Where's That Meridian?
What Time Is It?
My Food Is What?
The Basics
What Should I Eat?
100
Please trace the peri cardium channel on the person to your left
100
What is the time of the lungs?
3am-5am
100
What are the 5 flavors?
Bitter, pungent, sweet, salty, sour
100
What are the 5 elements? (In order)
Wood, fire, earth, metal, and water
100
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson feels hot all the time and is always sweating. According to TCM what type of foods should he eat? (Energy Wise)
Cold and Cooling
200
This meridian starts at the inner canthus
The Urinary Bladder
-Please trace
200
What time is the liver most active?
1am-3am
200
Cool, cold, neutral, warm, and hot are referred to as what in TCM?
The Four Energies (Si Qi)
200
Earth is the grandmother to ____
Wood
200
Jay Lo comes to you with Fixed, stabbing, worse at night pain, dark, purplish complexion or lips, Dark menstrual blood with clots, Purple/dark tongue, possible stasis spots, and Choppy (涩) pulse. You prescribe her herbs for blood stasis. What type of herbs should she avoid during menstruation, as they contraindicate her condition?
Blood Invigorating Foods
Hawthorn, Black rice vinegar, tumeric, saffron, black fungus, and brown sugar
Slide 25 Class 3 Herbs
300
This meridian ends 2 cun away from the midline, under the clavicle
The kidney
300
This organ is of the water element and active from 3pm-5pm
Urinary Bladder
300
What are the colors associated with the 5 flavors?
Sour - Green
Bitter - Red
Sweet - Yellow
Pungent/Acrid - White
Salty - Black
300
Which seasons are associated with the five elements?
Wood - Spring
Fire - Summer
Earth - Later Summer/Transitions of Seasons
Metal - Autumn
Water - Winter
300
Beyonce comes to your clinic and says she feels dizzy, has insomnia, her periods are scanty, and she has a pale complexion. Her tongue is pale and she has a weak pulse. These signs indicate blood deficiency. What foods should she eat?
Donkey skin, Chinese dates, animal organs, black fungus(woodear) -> refer to slide 19 class 2 Herbs
400
Please trace the gall bladder meridian on the person to your right
400
This Zang Fu organs time includes the hour of noon
Heart
400
Ginger, garlic, and spring onion are examples of what type of element of food?
Pungent -> Metal
400
Opposition, Transformation, Interdependence, and Mutual Consumption describe the relationship between what TCM principle?
Yin and Yang
400
Messi just played in the world cup and has come to you for diet advice. He has a greasy coating on his tongue, heavy limbs, poor appetite, and feels worse in humidity. You've deducted he has dampness. What herbs are you prescribing him?
Yi Ren(Job's Tears), Fu Ling(Poria), Barley, White Lentils, Winter Melon, or Adzuki Beans(Chi Xiao Dou) -> Slide 7 Class 3 Herbs
500
Please trace all the pathways of the third circuit
Pericardium -> San Jiao -> Gall bladder -> Liver
500
What are the times of the ZangFu related to the element Earth
SP - 9am-11am
ST - 7am-9am
500
Where would foods that drain downward in nature enter the body?
Bitter drains downward, and bitter foods enter heart/small intestine
500
Please describe the Insulting/Counter-Acting sequence
When the grandson insults the grandmother
Insulting
Normal (Control)
500
Your mom complains of mental fog, heavy sensation, possible disorientation, and has a greasy tongue coat. You prescribe your mother chen pi, fresh ginger, fu ling (poria), Job's tears (yi yi ren), white radish, garlic, and scallions as food options. What condition does your mother have?
Phlegm misting the Heart
Slide 20,25,29 Class 4 Herbs