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Week 5 (6 Exogenous Factors, Qi/Blood/Body Fluid Syndrome Differentiation) Flashcards

1
Q

Name 6 exogenous pathogenic factors.

A

Wind, cold, summer heat, dryness, damp, and fire.

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What two circumstances result with 6 external pathogenic factors causing disease?

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  1. If environmental changes are extreme
    Or
  2. If body qi is low.
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6 external pathogenic factors enter body where (3 entrances)?

A

Skin, mouth, nose.

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4
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In the disease process, is a pathogen able to evolve into its opposite?

For instance, pathogenic cold can result with interior heat, or long-term summer heat can cause dryness.

A

True, yes.

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5
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Wind is the predominant qi of what season (even if it may happen in any season)?

A

Spring!

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6
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We mostly see wind pathology in the change of yin to yang seasons. Which two seasons is this? During temperature fluctuations at the seasonal changes skin pores open and close letting wind into the body throughout the day.

A

Spring
Fall

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Wind enters the body through what organ?

A

Skin! Via the open pores typically coming with sweating.

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8
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Which 6 exogenous pathogen enters your body in sleep when yang is at its lowest point so more susceptible to invasion.

A

Wind!

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9
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Which of the 6 external pathogenic factors is the leading causative disease factor because all the other invading ones require it to lower defensive qi first?

A

Wind. Wind can combine with any 5 remaining pathogenic factors, and also phlegm.

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10
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Wind pertains to yin or yang?

A

Yang.

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11
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Winds action is (2)?

A

Ascending and exterior (yang).

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12
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Wind mostly affects which Jiao and part of the body?

A

Upper Jiao and top/exterior of the body (yang).

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13
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Which external pathogenic factor is characterized by constant body movements (dizziness, convulsions, tremors).

A

Wind! Pathogenic wind disorders = sudden onset, rapid change, and migratory symptoms (wandering bi syndrome, urticaria, and shingles).

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14
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What is wandering bi syndrome caused by wind?

A

Migratory joint pain.

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15
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What is urticaria caused by wind?

A

Itchy skin with red welts that pop up randomly in numerous places. Hives!

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Shingles caused by wind heat invasion is characterized by sudden onset of two things.

A

Itching, burning rash that moves around the body.

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17
Q

Bell’s palsy, wind stoke, shingles, common cold, stiff neck, tetanus, and opisthotonos (muscle spasm causing backward arch of the neck - meningitis, poisoning) are all caused by?

A

Wind.

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18
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Which 6 external pathogen is responsible for this?

A

Wind.

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19
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This 6 external pathogenic factor invades the body through exposure to it after sweating and long-term standing in water.

A

Cold.

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20
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Cold is yin or yang?

A

Cold is a yin 6 external pathogenic factor that consumes yang and that impairs the body warming function.

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21
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Cold causes contractions due to (2 things)?

A

Qi and blood stagnation.

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22
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These are key symptoms of which 6 external pathogenic factor?

Aversion to cold
No sweats
Head and body pain
Abdominal pain
Coughing
Dyspnea
White sputum

A

Cold.

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23
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Characteristics of?

A

Cold invading the exterior.

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24
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Characteristic of?

A

Pathogenic cold invading lungs.

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25
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Characteristic of?

A

Cold invading the abdomen.

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26
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Characteristic of?

A

Cold invading the channels.

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27
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Which of the 6 exogenous pathogens tends to invade during hot dry summer weather?

A

Summer heat!

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28
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This 6 exogenous pathogen is exclusively triggered by excess exposure to high temperature, prolonged hours in the blazing sun, and poorly ventilated areas.

A

Summer heat.

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29
Q

Characteristics of extreme yang heat - high fever, profuse sweating, thirst, and restlessness are caused by which of the 6 exogenous pathogens?

A

Summer heat.

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30
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Which of the 6 external pathogenic factors is responsible?

A

Summer heat.

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31
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Summer heat does the action?

A

Dispersing and ascending action.

32
Q

Summer heat consumes which essential substance?

A

Body fluids.

33
Q

Which of the 6 external pathogenic factors affects the head and eyes, and can cause dizziness and blurred vision? It could cause the skin pores to remain open leading to excessive sweating (consumption of body fluids). It often combines with pathogenic dampness.

A

Summer heat.

34
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Characteristic of?

A

Summer heat.

35
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Summer heat.

36
Q

Damp is a yin or yang pathogen?

A

Yin.

37
Q

External pathogenic factor that comes from periods of prolonged wet weather, damp environments, frequently wearing wet clothes? Characterized by feeling of heaviness and turbidity, sticky or thick coating.

A

Damp.

38
Q

Dampness primarily affects what organ? These diseases tend to be prolonged and stubborn.

A

Spleen.

39
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Damp.

40
Q

Invasion of external dryness is common in what season?

A

Autumn.

41
Q

Dryness invades the lungs through (3 body entrances):

A

Nose, mouth, and skin.

42
Q

Dryness consumes this essential substance?

A

Consumes body fluids. Dryness impairs the lung function of dispersing and moistening.

43
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Dryness.

44
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Autumn/winter dryness.

45
Q

High fever, mild aversion to cold, mild sweating, thirst, yellow scanty sputum, C thin and yellow, P floating and rapid are characteristic of?

A

Summer/autumn dryness.

46
Q

Which of the 6 external pathogens is caused by external heat resulting in excess yang qi?

A

Fire.

47
Q

Fire typically occurs in what season?

A

Summer most frequently, but not exclusively then.

48
Q

These three pathogens are all varying degrees of the same syndrome.

A

Fire, heat, and mild heat.

49
Q

Characteristics of?

A

Fire.

50
Q

Mania, excitement, delirium, and coma are results of this external pathogenic factor?

A

Fire - pathogenic fire rising to disturb the mind.

51
Q

Pathogenic fire consumes ______ and forces it to the body surface.

A

Yin fluid (body fluid deficiency).

52
Q

Thirst with desire for fluids, dry lips and throat, constipation, dark yellow and scanty urine are symptoms of?

A

Body fluid deficiency.

53
Q

How does a fire invasion disturb blood?

A

Extreme heat stirring up wind. Invasion of fire = stirs up liver wind and causes blood disturbance.

54
Q

What do these symptoms show?
High fever, convulsions, coma, neck rigidity, upward staring of the eyes.

A

Clinical presentation of extreme heat stirring up wind are all fire symptoms and those.

55
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Pathogenic fire disturbing blood = increase circulation and ascending of blood.

56
Q

These three things form the basis of all ZF functional activity and disorders of the three things will affect ZF and vice versa.

A

Qi, blood, and body fluid.

57
Q

What essential substance is deficient?

A

Qi.

58
Q

Dislike of speaking and general fatigue are due to (2 things)?

A

Vital qi deficiency and hypo function of ZF.

59
Q

Spontaneous sweating from lack of skin pore control comes from?

A

Defensive qi deficiency.

60
Q

Blurred vision, dizziness better for rest is the result of?

A

Clear bright yang not able to rise to brighten the mind.

61
Q

Characteristics of?

A

Qi sinking.

62
Q

What does this show?

A

Qi sinking.

63
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Qi stagnation.

64
Q

What does this show?

A

Qi stagnation.

65
Q

Characteristic of?

A

Rebellious qi.

66
Q

Cough and asthma due to exogenous pathogens or phlegm retention in lungs are due to?

A

Rebellious lung qi.

67
Q

Nausea, belching, hiccups, vomiting are characteristic of?

A

Rebellious stomach qi.

68
Q

Upward disturbance of qi and fire, headache, dizziness, hemoptysis, and vertigo.

A

Rebellious liver qi usually caused by anger.

69
Q

Characteristics of?

A

Qi collapse.

70
Q

Lung qi collapse is demonstrated by.

A

Irregular, weak breath.

71
Q

Heart qi collapse looks like?

A

Vague mind, fainting.

72
Q

Failure of qi to rise shows up as?

A

Profuse sweating, incontinence, and pallor.

73
Q

Characteristics of?

A

Qi obstruction.

74
Q

Qi flow to heart obstruction shows up as?

A

Sudden fainting.

75
Q

Lung qi obstruction looks like?

A

Coarse breathing.

76
Q

Blood stasis, stones, phlegm =

A

Colicky pain, urine retention, and constipation.

77
Q

Cold limbs could come from?

A

Obstruction of yang.

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