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External pat-factors
Pattern id 1 midterm review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the six external evils? | Wind, cold, summer heat, damp, dryness and fire |
| What are the six external evils/pathogenic factors considered to be according to the eight principles? | Excess |
| The six external evils invade from the outside entering through where? | Skin, nose, and mouth |
| In what season is wind more Prevalent | Spring/liver |
| In what season is cold more prevalent | Winter/kidney |
| In what season is summer heat prevalent | Only summer/heart. It is also the only pat fact that can only arise externally, and can only occur in the summer. |
| What season is dampness more prevalent | Late summer/spleen |
| What season is dryness more for prevalent | Autumn/lungs |
| Wind, summer heat, dryness and fire are considered? And injure? | Yang and injure Yin |
| Cold and dampness are considered? And injure? | Yin pathogenic factors and tend to injure yang |
| An invasion of an exterior pathogen resulting in exterior patterns would have symptoms of? | Simultaneous aversion to cold and fever |
| Some examples of an exterior pathogen resulting in exterior patterns are? | Common cold, flu, upper respiratory infection, ear infection |
| An invasion of an exterior pathogen without exterior patterns means what? | Cold has penetrated some organs directly without development of exterior pattern with aversion to cold and fever |
| Cold directly invading the stomach will cause what? | Acute Epigastric pain and vomiting |
| Cold invading the intestines directly will cause what? | Acute diarrhea and abdominal pain |
| Cold invading the uterus directly will cause what? | Acute dysmenorrhea, painful., Menstrual cramps |
| What do we call and invasion of an exterior pathogen resulting in obstruction of muscles, joints and channels? | Painful obstruction syndrome/bi syndrome – usually caused by wind, dampness and cold |
| How does an invasion of An exterior pathogen breaks through and becomes an interior disease? | If the patient does not Or can not dispell the exterior pathogen, overtime it may move interior eventually attacking the organs. |
| Wind is ? in nature and tends to injure? | Yang, and tends to injure blood and Yin |
| What kind of onset does wind have? | Rapid onset and can change rapidly |
| When diseases are characterized by symptoms of what? | Wondering pain (manifestations change location) or itching |
| When generally causes ? Especially unilaterally | Numbness or tingling |
| When tends to affect which part of the body | The top part of the body (neck and shoulders) |
| Why is wind the cause of 100 diseases? | Because it can bring other pathogens into the body with it. Ex. Wind heat, wind cold, wind damp |
| Wind impairs the flow of what? | Wei Qi |
| When wei qi is impaired The patient will have? | Chills and an aversion to cold |
| Wind entering the couli can interfere with the D&D function of the lungs causing | Sneezing, cough may occur, a runny nose |
| The fight between the pathogenic wind and the wei qi may cause what? | Fever |
| What channel does wind attack first? | The most superficial channel. (tai yang-greater yang-UB-SI) |
| Wind attacking the most superficial channel, obstructing the channels flow, causes what? | Aches and pains in the back and neck |
| Aversion to cold, sneezing, coughing, runny nose with white watery mucus, chills more than fever, muscle stiffness and aches, no sweating and lack of thirst or Thirst for warm drinks or symptoms of what? | Wind cold |
| What type of pulse would wind cold have | Floating – tight pulse |
| What type of tongue coating would wind cold have? | Thin white tongue coating |
| Aversion to cold, fever more than chills, cough, runny nose with slight yellow mucus, muscle stiffness and ache, slight sweat, sore throat, first or Thirst for cold drinks are signs of what? | Wind heat |
| What type of pulse does wind heat have? | Floating – rapid pulse |
| What type of tongue coating would wind heat have | Red tip and sides of tongue with a thin white coating |
| Aversion to cold, fever, swollen glands, loss of appetite, nausea, sweating, muscle aches, heavy feeling in the body, swollen joints are indications of what? | Wind dampness |
| What type of pulse would wind dampness have? | Floating slippery pulse |
| Fever, slight aversion to cold, slight sweating, dry skin, dry nose, dry mouth, dry throat, cough, sore throat are indications of what? | Wind dryness |
| What type of tongue would wind dryness have? | Dry tongue with a thin white coating |
| What type of pulse with wind dryness have? | Floating – rapid pulse |
| Aversion to cold, fever, edema, swollen face and eyes, cough with perfuse white and watery mucus, sweating, lack of thirst are indications of what? | Wind water |
| If external when invades the channels of the face it can cause what? | Numbness or facial paralysis (bells palsy) |
| Cold is a ?pathogenic factor intends to injure? | Yin pathogenic factor and tends to injure yang |
| What exterior pathogenic factor congeals and contracts? | Cold |
| Secretions are clear or white-ish, thin, watery and have no smell are indications of what pathogenic factor? | External cold |
| External cold signs and symptoms are the same as? | Wind cold |
| Summer heat is a? Pathogenic factor that injures? | Yang pathogenic factor that injures Yin |
| Summer heat has a tendency to move where? | Into the interior quickly |
| Fever, aversions to call, sweating, irritability, first, sometimes a feeling of heaviness are signs and symptoms of What exterior pathogenic factor? | Summer heat |
| What type of tongue coating would summer heat have? | Read front and sides of tile with white sticky coating |
| What type of pulse would summer he have? | Slippery or soggy and rapid pulse |
| Dampness is a? Pathogenic factor and tends to injure? | Yin pathogenic factor and tends to injure Yang |
| Dampness tends to invade the? Part of the body first and then move where? | Lower, move up the leg it to the pelvis |
| What are the qualities of dampness? | Sticky, heavy and difficult to get rid of and tends to slow things down |
| Feeling of heaviness body and/or head, tiredness, poor appetite, fullness in chest, urinary difficulties, loose stools indication what external pat-factor? | External dampness |
| What type of tongue coating would dampness have? | Sticky tongue coating |
| What type of pulse would dampness have? | Slippery or soggy pulse |
| Deafness going to be what organs? | bladder, intestines, stomach, uterus, and gallbladder |
| Difficulty and pain on urination with acute onset, scanty urination, frequency urination, cloudy urine, feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen indicate what? | External damp invasion of the bladder |
| If external damp has invaded the bladder what type of tongue coating and pulse will it have? | Thick sticky tongue coating with a slippery pulse |
| External damp invasion of the bladder accompanied by heat will have what indication including tongue and pulse? | Burning on urination, dark urine, thirst but no desire to drink, yellow tongue coating, slightly rapid pulse |
| An acute onset of vomiting and/or watery diarrhea without smell, epigastric pain/heaviness, cold limbs, lack of appetite with a white thick sticky tongue coating and a slippery pulse indicate what? | External Damp invasion of the spleen and stomach |
| acute onset of watery diarrhea w/out smell, abdominal pain, feeling of heaviness, sticky thick white tongue coating, and a slippery pulse indicate what? | External damp invasion of the intestines |
| Acute onset of painful periods, excessive vaginal discharge, thick sticky white tongue coating, and a slippery pulse are indications of what? | External damp invasion of the uterus |
| Acute onset of hypochondrial pain, feeling of heaviness, bitter taste, sticky yellow tongue coatings (sometimes on the side), slippery pulse are indications of what? | External damp invasion of the gallbladder |
| Acute stage of damp painful obstruction syndrome/bi syndrome. Achy and swollen joints with a feeling of heaviness are indications of what? | External dampness in channels. |
| Aversion to cold, fever, swollen glands, heavy feeling in the head with headaches, oppression in the chest and epigastrium, no thirst, white sticky tongue coating, soggy or slippery pulse indicate what? | Damp heat at defensive Qi (wei qi) level |
| Fever, slight aversion to cold, sweating, headache, feeling of heaviness in the body, irritability, thirst, red tongue with sticky tongue coating, soggy or slippery rapid pulse are indications of what? | Summer heat with dampness |
| Dryness is a? Pathogenic factor that tends to injure? | Yang pathogenic factor that tends to injure Yin and blood |
| Acute aversion to cold, fever, headache, dry throat/lips/mouth/skin/stools, scanty urine, no sweat, nasal congestion with little or yellow sticky mucus, small amounts of blood in nasal mucus, thirst indicate? | External dryness |
| External dryness usually arises from? | Wind dry invasion |
| What type of tongue coating would dryness have? | Dry tongue |
| What type of pulse would dryness have? | Floating pulse and may be rapid |
| Fire is? In nature and tends to injure? | Yang in nature and tends to injure Yin |
| Where does fire tend to rise and/or attack? | Face and head |
| What kind of pathogen is fire? | Primarily an internal pathogen |
| Fever, feeling of heat, sweating, red face, red eyes, headache, thirst with desire for cold drinks, dark skanty urine, dry stools, thick yellow mucus, smelly secretions, mental restlessness are indications what? | Fire (heat) |
| What type of pulse would fire have? | Floating rapid pulse |
| What would the tongue look like with a fire invasion | Read tongue especially the tip and possible ulcers on the tongue |
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