Applying yin and yang in tongue and pulse

Question 1

Is this a yin or yang deficiency?

Answer 1

Yin deficiency: Absence of tongue coating, and signs of empty heat?

Question 2

Is this a yin or yang deficiency?

Answer 2

Yang deficiency: pale tongue body colour, coating dependent on accumulation of dampness

Question 3

What does a yin-deficient pulse look like?

Answer 3

Fast, thin pulse

Question 4

What does a Yang deficient pulse look like?

Answer 4

deep, slow, weak pulse

Question 5

What is the order and the names of the pulse positions?

Answer 5

Cun: closest to the wrist before guan (superficial)
Guan: second position (opposite of styloid process (middle)
Chi: Proximal to the elbow (deep)

Question 6

What organ is the chi associated with on each radial pulse?

Answer 6

Kidney

Question 7

What organ is each guan associated with on each radial pulse?

Answer 7

R- spleen
L- Liver

Question 8

What organ is the cun associated with on each radial pulse?

Answer 8

R- Lung
L- Heart

Question 9

Study pulse positions:

Question 10

Is this a yin or yang excess?

Answer 10

Yang excess

Question 11

Is this a yin or yang excess?

Answer 11

Yang excess

Question 12

Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

Answer 12

Yin excess

Question 13

Yin or yang excess or deficiency?

Answer 13

Yang deficiency

Question 14

Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

Answer 14

Yin deficiency

Question 15

Yin or yang deficiency or excess?

Answer 15

Yang deficiency

Question 16

What order is the generating cycle?

Answer 16

Fire creates earth
earth creates metal
metal creates water
water creates wood
wood creates fire

Question 17

What is the controlling cycle?

Answer 17

Fire controls metal
metal controls wood
wood controls earth
Earth controls water
water controls fire

Question 18

What does the insulting cycle entail?

Answer 18

When an element backlashes it’s controller.

Question 19

what yin and yang organs are associated with the fire element?

Answer 19

YIn: Heart
Yang: Pericardium, san jiao (triple warmer)

Question 20

What yin and yang organ is associated with metal?

Answer 20

YIn: lung
Yang: large intestine

Question 21

What yin and yang organ is associated with earth?

Answer 21

Yin: Spleen
Yang: stomach

Question 22

What yin and yang organs is associated with water?

Answer 22

Yin: Kidney
Yang: Urinary bladder

Question 23

What yin and yang organs are associated with wood?

Answer 23

YIn: liver
Yang: gallbladder

Question 24

Are these yin or yang organs?

Answer 24

Yin organs

Question 25

What are the five elements used for?

Answer 25

Explain the properties of the organs, their mutual relationship, and pathological changes.

Question 26

What are the elemental qualities of the wood?

Answer 26

can be bent and straightened (workable and solid)

Question 27

What are the elemental qualities of earth?

Answer 27

Permits sowing , growing, and reaping (nutrition)

Question 28

What are the elemental qualities if metal?

Answer 28

can be molded and hardened (solid and moldable)

Question 29

What are the elemental qualities of water?

Answer 29

moistens downwards (fluid and moveable)

Question 30

What are the elemental qualities of fire?

Answer 30

Flares upwards (combustible and warming)

Question 31

Wood creates fire from what?

Answer 31

burning

Question 32

fire creates earth from what?

Answer 32

ashes

Question 33

Earth creates metal by what?

Answer 33

hardening

Question 34

Metal creates water by what?

Answer 34

containing

Question 35

Water creates wood by what?

Answer 35

nourishing

Question 36

Fire controls metal by what?

Answer 36

melting

Question 37

Metal controls wood by what?

Answer 37

cutting

Question 38

wood controls earth by what?

Answer 38

shading/covering

Question 39

Earth controls water by what?

Answer 39

damming

Question 40

Water controls fire by what?

Answer 40

extinguishing

Question 41

When the controller is in excess relative to the controlled, pathology will exist in the what?

Answer 41

the controlled

Question 42

When the controller is in deficiency relative to the controlled, pathology will exist in what?

Answer 42

the controller

Question 43

When does backlashing occur?

Answer 43

When the controller is relatively weaker than the controlled.

Question 44

What is the elemental directions of each element?

Answer 44

fire: upward water: downward earth: central Wood: expansion Metal: contraction

Question 45

Which season goes with which element?

Answer 45

fire: summer water: winter metal: fall wood: spring Earth: late summer or last 18 days of every season

Question 46

What conditions can occur when an element is deficient?

Answer 46

1) fail to nourish the child on the generating cycle 2) allow an insult to occur on itself by creating relative excess (yin deficiency and heat symptoms)

Question 47

What conditions can occur when an element is in excess?

Answer 47

1) Draw excessively from the mother 2) Over-act on the controlling cycle (Yang excess causing dry symptoms)

Question 48

Name the organs, emotion, sense, taste, and season of fire.

Answer 48

Organs: heart (yin), small intestine/pericardium/san jiao (yang) emotions: Joy & anxiety sense: speech and taste Taste: bitter Season: summer

Question 49

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, sense, taste, season, and climate of earth.

Answer 49

Organs; spleen (yin), stomach (yang) Secretion: Saliva Emotions: pensiveness, overthinking Flavor: Sweet Sense: taste Season: late summer or the last two weeks of each season climate: moist & thunderous

Question 50

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, sense, taste, and season of metal.

Answer 50

Organs: lung (yin), large intestine(yang) secretion: mucous Emotions: sadness & grief Sense: smell Taste: pungent Season: autumn

Question 51

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, flavor, sense, and season of water.

Answer 51

Organs: Kidney (yin), urinary bladder(yang) secretion: urine Emotions: fear & shock Flavor: Salty sense: hearing season: winter

Question 52

Name the organs, secretion, emotion, flavor, sense, and season of wood.

Answer 52

Organs: liver (yin), gall bladder (yang) secretions: tears Emotions: anger & jealousy Flavor: sour Sense: vision Season: spring

Question 53

Study the element chart:

Answer 53

study study study

Question 54

What element generates water element?

Answer 54

Metal

Question 55

What element does the wood element generate?

Answer 55

fire

Question 56

What element is generated by the spleen?

Answer 56

Earth

Question 57

What element commands the metal element?

Answer 57

Fire

Question 58

What element is commanded by water?

Answer 58

fire

Question 59

What element is commanded by the heart?

Answer 59

fire

Question 60

What element insults fire element?

Answer 60

Metal

Question 61

What element is insulted by the earth element?

Answer 61

Wood

Question 62

What element insults the kidneys?

Answer 62

Fire