Inquiring about Cold and Heat - Interior Patterns - Cold

Question 1

Interior Patterns - Cold: yang deficiency (deficient cold) - what are the symptoms and pulse and tongue?

Answer 1

1. Aversion to cold, cold body and limbs, spontaneous sweats, other yang deficiency symptoms
2. Chronic diseases
3. Pulse: slow and weak
4. Tongue: Pale and wet

Question 2

True or False: Yang deficiency people cannot easily warm up

Answer 2

False. They can. People with chills cannot

Question 3

Spontaneous sweating is due to what?

Answer 3

Weak yang qi not able to control the pores

Question 4

Interior Patterns - Cold: interior cold excess - what are the symptoms and pulse?

Answer 4

1. Exogenous cold which as moved to the interior
2. Strong aversion to cold, absence of thirst, cold and painful abdomen, cold and pain in local areas
3. Pulse: deep, slow, tight, forceful

Question 5

Half exterior and half interior patterns (alternating chills and fevers): shaoyang disease - what are the symptoms and pulse?

Answer 5

1. Exogenous cold that is half in the exterior and half moving into the interior changing to heat
2. Alternating chills and fever, bitter taste, dry mouth, dizziness, blurry vision, fullness and oppression in the costal and hypochondriachal regions, poor appetite, mental restlessness, nausea or even vomitting
3. Pulse: wiry

Question 6

Shaoyang channel is the pivot between which other two channels?

Answer 6

taiyang and yangming. Yangming the most interior of the three

Question 7

Why does cold change to heat as the pathogen moves interior?

Answer 7

cold pathogen constraint mechanism generating heat

Question 8

Why would there be a bitter taste with shaoyang disease?

Answer 8

The gallbladder is a shaoyang organ and has a bitter taste

Question 9

What is the mechanism of dizziness?

Answer 9

Liver yang rising up

Question 10

Who is the most awesome guy in our TCM class?

Answer 10

Kuong of course!