Meta Systems and Micro Systems

Question 1

We and everything else are all in some way _______ of the greater ________

Answer 1

microcosms; macrocosm

Question 2

Basic principle of Organ manifestation theory?

Answer 2

What is happening on the inside wil manifest on the outside: “as without, so within,” and vice-versa

Question 3

_______are a major tool for learning to read the body from the outside

Answer 3

Microsystems

Question 4

How are microsystems like holographic correspondence maps?

Answer 4

Any part will represent the whole – complete images of the larger entity they originally comprised

Question 5

What is the classic mapping system that can Be used anywhere on the body?

Answer 5

Bagua, the Eight Trigrams

Question 6

What are the two organizations of the bagua, what do they refer to, and which is used in clinic?

Answer 6

Earlier Heaven (pre-natal) and Later Heaven (Post-natal); Later Heaven is used in clinic

Question 7

Trigram 3: name the associations

Answer 7

Li; fame/ rank; Reputation, Eye; Fire; Red; South

Question 8

Trigram 8: name the associations

Answer 8

Kuen; Marriage; Mother; Abdomen; Earth; Organs; red/pink/white

Question 9

Trigram 2: name the associations

Answer 9

Dwei; Children; descendent; offspring; lake; mouth; metal; white; West

Question 10

Trigram 1: name the associations

Answer 10

Chyan; Helpful people; Heaven; travel; head; white/ grey/ black

Question 11

Trigram 6: name the associations

Answer 11

Kan; career; Ancestral; Ear/ bckground; water; black; North

Question 12

Trigram 7: name the associations

Answer 12

Gen; knowledge; self-cultivation; mountain; hands; black/ blue/ green

Question 13

Trigram 4: name the associations

Answer 13

Jen; family. health; Thunder; foot; wood; blue/ green; East

Question 14

Trigram 5: name the associations

Answer 14

Hsun; wealth; wind; hips; blue/ purple/ red

Question 15

how is the bagua laid out on the abdomen?

Answer 15

Centered on umbilicus; fire / South above water/ North

Question 16

correctly match the organ with the region of the tongue:

back of tongue, sides of tongue, center of tongue, front of tongue, tip of tongue; lungs, liver, kidney, heart, spleen

Answer 16

back = kidney; sides = liver; center = spleen; front = lungs; tip = heart

Question 17

Match these organs with the corresponding color and region of the eye: Kidney, Liver, Spleen, Heart, Lungs

Answer 17

Kidney = black = pupil; liver = green = iris; spleen = flesh = eyelid; heart = red = medial/ lateral canthus; lungs = white = cornea

Question 18

Correctly order the body parts which can be mapped onto any long bone in the body, from superior to inferior – upper limb, lower abdomen, leg, stomach, neck, kidney, duodenum, waist, foot, head, liver, lung-heart

Answer 18

1) head 2) neck 3) upper limb 4) lung-heart 5) liver 6) stomach 7) duodenum 8) kidney 9) waist 10) lower abdomen 11) leg 12) foot

Question 19

The transition form the Dao to all things is dependent upon _____

Answer 19

Qi

Question 20

Qi exsts in two states; what are they?

Answer 20

1) in constant motion 2) diffused or concentrated

Question 21

Name three ways that all things rely on Qi

Answer 21

1) Qi generates. 2) Qi strengthens or weakens, 3) Qi changes or transforms

Question 22

The metasystems of CM and Chinese Philosophy delineate __________ and ___________

Answer 22

relationships; principles of change

Question 23

Metasystems rely heavily upon _____

Answer 23

analogies

Question 24

In CM, the search for Truth has always been _________

Answer 24

inwardly focused

Question 25

The metasystems of organizing information are part of the system of __________ in Chinese epistemology

Answer 25

Accepted “truths”

Question 26

Anything is divisible by the ________

Answer 26

metasystems

Question 27

Metasystems help to define the relationship between _______ and how they________ or ____________ one another

Answer 27

components; effect; transform into

Question 28

True or false: Yin-yang, Three Treasures, Five Phases and Eight Trigrams are each separate from the other

Answer 28

False. The are different ways to organize things, but they are not completely separate

Question 29

Microsystems are _______ and ________

Answer 29

Diagnostic; therapeutic

Question 30

Define a microsystem

Answer 30

A map of all the piece of a greater whole on a small subsection of itself

Question 31

Which organ systems are diagnosed with the right pulses?

Answer 31

Lung, spleen, Kidney Yang (ming man/ gate of life)

Question 32

Which organ systems are diagnosed with the left pulses?

Answer 32

Heart, Liver, Kidney yin