Guest guest Posted January 7, 2001 Report Share Posted January 7, 2001 I was thumbing through flaws new TCM psychiatry book and stumbled upon the fright/fear chapter. after doing an exhaustive search of TCM literature to prepare this book, Flaws decided not to include Lv qi xu, even though sionneau does. I pointed out in an earlier post that the indicated formulas merely address a pattern of qi and blood xu anyway. flaws does include ht/gb qi xu, but also makes it clear that he considers this to be nothing other than a combination of qi/blood xu with liver depression and some phlegm. I think the evidence continues to weaken that we should consider liver qi xu a discrete pattern. The fact that nei jing source theory makes the naming of this pattern possible is not significant to me, either. Since herbology was empirical till about 1000 AD, nei jing source theory has only been used to rationalize discrete clinically observable patterns. I don't think there has ever just been a carte blanche acceptance that everything written in that text is somehow applicable to herbology. It is not an herbal text after all. Zhang zi he's theory of all disease being treated by purgation was also based on his reading of the nei jing, yet his ideas were never widely accepted. I think the general trend in the development of herbology has been to apply theory to explain what has actually been observed. In this case, there is nothing about the symptom complex labeled " liver qi xu " that would lead me to make a different therapeutic choice than if I called it liver blood xu with qi xu. Thats the crux of the issue for me. -- Chinese Herbal Medicine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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