Inquiring about sweat Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 5 key points about sweat
A
- Presence or absence
- Location
- Time
- Nature (quality)
- Quantity
2
Q
Sweat and exterior patterns - no sweating - what are the symptoms?
A
Exterior wind cold excess (taiyang cold damage)
- no sweating, chills more than fever, stiff and painful nape and neck, headache, floating and tight pulse
3
Q
Sweat and exterior patterns - sweating - what are the two types and their symptoms?
A
- Exterior wind invasion with deficiency (taiyang wind strike)
- sweating, aversion to wind, slight feverishness, floating and moderate pulse - Exterior wind heat invasion (wind heat attacking the defense level)
- sweating, fever more than chills, headache, sore throat, floating and rapid pulse
4
Q
What region of the head is impacted with a exterior wind cold excess headache?
A
Occipital area
5
Q
True or False: wind likes to force pores open
A
True
6
Q
What are the 3 types of interior sweat patterns and their symptoms?
A
- Spontaneous sweating (self sweat)
- sweating in the daytime that is not related to emotions, temperature or exercise, but worse with exertion
- aversion to wind, cold, weak immunity, pale complexion, listless and fatigued, thin and weak pulse - Night sweating (thief sweat)
- sweating that occurs at night
- yin deficiency
- night sweats, malar flush, tidal fever, 5 palm heat, thin, red tongue with little or not coat, thin and rapid pulse - interior excess heat - Whole body sweating
- severe yang deficiency
- profuse sweating that occurs over the entire body, fever, thirst with desire to drink, constipation, dark urine, rapid and forceful pulse
- profuse sweating over entire body, cold limbs, faint pulse - collapse of yang, desertion of yang qi
7
Q
What causes night sweats in terms of yin and yang
A
sleep occurs when yang enters yin. When yin is deficient, yang is in excess and steams the yin, causing night sweat
