Pathogenesis Quiz

4. What is your treatment principle for question #4? (A patient comes to you for high cholesterol that she has had for 5 years. She also has slightly yellow sclera and has trouble digesting fats. She tells you that she has tried everything to lose weight for at least 10 years. She has tried all the shake, raw food, salad diets possible, but she just becomes more fatigued and gains more weight. She has had chronic yeast infections, heaviness in her body and loose stool for about 8 years).

A) Tonify SP and dry damp; clear damp-heat in GB

B) Soothe wood energy; tonify SP

C) Dry damp, cool heat in the HT

D) Dry damp, warm SP; move LR ss

5. Which of the following is not a Five-Elements insulting sequence pattern?

A) Jaundice, hypochondriac pain and distention.

B) Tiredness, irritability, a feeling of distention, white face, spontaneous sweating, frequent colds.

C) Diarrhea, lower body edema, tiredness, weak limbs, coldness.

D) Cough, asthma and feeling of distention in chest and hypogastrium.

6. A patient has high cholesterol for 5 years. She also has slightly yellow/red sclera and has trouble digesting fats. She tells you that she has tried everything to lose weight for at least 10 years. She has tried all the shake, raw food, salad diets possible, but she just becomes more fatigued and gains more weight. She has had chronic yeast infections, heaviness in her body and loose stool for about 8 years. Her tongue is red with a sticky, yellow coat with scallops. What is her diagnosis?

A) Damp-cold in the SP; LR qi stasis

B) Earth insulting Wood

C) Wood overacting on Earth

D) Damp-heat in the HT

7. A patient has had amenorrhea for 5 years. It started after the birth of her 2nd baby when she had a lot of blood loss. Since then, she has had poor memory and palpitations when fatigued. In the past few months, she's had a lot of stress which has caused a lot of loose stool, frequent colds and flus, spontaneous sweating and more fatigue. She said the stress is on the increase in the past 2 weeks and she has noticed a barking cough with yellow phlegm. Her pulse is wiry. What is her pathogenesis?

A) HT blood def + LR stasis → SP qi def → mother not nourishing child (SP not nourishing LU) → LR insulting LU

B) HT blood def + HT fire + LR overacting on SP → mother not nourishing child (SP not nourishing LU)

C) HT qi def + LR stasis → SP qi def → mother not nourishing child (SP not nourishing LU) → LR invading LU

D) HT qi def → SP qi def → LR overacting on SP → mother not nourishing child (SP not nourishing LU)

8. If a patient has had KI yin deficiency for 10 years and then LR blood deficiency for 2 years. What is the most possible pattern according to the 5-element cycle?

A) Child taking from mother

B) Mother taking from child

C) Mother not nourishing child

D) LR insulting KI

10. Many years of red eyes, easy anger, stress, and alcohol leading to recent symptoms of low back ache, night sweats and high pitch tinnitus is an example of:

A) Child taking from mother

B) Mother taking from child

C) Mother not nourishing child

D) Wood insulting Water

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