Intro into OM Theory Flashcards
What describes the meaning of the Tao?
- The Way
- The One
What are the 4 aspects of Yin Yang Relationship?
- OPPOSITION - relative opposition containing seed of the opposite
- INTERDEPENDANCE - they cannot exist without each other
- MUTUALLY CONSUMING - when one is out of balance it affects the other
- INTERTRANSFORMATIONAL - they convert into each other
What are the Yin Yang Correspondences?
- YANG: light, sun, brightness, activity, heaven, round, time, east, south, left, immaterial, produces energy, generates, non-substantial, energy, expansion, raising, above, fire
- YIN: darkness, moon, shade, rest, earth, flat, space, west, north, right, material, produces form, grows, substantial, matter, contraction, descending, below, water
Describe the 4 seasons in terms of Yin & Yang.
- SPRING: yang within yin - growth of yang
- SUMER: yang within yang - maximum yang
- AUTUMN: yin within yang - growth of yin
- WINTER: yin within yin - maximum yin
Describe the Mutual Consuming of Yin & Yang.
- Excess of Yin = FULL COLD
- Excess of Yang = FULL HEAT
- Deficiency of Yang (Consumption) = EMPTY COLD or FALSE COLD
- Deficiency of Yin (Consumption) = EMPTY HEAT or FALSE HEAT
Is it easier to eliminate excess or boost deficiency?
Eliminate excess.
What are the 5 elements according to TCM?
- Wood
- Fire
- Earth
- Metal
- Water
What are the 4 elemental sequences?
- GENERATING = water, wood, fire, earth, metal
- CONTROLLING = water, fire, metal, wood, earth
- OVER-ACTING = water, fire, metal, wood, earth
- INSULTING = water, earth, wood, metal, fire
What are the MOVEMENTS associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - expansion
- Fire - upwards
- Earth - center point, stability
- Metal - contraction
- Water - downwards
What are the TASTES associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - sour
- Fire - bitter
- Earth - sweet
- Metal - pungent
- Water - salty
What are the SEASONS associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - spring
- Fire - summer
- Earth - late season, no season
- Metal - autumn
- Water - winter
What are the COLORS associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - green
- Fire - red
- Earth - yellow
- Metal- white
- Water black
What are the ORGANS associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood = LV, GB
- Fire = HT, SI (PI, SJ)
- Earth = SP, ST
- Metal = LU, LI
- Water - KD, UB
What EMOTIONS are associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - anger
- Fire - joy
- Earth - pensiveness
- Metal - sadness, greif
- Water - fear
What SOUNDS are associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - shouting
- Fire - laughing
- Earth - singing
- Metal - crying
- Water - groaning
What are the CLIMATES associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - wind
- Fire - heat
- Earth - dampness
- Metal - dryness
- Water - cold
What are the TISSUES associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - sinews
- Fire - vessels
- Earth - muscles
- Metal - skin
- Water - bones
What are the SENSE ORGANS associated with the 5 elements?
- Wood - eyes
- Fire - tongue
- Earth - mouth
- Metal - nose
- Water - ears
Describe manifestations of DEFICIENT YIN.
insomnia, nigth sweats, 5 palm heat, low grade fever
Describe manifestations of DEFICIENT YANG.
cold, always need scarf, want to curl up at home, low blabido, edema (no heat to move the water)
Describe manifestations of EXCESS YANG.
fever, heat, restlessness
Describe manifestations of EXCESS YIN.
cold, shivering, blue, cramps due to cold, damp (candida/yeast), thigh tongue coating, dense… gas, bloating, vaginal discharge
What are the 5 vital substances?
- Qi
- Blood (Xue)
- Essence (Jing)
- Body Fluids (Jin, Yi)
- Mind (Shen)
What is Qi?
- a manifestation of energy
- inanimate or non-substantial
- connected to funcational ability of organs
- comes into body in form of food/fluids
What is Post-Heaven Essence?
- what you get from food, fluid, activity
- how you live your life
- stomach & spleen are root of this
What is Post-Heaven Essence?
- what you get from food, fluid, activity
- how you live your life
- stomach & spleen are root of this
What is Kidney Essence?
- derived from pre & post heaven essence
- determins growth, reproduction, developement, sexual maturation, conception, pregnancy, menopause, and ageing
- has to turn into kidney qi for body to use it
- essence + kidney yin are similair
- kidney yang turns into kidney qi
What is Kidney Yang?
Ming Meng Fire
What is Essence?
Jing
- something that is refined or distilled
- refers to pre-heaven, post-heaven & kidney essence
What is Origional Qi?
Yuan Qi
- related to kidney essence - essence in the form of qi
- origionates between 2 kidneys
- derrived from pre-heaven essence
- replenished by post-heaven qi
- related to the gate of life (ming men)
- foundation for all yin & yang energies
- motive force that moves funcational activity of organs
- helps transformation of gathering qi (zong qi) into true qi (zhen qi)
- helps transformation of food qi (gu qi) into blood
- comes out of yuan source points
What are the 3 TREASURES?
- Mind (heart - heaven)
- Qi (stomach, spleen - person)
- Essence (kidneys - earth)
What are the fucntions of Kidney Essence?
- determines growth, reproduction & developement
- basis of Kidney-Qi
- produces Marrow
- basis of constitution
- foundation of the 3 treasures
What is Defensive Qi?
Wei Qi
- has root in lower burner (kidnesys), nourished by middle burner (stomach/spleen), and spread outward in the upper burner (lungs)
- coarse form of qi
- circulates in the couli space
- protects the body from invasion by external pathogens
- warms the muscles
- regulates opening & closing of pores
What is Nutritive Qi?
Ying Qi
- nourishes the internal organs
- closely linked to blood
- flows in channels & blood vessels
What is True Qi?
Zhen Qi
- originates from gathering qi
- origionates from lunges
- assumes two forms (nutritive & devensive qi)
What is Gathering Qi?
Zong Qi
- nourishes the heart and lungs
- enhances and promotes lung fucntion of controling qi and respiration + heart function of goveringing blood & vessels
- controls speach and strength of voice
What is Upright Qi?
Zheng Qi
- umbrella term for all types of qi that play a role in the defense of the bofy from invasion from external pathogens: wei qi, ying qi, kidney essence
What is Central Qi?
Zhong Qi
- true qi of ST/SP
- the SP function of transformation & transportation
- the SP fucntion of raising qi
What is Food Qi?
Gu Qi
- originates from stomach and sleepn
- origin of qi and blood
- rises to the chest where (in the lungs) it combines with air to form gathering qi (zong qi)
- rises to the chest where (in the heart) it is transformed into blood
What are the 6 fucntions of Qi?
- transforming
- transporting
- holding
- raising
- protecting
- warming
What are the functions of Blood?
- nourishes the body
- circulates with nutritive qi
- moistens the body
- houses the mind
- determines menstruation
MAIN FUNCTION IS TO NOURISH!
What is the relationship between Blood & Qi?
- Qi generates blood (makes it)
- Qi moves blood
- Qi holds blood in place
- Blood is the mother of Qi (Qi relies on blood for nourishment)
What are the 4 Qi pathologies?
- Deficient - low energy, lack of activity or organ (diet/overwork)
- Sinking - prolapse
- Stagnant - pain, discomfort, stress (less severe than blood stagnantion)
- Rebellious - move in wrong drirection - cough, vomit, etc.
What are the 3 blood pathologies?
- Deficient - annemia
- Heat - hemorate
- Stasis - pain (clot, tumor)
What are the two types of body fluids?
- JIN FLUIDS = move quickly, moisten, norush, thin blood out and prevent stasis - sweat, tears, salaiva, mucous (defensive qi exterior)
- YI LIQUIDS = turbid, heavey, dense - moisten joints, spine, brain, bone marrow (nutritive qi interior)
THEY MOISTEN (DO NOT NOURISH)!
What are 2 fluid pathologies?
- Excess (accumulation) - edema
- Deficient - dryness
What are the fucntions of the mind?
Shen is the most subtle of all vitabl substances.
- consciousness
- thinking
- memory
- insight
- cognition
- sleep
- intelligence
- wisdom
- ideas
- affections
- feelings
- senses
Where is the Shen housed?
In the heart = all emotions adfec the heart.
- Wood - anger
- Fire - joy
- Metal - saddness
- Water - fear
- Earth - pensiveness
Describe the pathway of Qi in the body.
- Have food (ie apple)
- Chew & swallow to ST
- Transformed by SP = Gu Qi (Food)
- Mix with Air from LU = Zong Qi (Gathering)
- Go to HT = transformed into Blood
- Origional Qi (Yuan) mixes with Gathering Qi (Zong) to become True Qi (Zhen)
- Zhen Qi becomes Wei (Defensive) and Ying (Nutritive) Qi
