Latent Heat and classics

[Guest guest]

This is material posted at another group, I thought it may be of some interest

here.

 

Here is some additional information regarding latent phenomena and is not as

profound a sign as that indicated in the Wen Bing. These passages indicate

either a robust model capable of explaining anything, or an awareness on the

part of these ancestors regarding the issue of pulse diagnosis and latent

heat.

 

Will

 

Wang Shuhe Mai Jing Chapter Eleven

" The classic says that the pulse can be latent or hidden. Then in which

viscus is (the evil) hidden when (a pulse) is spoken of as latent? The answer

is as follows. (Latency) means that Yin and Yang restrain reciprocally and

may have to hide in one another. When the pulse located in the Yin (i.e., The

chi) presents contrarily a Yang image, this is Yang restraining Yin. Even

though the pulse may be occasionally deep, choppy, and short, this is but yin

hidden within Yang. If the pulse in the Yang (i.e., the cun) presents

contrarily a Yin image, this is Yin restraining Yang. Even though it is

occasionally floating, slippery, and long, this is but Yang hidden within

Yin. "

 

Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine

Chapter 17 Fundamentals of Diagnostic Palpation (Mai Yao Jing Wei Lun)

 

" Qi Bo answer to Huang Di: the comings and goings, ups and downs of the pulse

are corresponding with the variations of the four seasons: the spring pulse

in correspondence should be like a pair of compasses with a soft Yang energy;

the summer pulse in correspondence should be like a ruler with a strong

abundant Yang energy; the autumn pulse in correspondence should be like a

balance with ascending Yin and descending Yang in different levels; and the

winter pulse in correspondence should be like a scale with Yang energy

abiding low. "

 

The first line referring to the comings and goings and the ups and downs

divides the pulse wave into four sectors. The rest of the passage uses

metaphors such as playing with two compasses and observing the buoyancy with

which they interact.

 

This quote from the Nei Jing helps clarify the Yin Yang model of wave

analysis (the arrival is Yin within Yang, the peak is Yang within Yang, the

departure is Yin within Yang and the trough is Yin within Yin). Clinical

experience in the Berkshires over a nine year period revealed consistently a

disturbance in the initial portion of the arrival of the wave (Yang within

Yin) as an indicator for latent heat (not full blown as in a Qing Hai Bie Jia

Tang confirmation, I believe we must develop 'preventative' skills which

requires the trends that portend the advent of a textbook type condition).

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear friends....there is a typo in the original posting, it is

corrected in caps:

 

This quote from the Nei Jing helps clarify the Yin Yang model of

wave analysis (the arrival is YANG WITHIN YIN, the peak is Yang within

Yang, the departure is Yin within Yang and the trough is Yin within

Yin). Clinical experience in the Berkshires over a nine year period

revealed consistently a disturbance in the initial portion of the

arrival of the wave (Yang within Yin) as an indicator for latent heat

(not full blown as in a Qing Hai Bie Jia Tang confirmation, I believe

we must develop 'preventative' skills which requires the trends that

portend the advent of a textbook type condition).

 

Thanks for catching it Ann.....Will

[Guest guest]

" revealed consistently a disturbance in the initial portion of the

arrival of the wave (Yang within Yin) as an indicator for latent heat "

 

Will, in what varied forms have you seen this disturbance manifest?

 

Stephen

 

 

 

 

Will Morris [will]

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:58 PM

 

Re: Latent Heat and classics

 

 

Dear friends....there is a typo in the original posting, it is

corrected in caps:

 

This quote from the Nei Jing helps clarify the Yin Yang model of

wave analysis (the arrival is YANG WITHIN YIN, the peak is Yang within

Yang, the departure is Yin within Yang and the trough is Yin within

Yin). Clinical experience in the Berkshires over a nine year period

revealed consistently a disturbance in the initial portion of the

arrival of the wave (Yang within Yin) as an indicator for latent heat

(not full blown as in a Qing Hai Bie Jia Tang confirmation, I believe

we must develop 'preventative' skills which requires the trends that

portend the advent of a textbook type condition).

 

Thanks for catching it Ann.....Will

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Stephen,

 

Slippery (turbulent), rough sensations (including choppy and rough

vibrations), hard sensations (this is a distinctly harder sensation

than the rest of the wave).

 

Will

 

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