Guest guest Posted September 12, 2002 Report Share Posted September 12, 2002 Lately, in addressing the translation gap in Chinese medical literature, I've been examining an excellent new text by Dr. Vasant Lad, " Textbook of Ayurveda " . I've looked in vain for sources in Chinese that discuss jing/essence in depth (Bob, Bob or Ken, if you know any sources, please let me know), and I found discussion on ojas (thick essence fluids) in the Ayurvedic text that related to structures, viscera and channels (srotas) in similar ways to what I know of Chinese medicine. Then, a former student shared some notes from a Jeffrey Yuen lecture on cancer, where he speaks about jing/essence stagnating when it becomes depleted, contributing to the development of abnormal tissue development. Jeffrey says that jing is transported by the san jiao, so that when there is qi and yin vacuity, it can lead to jing stagnating in specific viscera, causing accumulation, and depriving other viscera of jing and nourishment. In the warm disease literature, there is much discussion on the Nei Jing statement, " if a person has sufficient essence, he will not suffer from a warm disease in spring, even though he has been attacked by cold in winter. " Nourishing and protecting essence is an important issue in both infectious (wai gan/external contraction) and nei shang/internal damage diseases. So now I am working with a student on a book Chip Chace sent me, Fu xie xin shu/New Book on Latent Evils " . I hope we'll find some more stuff in there. On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 10:18 AM, wrote: > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2002 Report Share Posted September 12, 2002 , " " < zrosenbe@s...> wrote: where he speaks about > jing/essence stagnating when it becomes depleted, contributing to the > development of abnormal tissue development. interesting idea, given that cancer is growth and development (the domain of essence) run amuck. however, what are the unique therapies derived from this supposition. how does it guide my treatment? which herbs move stagnant jing and what is the historical precedent for such a use of herbs? reminds me somewhat of yan de xin's dicussion of the relationship between blood stasis and essence depletion in blood stasis and aging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2002 Report Share Posted September 12, 2002 What Jeffrey Yuen recommends is supplementing yin and jing along with qi. The concept is akin to a drought, where a lack of water causes streams to dry up, leaving pools of stagnant water in the stream bed. He recommends such medicinals as chuan bei mu, xuan shen, tian hua fen, xi yang shen and . . . .shi gao!. There is some relationship I see here with Liu Bao-yi's use of sheng di, xuan shen and xi yang shen for latent evil qi. On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 12:03 PM, wrote: > > > interesting idea, given that cancer is growth and development > (the domain of essence) run amuck. however, what are the > unique therapies derived from this supposition. how does it > guide my treatment? which herbs move stagnant jing and what > is the historical precedent for such a use of herbs? reminds me > somewhat of yan de xin's dicussion of the relationship between > blood stasis and essence depletion in blood stasis and aging. > > > <image.tiff> > > > Chinese Herbal Medicine, a voluntary organization of licensed > healthcare practitioners, matriculated students and postgraduate > academics specializing in Chinese Herbal Medicine, provides a variety > of professional services, including board approved online continuing > education. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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