TCM150-Wk1 Flashcards
Wood element yin organ & emotion?
Liver
Anger
Fire element yin organ & emotion?
Heart
Joy
Earth element yin organ & emotion?
Spleen
Pensiveness & Worry
Metal element yin organ & emotion?
Lungs
Sadness
Water element yin organ & emotion?
Kidneys
Fear & shock
What emotion makes Qi rise?
Anger
What emotion slows Qi?
Joy
What emotion knots Qi?
Worry & Pensiveness
What emotion dissolves Qi?
Sadness
What emotion descends Qi?
Fear
What emotion scatters Qi?
Shock
Qi stagnation can lead to..?
Blood stagnation
What is Joy? Factors? Symptoms?
- Excessive excitement & craving (not a state of healthy contentment)
- Excessive stimulation disturbs Shen (mind) → May displace it from heart blood
Factors: alcohol, recreational drugs, advertising, ambition, sex
Heart Symptoms: Palpitations, over excitability, insomnia, restlessness, red tip on tongue
What is anger? Symptoms?
Includes: resentment, repressed anger, irritability, frustration, rage, hatred, indignation animosity or bitterness
- Can affect the liver → stagnation of liver Qi / Liver blood / Liver Yang rising / Liver fire
- Makes Qi rise → symptoms manifest in head & neck
Symptoms: headaches*, dizziness, tinnitus, neck stiffness, red blotches (front neck/face)
- Some individuals may carry anger inside for years w/ out manifesting it (thus, does not always manifest outwards w/ outbursts)
What is worry? Symptoms?
- Knots Qi = Stagnation of Qi → affects both lung + spleen
- Lung: if one is worried → breathing is shallow
Symptom: unfordable feeling in chest, slight breathlessness, tensing of shoulders, dry cough (sometimes), weak voice, sighing, pale complexion - Spleen: responsible for thinking + ideas
Symptoms: Slight epigastric discomfort, Abdominal pain + distension, tiredness + pale complexion - Worry = counterpart of spleen’s mental energy (concentration + memorization) - when healthy we can concentration & focus
Leads to: constantly thinking, brooding & worrying about certain life events
What is pensiveness? Symptoms?
- similar to worry in character & effect
Includes: brooding, constantly thinking about certain events/people (even though not worrying), nostalgic hankering after past + shining intensely about life rather than living it
Extreme cases: obsessive thoughts
Different sense: includes mental work in process of ones study/work
What is sadness? Symptoms?
Includes: grief & regret (mind always turned towards that time)
- Weakens lungs & affects the heart (upper burner)
- Lungs govern Qi, Sadness dissolved/depletes Qi.
- Manifested on pulse w/ weakness in of both. No ‘wave’ & does not flow smoothly.
Symptoms: Breathlessness, tiredness, discomfort in chest, depression, crying
What is fear? Symptoms?
Includes: chronic state of fear / anxiety + sudden fright
- Depletes Kidney Qi + makes Qi descend
Ex. of Qi descending = nocturnal enuresis in children & incontinence of urine/ diarrhea in adults following a sudden fright
Shock symptoms?
- suspends Qi & affects heart + kidneys
- causes depletion of heart Qi →makes heart smaller + may lead to hearth palpitations, breathlessness + insomnia
