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Functions of the Lungs Flashcards

1
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What ‘role’ are the Lungs compared to?

A 
The Minister (The Executive) in charge of regulation
- justice; discrimination of right and wrong (cut like a sword)

PS- executives likely to be deficient in this category b/c of overuse of discrimination

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What animal relates to Lungs?

A

White Tiger / Siberian Tiger
(which live in the mountains in the West)
- Tiger controls/represents ‘Justice’ in animal kingdom

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What (climate/pathogenic influence) do the Lungs hate, and really hate?

A

hate cold

really hate dry

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4
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What Qi actions do the Lungs control?

A

D and D

diffusing/dispersing and descending

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What are “the Functions of the Lung”? (10)

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  • govern Qi and respiration
  • control channels and blood vessels
  • control diffusing and descending of Qi
  • regulate all physiological activities
  • regulate the Water Passages
  • control the skin and the space between skin and muscles, and body hair
  • open into the nose
  • control nasal mucous
  • house the Corporeal Soul
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6
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What emotions affect the Lung?

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worry
sadness
grief

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7
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Where does the health of the Lungs manifest?

A

body hair

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8
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What orifice to the Lungs open into?

A

the nose

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9
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What body fluid do the Lungs control?

A

nasal mucous

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10
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What aspect of the spirit resides in the Lungs?

A 
Corporeal Soul (Po)
- animal instincts
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11
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Signs and symptoms?

A

S.O.B.

shortness of breath

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12
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Is edema a manifestation of dysfunction of the Lung? Why or why not?

A

yes

  • metal is parent of water
  • Lung function of regulating water passages
  • might think it’s KD’s fault- it’s usually LU’s
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Why is Lung call the Sea of Qi?

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  • governs formation of Qi
    Gu Qi –> Da Qi (air) + Yuan Qi –> Zong Qi (chest qi)
  • Zong Qi (chest qi) aids LU and HT fx of circulating Qi and Blood throughout body
  • fire controls metal; heart (Emperor) gives the order to the Lungs, w/o order/directions from HT, LU (The Minister/Executive) can’t do anything
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14
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LU needing muscles to protect and contract the skin, and muscles (SP) needing the skin to protect them is an example of what relationship?

A

LU and SP organ Taiyin connection

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Besides immune function, what is Wei Qi also representative of (according to Zach)?

A

mental/emotional space
- psychological boundaries (if they’re collapsed, or too rigid)

  • breathe and psychology connection*
    ex. breathe exercise where deep breaths give feeling of expansive psych. space (big personal bubble; projecting), and holding breath gives feeling that psych. space has reduced to skin-level (reduces bubble)
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16
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How does thickness and lustre of hair (body hair) represent health of Lung?

A

light hair- LU deficiency, and probably trouble letting go of things

17
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What aspect of respiration do Lungs govern?

A
  • inhalation
18
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T/F: “The Lungs are the delicate organ.”

A

true
b/c most external of yin organs
most easily invaded by external pathogenic factors

19
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T/F: The Lungs govern the voice.

A

True

20
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T/F: “The Lungs control the 100 vessels.”

A

True

21
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What can weak LU qi cause?

A

tiredness
weak voice
slight breathlessness
(b/c Gather/Zong Qi resides in chest, aids LU and HT fx of circulation to limb and controls voice)

22
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What is an example of the importance of the LU’s diffusing function?

A
  • diffusing of Qi ensures Wei Qi is distributed all over body under skin, warming skin and muscles and protecting body from ext. path. factors
    (if fx is impaired, body will be easily invaded)
23
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What are known as the “doors of Qi”?

A
  • the pores

- b/c some Wei Qi is lost with sweat when the doors are left open

24
Q

What is the name for the space between the skin and muscles?

A

cou li

25
Q

weak sense of smell

A

LU-Qi deficient

26
Q

runny nose

A

invasion of wind

27
Q

blocked nose

A

LU dampness

28
Q

nosebleed

A

LU-Heat

29
Q

thick, yellow nasal mucous

A

LU-Heat or Phlegm-Heat

30
Q

dry mucosa

A

LU dryness

31
Q

nasal secretion accumulation- nasal discharge or stuffed nose

A

LU fx of diffusing and descending impaired

32
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T/F: “Sadness and grief constrict the Corporeal Soul (Po), dissolve Lung-Qi, and suspend our breathing. The shallow and short breathing of a person who is sad and worried is an expression of the constraint of the Corporeal Soul and Lung-Qi.”

A

True

33
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T/F: Worry ‘knots Lung-Qi’ and sadness/grief depletes LU-Qi.

A

True

34
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What it the Essence’s relationship to protection against ext. pathogenic factors?

A
  • Essence follows Corporeal Soul (Po), and therefor Lung-Qi, to space between skin and muscles
  • Po makes Essence ‘enter and exit’ in all parts of body

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