jin (Fluid) is under the control of...

Lu (Upper Burner)

Ye (Fluids) is under the control of...

Spleen & Kidney (Middle/Lower Burner)

These are functions of: * nourish skin and muscles * manifest as sweat, tears, saliva, and mucus * become a component of the fluid part of blood

Jin (Fluid)

These are functions of: *moistens the joints, spine, brain, and bone marrow *lubricate the orifices of the sense organs (eyes, ears, nose and mouth)

Ye (Liquids)

Pathology Shen Disturbance

* speech is incoherent * respiration is uneven, shallow * SOB

Pathology of False Shen

* sudden revival before death due to floating up of Yang Qi * from CHRONIC DISEASE where essence is exhausted * yin and yang separates: indicates end of life

Name the Five Spirits

1. Hun (Ethereal Soul) 2. Shen (Mind) 3. Yi (Intellect) 4. Po (Corporeal Soul) 5. Zhi (Will Power)

the Hun (Ethereal Soul) resides in the...

Liver

The Shen (Mind) resides in the....

Heart

The Yi (Intellect) resides in the...

Spleen

the Po (Corporeal Soul) resides in the...

Lung

the Zhi (Will Power) resides in the....

Kidney

Who is responsible for: * plans, projects, life aims, sleep * coming and going of the Shen'

The Hun (Ethereal Soul)

Who is responsible for: *feelings, sensations

the Po (Corporeal Soul)

Who is responsible for: | *consciousness, thinking, memory, affections, sleep

the Shen (Mind)

Who is responsible for: | *thinking, memory, concentration

the Yi (Intellect)

Door to the Ethereal Soul is what outer back-shu point?

UB-47

Mind Hall is the outer Back-Shu of

UB-44

Thought Shelter is the Outer Back-Shu of

UB-49

Door of the Corporeal Soul is the outer Back-Shu of

UB-42

Will Power Room is the outer Back-Shu of

UB-52

Functions of Profound influence on a person's capability of planning his or her life by rooting and steadying the Ethereal Soul belong to {controlling and creating structure}

Hun (Ethereal Soul)

Function of: a very soothing effect on the spirit and it nourishes Qi when this is dispersed by a prolonged period of sadness or greif. (usually seen after trauma)

the Po (Corporeal Soul)

Filled, but never Full

Zang Organs

Full, but never Filled

Fu Organs

What Organ controls the Sinews and manifest in the Nails?

Liver

What Organ controls the Blood Vessels and manifest in the complexion?

Heart

What Organ manifest in the lips and controls the muscles and four limbs?

Spleen

What organ controls the Skin and manifest as Body Hair?

Lung

What organ Produces Marrow, Fills up the Braind, Controls Bone and manifest as Hair?

Kidneys

Function of the Heart

* circulates Blood * Houses the Mind * controls sweat ~>PC:protects the Heart

Functions of the Spleen

* Governs transformation and transportation * controls the rising of Qi * controls Blood

Functions of Lung

* Dominates Qi and controls Respiration * Controls Dispersing and Descending * REGULATES Water Passages

Functions of Kidney

* stores Essence and governs birth, growth, reproduction, and development * GOVERNS water * Controls the Reception of Qi

Functions of San Jiao

* OFFICIAL OF IRRIGATION | * carries Yuan Source Qi throughout the body

Functions of the Stomach

* controls transportation of Food Essence * Controls the Descending of Qi * Is the Origin of Fluids

Functions of the Urinary Bladder

*Controls certain emotions

What organ Regulates Menstruation?

Liver

What organ Regulate Blood volume in relation to rest and activity?

Liver

What organ moistens eyes and sinews?

Liver

What organ affects emotional states?

Liver

What organ affects digestion?

Liver | *Stagnation invades Stomach preventing movement of Qi, belching, sour regurgitation, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea

What Organ affects secretion of Bile

Liver | *stagnation obstructs bile flow => bitter taste, jaundice

What organ is nourished and moistened by Liver Blood?

Liver

Dreams of being angry relates to what organ?

Liver Excess

What organ is the source of life dreams?

Liver | *Hun (Ethereal Soul)

Dreams of fragrant mushrooms relates to what organ?

Deficient Liver

In Spring, dreams of lying under a tree without being able to get up is related to what organ?

Deficient Liver

Dreams of forest in the mountains relates to what Organ?

Deficient Liver

* stores blood, smoothen flow of Qi * controls sinews, manifest in the nails * opens into the eyes, controls tears * houses the ethereal soul * affected by anger * dreams

Functions of the Liver

* governs Blood, controls the Blood Vessels * manifest in complexion * houses the mind (Shen) * related to joy * opens into the tongue, controls sweat

Functions of the Heart

Membrane wrapping around the Heart

Pericardium

As a channel this organ influences the Zong Qi (Gathering Qi)

Pericardium

Which organ Houses the Mind (with the heart)?

Pericardium

Relationship problems can cause what organ pathology?

Pericardium

Minister Fire Flares up to what organ(s) and flows down to what organ(s)?

* Flares up to Liver, Gall Bladder, Percardium | * Flows down to Kidney

This organ may affect menstruation?

Pericardium | *because it is related to Uterus Vessel

Pericardium as an organ is linked to the ________.

Heart

Pericardium as a channel is linked to the ___________.

San Jiao

What organ has a lifting effect to keep internal organs in place?

Spleen

What organ controls Saliva (Xian)?

Spleen

What organ controls Spittle (Tuo)?

Kidney

Definition of Salvia

thin and clear fluid

Definition of Spittle

Thick and turbid fluid

Saliva is released by _____.

Parotid Gland

Spittle is released by ________?

Maxillary gland and Sublingual Gland

Concentration, studying, MEMORIZING, schoolwork belong to what organ?

Spleen

clear thinking, LONG TERM memory (memory of distant events) belong to what organ?

Heart

nourishing the brain and influences SHORT TERM memory (memory of recent events) belongs to what organ?

Kidney

* governs transformation and transportation * controls the ascending of Qi * controls Blood * controls the muscles and four limbs * opens into the mouth and manifest in the lips * controls saliva, Houses the Intellect (Yi)

Functions of Spleen

because Lung governs Qi, it therefore controls all _________.

(acupuncture) channels

* governs Qi and respirations * controls channels and blood vessels * control diffusing and descending of Qi and Body Fluids * regulates all physiological activities * regulates water passages * controls the skin and the space between skin and muscles * manifest in the body hair, opens into the nose * control nasal mucus, Houses the Corporeal Soul (Po) * affected by worry, greif, and sadness

Functions of Lung

what essence is inherited from parents?

Pre-natal Essence

What organ is stores POST-natal essence?

Kidney

Post-natal essence is replenished by _______?

Gu Qi + Air Qi

Kidney Influences what lower orifices?

* Urethra * Spermatic duct * Anus

* stores essence, produces marrow, Governs water * controls reception of Qi * opens into ears, manifest in the hair * control spittle, controls the two lower orifices * Houses Will-Power (Zhi) * controls the Gate of Life (Minister Fire)

Functions of Kidney

Official of Liver

army's General (from whom strategy is derived)

Official of Heart

Monarch (governs the Mind)

Official of Pericardium

Ambassador (from it joy and happiness derive)

Official of Spleen

Granary Official (five tastes are derived)

Official of Lung

Prime Minister (in charge of regulation)

Official of Kidney

Strong Official (from whom ingenuity is derived)

Official of Gall Bladder

Upright Official (makes decision)

Official of Small Intestine

Official in Charge of Receiving (being filled and transforming)

Official of San Jiao

Official in charge of Irrigation (controls Water Passages)

Official of Stomach

Official in charge of Food Storage (from whom 5 flavors are derived)

Official of Large Intestine

Official in charge of passage and conduction

Official of Urinary Bladder

District Capital | (stores fluids which are then excreted by the power of Qi tranformation)

What organ receives bile from Liver and STORES and EXCRETES it for digestion?

Gall Bladder

What organ is an extraordinary Yang organ?

Gall Bladder

Timid or fearful, no drive is ruled by what organ?

Gall Bladder

The Gall Bladder has what influence on sleep?

Quality and Length

Awakens early in the morning, unable to fall asleep again is the mental aspect of what organ?

Gall Bladder (usually wakens 3-5am)

* stores and excretes bile * controls decisiveness, controls the sinews * has a mental aspect * Liver/Gall Bladder relationship

Functions of Gall Bladder

What organ receives food and drink from Stomach and separates clear and turbid?

Small Intestine

Mental aspect of Small Intestine

Discrimination and Judgement

Mental aspect of Gall Bladder

Courage to make decisions

* controls receiving and transforming * separates fluids * mental aspects

Functions of Small Intestines

What Qi is the transformation power of Qi in all Zang Fu organs?

Yuan Qi (San Jiao)

what organ is the Official of Irrigation?

San Jiao

The Wood nature of San Jiao along with the Gall Bladder assist ____.

The Liver in ensuring smooth flow of emotions

Fire nature of San Jiao long with Pericardium assists ________.

The Mind (Shen) and Hun (Ethereal Soul)

* mobilizes Yuan Qi (original qi) * controls the transportation and penetration of Qi * controls the water passages and the excretion * as one of the 6 yang organ has form * as a mobilizer of the original, Yuan Qi, has no form * three divisions of the body

Functions of San Jiao

Upper Jiao of San Jiao it's and (Fluids)

Fog (sweat)

Froth (Sweat) pertains to what Jiao

San Jiao's Upper Jiao

Froth (Stomach Fluids) pertains to what Jiao?

San Jiao's Middle Jiao

Ditch (Urine) pertains to what Jiao?

San Jiao's Lower Burner

What organ easily suffers from Fire or Phlegm-Fire?

Stomach

* controls receiving * controls the rotting and ripening of food * controls the transportation of food essence * controls the descending of Qi * is the origin of Fluids

Functions of the Stomach

* controls passage and conduction * transforms stools and reabsorbs Fluids * has mental aspect and dreams

Functions of the Large Intestine

Dreams of open fields relates to what Organ?

Large Intestine

What organ would you see adults with feelings of jealously, suspicion, long-standing grudges?

Bladder

What organ would you see fears, anxieties or insecurities which leads to sinking of Urinary Bladder Qi in children?

Bladder

* removes water by Qi transformation | * has mental aspects and dream

Functions of Urinary Bladder

What organ would you dream of voyages?

Urinary Bladder

List the 5 Zang Organs.

1. Liver 2. Heart 3. Spleen 4. Lung 5. Kidney

List the 6 Fu organs.

1. Gall Bladder 2. Small Intestines 3. San Jiao 4. Stomach 5. Large Intestine 6. Urinary Bladder

Definition of 6 Extra Ordinary Yang Organs

They function like a Yin organ, but have the shape of a Yang organ.

Name the 6 Extra Ordinary Yang Organs

1. Uterus 2. Brain 3. Marrow 4. Bones 5. Blood Vessels 6. Gall Bladder

What Extraordinary Yang oragn(s) relate(s) to Kidney Essence

Uterus, Brain, Bone, Marrow, Blood Vessels

What Extraordinary Yang organ(s) is(are) a yin + yang organ?

Gall Bladder

How does anger affect qi direction?

Anger rises up

How does fear affect Qi direction?

Fear declines or descends

How does Joy affect the speed of Qi?

Joy slows down qi

How does worry & pensiveness affect the speed of Qi?

Worry & pensiveness Stagnate or Knot qi

How does Sadness affect the amount of Qi?

sadness Consumes or Dissolves Qi

How does Shock affect the amount of Qi?

Shock Scatters or Deranges qi

Pensiveness and worry injure what organ?

Spleen

Pensiveness affects effects the area of the _____.

Spleen

Worry effects the area of the __________.

Lung and Spleen

What emotion would present with symptoms of poor appetite, epigastric discomfort, abdominal distention?

Pensiveness | ! think Middle Jiao symptoms

What emotion would be present with discomfort in chest, breathlessness, tense shoulders, epigastric discomfort, abdominal distention?

Worry | ! think MJ symptoms + chest issues

What are the 6 climates?

1. Wind 2. Fire 3. Summer Heat 4. Dampness 5. Dryness 6. Cold

What climate has the following characters: * upward, outward dispersion * rapid change * constant movement

Wind | -> beginning of 100 diseases

What climate has the following characters: * burning and upward direction * consumes Yin Fluid * disturbance of Blood

Fire | -> stirs up wind

What climate has the following characters: * extreme heat * upward direction, dispersion and consumes body fluids

Summer Heat | -> frequently combined with Damp

What climate has the following characters: * viscosity and stagnation * impairs yang and obstructs Qi circulation

Dampness | -> heaviness and turbidity

What climate has the following characters: | *consumes body fluids

Dryness | -> impairs the function of the Lung the "delicate" Zang

What climate has the following characters: * consumes Yang Qi * contraction and stagnation

Cold

Aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, sneezing, runny nose, occipital stiffness, floating pulse, stiffness ridigity, sudden muscle contraction, joint pain that moves from place to place (especially in the upper part of the body [Wind-Bi]) are all symptoms of what climate?

Wind (looks like W-C)

Aversion to heat, high fever, sweating, mental confusion, thirst, overflowing-rapid pulse, red tongue with yellow coating are all symptoms of what climate?

Fire (looks like 4 Bigs)

Aversion to cold, fever, sweating, headache, dark urine, thirst, floating-rapid pulse all belong to what climate?

Summer-Heat (looks like D-H)

Heavy limbs, dull ache of the muscles, pain, heaviness and swelling of the joints (esp. in the lower part of the body [Damp-Bi]) all are symptoms of what climate?

Dampness

Acute dry cough, aversion to cold, fever, dry mouth and nose are all symptoms of what climate?

Dryness

Stiffness, contraction of muscles, pain, and chillness, severe joint pain [Cold-Bi], sudden epigastric pain with vomiting (ST), sudden abdominal pain with diarrhea (LI), acute dysmenorrhea (Uterus) are all symptoms of what climate?

Cold

When clinical manifestations of the BIAO are few and mild you treat

Ben only (Root)

When BIAO produces severe symptoms/signs you treat

Ben & Biao

When BIAO symptoms are urgent; acute case you treat

Biao -> Ben

Ben means

Root

Biao means

Manifestation

Multiple BEN, each giving rise to different BIAO, treat ______.

Treat each Ben

One BEN giving rise to different BIAO treat __________.

Treat Ben

BEN coincides with BIAO, treat ___________.

Treat BEN/BIAO

What is the treatment principle for when there is a purely Xu pattern?

Tonify Zheng

When you have a purely Shi (excess) pattern the treatment principle is?

Expel Xie

What is the treatment: When Interior (Xu) > Exterior (Shi)?

Tonify Zheng -> Expel Xie

What is the treatment: When Exterior (Shi) > Interior (Xu)?

Expel Xie -> Tonify Zheng

What is the treatment: When Xu + Shi?

Tonify Zheng + Expel Xie

Give an example of when you would Tonify Zheng -> Expel Xie?

``` *Very weak elderly person with Chronic Bronchitis (Xu) > Wind Cold (Shi) ```

Draw and label the infants index finger

* Gate of Wind * Gate of Qi * Gate of Life (pg34-HBKim)

Exterior pathogenic factor and mild disease would be found where on the infants index finger?

Gate of Wind

Interior and rather more severe disease would be found where on the infants finger?

Gate of Qi

Serious and life threatening diseases would be found where on the infants index finger?

Gate of Life

Bluish Venules on an infants index finger indicate ________ pattern.

Cold pattern

Red venules on an infants finger indicates a ________ pattern.

Heat

Name the pattern: Whole face red

Excess Heat

Name the pattern: Red Cheekbones (malar flush) + tidal fever, night sweating

Deficiency Heat

Name the pattern: Dull white (whithered) face

Blood Deficiency

Name the pattern: Bright white (puffy, bloated appearance) face

Yang Xu

Name the pattern: Bluish white face

Excessive Cold

Name the pattern: Sallow yellow (pale-yellow without brightness)

Sp/St Xu or Blood Deficiency

Name the pattern: Smoky, dull yellow face

Damp-Heat (with prevalence of Damp)

Name the pattern: Dull-pale yellow

Cold-Damp in Spleen/Stomach

Name the pattern: Ash-like yellow complexion

Long-standing damp

Name the pattern: Entire Body bright organe

Yang Jaundice

Name the pattern: Entire body smoky dark yellow

Yin Jaundice ~yin= Spleen D-C

Name the pattern: Green color on the nose

Qi stagnation with abdominal pain

Name the pattern: Bluish-purple face & lips + intermittent pain in precordial region

Heart Blood Stasis

Name the pattern: Bluish purple face & lips + high fever, violent movement of limbs

Liver Wind (Infantile Convulsions)

Dull or clouded eyes indicates?

* Mind Disturbance * weakened five organs * emotional problem

Dull-white corners of the eyes indicates ______.

Heat

Pale white corners of the eyes indicates _______.

Blood Deficiency

Red sclera indicates __________ and the points are ______.

Lung Heat (Lu-5, Lu-10)

Yellow sclera indicates _______ and the points are _________.

Damp-Heat (Liv 2, GB34) [Liv/GB D-H]-> more jaundice

Corner of the eye relates to what organ?

Heart

Upper eyelid relates to what organ?

Spleen

Lower eyelid corresponds to what organ?

Stomach

Sclera represents which organ?

Lung

Iris represents what organ?

Liver

Pupil corresponds to what organ?

Kidney

Name the pattern: Green or blue tip of the nose

* Abdominal pain from Spleen Cold OR | * Liver Qi stagnation

Name the pattern: Dry Nose

*Stomach Heat or Large Intestine Heat

Name the pattern: Dry Nose + Throbbing Headache

Liver Yang Rising

Name the pattern: Dry and black nose

Toxic Heat

Name the pattern: Dry and Black nose also greyish

Blood Stasis

Name the pattern: Clear watery discharge

Cold Patter | -> Lung Qi Xu, Yang Qi Xu, Lung & Kidney Xu

Name the pattern: Dry withered dark ear lobes

Kidney Qi exhaustion (usually from Kidney Yin)

Name the pattern: Swollen and painful gums

Stomach Heat

Name the pattern: Swollen, but not painful gums

Stomach Empty-Heat

Name the pattern: Pale Gums

Blood Deficiency

Name the pattern: Bright and very dry teeth

Heat in Yang Ming (febrile disease)

Name the pattern: Dry and greyish teeth

Empty-Heat from Kidney Yin Deficiency

Name the pattern: Acute pain, redness and swelling of throat

Invasion of Wind-Heat

Name the pattern: Chronic pain, redness and swelling of the throat

Stomach Heat

Name the pattern: Chronically sore and dry throat [worse at nigth] (not swollen or red)

Lung/Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat

Name the pattern: Pitting edema of the hands

Lung Yang Deficiency

Name the pattern: Pitting Edema of the feet

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Name the pattern: Pitting Edema of the four limbs

Spleen Yang Deficiency

Name the pattern: Non-pitting Edema

Qi Stagnation

Name the pattern: Edema of the four limbs (D-H or D-C)

Dampness

Name the pattern: Edema of the four limbs (non-pitting)

Qi Stagnation

Name the pattern: Acute Edema of the hands and face | {usually starts with the eyelids}

Wind-Water Invading Lung

Wind-Water invading Lung is yin or yang edema?

Yang edema

Name the pattern: Pitting Edema

Kidney Yang Xu

Name the pattern: Blue Purple color of the tongue

Blood Stasis due to Cold or Heat

Whats the tongue color: Deficient type- cold syndrome caused by Yang Qi deficiency/ - Qi and Blood Deficiency

Pale tongue color

What is the tongue color: | Heat Syndrome - interior excess or deficiency

Red tongue color

Name the tongue color: Extreme Heat: Exogenous- Invasion of the Ying and Blood levels by pathogenic Heat Endogenous- Yin Xu leading to Fire

Deep Red

Name the pattern: Blue Purple tongue

Blood Stasis due to Cold or Heat

Name the pattern: Deep Blue-Purple, dry and lusterless tongue

Blood Stasis due to Heat

Name the pattern: Pale purple, moist tongue

Blood Stasis due to Cold

Name the pattern: Purplish Spots on the tongue surface

Blood Stasis

Name the pattern: Swollen delicate in quality, pale in color, teethmarks

Spleen or Kidney Yang Xu producing harmful waters

Name the pattern: Swollen Deep Red in color, occupying the entire space of the mouth

Excessive Heat in Heart or Spleen

Name the pattern: Swollen Blue Purplish Dark tongue

Toxicosis

Name the pattern: Thin, pale tongue

Qi and Blood Xu

Name the pattern: Thin Deep Red, Dry tongue

Fire due to Yin Xu

Name the pattern: Cracked deep red tongue

Excess Heat

Name the pattern: Cracked pale tongue

Blood Deficiency

Name the pattern: Cracked tongue not deep and remain there all the time unchanged

Normal tongue

Name the pattern: Thorny Red tongue

Internal Accumulation of pathogenic heat

Name the pattern: Deviated tongue

Wind-stroke or early threatening signs of Wind-stroke

Name the tongue: Exogenous -> Invasion of Pericardium by Heat -> Retention of phlegm in the interior -> Excessive pathogenic Heat consuming body fluids Endogenous - Wind-Stroke or early signs of Wind-Stroke

Rigid Tongue Form

Name the tongue: | Extreme Qi & Blood Xu or Consumption of Yin Fluids

Flaccid tongue form

Name the tongue: | Qi and Blood Deficiency

Flaccid and Pale Tongue

Name the tongue: | Yin collapse

Flaccid, Deep Red tongue

Name the pattern: Thin tongue

Superficial portion / Deficiency of Anti-pathogenic Qi

Name the pattern: Thick tongue

Deeper progression / Retention of Damp, Food

Name the pattern: Dry tongue

* Consumption of body fluids, | * Excess Heat, or Yin Deficiency

Name the pattern: Excessive moisture, saliva dribbles (slippery) tongue

Harmful water and Damp

Name the pattern: Sticky (hard to grub greasy)

Retention of Damp, Phlegm, or Food

Name the pattern: Granular (coarse & soybean curds, easily scrubbed, pasty) tongue

* Excessive Yang Heat brings turbid Stomach Qi upwards | * Retention of Phlegm or Food

Name the pattern: Partially (geographic) Peeled tongue

* Consumption of Stomach Qi & Yin | * Kidney Yin

Name the pattern: Entire (Mirror, Glossy) tongue peeled

* Exhaustion of Stomach Yin | * Severe damage of Stomach Qi

Name the pattern: White thin tongue coating

Exterior Cold or Normal

Name the pattern: Thick white tongue coating

Interior Cold

Name the pattern: Yellow tongue coat

Interior Heat (deeper the yellow coat, more severe pathogenic heat is)

Name the pattern: Light yellow tongue coating

Mild Heat

Name the pattern: Deep Yellow tongue coat

Severe Heat

Name the pattern: Burnt yellow tongue coat

Accumulation of Heat

Name the pattern: Grey coating

Interior Heat, Cold or Damp

Name the pattern: Grey yellowish and dry tongue

Interior Excessive Heat

Name the pattern: Grey whitish and moist | ->can develop to greyish or black

Retention of Cold or Damp

Name the tongue: Extreme Interior condition ->Extreme Heat or Extreme Cold (usually progression of Yellow or Grey)

Black

Name the pattern: tongue Black Yellowish & dry, possible with thorns

Extreme Heat

Name the pattern: Black, Pale and slippery tongue

Excessive Cold due to Yang Deficiency

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: * Peeled in patches * Black and hairy

Antibiotics | -> tends to injure Stomach Yin

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: | *Red and Swollen (after about one month of administration)

Corticosteroids !! think Arnold...I am going to pump you up!!

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: | *Tongue tip to become red (after prolonged & continued use)

Bronchodilators

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: | *Peeled (reflecting Yin Xu)

Diuretics !think- make you pee= lose fluids!!

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: * red points * tongue body is thinner, peeled * (after prolonged use)

Anti-inflammatory !think- take out inflammation!!

What medicine would cause the tongue to be: | *very thick brown or even black and dry coating

Anti-Neoplastics (Cytotoxic Drugs) | {Chemo drugs}

Name the pattern: Purple, Reddish, distended

* Extreme Heat with Blood Stasis | * Toxin from alcohol injuring in Heart

Name the pattern: Purple Bluish tongue

Blood Stasis from internal Cold

Name the pattern: Stiff Tongue

Blazing Heart Fire

Name the pattern: Stiff red, or dark red tongue

Exterior Heat invading Pericardium

Name the pattern: Stiff Red tongue

Heat injuring Body Fluids

Name the pattern: Stiff normal color tongue

Internal Wind

Name the pattern: Flaccid tongue with Pale body

Exhausted Qi and Blood

Name the pattern: Flaccid tongue with Red body

Extreme Heat injuring fluids

Name the pattern: Flaccid tongue, limp, and deep red

Kidney Yin Deficiency with Heat

Name the pattern: Long tongue

* Blazing Heart Fire | * Heart Phlegm Fire

Name the pattern: Short tongue, pale body

* Spleen Yang Xu | * Internal Cold

Name the pattern: Short tongue, red body

Heat stirring Liver Wind

Name the pattern: Short tongue, red body with coat

Body fluids insufficiency due to excess Heat

Name the pattern: Short tongue, red body without coat

Deficiency Heat

Name the pattern: Short tongue, pale with slippery coat

Spleen Yang Xu with Damp and Phlegm

Name the pattern: Horizontal tongue cracks

Yin Deficiency

Name the pattern: Tongue cracks like ice floes

Yin Deficiency from old age

Name the pattern: tongue cracks that are irregular

Stomach Yin Deficiency

Name the pattern: tongue Cracked Transverse on the Side

Spleen Qi/Yin Deficiency

Name the pattern: tongue crack vertical in center

Spleen Qi Xu

Name the pattern: tongue crack Long and Vertical reaching the tip

Heart, emotional disorders

Name the pattern: tongue crack Transverse behind tip

Prior Lung disease, present Lung Yin Xu

Name the pattern: tongue cracks Deep Central + small cracks

Kidney Yin Deficiency with Heat

Name the pattern: Numb tongue with Pale body

Heart Blood Deficiency

Name the pattern: Numb tongue with red or normal color body

Liver Wind

Name the pattern: Numb tongue with clipper coat

Wind-phlegm

Name the pattern: tongue tip rolled over

Excess Heat

Name the pattern: tongue tip rolled down

Deficiency Heat

Name the pattern: Slippery tongue, excessively wet with oily appearance

Yang Deficiency, Damp-Cold Internal or External Origin

Name the pattern: Slippery with white moisture tongue

Pathogen is beginning to go into the interior

Name the pattern: Slippery tongue, greasy moisture

Damp-Phlegm

Name the pattern: Slippery tongue, greasy and thick moisture

Damp-Phlegm Retention and Cold

Name the 8 principle ID: White and slightly slippery coating on the right side

Interior/Exterior presentation | from 8 principles

Name the 8 principle ID: Red tongue body with white coating on the tip only

interior/exterior (Half & Half)

Name the 8 principle ID: White coating on the tip and black/gray coating on the root

Interior/exterior (Half & Half)

Name the 8 principle ID: tongue body color and shape altered

Interior

List the 10 Asking Questions

1. Feelings of Cold & Heat 2. Sweating 3. Head and Body 4. Chest and Abdomen 5. Ears and Eyes 6. Food and Drink 7. Sleep 8. Stools and Urine 9. Women's Symptoms 10. Children's Symptoms

Name the diagnosis: Simultaneous chills and fever (Chills>Fever)

Wind-Cold (Shang Han)

Name the diagnosis: Simultaneous chills and fever (Fever>Chills)

Wind-Heat (Wen Bing)

Name the diagnosis: Alternating chills and fever

* ShaoYang Syndrome (Shang Han) | * GB Heat (Wen Bing)

Name the diagnosis: feelings of Cold hands, sweaty hand (maybe numbness)

Yang Deficiency of Heart or Lung

Name the diagnosis: feelings of Cold Feet

Liver Blood Deficiency

Name the diagnosis: feelings of Cold Feet + numbeness

Kidney Yang Xu

Name the diagnosis: feelings of heat in the afternoon or evening

Empty Heat

Name the diagnosis: low grade fever worse in the afternoon

Yin Deficiency

Name the diagnosis: Constant low grade temperature

Damp-Heat

Name the diagnosis: Fever in the middle of the night

* Yin Deficiency (adult) | * Food Retention (children)

Diagnosis: Sweating

Wind-Heat or Wind-Cold

Diagnose: No Sweating

Wind-Cold

Diagnose: Interior, Deficiency Sweating

Yang or Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Interior, Excessive Sweating

Heat, Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Sweating only on head

Stomach Heat or Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Sweating oily sweat on forehead

Yang Collapse

Diagnose: Sweating only on arms and legs

Stomach and Spleen Deficiency

Diagnose: Sweating only on hands

Lung or Heart Qi Deficiency or nerves

Diagnose: Whole Body Sweating

Lung Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Sweating on Five Palms (palms, soles, chest)

Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Sweating in day time

Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Sweating night time

Yin Deficiency, possibly Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Profuse cold sweat during a severe illness

Yang Collapse

Diagnose: Oily sweat on forehead, like pearls, not flowing

Danger of intermittent death (Severe Yang Collapse)

Diagnose: Headache at night

Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Headache to Nape of Neck

Tai Yang channels (Wind-Cold or Kidney Deficiency)

Diagnose: Headache to to Forehead

Yang Ming Channels (Stomach Heat or Kidney Deficiency)

Diagnose: Headache temples and sides

Shao Yang Channels (Exterior/Interior Wind or Liv&GB Fire)

Diagnose: Vertex Headache

Jue Yin Channel (usually from Liv Blood Deficiency)

Diagnose: Whole Head Headache

Exterior Wind-Cold

Diagnose: Heavy feeling Headache

Dampness or Phlegm

Diagnose: Headache hurting inside or brain

Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Headache Distending (throbbing)

Liver Yang Rising

Diagnose: Boring Headache

Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Headache with muzziness, heaviness

Dampness

Diagnose: Headache with muzziness, heaviness, dizziness

Phlegm

Diagnose: Headache with aversion to wind or cold

Exterior Invasion

Diagnose: Headache worse by cold

Cold pattern

Diagnose: Headache worse by heat

Heat pattern

Diagnose: Worse by fatigue (improved by rest)

Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Headache worse by emotional tension

Liver Yang Rising

Diagnose: Dizziness with severe giddiness when everything seems to sway and loses the balance

Internal Wind

Diagnose: Dizziness with throbbing headache

Liver Yang Rising

Diagnose: Dizziness with feeling of heaviness and muzziness in head

Phlegm obstructing the head

Diagnose: Slight dizziness aggravated when tired

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Sudden Onset dizziness

Full pattern

Diagnose: Gradual Onset dizziness

Empty pattern

Diagnose: Bleeding gums, tiredness, poor appetite, loose stools

Spleen/Stomach Deficiency not holding Blood

Diagnose: Bleeding gums, inflamed gums, feeling of heat, thirst

Stomach excess Heat

Diagnose: Bleeding gums, dry mouth, desire to drink in small sips

Stomach Deficiency Heat

Diagnose: Bleeding gums, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweating, malar flush

Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat

Diagnose: Mouth ulcers that appear very frequently or are almost permanent

Full condition

Diagnose: Mouth ulcers that come and go

Empty condition

Diagnose: mouth ulcers, very painful, red rimmed ulcers on the gums

Stomach excess Heat

Diagnose: Mouth ulcers, pale rimmed ulcers on the gums

Stomach Deficiency Heat

Diagnose: Ulcers on the tip of the tongue

Heart Fire or Heart Deficiency Heat

Diagnose: Ulcers on the inside of cheeks

Stomach Heat

Diagnose: mouth ulcers in pregnancy

Disharmony of REN Vessel

Diagnose: mouth ulcers pale rimmed, aggravated by overwork

Kidney Yin or Original Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Whole body pain, sudden onset + chills and fever

Exterior wind invasion

Diagnose: Pain all over + feeling of tiredness

Qi/Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Postpartum whole body pain, dull

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Postpartum whole body pain, severe pain

Blood Stasis

Diagnose: pain in arms and shoulders only when walking

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Pain in all muscles + hot sensations of the flesh

Stomach Heat

Diagnose: Whole body pain, dull ache of the limbs, heavy feeling

Damp Obstructing muscles

Diagnose: Joint pain wandering from Joint to joint

Wind

Diagnose: Joint pain, fixed and very painful

Cold

Diagnose: Joint pain, fixed with swelling and numbness

Dampness

Diagnose: Joint pain with swelling and redness of the joints

Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Joint pain, severe stabbing pain with ridigity

Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Backache, continuous, dull, better with rest

Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Backache, recent onset, severe with stiffness

Sprain causing Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Backache, severe pain, aggravated during cold/damp weather, alleviated by heat

Wind-Cold-Damp

Diagnose: Backache, boring pain with inability to turn the waist

Blood Satsis

Diagnose: Pain in the back extending up to the shoulders

Exterior Wind

Diagnose: Numbness of arms, legs, hands and feet on both sides

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Numbness of the the fingers (esp. the first three), elbow and arm on one side only

Wind-Phlegm, Before wind-stroke

Diagnose: More tingling that numbness (esp. in women)

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: More numbness, often unilateral (esp. in elderly)

Wind

Diagnose: Numbness with feeling of heaviness

Phlegm

Diagnose: Numbness with swelling (esp. legs)

Damp or Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Numbness with pain

Qi and Blood Stagnation

Diagnose: Joint pain, dull ache with swelling and heaviness

Damp

Diagnose: stabbing chest pain

Heart Blood Stasis (usually Yang Xu -> Heart Blood Stasis)

Diagnose: Chest, cough with profuse yellow sputum

Lung Heat

Diagnose: Hypochondrium with feeling of distention

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Hypochondrium stabbing pain

Liver Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Epigastric pain, dull, alleviated by eating

Deficiency pattern

Diagnose: Epigastric severe pain, aggravated by eating

Excess pattern

Diagnose: Epigastric dull pain (Deficiency patterns)

Stomach Qi Deficiency, Stomach Deficiency Cold

Diagnose: Epigastric pain, feeling of distension

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Lower abdomen relieved by bowel movement

Excess

Organ relationship: Hypogastrium Damp-Heat

Urinary Bladder

Organ Relationship: Hypogastrium Liver Fire infusing downwards to Urinary Bladder

Liver -> Urinary Bladder

Diagnose: Sudden Onset Tinnitus

Excess (usually Liver Fire, Liver Yang Rising or Liver Wind)

Diagnose: Gradual Onset Tinnitus

Deficiency (usually Kidney Deficiency)

Diagnose: Tinnitus, aggravated by pressing with one's hand on the ears

Excess

Diagnose: Tinnitus alleviated by pressing with one's hand on the ears

Deficiency

Diagnose: Tinnitus with high pitch

* Liver Yang Rising, Liver Fire, or | * Liver Wind (like a whistle)

Diagnose: Tinnitus with low pitch (like rushing water)

Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Sudden onset deafness

Excess condition | (usually Liver Fire, Liver Yang Rising or Liver Wind)

Diagnose: Gradual Onset Deafness

Deficiency Condition

Diagnose: Deafness, chronic cases

* Kidney Deficiency, Heart Blood Deficiency | * Upper Jiao Qi Deficiency, Yang Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Pain in the eyes like a needle with red eyes, associated with headaches

Toxic Heat in Heart Channel

Diagnose: Pain, swelling and redness of the eyes

Wind Heat or Liver Fire

Diagnose: Feeling of pressure in the eyes

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Blurred vision with floaters in the eyes

* Liver Blood Deficiency | * Liver/Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Blurred vision, photophobia

* Liver Blood Deficiency | * Liver Yang Rising

Diagnose: Dry eyes

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: a condition that is relieved by eating

Deficiency

Diagnose: a condition that is aggravated by eating

Excess

Diagnose: lack of appetite

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: always being hungry

Stomach Heat

Diagnose: fullness and distension after eating

Food Stagnation

Diagnose: Preference for hot food (in terms of temperature)

Cold Pattern

Diagnose: Preference for cold food

Heat pattern

Diagnose: bitter taste (constant)

Excess heat in LIver

Diagnose: Bitter taste (in morning, insomnia)

Excess Heat in Heart

Diagnose: Sweet taste

Spleen Deficiency or Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Sour Taste

* Food Retention or | * Liver and Stomach Disharmony

Diagnose: Salty Taste

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Pungent taste

Lung Heat

Diagnose: Lack of Taste

Spleen Deficiency

Diagnose: Sour vomiting

Liver invade Stomach

Diagnose: bitter vomiting

Liver and Gall Bladder Heat

Diagnose: Clear watery vomiting

Cold in the Stomach with retention of fluids

Diagnose: vomiting soon after eating

Heat pattern

Diagnose: sudden vomiting with loud noise

Excess

Diagnose: vomiting slow in coming with weak noise

Deficiency

Diagnose: thirst with desire to drink large amounts of cold water

Excess Heat

Thirst with desire to sip liquids slowly, or sip warm liquids

Yin Deficiency (Stomach/Kidney)

Diagnose: absence of thirst

Cold pattern (Spleen/Stomach)

Diagnose: Thirst but with no desire to drink

Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Desire to drink cold liquids

Heat Pattern

Diagnose: Desire to drink warm liquids

Cold Pattern

Diagnose: Very restless sleep, fever, agitation and excessive dreaming

Excess pattern (Liver Pattern > Heart Pattern)

Diagnose: Not being able to fall or stay asleep

Deficiency Pattern

Diagnose: Not being able to fall asleep, but sleeping well after fall asleep

Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Not being able to fall asleep, dizziness, blurred vision

Liver Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Waking up many time during the night

Heart/Kidney/Liver Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Dream-disturbed sleep

Liver Fire or Heart Fire

Diagnose: Restless sleep with dreams

Food Retention

Diagnose: Waking up early in the morning and falling asleep again

Gall Bladder Deficiency

Diagnose: greater tendency to wake earlier as one grows older

Normal, this is due to physiological decline of Qi/Blood

Diagnose: Feeling sleepy after eating

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Lethargy and heaviness

Damp Retention

Diagnose: Lethargy and heaviness + diziness

Phlegm Retention

Diagnose: Extreme lethargy and lassitude with a feeling of cold

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Lethargic stupor with exterior Heat symptoms

Heat invading Pericardium

Diagnose: Lethargic stupor with rattling in throat | pulse- slippery; tongue- sticky coating

Phlegm misting the Mind

Diagnose: Aggravation of a condition after a bowel movement

Deficiency

Diagnose: Amelioration of a condition after a bowel movement

Excess

Diagnose: Acute constipation with thirst and dry yellow coating

Heat in Stomach and Large Intestine

Diagnose: Constipation with small, bitty stools like goat's stool

Liver Qi Stagnation + Large Intestine Heat

Diagnose: Constipation with abdominal pain

* Excess or | * Deficiency Cold

Diagnose: Alternation of Constipation and diarrhea

Liver Qi Stagnation invading Spleen

Diagnose: Constipation with dry stools, dry mouth, desire to drink in small sips

Kidney/Stomach Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Constipation in old people or women after childbirth

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic Diarrhea

Spleen/Kidney Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Cock Crow's Diarrhea

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Loose stools with undigested food

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Slightly loose, but very frequent stools, cannot hold them easily

Spleen Qi Sinking

Diagnose: Diarrhea accompanied by abdominal pai, fullness, undigested food

Large Intestine Cold

Diagnose: Diarrhea with black or very dark stools

Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Diarrhea with mucus in the stools

Large Intestine Dampness

Diagnose: Diarrhea with mucus and blood in the stools

Large Intestine Damp Heat

Diagnose: Diarrhea: Blood->Stool, bright-red splashing in all directions

Large Intestine Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Blood -> Stool, turbid, anus feels heavy and painful

Blood Heat

Diagnose: Stools -> Blood, watery

Spleen unable to hold blood

Diagnose: Pain accompanying Diarrhea

Liver Involvement or Heat

Diagnose: Foul smelling diarrhea, burning sensation in the anus while passing stools

Heat

Diagnose: Diarrhea with Presence of foul smell

Heat

Diagnose: Diarrhea with absence of smell

Cold

Diagnose: Borborygmi with loose stools

Spleen Deficiency

Diagnose: Borborygmi with abdominal distension without loose stools

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Diarrhea with Flatulence

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Diarrhea with flatulence and foul smell

*Spleen Damp-Heat / Large Intestine Heat

Diagnose: Diarrhea without flatulence

Spleen Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Enuresis or incontinence

Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Retention of urine

* UB Damp-Heat | * Lung Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Difficulty in urination

* Urinary Bladder Damp-Heat | * Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Pain before urination

Qi Stagnation in Lower Jiao

Diagnose: Pain during urination

Urinary Bladder Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Pain after urination

Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Pale urine

Cold pattern (usually UB/Kidney)

Diagnose: Dark urine

Heat Pattern

Diagnose: Turbid or cloudy urine

UB Dampness

Diagnose: Copious, clear and pale urination

Exterior Wind (pathogen has not penetrated

Diagnose: Dark urination during an exterior Wind-Heat or Wind-Cold

Exterior Wind -> Interior

Diagnose: Large amounts of urine

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Scant urination

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Periods always come early

* Blood Heat | * Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Periods always late

* Blood Deficiency | * Blood or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Periods irregular

* Liver Qi or Blood Stagnation | * Spleen Deficiency

Diagnose: Heavy Periods

* Blood Heat | * Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Scanty periods

* Blood Deficiency | * Blood or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Heavy and scanty periods

Yin Xu

Diagnose: dark red or bright red menstrual blood

Blood Heat

Diagnose: Pale menstrual Blood

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Purple or blackish menstrual blood

Blood or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Fresh red menstrual blood

Deficiency-Heat from Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Menstrual blood congealed with clots

Blood or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Watery menstrual Blood

Blood or Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Turbid menstrual Blood

Blood-Heat or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Pain before the periods

Qi or Blood Stagnation

Diagnose: Pain during the menses

Blood Heat or Cold Stagnation

Diagnose: Pain after the periods

Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Pediatric abdominal pain

* Cold retention in Stomach/Large Intestine | * Qi Stagnation in Large Intestine

Diagnose: Pediatric chronic cough/wheezing, respiratory infection

Exterior Wind Residual -> Lung Phlegm Heat

Diagnose: Pediatric chronic earache

Exterior Wind Residual -> Damp-Heat in Gall Bladder

Diagnose: Pediatric chronic catarrh, runny/blocked nose, glue ear

Exterior Wind Residual-> Spleen Deficiency and Phlegm

Diagnose: Disturbed sleep in older children

Liver Fire, Stomach Heat, Food Retention

Diagnose: Pediatric Immunizations causing skin rash, insomnia, temporary character change

Latent Heat

Severe distention, mild pain and moving from place to place is what type of pain?

Distending

Diagnose: Distending Pain

Qi Stagnation, Fire Rising (headache)

Chest, Epigastric, hypochondriac, abdominal regions of pain are locations of what type of pain?

Distending

What type of pain is sharp in nature and fixed in location?

Prickling

Diagnose: Pricking pain

Blood Stasis

Chest, epigastric, hypochondriac, lower abdominal regions are locations of what type of pain?

Pricking

Heavy sensation defines what type of pain?

Weighty

Diagnose: Weighty pain

Damp blocking Qi and Blood

Head, four limbs and lumbar regions are all locations where you would fine what type of pain?

Weighty

What type of pain is referred to as Twisting pain?

Colicky

Diagnose: Colicky pain

Abrupt obstruction of the Qi by substantial pathogenic factors

What type of pain is spasmodic in nature and short in duration?

Pulling

Diagnose: Pulling pain

Liver Disorders, Liver Wind

What type of pain has burning sensations and preference for coolness?

Burning

Diagnose: Burning Pain

* Fire/Heat invading collaterals | * Yin Deficiency with empty heat

Hypochondriac regions on both sides, epigastric regions are the locations of which type of pain?

Burning

What type of pain has cold sensations and preference for warmth?

Cold

Diagnose: Cold Pain

* Excess cold blocking the collaterals | * Yang Qi Deficiency unable to warm Organs and Merdians

Head, lumbar, epigastric and abdominal regions are all locations of which type of pain?

Cold

What type of pain is not severe, bearable, lingering and may last for a long time?

Dull

Diagnose: Dull Pain

* Cold Symptoms | * Deficiency Type

What type of pain has a hollow sensation?

Hollow

Diagnose: Hollow Pain

* Blood Deficiency leading to emptiness of vessels | * Retardation of Blood circulation

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, desire to lie down, poor memory, loose stools

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, desire to lie down, poor appetite, loose stools + cold symptoms

Spleen Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, weak voice, propensity to catch cold

Lung Qi Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, weak voice, propensity to catch cold + cold symptoms

Lung Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, slight depression, dizziness, scanty periods

Liver Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, anxiety, insomnia, dry mouth at night, tongue without coating

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Chronic tiredness, anxiety, tenseness, wiry pulse

Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Short term tiredness, alternating cold and hot, irritability, unilateral coating on tongue, wiry pulse

Shao Yang Pattern

Diagnose: Impotence with feeling of cold, backache, weak knees (males)

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Diagnose: Impotence, palpitations, dizziness, choppy pulse (males)

Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Impotence, palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, rapid overflowing pulse (males)

Heart Fire

Diagnose: Impotence, heaviness of the scortum, urethral discharge (males)

Liver Damp Heat

Diagnose: Lack of Libido (males)

* Kidney Qi or Yang Deficiency * Deficiency of Heart, Spleen, or Lung * Liver Qi Stagnation

Diagnose: Premature Ejaculation (males)

* Kidney Qi not Firm * Heart Qi Deficiency * Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Ejaculation causing tiredness/Dizziness (males)

Kidney Deficiency

Diagnose: Lack of Libido or an inability to reach an orgasm (females)

Kidney Yang or Heart Deficiency

Diagnose: Excessive sexual desire (females)

* Liver/Heart Fire | * Kidney Yin Deficiency with empty Heat

Diagnose: Inability to reach orgasm (females)

Heart Deficiency

Diagnose: Orgasm causing headache (females)

* Rebellious Qi of Chong Vessel | * Heart Fire

Diagnose: Skin is hot and stays hot to touch

Wind Heat

Diagnose: Skin feels cool at first and then warms

Damp-Heat

Diagnose: Skin is cool, but hot at depths, to the bone

* Yin Xu with Empty Heat | * Steaming Bone Syndrome

Diagnose: Superficial Pulse

* Invasion of External Wind | * Yin Deficiency (interior conditions)

Diagnose: Yin/Yang of floating pulse

Excess

Diagnose: Deep Pulse

* Pathogenic factor in the Interior (Deep-Full) | * Yang Deficiency (Deep-weak)

Diagnose: Slow Pulse

* Cold Pattern * Empty-Cold (Slow and Weak) * Full-Cold (Slow and Full)

Diagnose: Rapid Pulse

* Heat Pattern * Full Heat (Rapid and Full) * Empty-Heat (Rapid and Floating-Empty)

Diagnose: Deficient Pulse

* Qi Deficiency * Blood Xu * Yin Xu (Xu and Superficial) * Yang Xu (Xu and Deep)

Diagnose: Excess Pulse

* Full Pattern * Full Heat (Full-Rapid) * Full Cold (Full-Slow)

Diagnose: Surging Pulse

* Full Heat Consuming the fluids * Qi Sinking * Empty Heat (Surging-Empty)

Yin/Yang of surging pulse

Yin within yang

Diagnose: Thready Pulse

*Blood Deficiency *Yin Deficiency *Yang Deficiency (Thready-Deep) *Qi Deficiency {any xu really}

Diagnose: Rolling Pulse (Yang within Yin)

* Heat * Phlegm * Dampness * Retention of food * Pregnancy

Diagnose: Hesitant Pulse

* Blood Deficiency * Blood Stasis * Exhaustion of Body Fluids

Diagnose: String-Taut Pulse

* Liver Disharmony (Not liver Qi stagnation) * Pain * Phlegm

Diagnose: Tense Pulse

* Cold * Exterior Cold (Tight-floating) * Interior Full-Cold (Tight-Full-Deep) * Interior Empty-Cold (Tight-Weak-Deep) * Pain, esp. from cold

Yin/Yang of Tense pulse

Yang within Yin

Diagnose: Soft Pulse

* Dampness with Qi Xu * Yin Deficiency * Essence Deficiency

Diagnose: Weak Pulse

*Yang Deficiency (Weak-Deep) *Blood Deficiency *Yin Deficiency (Weak-Superficial) {any xu}

Diagnose: Abrupt Pulse (Irregularly, irregular, slightly fast)

* Severe Heat * Heart Qi Deficiency * Heart Fire

Diagnose: Knotted Pulse (Irregularly, irregular, slow)

* Heart Blood Stasis | * Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Regularly Intermittent

* Serious problem with Internal Organs * 4 beats of less call 911 * Heart problem in western medical sense

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Pale and wet tongue

True Cold + False Heat

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Strong body tongue, red, dry

True Heat + False Cold

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Desire to drink warm fluids, body feels hot but he or she likes to be covered, pale urine

True Cold + False Heat

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Desire to drink cold fluids; scanty-dark urine, cold limbs, but chest is hot

True Heat + False Cold

Name the formula for True Cold + False Heat

Si Ni Tang

Name the formula for True Heat + False Cold

Bai Hu Tang

What s/s are you mainly looking at when determining true/false heat and cold?

At the coverings, urine color, & tongue body

What type of deficiency has pale face, weak voice, slight sweating, slight shortness of breath, tiredness, loose stools, a poor appetite, and an empty pulse

Qi Deficiency

What type of deficiency has chilliness, a bright pale face, cold limbs, absence of thirst, a desire for hot drinks, loose stools, frequent pale urination, pale and wet tongue, with a weak pulse

Yang Deficiency

What deficiency has dull-pale face, pale lips, blurred vision, dry hair, tiredness, poor memory, numbness and tingling, insomnia, scanty periods, pale-thing tongue and fine or choppy pulse

Blood Deficiency

What type of deficiency has feeling of heat in the afternoon or evening, a dry throat at night, night sweating, a thin body, Red-peeled and dry tongue, floating-empty pulse

Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Profuse cold sweat like pearls (or oily) coolness of the body, feeble breathing, listlessness

Yang Collapse

Diagnose: Sticky sweat, feverish of the body, warm hands and feet, irritabilty, restlessness

Yin Collapse

When looking at Yin/Yang collapse what symptom is the main symptom that will differentiate between the two?

Type of Sweat Yang= cold sweat like pearls Yin= Sticky sweat

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Belching, hiccup, nausea, vomiting? And this pertains to what organ?

Stomach Qi rebelling Upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: diarrhea, prolpase? And this pertains to what organ?

Spleen Qi sinking (descending)

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Headache, dizziness, irritability? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver Rising (ascending)

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Belching,nausea, vomiting? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with the Stomach Rebelling horizontal

What is the pathological direction for: diarrhea? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with the Spleen rebelling horizontally

What is the pathological Qi direction for: dry stools? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with Large Intestines rebelling horizontally

What is the pathological Qi direction for: burning urination? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver rebelling downward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: cough, asthma? And this pertains to what organ?

Lung rebelling upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: asthma (difficulty on exhalation)? And this pertains to what organ?

Kidney rebelling upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: mental restlessness, insomnia? And this pertains to what organ?

Heart rebelling upward

Diagnose: "floaters in the eyes", numbness of the limbs, cramps, scanty menstrual flow or amenorrhea

Liver Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Palpitations, dream-disturbed sleep, poor memory, pallor, pale lips, anxiety, tendency to be startled

Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Dark menstrual blood with dark clots

Liver Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Purple lips, a stabbing or prickling pain in the chest, mental restlessness

Heart Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Feeling of oppression of the chest, coughing of dark blood

Lung Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Vomiting of the blood, dark blood in the stools

Stomach Blood Stasis (rule out upper GI Bleeding & Cancer)

Diagnose: Blood in the stools with bright red blood

Large Intestine Blood Stasis (diverticulitis, tumors, hemorrhoids)

Diagnose: Painful periods, dark menstrual blood with dark clots, abdominal masses

Blood Stasis in the Uterus

Qi Stagnation or Blood Stasis: More distenstion than pain, moving pain, distending pain, feeling of fullness, abdominal masses appearing and disappearing, nothing appearing on the skin, face color may be unchanged, normal color or slightly purple tongue, only slightly string-taut pulse

Qi Stagnation

Qi Stagnation or Blood Stasis: More pain that distension, fixed pain, boring or stabbing pain, fixed abdominal masses, may manifest with purple blotches or bruises on the skin, dark color or blusih green face, purple tongue and possibly with purple spots, string-taut hesitant pulse

Blood Stasis

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: Dizziness, nausea, vomiting, numbness of the limbs, coughing, coughing of phlegm, a rattling sound in the throat and aphasia

Wind Phlegm => Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: Expectoration of yellow-sticky phlegm, a red face, dry mouth and lips, restlessness, red tongue with sticky yellow coating, rapid-rolling pulse

Phlegm Heat => Ding Chuan Tang

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: Expectoration of white watery phlegm, a cold feeling in the limbs and back, nausea, pale tongue with white wet coating, deep rolling slow pulse

Cold Phlegm => Su Zi Jiang Qi Tang | (compare with Damp Phlegm)

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: Expectoration of very profuse phlegm, which is white and sticky, no appetite, no thirst, a feeling of oppression of chest and epigastrium, stick tongue coating, rolling pulse

Damp Phlegm => Er Chen Tang | Compare with Cold Phlegm

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: Non-substantial, feeling of swelling in the throat (but not actual swelling), a difficulty in swallowing and a feeling of oppression of the chest and epigastrium

Qi Phlegm => Ban Xia Ho Po Tang

Name the phlegm and corresponding formula: | Substantial phlegm characterized by very watery fluids

Phlegm Fluids => Tan Yin chart is needed (HB Kim 77)

Name the Tan-Yin, Phlegm Fluid = Rheum and location: Splashing sound in the stomach.. ! Key: Gurgling sound

Phlegm Fluid (Stomach and Intestines)

Name the Tan-Yin, Phlegm Fluid = Rheum and location: Hypochondriac pain that is worse on coughing and breathing ! Key: Cough and rib cage pain

Suspended Fluids (Hypochondrium)

Name the Tan-Yin, Phlegm Fluid = Rheum and location: Feeling of heaviness of the body, absence of sweating.. ! Key: Pain, Deep Heaviness, puffy swelling

Flooding Fluids (Limbs) aka- Spillage Rheum

Name the Tan-Yin, Phlegm Fluid = Rheum and location: Cough, asthma, abundant white sputum.. ! Key: Cough, panting, inability to lie flat

Propping Fluids (Above Diaphragm)

Name the climate of the skin: Aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, sneezing, runny nose, occipital stiffness, floating pulse (looks like W-C)

Wind

Name the climate of the channel: Stiffness, rigidity, sudden muscle contraction

Wind

Name the climate of the joint: joint pain that moves from place to place, esp. in the upper part of the body (Wind-Bi)

Wind

Name the climate: Aversion to heat, high fever, sweating, mental confusion, thirst, overflowing-rapid pulse, red tongue with yellow coating (4 Bigs)

Fire

Name the climate: aversion to cold, fever, sweating, headaches, dark urine, thirst, floating-rapid pulse (looks like W-H) ~no dampness~

Summer Heat

Diagnose: Jaundice and Hypochondriac pain and distension

Earth insulting Wood

What are the symptoms of water overacting on grandson, fire?

None, there are no such patterns, as Kidney cannot be in excess

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: Timidity, lack of courage, indecision, palpitations and insomnia (particular, waking up early in the hour of the morning) [looks like GB Xu]

Wood not generating son Fire | -> Liver/Gall Bladder not nourishing Heart

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: Loose stools, chilliness and weakness of the limbs [looks like Sp Xu]

Fire not generating son Earth | -> Mingmen fire not warming Spleen

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Phlegm in the chest, cough and tiredness

Earth not generating son Metal | -> Spleen Deficiency leading to Lung Phlegm

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Cough breathlessness, loos of voice and asthma [Lung s/s]

Metal not generating son Water | -> Kidney not receiving Lung Qi

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Dizziness, blurred vision, headache and vertigo [wood s/s]

Water not generating son Wood | -> Kidney Yin Deficiency leading to Liver Yin Deficiency

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: Hypochondriac and epigastric pain, a feeling of distension, irritability, loose stools, poor appetite, greenish face color

Wood overacting on grandson Earth | -> Liver Qi Stagnation leading to Spleen Xu

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Cough with profuse yellow sputum, a feeling of heat and a red face

Fire overacting on grandson Metal | -> Excess heat in Lung

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Edema, difficult urination and a yellow face

Earth overacting on grandson Water | ->Spleen Damp leading to Kidney Dysfunction

Name the 5 Element Differentiation: | Tiredness, irritability, a feeling of distension and a white face

Metal overacting on grandson Wood

Name the 4 Earth channels:

Lung, Large Insestine, Stomach, Spleen

Name the 4 Heaven Channels

Heart, Small Intestine, Urinary Bladder, Kidney

Name the 4 Human Channels

Pericardium, San Jiao, Gall Bladder, Liver

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Cough, asthmatic breathing, anterior border of the medial aspect of the arm

Lung

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Toothache, anterior border of the lateral aspect of the upper limbs, diarrhea and dysentery

Large Intestine

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Hunger, deviation of the mouth

Stomach

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Belching, jaundice, stiffness and pain in the root of the tongue

Spleen

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Insomnia, thirst

Heart | compare with Pericardium

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Yellow sclera, pain in the posterior border of the lateral aspect of the shoulder and arm

Small Intestine

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Retention of urine, malaria,

Urinary Bladder

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Impotence

Kidney

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Mental restlessness, manic mental disorders

Pericardium

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Deafness, tinnitus

San Jiao

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Blurring vision, bitter taste in the mouth

Gall Bladder

Name the channel with the pathological manifestation: | Hernia, vertex headache

Liver

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Pale and wet tongue

True Cold + False Heat

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Strong body tongue, red, dry

True Heat + False Cold

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Desire to drink warm fluids, body feels hot but he or she likes to be covered, pale urine

True Cold + False Heat

Name the following as True/False Heat and Cold: Desire to drink cold fluids; scanty-dark urine, cold limbs, but chest is hot

True Heat + False Cold

Name the formula for True Cold + False Heat

Si Ni Tang

Name the formula for True Heat + False Cold

Bai Hu Tang

What s/s are you mainly looking at when determining true/false heat and cold?

At the coverings, urine color, & tongue body

What type of deficiency has pale face, weak voice, slight sweating, slight shortness of breath, tiredness, loose stools, a poor appetite, and an empty pulse

Qi Deficiency

What type of deficiency has chilliness, a bright pale face, cold limbs, absence of thirst, a desire for hot drinks, loose stools, frequent pale urination, pale and wet tongue, with a weak pulse

Yang Deficiency

What deficiency has dull-pale face, pale lips, blurred vision, dry hair, tiredness, poor memory, numbness and tingling, insomnia, scanty periods, pale-thing tongue and fine or choppy pulse

Blood Deficiency

What type of deficiency has feeling of heat in the afternoon or evening, a dry throat at night, night sweating, a thin body, Red-peeled and dry tongue, floating-empty pulse

Yin Deficiency

Diagnose: Profuse cold sweat like pearls (or oily) coolness of the body, feeble breathing, listlessness

Yang Collapse

Diagnose: Sticky sweat, feverish of the body, warm hands and feet, irritabilty, restlessness

Yin Collapse

When looking at Yin/Yang collapse what symptom is the main symptom that will differentiate between the two?

Type of Sweat Yang= cold sweat like pearls Yin= Sticky sweat

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Belching, hiccup, nausea, vomiting? And this pertains to what organ?

Stomach Qi rebelling Upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: diarrhea, prolpase? And this pertains to what organ?

Spleen Qi sinking (descending)

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Headache, dizziness, irritability? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver Rising (ascending)

What is the pathological Qi direction for: Belching,nausea, vomiting? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with the Stomach Rebelling horizontal

What is the pathological direction for: diarrhea? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with the Spleen rebelling horizontally

What is the pathological Qi direction for: dry stools? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver's relationship with Large Intestines rebelling horizontally

What is the pathological Qi direction for: burning urination? And this pertains to what organ?

Liver rebelling downward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: cough, asthma? And this pertains to what organ?

Lung rebelling upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: asthma (difficulty on exhalation)? And this pertains to what organ?

Kidney rebelling upward

What is the pathological Qi direction for: mental restlessness, insomnia? And this pertains to what organ?

Heart rebelling upward

Diagnose: "floaters in the eyes", numbness of the limbs, cramps, scanty menstrual flow or amenorrhea

Liver Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Palpitations, dream-disturbed sleep, poor memory, pallor, pale lips, anxiety, tendency to be startled

Heart Blood Deficiency

Diagnose: Dark menstrual blood with dark clots

Liver Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Purple lips, a stabbing or prickling pain in the chest, mental restlessness

Heart Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Feeling of oppression of the chest, coughing of dark blood

Lung Blood Stasis

Diagnose: Vomiting of the blood, dark blood in the stools

Stomach Blood Stasis (rule out upper GI Bleeding & Cancer)

Diagnose: Blood in the stools with bright red blood

Large Intestine Blood Stasis (diverticulitis, tumors, hemorrhoids)

Diagnose: Painful periods, dark menstrual blood with dark clots, abdominal masses

Blood Stasis in the Uterus

Qi Stagnation

Blood Stasis

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Heat sensations in the wrist and palm, shortness of breath

Lung, Lu 7

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Aphasia

Heart, H-5

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Cardiac pain and mental restlessness

Pericardium, P-6

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Toothache

Large Intestine, LI-6

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Warts on the skin

Small Intestine, SI-7

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Cubital

San Jiao, SJ-5

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Sudden Hoarseness of voice, (epilepsy)

Stomach, ST-40

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Nasal obstruction, watery nasal discharge

Urinary Bladder, UB-58

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Coldness in the foot, paralysis of the lower limbs and inability to stand erect

Gall Bladder, GB-37

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Cholera

Spleen, Sp-4

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Retention of urine

Kidney, K-4

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Priapism, pruritus in the pubic region, swelling of the testes and hernia

Liver, Liv-5

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Distending pain and pruritus of the abdominal skin tissues

Ren, Ren-15

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | Stiffness of the spinal column

Du, Du-1

What is the Point and Collateral Channel for: | General aching and weakness of the joints of the four limbs

Major Spleen, Sp-21

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Hernia, Pain in the genital region

Ren

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Stiffness and pain in the spinal column, opisthotonus

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Asthmatic Breathing

Chong

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Prolapse of the uterus, weakness and motor impairment of the lower limbs

Dai

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Insomnia, Eversion of the foot, (day time epilepsy)

Yang Qiao

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Lethargy, Inversion of the foot, (Night time epilepsy)

Yin Qiao

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Chest pain, cardiac pain and stomachache

Yin Wei

Name the 8 Extra Vessel Channel for the pathological manifestation: Exterior symptoms such as chills and fever

Yang Wei

Shang Han Lun Acupuncture: | Tai Yang - Wind Attack (Wei Level)

Du, SI, UB | (Gui Zhi Tang)

Shang Han Lun Acupuncture: | Tai Yang - Cold Attack (Wei Level)

DU, SI, UB

Shang Han Lun Acupuncture: | YangMing - Channel Pattern, 4 Bigs (Qi Level)

LI, St, DU | (Bai Hu Tang)

Shang Han Lun Acupuncture: | YangMing - Organ Pattern (Qi Level)

Front Mu, Lower He Sea of Large Intestine, Stomach, and Spleen (Cheng Qi Tang's)

Shang Han Lun Acupuncture: | ShaoYin - Cold Pattern

Ren, K, Sp {Moxa + Needle} | Si Ni Tang, Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan, Zhen Wu Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | Slight Sweating

TaiYang (open) - Wind Prevalence *Gui Zhi Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | Absence of sweating

Tai Yang (open) - Cold Prevalence

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | Retention of fluids, vomiting soon after eating, Floating-rapid pulse

Tai Yang (open)- Water Accumulation * Wu Ling San

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: Hypogastric distension, fullness and urgency, blood in urine, reddish pulse tongue without coating, deep-fine-rapid or deep choppy pulse

TaiYang (open) - Blood Accumulation *Tao He Cheng Qi Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | 4 Bigs, Red tongue with yellow coating, Overflowing-Rapid pulse

YangMing *Bai Hu Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: Constipation, red tongue with thick dry yellow coating, deep-full-slippery-rapid pulse (ST/LI Heat + constipation)

YangMing (Organ Pattern) *Cheng Qi Tang's -> Da / Xiao / Tiao Wei

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | Alternating of shivers

ShaoYang (pivot) *Xiao Chai Hu Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | pale tongue with sticky white coating, deep-weak-slow pulse (Sp + St Yang Xu, MJ Xu)

Tai Yin (Close) *Li Zhong Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: | Lying with body curled up (Kidney Yang Xu)

ShaoYin - Cold Transformation *Si Ni Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: A feeling of heat, irritability, insomnia, dry mouth and throat at night, dark urine, night sweating (Heart Yin Xu)

ShaoYang - Heat Transformation *Huang Lian E Jiao Tang

Shan Han Lun Diagnosis and Formula: Feeling of energy rising to the chest, pain and heat sensation in the heart region, cold limbs => heat in trunk; cold limbs

JueYin

Name the Wen Bing Lun Stage: | Fever, fluids not injured

Wei => Wind-heat (Exterior) ~TaiYang = Yin Qiao San

Name the Wen Bing Lun Stage: | High Fever

Qi Level (YangMing Channel Heat) {Interior} ~Bai Hu Tang

Name the Wen Bing Lun Stage: | Spots on the skin (PC Heat)

Ying-Nutritive Level ~Qing Hao Gui Zhi Tang

Name the Wen Bing Lun Stage: | Skin Eruptions

Xue Level = Blood Level {Interior}

In Wen Bing Lun what level is the fluids injured?

Once they reach interior => Qi, Ying, Xue

LI-4, LI-11, SJ-5, Du-14, UB-12, LU-11 treat what Wen Bing Lun wei level pattern?

Wind-Heat

Name Wen Bing Lung Wind-Heat Formula?

* Yin Qiao San | * Sang Ju Yin

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: Fever, aversion to cold, headache, sore throat, slight sweating, runny nose with yellow discharge, swollen tonsils, body aches, slight thirst, red tongue, in the front or on the sides with thin white coatnig, floating-rapid pulse

Wind Heat (Wei Level)

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: Fever, aversion to cold, no sweating, headache, a feeling of heaviness, an uncomfortable sensation in the abdomen, irritability, thirst, red tongue in the front or on the sides with a white sticky coating, soggy and rapid pulse

Summer Heat (Wei Level) *Fever and chills (looks like D-H)

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: Fever that is worse in the afternoon, body that is hot to touch, aversion to cold, swollen glands, headache, a feeling of heaviness, feeling of oppression of the epigastrium, sticky taste, thirst with no desire to drink sticky white tongue coating, soggy pulse

Damp-Heat (Wei Level) *No fever and chills

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: High fever, a feeling of heat, no aversion to cold, thirst, cough with thin yellow sputum, shortness of breath, sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, slippery-rapid pulse

Lung Heat (Qi Level) -> No damage to Yin!!

High fever that is worse in the afternoon, no aversion to cold, feeling of heat, intense thirst, profuse sweating, red tongue with yellow coating, overflowing-rapid pulse

Stomach Heat (Qi Level) -> Some Yin Damage!!

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: High fever that is higher in the afternoon, constipation, dry stools, burning in the anus, abdominal fullness and pain, irritability, delirium, red tongue with thick yellow dry coating, deep-full-rapid pulse

Intestines Dry Heat (Qi Level) - Most Damage to Yin!!

What is the Wen Bing Diagnose for: Low grade fever, tremor of the limbs, twitching, loss of weight, malar flush, listlessness, dark red tongue without coating and dry, fine-rapid pulse

Empty-Wind agitating in the Interior (Blood Level)

LI-4, LI-11, SJ-5, DU-14, DU-26, UB-40, P-9 is the acupuncture treatment for what Wen Bing Lung diagnosis?

Summer Heat

LI-4, LI-11, SP-9, SP-6, Ren-12 is the acupuncture treatment for what Wen Bing Lun diagnosis?

Damp-Heat

Name the Wen Bing Lun formula for Damp-Heat?

Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Tang

LU-5, LU-10, DU-14, LI-11, LU-1, UB-13 is the acupuncture treatment for what Wen Bing Lun Diagnosis?

Lung Heat (Chest/Diaphragm)

Name the formula for the Wen Bing Lun Diagnosis of Lung Heat.

Qing Qi Hua Tan Tang

ST-44, ST-34, ST-21, ST-43, LI-11, ST-25 is the acupuncture treatment for what Wen Bing Lun diagnosis?

Stomach Heat

Name the Wen Bing Lun formula for Stomach Heat.

Bai Hu Tang

LU-11, ST-25, SP-15, ST-37, ST-39 is the acupuncture treatment fro what Wen Bing Diagnosis?

Intestines Dry-Heat

Name the Wen Bing Lun formula for Intestines Dry Heat.

Tiao Wei Cheng Qi Tang

Name the Wen Bing point for PC Heat and spots on the skin

P-8

The most important point for the Wen Bing Diagnosis of Heat victorious stirring wind is _____.

Sp-10

Liv-3, Du-16, GB-20, SI-3, UB-62, Liv-8, K-6, K-3, Sp-6 is the Wen Bing Lun acupuncture treatment for what diagnosis?

Empty wind agitating in the interior

Name the Wen Bing Lun formula for Empty wind agitating in the interior as well as a better formula for a more chronic case

* Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang (more acute) | * Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin

Name what Jiao has damp-heat: Sever aversion to cold, mild or absence of fever, heavy sensation, head as if it were tightly wrapped by a cloth, heaviness of the limbs and trunk, a stifling sensation in the chest, absence of thirst, dull facial complexion, epigastric fullness and distension, poor appetite, borborygmus, loose stools

Damp-Heat in the Upper Jiao | s/s looks like Dampness w/NO heat signs

Name what Jiao has damp-heat: Indistinct at the first touch of the skin, but becomes pronounced after being felt for a rather long time, fever which recurs after being reduced by sweating, or fever more pronounced in the afternoon, scanty and dark yellow urine, yellow tinge to tongue coating, soft and rapid pulse

Damp-Heat in Middle Jiao | start to see some heat symptoms

Name what Jiao has damp-heat: Retention of urine, thirst with a desire to drink only a little, constipation, hardness and fullness in the lower abdomen, tongue sticky yellow or white coating, soft-rapid pulse

Damp-Heat in lower Jiao | looks like UB Damp-Heat

Name what the burner and diagnosis for: | Fever in the afternoon and evening, five-palm heat, dry mouth and throat, night sweating, deafness, lassitude

Lower Burner; Heat in Kidney

What is the formula name for Lower Burner Heat in the Kidney

Huang Lian E Jiao Tang

Name the burner and diagnosis for: | Dry and black teeth, dry and cracked lips

Lower Burner, Liver Empty Wind

Name the lower burner formula for Liver Empty Wind.

Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang