Body Fluids

Question 1

These factors contribute to?

1. Excessive consumption of body fluid due to high fever, profuse sweating, excessive vomiting, excessive diarrhea, and profuse urine
2. Consumption of fluid by dryness and heat
3. Insufficiency of body fluid due to scanty drinking of water and decline of organ qi

Answer 1

Insufficiency of Body Fluids

Question 2

What are the causes for Insufficiency of Body Fluids

Answer 2

1. Excessive consumption of body fluid due to high fever, profuse sweating, excessive vomiting, excessive diarrhea, and profuse urine
2. Consumption of fluid by dryness and heat
3. Insufficiency of body fluid due to scanty drinking of water and decline of organ qi

Question 3

These are the symptoms of?
Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat, and skin, sunken orbit, thirst with desire for water, scanty urine, retention of dry feces, dry tongue with scanty saliva, thin and choppy pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat and skin, scanty urine and dry feces.

Answer 3

Insufficiency of Body Fluids

Question 4

List the symptoms for Insufficiency of Body Fluids

Answer 4

Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat, and skin, sunken orbit, thirst with desire for water, scanty urine, retention of dry feces, dry tongue with scanty saliva, thin and choppy pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat and skin, scanty urine and dry feces.

Question 5

What are the symptoms of Insufficiency of Body Fluids

Answer 5

Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat, and skin, sunken orbit, thirst with desire for water, scanty urine, retention of dry feces, dry tongue with scanty saliva, thin and choppy pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Dry mouth, lips, tongue, throat and skin, scanty urine and dry feces.

Question 6

These are the etiology factors causing?

1. Long heat due to deficiency of yin evaporates body fluid, congeals it into phlegm
2. Emotional stress may produce heat which burns body fluid
3. Invasion by cold dampness or too much greasy food results in dysfunction of spleen and stomach
4. Deficiency of kidney qi fails to govern body fluid, the fluid spreads over
5. Phlegm is produced by six pathogenic factors (six exterior evils) which cause spleen and lung confusion and result in indigestion

Answer 6

Phlegm Syndrome

Question 7

What are the causes for Phlegm Syndrome

Answer 7

1. Long heat due to deficiency of yin evaporates body fluid, congeals it into phlegm
2. Emotional stress may produce heat which burns body fluid
3. Invasion by cold dampness or too much greasy food results in dysfunction of spleen and stomach
4. Deficiency of kidney qi fails to govern body fluid, the fluid spreads over
5. Phlegm is produced by six pathogenic factors (six exterior evils) which cause spleen and lung confusion and result in indigestion

Question 8

These are the manifestations for
Cough with sticky sputum, chest oppression, or dizziness, or epigastric mass, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or coma with sputum rale, or mental derangement with mania, dementia and epilepsy, or numbness of limbs, hemiplegia, or scrofula, goiter, breast nodules, subcutaneous nodule, greasy coating and slippery pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Vomiting of sputum or dizziness, or coma with sputum rale, numbness of limbs, or phlegm nodules, greasy tongue coating and slippery pulse.

Answer 8

Phlegm Syndrome

Question 9

List the manifestations for Phlegm Syndrome

Answer 9

Cough with sticky sputum, chest oppression, or dizziness, or epigastric mass, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or coma with sputum rale, or mental derangement with mania, dementia and epilepsy, or numbness of limbs, hemiplegia, or scrofula, goiter, breast nodules, subcutaneous nodule, greasy coating and slippery pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Vomiting of sputum or dizziness, or coma with sputum rale, numbness of limbs, or phlegm nodules, greasy tongue coating and slippery pulse.

Question 10

What are the manifestations of Phlegm Syndrome

Answer 10

Cough with sticky sputum, chest oppression, or dizziness, or epigastric mass, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or coma with sputum rale, or mental derangement with mania, dementia and epilepsy, or numbness of limbs, hemiplegia, or scrofula, goiter, breast nodules, subcutaneous nodule, greasy coating and slippery pulse.

“Key points for syndrome differentiation”
Vomiting of sputum or dizziness, or coma with sputum rale, numbness of limbs, or phlegm nodules, greasy tongue coating and slippery pulse.

Question 11

Phlegm can be divided in to 5 categories what are they?

Answer 11

1. Heat Phlegm “Yellow sticky”
2. Cold Phlegm “White, clear, thin”
3. Damp Phlegm “White, slippery, profuse in quantity”
4. Dry Phlegm “Less in quantity, sticky, hard to expectorate”
5. Wind Phlegm “Clear, thin with a lot of bubbles”

Question 12

Remember

1. Heat Phlegm “Yellow sticky”
2. Cold Phlegm “White, clear, thin”
3. Damp Phlegm “White, slippery, profuse in quantity”
4. Dry Phlegm “Less in quantity, sticky, hard to expectorate”
5. Wind Phlegm “Clear, thin with a lot of bubbles”

Answer 12

1. Heat Phlegm “Yellow sticky”
2. Cold Phlegm “White, clear, thin”
3. Damp Phlegm “White, slippery, profuse in quantity”
4. Dry Phlegm “Less in quantity, sticky, hard to expectorate”
5. Wind Phlegm “Clear, thin with a lot of bubbles”

Question 13

These can cause?

1. Six exogenous pathogenic factors (six exterior evils)
2. Overstrain and weakness

Answer 13

Fluid Retention

Question 14

What are some of the causes for Fluid Retention?

Answer 14

1. Six exogenous pathogenic factors (six exterior evils)
2. Overstrain and weakness

Question 15

Fluid retention is identified by where it is located. What are they?

Answer 15

1. Phlegm fluid-retention (in a narrow sense); “Stomach and Intestines”
2. Suspended fluid-retention; “Hypochondrium”
3. Sustained fluid-retention; “Above Diaphragm”
4. Extravasating fluid retention “In Limbs”

Question 16

Memorize

Phlegm fluid-retention (in a narrow sense) is marked by epigastric and abdominal fullness and distention as well as borborygmus;

Suspended fluid-retention is marked by thoracic and hypochondriac fullness, distending pain, aggravation of pain after spitting, coughing, or rotating the body;

Sustained fluid-retention is marked by cough and asthma, profuse and thin sputum, chest oppression and palpitation;

Extravasating fluid-retention is marked by swollen limbs and dysuria.

Answer 16

1. Phlegm fluid-retention (in a narrow sense); “Stomach and Intestines”
2. Suspended fluid-retention; “Hypochondrium”
3. Sustained fluid-retention; “Above Diaphragm”
4. Extravasating fluid retention “In Limbs”