Digest Number 1478/Gall Bladder

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Gabrielle,

Thank you for your post. I too have seen a number of patients who present with this kind of headache, and Maciocia's explanation makes perfect sense to me. Japanese meridian therapy has a dictum that yin tends to vacuity and yang tends to repletion. This means that over the long haul, the yin/internal organs/medial channels tend to go vacuous, which means the channels are tender to palpation but not actively painful, and the qi which leaves them moves into the yang organs/channels, especially the yang channels, which is the yang of the yang, so to speak. This is why most chronic pain patterns present along yang channels. People complain of pain along yang channels but are often incredibly sore to palpation on yin channels, particularly the paired organ channels or paired division channels.

Joseph Garner

 

>>>Joseph write-

"So the picture you paint

is, to me, one of a

yin organ expressing vacuity in its yin function and a yang

 

organ expressing

repletion in its yang function."

 

That makes sense to me too. In fact, Maccioca has that

explanation for headaches which begin before the period,

along with Kidney deficiency symptoms. He said the headache

can occur in the bladder channel because the kidney is

weak. I tried out that explanation in clinic when I was

still in school, and I could tell the Chinese clinic

professor was rolling his eyes (internally). But there were

a few women who had premenstrual headaches in the back of

the neck, probably like an estrogen headache, and the liver

formulas never helped.

 

Go figure.<<<