Hello

July 24, 2007

Hi kameshadeep

Usually when we are interested in increasing the Qi of a particular

organ, we need to look at other organs related to it, not just the

organ itself. The rules of the 5 elements can help you identify the

relationships between organs, allow me to explain my view using the 5

element as the basis.

The 5 elements consist of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Where

wood represents the liver, fire represents the heart, earth represents

the spleen, metal represents the lungs, and water represents the kidney.

The main thing we are interested here is how to increase energy, or

Qi, on the spleen. The rules of the 5 element tells us that fire

creates earth, in other words, an increase of Qi in the heart will

cause an increase of Qi in the spleen. Now, how do we increase the

heart's energy?

One of the spleen's major functions is to transport water within the

body. When the spleen's Qi is low, its ability to transport water

also weakens. When that occurs, it is common that excess pericardium

fluid that surrounds the heart will build up, which will lower the

ability of the heart. By reducing the pericardium fluid via massaging

acupuncture points along with other methods, one can increase the

ability of the heart which will then increase the spleen's ability as

the rules of the 5 elements state. In short, improve the heart, the

spleen will follow.

To reduce pericardium fluid, you can massage the following meridian

points. Using the site that Sue provided (thanks), find the following

points

1. Kun Lun – Bladder meridian, BL60 on the chart.

http://www.acuxo.com/meridianPictures.asp?point=BL60 & meridian=Bladder

2. Shan Zhong – Conception vessel meridian, CV 17 on the chart. The

point is in the middle of the chest area.

http://www.acuxo.com/meridianPictures.asp?point=CV17 & meridian=Conception%20Vesse\

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Besides massaging the points above, you can also relief pericardium

fluid by massaging the pericardium meridian line on your arm. The

important thing to note here is the direction, this is very important.

You must massage from your finger towards your shoulder, such

direction is to relief the fluid, not the other way around.

If you have access to small magnets, approximately 1 cm in diameter

and 2mm thick and preferably made out of Neodymium Iron Boron, you can

tape the magnet on the meridian points mentioned above along with Nei

Guan meridian point on the pericardium meridian, PC6 on the chart. 1

magnet per point, on each side of the body, and have them on when you

sleep at night will have immediately effect on your condition.

For food, there is a popular health supplement named Co-Enzyme Q10

that can help the heart relief pericardium fluid. For Chinese herbs,

I am not too familiar but it should involve the herb ginkgo. Contact

a professional TCM practitioner for help in that regard.

Good luck and hope this was helpful.

You can visit my website at http://mcm-health.com , I have written a

few articles regarding the 5 elements and the relationships in the

articles section. Feel free to check them out if you are interested.

Gary

July 25, 2007

Hello Gary,

thank you very much for you reply.

What would you ay about the function of the Kidneys as controlers of fluids?

Thank you.

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