Guest guest Posted June 21, 2002 Report Share Posted June 21, 2002 It occurred to me that in order to transform sheng di (a yin tonic) into shu di (an essence tonic), it is steamed in wine. wine is yang. thus yang is infused into the rich yin of rehmannia. It thus becomes the medicinal/alchemical embodiment of yang within yin. It nourishes the essence which is stored in the kidney, which is the water element. the mingmen is located between the kidneys in some schools of thought, just like the yang line in the trigram for water is located between two yin lines. Chinese Herbs " Great spirits have always been violently opposed by mediocre minds " -- Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2002 Report Share Posted June 24, 2002 Isn't this similar to adding Fu zi and Rou gui to Liu Wei Di Huang Tang? Jim Ramholz , " " <zrosenbe@s...> wrote: > Liu Bao-yi, a Qing dynasty physician of the warm disease school, and one > of the developers of the latent qi warm disease theory, used sheng di > cooked in fu zi tea, discarding the tea, and using the thus prepared > sheng di to mobilize yang within yin. A similar idea, here used to > outhrust warm evils from the ying and xue aspects to the qi aspect. > > > On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 01:01 AM, wrote: > > > It occurred to me that in order to transform sheng di (a yin tonic) > > into shu di (an essence tonic), it is steamed in wine. wine is yang. > > thus yang is infused into the rich yin of rehmannia. It thus becomes > > the medicinal/alchemical embodiment of yang within yin. It nourishes > > the essence which is stored in the kidney, which is the water element. > > the mingmen is located between the kidneys in some schools of thought, > > just like the yang line in the trigram for water is located between two > > yin lines. > > > > > > Chinese Herbs > > > > voice: > > fax: > > > > " Great spirits have always been violently opposed by mediocre minds " -- > > Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2002 Report Share Posted June 29, 2002 Liu Bao-yi, a Qing dynasty physician of the warm disease school, and one of the developers of the latent qi warm disease theory, used sheng di cooked in fu zi tea, discarding the tea, and using the thus prepared sheng di to mobilize yang within yin. A similar idea, here used to outhrust warm evils from the ying and xue aspects to the qi aspect. On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 01:01 AM, wrote: > It occurred to me that in order to transform sheng di (a yin tonic) > into shu di (an essence tonic), it is steamed in wine. wine is yang. > thus yang is infused into the rich yin of rehmannia. It thus becomes > the medicinal/alchemical embodiment of yang within yin. It nourishes > the essence which is stored in the kidney, which is the water element. > the mingmen is located between the kidneys in some schools of thought, > just like the yang line in the trigram for water is located between two > yin lines. > > > Chinese Herbs > > voice: > fax: > > " Great spirits have always been violently opposed by mediocre minds " -- > Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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