Intro to TCM Flashcards
What are the 4 principals of TCM?
- Holism
- Balance
- Prevention
- Pattern Differentiation
What are the 4 concepts of yin & yang?
- Opposition
- Interdependence
- Mutual Consumption
- Intertransformation
What is the concept of opposition?
-Yin & Yang are relatively opposite
- never exactly 50/50
-always changing to maintain homeostasis
-even if something is yin it will contain yang as well
What is the concept of Interdependence?
-yin and yang cannot exist without the other
“amount of activity is correlated to amount of rest”
What is the concept of Mutual Consumption?
-Too much of one will deplete the other
-not enough of one will show more of the other
“not enough yang will look similar to too much yin”
What is the concept of intertransformation?
-Yin & yang transform into one another
“awake into sleep, life into death, summer into winter”
Yin or yang, excess or deficiency?
-Cold symptoms
-abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea pain, & local pain better with warm
-chills
Yin excess
Yin or yang, excess or deficiency?
-produces cold symptoms
-tired after bowel movement
-low libido
-edema
-fatigue
Yang deficient
Yin or yang, excess or deficiency?
- red cheeks
-dry stools
-anxiety at night
-night sweats
-hot flushes
-5 centre heat (palms, sole, chest)
-thirst for cold drinks in sips
Yin deficiency
Yin or yang, excess or deficiency?
-heat symptoms
-hot all day
-red face -thirst for drinks (gulps)
Yang excess
Yin is the _______ for yang
Yang is the _________ for yin
yin is the material basis for yang
yang is the functional manisation of yin
Methods of TCM (8)?
- Acupuncture
- Cupping
- Botanical
- Moxibustion
- Massage (Tui Na)
- Bleeding techniques
- Gua sha
- Tai Chi & Qi Gong
yin or yang?
overcast, weather, feminine, moon, cloudy, negative electrical charge, shady
yin
yin or yang?
positive electrical charge, sun
yang
Yin or yang?
material
produces form
grows
contraction
descending
below
water
female
yin
