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Wed, Apr 9, 2003, 6:13 PM

 

 

April 9,2003

 

Dear Ken,

 

Thanks for your lesson. There is also another context where the Chinese

words Zheng Qi and Xie Qi are used. This in the context of the body

maintaining health and balance with disease causing factors of the Six

External Excess factors or liu yin of wind, heat, summer heat, cold,

dampness and dryness ( in the context of the Shang Han Lun ) and the virulent

infectious factor of the pestilential Qi or Li Qi in the context of the Wen

Bing or warm diseases.

 

Quoting from my posting to this list " Re: TCM Logic Value and Ethics "

on September 4,2002 , health is attained when balance is maintained

between a strong well-nourished Zheng Qi (Yang positive Qi or medicatrix

naturae as Joseph Needham calls it) and a relatively weak and undernourshed

Xie Qi (yin negative Qi) i.e. disease causing factors or " heteropathy " ( as

is referred to by Chao Y'uan Ling in his Phd dissertation " Medicine and

Society in Later Imperial China : a Study of Physicians in Soozhou ,

University of California, Los Angeles, l995).However , when the Zheng Qi

becomes undernourished and weakened while the Xie Qi becomes strong, balance

is lost and imbalance occurs, illness, signs and symptoms fo diseases and

clinical pattern or Zheng Hou emerge.

 

Sincerely,,

 

Rey Tiquia

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Rey,

 

I'm glad to see the discussion of

zheng4 qi4 and xie2 qi4

extending to their various other

meanings and usages. Again, all I

wanted to show in my earlier post

was something of the way in which

the meaning develops and can be

extended to various aspects of

anatomy and physiology.

 

I welcome and value your input and

hope that with you and others we will

all remain vigilant of our unavoidable

errors and helpful to one another in

extending our knowledge.

 

Ken

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