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97 Cards in this Set
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what opens to the eyes?
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liver
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what stores jing/essence?
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kidney
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What controles the reception of Qi from the lungs?
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kidney
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What manifests on the nails?
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Liver
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What dominates and stores the blood?
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Liver
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What houses the Zhi?
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Kidney
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What houses the Hun?
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Liver
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What regulates blood volume?
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Liver
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What dominates water metabolism?
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Kidney
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What maintains free flow of Qi in the body?
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Liver
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What manifests on the hair?
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Kidney
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What opens to the ear?
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Kidney
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what controls the anus and urethra?
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Kidney
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what protects the heart?
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Pericardium
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Is the glue that holds yin and yang together?
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kidney
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What is injured by anger?
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liver
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What is injured by fear?
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kidney
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What is the psychological immune system?
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Pericardium
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What body fluid is tears?
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liver
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What dislikes wind?
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Liver
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What controls the bones?
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kidney
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list 3 symptoms of Liver qi stagnation?
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High blood pressure, hypoglycemia, anger (epilepsy) tremors
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When anger or emotional upset causes digestive problems, this is an example of?
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Liver overacting on spleen
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What is a good description of Kidney Yang?
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The pilot light that lights up all the other Yang in the body
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Your patient has tremors in their hands and high blood pressure. Which organ system in TCM is most likely involved?
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Liver
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Why is the Lung considered the most vulnerable Zang organ?
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It is the only Zang organ directly connected to the outside world
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Which of the follwing is NOT a TCM function of Lung?
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Lung keeps the blood in the blood vessels
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Which of the following is NOT a TCM function of the Spleen?
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Spleen manifests in the face
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A woman bruises easily and has heavy periods is a symptom of?
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spleens inability to transform and transport, inability to raise the qi in the body, inability to house the Yi, in ability to keep blood in the blood vessels
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List the 6 extraordianry fu organs
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Brain, Marrow, blood vessels, Bones, Gall bladder, uterus
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What dominates the Qi, Skin, and body hair
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Lung
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Dominates the Muscles and 4 limbs
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Spleen
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Governs transformation and transportation
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spleen
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governs dispersing and descending
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Lung
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houses the Yi
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Spleen
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Houses the Po
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Lung
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regulates water passages
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Lung
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Opens to the nose
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Lung
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opens to the mouth and lips
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spleen
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prefers dryness
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spleen
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prefers dampness
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lung
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qi descends
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lung
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qi rises
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spleen
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injured by worry
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spleen
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injured by grief
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lung
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What is not a dysfunction of qi?
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qi excess
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List three functions of qi in chinese medicine
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warm, promote, protect
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where do we get our yuan qi?
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from our parents
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which of the following types of qi is most closely related to what we know in the west as immunity?
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wei qi (defensive qi)
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where is the yuan qi stored?
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kidneys
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A person who is very tall, jet black hair and has very strong bones and teeth but is mentally retarded is an example of?
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poorly distributed Jing
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What is the lenght of the jing cycle in women?
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7 years
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Which of the following is not true of prenatal jing?
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It is replaced by eating well and living a balanced life
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The gu qi is processed by the zhong qi and moves up to the chest and is transformed by what qi? to form zhen qi?
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The Zong qi (gathering qi
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The zhen qi takes two forms what are they?
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The ying qi and the wei qi
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The first day of fall is an example of what?
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yin and yang being about equal with Yang increasing
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Which of the following is NOT true about yin and yang?
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yin and yang are absolute qualities (as opposed to relative qualities)
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A person with a high fever that has an aversion to cold and seeks hot baths and hot soup is an example of what
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yang seeking to transform into yin
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What happens at midnight on the winter solstice (maximum yin) with regard to yin and yang?
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The seed of yang is born in maximum yin
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What does yin and yang originally mean in chinese?
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shady side and sunny side of the hill
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Taoism
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Man's place in nature/universe
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Buddhism
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the human condition
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Confucianism
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The proper order of society
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Compare and contrast the concepts " Cause and effect with Web of interrelationships
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Aristotle would look only to the immediate cause of situation and not consider everything that led up to the situation. Just what you can see is the depth of what happen. The web will consider endless possibilities even going as far back as to the creation of the earth
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What had the greatest influence on the origins of Chinese Medicine?
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Taoism
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Describe an example of when yin becomes yang in nature
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Winter is yin it transformes into spring which is yin going away and yang coming forth wich goes into summer yang/yang. Any condition that is extreme is going to break and go into the opposite.
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Zang
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lu, sp, ht, pc, liv, kd
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fu
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li, st, si, san jiao, Gb, UB
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fu
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yang
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zang
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yin
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Large intestine (Du Chang)
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Lower jiao, fu,
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Function of the large intestine
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1. extract water
2. accepts impure from small intestine 3. discharge stool |
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Lung and large intestine are both
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metal, grief, (paired zang fu are the same)
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lu/li
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metal
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st/sp
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earth
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heart/si
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fire
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pc/sanjiao
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fire
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lv/gb
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wood
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kd/ub
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water
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stomach (wei)
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fu, middle jiao, most important fu organ happily married to small intestine
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stomach's function ( part 1)
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post natal qi, 1. receive food and water from outside world, 2. rot and ripen, 3. chyme 4. controls descending qi 5. Stomach is origin of body fluid
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the lining of the stomach and intestinal tract
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considered outside of the body, the intestine picks out nutrients after the food has been broken down
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heart burn
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sphincter not closing due to low acid... take apple cider vinegar, HCL
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Stomach's function (part 2)
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6. injured by dryness, st yin deficiency is dryness treat kidney yin, kidney is master of yin and yang in the body.
7. stomach is the root of the pulses 8. tongue coating comes from stomach 9.stomach fire/ phlegm - very hungry- mental problems 10. earth- spleen and stomach |
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Small intestine (xiao chang)
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lower jiao, between st and LI
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Small intestine function
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1. separates pure from turbid
2. good judgement (morals good/ bad) Waste- liquid- bladder, solid- large intestine |
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If there is blood in the urine?
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a sign of fire in the heart, heart is the commander of blood, blood in urine, treat heart fire.
ht excess goes into small intestine |
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Urinary Bladder (Pang Huang)
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Lower jiao, UTI (urinary tract infection)- damp heat in Lower jiao
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Urinary bladder functions
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1. holds and excretes urine, kidney in charge of the release of urine
pathology is UTI |
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San Jiao (triple warmer
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All three jiao's whole torso, not an organ, can't find the san jiao, lower rib divides upper and middle jiao, naval divides middle and lower jiao
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San Jiao functions
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1. transports yuan qi
2. transportation of water, kidney spark of life, basal metabolism san jiao married pericardium 3. integration |
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Gall bladder (Dan)
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married to liver, wood, in lower jiao
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Functions of Gall bladder
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1. Stores and releases bile, bile= extra liver qi, bile spills into blood wthere is yellow skin and the whites of the eyes turns yellow
2. controls the sinews gb 34 is the point for tendons 3. quality of sleep |
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Test Question
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Fall asleep= heart
stay asleep = Gall bladder too many dreams good or bad =dream disturbed sleep |
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points to help sleep
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For going to sleep- ht7 and sp6
for staying a sleep Gb 40 and 43 |
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Gall bladder function (cont')
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4. controls decision making, very impulsive, courage
small intestine makes the moral choice, gall bladder acts, liver makes the plan, gall bladder likes to take orders and goes out and does stuff. likes excitement, liver likes smooth movement. |
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for midterm pay attention to:
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relationship of pairs
quizzes different types of qi zang fu organs what lung, spleen, and kideny does which jiao the organs are in where which spirit is housed flow of qi zusanli = st 36 what is qi, blood, shen, jing |
