Palpation

Question 1

Pernicious heat is mild upon initial pressure. Longer you touch (prolonged pressure) the more heat comes up and spreads outward

Answer 1

Internal Heat

Question 2

Pernicious heat is intense upon initial pressure, but becomes mild after prolonged pressure

Answer 2

Exterior Heat

Question 3

The skin is not hot but the patient feels hot, or the skin feels hot on heavy pressure when pushing down to the bone

Answer 3

Deficiency Heat

Question 4

The skin does not feel hot, but sticky; or the skin feels warmer with prolonged pressure.

Answer 4

Damp Heat

Question 5

Icy cold hands and feet which extend above the knees and elbows

Answer 5

Yang Deficiency

Question 6

Icy cold extremities with oily sweating, pale face and feeble pulse

Answer 6

Yang Collapse

Question 7

Cold extremities, but abdominal temperature is warm or hot

Answer 7

True heat, false cold

Question 8

Cold fingers and toes that are easy to warm up

Answer 8

Yang Stagnation

Question 9

Skin is not cold, but patient feels cold

Answer 9

Exterior cold

Question 10

Cold felt in the loins, lower abdomen and lower back

Answer 10

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Question 11

What does moist skin tell us about the body fluids?

Answer 11

Body fluid is sufficient

Question 12

What does dry skin tell us about body fluid?

Answer 12

Body fluid is insufficient

Question 13

Moist and smooth skin texture indicates…

(qi and blood)

Answer 13

Qi and blood sufficient

Question 14

Rough and dry skin texture indicates…

(qi and blood)

Answer 14

Qi and blood insufficient

Question 15

Very dry and scaly skin texture indicates…

(qi and blood)

Answer 15

Blood deficiency or blood stagnation

Question 16

Pathology

Pitting formed by pressing but returns to flat soon after release of pressure

Answer 16

Qi Stagnancy in the area (Qi Swelling)

Question 17

Pathology

Pitting Edema / Deep finger shape pitting is formed when it is pressed, and does not return to flat soon after finger release.

Answer 17

Excessive water in the body

Question 18

Sore and boils

Swollen and hard, but neither hot nor painful indicates…

Answer 18

Cold Syndrome

Question 19

Sore and boils

Swollen, painful and hot indicates…

Answer 19

Heat Syndrome

Question 20

Sore and boils

Flat sores or boils indicate…

Answer 20

Deficiency Syndrome

Question 21

Sore and boils

Swollen sore or boil with root (raised) indicates…

Answer 21

Excess Syndrome

Question 22

Boils or sores are hard upon palpation. What does this indicate?

Sore and boils

Answer 22

No pus

Question 23

Anything that happens in the side of the ribs area we call…

Answer 23

Hypochondrium

Question 24

Palpating the hypochondrium will help diagnosis which organs?

Answer 24

Liver and Gallbladder

Question 25

Pain aggravated by pressure indicates.... | (Excess or Deficiency)

Answer 25

Excess Syndrome

Question 26

Pain alleviated by pressure indicates... | (Excess or Deficiency)

Answer 26

Deficiency Syndrome

Question 27

Masses that are fixed and immovable, + associated with pain indicates

Answer 27

Blood Stasis

Question 28

Masses that come and go; no fixed location & movable

Answer 28

Qi Stagnation

Question 29

Which method of palpation tells us about the zang fu organs?

Answer 29

Pressing! Because the organs are deeper

Question 30

Which method of palpation tells us about pain and masses (size, texture, shape and mobility)

Answer 30

Pressing

Question 31

Which method of palpation tells us about the interior or exterior location of disease + condition of yang qi and body fluids?

Answer 31

Touching

Question 32

Boils or sores are hard on the edges but soft on top

Answer 32

Pus formed | if pus forms -we know it will heal soon

Question 33

The temperature of the hands and feet reflect the state...

Answer 33

Yang and Qi

Question 34

Hands and feet are cold, sensation of cold can extend above the elbows and knees

Answer 34

Kidney yang deficiency (deficiency cold)

Question 35

Cold only on hands and feet, or to below the elbows and knees

Answer 35

Excess cold or qi stagnation

Question 36

Hands and feet are warmer on the dorsum

Answer 36

Excess heat

Question 37

Hands and feet are warmer on the palms | (Palms - five center heat)

Answer 37

Deficiency heat

Question 38

Dorsal aspect of hands and feet is hotter than the palmar aspect

Answer 38

Exterior heat

Question 39

Palmar aspect of hands and feet is hotter than the dorsal aspect

Answer 39

Interior heat

Question 40

Forehead is hotter than palm

Answer 40

Exterior heat

Question 41

Palm is hotter than forehead

Answer 41

Interior heat

Question 42

What organs do the chest house?

Answer 42

Heart and Lungs

Question 43

Pain upon pressing of chest indicates...

Answer 43

Water or qi accumulation in chest

Question 44

Palpating the chest will tell us about which organs?

Answer 44

Heart and Lung

Question 45

Distending pain in the hypochondrium radiates bilaterally to the lower abdomen

Answer 45

Liver Qi Stagnation

Question 46

Pain is aggrated by pressure and is hot to the touch

Answer 46

Liver Fire | Excess

Question 47

Pain alleviated by pressure

Answer 47

Liver deficiency