Guest guest Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 All, I think this is the last thing I have to get off my chest for now, but take that with a big grain of salt. There is a school of thought in China which believes that the GB controls everything in the body, so they use only GB acupuncture points to treat everything. Yves Requena says in one of his books that this is because the GB controls 11pm to 1am--midnight--the beginning of the day, and so if the GB is clear the rest of the "day" functions properly. Applying my insights from Sharon Weizenbaum's presentation, I now see this as yang (GB) within yin (midnight) underlying all else; in other words, yin and yang in right relationship. This makes me wonder if the herbs we attribute primarily to liver qi, such as Chai Hu, don't more affect the GB qi. After all, isn't liver yang rising really GB yang rising, since the out-of-control yang ascends to cause headaches in the GB channel and reddens and irritates the eyes, which sit at the beginning of the GB channel? This may add weight to my theory about shaoyang and shaoyin being of crucial importance in regulating the healthy and orderly functioning of the human being. If yin organs control only yin and yang organs only yin, as Nan Lu teaches, this would explain why liver blood xu headaches travel along the liver channel to the vertex of the head and "liver qi" ascending problems travel up the GB channel. Joseph Garner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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