Foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine Flashcards

Which external pathogenic factor is characterized as heavy, sticky, and lingering, often affecting the lower body first?

Answer: Dampness

Dampness is heavy and turbid, tends to sink, and is slow to resolve.

Which pathogenic factor is called 'the spearhead of the hundred diseases'?

Answer: Wind

Wind often leads other pathogens into the body, so it is called the leader of the hundred diseases.

Excessive pensiveness or overthinking most directly injures which organ?

Answer: Spleen

Pensiveness knots Qi and injures the Spleen, often causing poor appetite.

Fear causes Qi to move in which direction?

Answer: Qi descends

Fear makes Qi descend, which can lead to incontinence by injuring the Kidneys.

Within the Eight Principles, aversion to cold with fever, floating pulse, and body aches indicates which pattern?

Answer: Exterior Wind-Cold

Aversion to cold with fever and a floating pulse indicates an exterior pattern from Wind-Cold.

Which category of disease causes includes trauma, parasites, and improper diet?

Answer: Neither internal nor external causes

The Three Causes doctrine places diet, overwork, trauma, and parasites in the miscellaneous (neither internal nor external) category.

According to the treatment principle 'in acute conditions treat the Manifestation (Biao),' what is the priority for a patient with severe acute bleeding?

Answer: Stop the bleeding first

In urgent situations the Biao (manifestation) is addressed first, then the Root (Ben).