Week 3 Patterns According to Pathogenic Factors Flashcards
All emotions affect the
Heart
Emotions transport to what?
Relevant organ
How do emotions become pathogenic?
long lasting
very intense
both
What does mental stimuli disturb?
Shen
Hun (Etherial)
Po (Corporeal)
Emotions affect
internal organs
Exterior wind affects
Exterior of the body, then internal organs
The hearts fear, anxiety, and pensiveness injure the
mind
The spleens worry injures the
intellect
The livers sadness and shock injure the
ethereal soul
The lungs excessive joy injures the
corporeal soul
they kidneys anger injures the
will power
Anger affects the
Liver
Joy affects the
Heart
Pensiveness affects the
Spleen
Worry affects the
Lungs
Fear affects the
Kidneys
How does the control cycle play into emotions
i.e. Joy (fire) counteracts worry and sadness of metal
Sadness affects
the lungs and heart
Worry affects
the lungs and spleen
Shock affects
the heart
How does anger effect qi
makes qi rise
How does joy effect qi
slows qi down
How does sadness effect qi
dissolves qi
How does worry effect qi
Knots qi
How does pensiveness effect qi
knots
How does shock effect qi
scatters qi
How does fear effect qi
Makes qi descend
All emotions agitate the _____ and has repercussions on _______
Heart
All other organs
First effect of emotional stress on the body
proper circulation and direction of qi
All emotions have a tendency to cause
some stagnation of qi
Qi stagnation can lead to
blood xu and heat/fire
Effects of emotional strain (5)
qi stag
blood stasis
heat
fire
phlegm
headache, dizziness, tinnitus, red face, stiff neck
Anger
Anger may cause which patterns
Liver qi stag (if anger is repressed), liver yang rising, liver fire
What other organs does anger affect
Stomach and intestines
Anger pulse
wiry
Which types of qi does joy bennefit
nutritive and wei
palpitations, over-excitability, insomnia, restlessness, red tongue tip
joy
sudden joy is akin to
shock
Sadness primarily affects the ______ and the _____ suffer in consequence
heart
lungs
What depletes lung qi
sadness
breathlessness, tiredness, feeling of discomfort in chest, depression or crying
sadness
in some cases what may deplete liver blood in women?
sadness
What affects the spleen and lungs
worry
uncomfortable feeling of the chest, sl. breathless, tensing shoulders, dry cough, weak voice, sighing, pale
worry in the lungs
poor appetite, slight epigas. discomfort, abdominal disten., tiredness, pale
worry in the spleen
OR
Pensiveness
Worry vs pensive
pensive is brooding, more wrapped up in the past than present or future
Fear depletes
kidney qi
nocturnal enuresis, incontinence, diarrhea
fear
In some cases: palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, dry mouth, malar flush
fear
Palpitations, breathlessness, insomnia, moving pulse
shock
Six climate factors
Wind
Cold
Summer Heat
Dampness
Dryness
Fire
Wind
Spring, Liver
Cold
Winter, Kidneys
Summer Heat
Summer, Heart
Dampness
Late Summer, Spleen
Dryness
Autumn, Lungs
Fire
Summer
What is primarily an independent factor and independent of the seasons?
Fire
How does climate cause disease?
Excess/ unseasonal
imbalance between climate and body qi
Six stages
Tai Yang (Greater)
Yang ming (bright)
shao yang (lesser)
tai yin (greater)
Shao yin (lesser)
Jue Yin (terminal)
Four Levels (Wen Bing)
Wei
Qi
Ying
Xue
External pathogenic factors invade the body through
skin, nose, mouth
Four degrees of aversion to cold?
- Aversion to wind
- Fear of cold
- Aversion to cold
- Shivers
goosebumps, likes to stay indoors
aversion to wind
feels cold, wants to stay in, covered, doesn’t alleviate the cold
aversion to cold
cold, wants to be indoors near heat source
fear of cold
extremely cold, shivers, covered, doesn’t warm them
shivers
The higher the fever the
stronger the pathogenic struggle
What determines the severity of a fever
Strength of upright qi and of pathogen
Fever (3)
- Hot feeling emanating from patients forehead and dorsum of hands
- Due to struggle between body’s qi and exterior pathogen
- Intensity is directly proportional to intensity of pathogen and body’s qi
Six pathogenic factors
- Wind
- Cold
- Summer Heat
- Dampness
- Dryness
- Fire
aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, sneeze, runny nose, occipital stiffness, floating pulse
wind invading wei level
stiffness, rigidity, contraction of muscles, sudden onnset
wind invading muscles and channels
pain that moves from join to joint, esp. upper body
wind invading the joints
stiffness, contractions, pain, chilliness
cold invading muscles
severe pain in joints
could invading joints, bi syndrome
sudden epigastric pain, vomit, sudden abdominal pain with diarrhea, acute dysmenorrhea
Cold invading stomach, intestines, or uterus
aversion to cold, fever, sweating, headache, dark urine, thirst, floating rapid pulse
summer heat
heaviness of limbs, dull aches in muscels
dampness invading muscles and sinews
heaviness and swelling of joint, esp. lower body
dampness invading the joints
acute urinary discomfort, acute vaginal discharge, acute skin disease with vesicles or papules, acute digestive upset
damp