Class 8- Emotions

Question 1

Which emotion causes qì to slacken (move slowly or relax)

Answer 1

joy

Question 2

Which emotion scatters the spirit?

Answer 2

joy

Question 3

What does excessive joy lead to?

Answer 3

heart fire or heart yīn deficiency heat

Question 4

Joy damages what organ?

Answer 4

Heart

Question 5

Anger damages what organ?

Answer 5

Liver

Question 6

What emotion causes qi to rise?

Answer 6

Anger

Question 7

Expressed anger or rage is

Answer 7

liver yang rising/liver fire

Question 8

symptoms of excess include headache, red face and tongue, wiry pulse

Answer 8

anger

Question 9

Unexpressed anger causes

Answer 9

liver qi constraint

Question 10

With anger the liver will horizontally attack what organ(s)

Answer 10

spleen/stomach

Question 11

thought damages the

Answer 11

spleen

Question 12

what emotion causes qi to bind?

Answer 12

thought and anxiety

Question 13

symptoms associated= fatigue, loss of appetite, loose stools, phlegm

Answer 13

excessive thought/ spleen issues

Question 14

sorrow damages what organ?

Answer 14

the lungs

Question 15

what emotion causes qi to disperse?

Answer 15

sorrow

Question 16

sorrow leads to…

Answer 16

lung qì deficiency: breathlessness, fatigue, crying, sighing.

Question 17

anxiety damages the

Answer 17

damages the lungs and spleen

Question 18

fear damages what organ?

Answer 18

the kidneys

Question 19

what emotion causes qi to descend

Answer 19

fear

Question 20

fright damages what organ?

Answer 20

kidneys

Question 21

what emotions causes derangement of qì?

Answer 21

fright

makes qi chaotic

Question 22

Improper diet

Answer 22

overeating/malnutrition
damages spleen/stomach
overeating –> phlegm and dampness
balance of 5 flavors/temperatures

Question 23

Work and rest

Answer 23

need balance between the two
Taxation (勞 overwork) causes consumption of qì
Excessive rest impairs circulation of qì-blood and effects spleen

Question 24

sexual taxation

Answer 24

not too much sex. ejaculation associated with men. too many pregnancies for women

Question 25

is diet and internal or neither internal nor external disease?

Answer 25

neither internal nor external

Question 26

Neither-External-Nor-Internal-Causes of Disease

Answer 26

1. improper diet
2. work and rest
3. sexual taxation
4. Trauma (physical wounds)
5. Improper medical treatment
6. Parasites and toxins

Question 27

Constitution

Answer 27

fundamental physical and mental make-up of a person, composed of essence, qì, and spirit, but essence is the foundation.

Question 28

what is the foundation of the constitution?

Answer 28

jing

Question 29

Conflict between right qì and evil qì is associated with ______________

Answer 29

weather invading the body causing excess

Question 30

treatment for right qì and evil qì

Answer 30

dispel the evil qi

Question 31

most often do you supplement right qi first or drain the evil qi?

Answer 31

drain the evil qi first, don’t want to inadvertently supplement the evil on accident

Question 32

Disharmony of yīn and yáng

Answer 32

excess or deficiency of yīn and yáng
involved patient presenting as hot or cold
supplement deficiency and remove excess

Question 33

Heat is from __________ or ____________

Answer 33

Heat is from yáng excess or yīn deficiency.

Question 34

Cold is from __________ or ____________

Answer 34

yang deficiency or yin excess