Week 13 Zang Fu LV GB Flashcards
GB stores and exretes
Bile
GB controls
decisiveness
sinews
GB gives individual
courage and initiative
GB gives individual capacity to
turn drive and
vitality into positive and decisive action
GB qi weak
depression
GB qi excessive
slight mania
capacity to plan life and to have dreams is conferred by the
Ethereal Soul of the LV {Hun}
drive and will-power to want to make something of our lives is
conferred by
Will-power {Zhi} of the KD
capacity to discriminate between issues, to analyze issues with
clarity, and to distinguish what is relevant and what is not is
conferred to us by the
SI
capacity to take a decision with resoluteness once all issues have
been analyzed is conferred by the
GB
integration and direction is provided by the Mind {Shen} of the
HT
waking early in the AM and unable to fall
back asleep again
GB xu
Heat from LV due to pent up emotions affects
GB
Exterior dampness and heat can lead to
GB damp heat
GB patterns
- Dampness in the GB
- Damp Heat in the GB
- GB deficient
- Hypochondrial pain, fullness and distention, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats
- Jaundice, dull-yellow eyes and skin, dull-yellow sclera
- Turbid urine, lack of thirst, sticky taste, dull HA, feeling of heaviness in the body,
- T: thick sticky white coat, either bilateral in two strips or unilateral, P: Slippery-Wiry
- Dampness in the GB:
- Hypochondial pain and distention, nausea, vomiting, inability to digest fats
- Yellow complexion, yellow sclera
- Scanty and dark yellow urine, fever, bitter taste, irritability, a feeling of heat
- Dizziness, tinnitus, feeling of heaviness in the body, numbness of the limbs, swelling of the feet
- Thirst without desire, loose stools or constipation, alternation of hot and cold feelings
- T: thick sticky yellow coat, either bilateral in two strips or unilateral, P: Slippery-Wiry-Rapid
- Damp Heat in the GB:
- Dizziness, blurry vision, floaters
- Nervousness, timidity, a propensity to be easily
startled, lack of courage and initiative,
indecision, sighing - Waking up early in the morning, restless dreams
- T: Pale or normal, P: Weak
- GB deficient:
The liver stores
blood
the liver ensures the
smooth flow if qi
liver controls
sinews
liver manifests in the
nails
liver opens to the
eyes
liver controls
tears
liver houses the
ethereal soul (hun)
liver affected by
anger
Liver moistens
eyes and sinews
liver regulates
menstruation
Blood volume in relation to rest and
activity
regular and normal menses
liver blood normal
amenorrhea or scanty periods
Liver blood xu
painful periods
Liver blood stasis