Decided not to include meridians in the exam, there's just a lot to study...
Review the following:
1) 8 principles, particularly what each pair of principles is for (example, heat/cold refer to the nature of the pathogen, yin and yang refer to overall quality)
2) what are characteristics of excess (aka full) patterns? or deficiency (empty) patterns, etc etc
Know the following about the six levels - which one is characterized by alternating fever and chills? which one is characterized by four bigs (excess fever, thirst, sweat and pulse), which one is a sign of spleen weakness, which one affects heart and kidney? etc etc Same with four stages of warm disease - which one has faint skin eruptions, which one has real bleeding?
In Heart problems:
which pattern is characterized by cold? which one characterized by five palm heat? which is the mildest, which affects the mind?
SI problems - not included
In Spleen and stomach - study spleen qi deficiency, spleen yang deficiency, spleen qi sinking and spleen not controlling blood. know which appetite characteristic fits which pattern
Lung and LI Problems: how to differentiate lung qi vs lung yin deficiency? wind-heat vs wind cold? phlegm and body fluid deficiency? large intestine heat vs cold?
Liver problems: liver yin vs liver blood deficiency. how to distinguish liver qi stagnation, liver yang vs liver fire
Kidney - distinguish kidney qi from kidney yang and kidney yin deficiency...
Remember: Yang deficiencies are characterized by COLD. Yin deficiencies by empty heat
And maraming bonus!
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Philip Nino Tan-Gatue, MD
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