re: brunella & the yin/yang continuum

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Stuart Rhodes wrote:

 

> -Brunella Vulgaris Linne - This is the first herb listed in a patent

> formula from China labeled " HYPERTENTION REPRESSINO TABLETS "

 

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That's Prunella - Xia Ku Cao - which has a known hypotensive effect

(probably via vasodilation)

 

 

 

 

Nama Ryu wrote:

 

Blood is very last manifestation of Yin.

It's already close to Yang.

 

Yin is a broader spectrum than Blood.

What materialize or something already materalized is Yin.

Even such tendency can be Yin.

Jing and fluid are special form or phase of Yin.

 

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I learned a similar concept of the Yang-Yin continuum in school, but I have

some problems with the ideas I was taught & with Nama Ryu's expression of

them above.

First of all, I don't understand what is meant (above) by blood being the

" very last manifestation " of Yin - I think you mean blood is the least polar

of Yin substances. I don't think it is correct to say, " It is already close

to Yang. " Maybe you mean close to neutrality.

If Yin is substance and Yang is completely insubstantial, blood, a very

substantial fluid, made primarily from the Gu Qi of food (also substantial),

should be quite Yin (by my thinking) and not at all " close to Yang. " I

think of blood as vitally Yin in functioning to anchor the Yang -- after

decades of losing blood each month, many women's Yang can no longer be

anchored and floats to the surface (e.g. hot flashes, night sweats; insomnia

[i.e. failure of blood/yin to anchor the shen, which is also completely

insubstantial and therefore Yang]).

Anyway, I would appreciate anyone else's elucidation of this concept in

terms of the use of Yin vs. blood tonics.

(Thanks to Ken & Jason for their keen insights)