red flags NCAOM prep

Question 1

Body - curled up, wants covers

Answer 1

Excess Yin - Interior Cold

Question 2

Body - Stretched out, no covers

Answer 2

Excess - Yang, interior heat

Question 3

Chest - suffocating feelings

Answer 3

Stagnation - Especially Liver Qi

Question 4

Chills & Fever - alternating

Answer 4

External invasion: Cold - shao yang stage, heat - Qi level

Question 5

Chills & Fever - Fever without chills

Answer 5

Internal

Question 6

Chills & Fever - General

Answer 6

External Invasion

Question 7

Chills & Fever -more chills than fever

Answer 7

External Invasion - wind cold

Question 8

Chills & Fever - more fever than chills

Answer 8

External Invasion - wind heat

Question 9

Cold - patient desires cold

Answer 9

Excess yang - interior heat

Question 10

Cold - patient fearful of cold

Answer 10

Excess - external cold invasion

Question 11

Cough -coughing or vomiting

Answer 11

Rebellious Qi

Question 12

Cough -dry no sputum

Answer 12

Deficiency - LU yin with drynes

Question 13

Cough - With gurgling

Answer 13

Excess - damp or phlegm

Question 14

Diarrhea - fie o’clock or cocks crow

Answer 14

Deficiency - KD or SP yang

Question 15

Distention - more distension than pain

Answer 15

Excess - Qi Stagnation

Question 16

Distention - more pain than distension

Answer 16

Excess - Blood Stagnation

Question 17

Exertion -symptoms worsen with exertion

Answer 17

Deficiency - qi

Question 18

Face - bright white

Answer 18

Deficiency - yang (false cold)

Question 19

Face -Entire face flushed red

Answer 19

Excess - yang (true heat)

Question 20

Face - malar flush

Answer 20

Deficiency - yin (false heat)

Question 21

Face - Pale, white

Answer 21

Excess - internal cold (true cold)

Question 22

Face -pale, sallow

Answer 22

Deficiency - blood

Question 23

Fever - tidal (afternoon)

Answer 23

Deficiency - yin

Question 24

5 Centers Hot, Heat in 5 hearts, 5 palm heat

Answer 24

Deficiency - yin

Question 25

Head in Saran Wrap- head in a bag

Answer 25

Excess- dampness, phlegm

Question 26

Headache - empty sensation in head, paroxysmal darkness, blurred vision

Answer 26

Deficiency - qi & loss of yin essence

Question 27

Insomnia - difficulty FALLING asleep

Answer 27

Deficiency - blood (usually heart)

Question 28

Insomnia - difficulty STAYING asleep

Answer 28

Deficiency - yin (usually heart)

Question 29

Loose Stool & lassitude

Answer 29

Deficiency - Qi (usually spleen)

Question 30

Odor- none

Answer 30

Cold

Question 31

Odor - smelly

Answer 31

Heat - excess damp heat

Question 32

Onset of symptoms - gradual

Answer 32

Interior Condition

Question 33

Onset of symptoms - sudden

Answer 33

Exterior condition - invasion

Question 34

Pain - Prickling

Answer 34

Excess blood stagnation

Question 35

Pain - fixed

Answer 35

Excess - blood stagnation

Question 36

Pain - migrating

Answer 36

Stagnation - qi or wind condition

Question 37

Pain - stabbing - stays in one place

Answer 37

Excess - blood stagnation

Question 38

Pain - improves with pressure

Answer 38

Deficiency

Question 39

Pain - worsens with pressure

Answer 39

Excess

Question 40

Palpitations

Answer 40

HT

Question 41

Plum pit qi

Answer 41

Stagnation - Liver qi

Question 42

Prolapse

Answer 42

Deficiency - Spleen Qi sinking

Question 43

Speech - very slow

Answer 43

Deficiency - qi

Question 44

Sweat - constant, sticky

Answer 44

Deficiency - yin collapse

Question 45

Sweat - nightsweats

Answer 45

Deficiency - yin

Question 46

Sweat - profuse, beady and cold

Answer 46

Deficiency - yang collapse

Question 47

Sweat - spontaneous in daytime

Answer 47

Deficiency - qi

Question 48

Taste - bitter

Answer 48

Heat - Liver or Gallbladder

Question 49

Tinnitus - better with pressure

Answer 49

Deficiency - Kidney qi

Question 50

Tinnitus - worse with pressure

Answer 50

Deficiency -yang or liver fire

Question 51

Urine - clear, increased volume

Answer 51

Cold

Question 52

Urine - dark, yellow, scant

Answer 52

Heat

Question 53

Urine - retention of, difficult, dribbling

Answer 53

Deficiency - Kidney yang

Question 54

Wheezing - low, trouble inhaling

Answer 54

Deficiency - Kidney unable to grasp lung qi