OM Diagnosis Part 1 Flashcards
Cause of Pain: Qi Stagnation
distension/bloating more than pain, distending pain, no fixed location, comes and goes
Cause of Pain: Liver-Yang rising
chronic headaches with a distending, throbbing pain
Cause of Pain: Blood stagnation
severe, boring or stabbing pain, fixed location
Cause of Pain: Cold
cramping, spastic pain
Cause of Pain: Damp-heat
burning pain with fullness and heaviness
Cause of Pain: External wind
occipital headache and stiffness
Cause of Pain: External dampness
pain in the joints or epigastrium
Cause of Pain: Retention of food
intense pain with feeling of fullness
Cause of Pain: Phlegm
Joints pain like in Rheumatoid arthritis
Types of pain: Soreness, dull ache
Deficiency (four limbs or trunk) or Dampness
Types of pain: Heaviness
Dampness or Phlegm (limbs, head, or whole body)
Types of pain: Distending
Qi Stagnation (hypochondrium, epigastrium, lower abdomen, chest, head)
Types of pain: Fullness
Retention of Food (epigastrium, lower abdomen)
Types of pain: Emptiness
Qi and Blood Deficiency or Kidney Deficiency, (head)
Types of pain: Feeling of Cold
Cold or Yang Deficiency (abdomen or limbs)
Types of pain: Burning
Heat or Empty-heat (epigastrium or limbs)
Types of pain: Sharp, cramping
Cold or Blood stasis (epigastrium, lower abdomen)
Types of pain: Spastic
Liver Blood Deficiency with Liver Qi stagnation (limbs, abdomen), Liver Yang rising (head)
Types of pain: Stuffiness
Spleen Deficiency with Heat or Phlegm (chest, epigastrium)
Types of pain: Pushing
Qi Stagnation (hypochondrium, epigastrium)
Types of pain: Pulling
Liver Wind (head)
Types of pain: Cutting
Blood Stasis (lower abdomen)
Types of pain: Throbbing
Liver Yang rising (head)
Types of pain: Boring
Blood stasis (head, chest, hypochondrium, epigastrium, lower abdomen)
Types of pain: Lurking (latent, hidden pain)
Qi and Blood Deficiency or Empty-cold (abdomen, lower back)
Time of Pain: Daytime pain
Dysfunction of Qi or Blood
Time of Pain: Night-time pain
Yin Deficiency or Blood Stagnation
Time of Pain: Intermittent pain
Qi Deficiency or Qi Stagnation
Time of Pain: Constant pain
Blood stasis
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Deficiency Stomach
Slight epigastric discomfort, dull, slight pain improved by eating, poor appetite
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Deficiency Spleen
Poor appetite, slight abdominal distension, loose stools
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Stagnation Stomach
Epigastric distension
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Rebellious Stomach
Hiccup, belching, nausea, vomiting
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Rebellious Spleen
Loose stools, diarrhea
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Blood Stasis Stomach
Stabbing. fixed epigastric pain, vomiting of blood
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Blood Stasis Spleen
Stabbing, fixed abdominal pain, blood in stools
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Dampness Stomach
A feeling of fullness and heaviness of the epigastrium, sticky taste, poor appetite
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Dampness Spleen
A feeling of fullness and heaviness of the abdomen
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Phlegm Stomach
A feeling of oppression of the epigastrium, sticky taste, nausea, poor appetite
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Retention of Food Stomach
A feeling of fullness and pain of the epigastrium, sour regurgitation, nausea, poor appetite
Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Retention of Food Spleen
A feeling of fullness and pain of the abdomen
Digestive symptoms: Condition Relieved by Eating
Deficiency pattern
Digestive symptoms: Condition Aggravated by Eating
Excess pattern
Digestive symptoms: Feeling of fulness
Dampness or retention of food
Digestive symptoms: Feeling of Distention
Liver Qi stagnation
Digestive symptoms: Feeling of heaviness
Dampness
Digestive symptoms: Feeling of stuffiness
deficiency with heat or phlegm
Digestive symptoms: Preference of Hot Foods/Drinks
Cold pattern
Digestive symptoms: Preference of Cold Foods/Drinks
Heat pattern
Digestive symptoms: Alleviated by drinking warm liquids, aggravated by cold
Cold in Stomach and Spleen
Digestive symptoms: Alleviated by drinking cold liquids, aggravated by warm
Stomach Heat
Digestive symptoms: Inability to Digest Fats
Dampness in Gallbladder
Normal appetite
Good state of Stomach and Spleen
Lack of appetite
Spleen Qi or Stomach Qi Deficiency or Dampness in Middle burner
Aversion to food
Food poisoning, Retention of food, Dampness in the middle burner, Rebellious Qi of the penetrating vessel (in pregnancy)
Excessive hunger
stomach heat
Excessive hunger without desire to eat
damp heat in stomach or stomach yin deficiency with empty heat
Lack of taste sensation
spleen and stomach deficiency, dampness in middle burner
Bitter taste (constant)
Full-heat in liver or gallbladder
Bitter Taste in Morning
Full-heat in Heart
Sour Taste
retention of food or liver invading stomach
Salty Taste
kidney yin deficiency
Pungent Taste
Lung Heat
Sticky Taste
Dampness
Mild nausea
Stomach Qi Deficiency
Severe nausea/vomiting
Rebellious Stomach Qi
Sour vomiting
Liver Invading to Stomach
Bitter vomiting
liver and/ or gallbaldder heat
Vomiting of Fluids
Stomach Empty condition
Clear watery vomit
Cold in Stomach
Vomiting soon after eating
heat in stomach
Vomiting some hours after eating
cold or empty condition
Loud Bleching
Excess Pattern
Quiet Bleching
Deficiency pattern
Belching with Distention
Stagnant Liver Qi invading the Stomach
Bleching with sour regurgitation
Retention of food
Sour regurgitation with acidity rising
Stagnant Liver Qi invading the Stomach
Sour regurgitation with feeling of fullness
retention of food or dampness in the stomach
Constipation: Aggravation of a condition after bowel movement
Deficiency Pattern
Constipation: alleviated of a conditon after a bowel movement
Excess Pattern
Constipation: Acute constipation with thirst and dry yellow coating
Heat in Stomach and Intestine
Constipation: Old people or women after child birth
Blood Deficiency
Constipation: with small, dry, bitty stools like goar’s stool
Liver-Qi stagnation, Heat in Intestine
Constipation: difficulty in performing a bowel movement (No dry stool)
Liver-Qi Stagnation
Constipation with abdominal pain
excess or deficiency pattern
Constipation with dry stools, dry mouth, desire to drink in small sips
Yin Deficiency in Kidney/Stomach
Alternation of constipation and diarrhea
Liver Qi stagnation invading the Spleen
Chronic loose stools/diarrhea
Spleen and /or Kidney Yang deficiency
Chronic diarrhea every day in the very early morning
Kidney Yang deficiency
Loose stools with undigested food
Spleen Qi deficiency
Stools not loose or only slightly loose but very frequent, can’t hold
Deficiency of Central Qi with sinking of Spleen Qi
Diarrhea with abdominal pain
Liver Qi Stagnation, Cold or Damp-heat
Diarrhea with mucus
Dampness in the Intestines
Diarrhea with blood
Damp-heat in the Intestines or Spleen Qi deficiency
Acute Diarrhea
External Dampness
Undigested food in the stools
Spleen Qi Deficiency
Blood comes first, is turbid and the anus feels heavy and painful
Damp-Heat
Stools come first and then watery blood
deficient Spleen Qi unable to hold blood
Pain accompanying diarrhea
Liver involvement or Heat
Burning sensation in the anus while passing stools
Heat pattern
Sticky stools
Dampness in Intestines