Guest guest Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Long gu and mu li have some affinity for the hun and po (respectively I believe) as well. - " " <zrosenbe Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:53 PM Re: Re: Jade Windscreen Alchemy > Gui zhi jia long gu mu li tang specifically mentions symptoms of a > more emotional/psychological nature when compared with Gui zhi tang. > In my understanding, that is because the addition of mu li and long > gu to Gui zhi tang 'sinks the prescription' to a deeper channel, > specifically the shao yin channel, so it can deal with issues of > heart and kidney interaction. > > > >> Exactly, and that's why I favor treating the *presentation* over the >> *content* of the chief complaint. Perhaps gui zhi jia long gu mu li >> tang >> would make sense for someone with anxiety, tremors, dry mouth >> etc... but it >> should also work for anxiety due to stage fright, or meeting new >> people, or >> fear of the great outdoors, or any particular issue that gives rise >> to this >> presentation with appropriate tongue, pulse, etc. >> >> -- >> > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 As a clarification, I am a practitioner of alchemical herbology not clinical herbology, in the sense that I do not operate a public healthcare practice. I study herbal medicine and apply it to myself as an adjunct to my self-cultivation. As practitioner/student I see the need for clear distinctions, pattern differentiation, knowledge of traditions, and continue to educate myself in these matters; as patient/student I reach for the broadest possible application of medicinals to the body mind spirit, and hope that what I do for my body will support my continued spiritual evolution. When it comes to foundational texts, however, I put no text -- not YEC, SHL, or WB -- on the level of the Book of Changes. In the case of Yu Ping Feng San there is the issue of wind. Maybe here in the west we will come up with the Classic of Wind Pathology, where we live in unprecedented states of movement, where people are either depressed (yin) or energetically job-hunting and making lateral and vertical power plays (yang). My question is whether mental agitation can be counted as wind? If so, there are a number of interesting uses of wind-protecting, wind-releasing, wind-quelling medicinals for problems that might have been treated otherwise. Carl Ploss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 , carl ploss <cploss wrote: >making lateral and vertical power plays (yang). My question is whether mental agitation can be counted as wind? If so, there are a number of interesting uses of wind-protecting, wind-releasing, wind- quelling medicinals for problems that might have been treated otherwise. > It's not that mental agitation gets " counted " as wind, but rather mental agitation can be a symptom of internally generated wind patterns. Therefore, proper treatment of the wind pattern could relieve the symptom of mental agition. This, however, is not new, so it probably would not have been treated otherwise if a good diagnosis was made. Brian C. Allen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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