Yin and Yang: Mixed review

Joint pain that worsens with cold and rain and eases with a hot water bottle. Which imbalance is most likely?

1. Yin deficiency
2. Excess yin from cold and damp
3. Excess yang

Match each imbalance with its strategy.

Before choosing a technique: in this patient, do you add or do you remove?

• A hard abdomen that refuses pressureAddRemove
• Weak voice and wanting to lie down by mid-morningAddRemove
• Thick yellow coating and strong breathAddRemove
• Pallor, dizziness on standing and brittle nailsAddRemove
• Spontaneous daytime sweating on the least effortAddRemove
• Throbbing headache that worsens with angerAddRemove

Order the typical course of a yin deficiency left to itself for years.

1. Mild dryness and poorer rest↑↓
2. Heat in the five surfaces and night sweats↑↓
3. Yang no longer contained, rising to the head↑↓
4. Yang stops being generated for lack of a base↑↓
5. Cold and exhaustion with the tongue still red↑↓

Undigested stools, coldness eased by wrapping up and a deep weak pulse. Build the name.

Dry mouth and chest heat at night, and at the same time loose stools and cold feet. How do you frame the treatment?

1. Pick the most annoying sign and treat only that
2. Wait until one of the two pictures clears
3. Name both — yin deficiency above and yang deficiency below — and decide which to treat first and with what precautions