Meta Systems and Micro Systems Flashcards
We and everything else are all in some way _______ of the greater ________
microcosms; macrocosm
Basic principle of Organ manifestation theory?
What is happening on the inside wil manifest on the outside: “as without, so within,” and vice-versa
_______are a major tool for learning to read the body from the outside
Microsystems
How are microsystems like holographic correspondence maps?
Any part will represent the whole – complete images of the larger entity they originally comprised
What is the classic mapping system that can Be used anywhere on the body?
Bagua, the Eight Trigrams
What are the two organizations of the bagua, what do they refer to, and which is used in clinic?
Earlier Heaven (pre-natal) and Later Heaven (Post-natal); Later Heaven is used in clinic
Trigram 3: name the associations
Li; fame/ rank; Reputation, Eye; Fire; Red; South
Trigram 8: name the associations
Kuen; Marriage; Mother; Abdomen; Earth; Organs; red/pink/white
Trigram 2: name the associations
Dwei; Children; descendent; offspring; lake; mouth; metal; white; West
Trigram 1: name the associations
Chyan; Helpful people; Heaven; travel; head; white/ grey/ black
Trigram 6: name the associations
Kan; career; Ancestral; Ear/ bckground; water; black; North
Trigram 7: name the associations
Gen; knowledge; self-cultivation; mountain; hands; black/ blue/ green
Trigram 4: name the associations
Jen; family. health; Thunder; foot; wood; blue/ green; East
Trigram 5: name the associations
Hsun; wealth; wind; hips; blue/ purple/ red
how is the bagua laid out on the abdomen?
Centered on umbilicus; fire / South above water/ North
correctly match the organ with the region of the tongue:
back of tongue, sides of tongue, center of tongue, front of tongue, tip of tongue; lungs, liver, kidney, heart, spleen
back = kidney; sides = liver; center = spleen; front = lungs; tip = heart
Match these organs with the corresponding color and region of the eye: Kidney, Liver, Spleen, Heart, Lungs
Kidney = black = pupil; liver = green = iris; spleen = flesh = eyelid; heart = red = medial/ lateral canthus; lungs = white = cornea
Correctly order the body parts which can be mapped onto any long bone in the body, from superior to inferior – upper limb, lower abdomen, leg, stomach, neck, kidney, duodenum, waist, foot, head, liver, lung-heart
1) head 2) neck 3) upper limb 4) lung-heart 5) liver 6) stomach 7) duodenum 8) kidney 9) waist 10) lower abdomen 11) leg 12) foot
The transition form the Dao to all things is dependent upon _____
Qi
Qi exsts in two states; what are they?
1) in constant motion 2) diffused or concentrated
Name three ways that all things rely on Qi
1) Qi generates. 2) Qi strengthens or weakens, 3) Qi changes or transforms
The metasystems of CM and Chinese Philosophy delineate __________ and ___________
relationships; principles of change
Metasystems rely heavily upon _____
analogies
In CM, the search for Truth has always been _________
inwardly focused
The metasystems of organizing information are part of the system of __________ in Chinese epistemology
Accepted “truths”
Anything is divisible by the ________
metasystems
Metasystems help to define the relationship between _______ and how they________ or ____________ one another
components; effect; transform into
True or false: Yin-yang, Three Treasures, Five Phases and Eight Trigrams are each separate from the other
False. The are different ways to organize things, but they are not completely separate
Microsystems are _______ and ________
Diagnostic; therapeutic
Define a microsystem
A map of all the piece of a greater whole on a small subsection of itself
Which organ systems are diagnosed with the right pulses?
Lung, spleen, Kidney Yang (ming man/ gate of life)
Which organ systems are diagnosed with the left pulses?
Heart, Liver, Kidney yin
