Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
25 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
• Liver Qi stagnation
• Xue xu or xue stasis • Spleen qi xu |
Wirey
Thin maybe choppy Slippery, weak, damp |
|
|
What is the stomach of the pulse? What does it show?
|
How stagnant; why call this Stomach & not Liver
• How much Jing, How much Qi, you want to know if the person will be able to eat • Qi mechanism • If the person can’t eat there is a serious problem |
|
|
Ge Mai – Drumskin
Characteristics? Mechanisms? |
Liver position is super common
1. Wide because there is excess 2. Excess heat and damage to fluids 3. Hard a. Doesn’t have yin to make it soft; excess yang 4. Stagnant 5. Qi stagnation – wirey 6. Heat happens next; heat makes pulse float up 7. Damage to yin iii. Sometimes you can have this on an overall pulse iv. Not from an external invasion; takes some time for this to build up 1. Damage to yin over time |
|
|
What is the meaning of a pulse that lacks spirit?
|
How weak is the pulse?
How much Qi do I have to work with? Measure of weakness -> so weak you can barely feel it? Slightest pressure ecludes it. |
|
|
Kou Mai – Scallion Stalk
Characterisics? Mechanisms? |
iii. Have a loss of blood;
1. Traumatic injury or extreme gynecological problem iv. Blood is the mother of Qi; when the blood goes away the Qi goes away v. So at first it looks like there is Qi but w/pressure you find that there is no xue beneath the Qi 1. Wide a. Qi is still holding the vessel b/c it hasn’t completely left yet 2. Slightly Wirey – there is still Qi there |
|
|
Fu Mai – Floating
What are two characteristics of Fu Mai? |
Exterior invasion of Wei Qi
Xu- empty of vacuous |
|
|
FLOATING PULSE MECHANISMS:
|
. Exterior invasions – Wei Qi
ii. Damp – external – summer heat & damp iii. Qi, Xue Xu, Yuan qi xu yin – yin/yang separating iv. Heat – yang especially w/yin Xu v. Xue xu |
|
|
What does a kidney – short pulse mean?
|
bilateral kidney xu
ii. Rootless – kidney & jing iii. How much jing do I have to work with |
|
|
What type of pulse is indicative of Qi xu & dampness
|
Wide
|
|
|
What type of pulse is soggy?
|
Qi xu
|
|
|
What is the cause of a rapid heartbeat?
|
Heat -> excess of xu
|
|
|
What causes the heart to be regularly irregular
|
Heart xu, Qi, Blood & yang
|
|
|
What are the six stagnations?
|
Qi, Phlegm, Xue, Damp, Food, & Heat
|
|
|
Slippery
|
damp heat, food stagnation, heat
|
|
|
Choppy
|
Blood stasis, Jing xu
|
|
|
What happens when yin & yang seperate?
|
"Qi is floating away" When Qi floats away the shen floats away
(extreme: death moderate: AIDS) |
|
|
What are the main mechanisms for Xu mai or San mai?
|
Damp or summer heat
|
|
|
What are the Left positions from distal to proximal??
|
Heart, Liver, Kidney yin
|
|
|
What are the Right positions from distal to proximal??
|
Lung, Spleen, Kidney yang
|
|
|
What are the depths from distal to proximal?
|
Cun, Guan, Chi
|
|
|
What is a common error regarding the Right Guan position?
|
floating, stagnant in the middle jiao does not always = Spleen could be Stomach
|
|
|
Why would the Right Guan position show excess?
|
b/c of the stomach not spleen
|
|
|
What is the difference between sides called?
|
Husband & Wife imbalance
|
|
|
What is the Japanese 5 Phase positioning of pulses on the Left distal to proximal?
Superficial to deep? |
Skin
SI GB UB Bone Heart Liver Kidney |
|
|
What is the Japanese 5 Phase positioning of pulses on the Right distal to proximal?
Superficial to deep? |
Skin
LI ST SJ Bone LU SP Pericardium |
