Theory of causes of disease
The theory dealing with the classification of pathogenic factors and their properties, and pathogenic characteristics and processes, the same as etiology
Pathogen
An agent causing disease, also called pathogenic factor or pathogenic qi
External pathogen
Any pathogen originating outside the body
Seasonal pathogen
A general designation for the pathogenic factors causing seasonal diseases
Yang pathogen
Pathogen of yang nature
Yin pathogen
Pathogen of yin nature
Combined pathogen
Any combination of more than one pathogen
External contraction
Disease or morbid condition produced by any of the six excesses--external etiological factors or other noxius factors, the same as exopathic disease
Six excesses
A collective term for the six excessive or untimely climatic illness as external pathogenic factors: wind, cold, summer-heat, dampness, dryness and fire, also the same as six climatic pathogenic factors.
Wind
Wind as a pathogenic factor characterized by its rapid movement, swift changes, and ascending and opening actions, also called pathogenic wind
Cold
Cold as a pathogenic factor characterized by the damage of yang qi, deceleration of activity, congealing and contracting actions, also called pathogenic cold
Summer-heat
Summer heat as a pathogenic factor, only occurring in summer, characterized by hotness and evaporation, also called pathogenic summer-heat
Dampness
Dampness as a pathogenic factor characterized by its impediment to qi movement and its turbidity, heaviness, stickiness and downward flowing properties, also called pathogenic dampness
Dryness
Dryness as a pathogenic factor characterized by dryness and is apt to injure the lung and consume fluid, also called pathogenic dryness
Fire
Fire as a pathogenic factor characterized by intense heat that is apt to injure fluid, consume qi, engender wind, inducing bleeding, and disturb the mental activities, also called pathogenic fire
Heat
Heat as a pathogenic factor that causes heat pattern / syndrome, also called pathogenic heat
External wind
Wind as one of the six excesses that causes external wind pattern / syndrome
External cold
Cold as one of the six excessive that causes external cold pattern / syndrome
External dampness
Dampness as one of the six excesses that causes eternally contracted dampness pattern / syndrome
External dryness
Dryness as one of the excesses that causes external dryness pattern / syndrome
Internal wind
The same as the liver wind, wind in the interior due to abnormal movement of body’s yang qi
Internal cold
Cold in the interior due to deficiency of yang qi or preponderance of yin cold dampness produced in the body due to yang
Internal dampness
Deficiency of the spleen and kidney with decreased fluid transportation and transformation and resultant water stagnation
Internal dryness
Dryness in the interior due to consumption of body fluid
Wind-cold
A combined pathogen of external wind and cold
Wind-heat
A combined pathogen of external wind and heat
Wind-dampness
A combined pathogen of external wind and dampness; arthritis with tissue inflammation
Wind-dryness
A combined pathogen of external wind and dryness
Wind-phlegm
A combined pathogen of wind and phlegm
Cold-dampness
A combined pathogen of cold and dampness
Wind-cold-dampness
A combined pathogen of wind, cold and dampness
Dampness-heat
A combined pathogen of dampness and heat
Dampness-fire
Depressed dampness transforming into fire that damages spleen-stomach yin
Dampness turbidity
The same as dampness, It describes the heaby, viscid and turbid nature of dampness
Turbid pathogen
Pathogenic dampness-turbidity of phlegm-turbidity, usually impeding the movement of yang qi
Foul turbidity
Including putrid and filthy qi that miasma causes disease
Summer-heat qi
Summer heat as a pathogenic factor
Summer-heat heat
Summer heat as a pathogen that gives rise to disease characterized by heat symptoms
Summer-heat dampness
A combined pathogen of summer-heat and dampness
Dryness qi
Dryness as a pathogenic factor
Dryness-heat
A combined pathogen of dryness and heat
Cold dryness
The pathogenic factor pattern / syndrome that causes cood dryness
Warm dryness
The pathogenic factor pattern / syndrome that causes cool dryness
Warm dryness
The pathogenic factor pattern / syndrome that causes warm dryness
Warm pathogen
A collective term for various pathogens causing acute febrile diseases?
Pestilence
A collective term for various highly infectious epidemic diseases
Latent qi
The pathogen that induces the onset of disease after a latent period, also called incubative pathogen
Epidemic pathogen
Pathogen that cause an epidemic infectious diseases, also called pestilential qi.
Toxin
Any virulent disease pathogen that causes a fulminating
Heat toxin
Pathogenic heat arising from accumulated a virulent pathogen
Fire toxin
Pathogenic agent formed in the course of smoldering of pathogenic fire; or burns or scalds complicated with infection
Dampness toxin
Noxious pathogenic factor formed by stagnation of dampness, which may cause hematochezia when it occurs in the intestine or ulcer of the shank when in the muscles and skin of the lower limbs
Cold toxin
A cold pathogen with virulent coldness
Seasonal toxin
Virulent pathogens prevalent in a particular season or seasons; or painful swelling in the neck, cheek and jaw, caused by epidemic seasonal pathogens which invades the three yang meridians
Measles toxin
The pathogen that causes measles
Internal toxin
Het toxins dormant in the body
Fetal toxin
Toxic heat affecting the fetus; or any congenital pathogenic factor, also known as fetal toxicosis
Miasmic toxin
Noxious mountainous vapor alleged to be the cause of certain kinds of malaria, also known as miasma
Malign qi
A general term for the pathogenic qi, including six excesses and pestilential factors; or a pathological product derived from stagnation of qi and blood; also called evil qi.
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