CHAPTER 10

DISEASE CAUSES, QI-BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS PATTERN DIFFERENTIATION

病因、气血和津液辨证

Upon completion of this chapter, you are required to:

  1. Master the basic words forming TCM terms associated with this chapter.
  2. Understand new TCM terms formed by these words.
  3. Make new TCM terms using these basic words.
  4. State the Pattern features caused by each of the six excesses.
  5. Describe qi-blood and body fluids pattern differentiation.

Pattern differentiation is not only based on the eight principles but also based on viscera and bowels, disease cause, qi-blood, and fluid-humor. All these pattern differentiation methods complement* each other forming a complete diagnostic system in TCM. In this chapter, we are going to discuss disease causes, qi-blood and body fluids pattern differentiation.

Disease causes include but are not limited to six climatic pathogenic factors, or six excesses, five internally generated pathogenic factors, emotions, worm accumulation, food accumulation, pathological products and traumatic injury. However, because of the limited space, we will talk about six excesses pattern differentiation, qi and blood disease pattern differentiation, and body fluids pattern differentiation.

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