yang ming -tai yang- shao yang

Question 1

Signs
These include aversion to wind, fever, sweat, strong pain in the head and neck, a floating, moderate pulse and thin white tongue fur.

Answer 1

Greater yang channel patterns-tai yang

1. GREATER Y ANG WIND STROKE PATTERN

Question 2

Signs
These include aversion to cold, fever, lack of sweating, panting, strong pain in the head and neck, soreness of the body and pain in the lumbus, pain in the joints, thin white tongue fur and a floating and tight pulse.

Answer 2

tai- yang

2. GREATER YANG COLD DAMAGE PATTERN

Question 3

Signs
These include fever, aversion to wind, sweating, inhibited urination, distention and fullness of the lesser abdomen, heart vexation and thirst; in severe cases there is thirst with a desire for water, but when the water is taken there is vomiting and a floating pulse.

Answer 3

tai yang

Greater yang bowel pattern

Question 4

Signs
These include aversion to cold, fever, painful body, lack of sweating, vexation and agitation, yellow tongue fur and a floating and tight pulse.

Answer 4

tai yang
Complicated and transmuted greater yang patterns
1. EXTERIOR REPLETION COMPLICA TED BY INTERNAL HEAT PATTERN

Question 5

Signs
These include aversion to cold, fever, headache, lack of sweat, cough, retching, copious thin white phlegm, white tongue fur and a floating or string-like and tight pulse.

Answer 5

tai yang

Complicated and transmuted greater yang patterns. EXTERIOR REPLETION COMPLICATED BY INTERIOR RHEUM PATTERN

Question 6

Signs

These include fever, sweating, panting, cough, thirst, a yellow tongue fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 6

tai yang

3. LUNG HEAT PANTING COUGH PATTERN

Question 7

Signs
These include fever, dysentery, panting, sweating, burning sensation of the anus, yellow urine, yellow, slimy tongue fur and a slippery, rapid pulse.

Answer 7

tai yang

4. COMPLEX DYSENTERY PATTERN

Question 8

Signs
These include counterflow fullness beneath the heart, qi rising and drenching the chest, vomit- ing of clear water and phlegm-drool, dizziness, shortness of breath or heart palpitations, white, glossy tongue fur and a deep, tight pulse.

Answer 8

tai yang

5. SPLEEN VACUITY WATER COLLECTION PATTERN

Question 9

Signs
These include fullness and oppression beneath the heart, which is painful with pressure, yellow tongue fur and a floating and slippery pulse.

Answer 9

tai yang

A. MINOR CHEST BIND

Question 10

Signs
These include hard fullness below the heart, which is like a stone when pressed, and pain of the chest and rib-side; in severe cases there is pain and hard fullness from below the heart to the lesser abdomen, which is worse with pressure, and bound stools; there may be tidal fever, shortness of breath or panting with an inability to lie supine, anguish within the heart, thirst, sweat emerging from the head, thick, yellow tongue fur and a tight or deep, slow and force- less pulse.

Answer 10

tai yang

B. MAJOR CHEST BIND

Question 11

Signs
These include full glomus below the heart, which is soft and painless with pressure. It may be accompanied by vexing heat, yellow tongue fur and a rapid pulse.

Answer 11

tai yang

A. HEAT GLOMUS

Question 12

Signs
These include full glomus or hard fullness below the heart, no pain with pressure, nausea, vomit- ing, rumbling intestines and diarrhea.

Answer 12

tai yang

B. MIXED COLD AND HEAT GLOMUS

Question 13

These include a great heat in the body, no aver- sion to cold but aversion to heat, great sweating, great thirst with a desire for fluids, heart vex- ation, possibly a slight aversion to cold on the back, yellow and dry tongue fur and a surging and large or slippery and rapid pulse.

Answer 13

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Yang brightness channel pattern

Question 14

Signs
These include steaming fever, sweating, thirst, heart vexation, abdominal fullness and pain, no defecation; in severe cases there may be delirium. The tongue fur is yellow and dry and the pulse is slippery and rapid.

Answer 14

yang brightness bowel pattern

1. DRYNESS REPLETION PATTERN

Question 15

Signs
These include tidal fever, sweating, abdominal distention with fullness, hardness and pain, no defecation or heat bind with circumfluence; in extreme cases there may be clouded spirit and delirious speech. The tongue fur is thick, yellow and dry; the pulse is slippery and racing.

Answer 15

yang brightness bowel pattern

2. GLOMUS AND FULLNESS PATTERN

Question 16

Signs
These include tidal fever, delirious speech, impeded defecation or heat bind with circum- fluence, distention, fullness, hardness and pain of the abdomen or pain around the umbilicus, which is aggravated by pressure, and sweating of the hands and feet; in extreme cases there is panting to the point that it is impossible to lie supine, clouding spirit and continuous delirious speech. The tongue fur is old and yellow or burnt dry with prickles, while the pulse is deep and replete or deep, slow and forceless.

Answer 16

yang brightness bowel pattern

3. GLOMUS FULLNESS AND REPLETION DRYNESS P A TTERN

Question 17

Signs
These include yellow eyes and skin, fresh yellowcolor-red and diminished urine, fever, thirst, heart vexation, uncomfortable stomach duct glomus, no desire to eat or nausea and vomiting, bound stools, incomplete emergence of sweat, yellow and slimy tongue fur and a string-like and rapid, or slippery and rapid, pulse.

Answer 17

yang ming

Damp-heat jaundice pattern

Question 18

Signs
These include alternating aversion to cold and fever, bitterness and fullness of the chest and rib-side, silence of the spirit-affect, no desire for food or drink, heart vexation, frequent retching, a bitter taste in the mouth, a dry throat, eye dizziness and a string-like pulse

Answer 18

shao-yang

Governing pattern of lesser yang disease

Question 19

Signs
These include fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, headache or dizziness, neck stiffness, vexing soreness of the joints of the four limbs, slight nausea, propping binding or hardness below the heart, white tongue fur and a floating or string- like pulse.

Answer 19

shao-yang combine whit tai yang
Combined lesser yang patterns
1. LESSER Y ANG COMBINED WITH GREATER YANG PATTERN

Question 20

Signs
These include alternating fever and aversion to cold, bitterness and fullness in the chest and rib- side, a bitter taste in the mouth, blurred vision, incessant vomiting, tenseness and pain or hard- ness and glomus in the upper abdominal area, depression and vexation, bound stools, possibly tidal fever or diarrhea, generally dry, yellow or thick, white and dry tongue fur and a string-like, forceful pulse.

Answer 20

yang ming combine with shao yang

2. LESSER Y ANG COMBINED WITH Y ANG BRIGHTNESS PATTERN