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OM Topics Flashcards

1
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What are the five vital substances?

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  • Jing - associated with Kidney
  • Qi - associated with Lung
  • Blood - associated with Liver
  • Body Fluids - associated with Spleen
  • Shen - Associated with heart
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What are the three treasures?

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  1. Shen
  2. Qi
  3. Jing
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What is the commander of blood?

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Qi

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What is the mother of qi

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Blood

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Zong qi

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  • Ancestral, gathering, pectoral qi
  • Combination of Gu qi and Qing qi
  • Stored in chest
  • Promotes lungs’ functions of controlling respiration and voice and heart’s functions of regulating heartbeat, blood and vessels
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Qing qi

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Qi of air

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Gu qi

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Qi extracted from good by SP & ST

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Yuan Qi

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  • Original Qi
  • Qi derived from the kidney (preheaven essence)
  • Stored in kidney
  • Supplemeted by food (post-heaven) essence
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Wei Qi

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Defensive qi
- Protects against pathogens
- controls opening & closing of pores
- circulates outside of the vessels and channels in the skin & flesh
- regulates body temperature

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How does anger impact qi?

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Makes qi rise
- creates headache
- injures liver

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How does fear impact qi?

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Makes qi descend
- urinary incontinence
- injures kidney

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How does Joy impact qi

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Slows qi down
- impairing circulation
- injures heart

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How does worry impact qi?

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Knots, binds, or stagnates qi
- leads to bloating and distension
- injures the spleen

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How does grief impact qi?

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Dissolves or consumes the qi
- creates shortness of breath
- impairs the lung

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How does shock/fright impact the qi?

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Scatters the qi
- creates insomnia and panic attacks
- injures the kidney and heart

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What is the difference between Jin fluids and Ye liquids

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JIn fluids are yang in nature.
- Clear, light, thin, watery
- sweat, tears saliva, mucus

Ye liquids are yin in nature
- turbid, heavy, dense
- synovial fluid, cerebral spinal fluid, bone marrow

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18
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What are the six extraordinary organs?

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  1. Uterus
  2. Brain
  3. Marrow - contributes to making blood and nourishes the brain
  4. Bones
  5. Blood vessels
  6. Gallbladder - affects capacity to make decisions and gives courage to act on them
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What is the difference between zang organs versus fu organs

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Zang organs are yin. They are solid organs and store substances

Fu organs are yang. They are hollow organs and transmit/move substances

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What is the liver function?

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  • Liver maintains the free flow of qi, blood and body fulids
  • Moes qi in all directions, but especially upward
  • Stores the blood
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What is the heart function?

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  • Circulates the blood
  • Governs blood and vessels
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What is the spleen function?

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  • Transformation and transportation
  • Helps contain blood in vessels
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What is the function of the lung?

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  • Governs qi (particularly wei qi)
  • Governs skin and body hair
  • Dominates respiration
  • Controls dispersing and descending
  • Regulates water passages
  • Directs qi and fluids downward
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What is the function of the kidney?

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  • Stores essence and engenders marrow
  • Governs water and bones
  • Aids in grasping qi from the lungs
25
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What is the function of the Pericardium?

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Protects the heart

26
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What is the function of the gallbladder?

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  • Controls the secretion of bile
  • Controls judgement
  • Provides courage in decision making
27
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What is the function of the small intestine?

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Separates the pure from the turbid

28
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What is the function of the San Jiao?

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Conduit for original qi throughout the body

29
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What is the function of the Stomach?

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  • Rotting and Ripening of food
  • Makes qi descend
  • Origin of fluids
30
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What is the function of the large intestines?

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  • Conduction and conveyance
31
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What is the function of the urinary bladder?

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  • Stores and excretes urine
32
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What spirit does the liver house?

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The hun or ethereal soul
- Responsible for “coming and going of shen”
- planning
- Making goals

33
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What spirt does the heart house?

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The shen
- Responsible for consciousness, thinking, memory and affections

34
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What spirit does the spleen house?

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The Yi
- Responsible for thinking, memory and concentration

35
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What spirit does the lung house?

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The Po or Corporeal Sould
- Responsible for physical feelings and sensations

36
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What spirt does the kidney house?

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The Zhi
- Responsible for willpower and determination

37
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What are the signs & symptoms of Wind-Cold?

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T: Pale red, thin, white coating
P: Floating, tight, slow
S&S: Abrupt onset of Fever/chills (chills are worse), coughing, sneezing, congestion, clear nasal discharge, body aches, headache, itchy, mildly scratchy throat
- no sweating

38
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What are the signs & symptoms of Wind Heat?

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T: Maybe a red tip for upper jiao heat
P: Floating, rapid
S&S: Abrupt onset of Fever/chills (fever worse), sweating, sore throat, rashes, red eyes thirst

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What are the signs & symptoms of internal wind (Liver wind)

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T: Deviated, stiff
S&S: Convulsions, twitching, seizures, spasms, paralysis, dizziness

40
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What are the signs & symptoms of Lung Qi Deficiency

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T: Pale
P: Weak, Moderate
S&S: Shortness of Breath, weak voice, weak cough, spontaneous sweating, fatigue, frequent illness

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What are the signs & symptoms of Spleen Qi Deficiency

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T: Pale
P: Weak, Moderate
S&S: Low appetite, loose stool, fatigue, bruising/bleeding, prolapse, spotting, scalloped tongue

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What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Qi Deficiency?

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T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Leakage, urinary dribbling, discharge, miscarriages, possible diarrhea, low back and knee pain

43
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What are the signs & symptoms of Heart Qi Deficiency

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T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Irregular heartbeat, palpitations, easily startled

44
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What are the signs & symptoms of GallBladder Qi Deficiency

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T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Indecisive, lack of courage, easily startled

45
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What are the signs & symptoms of Liver Blood Deficiency

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T: Pale, dry, thin
P: Thin, fine, thready, hollow (implies extreme blood loss)
S&S: Pale/dry skin, dizziness, blurred vision, dry eyes, floaters, scanty menses, dry pale brittle nails, stiff joints

46
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What are the signs & symptoms of Heart Blood Deficiency

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T: Pale, dry, thin
P: Thin, fine, thready, hollow
S&S: pale skin, insomnia, anxiety, palpitations, poor memory

47
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What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Yang deficiency

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T: Pale, white coat, wet, glossy, puffy
P: Weak/forceless, deep slow
S&S: low back pain/knee pain, cold extremities, copious clear freq urination, edema esp in legs, diarrhea, low libido, infertility, impotence, spermatorrhea

48
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What are the signs & symptoms Spleen yang deficiency

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T: Pale, white coat, wet, glossy, puffy
P: weak/foreceless, deep, slow
S&S: Prolapse, watery diarrhea with undigested food, abdominal pain better with warmth and pressure

Cock’s crow diarrhea can be spleen & kidney deficiency where kidney yang fails to warm the spleen

49
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What are the signs and symptoms of Heart Yang deficiency

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T: Pale, white coat, wet/glossy, puffy
P: weak/forceless, deep, slow
S&S: Chest bi or chest pain

50
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What are the signs and symptoms of yang collapse

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Cold limbs, cold, oily sweat, bluish discoloration

51
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What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Yin deficiency

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T: Red, peeled coating (or little coating) dry, cracks
P: Thin/rapid
S&S: night sweats, 5 center heat, malar flush, afternoon fevers, low back and knee pain, scanty dark yellow urine

52
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What are the signs & symptoms of Lung Yin deficiency

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T: Red, peeled, dry cracks
P: Thin, rapid
S&S: dry cough, hoarse voice, sore throat, dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat

53
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What are the signs & symptoms of Stomach Yin Deficiency

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T: Red, peeled, dry, cracks
P: Thin/Rapid
S&S: Low appetite, fullness after eating small amounts, dry mouth, scanty vomit

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