Energetics 1

Question 1

What is the definition of Energetics?

Answer 1

Flow of energy in the human body

Question 2

How else is the this flow known?

Answer 2

China- Qi
India- prana

Question 3

What is the first basic principle of energetic?

Answer 3

Bridge between modern and ancient. Shortcut to understanding herbs, foods, pathologies and people.

Question 4

How can illness be described as effectic energetics?

Answer 4

Blockage or insufficiency of the vital force.

Question 5

What is the understanding of energetics focused on finding out?

Answer 5

Where the force is blocked or depleted and working to restore this flow.

Question 6

What is the doctrine of Humours?

Answer 6

Name given to Greco- Roman medical tradition.

Question 7

What did Empedocles outline?

Answer 7

4 Elements Air, Fire, Water, Earth.

Question 8

What did Aristotle outline?

Answer 8

5 qualities hot, cold, moist, dry, neutral

Question 9

What did Hippocrates introduce?

Answer 9

4 humours

Question 10

What are the 4 humours?

Answer 10

Blood, yellow bile, phlegm, black bile

Question 11

What are the 5 qualities assigned to each element and humour?

Answer 11

Hot, dry, cold moist and neutral

Question 12

What qualities is the element Air?

Answer 12

Warm moist

Question 13

What body part is the element of air linked to?

Answer 13

Lungs, chest, thorax

Question 14

What qualities is the element fire?

Answer 14

Hot and dry

Question 15

What body part is the element of fire linked to?

Answer 15

Digestive enzyme/ fire of digestion/ muscles {heat generation}

Question 16

What qualities has the element water?

Answer 16

Cold and moist

Question 17

What body part does the element water govern?

Answer 17

Vital fluids/ kidneys/ urinary tract / bladder

Question 18

What qualities does the earth element have?

Answer 18

Dry and cold

Question 19

What areas of the body does Earth govern?

Answer 19

Bone, joints and structures

Question 20

What are the qualities of Heat in the body?

Answer 20

Hot, swollen, tender

Question 21

Examples of the qualities of heat in the body

Answer 21

Inflmmantion, fever, itis

Question 22

Diagnostic: Pluse indicators of heat

Answer 22

Rapid pulse

Question 23

Diagnostic heat: tongue

Answer 23

Red, elongated

Question 24

What good can heat do in the body to pathogens?

Answer 24

Drive out impurities to clear pathogens

Question 25

What are the qualities of cold in the body?

Answer 25

Pale, dark. Inactive

Question 26

Examples of the qualities of cold in pathologies?

Answer 26

Chronic fatigue, hypothermia

Question 27

Diagnostic cold: pulse

Answer 27

Deep and slow

Question 28

Diagnostic, cold, tounge

Answer 28

Dark, purple

Question 29

What good can cold do to tissues in the body?

Answer 29

Binds and tightens

Question 30

What are the qualities of moist in the body?

Answer 30

Lack of tone, respiratory discharge, skin discharge

Question 31

Examples of qualities of moist in pathologies

Answer 31

Phlegm, diarrhoea, Odema

Question 32

Diagnostic moist, pulse

Answer 32

Relaxed, obsecure

Question 33

Diagnostic moist tongue

Answer 33

Wet and coated

Question 34

Good qualities about moist to tissues in the body?

Answer 34

Nourishes and lubricates tissues

Question 35

What are the qualities of dry n the body?

Answer 35

Withered, atrophy , weak

Question 36

What are example of dry qualities in pathologies

Answer 36

Dry skin, loss muscle mass, osteroprosis

Question 37

Diagnostic dry pulse

Answer 37

Weak, tense

Question 38

Diagnostic dry tongue

Answer 38

Dry

Question 39

Why was the quality of neutral prized in hippocratic medicine?

Answer 39

Equal and perfect balance

Question 40

Why were the 4 humours conceived?

Answer 40

4 fluids that match the 4 elements which permeate the body and influence health

Question 41

What are the four humours (including the linked element)

Answer 41

Blood (air) Sanguine Yellow bile (fire) choleric Phlegm (water) phlegmatic Black bile (earth) melancholic

Question 42

What element does blood/ sanguin link to?

Answer 42

Air

Question 43

What season does Sanguine link to? (Think S)

Answer 43

Spring

Question 44

Where does Sanguine come out of balance?

Answer 44

Over consumption. Lots of blood but low quality. Weight gain.

Question 45

How can you improve sanguine

Answer 45

Red berries, minimise consumption of rich foods

Question 46

What element links to yellow bile / choleric

Answer 46

Fire

Question 47

What season does choleric link to ?

Answer 47

Summer

Question 48

Personal traits of choleric people?

Answer 48

Action lead

Question 49

Signs yellow bile/ choleric out of balance

Answer 49

Hot constitution. Eczema. Indigestion. Heartburn. Over stimulated when sleeping.

Question 50

Treatment for choleric people

Answer 50

Cool foods. Juice. Calm atmosphere. Bitter tonics

Question 51

What element in phlegm

Answer 51

Water

Question 52

What season is phlegm

Answer 52

Autumn

Question 53

Signs phlegm is out of balance in the body

Answer 53

Cold and wet conditions. Reoccurring coughs , excess mucous, Catarrha. Lymph stagnation

Question 54

Treatment for phlegm out of balance

Answer 54

Avoid cold foods. Promoted stimulating drying herbs, ginger, cayenne, garlic, black pepper

Question 55

What element does black bile link to?

Answer 55

Earth

Question 56

What season links to black bile

Answer 56

Winter

Question 57

Signs black bile is out of balance in the body

Answer 57

Harder to clear. Nervous humour.

Question 58

Treatment for black bile

Answer 58

Avoid foods hard on digestion. Nourish blood foods berries, spinach

Question 59

What were some methods of treatment for hum oral medicine?

Answer 59

Blood letting and purging

Question 60

In addition to physicians intervention what else had to be done?

Answer 60

Sleep, diet, exercise, excretions, emotions