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Interior pat facts
Pattern id 1 midterm review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the five internal evils? | Interior Wind, cold, fire (heat), dry and damp |
| Interior wind is always related to? | Liver disorder |
| What are the different ways that interior wind can arise? | Extreme heat, liver yang rising, liver fire and deficiency of liver blood or liver yin |
| What are the main clinical manifestations of interior wind? | Tremors, Tics, severe dizziness, vertigo, numbness, in severe cases convulsions, unconsciousness, hemiplagia and deviation of the mouth (stroke) |
| What causes interior cold? | Either excess(cold) or deficiency (yang) issue. |
| What is excess cold caused by? | An exterior cold that has moved to the interior and into internal organs |
| Yang deficiency is caused by? | Excess cold injures yang causing yang deficiency. Or spleen or kidney yang deficiency |
| The main clinical manifestations of cold are? | Feeling of cold, cramping pain, cold Limbs, thin clear discharges, symptoms are aggravated by cold and relieve by heat, desire for warm drinks, |
| Dull white complexions, thin or thick white tongue coating, pale tongue body, slow weak or full type pulse are symptoms of what? | Internal Cold or yang deficiency |
| What are the 3 ways that interior dryness can arise? | From external dryness, from yin deficiency, from diet (which may Later lead to yin deficiency) |
| What are the three organs most affected by dryness? | Stomach, lungs and kidneys |
| What is stomach Dryness caused by? | Eating dry food, eating late at night or in a hurry deplete stomach fluids leading to dryness and eventually Yin deficiency |
| What causes lung dryness? | Excessive use of voice for many years for smoking tobacco depletes lung Yin |
| What causes kidney dryness? | |
| What are the main clinical manifestations of dryness? | Dry skin, dry mouth, dry tongue w/ cracks, dry cough, dry stools, thirst,and scanty urine |
| What type of pathogenic factor is fire? | Internal pathogenic factor |
| What organs does fire effect? | Heart, liver, stomach,lungs, and intestines |
| Fire is very drying and can damage? | Blood and Yin |
| Bleeding is caused by? | Internal Fire |
| Fire can effect? | The mind (shen) |
| What is the progression of stagination over time? | Causes heat which can lead to fire, and eventually causes wind(if in the liver) |
| What causes fire? | Exterior pathogenic factor invading the interior, excess consumption of hot, spicy food and alcohol/smoking, emotional stress, prolonged stagnation |
| What are the main clinical manifestations of fire? | Feeling of heat, sweating, Red face, red eyes, headache, thirst with a desire for cold drinks, dark scanty urine, dry stools |
| Thick yellow mucus, smelly secretion, mental restlessness, anixiety, ulcers, rapid pulse, red tongue (especially tip of the tongue) are indications of what internal pathogenic factor | Internal fire |
| Fire in chronic interior conditions can develop into what? | Toxic heat |
| Signs and symptoms of toxic heat are? | Painful swelling with a larg boil, swollen appendix, acne, all with redness and heat |
| Interior dampness arises from? | Spleen deficiency and sometime kidney deficiency. |
| What happens when spleens function of t&t of fluids is disrupted? | Fluids will accumulate and eventually form dampness |
| In what organs do you find dampness? | Stomach, spleen, bladder, intestines, uterus, gallbladder, liver, and kidneys |
| Characteristics of dampness when it is heavy | Heavy Weighs the body down causing a feeling of tiredness, heaviness of limbs & head, fullness in the chest and abdomen. |
| Characteristics of dampness; Dirty | Reflected in dirty dischargee such as cloudy urine, vaginal discharge or skin diseases w/dirty fluids oozing. |
| Characteristics of dampness; Sticky | Makes it difficult to get rid of and is reflected in sticky tongue coating |
| Dampness may affect many organs and may cause many issues including? | Skin diseases, digestive diseases, urinary, menstrual and sinus problems. |
| Common clinical manifestations of dampness are? | Fullness in the abdomen, heavy sensation, tiredness, turbid urine, excessive vaginal discharge, muscle ache, sinus problems, sticky tongue coating, slippery or soggy pulse |
| What are the two ways that Phlegm can be viewed as? | Visible substance secreted by the lung which can be coughed, spat or vomited out or consequence of the internal disruption of the body's fluid metabolism |
| What is the main cause of phlegm | Spleen Qi deficiency |
| Besides spleen Qi deficiency what organs may also be involved in the formation of phlegm | The lung and kidneys |
| Misting the mind is caused by? | Phlegm. The consequence of internal disruption of the body's fluid metabolism (mainly the heart's moving & transporting abilities) |
| How does phlegm disrupt the ability of spleen? | Disruption of the ability to transform and transport fluids |
| How does phlegm disrupt the ability of lungs? | The ability to diffuse and descend fluids |
| How does phlegm disrupt the abilities of the kidneys? | The ability to transform and excrete fluids |
| How does phlegm disrupt the abilities of the heart? | The ability of moving and transporting which may cause shen problems |
| Describe some characteristics of phlegm | Dense sticky thick and torbid. It obstructs it is difficult to remove |
| What are the clinical manifestations of phlegm? | Feeling of oppression in the chest, nausea, feeling of heaviness, cloudy feeling in the head, dizziness, mucus in the stools, cough with phlegm. |
| little or no desire to drink, palpitations, lumps or nodules under the skin, swollen tongue with sticky coat, slippery-soggy or wiry pulse indicate what? | Clinical manifestations of phlegm |
| What are the two main types of phlegm you can have? | Phlegm heat and the phlegm cold |
| Coughing with yellow, sticky phlegm that may be difficult to expectorate is a sign of what? | Phlegm heat in the Lungs |
| Feeling hot, irritable or manic in extreme cases is a sign of what? | Phlegm heat in the heart |
| White and sticky tongue coating, slow deep slippery pulse is a sign of what? | Phlegm heat in the large intestines and stomach |
| A yellow and greasy tongue coating with red tongue, slippery and rapid pulse are indications of what internal pathological factor | Phlegm heat signs |
| Aversion to cold, cold limbs are examples of Phlegm cold doing what? | obstructing wei Qi and yang from warming the body |
| Cough, cough with clear and/or white phlegm are signs of what? | Cold phlegm in the Lungs |
| A white and sticky tongue coating with a slow deep slippery pulse are indications of what internal pathological factor? | |
| Is dampness an exterior or interior or both pathogenic factor | Both exterior and/ or interior |
| Where does dampness mostly originate from? | spleen dysfunction |
| Where/what does dampness mostly affects | Mostly The lower jiao but can settle in the head |
| What are the characteristics of dampness | Sticky, dirty, and tends to flow downwards |
| Does phlegm orginate from an interior or exterior or both pathogenic factor? | Originate only from an interior pathogen |
| Where does phlegm mostly originate from? | The spleen however, lungs and kidneys are also involved |
| Mental problems can be caused by? | Phlegm misting the mind |
| What can originate from the condensing action of fire on the body fluids? | Phlegm |
| What is hemiplagia? | Paralysis of one side of the body (manifestation of interior wind) |
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