ACTCM 2021 Foundations of Chinese Medicine Deck

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• Kd yin what?  blood body fluids 
• Kd yang what?  qi  from
• Deficiency blood/bf lead regardign kd)  yin deficiency 
• Deficiency qi lead kd)  yang deficiency 
• Yin organ's yang foundation organs yang?   kidneys 
• Material foundation marrow?  essence kidneys) 
• Kidneys govern what?  water relys kd yang) 
• Kidney governs body fluids way?  transformation transportation 
• Kidneys sense orifice?  ears  are
• Kidneys external manifestation  head hair 
• Elements animals  wood fish fire bird earth human
• Lesser yang  upmost yin  elemental yin/yang  wood fire
• Shen consciousness)  higher heart relies blood 
• Elements  fire earth metal water wood
• Fire direction  upward 
• Metal direction  inward
• Water direction downward
• Wood direction outward
• Earth direction centre stability  or
• Summer elements seasons  wood spring  fire earth late
• Wood basic quality  bent straightened 
• Fire basic quality  flares upward
• Earth basic quality  permits sowing growing reaping
• Metal basic quality  moulded harden
• Water basic quality  moistens downwards 
• Elements numbers  water fire wood metal earth repeat 
• Wood organs  yin liver  yang gall bladder 
• Fire organs  yin heart yang small intesitine 
• Earth organ  yin spleen yang stomach 
• Metal organ yin lungs yang large intestine 
• Water organ  yin kidney  yang bladder
• Types essense  birth  constantly replenishing food 
• Element climates  wood wind  fire heat earth dampness 
• Element sense organs  wood eyes fire tongue  earth
• Element emotions  wood anger  fire joy earth pensiveness 
• Element tissues  wood sinews  fire vessels  earth muscles 
• Element sounds  wood shouting  fire laughing  earth singing 
• Pathology elements over-controlling  insulting  generating issues 
• Tonify sedate elements basic treatments  defficent mother grandmother 
• Elements stage development  wood birth fire growth  earth
• Element tastes  wood sour  fire bitter  earth sweet 
• Element smells  wood rancid fire scorched  earth fragrant
• Element grains  wood wheat fire beans  earth rice 
• Element domestic animals  wood sheep fire fowl earth
• Element planets  wood jupiter  fire mars  earth saturn 
• Vital substances base?  qi forms 
• Vital substances qi blood xue essence jing body
• Internal major ways qi defined tcm?  refined energy
• Two/three types essence.  pre-heaven kidney  post-heaven 
• Pre-heaven essence where?  persons parents 
• Health determines pre-heavens essence?  parents time conception mother
• Preserve pre-heaven essence?  striving balance daily activities dont
• Pre-heaven essence functions  determines growth reproduction development sexual
• Pre-heaven essence depleted by?  ejaculation men menstruation women
• Lose yang kind pre-heaven essence men/women lose?  men
• Kidney pre-heaven essence stored?  called essence) 
• Kd essence produces what?  marrow fills spinal cord
• Essence pre-heaven matures what?  kidney time puberty
• Essence post-heaven jing refined extracted food fluids stomach
• Root post-heaven essence?  spleen stomach 
• Root pre-heaven essence?  kidney what
• Essence qi flows differences basic primarily derivied parents
• Essence involved growth?  children growth bones teeth hair
• Year cycles lengths essence flows women men
• Age important times essence cycles women men tian
• Kd essence relationship qi?  base qi material basis
• Brain what?  sea marrow  the
• Determines basic constitutional strenth resistance sick?  essence 
• Essence basis treasures what?  jing qi shen 
• Qi facilitates yuan functions original primal motive force 
• Yuan qi transmitted through?  tripple burner san jiao) 
• Qi essence yuan closely related to?  kidneys specifically
• Yuan pathology qi  pool source points tonify orangs 
• Qi food gu stage transformation basis refined forms
• Organs zang fu  zang= yin store"  fu= yang
• Gu qi rises lungs movement  middle jiao sp/st...digestion
• Qi blood functions zong gathering controls respiration circulation
• Qi zong dereived from?  combination gu air lungs) 
• Zong qi influence?  speech strength voice 
• Zong qi aids organ?  flows downward kidney
• Zong qi pathology  doesnt descend blood stagnate vesseles. 
• Zhen qi true qi)?  final stage refinement transformation
• Functions zhen qi  qi circulates channels nourishes organs
• Qi  forms zhen ying wei
• Ying qi nutritive functions  nourishes body 
• Blood ying qi relations  closely related flows vessels
• Qi ying acupuncture relation activated insert needle point
• Wei qi defensive functions  main function protect body
• Things immunity rely on?  kidney essence yuan qi
• Wei qi movement  flows outer layer body,in space
• Wei weak qi pathology  lungs times means qi 
• Zhong qi?  qi stomach spleen middle jiao implies
• Function zhong qi transforming transporation  spleen's raising qi 
• Qi qi)  zheng upright general term describe types
• Functions qi transforming transporting  holding raising  protecting  warming 
• Qi transforming  transforms dense materials food liquids subtle
• Qi transporting transports substances varioous parts body
• Qi holding holds fluids blood proper places prevent
• Raising qi  qi makes body structures held proper
• Qi protecting protects body invasive pathogenic factors
• Qi  yang warming qi nature warm physiological processes
• Qi ji mechanism movement direction flows 
• General movements qi  ascending descending entering exiting 
• Excess yang qi  excessive ascending exiting 
• Excess yin qi  excessive descending entering 
• Qi ji disrupted?  stagnation rebellious qi 
• Qi lung ji  descends breath ascends moves wei
• Qi liver ji controls smooth flowof body flows
• Qi sends kidney ji downwards(to ub(urination upwards lungs
• Qi sends speen/stomach ji spleen upwards lung heart) 
• Heart flows water heart/kidneys qi ji  fire meet
• Low qi deficiencey  physiological functioning feels fatigued energy. 
• Qi sinking  main symptom prolapse organs 
• Qi stagnation  stuck ji doesnt flow properly 
• Qi rebellious opposite direction st leading nausea vomitting 
• Qi source blood?  spleen sends gu lungs heart
• Blood  functions nourishing  moistening  houses anchors shen ying
• Blood relationship heart  intimate place made moves blood 
• Blood spleen  spleen makes source blood 
• Blood liver  liver stores sends sinews 
• Blood lungs  lungs move gu qi heart make
• Kidneys blood  provide marrow making
• Qi blood moves relationship generates food basis blood) 
• Essence blood turned blood  relationship abundance kidney post-heaven
• Blood pathologies deficiency sp qi  heat excessive bleeding
• Body source fluids originates food drink seperates clean
• Jin fluids  clear light thin/watery moistens skin mm
• Ye fluids  turbid heavy dense moistens joints spine
• Body fluids  spleen treated disorder fluids controls initial
• Stomach bf source fluids likes moist) 
• Lungs bf  regulates water passages 
• Kidney bf  kd yang performs stages ofthe transofrmation
• Qi bf relationship  transforms transports fluids  holds bf 
• Blood bf relationship  mutual nourishment constantly replenish make
• Body fluids pathology jin ye  deficiency dryness  accumulation
• Soul  shen spirits  po animal spirit coporeal yi
• Po animal spirit corporeal soul)  emotional body sadness
• Yi intellect)  rational mind ego spleen relies qi 
• Hun ethereal soul)  wisdom past lives karma visions
• Zhi power)  housed kidney.  determination enthusiasm spirit initiative
• Fu zang organ functions  store vital substances pure
• Fu organ functions  hollow store constantly filled emptied
• Zang organs  liver  spleen  kidney  lungs  heart pericardium) 
• Intestines  fu organs  gallbladder  stomach  bladder  large small
• Organ direct contact enviornment?  lungs 
• Qi lungs govern?  governs respiration inhales clean exhales
• Lungs control?  channels blood vessles meridians)  doen deep
• Lungs qi...  qi pump  are
• Qi bf lungs bf?  diffuses wei space muscles
• Lungs control strength what?  voice 
• Lungs regulate what?  physiological activities 
• Lungs rule what?  skin cou li 
• Wei qi organ?  lungs  comes
• Qi wei weak pores?  open sweating carries loss
• Lung's external manifestation sense orifice fluid spirit emotion
• Lung sayings loaths cold likes warm moist 
• Western organ spleen with?  pancreas small intestine thyroid
• Spleen govern 1.transformation transportation  ascending raising qi 
• Qi ascending spleen upwards coordinated what?  descending stomach
• Ascending spleen qi prevents what?  prolapse 
• Spleen qi holds what?  blood vessels 
• Spleen source what?  blood  is
• Spleen rule?  muscles limbs  the
• Spleen opens what?  mouth the
• Spleen manifests what?  lips  the
• Fluid spleen?  saliva clear thin
• Spirit spleen house?  houses yi intellect) 
• Emotion affects spleen?  pensiveness contemplation overthnking brooding
• Spleen relies vital substance  qi post-heaven
• Weaken spleen?  overthinking studying memorizing
• Spleen loathes enviornment?  dampness likes dry 
• Spleen root what?  post heaven qi 
• Kidneys store?  essence jing)  what
• Kidneys govern?  birth growth reproduction development hormonal
• Tian gui?  sperm ovarian eggs/menstrual blood 
• Tian gui menstrual blood from?  kd jing mixes
• Kd kidney essence base what?  yin yang 
• Qi kidneys lungs send downwards?  grasp hold breath. 
• Fluid kidneys?  spittle thick back mouth) 
• Kidneys control orifices  lower orifices urethra anus)  prevents
• Spirit kidneys house?  houses zhi power
• Gate life fire ming men)  inbetween kds.  manifestation
• Ming men root type qi?  yuan qi 
• Ming men warms what?  digestive fire support digestion. 
• Ming men  minester fire  another
• Ming men helps housing spirit?  aids heart house
• Sexual function ming men relation warms uterus erection
• Kidney taste color emotion  t salty black dark
• Blood heart govern?  vessels  the
• Spirit heart house?  shen  the
• Heart relationship shen  houses shen leaves day animates
• Heart manifests what?  complexion face 
• Hearts tissue?  blood vessles  what
• Heart emotion  joy excessive excitement
• Heart open?  tongue speech itself 
• Loss heart controls bf?  sweat.  weat means body
• Color heart?  red what is
• Relationship heart dreams  shen root blood deficiency situations
• Orifices heart?  brain tongue  the
• Heart sayings loathes heat controls speech 
• Regulates functions liver volume blood body storing blood  
• Qi ensures smooth flow lv liver relation qi 
• Liver digestion relationship  essential qi ji earth element
• Liver relationship bile  ensures gb secretes bile smoothly 
• Livers tissue?  sinews  the
• Liver manifest in?  nails  what
• Liver's sense organ eyes 
• Liver's fluid  tears lv blood source tears 
• Spirit liver house?  hun ethereal soul) 
• Liver affected emotion?  anger is
• Color liver green  what is
• Taste liver?  sour  what is
• Climate liver wind what is
• Liver sayings related controls planning  regulating balancing organ 

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