Glossary
Bing: disease or disease process
Blood heat: a serious condition characterized by purple or red rashes, high fever,
bleeding bright red blood from orifices.
Five Elements: illustration and description
Kidney Yang Deficiency: A pattern of disharmony characterized by some of the following
signs and symptoms: pale or frequent urination, low back pain, subjective feelings of
cold, early morning diarrhea, exhaustion.
Lin Syndrome: A Lin Sydrome is almost synomynmous with Urinary Tract
Infection. There are 4 main types: 1) Heat characterized by painful, burning,
scanty and dark urine 2) Blood characterized by blood in the urine 3) Damp characterized
by cloudy urine and 4) Stone characterized by passage of stones. Lin syndromes
may be characterized by one or more of these types, for example Damp Heat Lin
Spleen Qi deficiency: A Chinese Medical diagnosis characterized by the following conditions:
loose stools, multiple bowel movements per day, nausea, low energy, heavy body, excessive worry, wet scalloped tongue,
and slippery pulse. This condition is aggravated by eating dairy, greasy foods, thinking while eating, and excessive worry.
One can improve this condition by eating well cooked foods and soups, and eating regular meals. Raw vegetables
should be avoided.
Spleen Yang deficiency: A condition similar to Spleen Qi deficiency, except it is more severe. The stools are more
frequent and watery.
Wind-Cold EPI: A common cold that is characterized by the following signs and symptoms: chills, aversion to wind, low fever if any,
body aches, stiff neck, sneezing, white tongue coat, and superficial pulse. This condition is treated with
warm pungent/acrid herbs. An easy recipe for this condition is a ginger, scallion and brown sugar soup. Chicken can also be added.
Wind-Heat EPI: A common cold that is characterized by the following signs and symptoms: mild or no chills, fever, sore throat, thin yellow tongue coat, superficial rapid pulse.
This condition is treated with cool pungent/acrid herbs.
Yin Deficiency: a condition characterized my a lack of nutritive Qi and blood. Some of the
Signs and symptoms depend upon one's sex and the ZangFu effected but include: Thin pulse,
narrow red tongue, no tongue coat, feeling hot in the afternoon, menopausal symptoms, thin body,
trouble staying asleep, hot hands and feet, etc.
ZangFu: The Chinese Yin and Yang organs. Chinese organs mentioned throughout
this site are differentiated from their biomedical counterparts based on
capitalization e.g. The Chinese ZangFu "Heart" is not to be taken to mean
exactly the counterpart
biomedical heart but rather the whole of the Heart function as defined by Chinese Medicine.
The ZangFu partners are as follows according to their respective elements:
1. Metal: Lung & Large Intestine
2. Earth: Spleen (which is most functionally equivalent to the pancreas) and Stomach
3. Fire: Heart and Small Intestine + Pericardium and Triple Heater (San Jiao, which is divides the torso into three sections:
Upper, Middle and Lower Jiao)
4. Water: Kidney and Urinary Bladder
5. Wood: Liver and Gall Bladder
Zheng: The patients pattern of presentation at any particular instant.