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Relationships Between The Zang Flashcards

1
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Spleen relies of heart qi to…

A

Keep blood moving through the vessels.

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2
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Heart relies on strong spleen qi to…

A

Keep the vessel walls strong!

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3
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If spleen qi is deficient (can’t make blood) then the heart will not…

A

have enough blood volume.

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4
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Overthinking and anxiety consume…

A

heart blood.

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5
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Heart blood deficiency will lead to…

A

Spleen qi deficiency.

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6
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Stagnation will always cause deficiency because…

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There is no movement to generate centripetal force.

For example, reduced heart blood means less heart blood circulation and stagnation results.

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7
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The liver stores…

A

Blood.

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8
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The liver regulated blood volume to ensure the heart is not…

A

Overflowed or underfilled.

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9
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Liver governs the free flow of…

A

Qi.

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10
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Heart governs the free flow of…

A

Blood.

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11
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The heart sends blood to the liver to be…

A

Cleansed and renewed.

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12
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The heart controls…

A

Blood circulation.

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13
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Qi and blood are interdependent, reliant on each other for…

A

Their own circulation.

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14
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As long as the liver is free flowing, the heart will be able to…

A

circulate blood.

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15
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When qi is stagnated, blood will be…

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stagnated.

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16
Q

Difficulty sleeping and during sleep it’s shallow and dreamful involved what two organs…

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Difficulty sleeping is heart (shen isn’t grounded) because liver isn’t being filled with blood (so shallow and dreamful sleep). Hun is dreaming.

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17
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What time of day does blood return to the liver to be replenished and renewed?

A

Night.

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18
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Heart blood deficiency could be reflected as the symptom…

A

Palpitations.

19
Q

Heart in the upper body is…

A

yang.

20
Q

Kidneys in the lower body are…

A

yin.

21
Q

Patterns of false heat are the relationship of what two zang?

A

Heart and kidney.

22
Q

False heat is characterized by…

A

Yang symptoms at yin times.

23
Q

Heart dominates…

A

Blood.

24
Q

Kidney dominates…

A

essense (jing).

25
Q

Deficiency of heart blood or kidney essense will lead to…

A

Marrow deficiency: poor memory, dreamful sleep, poor cognition.

26
Q

By nourishing marrow, we strengthen…

A

essense and blood.

27
Q

By promoting blood, we also promote…

A

essence (jing).

28
Q

What makes blood?

A

Spleen makes day to day blood. Jing makes blood too.

29
Q

Blood and essence promote each other and originate in and nourish…

A

Marrow.

30
Q

Heart sends blood to the brain and kidney governs marrow. The brain existence and development is jing but in terms of tissue development it is…

A

Marrow.

31
Q

What causes short term memory loss and long term memory loss in TCM?

A

Heart blood - short term memory loss.
Kidney and marrow deficiency - long term memory loss.

32
Q

Lung does what 3 actions?

A

purifies, descends and disperses, and governs the free flow of qi.

33
Q

Lung and spleen focus on control of…

A

body fluid and movement of qi.

34
Q

The spleen is a source of acquired qi through…

A

the action of transformation of food.

35
Q

Spleen qi deficiency will cause?

A

lung weakness.

36
Q

The lung relies on a constant supply of acquired qi to succeed in the action of…

A

descending and dispersing qi & fluid around the body.

37
Q

The lungs descend and disperse…

A

body fluid.

38
Q

The Spleen transports ? around the body.

A

fluid.

39
Q

If lung qi is weak and unable to disperse fluids, they will accumulate where?

A

In the middle Jiao and overwhelm the spleen which will no longer be able to manage fluid transport.

40
Q

The ? descends and disperses qi and the ? governs the free flow of qi throughout the body.

A

Lung
Liver

41
Q

Liver qi naturally ascends but when it becomes stagnated it will turn into fire which will explode and flare up to the…

A

lung.

42
Q

Stagnated liver qi flaring up to the lung result?

A

Fire consumes the naturally moist lung environment!

43
Q

If lung cannot be disperse fluid appropriately it will cause dryness through the body (dry skin, skin is governed by blood, blood deficient = cracked/dry skin). Result?

A

Lung descends heat and dryness instead of moisture down to liver and kidney yin. The heat consumes yin and causes liver yin deficiency making liver yang rise uncontrollably.

44
Q

Liver invading lung results in wake up time at…?

A

3am.

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