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Yin Organ Inter-relationships Flashcards

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How are Blood and Qi interdependant? (Heart and Lungs)

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Qi is the commander of Blood; Blood is the Mother of Qi.
- qi makes Blood circulate, and holds it in the blood vessels
- qi can only circulate through body by ‘concentrating’ in the blood vessels
- qi controls warmth; blood controls immersion ( Blood needs warmth of Qi to circulate, Qi needs liquid quality of Blood as vehicle to circulate)
- Heart drives Blood through blood vessels, but Lungs provide the Qi necessary
- HT and LU often deficient together b/c of this
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What emotion will deplete both LU and HT?

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sadness

  • weak pulse in Front position of both L and R side
  • LU-7 and HT-7
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How are the Lungs involved in making Blood?

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  • Gu Qi of SP ascends to HT to make Blood

- does this through moving action of LU-Qi

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What is the relationship between Heart and Liver? (5)

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  • Heart governs Blood; Liver stores Blood (and regulates volume)
  • Liver-Blood deficiency often leads to HT-Blood deficiency (b/c not enough Blood stored to nourish Heart and house Shen) - Ma not nourishing Child
  • Heart houses the Shen; Liver houses the Hun
  • HT (through Shen) recognizes, controls, integrates emotions; Liver ensures smooth flow of emotions (and Qi)
  • Hun (of Liver) is the ‘coming and going’ of the Shen (of Heart)
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What is a common cause of postnatal depression?

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  • Liver-Blood deficiency (from bloodloss) leading to Heart-Blood deficiency
  • deficient Heart-Blood fails to house Shen
  • causes depression, anxiety, insomnia, palpitations
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What happens when the “child drains the mother” in the Heart-Liver relationship?

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  • Heart-Blood deficiency disrupts Liver’s ability to regulate Blood
  • dizziness, excessive dreaming
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How does Liver affect emotions?

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Smooth flow of Liver-Qi = smooth flow of emotions

- no repression, no extremes

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What does the Hun give to the Mind?

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  • movement in sense of relationships with others, inspiration, dreams, ideas, vision, sense of direction in life, capacity for planning, etc
  • then Mind controls, directs, and integrates this psychic material into our psyche
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What are the 3 aspects of the Kidney-Heart relationship?

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  • mutual assistance of Fire and Water
  • common root of Shen (Mind) and Jing (Essence)
    (ie, production of Marrow)
  • interrelationship of HT and KD in menstrual cycle
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Simply define the relationship between Hun and Shen.

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  • the Shen directs the Hun

- the Hun embraces the Shen

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What is the Qi relationship between HT and KD (ie “the mutual support of Fire and Water”, or Heart and Kidneys)?

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  • HT-Qi descends to KD, which hold it; KD-Qi ascends to HT
  • Heart-Yang descends to warm Kidney-Yin; Kidney-Yin ascends to nourish and cool Heart-Yang
  • must be balanced (fire doesn’t dry water, water doesn’t douse fire)
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What happens when Kidney-Yang is deficient?

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  • cannot transform fluids
  • fluids overflow towards Heart
  • pattern called “Water insulting the Heart”
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What happens when Kidney-Yin is deficient?

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  • cannot sufficiently nourish Heart-Yin or cool Heart-Yang
  • leads to Empty-Heat of Heart (insomnia, mental restlessness, palpitations, flushes cheekbones, night sweats, red peeled tongue w/ crack in the centre)
  • loss of contact between HT and KD*
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How does the Shen depend on the Kidneys?

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Jing/Essence (and Qi) are the essential foundation for the Shen/Mind. (pyramid)
- Pre-Heaven essence = foundation; post-heaven = nourishment for Shen

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How will weak Jing/Essence affect the Shen?

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  • lack vitality, self-confidence, and willpower
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What might cause a person to feel ‘permanently tired’ and lacking in motivation?

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  • if Shen is perturbed by prolonged emotional problems, Jing/Essence will not be directed by Shen
  • will result in those feelings
  • KD houses Will-power (Zhi); weak KD-essence will diminish Zhi (willpower) and lead to depression, lack of drive, motivation and willpower
17
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Describe the menstrual cycle in terms of KD- yin and yang, and Heart-Qi action.

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  • 1st half of cycle, yin is growing, reaching a maximum at ovulation
  • with ovulation, yin begins to decrease and yang increases, reaching maximum just before onset of period
  • Heart-Qi provides impetus for the transformation of Yang to Yin and Yin to Yang
  • Heart-Qi and Heart-Blood descend during ovulation to promote discharge of egg, and during period to promote downward flow of blood
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What are the 2 aspects of the relationship between Liver and Lungs?

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  • relationship between Lung-Qi and Liver-Blood (LU govern Qi, LR stores and regulates Blood)
  • relationship between descending of Lung-Qiand ascending of Liver-Qi
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Describe the relationship between Lung-Qi and Liver-Blood.

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  • Liver relies of Lung-Qi to regulate Blood b/c Lung-Qi drives Blood in the blood vessels
  • Liver-Blood provides moisture and nourishment for Lung-Qi to circulate properly
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How can deficient Lung-Qi not rising affect the Liver? (Metal not controlling Wood)

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  • co-ordinated ascending of Liver Qi and descending of Lung Qi
  • will interrupt Liver’s function of smooth Qi flow, prevent it from rising, cause stagnation
  • leads to listlessness (Qi deficiency), depression (stagnation of LR-Qi), couch, hypochondrial pain
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T/F: Liver-Blood nourishes and replenishes Kidney-Essence?

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True

- and this in turn contributed to production of Blood (b/C Essence produces Marrow, which makes Blood)

22
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What two organs are most important in gynecology and are important for women to have a regular and normal menstrual cycle?

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KD and LR
- Liver-Blood provides Blood to Uterus; Kidneys are original of Tian Gui (which is the substance that menstrual blood derives from)

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T/F: Spleen is the origin of Qi, and Lungs are the axis of Qi?

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True

  • SP relies on descending of LU-Qi t transform and transport food to make Gu Qi, which SP provides to LU in order to generate Zong Qi (gathering/chest qi)
  • Earth produces Metal
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If Spleen-Qi is deficient, and therefor Gu Qi is deficient, and the production of Qi suffers (particularly that of Lung-Qi), this will result in tiredness, weak limbs, breathlessness, and a weak voice. According to 5 Element Theory, what is this an example of?

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Earth not producing Metal

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T/F The Spleen is the origin of Phlegm, and the Lungs store it.

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True

26
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___ is the Root of Post-Heaven Qi; ___ are the Root of Pre-Heaven Qi.

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Spleen ; Kidneys

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What is an example of Fire not producing Earth, related to the Spleen and Kidneys?

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  • if Kidney-Yang is deficient:
  • Fire of Gate of Life cannot warm Spleen for it’s function of transformation and transportation; results in diarrhea and chilliness
  • impaired SP function of transforming and transporting fluids; can cause Dampness, edema, diarrhea, chilliness
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Stagnation of Qi in the intestines is almost associated with ___ stagnation.

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Liver-Qi

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