Kidney Health and Deficiencies Quiz

<p>Dribbling After Urination (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Oedema – ankles (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clear Heat in LI/ST, Promote body fluids (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stimulate Kid receiving Qi (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kidney Yang Xu (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Constipation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dizziness (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weak (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thick yellow (brown) dry coating (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Smooth flow of Liv qi (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damp Heat in Bladder (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Night sweating (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tonify He Qi (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damp Cold in Bladder (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heart Blood Xu (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Extreme emotions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Swollen with thick sticky coating (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lower back ache and frequent pale abundant urination (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heart Blood Stagnation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heart Fire Blazing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dry Cough (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damp-Phlegm Heat in the Lungs (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Remove water by Qi transformation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Invasion of Lung by Wind-Damp (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Barking Cough (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damp-Phlegm Heat in the Lungs (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large Intestine (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Release Exterior (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Damp-Phlegm (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fever (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frequent burning urination with difficulty urinating (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>White sticky at the root (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stomach Fire (Phlegm-Fire) (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Severe stabbing pain worse at night (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slippery and rapid (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sudden severe pain in the epigastrium with vomiting (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Red in the center with dry yellow coat (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Resolve Dampness and Clear Heat (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Diarrhea with mucus or blood (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Slippery and slow (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fine Tremor (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Choppy (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nausea (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tonify Sp Qi (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Convulsions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stagnation of Cold in the Liver (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pale, Thin (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feeling Cold (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Liver Fire Blazing (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Move qi (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poor Appetite (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nourish Lung Yin (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feeling Heaviness (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clear Heat (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A deficiency in the vital essence of the Kidneys, resulting in symptoms like poor bone development, weakness in the knees, falling hair, and weakened sexual activity.

Deficiency of Kidney Yin, causing symptoms like night sweating, lower backache, and a pale tongue.

A condition of Kidney Yang deficiency, characterized by backache, abundant clear urination, a pale tongue, and a deep pulse.

A pattern where the Kidneys are unable to properly receive Qi, resulting in shortness of breath on exertion and clear urination.

A condition marked by insufficient Kidney Qi, causing backache, dribbling after urination, chronic white vaginal discharge, and a lack of firmness.

A pattern of Kidney Yin deficiency with excess heat, presenting with malar flush (redness on cheeks), afternoon heat sensation, dizziness, tinnitus, and a red, peeled tongue.

A condition where Kidney Yang is deficient, resulting in water accumulation and symptoms like oedema, a pale swollen tongue, and a deep weak pulse.

The Bladder's primary function is to eliminate water through a process called Qi transformation.

Frequent, burning urination, difficulty weeing - stops midflow, dark yellow/turbid urine, blood in urine. Tongue: sticky, yellow and red spots. Pulse: slippery-rapid.

Frequent urination, difficulty weeing - stops midflow, pale turbid urine, heavy hypogastrium. Tongue: white sticky at the root. Pulse: Slippery and slow.

Frequent pale abundant urination, incontinence, lower back ache, dizziness, nocturia, white discharge, feeling cold. Tongue: Pale, wet. Pulse: Deep, weak.

Palpitations, tiredness. Aetiology: Chronic illness, profuse perspiration, emotional problems. Pulse: Empty.

Palpitations, cold hands. Aetiology: As above + Kid Yang xu. Pulse: Deep-weak.

Palpitations, insomnia, poor memory. Aetiology: Diet, blood loss. Tongue: Pale.

Palpitations, mental restlessness, night sweats. Aetiology: anxiety, Shen disturbance, heat invasion. Tongue: Without coating.

Palpitations, thirst, tongue ulcers. Aetiology: Extreme emotions, LQS→Heat (Bitter taste, red face, dark urine). Tongue: Red.

Stabbing pain in chest, cyanosis of lips. Aetiology: ... Tongue: Purple.

Mental confusion (due to phlegm obstruction), rattling sound in throat. Aetiology: Mentally handicapped, phlegm from greasy cold foods, severe emotional problems + anxiety. Tongue: Swollen with thick sticky coating.

A pattern involving excessive dampness in the Large Intestine (LI) causing symptoms like slippery stools, diarrhoea, constipation, dry tongue, scanty urination, burning in the mouth, and a thick yellow dry coating on the tongue.

A pattern where Heat accumulates in the Large Intestine (LI) causing symptoms like thick yellow (brown) dry coating on the tongue, rapid pulse, burning /swelling in the anus, dry stools, and constipation.

A condition where damp heat accumulates in the Gallbladder (GB), causing symptoms like bitter taste, tinnitus, irritability, numbness, swelling in the feet, dizziness, thirst without the desire to drink, fever, scanty dark urine, sticky yellow coating on the tongue, and a slippery, wiry, rapid pulse.

A deficiency of the Gallbladder (GB) characterised by dizziness, blurred vision, floaters, nervousness, timidity, indecision, sighing, a pale normal tongue, and a weak pulse.

A pattern where the Liver (Liv) is unable to regulate the flow of Qi properly, leading to GB Xu (Gallbladder Deficiency). This can present with dizziness, blurred vision, floaters, nervousness, timidity, indecision, sighing, and a pale normal tongue.

The Lung is dry and needs moisture. This can be caused by a deficiency of body fluids or heat in the lungs drying them out.

Phlegm is trapped in the lungs, blocking the flow of Qi. Commonly caused by heat in the lungs.

Excess dampness in the lungs leads to excessive phlegm production and a build-up of fluids.

Wind and dampness have invaded the lungs, causing swelling, aversion to damp, and fever.

Wind and heat invade the lungs causing a sudden fever, sore throat, aversion to cold and a rapid pulse.

Wind and cold infiltrate the lungs, causing a sudden onset of fever, sneezing, and aversion to cold.

This organ transforms and removes water from the body.

This organ is responsible for storing and excreting bile, which affects decision-making and the control of muscles and tendons.

This organ is responsible for the passage and conduction of food, as well as the reabsorption of fluids.

This organ receives and transforms food, separating fluids.

Frequent urination that stops midstream, pale and cloudy urine, and heaviness in the lower abdomen.

Burning sensation in the upper abdomen, intense thirst for cold drinks, mental restlessness, bleeding gums, dry stools, mouth ulcers, sour regurgitation, nausea, excessive hunger, foul breath, and feeling hot.

Severe stabbing pain in the upper abdomen, worse at night and with pressure, possibly accompanied by vomiting, including blood.

Sudden, severe pain in the upper abdomen, feeling cold, vomiting clear fluids, and nausea.

Abdominal pain, diarrhea with mucus or blood, scanty and dark urine, possible fever, sweating, feeling heavy, and abdominal fullness.

Burning urination, abdominal pain, and blood or mucus in the stools.

Difficulty passing urine, dark yellow and cloudy urine, and blood in the urine.

Excess Liver Yang rising to the head, causing symptoms like dizziness, headache, tremor, tinnitus, blurred vision, insomnia, and hypertension.

Liver blood deficiency causing symptoms like fine tremor, Dizziness, blurred vision, poor memory, numbness/tingling limbs, insomnia, scanty menses, facial tic, and a pale, thin tongue.

Extreme heat in the body leading to symptoms like tremors, convulsions, high fever, neck rigidity, a deep red tongue, and a stiff, dry yellow coating.

Rebellious Liver Qi rising and invading the stomach, causing symptoms like irritability, epigastric and hypochondrial distension and pain, sour regurgitation, hiccup, belching, nausea, and vomiting.

Rebellious Liver Qi rising and invading the spleen, causing symptoms like abdominal distension and pain, alternating constipation and diarrhea, and a wiry pulse.

Liver Yin deficiency with Liver Yang rising, causing symptoms like headache, irritability, a wiry pulse, and blurred vision.

Deficiency of Liver Blood causing symptoms like blurred vision, scanty menses, a dull-pale complexion, a pale tongue, and a choppy pulse.

Cold stagnation in the liver channel causing symptoms like hypogastrium pain radiating to the scrotum, cold hands and feet, and a deep, wiry, slow pulse.

Stagnant Liver Blood causing symptoms like dark clotted menses, a purple tongue, and severe stabbing pain.

Damp heat in the Liver or Gallbladder causing symptoms like fullness in the hypochondrium or abdomen, a bitter or sticky taste, nausea, a feeling of heaviness, a sticky yellow coating on the tongue, and a slippery pulse.

Excess Liver Fire blazing, causing symptoms like irritability, headaches, red face, red eyes, a red tongue with yellow coating, and a rapid pulse.

Stagnant Liver Qi causing symptoms like distension, depression, moodiness, and a wiry pulse.

Deficiency of Spleen Qi leading to symptoms like tiredness, loose stools, and poor appetite.

Deficiency of Spleen Yang leading to symptoms like tiredness, loose stools, and feeling cold.

Spleen Qi sinking downwards, causing symptoms like a bearing down sensation and a weak pulse.