Tcm- Idp (Identification Of Idisease Patterns Internal Organs) - Syndromes Of Spleen

Front 1

9 Functions of Spleen

Back 1

1. Dominates Transporting and Transforming functions of food essences, Qi and fluids.
2. Controls Blood
3. Dominates the ascending pure Yang (Qi)
4. Dominates limbs and muscles
5. Opens into the mouth, manifests on the lips.
6. Controls saliva.
7. Controls the raising of Qi
8. Houses the Intellect (Yi).
9.Affected by pensiveness, worry, overthinking.

Front 2

Pathology of Spleen

Back 2

1. Dysfunction of T& T:

2. Dysfunction of Controlling Blood-

3. Sinking of Spleen Qi-

Hint 2

1. Poor appetite, bad digestion, abdominal distension, loose stools

2.results in bleeding downwards (uterus, bladder, kidney)

3.Prolapsed of organs (uterus, stomach, kidney, bladder, anus)

Front 3

Symptoms due to Spleen disharmony

Back 3

1. Abdominal Distension

2. Lack of Appetite

3. Loose Stools

Front 4

Causes of Spleen disharmony

Back 4

Tiredness

Front 5

Exterior Pathogenic Factors that affect the Spleen

Back 5

1. Dampness

Hint 5

1. a. living in damp area or damp house.

b. living in foggy mountain areas.

c. wearing wet clothes after swimming or exercising

d. sitting on damp surfaces

e. wading in water.

f. women easily affected by exterior dampness (puberty, period, and childbirth)

Front 6

Symptoms of invasion of external dampness that affects the Spleen

Back 6

1. abdominal distension

2. Lack of appetite

3. Nausea

4. Feeling of heaviness

5. Thick-white tongue coating

6. Slippery pulse.

Front 7

Mental Factors that affect the Spleen

Back 7

1. Excessive use of the mind.

2. Excessive pensiveness and constant brooding (worrying).

Hint 7

1. Thinking, studying, concentrating and memorizing over a long period of time.

Front 8

Diet that affects the Spleen

Back 8

1. Spleen prefers warm and dry food.

2. Excessive consumption of cold foods will impair Spleen T&T function.

Hint 8

1. Warm foods: meat, ginger and pepper.
Cold foods: raw foods (salad), fruit, vegetables and icy-cold drinks.

2. Causes digestive problems and interior Dampness.

Front 9

9 Common Symptoms of Spleen

Back 9

1. Distention or Pain in abdomen

2.

Front 10

Spleen Patterns

Back 10

I. Deficiency

II. Excess

Hint 10

I. 1. Spleen Qi Deficiency
2. Spleen Yang Deficiency
3. Spleen not controlling Blood
4. Spleen Qi Sinking
II.

1. Cold Dampness invading Spleen
2. Damp-Heat invading Spleen

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Spleen Qi Deficiency Etiology

Back 11

1. Diet
2. Mental Strain
3. Climate
4. Chronic Disease

Hint 11

1. 1 Excessive consumption of cold, raw foods affects Spleen function of TnT
1.2Eating at irregular times, excessive eating- strains Spleen capacity

2.1 Excessive thinking or mental strain over a long period of time.
2.2 Common in student or business people who spend long periods of time every day in mental work.
2.3 Particular harmful if one goes back to work straight after a hurried lunch.
2.4 When one conducts business over lunch.

3. Prolongued exposure to dampness (from weather or living place) weakens the spleen.

Front 12

Spleen Qi Deficiency Manifestation

Back 12

1. No appetite
2. Tiredness, Lassitude
3. Loose Stools

Tongue: Pale or Normal colored
Chronic cases- sides will be swollen with transversal crack. With Teeth mark.s

Pulse: Empty (moderate, weak)

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Spleen Yang Deficiency Manifestation

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1. Tiredness
2. Loose stools
3. Chilliness
4. Cold limbs

T: Pale, swollen, wet (slippery white coat, teethmarks)

P: Weak, Slow, Deep (foreceless)

Front 14

Spleen Qi Sinking Manifestation

Back 14

1. Bearing down sensation in abdomen

T: Pale (white coat, a little enlarged body, looks tender)

P: Empty or Weak

Hint 14

When stomach is prolapsed, it can be felt on middle right position on pulse. Divide stomach position on pulse in 3 pars, the upper part will not be felt when the stomach is prolapsed.

Front 15

Spleen Not Controlling Blood Manifestation

Back 15

1. Purpura
2. Bleeding symptoms
3. Blood spots under the skin
4. Blood in urine or stools
5. Menorrhagia

Front 16

Cold-Damp Invading Spleen Manifestation

Back 16

1. Feeling of heaviness (dampness)
2. Fullness of epigastrium or abdomen
2. Pain in epigastric region- worse by pressure
3. Feeling cold in epigastrium
4. Sweetish taste in the mouth or absence of taste
5. No thirst
6. Loose stools
7. White Vaginal discharge
8. Edema (damp)

T: Pale with Sticky-thick-white coating (excess cold)- swolleng, teethmarks

P: Slippery (damp), slow (cold). Moderate, soggy (damp), rolling (damp)

Front 17

Damp-Heat Invading the Spleen Manifestation

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1. Loose stools with offensive odor
2. Thirst without desire to drink or with a desire to drink in small sips
3. Feeling of heat
4. scanty and dark-yellow urination
5. Dull-yellow complexion like tangerine peel.
6. Oily sweat
7. Sweating that does not relieve the fever and does not lead to clearing of heat.
8.Fullness of epigastrium

T: Red, sticky-yellow coating (damp heat)

P: Slippery (dampness), Rapid (heat)

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Spleen Patterns

Back 18

I. Deficiency

II. Excess

Hint 18

I. 1. Spleen Qi Deficiency
2. Spleen Yang Deficiency
3. Spleen not controlling Blood
4. Spleen Qi Sinking
II.

1. Cold Dampness invading Spleen
2. Damp-Heat invading Spleen