Botanical Name Game
Melissa officinalis
Lemon balm
These symptoms include fever, neck stiffness, and photophobia in a patient with severe headache.
What is Meningitis?
This Yang pathogenic factor mimics nature's movement, causing tremors and convulsions, and tends to affect the top part of the body first.
What is Wind?
This degenerative joint condition commonly affects the knee and worsens with age and weight-bearing.
What is Osteoarthritis?
Withania somnifera
Ashwagandha
These symptoms include chest pain radiating to left arm, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis in a patient over 50.
What is myocardial infarction?
Associated with autumn and the Lungs, this Yang pathogenic factor's symptoms include parched throat, dry skin, and scanty urination.
What is Dryness?
This condition involves monosodium urate (MSU) crystal deposition in joints and can cause acute knee pain and swelling
What is gout?
Petasites hybridus
Butterbur
These symptoms include acute onset epigastric pain, hematemesis or melena, tachycardia, orthostatic hypotension, and possible history of NSAID use or H. pylori infection.
What is Peptic Ulcer Disease with GI Bleeding?
This Yin pathogenic factor is sticky, heavy, tends to invade the lower body first, and can cause symptoms like loose stools and urinary difficulties.
What is Dampness?
This pediatric condition causes knee pain during growth spurts in active adolescents.
What is Osgood-Schlatter Disease?
Viburnum opulus
Crampbark
These symptoms include new-onset or changed headache, jaw claudication, acute vision loss (especially monocular), temporal artery tenderness, abnormal pulses, unexplained fever, and associated polymyalgia rheumatica in patients over 50
What is Giant Cell Arteritis?
This internal pathogenic factor, often caused by Spleen deficiency, can lead to serious conditions and is characterized by a swollen tongue body and sticky coating.
What is Phlegm?
This condition involves damage to the articular cartilage on the posterior surface of the patella.
What is Chondromalacia Patella?
Harpagophytum procumbens
Devil's claw
These symptoms include abrupt onset of thoracic or abdominal pain with a sharp, tearing, or ripping character, variation in pulse (absent proximal extremity or carotid pulse) and/or blood pressure differential >20 mmHg between arms, and mediastinal/aortic widening on chest radiograph.
What is acute aortic dissection?
Only occurring in one specific season, this unique Yang pathogenic factor causes fever, sweating, and irritability with no internal equivalent.
What is Summer-Heat?
This often presents as posterior knee pain and swelling localized to the posterior capsule. Swelling can be abrupt or insidious in onset.
What is popliteal (Baker's) cyst?