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Benchmark Review

Benchmark Review. Foundations, Diagnostics 2 March 2013. Foundations Overview. Recognizing Syndromes. Etiology Origin or cause of a disease Pathology What is wrong, out of balance Disease mechanisms What happens as a result of the etiology. Disease vs. Differentiation. Disease

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Benchmark Review

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  1. Benchmark Review Foundations, Diagnostics 2 March 2013

  2. Foundations Overview

  3. Recognizing Syndromes • Etiology • Origin or cause of a disease • Pathology • What is wrong, out of balance • Disease mechanisms • What happens as a result of the etiology

  4. Disease vs. Differentiation • Disease • The chief complaint – headache, coughing and sneezing, back pain, etc. • Differentiation • The TCM thing causing the disease Example: client comes in with a headache across the forehead which you determine comes from wind heat affecting the Yangming channel. The headache is the disease. Wind-heat affecting the Yangming channel is the differentiation.

  5. Five Element Theory

  6. What to know • Know the Five Element diagram thoroughly! • Understand the application of the generating/control sequence. Know the normal sequences and the pathological sequences. • Understand the application of Five Element Theory in: • Physiology • Pathology • Diagnosis • Treatment

  7. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Classes 4-5 See the highlighted parts

  8. Five Element TheoryWu Xin - Nature

  9. Five Element TheoryWu Xin – Body * PC and SJ are also associated with fire, but not on this chart.

  10. Normal: • Generating • Controlling • Pathological: • Overacting Mother to child but very domineering • InsultingChild to mother – like a mouthy kid • Over-controlling / Over-checkingRight direction, but too much control • Counter-checkingWrong direction of control

  11. Yin Yang Theory

  12. What to know • Origins of the theory • Yin yang correspondences • Concepts of yin and yang • Four aspects of yin/yang theory • Yin/yang channel distribution • How to apply yin/yang theory

  13. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Classes 2-3 See the highlighted parts

  14. Yin and Yang correspondences *only above the equator!

  15. Concepts of Yin Yang • Tworelated things/phenomenon that have opposite, but complimentary qualities • Two related aspects of one thing • Yin and yang are relative, not absolute and can be changed.

  16. Four aspects of Yin and Yang • Yin and Yang opposition and balance • Interdependence • Mutual consumption • Intertransformation

  17. Yin yang channel distribution Hand yang meets foot yang at the head and face Hand and foot yins meet at the chest

  18. Yin Yang flow through channels

  19. Yin Yang theory in pathology • Excess – too much of something • Yang Excess • Know causes, what the Yang pathogens are, mechanism, and symptoms • Excessive heat symptoms • Yin Excess • Know causes, what the Yang pathogens are, mechanism, and symptoms • Excessive cold symptoms…cannot be relieved by warming

  20. Deficiencies – too little of something • Yang Deficiency • Know etiology, mechanism, symptoms • “Deficient cold” which can be alleviated by warming • Yin Deficiency • Know etiology, mechanism, symptoms • “Deficient heat” “Relatively too much”

  21. General Meridian and Collateral stuff Class 6, Foundations 2…. Forgot to highlight, but know the gist of this.

  22. Zang Fu Theory

  23. What to know • Basic Zang Fu Theory • Concept of the theory, the categories, functions of yin and yang organs • Specific stuff • General intro for each organ, physiological functions, the officials, associated tissues and their interrelationships

  24. Where to get the info Foundations 1 • Class 6 (basic info) • Classes 7-11 (specific zangfu info) • Organs, functions • Officials, tissues • Interrelationships See the highlighted parts

  25. Heart/Small Intestine

  26. Heart - What to know • Most important organ in the body • Official: Ruler, emperor, monarch • Physiological functions • Governs blood • Controls blood vessels • Manifests in complexion • Houses the shen • Related to/controls Joy • Opens to tongue • Controls sweating • Controls dreaming • Loathes heat • Controls speech

  27. Small Intestine - What to know • Functions • Control receiving and transporting of digested food • Separates fluids – pure from turbid • Relationship to the Heart

  28. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Class 7 See the highlighted parts

  29. Liver/Gallbladder

  30. Liver - What to know • General • Most import organ for women • Location is middle jiao • Functions • Blood • Stores blood, regulates blood in relation to rest and activity • Regulates menstruation • Moistens/nourishes eyes and sinews • In charge of biorhythms

  31. Liver - What to know (con’t) • Functions (cont’d) • Qi – ensures smooth flow • Governs flow • Affects emotional state • Affects digestion • Affects secretion of bile

  32. Gallbladder - What to know • Functions • Stores/secretes bile • Controls decisiveness • Controls sinews • Relationship to the Liver

  33. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Class 8 See the highlighted parts

  34. Lung/Large Intestine

  35. Lung - What to know • Functions • Governs Qi and respiration • Respiration • Qi – transformation and transportation • Controls channels and blood vessels • Governs dispersing/descending • Regulates water passage – upper source of water in the body • Opens to the nose • Controls skin and hair • Houses the Po (corporeal soul)

  36. Large Intestine - What to know • Functions • Receive digested food from Sp/St • Reabsorb body fluids and send them to the Spleen • Move the bowels (descending qi again) and get rid of the stool. • Relationship to the Lung • Descending fnx of Lu qi helps bowels move • LI reabsorbs fluids to moisten the Lu

  37. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Class 9 See the highlighted parts

  38. Spleen/Stomach

  39. Spleen - What to know • Located in MJ • Functions • Governs transformation/transportation • Controls ascending of Qi • Raise clear Yang upwards • Controls blood • Controls muscles/4 limbs • Houses intellect and thoughts • Root of post-heaven Qi • Origin of birth/development • Dislikes cold/aversion to damp

  40. Stomach - What to know • Functions • Controls receiving of food • Rots/ripens food • Controls transportation of food essence to Sp • Controls descent of Qi • Likes wet/cold • Relationship of Spleen to Stomach

  41. Functions • Controls receiving of food • Rots/ripens food • Controls transportation of food essence to Sp • Controls descent of Qi • Likes wet/cold • Relationship of Spleen to Stomach • See page 4 of class 10 notes

  42. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Class 10 See the highlighted parts

  43. Kidney/Bladder

  44. Kidney - What to know • General • Located in lower ab, both sides of spine • Know the landmarks along the Kidney channel (pg 1 of class notes) • Kidney qi ascends and channel connects with spine

  45. Kidney - What to know • Functions • Stores essence • Governs birth, growth, reproduction, development • Produces marrow, fills the brain, governs bones • Governs water, including open/close of Bladder • Controls reception of Qi • Opens to ears • Manifests on the hair • Opens to 2 lower orifices • Houses willpower • Dreams about water • Gate of vitality – Mingmen Kidneys have no excess!!!

  46. Bladder - What to know • Functions • Receive and store Body Fluids • Discharge urine with the help of the Kidney Bladder is prone to excess

  47. Where to get the info Foundations 1, Class 11 See the highlighted parts

  48. Basic Constituents or Essential Substances • Essence • Qi • Blood • Body Fluids

  49. Essence

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