TCM150-Wk1

Question 1

Wood element yin organ & emotion?

Answer 1

Liver
Anger

Question 2

Fire element yin organ & emotion?

Answer 2

Heart
Joy

Question 3

Earth element yin organ & emotion?

Answer 3

Spleen
Pensiveness & Worry

Question 4

Metal element yin organ & emotion?

Answer 4

Lungs
Sadness

Question 5

Water element yin organ & emotion?

Answer 5

Kidneys
Fear & shock

Question 6

What emotion makes Qi rise?

Answer 6

Anger

Question 7

What emotion slows Qi?

Answer 7

Joy

Question 8

What emotion knots Qi?

Answer 8

Worry & Pensiveness

Question 9

What emotion dissolves Qi?

Answer 9

Sadness

Question 10

What emotion descends Qi?

Answer 10

Fear

Question 11

What emotion scatters Qi?

Answer 11

Shock

Question 12

Qi stagnation can lead to..?

Answer 12

Blood stagnation

Question 13

What is Joy? Factors? Symptoms?

Answer 13

• Excessive excitement & craving (not a state of healthy contentment)
• Excessive stimulation disturbs Shen (mind) → May displace it from heart blood
  Factors: alcohol, recreational drugs, advertising, ambition, sex
  Heart Symptoms: Palpitations, over excitability, insomnia, restlessness, red tip on tongue

Question 14

What is anger? Symptoms?

Answer 14

Includes: resentment, repressed anger, irritability, frustration, rage, hatred, indignation animosity or bitterness
- Can affect the liver → stagnation of liver Qi / Liver blood / Liver Yang rising / Liver fire
- Makes Qi rise → symptoms manifest in head & neck
Symptoms: headaches*, dizziness, tinnitus, neck stiffness, red blotches (front neck/face)
- Some individuals may carry anger inside for years w/ out manifesting it (thus, does not always manifest outwards w/ outbursts)

Question 15

What is worry? Symptoms?

Answer 15

• Knots Qi = Stagnation of Qi → affects both lung + spleen
• Lung: if one is worried → breathing is shallow
  Symptom: unfordable feeling in chest, slight breathlessness, tensing of shoulders, dry cough (sometimes), weak voice, sighing, pale complexion
• Spleen: responsible for thinking + ideas
  Symptoms: Slight epigastric discomfort, Abdominal pain + distension, tiredness + pale complexion
• Worry = counterpart of spleen’s mental energy (concentration + memorization) - when healthy we can concentration & focus
  Leads to: constantly thinking, brooding & worrying about certain life events

Question 16

What is pensiveness? Symptoms?

Answer 16

• similar to worry in character & effect
  Includes: brooding, constantly thinking about certain events/people (even though not worrying), nostalgic hankering after past + shining intensely about life rather than living it
  Extreme cases: obsessive thoughts
  Different sense: includes mental work in process of ones study/work

Question 17

What is sadness? Symptoms?

Answer 17

Includes: grief & regret (mind always turned towards that time)
- Weakens lungs & affects the heart (upper burner)
- Lungs govern Qi, Sadness dissolved/depletes Qi.
- Manifested on pulse w/ weakness in of both. No ‘wave’ & does not flow smoothly.
Symptoms: Breathlessness, tiredness, discomfort in chest, depression, crying

Question 18

What is fear? Symptoms?

Answer 18

Includes: chronic state of fear / anxiety + sudden fright
- Depletes Kidney Qi + makes Qi descend
Ex. of Qi descending = nocturnal enuresis in children & incontinence of urine/ diarrhea in adults following a sudden fright

Question 19

Shock symptoms?

Answer 19

• suspends Qi & affects heart + kidneys
• causes depletion of heart Qi →makes heart smaller + may lead to hearth palpitations, breathlessness + insomnia