TCM year 1 Flashcards

Question

Exterior Patterns

Answer 1

Wind-cold/wind-heat invading the Wei Qi level OR Channel patterns: - Stagnation of Qi and Blood -Bi Syndrome (invasion of pathogenic factors) - Phlegm in the channels -Local Qi and Blood

Answer 2

Patterns affecting the Zang Fu

Answer 3

The body's Zheng Qi (Vitality) remains relatively intact. Excess patterns of fundamental substances are stagnant Qi, stagnant blood and heat in the Blood. Excess patterns involving pathogenetic factors are wind, cold, Damp, heat and phlegm (or combinations of)

Answer 4

Zheng Qi (vitality) is depleted. Deficiency in fundamental substances Deficiency in function of the Zang Fu Yin Xu and Yang Xu Main patterns: deficient Qi, blood, yang, yin

Answer 5

Pale face Weak voice Slight sweat Slight breathlessness Tiredness Lack of appetite Loose stools

Answer 6

Pale face Weak voice Slight sweat Slight breathlessness Tiredness Lack of appetite Loose watery stools Chilliness cold limbs/abdomen Better with warmth/ warm drinks Frequent, pale urinanation

Answer 7

Scanty periods Insomnia Dry hair Apathy Poor memory Numbness Dry Skin Dry nails

Answer 8

Scanty periods Insomnia Dry hair Restlessness, agitation Low grade fever Heat sensations in the afternoon Dry throat at night Night sweats Emaciation

Answer 9

Deficient Empty Reducing insufficiency of substance or function Loss of vital energy/depleted

Answer 10

Excess Full Strengthening increase or invasion of something Prominence of a pathogenic factor

Answer 11

Tiredness A pale complexion Palpitations Shortness of breath Spontaneous sweating Night sweating Feelings of heat in the palms, soles and chest - five palm heat Cold limbs/aversion to cold A weak or deep pulse

Answer 12

Pale face Weak voice Slight sweat Slight breathlessness Tiredness Lack of appetite Loose stools Tongue: Pale Pulse: weak/lacking resilience or substance/ reduced pounding/ flooding deficient wave

Answer 13

Pale face Weak voice Slight sweat Palpitations Slight breathlessness Tiredness Lack of appetite Loose watery stools Chilliness Cold limbs/abdomen Better with warmth/warm drinks Frequent, pale urination Tongue: swollen, possibly tender, wet Pulse: Deep or Slow

Answer 14

Sallow and pale complexion Scanty periods Insomnia Dry hair Apathy Vague anxiety Poor memory Numbness Muscle spasms Dry skin Dry nails Tongue: pale, dry, can be orange tinged - especially on the sides Pulse: thin, reduced substance at blood depth

Answer 15

Scanty periods Insomnia Dry hair Emotional upset and anxiety Restlessness, agitation Palpitations Low-grade fever Heat in palms and soles Heat sensation in the afternoon/nights Dry throat at night Night sweats Emaciation Malar Flush Tongue: Dry, red, lacks coating Pulse: Tight, rapid or absent - reduced substance at organ depth depending on how it has developed.

Answer 16

Either invasion of: wind cold summer heat damp dryness fire Or one of the following has accumulated internally: Phlegm Damp Food Stagnation Blood stagnation Qi stagnation Excess heat Excess cold

Answer 17

Abdominal pain which is worse for pressure A voice which is deeper than usual A full and forceful pulse Some types of indigestion Difficult urination

Answer 18

Qi deficiency Qi stagnation Qi Sinking Rebellious Qi

Answer 19

Blood deficiency Blood heat Blood stasis

Answer 20

Yin Yan Qi Blood Jing/Essence Body fluids Zangfu Channels

Answer 21

Feeling of heaviness in the body, head or limbs Muzzy head Lethargy No appetite Stuffiness of chest or epigastrium Sticky taste in the mouth Difficult urination Cloudy urine White, sticky vaginal discharge Oozing skin diseases Pulse: Slippery Tongue: Greasy coat

Answer 22

Feeling of heat Skin diseases with red eruptions dry mouth bleeding hardening of the arteries Pulse: Blood continuum Tongue: possibly red

Answer 23

Dark or bluish green complexion Purple lips Stabbing or burning pain (of fixed location) Abdominal masses that do not move Purple nails Bleeding with dark blood and dark clots Pulse: Choppy Tongue: Dark Purple

Answer 24

Wood fuels fire Fire creates Earth from below Earth generates/creates metal through the pressure and gravitational force on the minerals within the ground Metal vitalises, charges water (trace elements) also metal condenses water. It is synonymous with air element in other traditions. Clouds/water droplets form in the air and are descended via metal element Water feeds/generates wood

Answer 25

Jing-well - Wood Ying Spring - Fire Shu - Stream - Earth Jing - River - Metal He-Sea - Water

Answer 26

Upwards outwards energy, yang in ascension Germination, growth Time of planning Life stirs, animals wake from hibernation, plants break through the ground, the blueprint of the seed is put into action. Vision - animals become inquisitive, plants grow toward the sun, we look towards the future, plan what we are going to do this year? Dreaming can become more vivid and we plan, the next iteration of ourselves. Wind, East, Green, Birth, Sour, Rancid

Answer 27

Maturation, flowers are blooming, relationships are blooming, expressive, social energy. Warmth pulls us out and together. The most Yang time of the year. More energy/Yang/warmth and more time in the day/sunlight: Time and energy for doing/carrying/manifesting/creating, a creative time. More energy, more passion, more enthusiasm more life. Heat, South, Red, Growth, Bitter, Scorched

Answer 28

Indian summer, plan comes to fruition, maturity, fruits at their fullest - harvest time. Abundance of food, grain stores at their fullest, still warm and days still relatively long but the doing time of summer is slowing down as the hard work is done. Time of nourishment and nurturing. Earth element is transformational, it is the transitional period between each season and sometimes put in the centre of the diagram. This is the most Earth of all the transitions, the Earth within the Earth. Dampness, Centre, Yellow, Maturity, sweet, fragrant

Answer 29

Autumn cuts in and invites us to slow down. Yang is descending, returning to Yin. Animals slow down and retreat Reflective period. Stripping back. Clarity. Air becomes clear, sharp. Dreaming peaks again as we reflect and let go of the year. The trees let go of their leaves and a rotting down of the leaves and plants into the Earth to remineralise the soil. Dryness, West, White, Withdrawal, Pungent, rotten

Answer 30

Trees are now back to their bones - skeletal Constriction, colder, shorter days, most yin Animals are in hibernation Return to dao, timeless. A meditative time - to let the experience of the year and the growth settle in and integrate as we turn our past into wisdom which we store in our kidneys Season invites us to be still to go from doing to being Not a time for planning and wasting energy on the imagination of the future. To be in the moment and the moment about to happen to know we have enough for this moment and to be prepared for the next. Cold, North, blue-black, dormancy, salty, Putrid

Answer 31

Anger/frustration Eyes Tendons Liver Large Intestine Sour Shouting Rancid Wind Manifests - Nails

Answer 32

Joy Tongue Blood Vessels Heart/Paricarium Small intestine/ Sanjiao Bitter Laughing Scorched Heat Manifests - Complexion

Answer 33

Worry Mouth Muscles Spleen Stomach Sweet Singing Fragrant Dampness Manifests - Lips

Answer 34

Grief Nose Skin Lung Large intestine Pungent Crying Rotten Dryness Manifests - Skin

Answer 35

Fear Ears Bones Kidney Bladder Salty Groaning Putrid Cold Manifests - Head hair

Answer 36

In health, the way in which one organ nourishes another - mother/son A deficiency in mother can lead to a weakness in son (Treatment: If liver is weak can strengthen Kidney. If Lung is weak can tonify Spleen) Mother affecting the son: Excess heat in Liver can lead to excess heat in the heart. Disharmony can be transmitted in the opposite direction - A weakness in the Liver can drain the Kidney and make them weak too.

Answer 37

Water aspect of the Kidney helps to cool the fire aspect of the heart. Lung helps to control the Liver and prevent Liver Qi from rising. Liver assists the functioning of the stomach by assisting the smooth movement of Qi Disharmony - one organ may overact on another. Imbalanced Liver can invade the ST & SP 'Wood invading Earth' or 'Wood overacting on Earth'. - treatment: promoting earth and restraining wood. Weakened organs may fail to exert their controlling function (LU is weak, Liver Qi may rise up uncontrolled). Disharmony can also be in the opposite direction - Insulting/violating sequence. - Qi stagnation or excessive heat in the Liver can be transmitted to the Lungs 'Wood overacting on Metal'.

Answer 38

Mother - LIV 8 Child - LIV 2

Answer 39

Mother - P 8 Child P 7

Answer 40

Mother - HE 9 Child - HE 7

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Mother - SP 2 Child - SP 5

Answer 42

Mother - LU 9 Child - LU 5

Answer 43

Mother - KID 7 Child - KID 1

Answer 44

Jing-well - Metal Ying Spring - Water Shu - Stream - Wood Jing - River - Fire He-Sea - Earth

Answer 45

The three treasures Jing Qi Shen

Answer 46

Growth and development Marrow Kidney foundation Constitutional Strength

Answer 47

Movement (transporting, raising): Involuntary (breathing & heartbeat), voluntary, mental action, growth and development, natural rhythm and flow. Defence (protecting) Transformation Containment (holding) Warming

Answer 48

True Qi Qi in the organs, channels, surface tissues and skin (divided into Wei Qi and Ying Qi)

Answer 49

Protective Qi Flows in the skin and the surface tissues. Defends against attack by external pathogenic factors. Warms and helps to nourish the skin and muscles. Controls the pores and regulates sweating and body temperature.

Answer 50

Nutritive Qi Nourishes the organs and tissues of the body. Closely related to blood. Flows in the channels and the blood vessels

Answer 51

Upright or antipathogenic Qi Normal Qi, in contrast with the Qi of a disease causing factor (Xie Qi)

Answer 52

Qi of the chest/gathering Qi Helps with the rhythmic movements of breathing and heartbeat, regulates the pulse and gives strength to the voice

Answer 53

Jing in the form of Qi Dynamic and rarified form of Jing originating in the Kidneys. Foundation of vitality and stamina Circulates the channels and stimulates the functioning of all the organs. Acts as a catalyst in the formation of Zhen Qi and blood

Answer 54

Nourishment - nourishes the tissues and organs - eyes, hair, especially the skin. Muscles, bones, organs etc. Moistening - ensures that tissues do not dry out. Anchoring - material foundation that anchors the spirit, giving a feeling of stability, happiness and peacefulness and enabling sleep.

Answer 55

Qi generates blood Qi moves blood Qi holds blood in place "Blood is the mother of Qi and Qi is the commander of Blood"

Answer 56

Nourish and Moisten Support the Blood - fluid component of Blood and help keep Blood Fluid and flowing.

Answer 57

LU: Coughing up phlegm, wheezing HE: 'Mists the mind' causing epilepsy or mental illness Channels: numbness (eg. after stroke) Under the skin: Lumps, swollen lymph nodes, swollen thyroid, lipomas In the joints: nodules and bone deformities in rheumatoid arthritis GB and KID: stones (caused by heat further condensing phlegm) Other signs: dizziness and muzzy head, blurred vision, vomiting, greasy tongue coating, Pulse: Slippery or wiry.

Answer 58

Governs the Blood (Makes blood, circulates blood) Dominates the Blood vessels Houses the Shen (spirit) Manifests in the complexion Opens into the tongue Maintains joy Spirit aspect: Shen - encompassing all 5 aspects of the soul

Answer 59

The mind is restless, irrational and confused with manic behaviour, delusions and incoherent speech

Answer 60

The eyes lack lustre, thought can be muddled, there can be a dull apathy with a lack of lust for life. Certain types of insomnia can arise.

Answer 61

Stores Jing (Dominates reproduction, growth and development) Produces Marrow (fills up the brain, dominates bones, manufactures Blood) Maintains Fire of Ming Men Dominates water Controls reception of Qi Opens into the ear Strengthens the will Forms the root of Yin and Yang Dominates the Lower Jiao Spirit aspect: Zhi

Answer 62

Protects the Heart from Exterior Heat Supports the Functions of the heart Governs the centre of the chest

Answer 63

Governs transportation and transformation Contains blood (ie. holds Blood in place) Dominates the muscles/flesh Opens into the mouth - manifests in the lips Controls raising of the Qi Maintains lightness Spirit aspect: Yi (consciousness of possibilities)

Answer 64

Governs respiration and rules Qi Disperses and descends Regulates water passages Dominates skin and body hair Opens into the nose Maintains our connectedness Spirit aspect: Po (corporeal soul)

Answer 65

LUNG - Descends/disperses/regulates SPLEEN - Transforms/Transports KIDNEY - Steams fluids/catalyses their transformation BLADDER - Opens and closes to eliminate fluids SAN JIAO - Co-ordination and transportation of fluids.

Answer 66

Stores the Blood Rules flowing and spreading Dominates the tendons Manifests in the nails Opens into the eyes Maintains capacity for control Sprit Aspect: Hun (non-corporeal soul)