Zang Fu Pattern: Heart and SI

Question 0

Hand TaiYang

Answer 0

Small Intestine

Question 1

Heart Full meridian name

Answer 1

Heart Hand Shao Yin

Question 2

List the common heart symptoms

Answer 2

Palpitations, mental restlessness, insomnia, suffocating feeling, and pain in the chest, delirium and loss of consciousness.

Question 3

Small intestine common symptoms

Answer 3

Dark red and scanty urine, hesitant urination with burning pain

Question 4

Common Heart deficient syndromes

Answer 4

Deficiency of Qi, Blood and Yin and Yang

Question 5

Common Excess Heart Syndrome

Answer 5

Invasion of fire, phlegm and blood stasis

Question 6

Western Diseases associated with Deficiency of Heart Qi

Answer 6

Heart disease, arrhythmia, neurosis and heart failure

Question 7

Palpitation, insomnia, fullness of chest, SOB, disinclination to speak, listlessness, lassitude, spontaneous sweating, aggravated after activites. pallor, pale tongue, weak or knotted or intermitted pulse

Answer 7

Deficiency of Heart Qi

Question 8

POT for Heart Qi Deficiency

Answer 8

Reinforce Heart Qi

Question 9

Western disease associated with deficiency of Heart Yang and sudden collapse of heart yang

Answer 9

heart disease. heart failure, circulatory failure caused by acute or chronic disease

Question 10

Palpitations, insomnia, preordial pain, pallor, pale or blue complexion, swollen tongue with ecchymoses, intolerances to cold, cold limbs, or edema of limbs, thin and white slippery coating, deep, thready and slow pulse, sudden and profuse cold sweating, cold limbs up to elbow or knee joints, coma, minute/knotted and intermittent pulse

Answer 10

Deficiency of Heart yang and sudden collapse of heart yang

Question 11

POT of Deficiency of heart yang and sudden collapse of heart yang

Answer 11

Warm and reinforce the heart yang - Deficiency of heart yang

Restore yang - sudden collapse of the heart yang

Question 12

Etiology and pathology of Deficiency of Heart Blood

Answer 12

Prolonged illnesss -> injuries blood
Emotional loss frustration leading to fire which consumes blood
excessive loss of blood
Dysfunction of Sp and St —>poor production of blood - leads to deficiency of blood

Question 13

Western disease associated with Deficiency of Heart Blood

Answer 13

anemia, neuroses, heart disease

Question 15

Palpitations, insomnia, dreaming, amnesia, dizziness, blurrying of vision, pale and lusterless complexion, pale lips, nails
Tongue: Pale
Pulse: Thready and weak

Answer 15

Manifestations of Deficiency Heart Blood

Question 16

POT for Deficiency of Heart Blood

Answer 16

Nourish the heart blood

Question 17

Etiology and pathology of Deficiency of Heart Yin

Answer 17

Yang pathologenic factors: summer heat, dryness and fire
Drastic emotional changes -> fire
Prolonged stagnation of wind, cold or dampness ->fire
Indulgence in alcoholic drink, pungent, greasy -> fire
Improper treatment
ALL of them leads to consumption of body fluids leading to heart yin xu

Question 18

Palpitations, irritability, insomnia, dreaming, afternoon fever or low fever, malar flush, burning sensation in the chest, palms and soles, night sweating, dryness of the throat, yellow urine, consitpation
Tongue: Red tongue (the tip) with little coating
Pulse: Threading and rapid

Answer 18

Manifestation of Deficiency of Heart Yin

Question 19

Nourish Heart Yin

Answer 19

POT for Deficiency of Heart Yin

Question 20

EPF invasion
Mental Depression -> Fire
Invasion of exogenous pathogenic fire
Indulgence in greasy and strongly flavoured food/alcoholic drink or smoking -> fire

Answer 20

Etiology and pathology of Hyperactivity of Heart Fire

Question 21

Western diseases associated with Hyperactivity of Heart Fire

Answer 21

Neurosis, recurrent sores of the mouth and urinary infection

Question 22

Manifestations: Dysphoria with hot sensation in chest, insomnia, even mania and delirium flushed face, thirst, yellow urine, constipation, ulceration and pain of the mouth and tongue. hematemesis and epistaxis, skin ulceration, swelling and burning pain
Tongue: Deep Red Tip of tongue
Pulse: Rapid and force

Answer 22

Hyperactivity of Heart Fire

Question 23

POT for hyperactivity of Heart Fire

Answer 23

Clear away fire from the heart

Question 24

1. Old age, Prolonged diseases, deficiency of Yang Qi in consitution leads to deficency of Yang QI fails to promote circulation of the blood
2. overstrain, affected by coldness and emotional distress leads to the stagnation of cold, accumulation of phlegm, hindrance of functional activities of Qi

Answer 24

Etiology and pathology of Obstuction of Heart Vessels

Question 25

Western disease of Obstruction of Heart vessels

Answer 25

coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and myocardiac infarction

Question 26

Sallow complexion, nausea and fullness in the epigastrium, mental confusion, slurred speech, loss of consciousness, rattle in the throat, mental depression, dullness, dementia, muttering soliloquy, abnormal behvior, sudden collapse, salication, gugling sound in the throat, upward staring of the eyes, convulsion, screaming sound like a pig or a sheep

Tongue: white and sticky coating

Pulse: slippery

Answer 26

Manifestation of Phlegm misting the heart (mental confusion due to phlegm)

Question 27

Remove phlegm to promote resuscitation

Answer 27

POT of Phlegm misting the heart

Question 28

Manifestation of Phlegm fire disturbing the heart

Answer 28

high fever, flushed face and red eyes, coarse breathing, yellow and sticky sputum, rattle in the throat, mania, incoherent speech, delirium, insomnia, irritability, fullness in the chest and profuse spitum, dizziness and blurring of vision, weeping and laughing without apparent reason, mania and restlessness, aggressive and violent behavior

tongue: red, yellow and sticky coating
pulse: slippery and rapid