Zangfu Flashcards
Palpitation, insomnia; fullness of chest, sob; disinclination to speak, listlessness, lassitude; spontaneous sweating; aggravated after activities; pallor, pale tongue; weak knotted or intermittent pulse.
Deficiency of heart qi
Palpitation, insomnia; precordial pain, pallor, pale or blue complexion, swollen tongue with ecchymoses; intolerance to cold, cold limbs, thin and white slippery coating; deep threads and slow pulse
Deficiency of heart yang
Sudden and profuse sweating, cold limbs up to the elbow or knee joints; coma, minute or knotted pulse
Sudden collapse of heart yang
Palpitation, insomnia, dreaming, amnesia, dizziness, blurred vision; pale and lustreless complexion, pale lips, nails, and tongue. Threads and weak pulse.
Deficiency heart blood
Palpitations, irritability, insomnia, dreaming; afternoon fever or low fever, malar flush, burning sensation in the chest, palms, soles, night sweats, dryness of throat; yellow urine, constipation, red tongue with little coating, thready rapid pulse.
Deficiency of heart yin
dysphoria with hot sensation in the chest; insomnia, even mania and delirium; flushed face, thirst, yellow urine, constipation, and rapid forceful pulse; deep-red tip of the tongue, or ulceration and pain of the mouth and tongue; hematemesis and epistaxis; skin ulceration, swelling and burning pain.
hyperactivity of heart fire
palpitation; suffocating feeling and pain in the chest radiating to the shoulders, the back, and the interior aspect of the forearm which attacks intermittently; stabbing pain, dark purple tongue with ecchymosis and petechiae, thready, unsmooth, or knotted and intermittent pulse.
obstruction of the heart vessels by blood stasis
palpitation; obesity with excessive phlegm, heaviness of the body, severe suffocating pain, white sticky tongue coating, deep and smooth pulse.
obstruction of the heart-vessels by phlegm
palpitations; sudden attacks of megalgia which can be relieved by warmth, aversion to cold, cold limbs, pale tongue, white tongue coating, deep and slow pulse or deep and tense pulse.
Obstruction of heart-vessels by cold
palpitations; distending pain and oppression feeling in the chest, the attacks often have something to do with emotional factors, pale-red or purple-red tongue with thin white coating, taut pulse.
Obstruction of the heart-vessels by Qi stasis.
sallow complexion; nausea and fullness in the epigastrium; mental confusion, slurred speech, even loss of consciousness; rattle in the throat; mental depression, dullness; dementia, muttering, soliloquy, abnormal behaviour, sudden collapse, unconsciousness, salivation, gurgling sound in the throat; upward staring eyes, convulsions; a screaming sound like a pig/sheep; white and sticky coating and slippery pulse.
Phlegm misting the heart (mental confusion due to phlegm)
high fever; flushed face and red eyes; coarse breathing; yellow and sticky sputum, rattle in the throat; mania, incoherent speech, delerium; red tongue, yellow and sticky coating, slippery rapid pulse; insomnia, irritability; fullness in the chest and profuse sputum; dizziness and blurring of vision; weeping and laughing without apparent reason; mania and restlessness, aggressive and violent behaviour.
Phlegm-fire disturbing the heart
Irritability; thirst; ulceration of the mouth/tongue; deep yellow urine, burning pain in the urethra, hesitant urination; red tongue yellow coating.
Excess heat in the Small Instestine
Common heart symptoms
palpitation, mental restlessness, insomnia, suffocating feeling and pain in the chest, delirium, loss of consciousness.
Common symptoms of Small Intestine
dark red and scanty urine, hesitant urination with burning pain.
Common heart syndromes
DEF= qi, blood, yin, yang EX= invasion of heart-fire, phlegm-fire, phlegm misting, obstruction of vessels.
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Common Small Intestine syndromes
Excess heat in SI
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Common Spleen syndromes
DEF= qi, sinking qi, yang, fail to control blood, cold-damp EX= damp-heat
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Common Spleen symptoms
poor appetite, abdominal distension and pain, loose stools, diarrhea, edema, lassitude, and hemorrhage.
Common Stomach symptoms
epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, hiccups, belching
Common Stomach syndromes
DEF= yin EX= retention of food, cold, heat
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loss of appetite; abdominal distention that is especially worse after eating; loose stools, or loose stools after dry stools; lassitude, emaciation; SOB, disinclination to speak; pallor and edema; sallow complexion; pale tongue, white coating, retarded and weak pulse.
Deficiency of Spleen Qi
Epigastric sag and distention which becomes more serious after meals or work, continuous diarrhea and dysentery, prolapse of the anus, prolapse of the uterus, gastroptosis, nephroptosis, vertigo and blurred vision, weariness, SOB, unwillingness to speak, low voice, pale tongue with white coating, feeble pulse.
Sinking of Spleen Qi
Abdominal distention, loss of appetite, abdominal pain which can be relieved by warmth or pressing, loose stools, and cold limbs or heaviness of the limbs, or general edema, difficult urination, profuse dilute leucorrhea, pale and puffy tongue, white and slippery coating, deep, slow and weak pulse.
Deficiency of Spleen Yang
bloody stools, hematuria, hematohidrosis, menorrhagia (excessive menstral flow), metrorrhagia and metrostaxis; poor appetite, loose stools, lassitude, weakness, SOB, disinclination to speak, pallor pale tongue, white coating, thready weak pulse.
Failure of the Spleen in controlling blood
Fullness and distending pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, loss of appetite, loose stools, diarrhea, nausea, tasteless mouth, absence of thirst, heaviness of the head and body, sallow complexion, icteric skin and eyes that are dark yellow as if having been smoked, edema, scanty urine, pale puffy tongue, white slippery coating, soft and retarded pulse.
Disturbance of the spleen by Cold-Damp
Fullness in the abdomen, loss of appetite, nausea, loose stools, yellow scanty urine, heaviness of the body and limbs, icteric skin, eyes in a fresh bright color like oranges, itching, raising and falling fever which cannot be relieved after sweating, red tongue, yellow sticky coating, and soft rapid pulse.
Retention of Damp-Heat in the Spleen
Dull pain in the epigastrium, anorexia, dryness of the mouth and throat, constipation, or fullness in the epigastrium, retching, hiccups, red tongue, little coating, thready rapid pulse.
Deficiency of Stomach Yin
Distention, fullness and pain in the epigastrium and abdomen which can be relieved after vomiting, foul belching, sour regurgitation, and anorexia, vomiting, loose stools, diarrhea with foul stools, thick and sticky coating, smooth pulse.
Retention of Food in the Stomach
Epigastric pain which is continuous in mild cases and shows contracture and megalgia in severe cases and which is aggravated by cold and relieved by warmth, tasteless mouth, absence of thirst, lassitude, weakness, cold limbs, all of which can be relieved by warming, or pain which can be relieved after eating, with accompanying splashing sound in the stomach, vomiting of clear water, pale tongue, white slippery coating, slow wiry pulse.
Cold in the Stomach
Burning pain in the epigastrium, gastric discomfort with acid regurgitation, vomiting after eating, thirst with preference for cold drinks, polyrexia, swelling, pain and ulcers of the gums, gingival hemorrhage, halitosis, constipation, scanty dark-red urine, red tongue, yellow coating, smooth rapid pulse.
Heat in the Stomach
Common Liver symptoms
distending pain, or burning pain, or dull pain in the chest, hypochondrium, lower abdomen, and head, dizziness, blurred vision, irritability, anger, numbness of the limbs, trembling hands, convulsions, and menstruation or testes disorders
Common Liver syndromes
DEF= blood, yin EX= stg Qi, liver-fire, retention of cold in the channel, damp-heat in Liv and GB, hyperactivity of Liv yang, Liv wind
Common Symptoms of Gall Bladder
hypochondriac pain, jaundice, bitter taste in the mouth, palpitations due to fright, insomnia
Common syndromes of Gall Bladder
EX= phlegm due to stg of GB, damp-heat in Liv and GB
Distending and wandering pain in the chest and hypochondria or in the lower abdomen, sensation of oppression in the chest, preference for sighing, depression or irritability. In some cases, globus hystericus, or goitre, or abdominal mass, distention and pain of the breasts, abnormal menstruation and even amenorrhea in females, thin and white tongue coating, wiry pulse.
Stagnation of Liver Qi
Distending pain in the head, dizziness, blurred vision, flushed red face, red eyes, bitter taste in the mouth, dryness in the mouth, irritability, insomnia, or dream-disturbed sleep, burning pain in the costal hypochondriac regions. constipation, yellow urine, tinnitus like sound waves, swelling pain with pus discharge in the ear, hematemesis, epistaxis, red tongue, yellow coating, wiry rapid pulse
flaring-up of liver fire
dizziness and vertigo, tinnitus, pale and lusterless complexion, withered nails, hypopsia or night blindness, numbness of the body and limbs, contracture of the joints, tremor of the limbs, muscular twitching, hypomenorrhea, pale mentral flow, amenorrhea, pale tongue, white coating, wiry thready pulse
Deficiency of Liver blood
Dizziness, tinnitus, dryness of the eyes, hot sensation of the face, burning pain in the costal and hypochondriac regions, burning sensation in the chest, palms, and soles, afternoon fever, night sweating, dryness of the mouth and throat, involuntary movement of the limbs, red tongue with little fluid, wiry thready and rapid pulse.
Deficiency of Liver yin
Dizziness and headache, distending pain of the head and eyes, flushed face, red eyes, irritability, inclination to become angry, palpitations, amnesia, insomnia, dreaming, soreness and weakness of the lumbar region and knee joints, heaviness of the head and floating feeling of the feet, red tongue, wiry and forceful pulse or wiry thready and rapid pulse
Hyperactivity of Liver yang
Dizziness and vertigo, headache with shaking of the head, stiff neck, shaking and numbness of the limbs, dysphasia, staggering gait, sudden collapse, loss of consciousness, deviation of mouth and eyes, hemiplagia, stiff tongue, gurgling sound in the throat, red tongue, white sticky coating
Stirring up of Liver wind
Liver yang turning into wind
High fever, unconsciousness, mania, clonic convulsions of the limbs, rigidity of the neck, even opisthotonos, upward staring of the eyes, locked jaw, red or deep red tongue, wiry and rapid pulse.
Stirring up of Liver wind
Extreme heat producing wind
trembling of hands and feet, afternoon fever, feverish sensation in the chest palms and soles, dryness of the mouth and throat, emiciation, red tongue with little fluid, wiry thready and rapid pulse.
Stirring up of Liver wind
Deficiency of yin
tics of muscles, tics of eyes, numbness of limbs, stiffness of the joints, trembling of the hands and feet, dizziness, tinnitus, sallow complexion, pale lips and nails, pale tongue, white coating, thready pulse.
Stirring up of liver wind
Deficiency of Liver blood
distending cold pain in the lower part of the abdomen accompanied by a bearing down sensation in the testes, contraction and pain of the scrotum that can be aggravated by cold and alleviated by warmth, white slippery tongue coating, deep wiry or slow pulse.
retention of cold in the Liver Channel.
Distention and burning pain in the hypochondrium, masses, anorexia, abdominal distension, bitter taste in the mouth, nausea, abnormal defication, scanty deep-yellow urine, red tongue, yellow sticky coat, wiry rapid pulse, alternating chill and fever, icteric skin and eyes, or eczema of the scrotum, unbearable itching, swelling and burning pain in the testes, yellow foul leucorrhea, and pruritus vulvae
Damp-heat in the Liver and Gall Bladder.
Palpitation, insomnia, irritability, bitter taste in the mouth, nausea, fullness of the chest and distension of the hypochondria, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, yellow sticky coating, wiry smooth pulse
Disturbance of phlegm due to stagnation of the Gall Bladder
Common Kidney Syndromes
DEF= Qi, yang, yin, essence, failure to receive Qi
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Common Bladder syndromes
EX= damp-heat in the Bl
Common Kidney symptoms
soreness and weakness of the lumbar region and knee joints, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, developmental retardation, alopecia, loose teeth, nocturnal emssion, premature ejaculation, impotence, infetility, amenia, sterility, edema
Common Bladder symptoms
frequent, urgent and painful urination, anuresis, enuresis, and incontinence of urine
Infantile developmental retardation, microsoma, action and mental retardation, late closing of fontanel, flaccidity of the bones, spermacrasia, infertility, amenia, hyposexuality, senilism, alopecia, loose teeth, tinnitus, deafness, amnesia, rhembasmus, bradypragia, weakness of the feet, hyponea
Deficiency of Kidney Essence
Pallor, listlessness, poor hearing, soreness and weakness of thelumbar region and knee joints, frequent urination with clear urine, dribbling of urine after urination, enuresis, incontinence of urine, frequent nocturia, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation in males, clear and dilute leucorrhea, fetal movement in females, miscarriage, pale tongue, white coating, deep weak pulse.
Deficiency of Kidney Qi
Soreness and weakness of lumbar region and knee joints, intolerance to cold, cold limbs especially worse at the lower limbs, dizziness and vertigo, listlessness, pallor or sallowness, cold uterus, sterility, chronic diarrhea with undigested food, diarrhea at dawn, edema that is especially worse below the lumbar region, indentations which remain in the skin after pressing, even abdominal distention, general edema, palpitations, cough, asthma, pale puffy tongue, deep weak pulse
Deficiency of Kidney Yang
Soreness of the lumbar region and knee joints, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, dreaming, frequent erection of the penis, nocturnal emission, oligomenorrhea, amenia, uterine bleeding, emaciation, afternoon fever, night sweating, burning sensation in the chest, palms, and soles, dryness of the throat, malar flush, yellow urine, constipation, red tongue with little fluid, thready rapid pulse
Deficiency of Kidney Yin
Chronic cough, SOB, dyspnea, more inhalation less exhalation, incontinuous breath that becomes aggravated on exertion, spontaneous sweating, listlessness, feeble voice, soreness and weakness of the lumbar region and knee joints, pale tongue, white coating, deep weak pulse.
Failure of the Kidney Qi in receiving Qi
Frequent and urgent urination, burning pain in the urethra, deep-yellow and scanty urine, distention and fullness of the abdomen, fever and lumbago, hematuria, stones in the urine, red tongue, yellow and sticky tongue coating, rapid pulse.
damp-heat in the Bladder
Mental restlessness, insomnia, palpitations, dizziness, tinnitus, amnesia, soreness of the lumbar region, seminal emissions, burning sensation in the chest, palms, and soles, dryness of the throat and mouth, red tongue, thready rapid pulse, soreness and cold feeling of the lower limbs below the lumbar region.
disharmony between HT and KID
Asthmatic breathing, SOB, more exhalation less inhalation all which become worse on exertion, low voice, cold limbs, blue complexion, spontaneous sweating, incontinence of urine due to severe cough, pale tongue with thin coating and weak pulse.
deficiency of Qi of the Lung and KID
Cough with small amount of sputum or with blood-tinged sputum; dryness of the throat and mouth, hoarse voice, emaciation, soreness and weakness of the lumbar region and knee joints, hectic fever, afternoon fever, malar flush, night sweating, nocturnal emissions, abnormal menstruation, red tongue little coating, and thready and rapid pulse.
Deficiency of yin of the lung and Kidney
Dizziness, blurring of vision, tinnitus, amnesia, insomnia, dreaming, dryness of the throat and mouth, soreness and weakness of the lumbar region and knee joints, hypochondriac pain, burning sensation in the chest, palms, and soles, malar flush, night sweating, nocturnal emissions, oligomenorrhea, red tongue with little coating, thready rapid pulse
deficiency of yin of the Liver and Kidney
Pallor, intolerance to cold, cold limbs, cold pain of the lumbar region and knee joints or the lower abdomen; and chronic diarrhea and dysentery, or diarrhea at dawn; or diarrhea with undigested food in the stools; or difficulty of urination, facial puffiness and edema of the feet, even abdominal distention like the surface of a drum; pale and puffy tongue, white and slippery coating, deep and thready pulse.
Deficiency of yang of the Spleen and Kidney
Persistent coughing, SOB, asthma, profuse dilute and white sputum; poor appetite, abdominal distention, loose stools, feeble voice, disinclination to speak, lassitude and weakness, pallor, facial puffiness and edema of the feet, pale tongue, white tongue coating, thready weak pulse.
Deficiency of Qi of the Lung and Spleen
Distention, fullness and wandering pain in the chest and hypochondriac region, emotional frustration or irritability; poor appetite, abdominal distention, loose stools, borborygmus, abdominal pain that is alleviated after diarrhea, white or sticky tongue coating, wiry pulse.
Imbalance between the Liver and Spleen
Distention, fullness, and pain of the epigastric and costal regions, belching, hiccups, gastric discomfort with acid regurgitation; irritability, red tongue, thing yellow coating, wiry rapid pulse
Disharmony between the Liver and Stomach
Palpitation, insomnia, dreaming, dizziness, amnesia, sallow complexion, anorexia, abdominal distention, loose stools, lassitude and weakness, or subcutaneous bleeding, and oligomenorrhea with pale menstrual flow, or amenorrhea, pale and tender tongue, thready weak pulse
Deficiency of both the Heart and Spleen
Oppression feeling and burning pain of the chest and hypochondria, irritability, dizziness, red eyes, dysphoria with smothering sensation, bitter taste of the mouth; paroxysmal cough, stocky scanty and yellow sputum, even hemoptysis, red tongue, thin white coating, wiry rapid pulse
Invasion of the Lung by Liver-fire
Palpitation, amnesia, insomnia, dreaming, dizziness, tinnitus, pallor, dry eyes, blurring vision, dryness of the nails, numbness, tremors, spasms, oligomenorrhea with pale menstrual flow, even amenia, pale tongue, white tongue coating, thready weak pulse.
Deficiency of blood of the Heart and Liver
Palpitation, cough and asthma, SOB (which is aggravated on exertion), lassitude, oppression feeling of the chest, clear dilute sputum; pallor, dizziness, listlessness, spontaneous sweating, feeble voice, pale tongue, white tongue coating, deep weak pulse or intermittent and knotted pulse
Deficiency of Qi of the Heart and Lung
Intolerance to cold, listlessness, edema (face and limbs), scanty urine, purplish lips tongue skin, pale tongue, little or no coat, thin deep weak minute pulse
Deficiency of Heart and Kidney yang
Cough, expectoration, asthma, SOB, hoarseness, hemoptysis, chest pain
Common Lung symptoms
Constipation, diarrhea, stool with blood and pus
Common Large Intestine symptoms
Common Lung Syndromes
DEF= Qi, yin EX= wind-cold, wind-heat, phlegm-dampness, retention of heat, dryness
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Common Large Intestine syndromes
DEF= Lingering diarrhea EX= insufficiency of fluids, damp-heat
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Feeble cough, SOB which is worse on exertion, clear dilute sputum, low voice, disinclination to speak, listlessness, lassitude, spontaneous sweating, susceptibility to cold, pale tongue with white coating, weak pulse
Deficiency of Lung Qi
cough without sputum or with little sticky sputum or blood, dryness of the mouth and throat, hoarseness, emaciation, afternoon fever, burning sensation int he chest palms and soles, night sweating, malar flush, red tongue with little moisture, thready and rapid pulse
Deficiency of Lung yin
cough with white and thin sputum, nasal obstruction, runny nose, aversion to cold, fever, absence of sweating, white coating, superficial tight pulse
invasion of the Lung by wind-cold
cough with thick and yellow sputum, nasal obstruction, thick and yellow nasal discharge, aversion to wind-cold, fever, headache, dryness of the mouth, sore throat, red tip of the tongue, thin and yellow coating, superficial rapid pulse
Invasion of the lung by wind-heat
Cough with profuse white sticky sputum, easy expectoration; sensation of oppression and fullness in the chest, asthma, gurgling sound in the throat; pale tongue, white sticky coating, slippery pulse
Accumulation of Phlegm-dampness in the lung
Cough with thick and yellow sputum, asthmatic and coarse breathing, dyspnea, even flaring of nares, high fever, thirst with a desire to drink, irritability, epistaxis, hemoptysis, chest pain, cough and expectoration with foul sputum, constipation, scanty deep-red urine, red tongue with yellow coating; slippery and rapid pulse
Retention of heat in the lung
Dry cough without sputum or with scanty expectoration, sticky sputum, difficult expectoration, dryness of the mouth nose and throat, fever and aversion to cold, chest pain, hemoptysis, red tongue, white or yellow coating, rapid pulse
Invasion of the Lung by dryness
Abdominal pain, tenesmus, diarrhea with blood and mucus in the stoold, spouting diarrhea, halitosis, burning sensation of the anus, scanty deep-red urine, thirst, aversion to cold and fever, red tongue with yellow and sticky coating, slippery and rapid pulse
Damp-heat in the LI
Constipation with dry stool, only defication once in several days, dry mouth and throat with foul smell, red tongue with dry yellow coating, thready and unsmooth pulse
Deficiency of fluids in the LI
Severe diarrhea, incontinence of stools, even prolapse of rectum, dull pain in the abdomen which can be relieved by warmth and pressure, pale tongue, white and slippery coating, deep and weak pulse
Lingering diarrhea due to deficiency of the LI
