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3 factors to consider in individuals state of harmony/disharmoney?
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1. Environment
2. Emotional 3. Way of life |
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6 pernicious influences that create disharmony.
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Wind
Cold Heat Dampness Dryness Summer Heat |
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Excessive emotions, poor diet, lifestyle weakens the the defensive mechanism of?
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Qi
Referred to as Wei Qi |
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TCM treatment of condition has been caused by the affects of Pernicious influence would be to do what with it?
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Expel the Pernicious influence.
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TCM treatments induce?
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Sweating
Increase urination Increase bowel movements |
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Zang Fu refers to?
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Organ systems
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the 6 Pernicious influences?
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Wind
Heat Dampness Dryness Cold Fire |
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An External Attack of Wind Heat?
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Common cold with heat s & s
eg sore throat, sneezing, thirst, slight sweating, floating rapid pulse |
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External attack of wind heat presents as?
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Common cold with
sore throat, sneezing thirst slight sweating floating-rapid pulse |
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Re constitution:
Tendency for cold in body is ? deficiency? |
Yang deficiency = cold in body
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List pernicious influence characters
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Wind- spring
Heat - summer Drynes - Autumn Cold - Winter Dampness - Lat summer Fire - summer |
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Difference between internal wind and external wind?
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Internal: Dizziness, gas, abdomen pressure
External wind= pernicious influence. eg dampness & cold, sore throat, sweating, sudden headaches |
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Difference between cold and dampness?
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Both are yin
Cold is cold and slow Dampness is wet, heavy & slow Cold is rigid and dampness is flabby |
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Acts of case taking?
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Asking
Looking Listening & smelling Touching |
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Face colour indicates?
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Strength of qi & blood of the zang fu organs, especially the heart
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The differences between TCM aetiology of disease and Western Medicing?
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Western: Biochemistry & bacteriology, single component. A linear progression. Treats symptoms
TCM: Pattern of disharmony, relationships, treats the root of condition |
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3 main factors to be considered when viewing an individuals harmony/disharmony?
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Environment
Emotions Way of life |
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3 categories of causative factors for disease?
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Excessive emotions
Poor diet Lifestyle factors |
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the difference between an internally generated disease and an externally generated disease?
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Internal disease from emotions
External disease from from 6 pernicious influences |
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Qualities of Wind?
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Common flu - chills & fever
Treatment: sweating, > urine/bowel Abrupt onset Affects Yang organs |
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Heat symptoms
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Climactic
Yang pathogen Abrupt onset with dissipation |
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Cold symptoms
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Internal & external
Winter Yin pathogenic Suppresses yang systems Abrupt onset + pain + contraction |
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Dampness symptoms
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Internal & external
Winter Yin pathogen Affects yang systems Persist + heaviness |
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Dryness symptoms
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Autumn
Yang pathogen Affect yin and yang Fluid depletion |
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Fire symptoms
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Year round
Yang pathogen Yin and yang systems Leads to diseases of wind + other Abrupt onset + hemorrhage |
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Endogenous factors?
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Emotions:
Joy Anger Sadness Pensiveness Grief Fear Fright |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Joy
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Scattered Heart Qi - inability to concentrate
Lungs |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Anger
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Expression of liver
Liver/lung imbalance Dizziness, headache, flushing, red eyes, in throat, suffocation, mental depression |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Sadness
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Lungs
Stagnation of lung Qi Chest fullness Depression |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Pensiveness
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Speen
Lack of appetite Depression < heat in spleen & heart mouth ulcers Yellow tongue + red tip < appetitie Constipation |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Grief
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Lungs
Stagnation of lung qi Hypo internal organs Pallor < appetite Depression Suffocation in chest Difficulties with urine/defecation |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Fear
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Kidneys
Timidness Hypo organs Solitutde Listlessness Incontinence Low back pain |
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Endogenous Zang organ: Fright
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heart
Palpittions Mental restlessness |
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Quivering tongue?
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External wind
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6 Patterns of Signs & symptoms?
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Yin/Yang
External/internal Pernicious influences 8 Principles Substances Zang Fu Jin Luo |
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Wind/cold symptoms between 3-5am
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Lung /organ system weakness
Couphing or wheezing |
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Heat symptoms
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Heat from liver, kidneys
= Internal heat |
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Chronic illness is seen as a dysfunction of?
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Internal Body and its organs
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External attack of wind /heat?
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Common cold with heat s & s;
Sore throat Sneezying Thirst Sweating Floating-Rapid pulse |
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Yellow mucus indicates?
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Heat condition
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Clear white copious mucus indicates?
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cold condition
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Halitosis is heat in the?
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Stomach
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Red face?
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Heat from external evil or hyperactivity
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Red cheeks, tidal fever, night sweats?
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Internal Heat
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Bright orange face
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Damp heat
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Red body of tongue?
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Excess heat
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Red tip of tongue?
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Emotional component
Heat affecting heart |
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Deep red tongue?
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Sever condition
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Purple tongue?
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Blood stasis
Serious/chronic condition |
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Cracked body of tongue?
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Pathogenic heat affects Zang fu
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Caffein and smoking produce?
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A lot of heat and dampness
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Too dry a tongue indicates
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Heat consuming fluids
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Pulse with;
Dashing waves Forceful rising Gradual decline |
Excessive heat
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Pulse with;
Irregular intermittence |
Excessive heath with stagnation of Qi & blood
Or Retention of phlegm or undigested food |
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Running or abrupt pulse?
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Heat
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> 90 beats per minute indicates
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Presence of heat
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Yang is represented by?
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Heating agents in the body
Active, dynamic aspects Yan organs of the Zang Fu system |
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Western conditions indicated in dam heat affecting the spleen?
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Acute gastric inflammation
Hepatic infection Cholysystitis Cirrhosis |
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What lifestyle factors are associ with damp/heat affecting the spleen?
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Fatty foods and alcohol
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Diarrhoea
Foul odour burning sensation |
Damp Heat
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Slight temp
Slight aversion to cold Tired Slightly sweating Flushed cheeks/pale face Slight headache Swollen glands Sore throat Thick yellow mucus |
Heat
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Uterus stagnation
distension pain before or during menses Pressure makes worse Hot sensations yellow smelly vaginal leucorrhoea dark red thick blood w clots |
Damp/heat
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Dampness
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Winter
Yin pathogen Affects yang system Persists + heaviness |
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Cold differs from dampness?
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Cold = Cold, slow, rigid
Dampness - Wet, heavy, slow, flabby |
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Swollen, pale tongue indicates excess fluids or?
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Dampness
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Tongue coat reflects how much?
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Dampness is in the system
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Excessively wet tongue indicates accumulation of?
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Dampness
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Pulse:
Diminished tension |
Dampness
or Insufficient spleen |
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Soft pulse?
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spleen Qi deficiency with accumulation of dampness
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Symptoms of spleen affected by dampness
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Appetite disorder
Sticky watery stool Nausea fullness |
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Difference between dampness & mucus?
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Mucus is concentrated, cooked dampness
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Western conditions indicated in damp heat affecting the spleen?
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Acute gastric inflammation
Hepatic infection Cholysystitis Cirrhosis |
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Dizziness?
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Dampness affecting the clear Qi from ascending
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Wind
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Endogenous or exogenous
Yang pathogenic factor Yang organs Abrupt onset |
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External attack of wind?
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Common flu
Chills & fever |
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External attack of wind heat?
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Common cold
+ heat signs: sore throat, sneezing, thirst, slight sweating, floating-rapid pulse |
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Tendency for cold in the body?
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Yang deficiency (warming agent)
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Difference external wind and internal wind?
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Internal wind affect the liver
Symptoms: dizziness, gas, pressure in abdomen or head. External wind is pernicious influence, usually accompanies dampness & cold: sore throat, sweating, sudden headaches. |
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Stiff or quivering tongue indicates?
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Wind
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Is wind one of the 6 pernicious influences?
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Yes
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4 examination techniques in TCM diagnosis
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Looking
listening/smelling asking touching |
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What factors influence the quality of a pulse?
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Depth of illness
Cold/heat Qi deficiency Impaired body fluid |
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Attributes to look for when taking the pulse?
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3 different levels
3 different positions Different qualities between each organ position 7 pulse qualities (scattered, intermittent, swift, hollow, faint, surging, hidden) |
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7 pulse qualities?
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Scattered
Intermittent Swift Hollow Faint Surging Hidden |
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What does a choppy pulse feel like?
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Coming and going choppily
Small fine slow joggling tempo Like scraping bamboo with a knife |
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What does a wiry pulse feel like?
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Feels straight
Long Like a musical instrument string |
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What condition would have a superficial pulse?
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Massive blood loss
Deficiency conditions or damp retention Spleen Qi deficiency |
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What is the difference between a sign and a symptom?
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Symptom : Physical manifestation of illness or imbalance.
Sign: Pulse attributes, colour of tongue etc |
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Diagnosis meaning in chinese medicine?
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Interconnectedness of signs and symptoms and the picture this communicates and how that represents an imbalance in the system
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Pulse taking: Left hand organs?
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Heart
Liver Kidney |
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Pulse taking: Right hand organs?
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Lung
Spleen Kidney |
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Pulse taking 3 positions?
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from wrist:
Cun Guan Chi |
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Finger used for pulse taking in position cun, guan, chi?
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Index
middle ring |
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Irregular
hardly perceptible Occuring in critical cases showing exhaustion of Qi Critically ill, hospitalised |
Scattered pulse
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Slow pulse
pausing at regular intervals exhaustion of zangfu organs sever trauma seized by terror hospitalised Advanced disease |
Intermittent puls
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Floating
Large Soft Hollow high temperature emergency medical care massive blood loss |
Hollow pulse
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Faint pulse
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thready
soft scarcely perceptible extreme exhaustion |
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Surging pulse
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INDICATES EXCESS HEAT
Beating like dashing waves Forceful rising and gradual decline |
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3 Major influences of TCM
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buddhism, confusionism, Taoism
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Zang fu
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Internal organs
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Ba-gang?
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8 principled patterns
Guiding principles Parameters |
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Bian Zheng?
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Distinguishing patterns
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What are the 8 principles or Ba-gang?
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Interior/exterior disharmony
Pattern of deficiency/excess Pattern of cold/heat Pattern of ying/yang |
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What can go wrong with Qi?
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Insufficient Qi
Accumulation of Qi |
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What type of interior/exterior classification?
Sudden onset of chills Fever Thin tongue moss Body ache Floating pulse |
External disharmony
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If a pernicious influence enters the body, is this excess or deficiency?
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Excess
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What substances are affected when body becomes deficient?
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Qi
Blood |
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Signs and Symptoms of cold conditions?
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Swollen tongue with white moss
Slow pulse deliberate movement withdrawn manner white face fear of cold |
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Signs and symptoms of hot conditions
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Agitated movement
Extraverted delerium REd face High emp Irritable Constipated yellow moss tongue Rapid pulse |
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Temperature
Cough Headache Aching joints |
Yang
External pernicious influence Hot excess |
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Tiredness
Chilliness Chronic soreness of lower back Frequent pale urination Loose stools Weak pulse Pale wet tongue |
Ying
Cold Deficiency Interior |
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Tense pulse........syndrome?
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Cold
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Tight pulse........syndrome?
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Cold
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Joy affects which organs?
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Heart, lungs
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Anger affects which organs?
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Liver
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Sadness affects which organs?
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Lungs
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Pensiveness affects which organs?
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Spleen
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Grief affects which organs
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Hypo functioning of internal oragns
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Fear affects which organs?
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Kidneys
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Fright affects which organs?
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Heal
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The abdomen is said to house all of the ?
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Zang Fu or vital organs
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The base of the tongue represents which organs?
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Kidney
Urinary bladder Large intestine Smal intestine meridians |
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The sides of the tongue represent which organs?
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Liver & gall bladder meridians
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The middle of the tongue represents which organs?
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Stomach and spleen
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The tip of the tongue represents which organs?
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Lung
Heart |
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5 Yin Organs?
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Heart, Lungs, Spleen, liver, kidneys
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6 Yang organs?
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Gall bladder, stomach, SI, LI, bladder, triple burner
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