Causes Of Disease And Prevention

Front 1

What are the external causes of disease?

Back 1

Wind
Cold
Dryness
Dampness
Summer-Heat
Fire

These are weather or climates, also related to seasons and elements.

Front 2

If px has sensation of fever and chills. What is the cause of the disease that he has?

Back 2

Exterior illness

Front 3

Which penetrates and carries other evils along with it?

Back 3

Wind

Front 4

What season and element is Wind associated with?

Back 4

Spring, wood

Front 5

What kind of evil is Wind invasion? How does it attack the body?

Back 5

Yang evil, damages yin and blood

Invades after sweating (pores are open)
or while sleeping (defense qi goes inward)
or vacuity of defense.

Front 6

What are the characteristics of Wind evil?

Back 6

- Wind sways the tops of trees
Yang evil moves upward and outward. First affects upper body and surface of the body (skin and defensive exterior)

- Wind comes and goes quickly, changes rapidly, moves swiftly, blows intermittently.

- Constant movement (dizziness, vertigo, convulsions, tremors, spasms, tingling, numbness)
- Or inappropriate lack of movement (rigidity, paralysis, stiffness, etc).

Front 7

How does external wind invade and what are the symptoms?

Back 7

Invades through skin, interfeeres with defense qi and pores.
Causes abnormalities in sweating.

Symptoms:
aversion to wind or cold, fever or feeling of heat; sneezing, coughing, runny nose, stiff neck, headache, itchy throat

Floating pulse

Front 8

What is the treatment principle if there is wind invasion?

Back 8

Dispel wind from the exterior (release the exterior).

Front 9

What happens when exterior wind invades the channels?

Back 9

facial paralysis
joint stiffness and pain that wanders (bi patterns)

Front 10

What is the treatment principle when wind invades the channels?

Back 10

Dispel wind from the channels

Front 11

What is interior wind and what is the tx principle?

Back 11

Interior wind is always due to the liver: convulsions, wind-stroke, etc.

Treatment principle: pacify (or subdue) wind.

Front 12

What is the season and element associated with cold? Which organ is affected?

Back 12

Winter
Water
Kidneys

Front 13

What kind of evil is cold?

Back 13

Yin evil
Easily damages yang qi

Front 14

Px feels cold in various areas, has aversion to cold, feels better with heat, likes to eat or drink cold foods. No thirst, pale. What is the most likely cause of disease?

Back 14

Cold invasion

Front 15

Which congeals and contracts?

Back 15

Cold

Front 16

Px has severe pain, spasms, no sweating, and stiffness, and an aversion to cold. What is this due to?

Back 16

Cold invasion
- Cold congeals, stagnates and contracts
- Circulation of qi and blood is obstructed

Front 17

What are the characteristics of cold?

Back 17

Low temp

Slows down activity (fxns decline like river freezing over)
- fluids not transformed
- watery fluids and slow pulse

Congeals, stagnates and contracts
- obstructs circulation of qi and blood
- severe pain, spasms, no sweating, stiffness

Front 18

What season and element is associated with Dampness? What organ is affected?

Back 18

Late Summer
Earth
Spleen

Front 19

What kind of evil is Dampness?

Back 19

Yin evil, impairs yang.

Front 20

What are the characteristics of Dampness?

Back 20

Heavy and moves downward
- affects lower body, i.e. legs and lower burner
- feeling of heaviness

Turbid, sticky, stagnant, thick, clammy, dirty, and causes persistent diseases
- Chronic diseases
- fixed location
- turbid discharges

Obstructs qi circulation

Front 21

Px has dull ache, swelling, lingering pain in the knees. What is it most likely due to?

Back 21

Dampness in the channels and joints

Front 22

What is the cause of interior dampness?

Back 22

Spleen vacuity leading to poor transportation and transformation.
Fluids accumulate and becomes dampness and digestion is disturbed.

Front 23

What are the characteristics of exterior dampness?

Back 23

Aching of the whole body, possibly acute digestive upset.

Front 24

What is the season and element associated with Dryness? What organ does it affect?

Back 24

Autumn
Metal
Lungs

Front 25

What kind of evil is Dryness?

Back 25

Yang evil, affects yin and blood

Front 26

Px has constipation, scant urine, and has a dry cough and dry nose. what is the cause?

Back 26

Dryness

Front 27

Px has fever, thirst, has aversion to heat, redness and a rapid pulse. What is the cause?

Back 27

Fire
burning hot, rapid changes

Front 28

What are the characteristics of Fire invasion?

Back 28

Burning hot, moves upward, distrurbs spirit (headache, red eyes, delirium, agitation, coma, mania)

Consumes yin fluids

Can stir up internal wind (High fever, coma, convulsions)

Can disturb blood (bleedings, skin diseases)

Other evils can transform to heat or fire in the body.

Front 29

What are the characteristics of Summerheat?

Back 29

Hi temp, upward movement, consumes body fluids and damages qi

Severe summerheat: sunstroke, sudden collapse, coma, disturbed consciousness, delirium, slurred speech

Frequently combines with dampness.

Front 30

Px has loose stools, has nausea and dizziness, lassitude, soggy pulse, and thick slimy tongue coat. what is the evil invading this person?

Back 30

Summerheat combined with dampness.

Front 31

Which emotion causes the qi to slacken?

Back 31

Joy (move slowly or relax)

Excessive joy scatters the spirit

Front 32

Anger damages which organ?

Back 32

Liver

Front 33

Which emotion causes qi to rise? What organ does it affect?

Back 33

Anger
Liver

Front 34

Which emotion causes qi to disperse? What organ does it affect?

Back 34

Sorrow (disperses, dissolves, scatters)

Lungs
- sorrow leads to lung qi vacuity: breathlessness, fatigue, crying, sighing

Front 35

What organ is affected by thought? How does it affect the qi and the body?

Back 35

Spleen
- weakens fxn Spleen and causes fatigue, loss appetite, loose stools, phlegm

Causes qi to bind (knot)

Front 36

What organ is affected by anxiety? What does it do to qi?

Back 36

Damages Lungs and Spleen
- Spleen: fatigue, loss appetite, loose stools
- Lung qi binding: breathlessness, stiff shoulders and neck

Excessive thinking and anxiety leads to qi binding

Front 37

What emotion causes the qi to descend? What organ does it affect?

Back 37

Fear
Kidneys
- depletes Kidney qi causing bed wetting, incontinence

Front 38

What emotion causes qi to be chaotic?

Back 38

Fright causes derangement of qi

Front 39

What organ is affected by fright? What are the symptoms?

Back 39

Kidneys and heart

Palpitations, breathlessness, insomnia, night sweating, dry mouth, dizziness, tinnitus

Front 40

What are neither external nor internal causes of disease?

Back 40

Improper diet
Improper work and rest
Sexual taxation
Trauma
Improper medical treatment
Parasites and toxins

Front 41

What are the two aspects of preventing what is not ill?

Back 41

I) prevention for those who are not ill

II) guarding against progression of disease in those who are already ill.

Front 42

What is Prevention for those who are not ill?

Back 42

Taking good care of the body:

- Increasing the ability of right qi to resist evil (increase and strengthen the constitution)

-Avoiding invasion and harm from disease evils. Pay attention to hygiene and avoid environmental, water, and food contamination

Front 43

How do you increase the ability of right qi to resist evil?

Back 43

Increase and strengthen the constitution:

- regulation and containment of essence-spirit

- exercising the body makes the blood circulatea nd joints move smoothly

- daily diet

- refraining from excessive activity or rest

- suitable herbal prevention

Front 44

Regulation and containment of essence-spirit

Back 44

- essence-spirit: life force, vitality, body and mind, kidneys and heart

- emotional stimulation can result in internal vacuity of right qi, making body more prone to evil qi attack

- ease of mind and cheerful essence-spirit can regulate qi mechanism and is beneficial for health; strengthens the ability of right qi to resist evil, and prevent disease before it occurs

Front 45

How do you guard against progression in someone who is already ill?

Back 45

- Early diagnosis and treatment

- According to the shift in the pattern of illness, first safeguard the site that has not yet received evil.

Front 46

What are the five behaviors?

Back 46

Sitting quietly
Reading
Appreciating nature
Discussing ideas with good friends
Teaching children or juniors

Front 47

What are the ten pleasures?

Back 47

Studying the meaning of the classics
Learning calligraphy
Calming the mind and sitting quietly
Chatting with beneficial friends
Drinking a little until half intoxicated
Watering flowers and cultivating bamboo
Listening to qin and enjoying cranes
Burning incense and brewing tea
Climbing the city walls and viewing the mtns
Telling fables adn playing chess

Front 48

What are the six always?

Back 48

Always be peaceful in mind (do not covet, don't worry, few desires)

Always be kind hearted

Always uphold justice

Always be cheerful

Always be pleasant

Always be contented

Front 49

What is a channel?

Back 49

Main pathways of qi-blood

12 main channels

Homes to its own organ, nets with its paired organ. Connects bowels and viscera, limbs and joints
Network of qi and blood by which the whole body is nourished.

Front 50

What are network vessels?

Back 50

Branches of the channels that enmesh the body.

Smaller branches ensuring the supply of qi and blood to all localities.

Can ordinarily be seen (unlike the twelve channels that lie deeply between the divisions of the flesh.

Front 51

What are the other types of channels in the body?

Back 51

- 12 Cutaneous Regions
- 12 Channel Sinews
- 12 Channel Divergences

Front 52

What are the Twelve Cutaneous Regions?

Back 52

Areas of the skin lying on and corresponding to each of the twelve channels.

Front 53

What are the Twelve Channel Sinews?

Back 53

Sinews following the path of the channels, together filling the entire surface of the body.

Morbidity of the channel sinews includes impediment (bi), hypertonicity, and slackening.

Front 54

What are the Twelve Channel Divergences?

Back 54

Branches of each of the 12 channels that reach deeper parts of the body and then return to the primary channel.

They have the function of complementing the main pathways by providing a link between the yin and yang channels.

Front 55

What are the different network vessels?

Back 55

- 15 diverging network vessels
- Grandchild network vessels
- Floating or superficial network vessels (aka blood network vessels)

Front 56

What are the 15 diverging network vessels (bie luo)?

Back 56

The larger network vessels of the 12 regular channels, du and ren, as well as the great network vessel of the spleen.

Front 57

What are grandchild network vessels (sun luo)?

Back 57

Any of the finer branches of the network vessels.

Front 58

What are floating or superficial network vessels (fu luo)?

Back 58

Aka blood network vessels

Small branches of the network vessels in the surface of the body. These are actual blood vessels.

Front 59

Which one governs qi?

Back 59

Channels govern qi

Front 60

Which one governs blood?

Back 60

Vessels

Front 61

What are the Eight Extraordinary Vessels?

Back 61

- do not home to any organs
- have no interior-exterior relationships
- function is to supplement the insufficiency of the other channels

Includes:
Du (governing), ren (controlling or conception), chong (thoroughfare), dai (girdling), yang and yin qiao (yang and yin springing), yang and yin wei (yang and yin linking).

Front 62

What are the three types of points?

Back 62

- jing xue: channel point

- jingwai qixue: non-channel point, aka extraordinary point

- ashi xue: ouch point, sensetive on pressure. Could be a channel point, a non-channel point, or neither.