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The 8 principles refer to eight basic categories. Name the 8 categories applied in analyzing various pathological manifestations.
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1. Yin and Yang 2. Interior and Exterior 3. Cold and Heat 4. Xu and Excess
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The chief principal in the Eight Principals
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Yin-Yang
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8 principals: Which category tells you the location and stage of the disease?
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exterior-interior
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8 principals: Which category tells you the nature and stage of the disease?
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cold and heat
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8 principals: Which category tells you the the relative strenght of pathogens and antipathogenic qi?
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Xu and excess
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What is the highest principal?
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Yin and Yang
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interior and exterior tell you what?
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stage and location
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When the location of the disease is skin, hair, muscles and their interspaces and superficial portion of meridians and collaterals.
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exterior
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location of the disease is the five zang and six fu organs.
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interior
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Exterior syndromes refer to a group of pathological conditions resulted from the invasion of the ____________ portion of the body by _______________ pathogenic factors.
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superficial, exogenous
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external generally means
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common cold - headache, general aching, nasal obstruction/discharge, sneezing, cough
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Chief manifestation of Exterior syndrome
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1. intolerance to cold (chills) 2. fever 3. thin coating 4. superficial pulse
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External syndrome chills and fever are __________
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same time
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chills and fever are at the same time?
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External Syndrome
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When you have chills and fever, at the same time, one can be more obvious that the other.
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True
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Exterior tongue coating can be white or yellow?
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true
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yang evil (wind) will attack yang part (head) first
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true
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Treatment principal for exterior syndrome?
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expels exogenous pathogen
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mostly leaves and twigs will expel exogenous pathogens
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true
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roots and seeds treat chronic, interior disease
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true
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chronic, longer, middle or later stage of the disease
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interior
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internal can have only cold and only fever but never together?
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true
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slight aversion to cold and heat
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external
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no aversion to cold, aversion to heat
thirst dark urine Red tongue, yellow coating |
internal heat
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internal to external is good
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true
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cold syndromes are pathologiacal conditions resulted from:
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exogenous pathogenic cold or from deficiency of yang in the interior of the body.
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Neijing: predominance of yang gives rise to heat, and predominance of yin gives rise to cold
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good to know
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aversion to cold, pallor, cold limbs, loose stool, clear urine increased in volume, pale tongue, slow or tense pulse
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COLD
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external heat
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fevers more than chills
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internal heat
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SARS
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deficient heat
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yin xu symptoms
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4 greats
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excess heat
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external cold is _________
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wind and cold
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Aversion to cold, fever (chills>fever)
NO SWEATING |
External Cold
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deep, slow, weak pulse
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interior, xu cold
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External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
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sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
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External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
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sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
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External Xu and External excess? What is the key to the difference?
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sweating! If sweating, Xu. If excess, no sweating.
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Purpose to know Xu or Excess of the antipathogenic qi and pathogenic qi?
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prognosis
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plegm, damp, water, food retention, blood stasis
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all are excess
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evil excess will cause a blockage or stasis
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true
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Most common symptom of heart
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palpitations
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spontaneous sweating
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qi xu
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heart qi xu - best point?
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h7
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Palpitation, shortness of breath worse on exertion, spontaneous sweating, chills, cold limbs, pale and swollen tongue with slippery coating, Deep, weak and slow pulse
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HT Yang Xu
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yang xu is qi xu plus ____
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cold
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yang xu is qi xu plus ____
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cold
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yang xu is qi xu plus ____
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cold
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yang xu is qi xu plus ____
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cold
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Yang xu has water retention
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true
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Yang Xu means no fire so there is usually
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water retention = slipper tongue, edema, swollen tongue.
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yang xu =
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more cold and water retention.
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Sudden profuse, cold sweating cold limbs, feeble respiration, pale face, purple lips, unclear mind or coma, pale purple watery tongue, feeble pulse
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collapse of heart yang (SUDDEN, SUDDEN, SUDDEN)
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dizzy, heavy feeling in head, suffocating sensation in chest, vomit feeling
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Stagnated PHLEGM
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______________ is the method in traditional Chinese medicine of recognizing and diagnosing disease.
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Differentiation of syndromes
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Causes of Interior Syndrome?
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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. |
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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
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An acupuncture treatment for ____________ would include the following:
Points: chest, back, leg, foot • Mu-points • Back-shu points • Lower-he points • Source points |
Interior
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Fever with no aversion to cold, or aversion to cold with no fever • Abnormal qualities of tongue coatings • Deep pulse |
Interior Syndrome
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Fever with no aversion to cold, or aversion to cold with no fever • Abnormal qualities of tongue coatings • Deep pulse |
Interior Syndrome
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Fever accompanied by aversion to cold • Thin white tongue coating • Superficial pulse |
exterior syndrome
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Fever accompanied by aversion to cold
• Thin white tongue coating • Superficial pulse |
exterior syndrome
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These 2 principles distinguish the relative strength of the antipathogenic qi and pathogenic factor.
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Xu and excess
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__________ refers to insufficiency of the antipathogenic qi?
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Xu
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Emaciation, listlessness, lassitude, feeble breathing, dislike speaking, pallor, palpitations, shortness of breath, insomnia, poor memory, SPONTANEOUS SWEATING, nocternal emmissins, nocturnal enurisis,
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general Xu symptoms
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Pathogenic factor is hyperactive
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excess
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Excess refers to______________
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hyperactivity of the pathogenic factor while antipathogenic qi is still strong.
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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
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Yang Xu
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Symptoms:
Fatigue Shortness of breath Lassitude Weak voice Spontaneous sweating Swollen tongue, teeth mark with white coating Weak and soft pulse |
qi xu
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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
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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
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Heat syndrome: high fever, thirst, sweating and superficial and rapid pulse
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excess to Xu
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Spleen deficiency: fatigue, fullness after eating, shortness of breathing, loose stool, white tongue coating, weak pulse
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Xu to excess
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Yinsyndrome refer to pathologic conditions resulting from deficiency of yang qiin the body and retention of pathogenic cold.
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true
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Yang syndromes refer to pathological conditions caused by hyperactivity of yang qi the body and excess of pathogenic heat.
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true
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No sweating, headache, body pain, floating tight pulse
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exterior excess
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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
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fever greater than chills
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exterior heat
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chills greater than fever
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exterior cold
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