Lung And Large Intestine Syndromes - Traditional Chinese Medicine
Test your knowledge of the Lung and Large Intestine Syndromes (first year degree Chinese Medicine level)
- 1.Which syndrome has the following symptoms: Slight shortness of breath, weak voice, easily catches colds
- A.
Lung Yin Deficiency
- B.
Lung Qi Deficiency
- C.
Wei Qi Deficiency
- D.
Kidney Qi Deficiency
- 2.Which syndrome has the following symptoms? Dry cough, dry mouth and throat, feeling of heat in the afternoon and evening.
- A.
Kidney Yin Deficiency
- B.
Lung Qi Deficiency
- C.
Dry-Phlegm Obstructing the Lungs
- D.
Lung Yin Deficiency
- 3.Dry throat, dry mouth, dry skin, thirst and hoarse voice are the main symptoms for:
- A.
Lung Dryness
- B.
Large Intestine Dryness
- C.
Lung Qi Deficiency
- D.
Lung Heat
- 4.A patient comes in with a cold - aversion to wind, sneezing, fever and chills, an itchy throat, and a stuffy nose with clear watery mucus. The pulse is floating and tight. Which syndrome do you suspect?
- A.
Lung Dryness
- B.
Wind-Heat Invading the Lungs
- C.
Wind-Dampness Invading the Lungs
- D.
Wind-Cold Invading the Lungs
- 5.A patient comes in with a fever, feeling chilly, and a sore throat. She also has a cough, and a runny nose with yellow mucus, and sneezing. Which syndrome do you suspect?
- A.
Wind-Cold Invading the Lungs
- B.
Lung Yin Xu
- C.
Wind-Heat Invading the Lungs
- D.
Full-Heat in the Lungs
- 6.A patient has a cold. The symptoms are sneezing, feeling chilly, a feeling of heaviness in the body with a muzzy head, a stuffy nose with profuse white mucus, a poor appetite and loose stools. The pulse is floating and slippery. Which syndrome do you suspect?
- A.
Wind-Cold Invading the Lung
- B.
Wind-Heat Invading the Lung
- C.
Wind-Dampness Invading the Lung
- D.
Full-Heat in the Lung
- 7.Which syndrome has the following symptoms? abdominal pain and fullness, diarrhoea with mucus and blood in stools, offensive odour of stools and burning in the anus.
- A.
Large Intestine Dryness
- B.
Spleen Qi Deficiency
- C.
Damp-Heat in the Large Intestine
- D.
Large Intestine Heat
- 8.Which syndrome has the following syndromes? Constipation with dry stools, and a burning sensation in anus. Pulse is full and rapid.
- A.
Heat in the Large Intestine
- B.
Large Intestine Dryness
- C.
Blood Deficiency
- D.
Kidney Yin Deficiency
- 9.A child comes to you clinic with acute stomach (adbominal) cramping pain, diarrhoea, and feeling chilly. Pulse: Deep, Tight Tongue Coat: Thick, White Which syndrome do you suspect?
- A.
Spleen Yang Deficiency
- B.
Cold Invading the Large Intestine
- C.
Damp-Heat in the Large Intestine
- D.
Large Intestine Dryness
- 10.A prolapsed anus, haemorrhoids, tiredness after bowel movement, cold limbs, poor appetite, mental exhaustion, desire to drink warm liquids, desire to have abdomen massaged. Pulse: Thin, Weak, Deep. Which syndrome do you suspect, and what syndrome underlies it?
- A.
Large Intestine Dryness - Blood Deficiency
- B.
Collapse of Large Intestine - Large Intestine Dryness
- C.
Collapse of Large Intestine - Spleen Qi Sinking
- D.
Collapse of Large Intestine - Damp-Heat
- 11.Select all of the Lung Qi Deficiency symptoms:
- A.
Slight shortness of breath
- B.
Poor appetite
- C.
Dry mouth and throat
- D.
Easily catches colds
- 12.Select all (more than one) of the following Lung Yin Deficiency Symptoms:
- A.
Weak back and knees
- B.
Dry cough or cough with scanty sputum
- C.
Feeling of heat in the afternoon and evening
- D.
Frequent colds
- E.
Dry moujth and throat
- 13.Lung Qi Deficiency can be caused by the following (check more than one):
- A.
Excessive sex
- B.
Prolonged stooping or poor posture
- C.
Poor appetite and diet
- D.
Repeated invasions of wind-cold or wind-heat
- 14.In Damp-Phlegm Obstructing the Lungs there is often an underlying Spleen Qi Deficiency.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.In acute invasions aversion to cold is due to obstruction of the space between skin and muscles by Wind so Defensive (Wei) Qi cannot circulate and warm muscles.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.According to the 8 principles invasion of the Lung by Wind-Heat is an internal problem.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Sadness and Grief can weaken the Lung Qi, and the Lung Yin.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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