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Disease: ext. causes
The External Causes of Disease
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 4 combines external causes of disease | Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, Wind-Damp, Damp-Heat |
| Description of Wind | Yang, spearhead of disease, rapid onset & changes, changes location, intermittent, upward & outward dispersion, shake & sway |
| Nature of Wind symptoms | Change rapidly, move around, affect top part of body, itch |
| Symptoms of external Wind affecting Lungs | Aversion to cold, fever, sneezing, sore throat, occipital stiffness, Floating pulse |
| Symptoms of internal Wind affecting Liver | tics, tremors, convulsions, dizziness, Wiry pulse |
| Description of Cold | Yin, consumes Yang, impairs movement & warming, contracts tissues, obstructs Qi & Blood > pain |
| Nature of Cold symptoms | Fixes, severe, gripping / contracting pain, better for warmth, worse for cold |
| General symptoms of Cold | aversion to cold, cold limbs, tendons contract, watery discharge, Pale tongue, white coat, Slow / Tight pulse |
| Symptoms of Cold in Uterus | Pain, clotted menstrual blood, infertility |
| Description of Damp | Yin, impairs Yang, obstructs Qi, heavy & dirty, sticky & lingering |
| Nature of Damp symptoms | Sticky, lingering, heavy, worse in damp weather / damp-forming food, lack of movement, comes slowly, goes slowly, swell & bloat |
| General symptoms of Damp | Heavy limbs, heavy / muzzy head, no appetite, bloating, stuffy chest / epigastrium, recurrent durty discharge, Swollen tongue, sticky coat, Slippery pulse |
| Description of Summer Heat | Yang, upward direction, Body Fluids consumed, only in Summer |
| Nature of Summer Heat symptoms | Hot, sudden onset, summer only |
| General symptoms of Summer Heat | Aversion to heat, sweating, dark scanty urine, headache, dry lips, thirst, Rapid pulse, Red tongue |
| Symptoms of Summer Heat invading Pericardium | Clouded mind: delirium, slurred speech, inconsciousness |
| Description of Dryness | Yang, injures Blood & Yin |
| Nature of Dryness symptoms | Injures Blood, Yin & Body Fluids; dry weather / articficially dry environments |
| General symptoms of Dryness | Acute dry cough, throat, mouth, lips, tongue, nose, skin, stools; scanty urine; Floating pulse, Dry tongue & coat |
| Description of Fire | Yang, upward, injures Blood & Yin, depletes Qi, affects Shen |
| Nature of Fire symptoms | BIG, intense, v. hot, esp. affects head, redness, agitation, bleeding |
| General symptoms of Fire | Feels hot, likes cool, body parts red / flushed, intense thirst, bitter, dark scanty urine, sore throat, eyes red & inflames, mania, reckless haemorrhage, Full Overflowing pulse, Red tongue, Yellow coat |
| Symptoms of Wind-Cold | Aversion to cold, fever, sneezing, watery clear mucous, Floating Rapid pulse |
| Symptoms of Wind-Heat | Aversion to cold, fever, sore throat, yellow mucous, Floating Slippery pulse |
| Symptoms of Wind-Damp | Wind-Cold/Heat + bodily heaviness, muzzy head, bloating, Floating Slippery pulse |
| Symptoms of Damp-Heat | Humid weather: dirty stinky thick discharge, joint pain & swelling, purulent inflamation, sticky-yellow tongue coat, Slipper Rapid pulse |
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