Zang Fu symptoms:
Shortness of breath, faigue and chronic cough with watery sptutum
Weak voice and bright white complexion
Tendency to catch cold during winter
Lung-Qi Deficiency
Zang Fu Symptom:
Called 911
Palpitations and stabbing chest pain
Constriction of chest
Cyanotic lips
Dark Complexion
Heart-Blood stagnation
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Poor Appetite
Abdominal distention after eating
fatigue
loose stools
Sallow complexion
eats fast food regularly
Spleen-Qi deficiency
Zang fu symptom:
Marathon runner and vegetarian
Scanty or no periods
Recent bouts of dizzindess, difficulty sleep and blurred vision
Nails are dry and brittle
Liver-blood deficiency
Zang Fu symptoms:
85 years old man with dizziness and vertigo
Bad short-term memory and low ringing in ear
Dry mout at night and hot hands and feet
Back aches and irregular movements
Kidney-yin deficiency
Zang fu symptoms:
Dizziness and blurry vision
Lack of courage and timidness
Gullblader Xu
Zang Fu symptoms:
Discomfort in abdomen and sour regurgitation
Foul breath and thick tongue coat
Consumed large amount of food
Stomach food stagnation
Zang Fu Symptoms:
5 years old boy
developed cravings for soil, wax and uncook rice
stomach hurts
sallow complexion
Hook worm in the SI
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Sudden abdominal pain and diarrhea
feeling very cold
Cold invading the LI
Zang Fu symptoms:
Frequent, urgent and burning urination
Urination stops mid-flow and is dark
Fever and constant thirst
UB damp Hat
Zang Fu symptoms:
Regularly mutters to himself
Incoherent speech followed by violence and swearing
Phlegm Fire Harrassing the HT
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Chronic cough with profuesd white sputum
Constantly feels clogged up
Hard time sleeping because symptoms get worse while lying down
White pasty complexion and out of breath
Lung Phlegm
Zang Fu symptoms:
Fatigue and distention after eating
Prolapse anus
Spleen-qi falling
Zang Fu symptoms:
Irritable
Emotions fluctuate wildly before periods
Liver-qi stagnation
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Asthma
Shortness of breathe with exertion
Cough, sore back and difficulty inhalation
Kidney-qi failing to grasp
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Nausea
Belching
Vomitting and hiccups
Stomach-qi rebellion with Liver-qi stagnation
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Lower abdomen that twist and extend to his back
Frequent stomach rumbling
Lots of gas, when released, relieves the pain
Small Intestine Qi pain
Zang Fu Symptoms:
Palpitations and insomnia
Agitation and impulsiveness
Painful canker sores
Hot and thirsty all the time
Red face
Heart-fire
Zang Fu symptoms:
Frequent temporal headaches with Outbursts of anger
Red face and eyes
Interrupted sleep with dreams
High pitched rining in ears with Constipation and nose bleeds
Liver-Fire
Zang Fu Symptoms:
8 year old with mental retardation
Frontal fontanels didn't close until 3yrd old
Bones have not developed properly
KD-Essence dificiency
True or False, GB is a Yin organ that deals with Food, Drink and Waste
False, GB is a Yang organ
GB is the ONLY Yang organ that does NOT deal with Food, Drink or waste
True or False: GB is the only YANG organ taht communicates with the exterior
FALSE
GB is the onlyYANG organ that does NOT communicate with the Exterior
What is the shape of the GB?
Shapped like a Yang Organ
Hollow
What is the function of the GB?
Functions like a Yin Organ
Stores Bile
What organ does Surplus Liver-Qi flow into?
GB
What does surplus Liver-qi become?
Surplus Liver Qi becomes Post-Heaven Essence in the GB
What can sbstruct the flow of surplus Liver-qi into the GB?
Damnp-heat
Blood stasis
GB stones
Parasites and worms
Bile is known as an [Blank]. Is bile clean or dirty?
An Essential Juice
It is bitter but "clean"
Which role does the GB play in terms the Psycho-Emotional?
Controls short term dicisions (judgements)
Psycho-emotionaly, disease of the GB leads to what?
GB qi harassing he Heart
Symptoms: Palpations, fear, dread, desire to sleep and insomnia
Which tissue does the GB control?
Secondary control to the Sinews
Provides Qi to sinews for proper movement and agility
What organ is the primary control for the muscles and sinews?
Liver
LIV nourishes the sinews with blood
LIV and GB has an interor/exterior relationship, which is interior and which is exterior?
Liver is Interior
GB is Exterior but does not communicate with the outside
Heat from the Liver can easily shift to which organ, and vise versa?
GB
GB's function of excreting and storing bile is based on the function of which organ?
Liver's function of smooth flow of qi
Liver's function of smooth flow of qi is aided by which organ?
GB qi
Psycho-Emotional:
Liver's ability for long term planning is dependent on GB in what way?
Depends on GB's ability to make judgements in the minute by minute
For the GB, besides LIV, what other organ helps it's functions and receives help from the GB?
Stomach
Pathology:
GB damp-heat symptoms are?
Hypochondriac pain (Pain below the ribs) & Distention
Nausea and vomitting(Liver & ST)
Inability to digest fats (GB)
Yellow Complexsion (Jaundice, Liver or GB)
Scanty, dark urine (heat)
Fever (heat)
Thirst with no desire (Damp heat)
Bitter taste
Pathologies:
GB Xu symptoms are?
Nervousness, timidity, lack of courage and initiative
Sighing, easily startled
Dizziness & blurry vision (Affects the eyes through the LIV)
What does the SI control?
Receivnig of food and water
Seperation of pure and impure
What does the SI do with fluids?
Move and transform fluids
What is the relationship between the SI and the HT?
Psycho-Emotional:
Distinguish right from wrong
Critical Appressal
What is the relationship between the GB and the HT?
GB gives the courage to make decisions
GB Xu, lack of initiative
Pathologies of SI:
Heat symptoms are?
Mental Restlessness (HT)
Tongue Ulcers (SI or HT Heat)
Pain in throat (SI + Heat)
Deafness
Uncomfortable feeling and heat in chest (Heat + HT)
Abdominal Pain (SI)
Thirst, Scanty Dark Urine, Dysuria, Uremia (Fluids=SI,UB or KD)
Pathologies of SI:
Qi Pain symptoms are?
Abdominal twisting, extends to back
Dislike pressure on the abdomin
Borborygmus, gas/flatulence
Relief of pain by farting
Pain in testis
Symptoms of Roundworms in the SI?
Abdominal pain
vomit round worms
Cold Limbs
Symptoms of Hookworms in the SI?
Desire to eat strange objects: soil / wax /etc
Symptoms of Pin worms in the SI
Itchy anus
Itching ets worse in evenings
Symptoms of Tapeworms in the SI
Constant Hunger WITH a desire to eat
What does the Large Intestine receive?
Digested food from SI
What does the Large Intestines transform?
Digested food into Stool
Transform food into water (Reabsorbtion)
What is the direction of qi for the Large Intestines?
Downward
Also sends stool downwards
What does the Large Intestines excrete?
Stool
What is the Large Intestine's relationship with the Lungs?
LI depends on the Lung-qi ability to move things down
Descending function of elimination
Exernal/Internal relationship
Between the Lung and Large Intestine, which is external and which is internal?
Large Intestine is external (Fu organ)
Lung is Internal (Zang organ), only Zang organ that interact with the outside
What is the Psycho-Emotional role of the Large Intestines?
Letting go and NOT dwelling in the past
Pathologies of the Large Intestines:
What are the symptoms of Damp-heat?
Abdominal Pain, diarrhea
Muscus and blood in stool (Heat + LI)
Offensive odor of stools (LI)
Burning anus (Heat + LI)
Scanty-Dark urineFever (Heat)Sweatting
Thirst without desire (Damp heat)body and limb feels heavy, stuffy chest and epigastrum
Pathologies of Large Intestines:
Dryness symptoms are?
Internal cause
Dry stool with difficulty discharging (LI + Dryness)
dry mouth and throat (Heat)
thin body
Pathologies of the LArge Intestines:
Cold invating symptoms are?
Sudden abdominal pain and diarrhea with pain
Feeling cold
Cold sensation in abdomen
What is the function of the Urinary Bladder?
Removes water via Qi Transformation of fluids into urine
What is the role of the Bladder in the body?
District official
Stores fluids for excretion by Qi transformation
What is the Psycho-emotional role of the UB?
Imbalence (Dampness) causes jeolousy, suspicion and long-lasting grudges
What is the relationship between the UB and KD?
KD and Ming Men provides the UB with Qi for fluid transformation
What are the pathology of Spleen Qi Xu in relation to Fluids? What are the symptoms?
Spleen failure of Fluid Metabolism
Symptoms: Edema, Phlegm, and dampness
Treatment: treat the spleen
What are the symptoms of Spleen failing to contain?
Brusing
Hammerage
What are the sympoms of Spleen Xu in relation to making Blood?
Blood Deficiency
Emenia
Treamtment: Tonify spleen
What are the symptoms of Spleen Xu failing to provide enough Gu Qi to the muscles?
Fatigue, atrophy, weak muscles
Where does the Spleen OPEN into?
The Mouth
Where does the spleen manifes?
Lips
What manifestations appear on the lips when there is Spleen Xu?
Spleen Blood Xu: Pale lips
Spleen yin xu: Dry lips
Spleen Heat: Red and Dry lips
Lack of Taste
What are the symptoms of Spleen Qi falling?
Prolapse
Undigested Food
Hemeroids
What component of the Psycho-emotional does the Spleeen House?
The Yi, Residence of thought
Concentration
Quick Thinking
What part of the Psycho-Emotional is the Heart responsible for?
Shen
Thinking clearly
Long term planning
Long term memory
What part of the Psycho-Emotional is the Kidney responsible for?
Zhi, Willpower
Short term memory
What organ makes phlegm and what organ makes Jing-ye?
Stomach makes Jing-Ye
Spleen T&T Jing-ye but makes Phlegm
Qi stagnation in the middle burner and Spleen Xu causes what symptoms?
Poor digestion and distention of epigastrom (Abdomen)
What Element does the Spleen Loath?
Dampness
Dampness obstructs Spleen leading to T&T Deficiency
What are the symptoms of dampness in Spleen?
Abdominal Fullness (Dampness)
Urinary Problems
Vaginal Discharge
What is the bodily fluid is used to diagnose pathology of the Spleen in clinic?
Saliva
Spleen Xu = Dry Mouth
What is the pathology:
No appetite, abdominal distention after eating, tiredness, lassitude, sallow complexion, weak limbs loose stools
Spleen-qi Deficiency
What is the pathology:
Spleen Qi Xu Symptoms, bearing down sensation in abdomen, prolapse of st, uterus, anus, vagina, frequent and urgent urination
Spleen Qi Falling
What is the pathology:
Spleen Qi Xu, purpura, blood spots under skin, blood in urine and stools, menorrhagia or metorrhagia, sallow compexsion, Shortness of Breathe
Spleen-qi failing to contain
What is the pathology:
Spleen Qi Xu, cold limbs, edema
Spleen-yang Xu = SP QI XU + COLD
What is the pathology:
No appetite, stuffiness of chest and epigastrum, feeling of cold in epigastrum feeling heavy in head, sweetish taste or no taste, no thirst, lose-thin stoolss, white vaginal discharge, lassitude and feeling heaviness.
Damp cold encombering spleen
What is the pathology:
Stuffiness of epigastrum and lower abdomen, no appetite, feeling heaviness, thirst without desire or small sips, nausesa, vomiting, abdominal pain, loose stools with offensive odor, buning anus, scanty dark urine, low-grade fever
Damn Heat encombering spleen
What is the pathology:
Hunger with no desire to eat
Stomach-yin deficiency
What is the Liver the Official of?
General of the army from whom all strategy is derived
Where does blood go when the body is active?
From the liver into the muscles
Where does blood go when the body is at rest
From the muscles into the liver for storage
Liver blood xu causes what symptoms during menstration?
Scanty periods
Amenarrhria
Liver blood Shi or Heat causes what symptoms during menstration?
Menarrhrage
heavy bleeding
Liver blood stagnation causes what symptoms during menstration?
Dark blook with clotting
Sharp Pain
Liver qi stagnation causes what psycho-emotional problems?
Liver qi stagnation causes what symptoms with digestion?
Prevent downward movement of ST Qi: Vomit, nausea, gurters
Prevent SP Qi from going up: Loose stool or Diarrhria
Obstructs Bile flow: Jaundice, inability to digest fats, bitter taste
Blood from which organ moistens and nourish the sinews?
Liver
How does liver control the sinews?
Liver blood cause muscles to contract and relax
What does Liver Xue Xu have on the muscles?
Contractions, cramping, caf cramping, spasums or impared flexion and extension
Numb limbs
What does Liver Wind do to muscles?
Convulsions, tremmers, lack of strength
Where does the Liver manifest?
The Nails
A byproduct of the sinews and thus controlled by liver blodd
What does Liver Blood Xu do to the nails?
Dry, indented, cracked
Where does the Liver open into?
They eyes
Shares the eyes with the Kidney-Essence and Heart-Shen
What does Liver Xue Xu do to the eyes?
Dry eyes, blurred vision
Floaters
Color Blindness
What does Liver Xue Heat do to the eyes?
Red eyes and painful eyes
What does Liver Wind do to the eyes?
Astagmus, shaky eyes, twitchy eyes, flinchy eyes
Chronic and aging Eye disease is not a pathology of [Blank] but is a pathology of which organ?
NOT a pathology of the Liver
Pathology of Kidney Essence
Which part of the soul is stored in the Liver?
Hun
Disharmony of the Hun cases what symptoms?
Inablility to plan and lack drive and decisiveness
Nocturnal emissions with dreams is a symptom of what pathology?
Blood or Yin deficiency
Hun becomes un-rooted at night
Which bodily fluid is used to diagnose the Liver?
Tears
What does anger do to the Liver?
Makes Liver Qi rise and blood stagnate in the chest
What element does the Liver loath?
Wind
Causes Convulsions
Liver is anatomically on which side of the body? Which side are the liver channels associated with?
Anatomically on the right
Liver Channels on the left
What is the pathology:
1)Distention of hypochondrium and chest
2)Depression, moodiness
3)Nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, abdominal distention, borborygmus, diarrea
4)Lump in throat, plum pit qi (difficulty swallowing)
5)Irregular periods, PMS, Irritability, Breast Distention
Liver Qi Stagnation
No pathology with Liver-Qi Xu exists
What is the pathology:
Irritability, propensity for outburst of anger
Tinnitus, deafness, red face and eyes, thirst, bitter taste
Dry stool, constipation, dark yellow urine
Liver-Fire flaming upwards
No deficiency here
What is the pathology:
Tinnitius, Deafness, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, irritability, anger, underlying Yin xu symptoms
Liver-yang raising
Heat + Yin Xu = False Heat symptoms
What is the pathology:
Exterior heat generating wind, Liver Yin xu with rising Liv yang, liv xue xu, tremor, numbness, convulsion, bell's palsy
Liver Wind
What is the pathlogy:
Dizziness, numb limbs, insomnia, blurred vision, "Floaters", scanty menses or amenorrhea, dull-pale complexion, pale lips, muscular weakness, cramps, brittle nails
Liver Xue Xu
Waht is the pathology:
Hypogstic pain in the Scortum (where the Liver channel runs),
Cold hands and feet
Coldin the Liver Channels
What is the pathology:
Fullness and heviness, nauseas, bitter and sticky taste, vaginal itching/redness, UTI
GB / Liver Damn Heat
What are the symptoms of Kidney Essence xu?
Soft bones, delayed closure of futures, weak legs, pain in lombard, premature loss of teeth, dull mental faculty, poor memory, dizzyness
What provides Qi to the UB to store and transform urine?
Kidney-yang
What does Kidney Yang xu do to water in the body?
Scanty urine, edema, bed wetting (water continament failure)
What organ controls fluids in the Lower Jiao?
Kidney
Where does the Kidney open into?
The Ears
The 5 sounds rely on what in order to be percieved?
What in the body, when declined, will calls all organ functions to decline?
The Ming Men
Yuan Qi relies on what to peform?
Kidney Yang heating King Yin in the Ming Men
What is the role of Warms from the Ming Men in the Upper and Lower Jiao?
Transformation of fluids
What is the role of Warms from the Ming Men in the Stomach and Spleen
Stomach: R&R
Spleen: T&T
What "controls opening and closing" of the anus and urethra?
Kidney
The Kidney loaths what in the 5 phase theory? What does it loath in the Zang Fu theory?
5 Phase: Cold
Zang Fu: Dryness
What organ helps in the communication between the Heart and the Kidney?
Ming Men
Besides the Lungs, what other organ assists the Kidney in "gasping" Clear Qi?
Ming Men
What happens when the Kidney fails to excete fluids?
Stagnation in the Stomach
Lack of fluids in the Stomach leads to what pathology of the Kidney?
Kidney Yin Xu
What are the 2 general catagory of symptoms for Kidney Qi Xu?
KD Qi unable to gasp Clear Qi
KD Qi not firm/falling
What are the symptoms of KD Qi unable to grasp Clear Qi?
Shorness of breathe, rapid weak breathing difficult inhalation
Cough, asthma, seating, cold limbs, sore back
What are the symptoms of KD Qi not firm?
Sore back, clear-frequent urination, weak stream of urine, dribbling urination
Nocturnal emission without dreams, preature ejaculation, spermattorhea
Prolapsed uterus
What is the pathology:
KID: Poor bone development, late closure of fontane, mental retardation
ADULT: soft bone, ppoor memory, loose teecth, falling hair, weak sexual activity, sore back
KD Essence Difficiency
What is the pathology:
Sore back, cold, bright-white complexion, impotence, premature ejaculation
KD-Yang Xu
Premature Ejac = KD Qi Xu
Cold = Cold
Waht is the pathology:
Dizziness, Tinitus, vertigo, poor memory, deafness, pm seats, dry mouth at night, 5 palmheat, thirst, sore back, nocturnal emissions, dark scanty urine
KD-Yin Xu
5 palm heat, Nocturnal Emissions = KD-yin x
PM sweat, dark scanty urine = False heat
When treating Kidney-yin deficiency, what else must be treated at the same time and why?
Treat Kidney-yang at the same time, and vise versa. KD-yin/yang declines at the same time.
What are the general symptoms of Qi Xu
Spontaneous sweating without exertion
Pale face
Fatigue
Am or Pm Fever
Loose stools, Shortness of breath, low voice, palpitation, frequent urination
What are the general symptoms of Yang Xu?
General Qi Xu symptoms + Cold
Cock's Crow Diarrhea
What are the symptoms of general Yin Xu
Night sweats, 5 palm heat, malar flush
Restlessness
Afternoon fever
Irritability
What are the symptoms of general Blood Xu?
Sallow complexion, pale lips, numbness
Dizzy
Poor memory, blurred vision, insomnia
What are the symptoms of Qi Stagnation?
Moving Pain
Abdominal mases appearing and disappearing
Irritability, mood swings, depression
PMS
Distention and pain, fullness, bloating
What are the symptoms of Xue Stagnation?
Fix, stabbing pain
Palpible abdominal masses
Blotches or bruises
Menses: Dark blood and clots
The Heart is what offical?
Themonarch who governs the body
Governs bood and controls blood vessels
What part of the soul is housed in the Heart?
Shen
What does Heart Xue Xu do to the Shen?
mental restlessness, insomnia (can't sleep)
What does Heart Xue Heat do to the Shen?
Mental restlessness, Agitation, poor sleep (but can sleep)
What does Heart Xu do to the shen?
Sadness, dpression
What does Heart Shi (Excess) do to the shen?
Mental illness, manic, depression
What is Red Transformation?
The heart's ability to turn Gu Qi and transform it into the RED of the blood.
Sweat = Gu Qi = Blood
What does Heart Qi Xu do to sweating?
Profused sweating
What does Heart Yin xu do to sweating?
Night sweats
What are symptoms of Heart Xu?
Copius dreaming (can be liver as well)
What does heart fire do to speech?
Exceesive talking
What does hert Disharmony do to speech?
Aphasia
What does the Heart Loath?
Heat
What is the PC's job?
To project the heart from heat
Causes Aphasia
Besides the Lung, what other organ has a simular function to the heart?
Pericardium
What is the function of the Lungs?
Govern Qi and Respiration
What are the symptoms of Lung Qi Xu?
Tiredness, weak voice, slight breathelessness
Cold limbs
Easily invaded by pathologens due to weak Wei Qi
Which organ is the "tender organ"?
The Lung, the most external of yin organs
Lung Wei Qi Shi does what to pores?
closes pores, no sweating
Lung Wei Qi Xu does what to pores?
Pores can't close, spontanious sweating
Where does the lungs manifest?
Skin and body hair
Lung Xu: Whithered brittle and dried body hair
Where does the lung open?
The nose
Lung Qi Xu: Weak sense of smell or sneazing
What part of the soul does the Lung house?
The Po
What does grief do to the breathing?
Dissolves lung qi, suspends breathing
Zong Qi governs which part of the voice?
The strength of voice
Weak lungs does what to the voice?
Weak voice
Phlegm obstruction of Lungs does what to the voice?