Week 4 - 6 Channel Patterns, 4 Levels Patterns

Question 1

What are the six channels?

Answer 1

Tai Yang, Shao Yang, Yang Ming, Tai Yin, Shao Yin, Jue Yin

Question 2

What are the four levels?

Answer 2

Wei, Qi, Ying, Xue

Question 3

Tai Yang channel patterns can be divided into _____ and _____

Answer 3

vacuity (wind strike)

repletion (cold damage)

Question 4

What are the signs and symptoms of the two Tai Yang channel patterns?

Answer 4

Repletion - aversion to cold, absence of sweat, tight floating pulse
Vacuity - aversion to wind, sweat, moderate floating pulse

Question 5

Shao Yang channel pattern is considered to affect 1/2 _____ and 1/2 ______

Answer 5

interior, exterior

Question 6

Shao Yang channel pattern is characterized by ___________

Answer 6

alternating fever & chills, chest tightness, hypochondriac pain, wiry pulse, abdominal fullness

Question 7

Yang Ming channel pattern is a fully ______ disease

Answer 7

internal

Question 8

Yang Ming channel pattern is divided into _______ pattern and _______ pattern. The characteristics of each are _______________. Which of the two patterns is more yang?

Answer 8

channel
bowel
channel - big fever, big sweat, big thirst, big pulse
bowel - fullness, glomus, dryness, repletion
Channel pattern is more yang

Question 9

Tai Yin pattern is a pattern of ______ cold and _____ cold

Answer 9

internal

vacuity

Question 10

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yin pattern?

Answer 10

SP-ST vacuity, abdominal fullness, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, moderate, weak pulse

Question 11

Shao Yin channel pattern can be divided into _______ and ________. List the organ associated with each.

Answer 11

cold transformation pattern (vacuity cold) - KD

heat transformation pattern (vacuity heat) - HT

Question 12

List signs and symptoms of each Shao Yin channel pattern

Answer 12

cold transformation - aversion to cold, reversal cold in limbs, curled-up posture, diarrhea w/ undigested food, deep and faint pulse

heat transformation - vexation, insomnia, dry throat, dry mouth, fine, rapid pulse

Question 13

What are signs and symptoms of Jue Yin channel pattern?

Answer 13

cold-heat complex (upper body heat, lower body cold), waisting and thirsting, hunger w/ no desire to eat, vomiting of roundworms, qi surging into HT

Question 14

The two systems of pattern differentiation developed by the Wen Bing school are _________

Answer 14

4 levels
San Jiao (3 levels)

Question 15

Ying and Xue level patterns are characterized by _______

Answer 15

intense heat, damage to yin fluids, skin rashes, bleeding disorders, mania, delerium

Question 16

List the organs associated with each level of the San Jiao system of pattern differentiation.

Answer 16

Upper - 1st level - LU, HT
Middle - 2nd level - SP, ST
Lower - 3rd level - KD, LV

Question 17

What are signs and symptoms of Wei level pattern?

Answer 17

wind heat - fever, slight/no chills, coughing, sore throat, rapid/floating pulse, thirst

Question 18

The Shang Han system posits ______ pathogen while the Wen Bing system posits _______ pathogen

Answer 18

an initial cold

an initial heat

Question 19

What are the Tai Yang organ patterns?

Answer 19

Water accumulation/amassment

Blood accumulation/amassment

Question 20

What the four main types of channels found in the body?

Answer 20

Primary, Luo, Divergent, Sinew