Sinusitis Flashcards
What are the main symptoms of Sinusitis?
Swollen and infected mucosa, loss of taste and smell, foul smelling nasal discharge, stuffed and blocked nose/face/head, throbbing frontal headache over maxillary or frontal sinuses
What are the two main etiological patterns?
Repeated invasion of wind cold and wind heat that impair the descending and dispersing function of lung
Long term stagnation generates heat in what form?
Yellow Turbid Discharge
Repeated common cold infections is acute or chronic inflammation of sinuses?
Chronic
What allows phlegm and heat to accumulate?
Diet in the form of greasy and hot food
True or False: Formation of damp heat arises all on its own?
False: it is only a predisposing factor and wind invasion is still necessary to weaken stomach and that will trigger rising of damp heat
What allergy syndrome is characterized as stuffy nose, sticky and purulent yellow discharge, headache, loss of sense of smell, aversion to cold, fever, t: red front, and p: floating and rapid?
Wind Heat
What allergy syndrome is characterized as flushed face, tenderness over maxillary sinuses, feeling of heat, thirst, stuffed nose, thick yellow discharge, itchy nose and throat; itchy eyes, redness and swelling around the nose, t: red, c: sticky and yellow, p: slippery and full on front right position?
Lung Heat
What allergy syndrome is characterized by yellow, sticky and foul smelling/tasting mucus, bloodshot eyes, red face, irritability, dry stool reduced sense of smell, bitter taste, dry throat, full, pounding headache; t: red with redder sides, c: sticky yellow, p: wire, slippery and rapid?
Liver and Gallbladder Heat
What allergy syndrome is characterized as sticky, yellow, and foul smelling discharge, reduced sense of smell, red cheeks, frontal headache, chest and epigastric oppression, heaviness feeling in the head, full, muzzy headache, bitter taste and sticky sensation, c: sticky yellow in centre, p: slippery?
Stomach and Spleen Damp Heat
