OM Diagnosis Part 2 Flashcards
Acute cough
External invasion of wind
Acute, barking cough with expectoration of yellow mucus
Phlegm-heat in the Lungs
Acute, dry cough with difficult expectoration of scanty sputum after repeated bouts of dry coughing, tickling sensation in throat
Residual Dryness and Phlegm in the Lungs
Chronic cough with easy expectoration of profuse, white sputum, feeling of oppression of the chest, swollen tongue with sticky coating, slippery pulse
Damp-Phlegm in the Lungs
Loud chronic cough with expectoration of profuse yellow or greenish sputum, feeling of oppression of the chest
Phlegm-heat in the Lungs
Chronic dry cough with occasional, difficult expectoration of scanty sputum, dry mouth
Dry-Phlegm in the Lungs
Chronic, slight cough with weak sound, weak voice
Lung Qi deficiency
Chronic, dry cough, dry throat in the evening, night sweating
Lung Yin deficiency
Chest Fixed, Stabbing pain
Heart Blood stagnation
Chest Distending chest and hypochondriac pain
Liver Qi Stagnation
Chest Intermittent chronic chest pain
Blood Stasis with underlying Empty condition
Chest pain accompanied by cough with profuse yellow sputum
Phlegm-heat in the Lungs
Chest pain with cough and breathlessness, red face
Lung-heat
Chest oppression in the left side of the chest
Phlegm obstructing the Heart
Chest pain extending to the upper back
Phlegm or Blood stasis
Chest Feeling of oppression of the chest with slight breathlessness, sighing, cough with expectoration of phlegm
Phlegm in the Lungs
Chest Feeling of oppression of the chest with sighing, feeling of lump in the throat, slight breathlessness without cough or expectoration
Lung Qi Stagnation
Chest Feeling of oppression of the chest with depression, irritability
Liver Qi Stagnation
Hypochondrium Feeling of distension
Liver Qi stagnation
Hypochondrium Stabbing pain
Liver Blood stagnation
Hypochondrium Hypochondriac pain with a feeling of oppression and heaviness
Damp-heat in the Liver/Gallbladder
Epigastrium Dull pain alleviated by eating
Deficiency pattern
Epigastrium Severe pain aggravated by eating
Excess pattern
Epigastrium Severe pain
Excess pattern (Retention of food in the stomach, stomach heat, damp-heat in the stomach, fire, phlegm-fire in the stomach, blood stasis in the stomach, liver qi invading the stomach)
Epigastrium Dull pain
Stomach Qi deficiency, Empty cold in the stomach
Epigastrium Feeling of fullness
Dampness
Epigastrium Very slight feeling of fullness
Spleen Qi deficiency
Epigastrium Feeling of distention
Liver Qi stagnation
Abdomen Lower abdominal pain
Internal cold, Liver Qi stagnation, Liver Blood stagnation, Damp-heat, Stasis of blood in the intestines or Uterus
Abdomen Pain relieved by bowel movement
Full nature
Abdomen Pain aggravated by bowel movement
Empty nature
Abdomen Hypogastrium pain
Damp-heat in Bladder, Liver fire infusing downwards to Bladder14
Limbs Weakness
Stomach Qi Deficiency, Qi/Blood Deficiency, Kidney Yang Deficiency
Limbs More tingling than numbness especially in women
Blood Deficiency
Limbs More numbness, often unilateral, especially in the elderly
Wind
Limbs Numbness with feeling of heaviness
Phlegm
Limbs Numbness with swelling, especially of legs
Dampness or Damp-heat
Limbs Numbness with pain
Stagnation of Qi/Blood
General joint pain Pain wandering from joint to joint
Wind
General joint pain Severe pain in one joint
Cold
General joint pain Dull aches with swelling and heaviness
Dampness
General joint pain Pain with redness, swelling and heaviness
Damp-heat
Shoulder joint pain Pain better with exercise, worse with rest, aggravated by cold, alleviated by warmth
Cold in the Joint
Shoulder joint pain Pain better with exercise, worse with rest
Stagnation of Qi/Blood
Shoulder joint pain Severe pain and stiffness, worse at night
Local Blood Stasis
Shoulder joint pain Pain with breathlessness, palpitation
General Blood Stasis
Elbow joint pain Severe pain aggravated by cold and alleviated by warmth
Retention of Cold
Elbow joint pain Pain alleviated by exercise
Stagnation of Qi/Blood
Elbow joint pain Muscle ache
Retention of dampness in the space between skin and muscles
Severe hand pain aggravated by cold
Cold Bi syndrome
Hand pain with swelling
Damp Bi syndrome
Hand pain is moving and other joints pain
Wind Bi syndrome
Pain in hands and feet
Liver Qi Stagnation
Severe pain in the hands and fingers, worse at night with stiffness
Blood Stasis
Dull ache in the hands
Blood Deficiency
Cold hands, dull ache in the hands, alleviated by heat
Yang Deficiency
Cold hands with palpitation and dizziness
Heart Blood Deficiency
Cold fingers and toes
Liver Qi stagnation
Cold feet
Kidney Yang Deficiency, Liver blood deficiency
Foot pain with swelling
Dampness
Foot pain, swelling, redness and heat
Damp-heat
Chronic foot pain and tingling
Blood deficiency
Foot pain, numbness and tingling
Damp-phlegm
Foot pain in ball of foot with overweight
Damp-phlegm
Foot pain and weakness
Kidney Yang deficiency
Foot pain worse at night, feeling of heat in the soles
Kidney Yin Deficiency
Severe foot pain
Cold patterns
Pain Difficulty in walking in beginning stage
Spleen/Stomach Qi deficiency
Pain Difficulty in walking in later stages (Atrophy)
Liver/Kidney Yin Deficiency or Spleen/Kidney Yang Deficiency
Pain Pronounced tremor of limbs
Liver Wind due to Extreme Heat or Liver Wind due to Liver Fire
Pain Fine tremor or tics
Liver Wind due to Deficiency of Liver yin or Kidney yin or Liver blood
Pain Feeling of heaviness of the limbs
Dampness in lower burner
Insomnia Very restless sleep with a feeling of heat, agitation and excessive dreaming
Excess pattern, Liver patterns causing more severe restlessness than heart patterns
Insomnia Not being able to fall or stay asleep but without any of the above symptoms
Deficiency pattern
Insomnia Difficulty in falling asleep
Blood Deficiency of Heart, Spleen or Liver
Insomnia Waking up many times during the night
Yin Deficiency of Heart, Liver or Kidneys
Insomnia with anxiety, dream-disturbed sleep and other symptoms of Qi and Blood deficiency
Heart/Spleen Blood Deficiency
Insomnia with difficulty in falling asleep, dizziness, blurred vision
Liver Blood deficiency
Insomnia, waking up frequently during the night with excessive dreams together with night sweating and palpitations
Heart/Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty heat
Insomnia Dream-disturbed sleep
Liver Fire or Heart Fire
Insomnia Restless sleep with excessive dreams
Retention of food
Insomnia Waking up early in the morning and hard to fall back to sleep again
Gallbladder Deficiency
Lethargy Sleepiness after eating
Spleen Qi Deficiency
Lethargy and heaviness of the body
Retention of Dampness
Lethargy and heaviness of the body and dizziness
Phlegm
Extreme lethargy and lassitude with a feeling of cold
Kidney Yang Deficiency
Lethargic stupor with exterior Heat symptoms
Invasion of Pericardium by heat
Lethargic stupor, rattling in the throat, a Slippery pulse and a sticky tongue coating
Phlegm blurring mind
Sweating Area of Body Only on head
Heat in the Stomach or Damp-heat
Sweating Area of Body Oily sweat on forehead
Yang collapse
Sweating Area of Body Only on arms and legs
Stomach and Spleen Deficiency
Sweating Area of Body Only on hands
Lung Qi Deficiency or Heart Qi Deficiency
Sweating Area of Body On palms, soles and chest
Yin Deficiency
Sweating Area of Body Only on nose
Damp-heat in the Lungs and/or Stomach
Sweating Area of Body Whole body
Lung Qi Deficiency
Sweating Day-time
Yang Deficiency
Sweating Night-time
Yin Deficiency or Damp-heat
Condition of illness Profuse cold sweat during a severe illness
Yang collapse
Condition of illness Oily sweat on forehead, like pearls, not following
Yang collapse, Danger of imminent death
Quality of sweat Oily
Severe Yang Deficiency
Quality of sweat Yellow
Damp-heat
Tinnitus Sudden onset
Excess condition, usually Liver Fire, Liver Yang rising or Liver Wind
Tinnitus Gradual onset
Empty condition, usually Kidney deficiency
Pressure Noise aggravated by pressing with one’s hands on the ears
Excess pattern
Pressure Noise alleviated by pressing with one’s hands on the ears
Deficiency pattern
Character of noise A loud, high-pitched noise like a whistle
Liver Yang rising, Liver Fire, Liver Wind
Character of noise A low pitched noise like rushing water
Kidney Deficiency
Earache with discharge
Damp-heat in Gallbladder
Deafness Sudden onset
Excess pattern, usually Liver Fire, Liver Yang rising, Liver Wind
Deafness Gradual onset
Deficiency pattern, usually Kidney Deficiency, Heart Blood Deficiency, Yang Qi deficiency, Upper burner Qi deficiency
Eye Pain Pain like a needle, eye redness with headache
Toxic Heat in the Heart channel
Eye Pain Pain, swelling and redness
Invasion of the eye channels by exterior Wind-heat or Interior Liver Fire
Eye Pain Bulging eyes, dark complexion, purple tongue
Blood stasis
Eye Pain Feeling of pressure
Kidney Yin deficiency
Blurred vision and ‘floaters’
Liver Blood deficiency, Liver Yin deficiency, Kidney Yin deficiency
Blurred vision Photophobia
Liver Blood deficiency or Liver Yang rising
Blurred vision Dry eyes
Liver/Kidney Yin deficiency
Intense feeling of cold and shivers
Full-Cold
Body feels noticeably cold and relatively hard to touch
Full-Cold
Pain
Full-Cold
Full pulse
Full-Cold
Sudden onset
Full-Cold
Mild, persistent cold feeling or tendency to feeling cold
Empty-Cold
Body feels mildly cold to touch
Empty-Cold
No pain
Empty-Cold
Weak pulse
Empty-Cold
Slow, gradual onset
Empty-Cold
Interior Conditions Limbs and epigastrium feel cold
Full-Cold in Stomach
Interior Conditions Legs and lower abdomen are cold
Full-Cold in Intestines
Interior Conditions Lower abdomen feels cold
Full-cold in Uterus
Interior Conditions Cold Hands, sweaty hands
Heart and Lung Yang Deficiency
Interior Conditions Cold limbs and abdomen
Spleen/Stomach Yang Deficiency
Interior Conditions Cold legs, knees, feet, back
Kidney Yang Deficiency
Interior Conditions Cold hands and feet, and especially the fingers
Qi stagnation
Interior Conditions Cold hands and chest
Heart Blood Deficiency
Interior Conditions Cold feet
Liver Blood deficiency or Kidney Yang deficiency
Interior Conditions Feeling of heat in the afternoon or evening
Empty-heat
Interior Conditions Low grade fever getting worse in the afternoon, or only occurring in the afternoon
Yin Deficiency
Interior Conditions Constant low-grade temperature
Damp-heat
Interior Conditions Fever in the middle of the night
Yin Deficiency (adult), or Retention of food (child)
Exterior Conditions Aversion to Cold/Fever
Invasion of Wind-Cold or Wind-heat
Exterior Conditions Simultaneous aversion to cold/fever
Wind-cold at the Greater-yang stage or Defensive Qi level
Exterior Conditions Feeling of heat in diseases of exterior origin, with body objectively emanating heat
Pathogenic factor has entered into the Interior
Exterior Conditions Alternating feeling of cold and subjective feeling of heat
Pathogenic factor at the lesser yang stage or the Gallbladder Heat level
Sexual symptoms Men Impotence, feeling cold, backache, weak knees, dizziness, tinnitus, poor memory, abundant clear urine
Kidney Yang Deficiency
Sexual symptoms Men Impotence, dizziness, palpitation, choppy pulse
Heart Blood Deficiency
Sexual symptoms Men Impotence, palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, rapid-overflowing pulse
Heart-Fire
Sexual symptoms Men Impotence, Heaviness of the scrotum, urethral discharge, sticky yellow tongue coating
Damp-heat
Sexual symptoms Men Lack of Libido
Kidney Yang or Qi Deficiency, Spleen or Heart or Lung Deficiency, Liver Qi stagnation
Sexual symptoms Men Premature ejaculation
Kidney Qi not firm, Heart Qi Deficiency, Heart Blood deficiency
Sexual symptoms Men Tiredness and dizziness after ejaculation
Kidney Deficiency
Sexual symptoms Women Lack of libido or an inability to reach an orgasm
Kidney Yang Deficiency, Heart Yang deficiency
Sexual symptoms Women Excessive sexual desire
Liver Fire, Heart Fire, Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty-heat
Sexual symptoms Women Inability to reach orgasm
Heart Deficiency
Sexual symptoms Women Headache soon after orgasm
Heart Fire with Kidney deficiency, Rebellious Qi of the Penetrating vessel
Menstruation Periods always early
Heat in the Blood, or Qi deficiency
Menstruation Periods always late
Blood Deficiency or Stagnation of Blood or Cold
Menstruation Periods irregular
Stagnation of Liver Qi or Liver Blood, or Spleen Deficiency
Menstruation Heavy Blood loss
Heat in the Blood, or Qi Deficiency
Menstruation Scanty periods
Blood Deficiency, Stagnation of Blood or Cold
Menstruation Dark red or bright red
Heat in the Blood
Menstruation Pale
Blood Deficiency
Menstruation Purple or blackish
Stasis of Blood or Cold
Menstruation Fresh red
Empty-heat from Yin Deficiency
Menstruation Congealed blood with clots
Stasis of Blood or Cold
Menstruation Watery Blood
Blood Deficiency or Yin Deficiency
Menstruation Turbid Blood
Blood heat or Stagnation of Cold
Menstruation Pain before the periods
Stagnation of Qi or Blood
Menstruation Pain during the periods
Blood-heat, or Stagnation of Blood or Cold
Menstruation Pain after the periods
Blood Deficiency
Breast lumps Single or Multiple, Soft or stony hard, movable, pain with pressure, no depression on the skin, distinct edges
Phlegm (Fibrocystic disease)
Breast lumps Single, Firm, movable, no pain with pressure, no depression on the skin, distinct edges
Phlegm with Blood stasis (Fibroadenoma)
Breast lumps Single, Stony hard, not movable, no pain with pressure, depression on the skin, indistinct edges
Phlegm with Qi/Blood Stagnation (Carcinoma)
Premenstrual breast distention Pronounced distension, irritability, wiry pulse
Liver Qi stagnation
Premenstrual breast distention Slight breast distention, sadness, weak pulse
Lung Qi stagnation
Premenstrual breast distention Swollen and painful breasts, swollen tongue
Liver Qi Stagnation with Phlegm
Premenstrual breast distention Painful breasts, purple tongue
Liver Blood stasis
Premenstrual breast distention Mild breast distention, choppy pulse
Liver Blood deficiency
Leucorrhoea White discharge
Spleen or Kidney Yang deficiency with cold, or Exterior Cold-damp, or Liver Qi Stagnation
Leucorrhoea Yellow discharge
Heat, usually Damp-heat in the lower burner
Leucorrhoea Greenish discharge
Damp-heat in the Liver channel
Leucorrhoea Red and white discharge
Damp-heat
Leucorrhoea Yellow discharge with pus and blood in a woman after menopause
Toxic Damp-heat in the Uterus
Leucorrhoea Watery
Cold-Damp
Leucorrhoea Thick
Damp-heat
Leucorrhoea Fishy smell
Damp-cold or Damp-Heat
Leucorrhoea Leathery smell
Damp-heat
Pregnancy Infertility
Kidney Essence Deficiency, Blood Deficiency, or Damp-heat in the lower burner, or Stasis of Blood in the Uterus
Pregnancy Vomiting during pregnancy
Stomach and Penetrating vessel Deficiency
Pregnancy Oedema during pregnancy
Kidney Yang deficiency
Pregnancy High blood pressure
Kidney deficiency with Liver Yang rising
Pregnancy Miscarriage before 3 months
Blood or Essence Deficiency, Kidney Deficiency
Pregnancy Miscarriage after 3 months
Liver Blood stasis or Sinking of Spleen Qi
Childbirth Nausea and heavy bleeding after delivery
Exhaustion of the Penetrating vessel
Childbirth Sweating and fever after delivery
Exhaustion of Qi and Blood
Childbirth Postnatal depression
Heart Blood Deficiency
Childbirth Postnatal psychosis
Blood stasis in the Uterus and Heart
Lactation Lack of Milk
Blood deficiency, Stomach/Spleen deficiency, Liver Qi stagnation
Lactation Spontaneous milk flow
Spleen Qi deficiency, Stomach heat, Liver Fire
Lactation Mastitis
Toxic heat in Stomach channel
Children’s Digestive Abdominal pain
Retention of Cold in the Stomach and Intestines, Stagnation of Qi in the Intestines
Children’s Digestive Vomiting of milk and colic in babies
Retention of Food
Children’s Respriatory Cough, wheezing, breathlessness or earache
Invasion of Wind
Children’s Respriatory Chronic cough/wheezing and frequent respiratory infections
Lung Phlegm-heat from invasions of External wind
Children’s Earache Chronic earache
Damp-heat in Gallbladder channel
Children’s Earache Chronic catarrh, with constantly runny/blocked nose, cough, glue ear
Residual pathogenic factor after Wind invasions with a Spleen deficiency and Phlegm
Children’s Sleep Disturbed sleep with loud crying in babies
Retention of Food and Stomach Heat
Children’s Sleep Relatively quiet crying at night
possibly Prenatal shock
Children’s Sleep Disturbed sleep in older children
Liver Fire, Stomach Heat, Retention of Food
Children’s Immunizations Skin rashes, insomnia and a temporary change in the character
Latent Heat