Wind Stroke Flashcards
What kind of stroke is characterized as a cerebral artery bursting and causing a bleed in the brain?
Cerebral Haemorrhage
What kind of stroke is characterized by a partial or total obstruction to a cerebral artery?
Cerebral Thrombosis
What kind of stroke is characterized by a piece of thrombus that breaks away and travel along the artery system until it reaches a narrowed area where it will cause a blockage?
Cerebral Embolism
What is a TIA?
Transient Ischemic Attack that is characterized as a Mini Stroke
What are the 4 pathogenic factors involved in stroke?
Wind, Phlegm, Fire, and Stasis
Working long hours without rest, working under stressful conditions, and prolonged emotional strain all consume what?
Kidney Yin
Apoplexy, coma, mental cloudiness, paralysis, moving/deviated/ stiff tongue are all symptoms if what?
Liver Wind
Eating irregularly, creating huge peaks and troughs in blood glucose levels, eating excessive amounts of fat, dairy food and greasy foods all causes what syndrome?
Spleen Xu
Numbness in limbs, mental cloudiness, slurred speech or aphasia, swollen tongue, sticky coating are all symptoms of what?
Phlegm
What does excessive sexual activity and inadequate rest weaken?
Kidney Essence
Purple tongue, pain in limbs, stabbing and fixed headache is symptoms of what syndrome?
Blood Stasis
Excessive physical overwork in the form of extreme exercise or manual labour weakens what?
Spleen, to cause Spleen Xu
What other poor health conditions accompany the 4 pathogenic factors?
Qi, Blood or Yin Xu - Especially Yin Xu or Liver/Kidney
Stiff, deviated, moving, significant quivering are what pathogenic factor that appears on the tongue?
Wind
Swollen and sticky coating is what pathogenic factor that appears on the tongue?
Phlegm
Redness is what pathogenic factor that appears on the tongue?
Fire
Purple, dark purple spot is what pathogenic factor that appears on the tongue?
Stasis
What characterizes a stroke as severe?
Wind stroke affecting internal organs and the meridians
What characterizes a stroke as mild?
Wind stroke that just affects the channels
Sudden collapse, loss of consciousness, coma, clenched teeth, closed fists, lock jaw, red face and ears, profuse sputum, rattling sound in throat, coarse breathing, constipation, retention of urine, c: sticky/yellow, p: wiry/full/rapid/slippery is all symptoms of which type of stroke?
Tense/Closed or Collapse of Yin Stroke
Sudden collapse, loss of consciousness, coma, hands and mouth relaxed open, eyes closed, pale face, feeble breathing, oily sweat on forehead, bladder and bowel incontinence, cold limbs, p: tiny/hidden/scattered are symptoms of what kind of stroke?
Flaccid/Open or Collapse of Yang
What does sequelae mean?
Lasting signs and symptoms.
Facial paralysis, hemiplegia, limb numbness, reduced mobility, and slurred speech are all symptoms that affect what channels?
Main channels
Unilateral numbness of face and limbs (no paralysis), and slurred speech affects what channels?
Connecting channels
What is the treatment principle for an acute attack of internal organs?
Relieve spasms, induce resuscitation, and lower blood pressure
What is the treatment principle for a tense type stroke?
Induce relaxation, relax spasm, clear heat, subdue wind, resolve phlegm, and open orifices
What is the treatment principle for a flaccid type stroke?
Recapture yang and induce resuscitation
What is the treatment principle of attack on the channels?
Remove obstruction, subdue wind and resolve phlegm, invigorate connecting channels, and regulate circulation
Paralysis of one side of the body is what symptom?
Hemiplegia
True or False: Treatment of stroke within three months, points should be reduced on paralyzed side and treatment of stroke three months after onset are tonified on paralyzed side?
True
Total loss or slurring of speech is what symptom?
Aphasia
What is both a trigger for original stroke or a precursor for further strokes?
Hypertension
