Eye, Nose, Ear, Mouth, Teeth, Throat Signs TCM Flashcards
(98 cards)
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What does it mean when:
The eyes are dull or clouded
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mind disturbance, weakened five organs, emotional problem
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What does it mean when:
The corner of the eye is red
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heart fire
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What does it mean when:
The corners of the eye are dull-white
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heat
4
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What does it mean when:
The corners of the eye are pale white
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blood def
5
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What does it mean when:
The sclera is red
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Lung heat
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What does it mean when:
The sclera is yellow
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damp heat
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What does it mean when:
The whole eye is red, painful and swollen
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wind heat or Liver fire
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What does it mean when:
there is swelling under the eyes
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Kidney def
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What does it mean when:
Grey and scattered spots, like clouds
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injuries causing qi stagnation
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What does it mean when:
there are black spots surrounded by a grey cloud like halo
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qi and blood injuries
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What does it mean when:
there are red veins clearly visible and are spiral shaped
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pain
12
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The corner of the eye represents the…
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heart
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The upper eyelid represents the….
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spleen
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The lower eyelid represents the…
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stomach
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The sclera represents the…
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lung
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The iris represents the…
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liver
17
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The pupil represents the…
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kidney
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When the nose is green or blue at the tip that represents….
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abdominal pain from SP cold
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When the nose has a yellow tip that represents….
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SP damp heat
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When the nose has a white tip that represents….
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blood def
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When the nose has a red tip that represents….
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impairment of water movement
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When the nose is slightly moist and shiny that represents….
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good prognosis
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When the nose is dry that represents….
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Stomach or large intestine heat
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When the nose is dry and black that represents….
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toxic heat
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When the nose has clear and watery discharge that represents....
cold pattern
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When the nose has a thick yellow discharge that represents....
heat pattern
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When the nose is flaring at the nostrils with a high fever that represents....
extreme lung heat
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When the ears are white that represents....
cold pattern
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When the ears are bluish/dark that represents....
pain
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When the ears are dry, withered with dark ear lobes that represents....
Kidney qi/yin exhaustion
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When the ears are shiny with moist ear lobes that represents....
good prognosis
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When the ears are dry with withered ear lobes that represents....
poor prognosis
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When the ears are swelling and there is pain in the middle of the ear that represents....
heat in the shao yang channels (triple heater and gallbladder)
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When the ears are thin that represents....
qi or blood def
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When the ears are long with a full lobe that represents....
a strong constitution
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When the ears lobes are small that represents....
poor constitution
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When the mouth and lips are pale red, moist and shiny that represents....
normal, good state of spleen
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When the mouth and lips are pale that represents....
yang or blood def
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When the mouth and lips are red and dry that represents....
stomach/spleen heat
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When the mouth and lips are purple/blueish that represents....
blood stasis
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When the mouth and lips are slightly open that represents....
an empty pattern
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When a person is breathing via the mouth that represents....
lung qi def
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When there is a slightly green color around the mouth that represents....
liver blood stasis or qi stagnation
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When the teeth and gums are swollen and painful that represents....
stomach heat
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When the teeth and gums are swollen but not painful that represents....
stomach empty heat
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When the teeth and gums are pale that represents....
blood def
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When the teeth and gums are moist that represents....
good kidney health
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When the teeth and gums are dry that represents....
kidney yin def
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When the teeth and gums are bright and very dry that represents....
heat in the yang ming (stomach and large intestine channels)/febrile disease
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When the teeth and gums are dry and grey that represents....
empty heat from kidney yin def
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When the pharynx is deep red that represents....
heat (can be either interior or exterior)
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When the pharynx/throat is pale red that represents....
empty heat
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When the pharynx is red, swollen with acute pain that represents....
invasion of wind heat
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When the pharynx is red, swollen with chronic pain that represents....
lung/kidney yin def with empty heat
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When the pharynx is red, swollen and eroded that represents....
full heat in stomach and intestines
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When the pharynx is swollen, yellow/red and eroded that represents....
toxic heat
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When the pharynx is presenting chronic erosion that come and goes that represents....
empty heat
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When the pharynx has chronic dryness and erosion with greyish ulcers that represents....
severe yin def
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When the pharynx has chronic erosion with raised ulcers that represents....
blood stasis with phlegm heat
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When the tonsils are swollen with normal color that represents....
damp/phlegm retention with qi def
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When the tonsils are chronically red and swollen that represents....
heat or toxic heat in the stomach/large intestine channels
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When the tonsils are acutely red and swollen that represents....
invasion of wind heat w/ accompanying toxic heat
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When the tonsils are chronically red and swollen that represents....
chronic heat in stomach/large intestine channels or empty heat in the lung channel
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When the tonsils are acutely red, swollen with exudate that represents....
wind heat, complicated by toxic heat in stomach/large intestine channels
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When the tonsils are greyish that represents....
acute stage of glandular fever (mononucleosis)
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When the limbs are swollen this can indicate...
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damp bi
damp heat (when joints are red and hot to touch)
damp bi with liver blood def
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Symptoms of lung yang def edema include...
pitting edema in the hands
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Symptoms of kidney yang def edema include...
pitting edema in the feet
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Symptoms of spleen yang def edema include...
pitting edema in the four limbs
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Symptoms of damp edema include...
edema of the four limbs (can be damp heat or cold)
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Symptoms of qi stagnation edema include...
edema of the four limbs, non-pitting
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Symptoms of wind-water invading the lung edema include...
acute edema of the hands and face
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When the limbs are flaccid this can indicate...
lung heat injuring body fluids
spleen and stomach damp heat
spleen and stomach deficiency
kidney yin deficiency
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When the limbs are rigid this can indicate...
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invasion of external wind
liver yang rising
liver wind (elderly)
bi syndrome with damp and phlegm (when accompanied by swelling and pain in the joint)
phlegm with internal wind in the channels (inability to flex the joints)
Blood stasis (rigidity accompanied by pain in joints/muscles that is worse at night)
Liver and kidney yin def
Spleen and kidney yang def
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When the limbs are paralyzed this can indicate...
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spleen and stomach def
qi and blood def
liver and kidney yin def
dampness in the muscles
blood stasis
phlegm and internal wind in the channels
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When the limbs are in a state of contraction can indicate...
invasion of wind (acute)
dampness in the muscles
heat injuring the fluids in the muscles
liver blood or yin def
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When the hands have tremors, this indicates...
liver wind
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When the four limbs in elderly patients have tremors this indicates...
liver wind and phlegm affecting the channels
| liver/kidney yin def
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When there is a fine tremor in the limbs of women, this indicates...
liver wind deriving from blood def
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When there is a mild, fine tremor of the limbs this can indicate...
general qi and blood def
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When the limbs are spastic this can be indicative of...
blood level in warm febrile diseases causing yin depletion and leads to liver wind
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When the thenar eminence has bluish venules this indicates...
stomach cold
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When the thenar eminence has blueish and short venules this indicates...
empty pattern
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When the thenar eminence has red venules this indicates...
stomach heat
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When the thenar eminence has purple venules this indicates...
stomach blood stasis
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Dry skin indicates...
liver blood def
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Itchy skin indicates...
wind
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Pitting edema indicates...
kidney yang def
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Non-pitting edema indicates...
Qi stagnation
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Bright yellow skin indicates...
yang jaundice from damp heat
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Dull yellow skin indicates...
yin jaundice from cold damp
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Red venules in skin indicates...
heat in the blood
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Purple venules in the skin indicates...
blood stasis
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Green venules in the skin indicate...
pain
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Blue venules in the skin indicate...
cold in the blood
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Papules (red raised spots) in the skin indicate...
heat in the lung/stomach
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Vesicles (yellow/clear raised spots) in the skin indicate...
dampness
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Macules (flat discolored area of skin) on the skin indicate...
blood level disharmony (red: blood heat, purple: blood stasis, bluish: blood cold)
