OM Topics Flashcards
What are the five vital substances?
- Jing - associated with Kidney
- Qi - associated with Lung
- Blood - associated with Liver
- Body Fluids - associated with Spleen
- Shen - Associated with heart
What are the three treasures?
- Shen
- Qi
- Jing
What is the commander of blood?
Qi
What is the mother of qi
Blood
Zong qi
- 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
Qing qi
Qi of air
Gu qi
Qi extracted from food by SP & ST
Yuan Qi
- Original Qi
- Qi derived from the kidney (preheaven essence)
- Stored in kidney
- Supplemeted by food (post-heaven) essence
Wei Qi
Defensive qi
- Protects against pathogens
- controls opening & closing of pores
- circulates outside of the vessels and channels in the skin & flesh
- regulates body temperature
How does anger impact qi?
Makes qi rise
- creates headache
- injures liver
How does fear impact qi?
Makes qi descend
- urinary incontinence
- injures kidney
How does Joy impact qi
Slows qi down
- impairing circulation
- injures heart
How does worry impact qi?
Knots, binds, or stagnates qi
- leads to bloating and distension
- injures the spleen
How does grief impact qi?
Dissolves or consumes the qi
- creates shortness of breath
- impairs the lung
How does shock/fright impact the qi?
Scatters the qi
- creates insomnia and panic attacks
- injures the kidney and heart
What is the difference between Jin fluids and Ye liquids
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
What are the six extraordinary organs?
- Uterus
- Brain
- Marrow - contributes to making blood and nourishes the brain
- Bones
- Blood vessels
- Gallbladder - affects capacity to make decisions and gives courage to act on them
What is the difference between zang organs versus fu organs
Zang organs are yin. They are solid organs and store substances
Fu organs are yang. They are hollow organs and transmit/move substances
What is the liver function?
- Liver maintains the free flow of qi, blood and body fulids
- Moes qi in all directions, but especially upward
- Stores the blood
What is the heart function?
- Circulates the blood
- Governs blood and vessels
What is the spleen function?
- Transformation and transportation
- Helps contain blood in vessels
What is the function of the lung?
- Governs qi (particularly wei qi)
- Governs skin and body hair
- Dominates respiration
- Controls dispersing and descending
- Regulates water passages
- Directs qi and fluids downward
What is the function of the kidney?
- Stores essence and engenders marrow
- Governs water and bones
- Aids in grasping qi from the lungs
What is the function of the Pericardium?
Protects the heart
What is the function of the gallbladder?
- Controls the secretion of bile
- Controls judgement
- Provides courage in decision making
What is the function of the small intestine?
Separates the pure from the turbid
What is the function of the San Jiao?
Conduit for original qi throughout the body
What is the function of the Stomach?
- Rotting and Ripening of food
- Makes qi descend
- Origin of fluids
What is the function of the large intestines?
- Conduction and conveyance
What is the function of the urinary bladder?
- Stores and excretes urine
What spirit does the liver house?
The hun or ethereal soul
- Responsible for “coming and going of shen”
- planning
- Making goals
What spirt does the heart house?
The shen
- Responsible for consciousness, thinking, memory and affections
What spirit does the spleen house?
The Yi
- Responsible for thinking, memory and concentration
What spirit does the lung house?
The Po or Corporeal Sould
- Responsible for physical feelings and sensations
What spirt does the kidney house?
The Zhi
- Responsible for willpower and determination
What are the signs & symptoms of Wind-Cold?
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
What are the signs & symptoms of Wind Heat?
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
What are the signs & symptoms of internal wind (Liver wind)
T: Deviated, stiff
S&S: Convulsions, twitching, seizures, spasms, paralysis, dizziness
What are the signs & symptoms of Lung Qi Deficiency
T: Pale
P: Weak, Moderate
S&S: Shortness of Breath, weak voice, weak cough, spontaneous sweating, fatigue, frequent illness
What are the signs & symptoms of Spleen Qi Deficiency
T: Pale
P: Weak, Moderate
S&S: Low appetite, loose stool, fatigue, bruising/bleeding, prolapse, spotting, scalloped tongue
What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Qi Deficiency?
T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Leakage, urinary dribbling, discharge, miscarriages, possible diarrhea, low back and knee pain
What are the signs & symptoms of Heart Qi Deficiency
T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Irregular heartbeat, palpitations, easily startled
What are the signs & symptoms of GallBladder Qi Deficiency
T: Pale
P: Weak & Moderate
S&S: Indecisive, lack of courage, easily startled
What are the signs & symptoms of Liver Blood Deficiency
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
What are the signs & symptoms of Heart Blood Deficiency
T: Pale, dry, thin
P: Thin, fine, thready, hollow
S&S: pale skin, insomnia, anxiety, palpitations, poor memory
What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Yang deficiency
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
What are the signs & symptoms Spleen yang deficiency
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
What are the signs and symptoms of Heart Yang deficiency
T: Pale, white coat, wet/glossy, puffy
P: weak/forceless, deep, slow
S&S: Chest bi or chest pain
What are the signs and symptoms of yang collapse
Cold limbs, cold, oily sweat, bluish discoloration
What are the signs & symptoms of Kidney Yin deficiency
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
What are the signs & symptoms of Lung Yin deficiency
T: Red, peeled, dry cracks
P: Thin, rapid
S&S: dry cough, hoarse voice, sore throat, dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat
What are the signs & symptoms of Stomach Yin Deficiency
T: Red, peeled, dry, cracks
P: Thin/Rapid
S&S: Low appetite, fullness after eating small amounts, dry mouth, scanty vomit
