Lecture 1: Pain

Question 1

Dull ache

Answer 1

Deficiency

Question 2

Sharp

Answer 2

Excess

Question 3

Pain with heaviness

Answer 3

Dampness or phlegm

Question 4

Distending pain

Answer 4

Qi stagnation, usually liver

Question 5

Colicky, spastic pain

Answer 5

Abdominal cold or blood stasis

Question 6

Spastic pain in limbs

Answer 6

Xu of blood or Qi

Question 7

Pain with chest stuffiness

Answer 7

Damp or phlegm accumulation with spleen xu

Question 8

Throbbing pain

Answer 8

Liver yang raising

Question 9

Boring pain

Answer 9

Blood stasis

Question 10

Daytime pain

Answer 10

Dysfunction of qi or blood

Question 11

Pain at night

Answer 11

Dysfunction of yin or blood stasis

Question 12

Intermittent pain

Answer 12

Either qi xu pr qi stagnation

Question 13

Pain after eating

Answer 13

Full condition( stagnation of qi, retention of food or blood stasis)

Question 14

Pain before eating

Answer 14

May be ST or SP Xu

Question 15

Pain before defecation and alleviated after

Answer 15

Full condition usually retention of food

Question 16

Aggravated by pressure

Answer 16

A full condition ( damp phlegm qi or stagnation)

Question 17

Ameliorated by pressure

Answer 17

Deficiency condition

Question 18

Alleviated by warmth

Answer 18

Cold or yang xu

Question 19

Alleviated by warmth

Answer 19

Heat xu

Question 20

Localized pain

Answer 20

Usu due to phlegm or blood stasis

Question 21

Moving pain

Answer 21

Usu due to qi stagnation ( unless it is due to wind in the joints)

Question 22

Pain due to sprains, trauma, or bi syndrome

Answer 22

Due to to wind, cold or dampness - involve the Zang fu and their respective channels

Question 23

Treatment for pain

Answer 23

Needle 
Herbs ( internal or external)
Moxa
Cupping
Gua sha
Electrostim
Polarity agents 
Different metals