OM Diagnosis Part 1 Flashcards by Bán Lại

Cause of Pain: Qi Stagnation

distension/bloating more than pain, distending pain, no fixed location, comes and goes

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Cause of Pain: Liver-Yang rising

chronic headaches with a distending, throbbing pain

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Cause of Pain: Blood stagnation

severe, boring or stabbing pain, fixed location

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Cause of Pain: Cold

cramping, spastic pain

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Cause of Pain: Damp-heat

burning pain with fullness and heaviness

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Cause of Pain: External wind

occipital headache and stiffness

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Cause of Pain: External dampness

pain in the joints or epigastrium

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Cause of Pain: Retention of food

intense pain with feeling of fullness

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Cause of Pain: Phlegm

Joints pain like in Rheumatoid arthritis

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Types of pain: Soreness, dull ache

Deficiency (four limbs or trunk) or Dampness

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Types of pain: Heaviness

Dampness or Phlegm (limbs, head, or whole body)

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Types of pain: Distending

Qi Stagnation (hypochondrium, epigastrium, lower abdomen, chest, head)

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Types of pain: Fullness

Retention of Food (epigastrium, lower abdomen)

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Types of pain: Emptiness

Qi and Blood Deficiency or Kidney Deficiency, (head)

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Types of pain: Feeling of Cold

Cold or Yang Deficiency (abdomen or limbs)

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Types of pain: Burning

Heat or Empty-heat (epigastrium or limbs)

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Types of pain: Sharp, cramping

Cold or Blood stasis (epigastrium, lower abdomen)

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Types of pain: Spastic

Liver Blood Deficiency with Liver Qi stagnation (limbs, abdomen), Liver Yang rising (head)

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Types of pain: Stuffiness

Spleen Deficiency with Heat or Phlegm (chest, epigastrium)

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Types of pain: Pushing

Qi Stagnation (hypochondrium, epigastrium)

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Types of pain: Pulling

Liver Wind (head)

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Types of pain: Cutting

Blood Stasis (lower abdomen)

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Types of pain: Throbbing

Liver Yang rising (head)

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Types of pain: Boring

Blood stasis (head, chest, hypochondrium, epigastrium, lower abdomen)

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Types of pain: Lurking (latent, hidden pain)

Qi and Blood Deficiency or Empty-cold (abdomen, lower back)

Time of Pain: Daytime pain

Dysfunction of Qi or Blood

Time of Pain: Night-time pain

Yin Deficiency or Blood Stagnation

Time of Pain: Intermittent pain

Qi Deficiency or Qi Stagnation

Time of Pain: Constant pain

Blood stasis

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Deficiency Stomach

Slight epigastric discomfort, dull, slight pain improved by eating, poor appetite

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Deficiency Spleen

Poor appetite, slight abdominal distension, loose stools

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Stagnation Stomach

Epigastric distension

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Rebellious Stomach

Hiccup, belching, nausea, vomiting

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Qi Rebellious Spleen

Loose stools, diarrhea

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Blood Stasis Stomach

Stabbing. fixed epigastric pain, vomiting of blood

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Blood Stasis Spleen

Stabbing, fixed abdominal pain, blood in stools

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Dampness Stomach

A feeling of fullness and heaviness of the epigastrium, sticky taste, poor appetite

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Dampness Spleen

A feeling of fullness and heaviness of the abdomen

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Phlegm Stomach

A feeling of oppression of the epigastrium, sticky taste, nausea, poor appetite

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Retention of Food Stomach

A feeling of fullness and pain of the epigastrium, sour regurgitation, nausea, poor appetite

Main Pattern of Digestive Symptoms: Retention of Food Spleen

A feeling of fullness and pain of the abdomen

Digestive symptoms: Condition Relieved by Eating

Deficiency pattern

Digestive symptoms: Condition Aggravated by Eating

Excess pattern

Digestive symptoms: Feeling of fulness

Dampness or retention of food

Digestive symptoms: Feeling of Distention

Liver Qi stagnation

Digestive symptoms: Feeling of heaviness

Dampness

Digestive symptoms: Feeling of stuffiness

deficiency with heat or phlegm

Digestive symptoms: Preference of Hot Foods/Drinks

Cold pattern

Digestive symptoms: Preference of Cold Foods/Drinks

Heat pattern

Digestive symptoms: Alleviated by drinking warm liquids, aggravated by cold

Cold in Stomach and Spleen

Digestive symptoms: Alleviated by drinking cold liquids, aggravated by warm

Stomach Heat

Digestive symptoms: Inability to Digest Fats

Dampness in Gallbladder

Normal appetite

Good state of Stomach and Spleen

Lack of appetite

Spleen Qi or Stomach Qi Deficiency or Dampness in Middle burner

Aversion to food

Food poisoning, Retention of food, Dampness in the middle burner, Rebellious Qi of the penetrating vessel (in pregnancy)

Excessive hunger

stomach heat

Excessive hunger without desire to eat

damp heat in stomach or stomach yin deficiency with empty heat

Lack of taste sensation

spleen and stomach deficiency, dampness in middle burner

Bitter taste (constant)

Full-heat in liver or gallbladder

Bitter Taste in Morning

Full-heat in Heart

Sour Taste

retention of food or liver invading stomach

Salty Taste

kidney yin deficiency

Pungent Taste

Lung Heat

Sticky Taste

Dampness

Mild nausea

Stomach Qi Deficiency

Severe nausea/vomiting

Rebellious Stomach Qi

Sour vomiting

Liver Invading to Stomach

Bitter vomiting

liver and/ or gallbaldder heat

Vomiting of Fluids

Stomach Empty condition

Clear watery vomit

Cold in Stomach

Vomiting soon after eating

heat in stomach

Vomiting some hours after eating

cold or empty condition

Loud Bleching

Excess Pattern

Quiet Bleching

Deficiency pattern

Belching with Distention

Stagnant Liver Qi invading the Stomach

Bleching with sour regurgitation

Retention of food

Sour regurgitation with acidity rising

Stagnant Liver Qi invading the Stomach

Sour regurgitation with feeling of fullness

retention of food or dampness in the stomach

Constipation: Aggravation of a condition after bowel movement

Deficiency Pattern

Constipation: alleviated of a conditon after a bowel movement

Excess Pattern

Constipation: Acute constipation with thirst and dry yellow coating

Heat in Stomach and Intestine

Constipation: Old people or women after child birth

Blood Deficiency

Constipation: with small, dry, bitty stools like goar's stool

Liver-Qi stagnation, Heat in Intestine

Constipation: difficulty in performing a bowel movement (No dry stool)

Liver-Qi Stagnation

Constipation with abdominal pain

excess or deficiency pattern

Constipation with dry stools, dry mouth, desire to drink in small sips

Yin Deficiency in Kidney/Stomach

Alternation of constipation and diarrhea

Liver Qi stagnation invading the Spleen

Chronic loose stools/diarrhea

Spleen and /or Kidney Yang deficiency

Chronic diarrhea every day in the very early morning

Kidney Yang deficiency

Loose stools with undigested food

Spleen Qi deficiency

Stools not loose or only slightly loose but very frequent, can't hold

Deficiency of Central Qi with sinking of Spleen Qi

Diarrhea with abdominal pain

Liver Qi Stagnation, Cold or Damp-heat

Diarrhea with mucus

Dampness in the Intestines

Diarrhea with blood

Damp-heat in the Intestines or Spleen Qi deficiency

Acute Diarrhea

External Dampness

Undigested food in the stools

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Blood comes first, is turbid and the anus feels heavy and painful

Damp-Heat

Stools come first and then watery blood

deficient Spleen Qi unable to hold blood

Pain accompanying diarrhea

Liver involvement or Heat

Burning sensation in the anus while passing stools

Heat pattern

Sticky stools

Dampness in Intestines

Stools like small pellets

liver qi stagnation

Long and thin stools like pencils

spleen qi deficiency

Stool color light brown

Normal

Stool color Pale Yellow

Empty-heat

Color of stool Dark Yellow

Full-heat

Color of Stool Dark

Heat

Color of Stool Pale

Cold

Color of Stool Green

Liver Qi invading Spleen

Color of Stool Red

Large Intestine heat or Spleen Qi Deficiency

Color of Stool Greenish Blue

Cold in Large intestine

Color of Stool Black of very dark stools

Stasis of Blood

Color of Stool Bright-red blood before stools

Blood-heat

Color of Stool Turbid Blood before stools

Damp-heat

Odour of stools: Absence of smell

Cold pattern or Normal

Odour of stools: Foul smelling of stools

Heat or Damp-heat

Odour of stools: Sour smell

Disharmony of Liver and Spleen

Odour of stools: Borborygmi with loose stools

Spleen deficiency

Odour of stools: Borborygmi with abdominal distention and without loose stools

Liver Qi Stagnation

Odour of stools: Flatulence

Liver Qi stagnation

Odour of stools: Flatulence with foul smell

Damp-heat in the Spleen or Heat in Intestines

Odour of stools: Flatulence without smell

Interior cold from Spleen Yang Deficiency

Urine Function: Enuresis or incontinence of urine

Kidney deficiency

Urine Function: Retention of urine

Dampness in the Bladder or Lung-qi deficiency

Urine Function: Difficulty in urination

Dampness in the Bladder or Kidney deficiency

Urine Function: Urination at night

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Pain before urination

Qi stagnation in Lower burner

Pain during urination

Damp Heat in the Bladder

Pain after urination

Qi deficiency

Pale urine

Cold pattern, usually of Bladder and Kidneys

Dark urine

Heat pattern

Turbid or Cloudy urine

dampness in bladder

Copious, clear and pale urination during an exterior invasion of Wind-cold or Wind-heat

Pathogenic factor has not penetrated into the interior

Dark urination during an exterior invasion of Wind-cold or Wind-heat

Pathogenic factor in interior

Very frequent and copious urination

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Frequent and scanty urination

Qi deficiency

Scanty and dark urine

kidney yin deficiency

Absence of thirst

cold pattern, usually of the stomach or spleen

Thirst, desire to drink large amounts of Cold water

Full-heat pattern

Thirst, desire to drink small sips

stomach/ kidney yin deficiency with empty heat

Thirst, desire to drink, immediately followed by vomiting of fluids

Phlegm-heat

Thirst, no desire to drink

Damp-heat

Mild thirst with a desire to sip fluids

Qi Deficiency

Intense thirst with profuse urination

Diabetes

Dry mouth

Yin Deficiency

Dry mouth with desire to gargle

blood stasis

Desire to drink cold liquids

Heat pattern

Desire to drink warm liquids

Cold pattern

Chronic tiredness, feeling of heaviness of the body, muzziness

Retention of Dampness

Chronic tiredness, desire to lie down, poor appetite, loose stools

Spleen Qi Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, desire to lie down, poor appetite, loose stools with Cold symptoms

Spleen Yang Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, weak voice, propensity to catch colds

Lung Qi Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, weak voice, propensity to catch colds with Cold symptoms

Lung Yang Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, backache, lassitude, a feeling of cold, depression, frequent urination

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, slight depression, dizziness, scanty periods

Liver Blood Deficiency

Anxiety, insomnia, dry mouth at night, tongue without coating

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Chronic tiredness, feeling of oppression of the chest, dizziness, muzziness

Retention of Phlegm

Chronic tiredness, anxiety, tenseness, wiry pulse

Liver Qi Stagnation

Short-term tiredness, alternating cold and hot feelings, irritability, unilateral tongue coating, wiry pulse

Lesser Yang pattern

Headache: Gradual onset, in attacks

interior type

Headache: Recent onset, short duration

Headache from Exterior attack of Wind-cold

Headache: Day-time

Qi or Yang deficiency

Headache: Evening

Blood or Yin deficiency

Headache: Night-time

blood stasis

Headache Location: Nape of neck

Greater Yang channels (Exterior invasion of Wind-cold, or interior Kidney deficiency)

Headache Location: Forehead

Bright Yang channels (Stomach Heat or Blood deficiency)

Headache Location: Temples and sides of head

Lesser Yang channels (Exterior Wind in the lesser yang, or interior Liver/Gallbladder Fire rising)

Headache Location: Behind the eyes pain

Liver Yang rising or Liver Blood Deficiency

Headache Location: Vertex

Terminal Yin Channels (usually Liver Blood deficiency)

Headache (location): whole head

Exterior invasion of Wind-cold

Headache Character of pain: Boring, like a nail in a small point

Blood stagnation

Headache Character of pain: Heavy feeling

Dampness or Phlegm

Headache Character of pain: Pain 'inside' the head, 'hurting the brain'

Kidney Deficiency

Headache Character of pain: Distending, throbbing

Rising of Liver Yang

Headache Character of pain: With feeling of muzziness, heaviness

Dampness

Headache Condition: With aversion to wind or cold

Exterior invasion

Headache Character of pain: With feeling of muzziness, heaviness, dizziness

Phlegm

Headache Condition: Aggravated by cold

Cold pattern

Headache Condition: Aggravated by heat

Heat pattern

Headache Condition: Aggravated by fatigue, improved by rest

Qi Deficiency

Headache Condition: Aggravated by sexual activity

Kidney Deficiency

Headache Condition: Aggravated by emotional tension

Liver Yang rising

Severe dizziness when everything seems to sway and the person loses the balance

Internal Wind

Dizziness with throbbing headaches

Liver Yang Rising

Dizziness with feeling of heaviness and muzziness in head

Phlegm obstructing the head

Slight dizziness aggravated when tired

Blood deficiency

Dizziness Sudden onset

Excess Pattern

Dizziness Gradual onset

Empty pattern

Dizziness; Fainting

Phlegm, retention of food, blood or Yin deficiency of Heart/Liver, Kidney Yang deficiency

Dizziness; Brain noise

Deficiency of the Sea of Marrow, Heart/Spleen Blood deficiency, Damp-heat, Liver Fire

Dizziness; Itchy scalp

Liver Blood Deficiency, Liver/Kidney Yin Deficiency, Internal Wind, Liver Fire, Damp-heat in Liver channel

Facial pain: Acute onset, severe pain of the cheeks or jaws, feeling of heat of the face, face feels hot on palpation, headache, sore throat, aversion to cold, fever

Invasion of Wind-heat

Feeling of heat of the face with cold body

Deficiency Kidney Yin and Yang, or Blood deficiency with Empty heat, or disharmony of the penetrating vessel, or Yin deficiency fire

Facial pain: Acute onset, spastic pain of cheeks and jaws, sneezing, aversion to cold, dorsum of hands hot, runny nose

Invasion of Wind-cold

Facial pain: Severe pain in the cheeks and forehead, red cheeks, greasy skin, sticky-yellow or sticky-greenish nasal discharge, sticky-yellow tongue coating

Damp-heat

Facial pain: Pain in the cheeks and forehead, red cheeks, thirst, bitter taste, red tongue with redder sides, wiry-rapid pulse

Liver Fire

Facial pain: Intense, often unilateral pain of the cheeks, boring in nature and long in duration, dark complexion, purple tongue

Qi deficiency and Blood stasis

Facial pain: Liver Fire with Liver/Kidney Yin deficiency

Liver Fire with Liver/Kidney Yin deficiency

Runny nose with an acute onset

Invasion of Wind

Chronic, runny nose with a thick, sticky, yellow discharge

Damp-heat in Stomach channel

Chronic, runny nose with a clear, watery discharge

Lung Qi Deficiency

Profuse, watery discharge Runny nose

Lung/Kidney/governing vessel Yang Deficiency

Blocked nose: Swollen and pale nose, problem comes and goes

Lung/Spleen Qi deficiency

Blocked nose: Swollen and purple nose

qi and blood stagnation

Blocked nose: Nose membranes red and swollen, sticky-yellow nasal discharge

Gallbladder heat

Blocked nose: Sudden onset, accompanied by symptoms of Wind

Invasion of Wind

Itchy Nose, sneezing: Sudden onset, accompanied by symptoms of an external invasion

Invasion of Wind-heat

Itchy, dry and red nose

Lung Heat

Itchy nose, Sneezing, allergies, profuse, watery nasal discharge coming in bouts

Deficiency of Lung's Defensive Qi system, Kidney Yang and Governing vessel Deficiency

Bleeding gums, tiredness, poor appetite, loose stools

Deficient Spleen qi not holding blood

Loss of sense of smell

Lung-Qi and Spleen Qi deficiency, Invasion of External Wind, Damp-heat

Bleeding gums, dry mouth, a desire to drink in small sips

Stomach Empty-heat

Inflamed, bleeding gums, feeling of heat, thirst

Stomach Full-heat

Bleeding gums, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweating, malar flush

Kidney-Yin Deficiency with

Mouth ulcers: Ulcers that recur very frequently or are even almost permanent

Full Condition

Mouth ulcers: Ulcers that come and go

Empty condition

Mouth ulcers: Pale-rimmed ulcers on the gums

Stomach Empty-heat

Mouth ulcers: Very painful, red-rimmed ulcers on the gums

Stomach Full-heat

Mouth ulcers: Pale-rimmed ulcers aggravated by overwork

Kidney Yin deficiency or Original Qi Deficiency

Mouth ulcers: Uulcers on the tip of the tongue

Heart-fire or Heart Empty-heat

Mouth ulcers: Ulcers on the inside of the cheeks

stomach heat

Mouth ulcers: Ulcers in pregnancy

Disharmony of Directing Vessel

Cold sores: Sudden onset, burning pain

Stomach Full-heat

Cold sores: Come in bouts, recurring over many years

Stomach Empty-heat

Cold sores: Occur in bouts over a long period of time, pale in color, aggravated by overwork

Qi Deficiency

Numbness of the tongue (deficiency)

Heart Blood Deficiency or Spleen Qi deficiency

Numbness of the tongue (Excess)

Phlegm obstructing the orifices, Liver Wind, Chronic Blood stasis

Pain of the tongue

Heart Fire or Heart Empty-heat, Liver Fire or Phlegm Fire

Pain in the Whole body: Sudden onset body pain with aversion to cold and fever

Exterior Wind invasion

Pain in the Whole body: Ache all over, with feeling of tiredness

Qi and blood deficiency

Pain in the Whole body: Dull pain in women after childbirth

Blood deficiency

Pain in the Whole body: Severe pain in women after childbirth

blood stasis

Pain in the Whole body: Pain in all muscles, hot sensation of the flesh

stomach heat

Pain in the Whole body: Pain in arms and shoulders only when walking

Liver Qi Stagnation

Pain in the Whole body: Dull ache in the muscles, especially limbs, with feeling of heaviness

Dampness obstructing muscles

Pain in joints: wandering pain from joint to joint

Wind

Pain in joints: Fixed and very painful

Cold

Pain in joints: With swelling and redness of the joints

Damp-heat

Pain in joints: Severe stabbing pain with rigidity

Blood stasis

Backache: Recent onset, severe back pain with stiffness

Sprain of back causing stasis of Blood

Backache: Continuous, dull back pain better with rest

Kidney Deficiency

Backache: Severe back pain aggravated during cold and damp weather

Invasion of exterior cold and damp to the back channels

Backache: Boring pain with inability to turn the waist

blood stasis

Backache: Pain in the back extending up to the shoulders

exterior invasion of wind

Mild generalized itching with dry skin, worse at night

Blood Deficiency

Numbness of arms and legs or only hands and feet on both sides

Blood deficiency

Numbness of fingers, elbow and arm on one side only (especially first three fingers)

Internal Wind and Phlegm

Itching: Intense generalized itching, possibly moving, with rash or dry skin

Wind

Localized itching, damp skin, vesicles

dampness

Itching with a red rash

Blood Heat

Intense itching with pustules, ulcers, or eczema

Toxic Heat

Itching during healing of wounds or ulcers

normal

OM Diagnosis Part 1 Flashcards

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