Qi deficiency

Key Insight
Don't rest
Physical connection
exhaustedoverwhelmedcoldtimiddifficult to be motivated Functional Problems + Cold Pulse lower than home Bloated pale tongue Low energy Poor Vitality (low metabolism) Put weight on easily
Physical Symptom
Heart: Palpitations, dysrhythmia
Cough: Wet
Nose: Sinus or blocked
Headaches: Frontal headaches- dull
Headaches: Occipital headaches - dull
Headaches: Parietal/vertex headaches - dull
Teeth: Decay
Digestion/ Energy: Bloated, diarrhoea, undigested food in stool
Digestion/ Energy: Energy lower in afternoon or generally low or low after exertion
Digestion/ Energy: No appetite
Sex drive: Low
Menstruation: Intense pain and pin prick clots or dull pain during
Sleep: Wake up to go to toilet
Ears: Tinnitus – soft, poor hearing
Heart: Angina, problems with the pump
Urination: Frequent, difficulty controlling
Breathing: Difficulty breathing out, asthma, bronchitis
Pain: Dull, worse with fatigue
Heart: Chest pain - dull
Illnesses
Qi deficiency is like yang deficiency but milder. Generally at that point there is not much cold but the client will be tired. Exhausted and overwhelmed. Cold, timid and demotivated. I am too exhausted to change. I give up.
Psych (excess)
Milder than Yang Driven overactive never rest intense self-focussed Emotionally disconnected Aggressive and assertive
Psych (deficient)
Milder than Yang: Exhausted and overwhelmed. Cold, timid and demotivated. I am too exhausted to change. I give up.
Related Principle
Empty (deficiency)
More specific principle
Yang (deficiency)
Deficient Pain
Type
Pattern
Lesson
In many cases hot excess and yang conditions overtime lead to cold deficient and yin conditions. Excessive SNS activity drives excessive metabolic rates that over time deplete the body’s reserves of nutrients and compromise digestion – ie. the intake of nutrients (see figure below). Dancing Singing Walking Journaling 5 minutes per day doing something fun Skipping Cold from yang def: exhaustion, history of being overly driven or giving everything away without looking after self
Look for
Functional Problems + Cold Pulse lower than home, Bloated pale tongue, Low energy, Poor Vitality (low metabolism), Put weight on easily
Questions to ask
Is there some area in your life you are feeling stuck
Pulse
Empty (Xu)
Short (Duan)
Fine (Xi)
Minute (Wei)
Soggy (or Weak-Floating) (Ru)
Scattered (San)
Pulse position
Distal—Heart
Middle—Liver
Proximal—Kidney TCM
Distal—Lung
Middle—Spleen

General Notes

In terms of deficiency there is a spectrum of disease:

Yang def ← Qi def ← Health → Blood def → Yin def

One extreme is yang deficiency. The other is yin deficiency.

Qi deficiency is like yang deficiency but milder. Generally at that point there is not much cold but the client will be tired.

Blood deficiency is like yin deficiency but milder. Generally there is not much heat but the skin will show some signs of dryness (particularly nails, lips and hair). Sleep is often affected, particularly difficulty falling asleep.

Qi and Yang Deficiency

  • Qi def = poor function
  • Qi def + Cold = yang deficiency
  • Qi is not supposed to be about ethereal energy - more about how well bodily processes work
  • Yin and Yang metaphor hot and cold taps
    • Could be excess cold/yin or deficient hot/yang
    • Q Do you get hot or cold?
  • Qi Deficiency
    • Poor digestion - Sp Qi Def - St Qi Def
    • Breathing difficulties - Lu Qi Def (out) - Ki Qi Def (in)
    • Waking to go to the toilet - Ki Qi Def then Bl Qi Def (Qi for Bl comes from Ki Qi)
    • Heart Muscle Incapacity - Ht Qi Def
    • Excessive bleeding - Sp Qi Def
  • Yang Def
    • Waking to go to the toilet and cold - Ki Yang Deficiency
    • Drink on hot drinks & food - Sp Yang Deficiency
    • Always Cold - Ki Yang Deficiency
    • Cold sweats in the day - Lu Yang Deficiency
    • Adults unlikely to have a yang excess - what else causes heat? Stagnation.
    • Day sweat is cold sweat in the day

      • Yang deficiency

    • Hiding submitting victim
    • Timid lazy impotent weak
    • Doing little to overcome obstacles - I give up
    • Exhausted overwhelmed - too exhausted to change
    • Cold timid demotivated
    • Overeat
    • Cowardice

      • Cold

    • yang Qi weak
    • Metabolism too slow
    • Temp 36.5 to 37 c
    • Pulse 60 to 70 and weak
    • Cold extremities.
    • Meaning - Find the why behind this
      • Usually run down - run them selves down
      • Following chronic illness, or old age
      • Intense exercise, overly intense thinking
      • Need to rebuild reserves
      • Intense lifestyle - Why are they living such an intense lifestyle
        • Q: What would happen if you didn’t strive?
        • Q: How would you feel if you couldn’t strive?
    • Tongue - cold
      • Pale - moving toward white
      • White coating - may not necessarily mean cold, but thick and white probably
      • The tongue itself can be white under the tongue coating
    • One other option
      • Cold hands and feet can also be
      • Ki Yang Def
      • Sp Yang Def
      • Liv Qi Stagnation (if caused by poor circulation) ***
      • Cold hands and Feet - like warm drinks - cold inside
    • Causes
      • Striving too hard towards something
      • Chronic Serious illness
      • Old Age

Look for Symptoms

  • Do you feel hot or cold
    • Cold → yang def?
  • Digestion?
    • undigested stool - diarrhoea → lack of energy in the afternoon → Qi def
  • Short of breath
    • On exertion → Lung Qi
  • Toilet at night
    • → Bl Qi