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1
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What describes the meaning of the Tao?

A
  • The Way
  • The One
2
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What are the 4 aspects of Yin Yang Relationship?

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  1. OPPOSITION - relative opposition containing seed of the opposite
  2. INTERDEPENDANCE - they cannot exist without each other
  3. MUTUALLY CONSUMING - when one is out of balance it affects the other
  4. INTERTRANSFORMATIONAL - they convert into each other
3
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What are the Yin Yang Correspondences?

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  • YANG: light, sun, brightness, activity, heaven, round, time, east, south, left, immaterial, produces energy, generates, non-substantial, energy, expansion, raising, above, fire
  • YIN: darkness, moon, shade, rest, earth, flat, space, west, north, right, material, produces form, grows, substantial, matter, contraction, descending, below, water
4
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Describe the 4 seasons in terms of Yin & Yang.

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  • SPRING: yang within yin - growth of yang
  • SUMER: yang within yang - maximum yang
  • AUTUMN: yin within yang - growth of yin
  • WINTER: yin within yin - maximum yin
5
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Describe the Mutual Consuming of Yin & Yang.

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  • Excess of Yin = FULL COLD
  • Excess of Yang = FULL HEAT
  • Deficiency of Yang (Consumption) = EMPTY COLD or FALSE COLD
  • Deficiency of Yin (Consumption) = EMPTY HEAT or FALSE HEAT
6
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Is it easier to eliminate excess or boost deficiency?

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Eliminate excess.

7
Q

What are the 5 elements according to TCM?

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  • Wood
  • Fire
  • Earth
  • Metal
  • Water
8
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What are the 4 elemental sequences?

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  • GENERATING = water, wood, fire, earth, metal
  • CONTROLLING = water, fire, metal, wood, earth
  • OVER-ACTING = water, fire, metal, wood, earth
  • INSULTING = water, earth, wood, metal, fire
9
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What are the MOVEMENTS associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - expansion
  • Fire - upwards
  • Earth - center point, stability
  • Metal - contraction
  • Water - downwards
10
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What are the TASTES associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - sour
  • Fire - bitter
  • Earth - sweet
  • Metal - pungent
  • Water - salty
11
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What are the SEASONS associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - spring
  • Fire - summer
  • Earth - late season, no season
  • Metal - autumn
  • Water - winter
12
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What are the COLORS associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - green
  • Fire - red
  • Earth - yellow
  • Metal- white
  • Water black
13
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What are the ORGANS associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood = LV, GB
  • Fire = HT, SI (PI, SJ)
  • Earth = SP, ST
  • Metal = LU, LI
  • Water - KD, UB
14
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What EMOTIONS are associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - anger
  • Fire - joy
  • Earth - pensiveness
  • Metal - sadness, greif
  • Water - fear
15
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What SOUNDS are associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - shouting
  • Fire - laughing
  • Earth - singing
  • Metal - crying
  • Water - groaning
16
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What are the CLIMATES associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - wind
  • Fire - heat
  • Earth - dampness
  • Metal - dryness
  • Water - cold
17
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What are the TISSUES associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - sinews
  • Fire - vessels
  • Earth - muscles
  • Metal - skin
  • Water - bones
18
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What are the SENSE ORGANS associated with the 5 elements?

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  • Wood - eyes
  • Fire - tongue
  • Earth - mouth
  • Metal - nose
  • Water - ears
19
Q

Describe manifestations of DEFICIENT YIN.

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insomnia, nigth sweats, 5 palm heat, low grade fever

20
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Describe manifestations of DEFICIENT YANG.

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cold, always need scarf, want to curl up at home, low blabido, edema (no heat to move the water)

21
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Describe manifestations of EXCESS YANG.

A

fever, heat, restlessness

22
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Describe manifestations of EXCESS YIN.

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cold, shivering, blue, cramps due to cold, damp (candida/yeast), thigh tongue coating, dense… gas, bloating, vaginal discharge

23
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What are the 5 vital substances?

A
  • Qi
  • Blood (Xue)
  • Essence (Jing)
  • Body Fluids (Jin, Yi)
  • Mind (Shen)
24
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What is Qi?

A
  • a manifestation of energy
  • inanimate or non-substantial
  • connected to funcational ability of organs
  • comes into body in form of food/fluids
25
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What is Post-Heaven Essence?

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  • what you get from food, fluid, activity
  • how you live your life
  • stomach & spleen are root of this
26
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What is Post-Heaven Essence?

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  • what you get from food, fluid, activity
  • how you live your life
  • stomach & spleen are root of this
27
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What is Kidney Essence?

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  • derived from pre & post heaven essence
  • determins growth, reproduction, developement, sexual maturation, conception, pregnancy, menopause, and ageing
  • has to turn into kidney qi for body to use it
  • essence + kidney yin are similair
  • kidney yang turns into kidney qi
28
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What is Kidney Yang?

A

Ming Meng Fire

29
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What is Essence?

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Jing

  • something that is refined or distilled
  • refers to pre-heaven, post-heaven & kidney essence
30
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What is Origional Qi?

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Yuan Qi

  • related to kidney essence - essence in the form of qi
  • origionates between 2 kidneys
  • derrived from pre-heaven essence
  • replenished by post-heaven qi
  • related to the gate of life (ming men)
  • foundation for all yin & yang energies
  • motive force that moves funcational activity of organs
  • helps transformation of gathering qi (zong qi) into true qi (zhen qi)
  • helps transformation of food qi (gu qi) into blood
  • comes out of yuan source points
31
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What are the 3 TREASURES?

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  • Mind (heart - heaven)
  • Qi (stomach, spleen - person)
  • Essence (kidneys - earth)
32
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What are the fucntions of Kidney Essence?

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  1. determines growth, reproduction & developement
  2. basis of Kidney-Qi
  3. produces Marrow
  4. basis of constitution
  5. foundation of the 3 treasures
33
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What is Defensive Qi?

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Wei Qi

  • has root in lower burner (kidnesys), nourished by middle burner (stomach/spleen), and spread outward in the upper burner (lungs)
  • coarse form of qi
  • circulates in the couli space
  • protects the body from invasion by external pathogens
  • warms the muscles
  • regulates opening & closing of pores
34
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What is Nutritive Qi?

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Ying Qi

  • nourishes the internal organs
  • closely linked to blood
  • flows in channels & blood vessels
35
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What is True Qi?

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Zhen Qi

  • originates from gathering qi
  • origionates from lunges
  • assumes two forms (nutritive & devensive qi)
36
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What is Gathering Qi?

A

Zong Qi

  • nourishes the heart and lungs
  • enhances and promotes lung fucntion of controling qi and respiration + heart function of goveringing blood & vessels
  • controls speach and strength of voice
37
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What is Upright Qi?

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Zheng Qi

  • umbrella term for all types of qi that play a role in the defense of the bofy from invasion from external pathogens: wei qi, ying qi, kidney essence
38
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What is Central Qi?

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Zhong Qi

  • true qi of ST/SP
  • the SP function of transformation & transportation
  • the SP fucntion of raising qi
39
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What is Food Qi?

A

Gu Qi

  • originates from stomach and sleepn
  • origin of qi and blood
  • rises to the chest where (in the lungs) it combines with air to form gathering qi (zong qi)
  • rises to the chest where (in the heart) it is transformed into blood
40
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What are the 6 fucntions of Qi?

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  1. transforming
  2. transporting
  3. holding
  4. raising
  5. protecting
  6. warming
41
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What are the functions of Blood?

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  1. nourishes the body
  2. circulates with nutritive qi
  3. moistens the body
  4. houses the mind
  5. determines menstruation

MAIN FUNCTION IS TO NOURISH!

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What is the relationship between Blood & Qi?

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  • Qi generates blood (makes it)
  • Qi moves blood
  • Qi holds blood in place
  • Blood is the mother of Qi (Qi relies on blood for nourishment)
43
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What are the 4 Qi pathologies?

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  1. Deficient - low energy, lack of activity or organ (diet/overwork)
  2. Sinking - prolapse
  3. Stagnant - pain, discomfort, stress (less severe than blood stagnantion)
  4. Rebellious - move in wrong drirection - cough, vomit, etc.
44
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What are the 3 blood pathologies?

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  1. Deficient - annemia
  2. Heat - hemorate
  3. Stasis - pain (clot, tumor)
45
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What are the two types of body fluids?

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  1. JIN FLUIDS = move quickly, moisten, norush, thin blood out and prevent stasis - sweat, tears, salaiva, mucous (defensive qi exterior)
  2. YI LIQUIDS = turbid, heavey, dense - moisten joints, spine, brain, bone marrow (nutritive qi interior)

THEY MOISTEN (DO NOT NOURISH)!

46
Q

What are 2 fluid pathologies?

A
  1. Excess (accumulation) - edema
  2. Deficient - dryness
47
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What are the fucntions of the mind?

A

Shen is the most subtle of all vitabl substances.

  • consciousness
  • thinking
  • memory
  • insight
  • cognition
  • sleep
  • intelligence
  • wisdom
  • ideas
  • affections
  • feelings
  • senses
48
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Where is the Shen housed?

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In the heart = all emotions adfec the heart.

  • Wood - anger
  • Fire - joy
  • Metal - saddness
  • Water - fear
  • Earth - pensiveness
49
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Describe the pathway of Qi in the body.

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  1. Have food (ie apple)
  2. Chew & swallow to ST
  3. Transformed by SP = Gu Qi (Food)
  4. Mix with Air from LU = Zong Qi (Gathering)
  5. Go to HT = transformed into Blood
  6. Origional Qi (Yuan) mixes with Gathering Qi (Zong) to become True Qi (Zhen)
  7. Zhen Qi becomes Wei (Defensive) and Ying (Nutritive) Qi