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Heat/Cold Flashcards

1
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Red Complexion, fever, thirst with preference for cold drinks, constipation, deep-yellow and scanty urine

T: Red tongue with yellow and dry coating
P: Rapid Pulse

A

Definition of Heat

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Excess or Def Heat: Whole Red Face

A

Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Malar Flush

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Def

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4
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Excess or Def Heat: Desire to Drink Cold Water

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Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Desire to drink warm water, or cold water in small sips

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Def

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Excess or Def Heat: Read all over inside of eyelid

A

Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Thin red line inside eyelid

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Def

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8
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Excess or Def Heat: Bitter Taste

A

Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: No Bitter Taste

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Def

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Excess or Def Heat: Feeling of Heat all Day

A

Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Feeling of heat in the afternoon or evening

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Def

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12
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Excess or Def Heat: High Fever

A

Excess

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13
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Excess or Def Heat: Low-Grade Fever

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Def

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Excess or Def Heat: Very restless and agitated

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Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Constipated abdominal Pain

A

Excess

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16
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Excess or Def Heat: vague anxiety, fidgeting

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Def

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17
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Excess or Def Heat: Profuse Bleeding

A

Excess

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18
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Excess or Def Heat: Slight Bleeding

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Def

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19
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Excess or Def Heat: Dry stools, no abdominal Pain

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Def

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Excess or Def heat: Dream-Disturbed, very restless sleep

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Def

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21
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Excess or Def Heat: Waking Up frequently during the night and early morning

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Def

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22
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Excess or Def Heat: Red-hot-painful skin eruption

A

Excess

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Excess or Def Heat: Scarlet-red, not raised, painless skin eruptions

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Def

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24
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Excess or Def Heat: Red with yellow coating

A

Excess

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25
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Excess or Def Heat: Red and peeled or thin

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Def

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Excess or Def Heat: Excess-Rapid-Surging Pulse

A

Excess

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27
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Excess or Def Heat: Superficial-Def-Rapid

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Def

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28
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Treatment for Excess Heat

A

Clear Heat

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29
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Treatment for Def Heat

A

Nourish Yin, Clear Def-Heat

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30
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Etiology of Full-Heat (3)

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  • Emotional Problems
  • Diet (too much red meat, spices, alcohol)
  • An exterior pathogenic factor that has penetrated into –the Interior and transformed into Heat.
31
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Etiology of Empty-Heat (4)

A

Overwork (long hours)
Irregular eating
Excessive Sexual Activity
Persisten, heavy blood loss (such as in menorrhagia)

32
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Pallor, aversion to cold, absence of thirst or drinking a little hot drinks, loose stools, clear urine increased in volume

T: pale tongue with white and moist coating
P: slow pulse

A

Definition of Cold

33
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Excess or Def Cold: Bright White

34
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Excess or Def Cold: Sallow-White

35
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Excess or Def Cold: Sharp pain, worse on pressure

36
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Excess or Def Cold: Dull pain, better on pressure

37
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Excess or Def Cold: Better after bowel movement

38
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Excess or Def Cold: Worse after bowel movement

39
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Excess or Def Cold: Thick White Coating on Tongue

40
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Excess or Def Cold: Thin-White Coating

41
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Excess or Def Cold: Tight-Deep Pulse

42
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Excess or Def Cold: Slow-Deep

43
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Etiology of Excess Cold

A

Cold Foods

External Cold that penetrates into the Interior

44
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Etiology of Def Cold

A

Excessive Physical Work
Diet (inadequate consumption of hot foods)
Excessive sexual activity causing KD Yang def
Internal Cold injuring Yang

45
Q

A sure way to tell between true heat/cold and false heat/cold

A

A sensation of temperature is false.

46
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A manifestation of excessive Yang

A

Excess Heat

47
Q

Can be External (Wind-Heat) or Internal

A

Excess Heat

48
Q

Emotional Stress Leading to Fire

A

Emotional Stress causes Qi Stagnation, If Qi Stagnates it usually gives rise to Heat. Heat may then turning Fire.

49
Q

Deficiency of Yin

A

Empty-Heat

50
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Difference between Empty-Heat and Yin Def

A

The Tongue will show:

Yin def lacks coating but is normal in color.
Empty-Heat the tongue lacks coating and is red.

51
Q

Empty-Heat frequently arises from

A

Kidney Yin

52
Q

Kidney Yin is the foundation for all _____ energies of the body.

A

Yin energies of the body

53
Q

KD Yin of often leads to

A

Yin Def of Liver, HT, and Lungs

54
Q

Mental Restlessness, Fidgeting, Vague Anxiety. Feeling like something is wrong but unable to describe what

A

Empty-Heat Mental Manifestation

55
Q

Treatment method for Full Heat

A

Clear Heat

56
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Treatment method for Empty Heat

A

Nourish Yin

57
Q

Contracts and obstructs and this often causes pain

58
Q

Abdominal Pain is a frequent manifestation of

59
Q

Arises form an Excess of YIn

60
Q

__________can sometimes penetrate into the Interior Directly

A

Exterior Cold

61
Q

Where can exterior Cold sometimes invade directly Which 4 channels and what symptoms?

A

ST (causing vomiting and epigastric pain)
LI (causing diarrhea and abdominal pain)
Uterus (causing acute dysmenorrhea)
LV (swelling and pain in the scrotum)

62
Q

Severity and sudden pain indicates

A

Full Condition

63
Q

Arises from a Def of Yang

A

Empty-Cold

64
Q

Develops when yang Qi is weak and fails to warm the body

A

Empty-Cold

65
Q

_________is most related to Spleen-Yang and/or KD-Yang Def

A

Empty Cold.

66
Q

When Spleen fails to warm the muscles, the muscles feel

A

Cold (Empty-Cold)

67
Q

The Spleen needs heat for its function of transportation of food, and when Yang is def, food is not transformed properly and loose stools result. This is:

A

Empty Cold

68
Q

False appearance of heat or cold

A

False heat or False Cold

69
Q

On False Cold or Heat what nearly always reflects the true condition

A

The tongue-Body

70
Q

Prexisting condition of Interior Heat and subsequent invasion by exterior Wind-Cold

A

Cold on the Exterior-Heat in the Interior

71
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Cold condition is attacked by Wind-Heat

A

Heat on the Exterior-Cold on the Interior

72
Q

Heat tends to rise leaving cold below

A

Heat Above, Cold Below

73
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6 Patterns of Mixed Heat and Cold

A

Cold on the exterior and Heat in the Interior
Heat on the exterior and Cold in the Interior
Heat Above and Cold Below
Heat Pattern and Cold Pattern
True Cold and False Heat
True Heat and False Cold

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