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Why does body fluid acumulate
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Not enough yang to move it
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Yang deficient treatment
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Warm yang
Aka Add qi and help it go up and out |
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Yang deficient points
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Can use moxa or needle
St 36 Ren 6 sea of qi (tapping yuan qi to quickly heat body) Du 4 life gate. Yuan qi comes out here Reinforce up to two hrs Ub15 &14 add qi to ht. She mu combo Ren 17 pc alarm point Ren 14 heart mu point Use du 20 if a collapse |
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Most common yang deficient organs
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Kd, ht, sp
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Yang deficient herbs
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Hot, pungent. Helps move up and out. Eg. Dried ginger, aconite
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Yang excess aka
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Heat/fire
A true excess |
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Fire symptoms
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1) head swelling. (throat, ear infection, tonsils swell etc)
2) pustules, furuncles, carbuncles. Aversion to heat, red eyes, red complex, thirst/prefer cold drink, restlessness |
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Yang excess tongue
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Confirming symptoms for LOCAL heat
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Red, burning/THROBBING, bleeding is bright red.
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If woman states menses w dark clots how do you confirm if it is heat/fire?
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Tongue and pulse
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Yang excess/heat pulse
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Rapid/slippery
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Yang excess treatment
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Clear heat if moderate (send down and out)
Purge heat if severe (send down and out thru st/LI yangming purposefully create loose stool |
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Taste to clear heat?
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Bitter
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Yang excess/heat points to CLEAR heat
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Ying spring!
LI 11 clear heat eliminate damp move qi and blood St44 |
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Yang excess/heat points to PURGE heat
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Pick chnl with hottest qi (yuan qi) shaoyang
Gb 34 Sj 6 Promote bile, reduce bloating |
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Points to treat lung heat
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Lu 1
Ub 13 If severe and cough pus, etc Otherwise lu 10 |
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How do you supplement/drain
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Su mu points
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What is yang preponderance?
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Double yin deficiency
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Herb to drain heat
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Rhubarb
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What are symptoms
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Subjective. Patients descriptn of clinical data.
Eg. Headache, pain in neck, blur vision |
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What are signs
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Objective physicians findings of clinical data
Eg. Tongue and pulse Signs verify symptoms |
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What are clinical manifestations
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Signs + symptoms
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What is tcm definition of disease
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If you are in synch with the bigger yin/yang universal balance or not
??? |
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What is tcm etiology?
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Causative factors for imbalance
Eg. Exogenous pathogenic factors Cold, wind, damp, dry, fire, summer heat |
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Endogenous pathogenic factors =
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7 emotions
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What is tcm pathology?
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Study of disease and what changed in the flow of qi, blood and body fluid
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What is tcm syndrome differentiation?
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Summary of signs und symptoms put into a categories according to basic tcm theories to illustrate pathology, etiology, and prognosis of disease.
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What is tcm diagnosis
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???
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What is the tcm concept of qi?
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Basic element that forms the body and maintains the vitality
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How is qi made in the body?
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Air + nutritive qi + congenital qi
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How does qi circulate in the body?
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Up, down, in and out
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According to qi distribution, how many kinds of qi are there?
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5 types
Pectoral qi -upper jiao Zhong qi - middle jiao (t&t) Yuan qi- lower jiao (reserve) Jing qi- qi in collaterals Visceral qi- qi of organs |
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Functions of qi?
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Promote- moves blood & qi
Warming (yang)- ascends qi up & out Defensive- protective Holding/checking- prevent from going out Qi hua/transformation- MOST IMPORTANT converts outer to our body Nourishing- body fluid |
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Tcm concept of blood
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Nourishing type of qi that nourishes tendons.
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How is blood made in the body?
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Defensive qi sends nutritive qi to chest
Nutritive qi gets infused with air And becomes blood. |
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How does blood circulate within the body
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The heart pushes and circulates the blood
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What are the functions of blood
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What is tcm concept of body fluid?
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Nutritive qi slows down, goes in to bod tissue
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Confirming symptom of wind heat
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Swollen throat
Yellow sputum |
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Three types of heat syndromes
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Excess
Deficient Stagnant |
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Where is the first place qi becomes deficient?
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Lungs.
Because lung dominates qi. |
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Essence deficiency tongue and pulse
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T: pink, thin, white coating or clear coat
P: normal except on chi position deep and weak |
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Tx for kidney essence deficiency
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Supplement kd essence
Kd 4 Ren 4 Ren 6 Ub 23 Kd 7 (tonify qi/nourish yin-use moxa) Gb 25 (fm point) |
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Winter essence deficiency tx
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Moxa from belly button to pubis. This can be used as an alt to kd 7 best used in winter.
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What is the difference between heat and fire?
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Fire turns fluid to pus, carbuncles, furuncles etc. Typically neck up
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Damp accumulation symptoms
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Edema, puffy face and eyelids, heavy sensation (confirming)
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TMTQICO =
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Too much turbid qi in the clear orifices.
Orifices = opening to organs of clear yang to hear, see, taste, smell Etc. |
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Distention =
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Stagnation
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Poor appetite =
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Locating symptom for spleen
#1 place damp effects is spleen |
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Sticky sweet taste=
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Spleen qi not going up
Clear qi not going up |
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Nausea/vomit
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Stomach qi cannot go down
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Scanty, turbid, sluggish urine =
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More severe body flux accum
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Loose stool=
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Damp blocking sp to perform t&t
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Ecema
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Damp rash
Sp dominates limbs. Muscles depend on it. Nourishment is blocked. Extra damp goes to skin and blocks qi and blood. Body tries to release and causes eruptions |
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Damp treatment
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Dry damp, eliminate damp (down and out), resolve (transform into other form) send thru yangming
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Damp treatment points
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Sp 9 (st 36can replace this)
Sp 6 rid damp, move blood Ren 12 rids damp mid jiao Ub 32 rid damp low jiao Ren 9 chronic severe condition Ub 20/21 bs points of sp/st |
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Phlegm =
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More sticky, less heavy, dizziness, distention in epigastric & abdomen, poor appetite, manic, depressive
Confirm symptom: sticky sputum |
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Phlegm tx
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Regulate qi
Eliminate phlegm (downward) St 40 #1 phlegm point Ren 12 Sj 10 if in channels to resolve |
