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The 8 principles refer to eight basic categories. Name the 8 categories applied in analyzing various pathological manifestations.
1. Yin and Yang 2. Interior and Exterior 3. Cold and Heat 4. Xu and Excess
The chief principal in the Eight Principals
Yin-Yang
8 principals: Which category tells you the location and stage of the disease?
exterior-interior
8 principals: Which category tells you the nature and stage of the disease?
cold and heat
8 principals: Which category tells you the the relative strenght of pathogens and antipathogenic qi?
Xu and excess
What is the highest principal?
Yin and Yang
interior and exterior tell you what?
stage and location
When the location of the disease is skin, hair, muscles and their interspaces and superficial portion of meridians and collaterals.
exterior
location of the disease is the five zang and six fu organs.
interior
Exterior syndromes refer to a group of pathological conditions resulted from the invasion of the ____________ portion of the body by _______________ pathogenic factors.
superficial, exogenous
external generally means
common cold - headache, general aching, nasal obstruction/discharge, sneezing, cough
Chief manifestation of Exterior syndrome
1. intolerance to cold (chills) 2. fever 3. thin coating 4. superficial pulse
External syndrome chills and fever are __________
same time
chills and fever are at the same time?
External Syndrome
When you have chills and fever, at the same time, one can be more obvious that the other.
True
Exterior tongue coating can be white or yellow?
true
yang evil (wind) will attack yang part (head) first
true
Treatment principal for exterior syndrome?
expels exogenous pathogen
mostly leaves and twigs will expel exogenous pathogens
true
roots and seeds treat chronic, interior disease
true
chronic, longer, middle or later stage of the disease
interior
internal can have only cold and only fever but never together?
true
slight aversion to cold and heat
external
no aversion to cold, aversion to heat
thirst
dark urine
Red tongue, yellow coating
internal heat
internal to external is good
true
cold syndromes are pathologiacal conditions resulted from:
exogenous pathogenic cold or from deficiency of yang in the interior of the body.
Neijing: predominance of yang gives rise to heat, and predominance of yin gives rise to cold
good to know
aversion to cold, pallor, cold limbs, loose stool, clear urine increased in volume, pale tongue, slow or tense pulse
COLD
external heat
fevers more than chills
internal heat
SARS
deficient heat
yin xu symptoms
4 greats
excess heat
external cold is _________
wind and cold
Aversion to cold, fever (chills>fever)
NO SWEATING
External Cold
deep, slow, weak pulse
interior, xu cold
External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
Purpose to know Xu or Excess of the antipathogenic qi and pathogenic qi?
prognosis
plegm, damp, water, food retention, blood stasis
all are excess
evil excess will cause a blockage or stasis
true
Most common symptom of heart
palpitations
spontaneous sweating
qi xu
heart qi xu - best point?
h7
Palpitation, shortness of breath worse on exertion, spontaneous sweating, chills, cold limbs, pale and swollen tongue with slippery coating, Deep, weak and slow pulse
HT Yang Xu
yang xu is qi xu plus ____
cold
yang xu is qi xu plus ____
cold
yang xu is qi xu plus ____
cold
yang xu is qi xu plus ____
cold
Yang xu has water retention
true
Yang Xu means no fire so there is usually
water retention = slipper tongue, edema, swollen tongue.
yang xu =
more cold and water retention.
Sudden profuse, cold sweating cold limbs, feeble respiration, pale face, purple lips, unclear mind or coma, pale purple watery tongue, feeble pulse
collapse of heart yang (SUDDEN, SUDDEN, SUDDEN)
dizzy, heavy feeling in head, suffocating sensation in chest, vomit feeling
Stagnated PHLEGM
______________ is the method in traditional Chinese medicine of recognizing and diagnosing disease.
Differentiation of syndromes
Causes of Interior Syndrome?
1. Transmission of persistent pathogens from the exterior to the interior of the body to invade zang-fu organs
2. Direct attack on zang-fu organs by exogenous pathogens
3. Drastic emotional changes, improper diet and overstrain and stress, which affect zang-fu organs directly, leading to functional disturbances.
Symptoms mainly appeared in the trunk/zangfu.
Example: constipation, stomachache, heart palpitation, diarrhea……

Tongue: changed a lot.
Coating: yellow, black
Texture: slippery, greasy
Body: purplish, pale, trembling, deviated…..

Pulse: deep, slippery, wiry, choppy……
Interior syndrome
An acupuncture treatment for ____________ would include the following:
Points: chest, back, leg, foot

Mu-points

Back-shu points

Lower-he points

Source points
Interior

Fever with no aversion to cold, or aversion to cold with no fever

Abnormal qualities of tongue coatings

Deep pulse
Interior Syndrome

Fever with no aversion to cold, or aversion to cold with no fever

Abnormal qualities of tongue coatings

Deep pulse
Interior Syndrome

Fever accompanied by aversion to cold

Thin white tongue coating

Superficial pulse
exterior syndrome
Fever accompanied by aversion to cold

Thin white tongue coating

Superficial pulse
exterior syndrome
These 2 principles distinguish the relative strength of the antipathogenic qi and pathogenic factor.
Xu and excess
__________ refers to insufficiency of the antipathogenic qi?
Xu
Emaciation, listlessness, lassitude, feeble breathing, dislike speaking, pallor, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, poor memory, SPONTANEOUS SWEATING, nocternal emmissins, nocturnal enurisis,
general Xu symptoms
Pathogenic factor is hyperactive
excess
Excess refers to______________
hyperactivity of the pathogenic factor while antipathogenic qi is still strong.
Symptoms:

Emaciation
Dry eye
Afternoon fever
Malarflush
Heat sensation in the palms and soles
Night sweating
Dryness of the throat and mouth
Yellow urine
Dry stool
Red tongue with little coating
Threadyand rapid pulse
yin Xu
Yang Xu
Symptoms:
Fatigue
Shortness of breath
Lassitude
Weak voice
Spontaneous sweating
Swollen tongue, teeth mark with white coating
Weak and soft pulse
qi xu
Symptoms:
Blurred vision
Dizziness
Pallor
Poor memory
Poor concentration
Pale eyelids, mouth lips, gum, nails
Fatigue
Irregular menstruation
Pale tongue with white coating
Weak and soft pulse
Blood Xu
Agitation
Sonorous voice
Coarse breathing
Distension and fullness in the chest and abdomen
Pain aggravated by pressure
Constipation or tenesmus
Dysuria
Thick and sticky tongue coating
Pulse of excess type
Excess
Heat syndrome: high fever, thirst, sweating and superficial and rapid pulse
excess to Xu
Spleen deficiency: fatigue, fullness after eating, shortness of breathing, loose stool, white tongue coating, weak pulse
Xu to excess
Yinsyndrome refer to pathologic conditions resulting from deficiency of yang qiin the body and retention of pathogenic cold.
true
Yang syndromes refer to pathological conditions caused by hyperactivity of yang qi the body and excess of pathogenic heat.
true
No sweating, headache, body pain, floating tight pulse
exterior excess
frequent spontaneous sweating
catch cold easy
pale face
shortness of breath
dyspnea
poor appetite fatigue
loose stool
Pale tongue, thin and weak pulse
Exterior xu
fever greater than chills
exterior heat
chills greater than fever
exterior cold