Foundations Flashcards
1
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This organ stores the blood, moisten sinews and eyes.
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Liver
2
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Rapidity
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Yang
3
Q
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Above the waist
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Yang
4
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Interior medial surface of limbs
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Yin
5
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Name the Qi Pathology:
Qi is stuck and impending movements
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Qi Stagnation
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Name the Vital Substance:
- It nourishes the body and compliment Qi
- It has a moistening function
- It is the material foundation for the mind
- Determines mentruation
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Xue (Blood)
7
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In the Generating Sequence the element that is being affected by the first element is know as the?
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Son
8
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THis organ produces “Gu Qi”
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Spleen
9
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Produces Energy
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Yang
10
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Water
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Yin
11
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What is the vital substance “Xue”
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Blood
12
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Name the Vital Substance:
- It is derived from food and drink
- Lung provide the upper source
- Kidney provide the lower source
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Jin Ye (Body Fluids)
13
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Back
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Yang
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Name this form of Qi:
- Can be understood as Correcting Qi
- It is an aggrgate of Qi, playing a role of fixing the body from external pathogens (like immune system)
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Upright Qi (Zheng Qi)
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Study notes:
Kidney-Yin nourishes Liver-Blood
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16
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Excitement
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Yang
17
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What vital substance is produced from
Food Qi to the Heart
Kidney Essence in Bone Marow
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Xue (Blood)
18
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Study Notes:
If the Spleen has dampness it can obsrtuct the Kidney
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19
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Study Notes:
If Lung-Qi fails to descend it may impair the physiological rise of Liver-Qi, Lung-Heat may be transmitted to the Liver
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20
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Name the form of Qi:
- Facilitative Qi
- this mediates transportation and transformation of the Qi in the Stomach and Spleen
- it is Ascending Qi
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Central Qi (Zhong Qi)
21
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What are the four main pathology of Qi?
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- Qi Deficiency - Insufficient Qi
- Qi Sinking - Not holding organs in location
- Qi Stagnation - Stuck and impending movements
- Qi Rebellious - Going against natural course of flow
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Study Notes:
Heart Fire can dry up Lungs fluid
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23
Q
Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Substantial
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Yin
24
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Name the vital substance:
Maciocia explains this as composing immaterial aspect air and material aspect rice.
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Qi
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Name this form of Qi:
Food Qi - SP moves it to LU - LU mixes Food Qi (Gu Qi) with air to form this
* It assists LU and HT for breathing and circulation and also helps the throat and speech
* Gathers in the chest called the "Sea of Qi"
Gathering Qi (Zong Qi)
26
What can the book of changed be used to predict?
"The Book of Changed" is used to predict weather and the fate and energy of people.
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Study Notes: Insulting Sequence
Heart-Fire can injure Yin and cause Kidney-Yin deficiency
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Descending
Yin
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Quiet
Yin
30
What is the Five Elements cosmological sequence?
Water - 1
Fire - 2
Wood -3
Metal - 4
Earth - 5
Water - 6
Fire - 7
Wood - 8
Metal - 9
Eath 10
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Which four ways does Qi move?
* Ascends
* Descends
* Exit - coming out toward skin
* Enter - coming inward to organ
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If Yang is below average do we need to tonify or eliminate it?
Tonify
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The four possible ways to affect balance in the Five Element Sequence?
1. It is in excess and over-acts on another along the overacting sequence
2. It is in excesss and draws from its Mother
3. It is deficiant and fails to nourish its Child
4. It is deficient and is insulted by another along the insulting sequence
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Posterior-Lateral surface of limb
Yang
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Structure of organs
Yin
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* This form of essence is refined and extracted from food
* Mainly produced by the stomach and spleen
* it interacts with kidney Essence
Post-Heaven Essence (Jing)
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Function of organs
Yang
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Name the vital substance:
The Lung diffuses this and descends it
Body Fluids (Jin Ye)
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Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Slowness
Yin
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Name four points to describe the "opposition" of Yin and Yang?
* They are always in opppostion
* It's relative opposition not absolute
* Never 50:50, its a dynamic exchange
* Contains the seed of oppotion
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Name the Qi Pathology:
Qi is going against it's natural course of flow
Qi Rebellious
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Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Wet
Yin
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What are the Vital substances (English)
Shen
Qi
Jing
Xue
Jinye
Shen: MInd
Qi: Energy
Jing: Essence
Xue: Blood
Jinye: Fluids
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Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Soft
Yin
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Study Notes: Insulting Sequence
If the kidney fails to tranform fluids, and these accumulate, the may cause dampness to accumulate in the Spleen.
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Fire
Yang
47
What five elements pari with which organs:
Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys
Liver - Wood
Heart - Fire
Spleen - Earth
Lungs - Metal
Kidneys - Water
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The accumulation of this vital substance forms in the body as edema, dampness, phlegm
Body Fluids (Jin Ye)
49
What is the Generating sequence of the Five elements, where one element influences the next?
Wood - Fire - Earth - Metal - Water
50
Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Expansion
Yang
51
Name the vital substance:
* This has two forms, Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven
Essence (Jing)
52
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Qi
Yang
53
Name the Qi Pathology:
Insufficient Qi
Qi Dificiency
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This organ produces blood
Kidney
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Yin Yang is first referenced from what book?
"The Book of Change"
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Blood and body fluids
Yin
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Describe Inter-transformation of Yin and Yang?
At the peak of Yin or Yang, one will start to become the opposition. (similar to day and night)
58
Pair these seasons to the 5 Elements:
Summer, No Season, Autumn, Winter, Spring
Summer: Fire
No Season: Earth
Autumn: Metal
Winter: Water
Spring: Wood
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Pair these movements to the 5 Elements:
Contraction, Stability, Expansion, Downwards, Upwards
Contraction: Metal
Stability: Earth
Expansion: Wood
Downwards: Water
Upwards: Fire
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What is the Insulting sequence of the Five elements?
Earth affects Wood
Wood affects Metal
Metal affects Fire
Fire affects Water
Water affects Earth
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Name the vital substance:
The kidney vapourizes this and sends them to the Lung and provides the heat for all stages
Body Fluids (Jin Ye)
62
Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Energy
Yang
63
Name a common sub branch of "The Book of Change"?
Numerology
64
This is...
* The smallest unit thaty forms the body
* The lightest athereal form of this would be the mind
* The next form of this would be energy/aura
* The heaviest material form would be bloog, fluid and physical from
Qi
65
Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Immaterial
Yang
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Study Notes: Insulting Sequence
If the Lung has Phlegm, this may inpair the circulatikon of Heart-Qi.
67
Name this form of Qi:
Gathering Qi (Zong Qi) mixed with Orginal Qi (Yuan Qi) becomes this...
* It enhances Qi control in the Lungs
* It takes two forms Nutritive (Ying) Qi and Defensive (Wei) Qi
Ture Qi
68
Name this form of Qi:
* It nourishes internal organs and is closely related to blood
* It is formed by True Qi
Ying Qi (Nutritive Qi)
69
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Transformation/Change
Yang
70
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Cold
Yin
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Restless
Yang
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Name the vital substance: Jin or Ye
* Clear, Light, Thin and circulates with the defensive Qi
* Moistens muscles and skin and may become sweat
* Thins blood and improves circulation
"Jin" part of Jin Ye
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Body (opposed to Head)
Yin
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Study Notes:
The Organ Cosmological Sequence:
* Water/Kidneys as the Foundation
* Axis Kidneys - Heart
* Stomach and Spleen as the Centre
* Stomach and Spleen as support for the Heart
* Earth as Center in Cycle of Seasons
* Axis is Essence-Qi-Mind (Jing-Qi-Shen)
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Study notes:
Lung-Qi descends to meet the Kidneys and also sends fluids to the Kidneys
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If Yin is above average do we need to tonify or eliminate it?
Eliminate it
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Exterior
Yang
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Study Notes: Insulting Sequence
Liver fire by ascending may impair the descending of Lung-Qi
79
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Front
Yin
80
What was the purpose of "The Book of Change"?
The purpose of "The Book of Change" is to understang the course of nature, mainly due to agricultural development and preperation.
81
List the function of Qi
* Transform and Transportation - Gu Qi to areas of the body
* Holding - fluids, bolld in proper location
* Raising - Keeps organs in location
* Protecting - against external invasion
* Warming - essential to transport, transform, excrete Yin Original Qi (Yuan Qi) from Kidney Yang
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Below
Yin
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Interior Organs
Yin
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Material
Yin
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Matter
Yin
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Study Notes:
Overacting Liver\_Qi impairs Spleens's transformation and transportation
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What are the Four aspects of Yin and Yang relationship?
* Opposition
* Interdependence
* Mutual Consumption
* Inter-transformation
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Contraction
Yin
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Above
Yang
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Rising
Yang
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Study Notes: Insulting Sequence
If the Spleen has dampness, it may impair the free flow of Liver-Qi
92
Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Generates
Yang
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Name the organ:
Blood is formed through Essence
Essence gets nourishment from blood
Kidney
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Fu Organ
Yang
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What is the Controlling sequence of the Five elements, where one element controls the third element in the sequence?
Wood controls Earth
Earth controls Water
Water controls Fire
Fire controls Metal
Metal controls Wood
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In the Generating Sequence the starting element or referential element is called?
Mother
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This is the essence your are born with and determines your constitution.
It is also closely linked to mingmen (gate of fire) in the kidney.
Pre - Heaven Essence (Jing)
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Nutritive Qi
Yin
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Study notes:
The Spleen provides Gu-Qi to the Lungs, where is forms Zong-Qi
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Dry
Yang
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What does the insulting cycle represent?
Rebellious
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Substantial
Yin
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Head
Yang
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Study notes:
Liver-Blood nourishes Heart-Blood
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Study notes:
Heart-Qi helps the Spleen transformation and transportation
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Name the Qi Pathology:
Qi is deficient and not holding organs in it's location
Qi Sinking
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This vital substance thins and replenishes blood
Body Fluids (Jin Ye)
108
What was interpreted on the back of a horse and on the back of a turtle, also known in chinese as Yi Jing?
The Book of Change
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Name the vital substance:
This can have teo extremities, often reffered to as heaven and earth. It is the basic source of life formation.
Qi
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Name this form of Qi:
* The food processed in the stomach turns into this
* It is the basic source of Qi which our body utilizes to create other Qi
Food Qi (Gu Qi)
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Describe the Interdependence of Yin and Yang?
* One cannot exhist without one another, the balancing theory
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Grows
Yin
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Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Non-Substantial
Yang
114
Name this form of Qi:
* It protects the body from ecternal evil qi
* It promotes sweating when invaded by external evil qi
* It is formed by True Qi
Wei Qi (Defensive Qi)
115
What are the Five Elements?
* Wood
* Fire
* Earth
* Metal
* Water
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Name the Vital Substance:
The spleen transforms and transports pure and impure of this vital substance
Body Fluids (Jin Ye)
117
In line representation whichi has one line and which has two?
Yin -
Yang-
Yin has 2
Yang has 1
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Study Notes:
IF the fluids of the Kidney accumulate pathologically, they impair the function of the Heart.
119
This particular Qi arises from Essence (jing)
* it is the motive force (makes organs work)
* The basis of Kidney-Qi
* It facilitates the transformation of Qi
* It is the conduit for the Triple Burner
* It facilitates the transfromation of Blood
* It comes out at the source points ( Acupoints)
Yuan Qi
120
Name the quality? Yin or Yang:
Produces from
Yin
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What did Chairman Mao ban when he introduced communism?
The Book of Change
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Hard
Yang
123
Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Inhibition
Yin
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Name the quality: Ying or Yang
Conservation/storage/sustainment
Yin
125
Describe Mutual Consumption in in Yin and Yang Theory?
When yin and yang are not in balance one can consume another. In this condition bigger yin or yang will just consume the opposition.
126
Giovani Maciocia describes these as what?
* basic process of NAture
* qualities of natural phenomena
* phases of cycle
* inheret capabilities of change of phenomena
The Five Elements
127
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Below the Waist
Yin
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This organ propels the blood
Lung
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Name the vital substance:
* This is the most subtle and non-material type of Qi
* Often related to the heart
* Blood holds it
Shen (mind)
130
Name the vital substance:
Main function
* Growth, reproduction and development
* Basis of Kidney-Qi
* Producer of Marrow
* Bassis of constitutional strength
* Bassis of the Three Treasures
Essence (Jing)
131
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Non-Substantial
Yang
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Zang organs
Yin
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Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Heat
Yang
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Name the vital substance: Jin or Ye
* Turbid, heavy, dense and circulates with nutritive Qi
* Under control of Kidney and Spleen
* Moistens Joints, spine, brain and bone marrow
"Ye" part of Jin Ye
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This organ forms and distributes blood
Heart
136
Name the quality: Yin or Yang
Defensive Qi
Yang
137
In the controlling sequence the element controlling the mother element is
The Father/Grandparent
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This vital substnce nourishes body fluids
Blood (Xue)
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This essence turns into Kidney jing after puberty.
Pre-Heaven Essence (Jing)
