Week 5 (6 Exogenous Factors, Qi/Blood/Body Fluid Syndrome Differentiation) Flashcards
Name 6 exogenous pathogenic factors.
Wind, cold, summer heat, dryness, damp, and fire.
What two circumstances result with 6 external pathogenic factors causing disease?
- If environmental changes are extreme
Or - If body qi is low.
6 external pathogenic factors enter body where (3 entrances)?
Skin, mouth, nose.
In the disease process, is a pathogen able to evolve into its opposite?
For instance, pathogenic cold can result with interior heat, or long-term summer heat can cause dryness.
True, yes.
Wind is the predominant qi of what season (even if it may happen in any season)?
Spring!
We mostly see wind pathology in the change of yin to yang seasons. Which two seasons is this? During temperature fluctuations at the seasonal changes skin pores open and close letting wind into the body throughout the day.
Spring
Fall
Wind enters the body through what organ?
Skin! Via the open pores typically coming with sweating.
Which 6 exogenous pathogen enters your body in sleep when yang is at its lowest point so more susceptible to invasion.
Wind!
Which of the 6 external pathogenic factors is the leading causative disease factor because all the other invading ones require it to lower defensive qi first?
Wind. Wind can combine with any 5 remaining pathogenic factors, and also phlegm.
Wind pertains to yin or yang?
Yang.
Winds action is (2)?
Ascending and exterior (yang).
Wind mostly affects which Jiao and part of the body?
Upper Jiao and top/exterior of the body (yang).
Which external pathogenic factor is characterized by constant body movements (dizziness, convulsions, tremors).
Wind! Pathogenic wind disorders = sudden onset, rapid change, and migratory symptoms (wandering bi syndrome, urticaria, and shingles).
What is wandering bi syndrome caused by wind?
Migratory joint pain.
What is urticaria caused by wind?
Itchy skin with red welts that pop up randomly in numerous places. Hives!
Shingles caused by wind heat invasion is characterized by sudden onset of two things.
Itching, burning rash that moves around the body.
Bell’s palsy, wind stoke, shingles, common cold, stiff neck, tetanus, and opisthotonos (muscle spasm causing backward arch of the neck - meningitis, poisoning) are all caused by?
Wind.
Which 6 external pathogen is responsible for this?
Wind.
This 6 external pathogenic factor invades the body through exposure to it after sweating and long-term standing in water.
Cold.
Cold is yin or yang?
Cold is a yin 6 external pathogenic factor that consumes yang and that impairs the body warming function.
Cold causes contractions due to (2 things)?
Qi and blood stagnation.
These are key symptoms of which 6 external pathogenic factor?
Aversion to cold
No sweats
Head and body pain
Abdominal pain
Coughing
Dyspnea
White sputum
Cold.
Characteristics of?
Cold invading the exterior.
Characteristic of?
Pathogenic cold invading lungs.
Characteristic of?
Cold invading the abdomen.
Characteristic of?
Cold invading the channels.
Which of the 6 exogenous pathogens tends to invade during hot dry summer weather?
Summer heat!
This 6 exogenous pathogen is exclusively triggered by excess exposure to high temperature, prolonged hours in the blazing sun, and poorly ventilated areas.
Summer heat.
Characteristics of extreme yang heat - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, and restlessness are caused by which of the 6 exogenous pathogens?
Summer heat.
Which of the 6 external pathogenic factors is responsible?
Summer heat.