Stages and Levels Flashcards

1
Q

True or False: Ying qi comes from the Middle Burner?

A

True

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2
Q

True or False: Wei Qi comes from the upper burner?

A

False - Lower

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3
Q

Wei Qi is diffused in upper burner by what organ?

A

Lung

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4
Q

What Qi is in formed the Upper Burner?

  1. Wei Qi
  2. Ying Qi
  3. Zong Qi
A
  1. Zong Qi
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5
Q

Which one is a ditch?

  1. Upper Burner
  2. Middle Burner
  3. Lower Burner
A

Lower

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6
Q

The rough sea of qi and grains?

  1. Ying Qi
  2. Zong Qi
  3. Wei Qi
A
  1. Wei Qi
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7
Q

The essence of qi and grains?

  1. Ying Qi
  2. Zong Qi
  3. Wei Qi
A
  1. Ying Qi
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8
Q

Wei Qi - Turbid or Clear?

A

Clear Fluids = Jin

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9
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Nutritive Qi - Turbid or Clear?

A

Turbid = Ye Fluids

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10
Q

True or false: Ying and Wei derive from Gu Qi?

A

True

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11
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True or false: the movement of Ying and Wei relies on post-natal Qi?

A

False: Pre-Natal Qi

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12
Q

True or False: Kidney Yin is the root of Wei Qi?

A

False: Kidney Yang

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13
Q

True or False: Yuan Qi facilitates the transformation of Gu Qi in to blood?

A

True

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14
Q

True or False: Deficiency of kidneys can lead to latent heat?

A

True

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15
Q

True or False: The Triple Burner allows Yuan Qi to separate into three types of Qi?

A

True

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16
Q

True or False: Wei Qi governs upper burner?

A

True

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17
Q

True or false: Ying Qi governs lower burner?

A

False: Middle Burner. Yuan Qi governs lower burner

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18
Q

True or False: Jing (Essence from Parents) circulates in the channels and aids in resistance to disease?

A

True

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19
Q

True or False: the EV’s play an important role in defense against EPFs?

A

True: the EVs ‘irrigate’ the Couli externally

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20
Q

Tai Yang and Wei Level both have in common invasion of what:

  1. Summer Heat
  2. Wind Dry
  3. Damp Heat
  4. Wind Heat
A
  1. Wind Heat
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21
Q

What two stages of six stage pathology have both organ and channel pathology?

A

Tai Yang and Yang Ming

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22
Q

Yang Ming CHANNEL disharmony can be equated with which 4 Level pattern?

  1. Intestines Dry Heat
  2. Stomach heat
  3. Heat in Pericardium
  4. Heat agitates blood
A
  1. Stomach heat
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23
Q

Gall Bladder damp heat is a symptom of which 4 Level & which 6 Level pattern?

A

Shao Yang & Qi Level

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24
Q

Allergies would fall into which patterns of 6-Stage and 4-Levels?

A

Tai Yang and Wei Qi

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25
Q

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome falls into which category of 6 stages?

A

Shao Yang, Damp heat

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26
Q

Autoimmune disease fall into which category?

  1. Qi Level
  2. Latent Heat
  3. GB heat
  4. Jue Yin
A
  1. Latent Heat
27
Q

Sjogren’s Syndrome:

  1. Yin Xu of Stomach and Liver
  2. Damp Heat
  3. Phlegm
A
  1. Yin Xu of Stomach and Liver

a degeneration of the salivary and lachrymal glands

28
Q

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis:

  1. Liver-Kidneys Xu
  2. Phlegm, Spleen-Qi Xu, Kidney-Yang Xu
  3. Damp Heat
A
  1. Phlegm, Spleen-Qi Xu, Kidney-Yang Xu
29
Q

Aversion to cold slight fever, retention of urine, slight thirst, vomiting of fluids soon after drinking, Floating rapid pulse.

  1. Wind cold
  2. Wei Qi
  3. Accumulation of water
  4. Wind damp
A
  1. Accumulation of water
30
Q

Hypogastric distension, fullness and urgency, blood in urine, mental restlessness, reddish purple tongue without coat, deep-fine-rapid or deep-fine-choppy pulse

  1. Jue Yin
  2. Accumulation of blood
  3. Blood Level
  4. Qi Level
A
  1. Accumulation of blood
31
Q

Yang Ming ORGAN or CHANNEL pattern?
High fever which is WORSE IN PM, profuse sweating, sweating ON LIMBS, constipation, dry stools, fullness and pain in the abdomen which becomes worse on pressure, thirst, red tongue with a THICK dry yellow coat and deep-full-slippery-rapid pulse.

A

ORGAN

32
Q

Persistent thirst, feeling of energy rising to the chest, pain and feeling of heat in the heart, feeling of hunger with no desire to eat, cold limbs, diarrhea, vomiting, wiry pulse.

  • middle burner
  • jue yin
  • shao yin
  • upper burner
A
  • Jue Yin
33
Q

Match:

  1. Papules
  2. Macules

A. Qi Level
B.Blood Level

A

Papules = Qi Level

Macules = B.Blood Level

34
Q

Heat in the pericardium is in which Burner and which 4-Stage?

A

Upper Burner and Nutritive Qi Level

35
Q
  • Wind Heat
  • Heat in Lungs
  • Heat in Pericardium

are all found in:

  1. Wei Qi Level
  2. Upper Burner
  3. Tai Yang Stage
  4. Qi Level
A
  1. Upper Burner
36
Q

Bright Yang
Lesser Yang
Greater Yin…
can all be founding which Triple Burner?

A

Middle Burner

37
Q

Damp Heat can be found in which Burner?

A

Middle

38
Q

Heat in the kidneys is found in which Burner?

A

Lower

39
Q

Liver Heat Stirring Wind & Liver Empty Wind are both found in which Burner?

A

Lower

40
Q

Lung Heat can be found in which 4-Stage and Burner?

A

Qi Level and Upper Burner

41
Q

Liver Heat Stirring Wind & Liver Empty Wind of Lower Burner are similar to Heat Victorious Stirring Wind & Empty Wind in the Interior of which 6 Stage or Qi Level?

A

Blood Level

42
Q

True or False: pericardium is considered part of the Upper Burner but Nutritive Qi?

A

True

43
Q

Ture or False: Lung, Stomach and Spleen are the primary organs of the Qi Level?

A

True

44
Q

High fever, dark macules, mental restlessness, epistaxis, vomiting blood dark red tongue without coating, wiry-rapid pulse?

A

Blood Level

45
Q

True or False: Lesser Yang is the same as Qi Level is same as Middle Burner?

A

True:

Middle Burner:
Damp-Heat in Spleen

Qi Level:
Gall Bladder Heat & Damp Heat in Stomach/Spleen

Lesser Yang:
Gall Bladder heat but has COLD signs prevaling

46
Q

PT has fever at night, mental confusion, fluctuating consciousness, a feeling of hot, hot hands and cold feet, red and peeled tongue, floating and fine pulse. in the last day his fever changed to low-grade, he developed an eye twitch and had no energy. His tongue is now dark red. What is the progression of the disease?

  1. Qi level to Ying Qi
  2. Upper Burner to Lower Burner
  3. Middle Burner to Lower Burner
  4. Qi Level to Blood Level
A

Answer:
Upper Burner to Lower Burner

Key is to note that the mental restlessness,confusion is due to the pericardium, so it’s “Heat in the Pericardium”

“Heat in the Pericardium” is in is both an Upper Burner symptom and a Ying Qi symptom.

“Peeled tongue” is a Ying Qi symptom.

“Twitching and no energy” refer to liver wind and kidney yang. These are both Lower Burner and Blood Level symptoms.

Since there is no Ying Qi to Blood Level option it has to be #2

47
Q

Tai Yin to Jue Yin transformation symptoms?

A

Cold to Extreme Heat or Extreme Cold

48
Q

Sore throat, aversion to cold with dry skin and nose?

  1. Wind
  2. Wind Cold
  3. Wind Dry
  4. Summer Heat
A
  1. Wind dry
49
Q

True or False:
Rash, cough, thirst, high fever and T: Red with yellow coating?
1. Qi Level Stomach Heat
2. Qi Level Lung Heat

A
  1. Qi Level Lung Heat
50
Q

True or False:

Lesser Yang is similar to the Upper Burner and Nutritive Qi symptoms

A

False: These are similar

Lesser Yang= Gall Bladder Heat

Middle Burner=Damp Heat in Spleen/Yang Ming

Qi Level=GB Heat/ Damp Heat in SP, ST

51
Q
True or False:
These are all Qi Level symptoms:
- Lung Heat
- Stomach Heat
- Intestines Dry Heat
- Gall Bladder Heat
- Damp Heat in Stomach/Spleen
A

True

52
Q
True or False:
These are all Middle Burner symptoms:
- Lung Heat
- Stomach Heat
- Intestines Dry Heat
- Gall Bladder Heat
- Damp Heat in Stomach/Spleen
A

False: ONLY

  • Stomach heat
  • Damp heat in Spleen
53
Q

True or False:

Qi Level GB Heat tongue is red with a unilateral white coat and Shao Yang tongue is red with unilateral yellow coating ?

A

False:

Qi Level GB Heat tongue is red with unilateral yellow coating and Shao Yang tongue is red with a unilateral white coat.

54
Q

True or False:

Shao Yang stage has dampness seen in the sticky tongue coating?

A

False:

Only Qi Level Gall Bladder has Damp Heat shown in the sticky tongue coating

55
Q

True or False:

Qi Level has more Heat than Shao Yang?

A

True

56
Q

A patient began to have alternating hot and cold feelings and a wiry rapid pulse.
Shao Yang or Qi Level?

A

Qi Level as seen in the pulse…Qi Level has more heat

Shao Yang pulse is just Wiry

57
Q

What makes Terminal Yin Stage (Jue Yin) different from Blood Level and Lower Burner?

A

Terminal Yin Stage (Jue Yin) has heat above (energy rising) and cold below (cold, diarrhea).

The other two share signs of liver wind (rigidity, seizures, twitching)

58
Q

True or False:

There is heat and dampness in the Yang Ming Stage?

A

False:

There is heat in both the Yang Ming channel and the organ patterns but not dampness.

59
Q

If signs are all of cold which would it be: Jue Yin or Blood Level?

A

Blood Level, because Jue Yin has heat above

60
Q

Wei Qi is nourished by what Burner?

A

Middle.
Formed in Lower
Spread by Upper

61
Q

Qi condensed in material form is:

  1. Blood
  2. Ji
  3. Essence
  4. Marrow
A
  1. Ji
62
Q

People may suffer from Yang deficiency after sweating because?

  1. Deficienct Kidney Qi
  2. Sweat is tied to defensive Qi
A
  1. Sweat is tied to defensive Qi
63
Q

Wei Qi does not circulate:

  1. In kidney essence
  2. from interior to exterior
A
  1. In kidney essence