Guest guest Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 ---------- " rey tiquia " <rey Newsgroups: Re Qi 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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