Chinese Medicine Lessons 1-6 Must Know

Question 1

Four main aspects of yin and Yang

Answer 1

Opposition
Interdependence
Interconsuming
Intertransformation

Question 2

Opposition examples

Answer 2

Hot/ cold
Active/ rest
Dry/ moisten
Up/ down
Loud/ quiet
Insubstantial/ dense
Exterior/ interior

Question 3

Independent examples

Answer 3

Yin on the inside and basis of Yang
Yang on the outside reflects Yin

Question 4

Interconsuming- fullness

Answer 4

More intense
Usually more pathology
Yang full- fever, yin used up yang rising
Yin full- pathogenic factor, Yang used up yin full

Question 5

Interconsuming- deficiency (Xu)

Answer 5

Yin deficient, Yin exhausted so appears too much Yang

Yang deficient, Yang exhausted so appears too much yin

Question 6

Intertransforming examples

Answer 6

Day- Night
Spring- Sunmer
Water- Steam
Acute- chronic
Fever- Cold
Excess- deficiency