red flags NCAOM prep Flashcards by Alana Debow | Brainscape

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Body - curled up, wants covers

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Excess Yin - Interior Cold

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Body - Stretched out, no covers

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Excess - Yang, interior heat

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Chest - suffocating feelings

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Stagnation - Especially Liver Qi

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Chills & Fever - alternating

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External invasion: Cold - shao yang stage, heat - Qi level

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Chills & Fever - Fever without chills

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Internal

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Chills & Fever - General

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External Invasion

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Chills & Fever -more chills than fever

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External Invasion - wind cold

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Chills & Fever - more fever than chills

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External Invasion - wind heat

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Cold - patient desires cold

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Excess yang - interior heat

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Cold - patient fearful of cold

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Excess - external cold invasion

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Cough -coughing or vomiting

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Rebellious Qi

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Cough -dry no sputum

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Deficiency - LU yin with drynes

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Cough - With gurgling

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Excess - damp or phlegm

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Diarrhea - fie o’clock or cocks crow

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Deficiency - KD or SP yang

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Distention - more distension than pain

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Excess - Qi Stagnation

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Distention - more pain than distension

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Excess - Blood Stagnation

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Exertion -symptoms worsen with exertion

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Deficiency - qi

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Face - bright white

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Deficiency - yang (false cold)

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Face -Entire face flushed red

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Excess - yang (true heat)

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Face - malar flush

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Deficiency - yin (false heat)

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Face - Pale, white

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Excess - internal cold (true cold)

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Face -pale, sallow

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Deficiency - blood

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Fever - tidal (afternoon)

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Deficiency - yin

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5 Centers Hot, Heat in 5 hearts, 5 palm heat

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Deficiency - yin

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Head in Saran Wrap- head in a bag

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Excess- dampness, phlegm

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Headache - empty sensation in head, paroxysmal darkness, blurred vision

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Deficiency - qi & loss of yin essence

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Insomnia - difficulty FALLING asleep

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Deficiency - blood (usually heart)

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Insomnia - difficulty STAYING asleep

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Deficiency - yin (usually heart)

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Loose Stool & lassitude

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Deficiency - Qi (usually spleen)

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Odor- none

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Cold

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Odor - smelly

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Heat - excess damp heat

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Onset of symptoms - gradual

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Interior Condition

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Onset of symptoms - sudden

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Exterior condition - invasion

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Pain - Prickling

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Excess blood stagnation

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Pain - fixed

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Excess - blood stagnation

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Pain - migrating

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Stagnation - qi or wind condition

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Pain - stabbing - stays in one place

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Excess - blood stagnation

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Pain - improves with pressure

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Deficiency

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Pain - worsens with pressure

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Excess

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Palpitations

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HT

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Plum pit qi

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Stagnation - Liver qi

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Prolapse

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Deficiency - Spleen Qi sinking

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Speech - very slow

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Deficiency - qi

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Sweat - constant, sticky

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Deficiency - yin collapse

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Sweat - nightsweats

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Deficiency - yin

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Sweat - profuse, beady and cold

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Deficiency - yang collapse

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Sweat - spontaneous in daytime

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Deficiency - qi

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Taste - bitter

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Heat - Liver or Gallbladder

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Tinnitus - better with pressure

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Deficiency - Kidney qi

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Tinnitus - worse with pressure

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Deficiency -yang or liver fire

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Urine - clear, increased volume

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Cold

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Urine - dark, yellow, scant

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Heat

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Urine - retention of, difficult, dribbling

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Deficiency - Kidney yang

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Wheezing - low, trouble inhaling

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Deficiency - Kidney unable to grasp lung qi