Inquiring about the body

Question 1

Hypochondrium - Distending pain in the chest and hypochondrium, sighing, irritability, wiry pulse

Answer 1

Liver qi stagnation

Question 2

Hypochondrium - Burning pain in hypochondrium, red complexion and eyes, wiry and rapid pulse

Answer 2

Depressed heat from liver qi stagnation

Question 3

Hypochondrium - Why is there depressed fire from liver qi stagnation?

Answer 3

Constrained liver qi causing the depressed fire

Question 4

Hypochondrium - Distending and heavy or burning pain in hypochondrium, yang-type jaundice, wiry and slippery pulse

Answer 4

Damp-heat in liver and gall bladder

Question 5

Hypochondrium - What causes distending pain?

Answer 5

qi stagnation

Question 6

Hypochondrium - True or false qi stagnation is at a fixed location and does not move

Answer 6

False. Qi stagnation is fixed, but it can move and be fixed at another location

Question 7

Hypochondrium - Fixed and stabbing hypochondrium pain that is worse at night

Answer 7

Blood stasis

Question 8

Hypochondrium - Fullness and oppression in hypochondrium, alternating fever and chills, bitter mouth, dizziness, blurry vision, restlessness, nausea, wiry pulse

Answer 8

Shaoyang disease

Question 9

Hypochondrium - Nausea is due to what in terms of the five elements?

Answer 9

Wood overacting on earth

Question 10

Epigastrium (cold and heat) - Cold and paroxysmal epigastric pain relieved by warmth and aggravated by cold

Answer 10

Invasion of pathogenic cold in the stomach

Question 11

Epigastrium (cold and heat) - Burning pain in epigastrium, excessive hunger, foul breath, constipation with dry stool

Answer 11

Stomach fire

Question 12

Epigastrium (qi and blood) - Distending pain aggravated by anger/stress/emotions, belching, hiccup

Answer 12

Liver qi stagnation with liver overacting on stomach

Question 13

Epigastrium (qi and blood)- What causes belching in terms of the five elements?

Answer 13

Wood overacting on earth just like with nausea

Question 14

Epigastrium (qi and blood) - Stabbing pain in fixed location that is worse at night

Answer 14

Blood stasis in the stomach

Question 15

Epigastrium (yin and yang)- Dull epigastric pain relieved by warmth and pressure

Answer 15

Stomach yang deficiency

Question 16

Epigastrium (yin and yang) - Burning sensation in epigastrium, hunger but inability to eat much, red tongue with little to no coating, thin rapid pulse

Answer 16

Stomach yin deficiency with deficient heat

Question 17

Abdomen - Excess

Answer 17

Pain: acute, more severe, worse with pressure

Question 18

Abdomen - Deficiency

Answer 18

Pain: chronic, less severe, better with pressure

Question 19

Abdomen - Cold

Answer 19

Worse with cold, better with heat

Question 20

Abdomen - Heat

Answer 20

Worse with heat, better with cold

Question 21

Abdomen - Blood stasis

Answer 21

Fixed and sharp/stabbing pain, worse at night

Question 22

Liver qi stagnation

Answer 22

Distending and moving pain, possibly worse with stress/emotional upset