Inquiry

Question 1

What are the 16 diagnostic areas of questioning

Answer 1

1. pain
2. Food and taste
3. Stool and urine
4. Thirst and drink
5. Energy levels
6. Head face and body
7. Chest and abdomen
8. Limbs
9. Sleep
10. Sweating
11. Eyes and ears
12. Feeling cold or heat or fever
13. Emotional sx
14. Sexual sx
15. Women’s sx
16. Children’s sx

Question 2

Why I was questioning about aversion to cold and fever traditionally placed at the beginning of interrogation in the traditional 10 questions?

Answer 2

Because when traditional 10 questions were formulated febrile disease were very common in China and would have formed the major part of a doctors practice

Question 3

What is the basic pathology of pain Due to a full condition

Answer 3

All pain from full condition is seen to be caused by obstruction to the circulation of qi in the channels

Question 4

What are characteristics of pain caused by blood stasis

Answer 4

Blood stasis causes severe boring or stabbing pain with fixed location

Question 5

In general if you condition is aggravated by eating what does this indicate?

Answer 5

But it is a full condition

Question 6

What pattern as indicated by a constant bitter taste in the mouth

Answer 6

Liver fire

Question 7

If I condition gets worse after a bowel movement what general pattern do you suspect

Answer 7

Empty pattern

Question 8

Loose stools with undigested food indicate which pattern

Answer 8

Spleen qi deficiency

Question 9

What is likely pattern causing difficulty in urination an elderly person

Answer 9

Kidney qi deficiency

Question 10

The absence of thirst indicate which general pattern

Answer 10

A cold pattern usually stomach or Splaine

Question 11

Patient reports long-term tiredness and is also tense and anxious pulse is wiry what pattern do you suspect

Answer 11

Liver qi stagnation

Question 12

A doll headache at the vertex of the head commonly comes from which pattern

Answer 12

Liver blood deficiency

Question 13

The patient complains of sinusitis with a chronic runny nose with a sticky yellow discharge which pattern is most likely?

Answer 13

Damp heat in the stomach channel

Question 14

What my mouth ulcers on the lower gum indicate

Answer 14

Heat or empty heat in the stomach

Question 15

Numbness of the fingers elbow and arm on the side of the body indicates the presence of which pathogens

Answer 15

Internal wind and phlegm

Question 16

Which patterns most commonly caused a feeling of fulness and distension in the epigastrium

Answer 16

Dampness or liver qi stagnantion

Question 17

What are three possible patterns causing cold hands

Answer 17

Young deficiency heart blood deficiency or liver qi stagnation

Question 18

What pattern is most likely to be present of a patient wakes up frequently during the night

Answer 18

You can deficiency of heart liver or kidneys

Question 19

Which organ do you suspect may be involved in a patient sweats only on their hands

Answer 19

The lungs or the heart

Question 20

Tinnitus with low pitch noise like rushing water indicates what pattern

Answer 20

Kidney deficiency

Question 21

Give three clinical Manifestations of full cold

Answer 21

Any three of the following: intense feeling of cold and shivers, body feels cold and relatively hard to touch, pain, full pulse, sudden onset

Question 22

What is meant by the term fever in Chinese diagnosis in the context of exterior diseases

Answer 22

Fever literally means omission of heat and therefore it means the patient’s body feels objectively hot on palpation

Question 23

The patient suffers from anxiety that gets worse in the afternoon and also suffers with insomnia palpitations and night sweats what is the likely presenting pattern

Answer 23

Heart yin deficiency

Question 24

Which two organs would you consider first and the diagnosis of a young man suffering with importance

Answer 24

The kidneys or the heart

Question 25

Pain after a period Indicates which pattern

Answer 25

Blood deficiency

Question 26

Whereas a Chinese patient might report a distending pain a western patient might report
A) Feelin small and in pain
B) feeling bloated
C) feeling painfully hungry

Answer 26

B

Question 27

An area of questioning which might be added to the traditional 10 questions is
A) emotional state
B) sexual symptoms
C) Energy levels
D)All of the above

Answer 27

D

Question 28

Always being hungry is usually a sign of
A) stagnation of qi
B) heat in the stomach
C) When she deficiency

Answer 28

B

Question 29

Constipation with small dry bitty stools like goat stools indicates
A) dampness with spleen qi deficiency
B) lung qi deficiency and phlegm
C) stagnation of liver qi And heat in the intestines

Answer 29

C

Question 30

What does the absence of thirst usually indicate
A) cold pattern
B) heat pattern
C) dryness

Answer 30

A

Question 31

Slight dizziness which gets worse when the person is tired is often due to
A) phlegm
B) blood deficiency
C) Lung yin deficiency 

Answer 31

B

Question 32

The most common cause of cold hands is
A) yin deficiency
B) phlegm
C) yang deficiency

Answer 32

C

Question 33

Fever in Chinese pattern discrimination indicates that
A) The patient’s temperature registers at a raised on thermometer
B) The patience for head and door some of the hand feel hot to touch
C)The patient feels hot

Answer 33

B

Question 34

Questions about sexual symptoms or ask primarily to ascertain the state of which organs
A) kidney and spleen
B) kidneys and heart
C) Lung And liver

Answer 34

B

Question 35

Sometimes the absence of certain symptoms or sign is diagnostically significant true or false

Answer 35

True

Question 36

The tongue and Paul’s frequently show the existence of patterns that we’re not evident from the symptoms and signs reported by the patient true or false

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Pain from a full condition is more intense and sharper than that from an empty condition true or false

Answer 37

True

Question 38

A bitter taste from liver fire is only present in the morning after a sleepless night true or false

Answer 38

False

Question 39

Chronic diarrhoea occurring every day in the very early morning is due to stomach qi Deficiency
True or false

Answer 39

False

Question 40

Dampness and phlegm are heavy And way down the body so that the person feels heavy And tired true or false

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Mouth ulcers always indicate a full condition True or false

Answer 41

False 

Question 42

Blood deficiency is a common cause of numbness/tingling of the limbs in younger people especially women true or false

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Walking during the night generally indicates yang deficiency true or false

Answer 43

False

Question 44

Heart and or liver blood deficiency may lead to excessive worrying True or false

Answer 44

True