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Bright white face with a bloated appearance: Yang qi deficiency. CAM-248
Yellow Color indicates: Deficiency syndromes or dampness. CAM-249
Bright orange color: Yang jaundice caused by damp heat. CAM-250
Smoky yellow-orange: Yin jaundice resulting from either cold damp or long term stagnation of blood,CAM-251
Pale yellow complexion: Deficiency of both qi and blood. CAM-252
Pale blue color indicates: Cold syndromes, painful syndromes, and stagnation of blood and convulsion. CAM-253
Blue purplish face and lips accompanied by high fever and violent movement of the limbs in children: Infantile convulsions. CAM-254
Dark grey color indicates: Deficiency of the kidney and stagnation of blood. CAM-255
Pale and dark complexion with lumbar soreness and cold feet: Insufficiency of kidney yang. CAM-256
Dark complexion without brightness, accompanied by scaly skin signifies: Prolonged stagnation of blood. CAM-257
Ulceration of the canthus: Damp heat. CAM-258
Upward, straight forward or sideways staring of the eye: Liver wind. CAM-259
Flapping/flaring of the ala nasi: Heat in the lung or deficiency of qi of lung and kidney. CAM-260
Purulent discharge in the ear: Damp heat of the liver/gallbladder. CAM-261
Redness and swelling of the throat with yellow or white ulcer spots are due to: Excessive toxic heat in the lung and stomach. CAM-262
Bright red throat with mild soreness: Yin deficiency leading to hyperactivity of fire. CAM-263
A false membrane oer the throat that is greyish white: Dyptheria. CAM-264
Goes to the route of the tongue: Deep branches of the Heart meridian. CAM-265
Traverses the root of the tongue and spreads over its lower surface: Spleen meridian. CAM-266
Terminates at the route of the tongue: Kidney meridian. CAM-267
Pale purplish and moist tongue: Cold. CAM-268
Rigid tongue indicates: Heat in the pericardium, retention of turbid phlegm, or excessive pathogenic heat, or signs of windstroke. CAM-269
Flaccid tongue: Deficiency of qi and blood or consumption of yin. CAM-270
Black tongue coating indicates: Extreme interior heat or cold. CAM-271
Pale black and slippery tongue coating: Excessive cold due to yang deficiency. CAM-272
Absence of sweating in interior syndromes indicates: Invasion by pathogenic cold. CAM-273
Frequent sweating which is worse on slight exertion is known as: Spontaneous sweating. CAM-274
Spontaneous sweating is due to: Deficiency of qi or yang. CAM-275
Profuse sweating accompanied by listlessness, cold limbs and deep and thready pulse: Exhaustion of yang qi. CAM-276
The presence of thirst indicates: Consumption of body fluids or retention of phlegm damp in the interior preventing the body fluid from ascending. CAM-277
Sweatish taste indicates: Damp heat in the Stomach/Spleen. CAM-278
Tastlessness reflects: Deficiency of the spleen with impairment of t&t. CAM-279
Dribbling of urine is caused by: Exhaustion of kidney qi with its impaired function of controlling urine or obstructed qi of the bladder due to damp heat, stagnant blood, or stones.. CAM-280
Headache with a distending sensation in the head is due to: Upward disturbance of fire and heat. CAM-281
Prickly pain, sharp in nature and fixed in location: Blood stagnation. CAM-282
Weighty pain: Dampness. CAM-283
Colicky pain is a sign of: Abrupt obastruction of the qi by pathogenic factors. CAM-284
Pulling pain which is spasmodic in nature and short in duration relates to: Liver wind. CAM-285
Hollow pain is caused by: Blood deficiency. CAM-286
The rate of a fast pulse is: More than 5 beats/breath (>90 beats/min). CAM-287
A slippery pulse indicates: Phlegm and retained fluid, retention of food and excess heat. CAM-288
A tense pulse indicates: cold, pain and retention of food. CAM-289
A soft pulse indicates: Damp disorders: damp blocking qi and blood in the vessels. CAM-290
The characteristics of an abrupt pulse are: Hurried and rapid with irregular missed beats. CAM-291
An abrupt pulse indicates: Excessive heat, stagnation of qi and blood and retention of phlegm or food. CAM-292
The characteristics of a knotted pulse are: Slow with irregular missed beats. CAM-293
A knotted pulse indicates: Excessive yin, accumulation of qi, retention of cold phlegm and stagnant blood. CAM-294
The characteristics of a regularly intermittent pulse are: Slow and weak with missed beats at regular intervals. CAM-295
A regularly intermittent pulse indicates: Declining of zang qi, wind syndromes, painful syndromes and disorders due to emotional fear and fright, or traumatic contusions and sprains. CAM-296
Immovable hard masses palpated in the abdomen indicate: Blood stagnation. CAM-297
Unfixed soft masses in the abdomen indicate: Qi stagnation. CAM-298
A sallow complexion indicates a yin or yang type syndrome?: Yin. CAM-299
Which meridians are selected to treat wei level disease?: Lung, large intestine, Du and UB. CAM-300
Which meridians are selected to treat qi level heat in the chest and diaphragm?: Pericardium, heart and stomach. CAM-301
Which meridians are generally used to treat Ying Stage Disease?: Heart, Pericardium and Du. CAM-302
In Heart yang deficiency the tongue color will be: Dark purplish. CAM-303
What pulse(s) can occur with Heart blood stagnation: Thready and choppy or missed-beat pulse. CAM-304
A bearing down sensation in the testis with referred pain to the lumbar region are symptoms of: Qi stagnation in the Small Intestine channel. CAM-305
What organ is involved when the pathogenic qi lingers in the elbows: Heart and Lung. CAM-306
What organ is involved when the pathogenic qi lingers in the axilla: Liver. CAM-307
What organ is involved when the pathogenic qi lingers in the groins: Spleen. CAM-308
What organ is involved when the pathogenic qi lingers in the Popliteal fossa: Kidney. CAM-309
Foam on the lips: Ascending of Wind-Phlegm. CAM-310
Wiry-Tense Pulse is due to: Invasion by pathogenic wind cold,CAM-pg 433,311
Face color reflects: The state of qi and blood. FCM-312
Face color dry and lifeless indicates: Stomach qi is exhausted. FCM-313
Green face folor indicates: Liver pattern, interior cold, pain or interior wind.. FCM-314
Yellow face folor indicates: Spleen deficiency or dampness. FCM-315
Bright orange face color: Damp-Heat, with prevalence of heat . FCM-316
Hazy, smokey yellow face color indicates: Damp-Heat with prevalence of dampness. FCM-317
Withered, dried-up yellow face indicates: Stomach and Spleen deficiency. FCM-318
A dull pale yellow face color indicates: Cold-Damp in the Stomach and Spleen. FCM-319
A pale yellow face color surrounded by red spots indicates: Liver Blood stasis. FCM-320
A clear and moist yellow face color in between the eyebrows indicates: That Stomach Qi is recovering after and illness affecting the Stomach and Spleen.. FCM-321
A white face color indicates: Deficiency, cold, blood deficiency or yang deficiency.. FCM-322
A black face color indicates: Cold, pain, or Kidney disease, usually from Kidney-Yin deficiency.. FCM-323
A black and moist face color indicates: Cold. FCM-324
A black and dry face color indicates: Heat, usually Kidney Yin deficiency. FCM-325
A deep face color indicates: An interior condition. FCM-326
A floating face color indicates: An exterior condition. FCM-327
A clear face color indicates: A Yang condition. FCM-328
A dull face color indicates: A Yin condition. FCM-329
A thin face color indicates: Qi deficiency. FCM-330
A thick face color indicates: Excess condition. FCM-331
A scattered face color indicates: New disease. FCM-332
A concentrated face color indicates: Old disease. FCM-333
A moist face color indicates: Good prognosis. FCM-334
A dry face color indicates: Poor prognosis. FCM-335
The schlera pertains to the: Lungs. FCM-336
The corners of the eye pertains to the: Heart. FCM-337
The Upper lids of the eye pertains to the: Spleen. FCM-338
The lower lids of the eye pertains to the: Stomach. FCM-339
The Iris of the eye pertains to the: Liver. FCM-340
The Pupil of the eye pertains to the: Kidney. FCM-341
The midpoint of the philtrum pertains to the: Bladder. FCM-342
The top of the philtrum pertains to the: Stomach. FCM-343
The tip of the nose pertains to the: Spleen. FCM-344
Above the tip of the nose pertains to the: Liver. FCM-345
The lateral midpoint of the nose pertains to the: Gall Bladder. FCM-346
The area between the eyes pertains to the: Heart. FCM-347
The area between the eyebrows pertains to the: Lungs. FCM-348
The forehead pertains to the: Throat. FCM-349
The upper alanasi pertains to the: Small Intestine. FCM-350
The lower alanasi pertains to the: Large Intestine. FCM-351
The lateral border area of the lips pertains to the: Kidneys. FCM-352
If the whole eye is red, painful and swollen it indicates: Either and exterior invasion of wind-heat or liver-fire. FCM-353
Swelling under the eyes indicates: Kidney deficiency. FCM-354
Injuries of the back and chest are reflected by what part of the eye?: Schlera, the upper part is the back and the lower part is the chest. FCM-355
Grey and scattered spots at the end of red veins in the eye reflect: Injuries of qi causing stagnation. FCM-356
Deep black spots at the end of red veins in the eye reflect: Injury causing blood stasis. FCM-357
Tip of the nose is either green or blue indicates: Abdominal pain. FCM-358
Tip of the nose is yellow indicates: Damp-heat. FCM-359
Tip of the nose is white indicates: Blood deficiency. FCM-360
Tip of the nose is red indicates: Heat in the Lung and Spleen. FCM-361
Tip of the nose is grey indicates: Impairment of water movement. FCM-362
If the nose is dry it indicates: Heat in the Stomach or Large Intestine. FCM-363
If the nose is dry and black it indicates: Fire Poison. FCM-364
A clear watery discharge from the nose indicates: Cold. FCM-365
A thick yellow discharge from the nose indicates: Heat. FCM-366
Flaring of the nostrils indicates: Heat in the Lungs. FCM-367
A white color of the ears indicates: Cold. FCM-368
A bluish or black color of the ears indicates: Pain. FCM-369
If the ear lobes are dry, withered and black, they indicate: Extreme exhaustion of Kidney-Qi. FCM-370
Swelling and pain in the ear indicates: Fire in the Shao Yang channels. FCM-371
A thin, small ear lobe is indicative of: Poor constitution. FCM-372
Normal color of the lips should be: Pale red and moist and shiny. FCM-373
If the lips are too red and dry they indicate: Heat in the Spleen and Stomach. FCM-374
If the mouth is always open it is a sign of: An empty pattern. FCM-375
Breathing only through the mouth indicates: Lung Qi deficiency. FCM-376
Greenish color around the mouth indicates: Stasis of Liver-Blood and invasion of the Spleen by the Liver-Qi. FCM-377
The teeth are under the influece of which organ: Kidney. FCM-378
The gums are under the influence of which organ: Stomach. FCM-379
If the teeth are bright and dry like a stone, it indicates: Heat in the Yang Ming. FCM-380
If the teeth are dry and grey, it indicates: Kidney Yin deficiency. FCM-381
If the teeth are bleeding, it indicates: Heat in the Stomach. FCM-382
If the gums are swollen and painful, it indicates: Heat in the Stomach. FCM-383
Pale gums indicate: Blood deficiency. FCM-384
Pain, redness and swelling of the throat indicates: Either Exterior Wind-Heat or Stomach Fire. FCM-385
If the throat is sore and dry, but not swollen and red it indicates: Kidney Yin derficiency with Heat. FCM-386
Pale nails indicate: Blood deficiency. FCM-387
Bluish nails indicate: Blood stasis. FCM-388
The thenar eminence shows the state of the: Stomach. FCM-389
A bluish color of the venules on the thenar eminence of the thumb indicates: Cold in the Stomach. FCM-390
Bluish and shosrt vessels in the thenar eminence indicate: Deficiency patterns. FCM-391
Red vessels in the thenar eminence indicate: Stomach heat. FCM-392
The most proximal of the gates on the finger is called: Wind Gate. FCM-393
The most distal of the gates on the finger is called: Life Gate. FCM-394
Dry skin is usually due to: Liver Blood deficiency. FCM-395
Itchy skin is usually due to: Wind. FCM-396
Swelling of the skin that leaves a mark with pressing is called ______, and is caused by ________: Water Edema, Kidney Yang deficiency. FCM-397
Swelling of the skin that doesn't leave a mark with pressing is called ______, and is caused by ________: Qi Edema, Qi stagnation. FCM-398
A bright and cleary yellow skin color indicates _______ and is caused by: Yang jaundice, damp-heat. FCM-399
A dull-yellow skin color is due to ______ which is due to: Yin jaundice, damp-cold. FCM-400
Venules appearing on the skin are manifestations of: Blood connecting channels. FCM-401
Venules appearing on the skin that are bluish indicate: Cold. FCM-402
Venules appearing on the skin that are red indicate: Heat. FCM-403
Venules appearing on the skin that are greenish indicate: Pain. FCM-404
Venules appearing on the skin that are purplish indicate: Stasis of blood. FCM-405
The tongue body color indicates what 3 things?: Conditions of Blood, Nutritive qi and Yin organs. FCM-406
The tongue body shape indicates what 2 things?: State of Blood and Nutritive qi. FCM-407
The tongue coating indicates: State of the Yang organs and the strength of any pathogenic factors.. FCM-408
The tongue moisture indicates: State of the body fluids. FCM-409
A Pale Tongue body color indicates: Deficiency of yang of blood, the differential being moisture (yang too moist, blood being too dry) and the shape (yang - swollen).. FCM-410
A Pale Tongue body color on the sides indicates: Deficiency of Liver blood. FCM-411
Raised papillae on the tongue indicate: Heat. FCM-412
A Blue Tongue body color indicates: Interior Cold giving rise to Blood stasis. FCM-413
A red tongue body that is swollen indicates: Retention of damp-heat. FCM-414
A stiff tongue body indicates: Interior wind. FCM-415
A flacid tongue body indicates: Deficiency of body fluids. FCM-416
A long tongue body indicates: Tendency to Heat, and in particular Heart heat. FCM-417
A short tongue body indicates: Interior cold if it is pale and wet, and extreme yin deficiency if it is red and peeled. FCM-418
Short horizontal cracks in the tongue body indicate: Stomach Yin deficiency. FCM-419
A shallow wide crack in the middle tongue body not reaching the tip indicates: Stomach Yin deficiency. FCM-420
A long deep midline crack reaching the tip indicates: A tendency to a Heart pattern.. FCM-421
Short transversal cracks on the sides of the tongue indicate: Spleen-qi deficiency. FCM-422
A quivering tongue indicates: Spleen-qi deficiency. FCM-423
A deviated tongue: Interior wind. FCM-424
A thick tongue coating indicates: The presence of a pathogenic factor. FCM-425
Grey and Black tongue coatings indicate: Extreme heat or cold depending on tongue moisture.. FCM-426
Numbness along a channel can indicate: Blood deficiency or retention of internal Wind or Phlegm in the channel. FCM-427
Sudden loss of voice is due to: Wind-heat. FCM-428
Gradual loss of voice is due to: Lung qi or yin deficiency. FCM-429
Relunctance to talk indicates: A cold pattern. FCM-430
A shouting voice indicates: Liver disharmony. FCM-431
A laughing voice indicates: Heart disharmony. FCM-432
A singing voice indicates: Spleen disharmony. FCM-433
A whimpering voice indicates: Lung disharmony. FCM-434
A groaning voice indicates: Kidney disharmony. FCM-435
A rancid smell indicates: Liver disharmony. FCM-436
A burned smell indicates: Heart disharmony. FCM-437
A sweatish smell indicates: Spleen disharmony. FCM-438
A putrid smell indicates: Kidney disharmony. FCM-439
A rank smell indicates: Lung disharmony. FCM-440
A fever in the middle of the night in children indicates: Food retention. FCM-442
Sweating on the head only indicates: Heat in the Stomach or Damp-Heat. FCM-443
Oily sweat on the forehead indicates: Collapse of Yang. FCM-452
Sweating on the arms and legs indicates: Stomach and Spleen deficiency. FCM-445
Sweating on the hands indicates: Lung deficiency. FCM-446
Whole body sweating indicates: Lung deficiency. FCM-447
Sweating on the palms, soles and chest indicates: Yin deficiency. FCM-448
Sweating in the daytime indicates: Yang deficiency. FCM-449
Sweating in the nighttime indicates: Yin deficiency or damp-heat. FCM-450
Profuse cold sweat during illness indicates: Yang deficiency. FCM-451
Headache in the daytime is due to: Qi or yang deficiency. FCM-453
Headache in the nighttime is due to: Yin or blood deficiency. FCM-454
Taiyang channel headache is due to: Exterior wind-cold or interior Kidney deficiency. FCM-455
Yangming channel headache is due to: Stomach heat or blood deficiency. FCM-456
Shaoyang channel headache is due to: Exterior wind cold/heat or interior Liver ang Gall Bladder Fire Rising. FCM-457
Jueyin channel headache is due to: Liver Blood deficiency. FCM-458
Whole head headache is due to: Exterior wind-cold. FCM-459
Dizziness can be due to what 4 factors: Phlegm, Wind, Fire, Deficiency. FCM-460
How can you differentiate numbness in limbs caused by blood deficiency vs wind stroke: Bilateral vs unilateral. FCM-461
Feeling of fullness in the epigastrium is due to: Spleen deficiency or Dampness. FCM-462
Feeling of fullness and distention after eating is due to: Retention of food. FCM-463
A bitter taste indicates: Excess heat ususally either Liver or Heart. FCM-464
A sweet taste indicates: Spleen deficiency or Damp-Heat. FCM-465
A sour taste indicates: Retention of food in the Stomach or Disharmony of Liver and Stomach. FCM-466
A pungent taste indicates: Lung heat. FCM-467
Absence of taste indicates: Spleen deficiency. FCM-468
Sour vomit indicates: Liver invading the Stomach. FCM-469
Bitter vomit indicates: Liver and Gall Bladder Heat. FCM-470
Clear, watery vomit indicates: Cold in the Stomach with retention of fluids. FCM-471
Vomiting after eating indicates: Heat pattern. FCM-472
Constipation that becomes worse after a bowel movement indicates: Deficiency pattern. FCM-473
Constipation that becomes better after a bowel movement indicates: Excess pattern. FCM-474
Constipation with abdominal pain indicates: Internal cold and Yang deficiency. FCM-475
Alternating diarrhea and constipation indicates: Liver qi is invading the Spleen. FCM-476
Pain accompanying diarrhea indicates: Heat or Liver involvment. FCM-477
Absence of smell accompanying diarrhea indicates: Cold. FCM-478
Diarrhea with abdominal pain indicates: Cold in the Intestines. FCM-479
Diarrhea with mucus in the stools indicates: Dampness in the intestines. FCM-480
Diarrhea with mucus and blood in the stools indicates: Damp-Heat in the Intestines. FCM-481
Black or very dark stools indicates: Blood stasis. FCM-482
When the stool comes first, then blood, and the blood is watery, this indicates: Spleen qi deficiency. FCM-483
When the blood comes first, then stool, and the blood is bright red this indicates: Blood stasis or Heat in the Blood. FCM-484
Borborygmi indicates: Either Spleen deficiency or Liver qi stagnation. FCM-485
Enuresis or incontinence of urine indicates: Kidney deficiency. FCM-486
Retention of urine indicates: Damp-Heat in the Bladder. FCM-487
Difficulty urinating indicates: Damp-Heat in the Bladder or Kidney deficiency. FCM-488
Frequent and copius urine indicates: Kidney deficiency. FCM-489
Frequent and scanty urine indicates: Qi deficiency. FCM-490
Pain before urnination indicates: Qi stagnation. FCM-491
Pain during urnination indicates: Heat in the Bladder. FCM-492
Pain after urnination indicates: Qi deficiency. FCM-493
Turbid or cloudy urine indicates: Dampness in the Bladder. FCM-494
Dream disturbed sleep indicates: Liver Fire or Heart Fire. FCM-495
Restless sleep with dreams indicates: Food retention. FCM-496
Waking up early in the morning and not being able to fall back asleep indicates: Gall Bladder deficiency. FCM-497
A sudden onset of Tinnitus indicates: Excess condition usually Liver Fire or Liver Wind. FCM-498

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