clinical menopause Q's

[Guest guest]

Sorry, typographical error. The first should say liver blood-kidney

yin vacuity and the second should say liver blood-kidney yang vacuity.

 

Bob

 

, <snakeoil.works@m...> wrote:

> The paragraph below from a post by Bob:

> I have copied/pasted the text here with highlights and underlinings

added to indicate my puzzlement regarding the distinction being made

.......

>

>

> Bu yin, to supplement yin, is the most generic term. It is the term

> used in most ben cao and fang ji xue texts as chapter heads. Yang

yin

> and zi yin can be used interchangably when talking about

specifically

> bu yin meds. However, as soon as one says yang gan, nourish the

liver,

> we are talking about nourishing liver blood. So, in the case of a

> liver-kidney dual vacuity, if one says nourish the liver and enrich

> the kidneys, one knows this is a liver blood-kidney yang vacuity. On

> the other hand, if one says nourish the liver and invigorate the

> kidneys, one knows this is a liver blood-kidney yang vacuity. What I

> was trying to get at with Stephen was that, when Hsu said that some

> yang supplements nourish yin, he was not necessarily saying yin as

in

> bu yin meds but was also implying blood as in blood-supplementing

> meds. Of course, some meds, most notably Di Huang, supplement both.

> But most yin supplements do not, e.g. Xi Yang Shen, Sha Shen, Shi

Hu,

> etc. In B & G, you can tell the yin supplements which nourish the

> blood if B & G use the word " nourish " and mention the liver and

> kidneys

[Guest guest]

So i suspected...just wanted to confirm. Didn't want to pass that typo down

to the 22nd century.

ann

 

> Sorry, typographical error. The first should say liver blood-kidney

> yin vacuity and the second should say liver blood-kidney yang vacuity.

>

> Bob

>