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| What characteristics make a disease? |
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Definition
1.Pathogenic factors (internal or external)
2. injured life activities
3. showing symptoms and signs |
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| What does it mean to have injured life activities? |
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Definition
1. Yin/Yang imbalance
2. Body structure damage
3. Dysfunction |
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Term
| What is the Mechanism of Pathogenesis- The war between the upright Qi and the Evil Qi's |
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Definition
1. The upright Qi
2. Nei Jing
3. Upright qi can be classified into Yin and Yang portion
4. The functions of upright qi in the process of disease
5. the role of the upright Qi during pathogenis |
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Term
| What is the function of the upright Qi (Zheng Qi) ? |
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Definition
1. preventing diseases
2. expelling evil Qi
3. regulating and repairing
4. maintaining
5. opposite to Evil QI |
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Term
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Definition
When there is evil Qi invading, there must be deficiency of Upright Qi
2. when the upright Qi is sufficient, no evil QI can invade. |
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| Upright Qi can be classified into Yin and Yang portion. What are there features? |
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Definition
Yin portion: cooling, calming, inhibiting, and descending
2. Yang portion: warming, promoting, exiting, and ascending |
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| Upright Qi can be classified into Yin and Yang portion. What is their function in terms of against disease? |
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Definition
Yin portion: fighting with Yang Evil Qi such as the Summer Heat, Fire, and Heat, inhiniting Yang Evil, preventing further developement of Yang disease and expelloing Yang Evil.
Yang portion: fighting with Yin Evil Qi such as the Cold and Dampness, in hibiting Yin Evil, preventing further developement of Yin disease and expelling Yin Evil. |
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Term
| What are the functions of the upright Qi in the process of disease? |
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Definition
1. defending external evil QI
2. Expelling invaded Evil QI
3. Repairign and regulating normal body function
4. Maintaining collaboration of Zang-Fu and meridians functions |
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Term
| What is the role of the upright Qi during pathogenesis? |
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Definition
1. the upright Qi plays a dominant role durign pathogenesis
2. the upright Qi being deficient or not determines the feature of diseases |
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Term
| What are internal evil Qi's? |
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Definition
1. seven emotions
2 abnormal diet
3. phlegm
4. stagnant blood
5. stones
6. five internal evil QI's |
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Term
| What are the external evil Qi's? |
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Definition
1/ six external evil qi's
2. external injury
3. injuries caused by insects or animals
4. parasites |
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Term
| What are the effects of the Evil Qi's |
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Definition
1. causing body dysfunction
2. causing body structure damage
3. causing body constitution change
4. causing death |
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Term
| the role of evil Qi's during pathonesis? |
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Definition
1. the causes fo diseases
2. affecting the type, feature and pattern of disease
3. affecting severity and location of disease
4. Sometime play a dominant role |
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Term
| what determines the type and feature of diseases: |
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Definition
1. Excessive: heat or cold
2. deficient: heat or cold
3. Excessive combined with deficient
4. Superficial disease or internal disease
5.Diseases at Cou Li, meridians, or Zang Fu, etc. |
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Term
| What factors affect pathogenesis? |
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Definition
1. enviroment
2. body constitution
3. mental status |
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Term
| What are teh causes of acute onset of pathogenesis? |
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Definition
1. the evil Qi is very strong
2. strong emotional stimulation
3. strong poisonous substance
4. contagious pathogen (li Qi) |
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Term
| What are the causes of chronic onset of pathogenesis? |
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Definition
1. disease caused by internal evil
2. External: disease caused by dampness
3. deficient upright Qi invaded by weak external evil |
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Term
| What are the causes of a Latent onset of pathogenesis? |
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Definition
The external Evil is weak and needs a period of incubation
2. The upright Qi is n ot ready
3. Latent onset usually can be seen in febrile diseases
4. when it occurs. the disease is severe and change quickly |
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Term
| What are the causes of a secondary onset of pathegenesis? |
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Definition
1liver Yang over active cause stroke (wind disease)
2. Asthma causes Lung Qi deficiency or Heart Blood Stagnation
3. Liver Qi stagnation cause "Zheng Ji" or stones |
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Term
| What causes simultaneous onset? mainly seen in febrile diseases |
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Definition
| When the external evil is very strong and the upright Qi is very weak, the external evil may invade more than 2 meridians or body parts. 1. Taiyang and Yangming 2. Yaimang and Shaoyang 3. Wei and Qi 4. Qi and Blood |
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Term
| What causes recurrence of a disease? |
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Definition
1. the evil Qi has not been expelled completely (ex. antibiotics- UTI)
2. the Upright Qi has not been recovered (Ex. Sex or overeating after treatment)
3. there is a inductive factor (ex. going into the cold after treating a cold disease) |
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