Zang Fu The Organ Systems of Traditional Chinese Medecine Chapter 5 Patterns of Disease

Zang Fu

Chapter 5

Patterns of Disease

-Patterns of Disharmony of the Eight Principles

• YinYang
• Interior and Exterior
• Cold and Heat
• Deficiency and Excess

-Combinations of the Patterns of the Eight Principles

• Exterior and Heat, Interior and Heat; Exterior and Cold, Interior and Cold
• Excess and Heat, Deficiency and Heat, Excess and Cold, Deficiency and Cold
• Excess and Heat (Excess Yang), Deficiency and Heat (Deficient Yin)
• Excess Heat (Excess Yang)
• Deficient Heat (Deficient Yin)
• Excess and Cold (Excess Yin), Deficiency and Cold (Deficient Yang)
• Excess Cold (Excess Yin)
• Deficient Cold (Deficient Yang)
• Collapse of Yin or Yang
• True Heat and Illusionary Cold: True Cold and Illusionary Heat