Week 5 - 6 Channel Pattern ID

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 Tai Yang patterns?

Answer 2

vacuity (wind strike)
repletion (cold damage)
water amassment
blood amassment

Question 3

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yang repletion pattern?

Answer 3

Repletion - aversion to cold, absence of sweat, tight floating pulse, chills & fever w/ chills predominating, occipital headache, coughing, wheezing, general body aches, no thirst, strong desire for warm drink

Question 4

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

Answer 4

interior, exterior

Question 5

Shao Yang channel pattern is characterized by ___________

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Yang Ming channel pattern is a fully ______ disease

Answer 6

internal

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

internal

vacuity

Question 9

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yin pattern?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

cold transformation pattern (vacuity cold) - KD

heat transformation pattern (vacuity heat) - HT

Question 11

List signs and symptoms of each Shao Yin channel pattern

Answer 11

cold transformation - aversion to cold, reversal cold in limbs, curled-up posture, diarrhea w/ undigested food, deep and faint pulse, swollen ankles/feet, exhaustion, depression, anhedonia, weight gain, hypothyroidism, copious clear urine

heat transformation - vexation, insomnia, dry throat, dry mouth, fine, rapid pulse, dark scanty urine, five center heat, bizarre dreams, night sweats

Question 12

What are signs and symptoms of Jue Yin channel pattern?

Answer 12

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 13

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

Answer 13

an initial cold

an initial heat

Question 14

What are the Tai Yang organ patterns?

Answer 14

Water accumulation/amassmentBlood accumulation/amassment

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Primary, Luo, Divergent, Sinew

Question 16

What organs are associated w/ each of the six channels?

Answer 16

Tai Yang - UB, SI
Yang Ming - ST, LI
Shao Yang - SJ, GB
Tai Yin - SP, LU
Shao Yin - HT, KD
Jue Yin - PC, LV

Question 17

What organs does each of the six channel patterns primarily affect?

Answer 17

Tai Yang - LU
Yang Ming - channel - LU, bowel - LI
Shao Yang - LV
Tai Yin - SP
Shao Yin - HT, KD
Jue Yin - whole body

Question 18

What is the treatment principle for Tai Yang Repletion? Tai Yang Vacuity?

Answer 18

warmly clear exterior by promoting sweat

warmly clear exterior & stop sweating, gently tonify qi

Question 19

What does it mean to harmonize the Ying and Wei?

Answer 19

clear exterior, stop sweating

Question 20

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yang vacuity pattern?

Answer 20

aversion to wind, sweat, moderate floating pulsem, mild chills & fever, mild body aches, sneezing, coughing, no thirst

Question 21

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yang water amassment?

What is the treatment principle?

Answer 21

wind cold excess symptoms - chills & fever, no sweat, floating tight pulse + inhibited urination, pressure & discomfort in lower abdomen

warmly clear exterior by promoting sweat & promote urination

Question 22

What are the signs and symptoms of Tai Yang blood amassment?

What is the treatment principle?

Answer 22

wind cold excess symptoms - chills & fever, no sweat, floating tight pulse + inhibited urination, blood in the urine, sharp throbbing pain in lower abdomen

Question 23

What is the pathology that leads to Tai Yang blood amassment?

Answer 23

Tai Yang water amassment - cold pathogen coverts to heat pathogen in UB - bleeding, scarring

Question 24

What are some diseases that manifest as Shao Yang patterns?

Answer 24

chronic fatigue syndrome
fibromyalgia
Hepatitis B/C
early stage HIV
chicken pox
chicken guinea fever
chronic lyme disease
human elichiosis

Question 25

Describe the pulse and tongue of patient w/ Shao Yang stage disease

Answer 25

wiry pulse

relatively normal tongue w/ red, peeled sides

Question 26

Treatment principle for Shao Yang pattern is _______

Answer 26

clear the Shao Yang

Question 27

Treatment principle for Tai Yin pattern is _______

Answer 27

warm the middle jiao

Question 28

Describe the pulse and tongue of patient w/ Tai Yin stage disease

Answer 28

pulse - weak, deep, slow, or
weak, deep, tight w/ abdominal pain

tongue - very pale, wet, swollen, thin, wet white coat

Question 29

Treatment principle for Shao Yin pattern is ________

Answer 29

heat transformation - nourish HT & KD yin

cold transformation - warm Shao Yin/ HT & KD yang

Question 30

Describe the pulse and tongue of Jue Yin pattern

Answer 30

pulse - rapid, surging/ floating

tongue - pale, swollen, wet, thin white coat

Question 31

Treatment principle for Jue Yin pattern is __________

Answer 31

clear heat from upper jiao, warm lower jiao