Tongue lashing and consideration--moxa reference!

[Guest guest]

Rich

 

Thanks so much for opening this discussion into an informative and

topic driven direction. I am deeply grateful for the reference and

will read the entire article with great interest I am sure.

 

Respectfully, Shanna

 

Chinese Medicine , " Rich "

<rfinkelstein@a...> wrote:

> Hi Shanna,

>

> Just for the heck of it, I did a quick google search and came up

with

> this from " Pushing the Envelope of Muxibustion " by Honora Lee

Wolfe,

> Dipl. Ac., Lic. Ac., FNAAOM. I like the opening paragraph because

it

> underscores the diverse nature of Asian medicine and the many ways

> that it has been and is currently being practiced in many parts of

the

> world. My own personal views of Asian (Chinese) medicine are

> constantly changing and have changed quite dramatically over the

last

> 15 years. Here are a couple of paragaphs from the article. I give

the

> url at the end of the posting.

>

> " For a number of years now I have been saying that the modern

Chinese

> teachings on moxibustion emanating from the People's Republic of

China

> have been overly narrow and doctrinaire. Having studied moxibustion

> with pre-Liberation Chinese, Chinese from Hong Kong and Singapore,

and

> both Japanese and Korean practitioners, it is my experience that

> moxibustion can be used to treat many more conditions than many

> contemporary Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion textbooks

suggest. As

> part of my drive to broaden the Western understanding and scope of

> moxibustion, I am always on the look-out for Chinese articles which

> substantiate this point of view. In issue #11, 2002 of the Shang

Hai

> Zhong Yi Yao Za Zhi (Shanghai Journal of &

> Medicinals), Xu Jie, of the Acupuncture & Moxibustion Orthopedic &

> Tramatology Department of the Jiangxi College of ,

> published an article titled, " Lifting the Borders of the Artemisia

> Moxibustion Method of Treatment, " on pages 28-29 of that journal. A

> precis of that article is given below. Hopefully it will help

broaden

> Western practitioners' use of this extremely important and

effective

> treatment modality. "

>

> She continues later:

>

> " 3. Dispelling phlegm & scattering fire

>

> In terms of dispelling phlegm and scattering fire, Zhu Dan-xi used

> this technique to treat runny nose with foul-smelling snivel when

the

> pulse is bowstring and small (i.e., fine), the right inch is

slippery

> and the left inch is choppy. This indicates a condition of " phlegm

> depression fire and heat. " In this case, Zhu Dan-xi said to

> moxibustion Shang Xing (GV 23), San Li (St 36), and He Gu (LI 4) to

> cure this and he gave a case history of how he used moxibustion to

> dispel phlegm and scatter fire. In the Ming dynasty, Gong Ju-zhong

> said, " [When] phlegm diseases obtain fire, they can be resolved

> because heat causes the qi to move and thus the fluids and humors

> course and flow freely. " Likewise, Dr. Xu has used moxibstion in

his

> own clinical practice in order to dispel phlegm and scatter fire. "

>

> The url of the full article is at:

>

>

http://www.bluepoppy.com/press/journal/issues/articles/apr03/apr03_ez

ine_moxa_methods.cfm

>

> Regards,

> Rich

[Guest guest]

Hi Shanna,

 

I am glad that you found the reference useful.

 

Regards,

Rich