问诊 II Interrogation II

Question 1

Tinnitus aggravated by pressing with one’s hands on the ears

Answer 1

Excess

Question 2

Tinnitus alleviated by pressing with one’s hand on the ears

Answer 2

Deficiency

Question 3

High pitch tinnitus

Answer 3

LV yang rising

Question 4

Low pitch tinnitus (like water rushing)

Answer 4

KD deficiency

Question 5

Chronic Deafness usually caused by

Answer 5

KD deficiency, HT blood deficiency, U.J. Qi deficiency, Yang-Qi deficiency

Question 6

Eye Pain, swelling and redness

Answer 6

Wind-Heat or LV fire

Question 7

Eye pain like a needle with red eyes, associated with headache

Answer 7

Toxic Heat in HT channel

Question 8

Feeling of Pressure in the eyes

Answer 8

KD yin deficiency

Question 9

Floaters in eyes

Answer 9

LV blood deficiency; LV/KD yin deficiency

Question 10

Dry Eyes

Answer 10

KD yin deficiency (among others)

Question 11

Lack of appetite

Answer 11

SP Qi deficiency

Question 12

Being always hungry

Answer 12

ST heat

Question 13

Fullness and distension after eating

Answer 13

Food Stagnation

Question 14

Bitter Taste

Answer 14

Excess Heat

Question 15

Lack of Taste

Answer 15

SP/ST deficiency (also exterior wind cold/heat)

Question 16

Clear watery vomit

Answer 16

Cold in ST with fluid retention

Question 17

Vomiting soon after eating

Answer 17

Heat pattern

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Yin deficiency

Question 19

Thirst with a desire to drink large amounts of cold water

Answer 19

Excess heat

Question 20

Absence of thirst

Answer 20

Cold Pattern

Question 21

Thirst but no desire to drink

Answer 21

Damp Heat

Question 22

Desire to drink warm liquid

Answer 22

Cold pattern

Question 23

Desire to drink cold liquids

Answer 23

Heat pattern

Question 24

Sudden Vomiting with Loud noise

Answer 24

Excess

Question 25

Slow in coming with weak noise

Answer 25

Deficiency

Question 26

Very restless sleep, fever, agitation and excessive dreaming (LV pattern > HT pattern)

Answer 26

Excess pattern

Question 27

Not being able to fall or stay asleep

Answer 27

Deficiency Pattern

Question 28

Not being able to fall asleep, but sleeping well after falling asleep

Answer 28

HT blood deficiency

Question 29

Not being able to fall asleep, dizziness, blurred vision

Answer 29

LV blood deficiency

Question 30

Waking up many times during the night

Answer 30

Yin Deficiency (HT/KD/LV)

Question 31

Dream-disturbed sleep

Answer 31

LV Fire or HT fire

Question 32

Restless sleep with dreams

Answer 32

Food retention

Question 33

Waking up early in the morning and failing to fall asleep again

Answer 33

GB deficiency

Question 34

Greater tendency to wake early is normal, due to the physiological decline of Qi/Blood

Answer 34

Grow older (normal)

Question 35

Feeling Sleepy after eating

Answer 35

SP Qi deficiency

Question 36

Lethargy and Heaviness

Answer 36

Damp retention

Question 37

Lethargy and heaviness+dizziness

Answer 37

Phlegm retention

Question 38

Extreme lethargy and lassitude with a feeling of cold

Answer 38

KD yang deficiency

Question 39

Lethargic stupor with exterior heat symptoms

Answer 39

Heat invading PC

Question 40

Lethargic stupor with rattling in the throat, slippery pulse, sticky tongue coating

Answer 40

Phlegm misting the mind

Question 41

Acute Constipation with thirst and dry yellow tongue coating

Answer 41

Heat in ST and LI

Question 42

Constipation with small, round goat like stools

Answer 42

LV qi stagnation and LI heat

Question 43

Difficulty in performing a bowel movement (stools not dry)

Answer 43

LV qi stagnation

Question 44

Constipation with abdominal pain

Answer 44

Cold

Question 45

Alternation of constipation and diarrhea

Answer 45

LV qi stag. invading SP

Question 46

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

Answer 46

KD/ST Yin deficiency

Question 47

Constipation in old people or women after childbirth

Answer 47

Blood Deficiency

Question 48

Chronic Diarrhea

Answer 48

SP/KD yang deficiency

Question 49

Cocks-crow diarrhea

Answer 49

KD yang deficiency/SP yang deficiency

Question 50

Loose stools with undigested food

Answer 50

SP qi deficiency

Question 51

Diarrhea accompanied by abdominal pain, fullness, undigested food

Answer 51

LI Cold

Question 52

Black or very dark stools

Answer 52

Blood Stasis

Question 53

Blood in Diarrhea

Answer 53

Heat

Question 54

Diarrhea with mucus in stools

Answer 54

LI Dampness

Question 55

Blood in stool , bright red splashing in all directions

Answer 55

LI damp heat

Question 56

Blood in stool, turbid, anus heavy and painful

Answer 56

Blood Heat

Question 57

Foul Smelling diarrhea, burning sensation in anus

Answer 57

Heat

Question 58

Absence of smell ( in diarrhea)

Answer 58

COLD

Question 59

Borborygmi with loose stools

Answer 59

SP deficiency

Question 60

Borborygmi with abdominal distension without loose stools

Answer 60

LV qi stagnation

Question 61

Flatulence

Answer 61

LV qi stagnation

Question 62

Flatulence with foul smell

Answer 62

SP Damp Heat/ LI Heat

Question 63

Flatulence without smell

Answer 63

SP Yang deficiency

Question 64

Enuresis or incontinence

Answer 64

KD Deficiency

Question 65

Retention of Urine

Answer 65

UB Damp heat, LU qi deficiency

Question 66

Difficulty urinating

Answer 66

UB damp heat or KD deficiency

Question 67

Pain During urination

Answer 67

UB Damp Heat

Question 68

Pain Before urination

Answer 68

Lower Jiao Qi Stag

Question 69

Pain After urination

Answer 69

Qi deficiency

Question 70

Pale Urine

Answer 70

Cold pattern

Question 71

Dark Urine

Answer 71

Heat pattern

Question 72

Turbid or cloudy urine

Answer 72

UB dampness

Question 73

Copious, clear and pale urine

Answer 73

exterior wind

Question 74

dark urination during and exterior wind-cold or wind-heat

Answer 74

Exterior Wind moving to the Interior

Question 75

Large amounts of urine

Answer 75

KD deficiency

Question 76

Scanty urination

Answer 76

KD yin deficiency