Week 1: Internal Medicine Intro., Common Cold, Cough, Asthma.

Question 1

Can you recognize this category?
* Preponderance and decline of pathogenic or healthy qi
* Yin-yang disharmony
* Disharmony of qi and blood
* Five Endogenous Pathogens: wind, phlem, cold, dampness, dryness, fire-heat.

Answer 1

Pathogenesis!

Question 2

Where would you find the treatment principle and treatment method?

Answer 2

Identification of Syndrome (Diagnosis).

Question 3

In what order do you study the internal medicine class content?

Answer 3

Disease first, syndrome second.

Question 4

This “wind injury” is an EXTERNAL CONTRACTED DISEASE. What is it?

Answer 4

Common cold.

Question 5

Wind-Cold
Wind-Heat
Summer-Heat and Dampness
Qi Deficiency
Yin Deficiency
Epidemic Cold (Influenza)

Are patterns/categories of?

Answer 5

Common Cold.

Question 6

Severe aversion to cold, mild fever, absence of sweating,
clear nasal discharges, a general pain, superficial and tense pulse.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 6

Wind-Cold.

Question 7

Obvious fever, slightly aversion to cold, sweating, turbid
nasal discharges, thirst, sore throat, superficial and rapid pulse.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 7

Wind-Heat.

Question 8

Fever, dizziness, a distending pain in the head, soreness and heaviness in the limbs, restlessness and vomiting occur in summer.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 8

Summer-Heat and Dampness.

Question 9

Weak constitution, severe aversion to cold, mild fever,
lassitude and superficial and weak pulse.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 9

Qi Deficiency.

Question 10

Fever, scanty sweating, restlessness, unproductive cough, a red tongue with a scanty coating , thready and rapid pulse.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 10

Yin Deficiency.

Question 11

Sudden attack, aversion to cold, high fever, severe headache and general pain. Contagious.

Pattern/category of common cold?

Answer 11

Epidemic Cold (Influenza).

Question 12

When presented with a patient with cough the first thing to ascertain is?

Answer 12

Whether the cough is
acute or chronic.

Also ask about sound, time of day, sputum.

Question 13

Treatment principles are closely related to treatment methods but the two are different how?

Answer 13

Treatment principles are macroscopic, holistic and strategic
plans. Treatment methods are microcosmic, specific and tactic measures.

Question 14

Wind-Cold
Wind-Heat
Lung Phlegm-Dampness
Liver-Fire Scorching Lung
Lung-Yin Deficiency

Patterns/categories of?

Answer 14

Cough.

Question 15

Wind-Cold Invasion
Phlegm-Heat Obstructing Lung
Lung-Qi Deficiency
Kidney-Qi Deficiency

Patterns/categories of?

Answer 15

Asthma “Dyspnea and Wheezing”

Question 16

Basic cause of asthma?

Answer 16

Root cause is internal retention of phlegm-fluid.