Gall Bladder

Question 1

Functions

Answer 1

• Stores and excretes Bile
• Controls decisiveness
• Controls the Sinews

Question 2

Mental Aspect

Answer 2

• Gives an individual courage and initiative
• Gives an individual the capacity to turn drive and vitality into positive and decisive action
• GB Qi weak can = depression
• GB Qi excessive can = slight mania

Question 3

Ethereal Soul (Hun of LV)

Answer 3

capacity to plan life and to have dreams

Question 4

Will-power (Zhi of KD)

Answer 4

drive and will-power to want to make something of our lives

Question 5

SI

Answer 5

capacity to discriminate between issues, to analyze issues with clarity, and to distinguish what is relevant and what is not

Question 6

GB

Answer 6

capacity to take a decision with resoluteness once all issues have been analyzed

Question 7

Shen (Mind of HT)

Answer 7

integration and direction

Question 8

GB xu

Answer 8

waking early in the AM and unable to fall
back asleep again

Question 9

Affected by

Answer 9

• Greasy fatty foods
• Heat from LV due to pent up emotions
• Exterior dampness and heat can = GB Damp Heat

Question 10

Conditions

Answer 10

Dampness in the GB
Damp Heat in the GB
GB deficient

Question 11

• Hypochondrial pain, fullness and distention, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats
• Jaundice, dull-yellow eyes and skin, dull-yellow sclera
• Turbid urine, lack of thirst, sticky taste, dull HA, feeling of heaviness in the body,
• T: thick sticky white coat, either bilateral in two strips or unilateral
• P: Slippery-Wiry

Answer 11

Dampness in the GB

Question 12

• Hypochondial pain and distention, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats
• Yellow complexion, yellow sclera
• Scanty and dark yellow urine, fever, bitter taste, irritability, a feeling of heat
• Dizziness, tinnitus, feeling of heaviness in the body, numbness of the limbs, swelling of the feet
• Thirst without desire, loose stools or constipation, alternation of hot and cold feelings
• T: thick sticky yellow coat, either bilateral in two strips or unilateral
• P: Slippery-Wiry-Rapid

Answer 12

Damp-Heat in the GB

Question 13

• Dizziness, blurry vision, floaters
• Nervousness, timidity, a propensity to be easily
  startled, lack of courage and initiative, indecision, sighing
• Waking up early in the morning, restless dreams
• T: Pale or normal
• P: Weak

Answer 13

GB deficient