Diagnosis & Syndrome Differentiation Flashcards
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A patient reports palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, and a pale complexion with a thin pale tongue. Which pattern does this indicate?
Answer: Heart Blood Deficiency
Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory, pale complexion, and pale thin tongue indicate Heart Blood Deficiency failing to nourish the Shen.
Which pulse quality is most characteristic of Dampness accumulation in the body?
Answer: Slippery (Hua)
A slippery pulse feels like pearls rolling on a plate and is the classic pulse associated with Dampness or Phlegm.
A menopausal woman presents with night sweats, hot flushes, dry mouth at night, malar flush, and a red tongue without coating. What is the pattern?
Answer: Kidney Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat
Night sweats, hot flushes, dry mouth at night, malar flush, and red peeled tongue indicate Kidney Yin Deficiency generating Empty Heat.
In the Zang-Fu differentiation, a patient with chronic cough, dry throat, scanty sticky sputum, and a red tongue with little coating most likely has which pattern?
Answer: Lung Yin Deficiency
Chronic dry cough with scanty sticky sputum, dry throat, red tongue with little coating indicate Lung Yin Deficiency.
A patient presents with sudden loss of voice, sore throat, fever, and aversion to wind. The tongue is red with thin yellow coating. Which pattern is present?
Answer: Wind-Heat Attacking the Lung
Sudden loss of voice with fever, aversion to wind, sore throat, and thin yellow tongue coating indicates Wind-Heat attacking the Lung.
During inspection (Wang Zhen), a yellow and dry nasal discharge most likely indicates which pathogenic factor?
Answer: Wind-Heat
Yellow dry nasal discharge indicates Wind-Heat or Lung Heat, as heat dries fluids and produces yellow-colored secretions.
A patient complains of a feeling of heaviness in the head and body, nausea, sticky taste in the mouth, and a greasy tongue coating. These signs indicate which pathogenic factor?
Answer: Dampness
Heaviness, nausea, sticky taste, and greasy tongue coating are hallmark signs of Dampness obstructing the Middle Jiao.