Quizzes + Midterm Questions Flashcards
Which kind of Malaria can cause a fever but it is not resolved after sweating?
Warm Malaria
Which disease shows the following S/sx and what is the treatment principal?
Yawn, fatigue, goose skin, chills, High fever, headache, thirst with desire to drink, sweating all over the body, fever gone after sweating.”
P: wiry-rapid or wiry-tight
T: thin-white or yellow-thick coating
General Malaria
Resolve malaria Pathogens, Harmonize exterior and interior
Which type of Phlegm-Sputum Fluid (Tan Yin) describes the following
Fluid retention in the hypochondrium that obstructs the collaterals?
Xuan Yin
Which type of Tan Yin (Phlegm-Sputum Fluid (Tan Yin) describes the following S/sx
Heaviness and pain in the body, edema in the limbs, Aversion to cold, no sweating, Cough, a lot of foamy sputum, stuffy chest, retching, no thirst
T: white coating, P: wiry-tight
Yi Yin
Fluid Retention in the limbs and muscles under the skin due to SP Xu
What is the syndrome differentiation for the following S/sx?
Sweating, aversion to wind, body soreness, chills or hot, Sweating on half body or certain areas
T: thin-white
P: Moderate
Disharmony between Ying + Wei
Which treatment principle would you use for the following S/sx?
Night sweating or may have spontaneous sweating, 5 center heat, tidal fever, malar flush, thirsty
T: red, little coating
P: thready-rapid
Clear Empty Heat + Nourish Yin
Which pathogenesis is involved in the following S/sx?
Heaviness, bloating, sluggishness, or even a foggy mind. Tight feeling in chest and stomach, Feeling heavy, sticky on a very humid day; sticky taste in the mouth, Absence of thirst, Bitter taste in the mouth, acne
T: Sticky or greasy coating
P: Soggy
Dampness
Please choose the disease, the pattern + the proper points for the following case study.
A male patient, 68-year-old, low pitch tinnitus frequently, and hearing problem for several years, hot flush, dry mouth, 5-center heat, dizziness, blurred vision, Seminal emission, lower back soreness, cold and weakness in the lower back, importance, premature ejaculation
T: pale, swollen, thin coating
P: deep-weak
Tinnitus
KI Yang + KI Essence Xu
SJ 21, GB2, SI19
KD-3 + KI-6 + HT-6 + BL-23 + Du-4 + Ren-4
What are the most appropriate treatment principles for the following S/sx?
Sudden tinnitus, deafness, headache, red face, bitter taste, dry throat, restlessness, irritability, constipation
T: red, yellow coating
P: Wiry-rapid
Clear LR + GB Fire
What is the disease and syndrome differentiation for the following S/sx?
Tinnitus, deafness, lusterless complexion, Pale lips, and nails
T: pale
P: thready
Tinnitus due to Blood Xu
Which kind of deficiency causes Internal Damage Fever manifesting as the following S/sx?
Low-grade fever, dizziness, blurred vision, Palpitation, anxiety, lusterless complexion, pale lips
T: pale
P: weak
Blood Xu
What is the best treatment principle for Internal Damage Fever with the following S/Sx:
Low-grade fever, tidal fever in the afternoon, comes and goes with emotions, Depression, distention in chest and hypochondria, or may have irregular menstruation, distention in breasts, Irritability, dry mouth, bitter taste
T: Yellow coating
P: wiry-rapid
Soothe LR + Move Qi + Clear LR Heat
What kind of Jaundice manifests as the following S/sx:
Yellow eyes and skin, color is dull, heavy sensation in the head and body, fullness in chest and abdomen, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, loose stool
T: thick-greasy coating, or slightly yellow
P: soggy-slippery, wiry-slippery
Yang Jaundice w/ Dampness more than Heat
Choose the correct answer for the statements below:
(1) From yellow eyes only, we can diagnose Jaundice.
(2) The root cause of Jaundice is either from dampness or/and bile leaking
Both are correct
Which syndrome pattern manifests from the following S/sx?
Epistaxis, may have teeth bleeding, fresh red blood, Dry nose, dry mouth with a desire to drink, constipation
T: red, yellow coating
P: rapid
Nosebleeding due to ST Heat
What is the best treatment principle to use for the following S/sx?
Teeth bleeding, chronic, worse with external heat invasion or exhaustion, loose tooth
T: red little coating
P: thready-rapid
Nourish Yin + Clear Empty Heat + Cool Blood + Stop Bleeding
What are the best acupuncture point choices for the following S/sx:
Cough with bloody sputum, dry mouth, dry nose, fever
T: red, little coating, thin-yellow coating
P: rapid
LI-4 + LU-6 +LI-11 + LU-10 + DU-23 + LI-20 + LU-11 + LU-3
What is the best treatment principle to use for the following S/sx?
Hematemesis/vomiting blood with the colour of red or purplish, hypochondriac pain, Bitter taste, restlessness, irritability, Insomnia, dreams, T: red
P: wiry-rapid
Clear LR & ST fire + Cool blood + Stop Bleeding
Which pathogenesis is the root cause of the case below:
A 42-year-old truck driver has frequently had low-grade fever recently, worse in the afternoon, stuffy chest, heavy body, poor appetite, thirst without the desire to drink, even nausea, vomiting
T: white-greasy, or yellow-greasy coating
P: soggy-rapid
Damp-Heat
What is the etiology of the following S/sx?
Itchy skin or is dry and thickened, scaling, itching, rarely eroding or oozing
Blood Xu
What is the disease, the pattern and what is the best treatment principle for the following case study?
35-year-old patient has purpura and ecchymosis on the skin, accompanied by alternating nose bleeding and teeth bleeding, sometimes sees blood in the stool and his urine is bloody and dark sometimes. He always feels hot and has a dry mouth and constipation
T: red, yellow coating
P: wiry-rapid
Purpura
Blood Heat
Clear heat + Nourish Yin + Cool blood + Stop bleeding
What is the etiology?
Swelling is slightly swollen, moving, not red, slightly hot, and slight pain
Wind
What is the pathogenesis for following S/sx?
Poor appetite, loose stool, epigastric discomfort after eating, sallow complexion
SP Qi Xu
What is the disease, the pattern and the treatment principle for the following case study?
Patient is 65 years old, very little and dark urine, looks like blood in there. She always feels fatigue, lassitude, low back and knee soreness and weakness, sometimes with dizziness, she always feels ringing in the ear with low pitch, and usually has hot flush at night
T: red
P: thready-rapid
Hematuria
KI Yin Xu
Nourish Yin + Clear heat + Cool blood + Stop Bleeding
Which is the best treatment principle for dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, dry eyes, and spasms?
Nourish LR Yin or LR Blood
What is the etiology for the following S/sx:
Pain that comes and goes, and affected by emotions
Qi
For swelling that is flat or lower than skin, which of the following would be correct from 8 Principal Differentiation?
Yin
What is the disease, the pattern and the treatment principle for the following case study?
A patient has dull pain in the abdomen, loose stool, stool color has purplish blood, and sometimes dark stool, his complexion is lusterless, always feels fatigued, and dislikes talking. he always prefers to warmth and hot drink
T: pale + puffy
P: thready.
Hematochezia
SP + ST Yang Xu (Empty Cold)
Tonify + Warm ST & SP + Tonify Qi + Nourish blood + Stop Bleeding
What is the pattern for the following S/sx?
Acne with recurrent eruptions, resistant to treatment, mostly abscesses, cysts and scars
T: Pale, swollen, teeth marks, greasy coating
P: slippery
SP Xu w/ Phlegm-Dampness
Hair is the extension of the ____________.
Blood
What is the disease and pattern of the following case study?
46-year-old male patient has experienced a very busy and stressful time in the last few years. He found an unexpected loss of hair that left him bald in several spots on the scalp. It is getting worse with stress and emotional upset, his complexion looks dark, headaches, sometimes distention in the chest and hypochondria, insomnia
T: petechiae
P: deep-thready
Alopecia Areata
Qi Stagnation + Blood Stasis
What acupuncture points you would use for the treatment?
Chronic hair loss that is worse with overworking and tiredness, dizziness, tinnitus, impotence, aching weakness in the lower back and knees
T: red, little, geographic or no coating
P: thready-rapid.
Alopecia Areata
LR + KI Xu
BL18 + BL23 + SP6 + BL17
Chloasma is a condition in which large brown patches form on the skin, mainly on the face due to pigmentation without discomfort feeling. it is generally associated with the disorder of the ____________.
Liver
For the disease Contact dermatitis due to Wind-Heat, what other points would be useful in addition to the main points of LU-5 + LI-11 + LI-4 + PC-3 + BL-40 + SP-10 + SP-6?
SJ-5 + GB-31 + GB-20
Which of the following is correct for the two statements below:
(1) Contact dermatitis is heat and toxins invade the superficial layer of the body, and accumulate in the skin after the skin comes in direct contact with specific substances
(2) Zangfu conditions and weak constitutions are the root cause of people reacting to contact dermatitis.
Both are correct
Patient is allergic to dog saliva. A dog licked her hand, leading to skin lesions that were licked. The lesions feel hot and itchy, with erythema popular eruption, and mild swelling. What is the syndrome differentiation?
Wind-Heat invading the channels and skin
What is the disease, the pattern and the treatment principles for the following case study?
Female 29 years old, just delivered a lovely baby girl a month ago, dark patches on the cheeks, irritable, always feels distention on the chest and hypochondria, hot flush at night, her mouth feels dry all the time
T: red, thin coating
P: wiry-thready
Chloasma
LR Qi Stagnation w/ Internal Heat
Soothe LR + Clear Heat
What is the disease, the pattern and the treatment principles for the following case study?
Male, 31-year-old, started to have a skin rash after taking some drugs for a week, now the lesion is swollen and flushing, and blisters, and exudation, mostly occur on the lower body, in the same time, he has stuffy chest, poor appetite, constipation, scanty urine
T: white-greasy coating
P: Slippery-rapid
Drug Rash
Damp-Heat
Clear heat + Resolve dampness
What is the disease, the pattern and the treatment principles and points for the following case study?
Patient has skin lesions expanding to the whole body, swelling, flushing, with big blisters, also has chills, high fever, restlessness, jaundice, hematuria
T: Dark red
P: Surging + Rapid
Drug Rash
Fire Toxin
Clear Fire + Detox
LR-2 + GB-43 + ST-44 + LI-11 + LI-4
LU-5 + LU-10
SP-10
SP-3 + ST-36
What is the general cause of acne on the face?
Heat or damp-heat in the LU/ST/LI channels
What do the following S/sx indicate?
Bright yellow skin and sclera, dark yellow urine, heavy body, nausea, Wiry-slippery-rapid pulse
Yang Jaundice
Which is the best points to treat Malaria?
DU-14 + DU-13 + SI-3 + PC-5 + SJ-3 + GB-41
The main characteristic of fever in Yin deficiency is _______?
Tidal Fever, Hectic Fever or Afternoon Fever
Distribution of body fluid is dependent on which Zang-fu organ?
LU + SP + KI + SJ
If BL-20, ST-40, LI-4, ST-36, LI-11, and SP-6 were used for a patient with acne, what would be the syndrome differentiation for this case?
Phlegm-Heat
In addition to the main points of LU-5, LI-11, LI-4, PC-3, BL-40, SP-10, SP-6, which of the following are the best for treatment the Contact Dermatitis due to Wind-Heat?
SJ-5 + GB-20 + GB-31
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
A patient has shingles on one side of the hypochondriac area with erythema (redness on skin), clusters of vesicles with pain and burning sensation, irritation, agitation and a dry mouth
T: red with greasy yellow coating
P: slippery and rapid.
Herpes Zoster
Damp-Heat
Clear Heat + Resolve Dampness
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
Female patient 45, got Eczema on her right hand, The skin lesions show flushing and swelling, with erosions, intense itching, sometimes with burning sensation, she is generally feeling hot and restlessness, thirsty all the time
T: red, thick-yellow coating
P: slippery-rapid.
Eczema
Damp-Heat
Clear Heat + Resolve Dampness
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
Male Patient, 31, had cold sores on the lips and beside the nose on the face in the mid of summer, it happened two days before when he just returned from an intensive work outside in a field, he felt burning sensation and sharp pain, accompanied with dry mouth, irritability, constipation, his urine looks dark
T: red, yellow coating
P: wiry-slippery-rapid
Fever Blister
Wind-Heat
Expel Wind + Clear Toxic Heat
What is the pathogenesis?
Mr. Abbot just came back from a tropical country for vacation where he was bitten by mosquitos. He has high fever, convulsion, tremors of limbs, opisthotonos, lock jaw, unconsciousness, deep-red tongue, yellow-sticky coating and wiry-rapid pulse.
Extreme heat generates wind
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
46 year-old truck driver, had a chronic skin lesion on the back of the neck for a long time, recurrent that it disrupts the sleep. It is itching and has lichenoid change, the skin is hard, dry, thickened, and flakes of the skin lesion as cow skin
T: thin coating, P: soggy-thready.
Neurodermatitis
Blood Xu w/ Wind-Dryness
Nourish Blood + Eliminate Wind + Relieve itching
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
A 21-year-old patient just came back from an exciting road trip at the beginning of summer, the second morning he felt severe itching all over his body and he couldn’t stop scratching, a few days later, he found his skin was full of bloody crust, thickened skin, and lichenoid change. When the weather gets warmer, the itching is aggravated.
T: thin-yellow coating, P: slippery-rapid.
Pruritus of the Skin
Wind-Heat w/ Blood Heat
Eliminate Wind + Cool Blood + Clear Heat
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle for this case study?
The patient has dull pain in abdomen, loose stool, stool color has purplish blood, sometimes dark stool, his complexion is lusterless, always feel fatigue, dislike talking. he aways prefer to warmth and hot drink
T: pale, P: thready.
Hematochezia
SP + ST Empty Cold
Tonify ST & SP, Tonify Qi, nourish Blood, Stop Bleeding
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A skin lesion of papules that look like thorns and can be squeezed out white-sticky fluid generally inflamed and tender, accompanied by constipation, dark urine, and bloating of the abdomen
T: Red , yellow-greasy
P: slippery-rapid
Acne
ST Damp-Heat
Clear Heat + Resolve Dampness
LI-4 + LI-11 + ST-44 + SP-6 + ST-36 + SP-9
What is the disease for this case study?
Chronic thickened, dry, rough and hardened skin, on the hands and cubital creases, with repeated episodes of red, itchy papules, crusts or vesicles and exudation especially after hot water bath. The skin is showing lichenification and hyperpigmentation of a brownish color
T: Red
P: deep-thready
Eczema
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
Patchy hair loss from the vertex of the head that is worse with stress. Dark complexion, headaches, chest and hypochondria distention
T: Purple
P: wiry and choppy
Alopecia areata
Qi Stagnation + Blood Stasis
Move Qi + Nourish Blood
LR-3 + LI-4 + SP-6 + SP-10 + BL-17 + Ashi points
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A 51-year-old female recently feels hot and irritable. When she wakes up in the morning, her pillow and bed clothes are wet. Sometimes she wakes up several times at night because of sweats that bother her sleep. She feels there is a sense of heat emanating from deep within the body. Her other symptoms are dry mouth and lips with little desire to drink, fatigue and exhaustion with an inability to rest or relax, dry stools often turning into constipation. Her menstruation is very irregular, and menstrual blood is sometimes very little and sometimes profuse and lasts more than 10 days
T: red, little coating, P: thready-rapid.
Night Sweating
Yin Xu
Nourish Yin + Clear Empty Heat
KI-3 + KI-6 + SP-6
KI-7 + SJ-6
What are the primary points to treat Tinea caused by the invasion of wind and damp-heat are?
PC-3 + BL-40 + LI-4 + GB-31 + SP-10 + SP-6 + LI-15
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
Whole body hives with epigastric pain, lassitude, poor appetite, constipation, nausea, vomiting,
T: red, yellow-greasy coating
P: slippery-rapid
Urticaria
Excess Heat in ST + LI
Clear Heat
LI11 + LI4 + SP10 + BL40 + BL17 + ST36 + ST25 + GB20 + DU14 + HT7
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
Upper body Urticaria accompanied by chills and intolerance to cold, cold limbs, distention in epigastric area, poor appetite.
T: pale, white coating
P: deep-thready-moderate
Urticaria
Empty Cold in SP + ST
Tonify SP + ST
SP-6 + ST-36 + SP-10
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
Acute onset Vitiligo, pink patches that are increasing and enlarging, vague borders, distributing on the forehead, cheek, around the nose and lips, itching, vexation, dry mouth, dark urine,
T: red, thin-yellow
P: thready-rapid
Vitiligo
Blood-Heat + Wind-Heat
Cool Blood + Invigorate Blood
Clear Heat + Eliminate Wind
Du-14, PC-7, LR-2, SP-10, GB-20, UB-12, SJ-17
The treatment principle for the patient is “clear heat, nourish blood, eliminate wind” and selected points as following: LI4, LI11, SP10, SP6, ST44, GB20, GB43, LR2, LR3.
What is the disease being treated?
Warts
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A breast lump is as big as a plum, hard to touch, smooth surface, mobile, accompanied by stuffy chest, irritability, irregular menstruation, distending pain in the breasts before period
T: thin-white coating;
P: wiry-slippery
Breast Lump
Disharmony of LR & SP
Sooth LR + Move Qi + Tonify SP + ST
The underlying root etiology of Breast Lump is _________
Emotions
A young mother had acute mastitis with swollen, distending and painful, breasts, slightly red or no discoloration, unsmooth breast milk flow, Chills, fever, headache, stuffy chest, T: thin-white or yellow coating, P: wiry-rapid.
You have treated her with LI4, LR3, LR2, ST44, LI11, SP10, Ren17, ST18. She came on the second day and told you that she had severe painful breast. What points you would add for her treatment?
ST-34
Lumps in both breasts, Stuffy chest, irregular and painful menstruation.
What additional points you would use after the selection of SI11, GB21, BL18, ST15, Ren17, and PC6?
SP-4 + PC-6 (opens Chong + Yin Linking)
LU-7 + KI-6
(opens REN + Yin Motility)
Patient has breast cancer for few years, the late stage, breasts ulceration and look like cauliflower, blood and fluid oozing, no appetite, emaciation, pale complexion, SOB, fatigue, pale lips, T: Pale, P: feeble-thready.
What is your treatment principle?
Tonify Qi + Nourish blood
The patient has an acute suppurative infection occurs on the back of the neck, redness, burning sensation, pain and swelling, accompanied by constipation, dark urine, T: yellow-greasy coating P: slippery-rapid.
You have treated the patient with DU12, DU10, LI4, BL40, BL12, LI11, SP9, the result looks very good. What is the disease?
Furuncle
Which of the following Zang organ disorders is NOT the etiology of Internal Carbuncle?
LU, KI, LR, or SP
Lungs
A young patient had tonsillitis before, just had an acute suppurative infection occurring on the side of the neck. At the beginning, there was swelling, hot sensation and pain in the local area, but the skin color didn’t change, the margin is clear. The patient also has fever, chills, headache, poor appetite; T: yellow coating; P: slippery-rapid.
What is your selection of points?
Main points DU-10, DU-12, LI-4, PC-4
+
BL-40, DU-14, BL-12, ST-40
Salver boil: Distending and bulged palm, swelling on the dorsum of the hand is even more severe, Pain is radiating to the arm. chills and fever, headache, poor appetite
T: yellow-thin coating
P: slippery-rapid
With DU10, DU12, LI4, PC4, BL40, which of the following points you would add to make it more effective?
PC-3 + HT-3
Millet-grain pus, itching, red and swollen, burning pain, become hard and deep like nails, severe pain during ulceration of the pus spot, patient also fell fever, thirst, scanty and dark urine, dry stool. T: yellow-greasy coating; P: wiry-slippery-rapid. Other than using the points DU10, DU12, LI4, PC4, BL40.
Which of the following points would you add?
Boil on the Face
Damp-Heat in ST/LI channel
ST44, LI1, LI11, LI4
Acute suppurative infection occurring on the bottom of foot, throbbing pain, that makes the patient hardly walking. The patient also has headache, poor appetite,
T: yellow-greasy coating P: slippery-rapid.
Which point selection would you like to use for this patient?
Boil on bottom on Foot
Damp-Heat in KI channel
DU10, DU12, LI4, PC4, BL40
+
KD-10, Ren-4
A carbuncle 3 cun under (away from) the armpit, sudden swelling, burning sensation, pain, no skin discoloration, chills and fever, and difficult lift-up the arm.
Other than main point selection for Carbuncle: DU10, DU12, LI4, PC4, BL40, which channel you would focus on clearing heat with?
GB
Red swelling, burning pain with vague margin, accompanied by chills, fever, headache, body ache, T: red, thin-yellow coating, P: floating-rapid.
Which point selection would you choose?
Hand Phlegmon
Wind-Heat Invasion
LI4, LI11, LU5, SJ5, GB21, BL12, DU14
Red swelling and burning pain in hip area, redness with vague margin, wet and ulcerative skin, accompanied by chills, headache, ache in the bones, poor appetite, dark urine.
T: red, yellow-greasy coating, P: slippery-rapid.
What is your points selection?
Hip Phlegmon
Damp-Heat
GB43, BL40, ST41, SP6, LR2
Redness and swelling at the laryngeal prominence area (Adam’s apple), diffuse root, hard, burning pain, acute onset, high fever, big thirst, headache, rigid neck, dry stool, scanty-dark urine, dark red tongue with yellow-greasy coating, wiry-slippery-rapid or surging-rapid pulse. Which channels would you choose to focus on with the treatment?
Neck + throat Phlegmon
Lung + Stomach channel
The main etiology of Erysipelas is ________.
Fire toxins in Blood
Erysipelas on the face, accompanied by chills, fever, acute headache
T: red, thin-yellow coating
P: floating-rapid
With the main point selection of LI11, LI4, PC3, BL40, SP10.
Which additional points you would choose for better results from the syndrome differentiation?
DU-14 + GB-20
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A young woman on her early 30’s had a scrofula, bean-sized, solid, mobile, and painless masses on one side of the neck without warmth or skin discoloration, a little depression, distending pain in the hypochondriac region, poor appetite
T: slightly red with greasy coating
P: wiry-slippery.
Scrofula
LR Qi stagnation with phlegm
Sooth LR + Move Qi + Dissolve phelgm
LR3, GB21, LR-13, SJ10, ST40
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A young woman on her early 30’s had a scrofula, come back to clinic two month after the initial visit, saying she was so busy with work. The masses on her neck grow larger, the skin becomes adhered to the masses. Adjacent masses merged and become immobile upon palpation with a gradually increasing sense of pain, purple skin around the mass with warmth and a sense of fluctuation upon pressure like pus filing, T: purple, P: wiry-choppy.
Scrofula
Blood Stasis w/ phlegm
Move Qi + Invigorate Blood + Disepl Phlegm
SJ10 + LR3, LI4, SP10, BL40, BL17, ST40,
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A middle aged man had headed gangrene on his back, grain-sized pustule in the center, swelling, alternation of itching and pain, the swelling gradually becoming larger and developing multiple pustules, red and with burning pain, fever, thirst, constipation, dark urine, headache, poor appetite
T: yellow-greasy coating
P: slippery-rapid
Headed Gangrene
Damp-Heat
Clear Heat + Resolve dampness
LI11, LI4, PC4, BL40, DU12, DU10, Ashi
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
A middle aged man had headed gangrene on his back, return to clinic 2 months after the initial visit, claim that he had to go to a business trip abroad. He has high fever, dry lips and mouth, constipation, scanty and dark urine, poor appetite, lassitude, the pustule is not swelling any more, but with diffuse root, purplish, difficult suppuration, pus is thin with blood, severe pain, T: red tongue with yellow coating, P: thready-rapid.
Headed Gangrene
Yin Xu w/ Excess Toxins
Nourish Yin, Clear Heat
LI4, LI11, DU14, SP6, KD6, ST36, Ashi
The main etiology of Multiple Abscesses (Liu Zhu) is _________.
Vital Qi Xu
What principles do we follow when selecting acupuncture points for treating Multiple Abscesses (Liu Zhu)?
The points that can dredge the meridians and activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis
Which of the following are pathological accumulation products of cysts?
Blood stasis
Turbid Qi
Phlegm fluid
What principles do we follow when selecting acupuncture points for treating Sebaceous cyst/ Zhi Liu / Lipoma?
The points that clear away heat and dampness, resolve phlegm and disperse nodules
What is the main etiology of Varicose veins/ Jin Liu?
Blood Stasis
Which of the following are the main points to treat Varicose veins / Jin Liu?
GB34, GB39, LR3, LI4, ST36, ST41, SP6, Ashi
Which Zang-Fu organs is most associated with Male Vulvar Disorders?
LR + KI + BL
A male patient 58-year-old had Prostatic Hyperplasia, frequent and dribbling urination for few years, dry mouth and throat, cough, scanty sputum, T: red, little or no coating, P: thready-rapid.
What is your syndrome differentiation?
LU dryness due to LU not regulating water passage
What is the disease, the syndrome differentiation and treatment principle and points for this case study?
Male 38 years old, complains an acute onset of frequent and urgent urine, burning pain in the penis, itching, yellow turbid urine with turbid whitish fluid in the urine, distending pain in sacrum area and testicles, accompanied by aversion to cold and fever
T: red, yellow-greasy coating
P: rapid.
Prostatitis
Damp-heat
The same patient above didn’t continue after the initial treatment, six months later, he came back with dragging and dull pain in the lower abdomen and testicles, accompanied with bloody urine and blood sperm. T: purplish, petechiae, P: deep-choppy,
Prostatitis
Qi Stagnation + Blood Stasis
Ren4, Ren6, BL17, SP10, BL20, ST36
Male Sterility, impotence, premature ejaculation, scanty sperms, poor sperm motility, Soreness and weakness of lower back and knees, fatigue, pale or dull complexion, profuse and clear urine. T: pale, thin-white coating, P: deep-thready.
What would be your treatment principles?
Tonify KD, Strengthen Yang, Generate sperms
Male Sterility, impotence, premature ejaculation, scanty sperms, poor sperm motility, Soreness and weakness of lower back and knees, fatigue, pale or dull complexion, profuse and clear urine. T: pale, thin-white coating, P: deep-thready.
What is your acupuncture selection addition to main points KD3, BL23, DU1, DU4 (moxa), Ren2, Ren3, BL31, 32, 33, 34?
Ren4, DU4, BL23, GB21, GB39
