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Louis - I certainly appreciate the attention you have placed upon

my work. I do wish to make a distinction. The *ruo mai* is not the same as

what Hammer

calls the 'cotton' pulse. John HF Shen called it a sad, depressed

or *yu *pulse. The *ruo mai* is deep weak and thready. I think that I was

likely not

clear when I said that people often conflate the *ruo mai *with

the cotton pulse. The article can be downloaded at

 

http://www.pulsediagnosis.com/IntegrativeMedicineandtheCottonPulse.htm, or

one can also just click on http://www.pulsediagnosis.com and

navigate there.

Pulses that demonstrate hidden evils include distortions in the

arrival of the wave. In the anatomical method, the *mo yuan *may also be

palpated .

This is the area which is the

distal aspect of Shen's diaphragm pulse.

 

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tolvmanne

<http://profiles./tolvmanne> Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:48 pm (PDT) Hi

Bob and all other contibutors on this subject

 

My immediate reaction to this text on evil qi becoming depressed, not being

thust out and

Yin qi being " quilted " brings to mind an article by William Morris on the

Cotton (ruo mai),

deep, weak, floating and slow pulses, and poor lymph return with all which

that entails-

Spleen Xu, Kidney Yang Xu, Heart Qi & Yang Xu, Damp accumulation and even

Yin Fire.

 

Louis

 

http://www.pulsediagnosis.com/IntegrativeMedicineandtheCottonPulse.htm

 

<%40>,

" Bob Flaws " <pemachophel2001

wrote:

>

> Just reading an article on hidden evil warm diseases (fy xie wen bing)

> in issue #1, 2008 of Bei Jing Zhong Yi Yao (Bejing &

> Pharmacology).

>

> On the different types of hidden evils, quoting the Qing dynasty Wen

> Re Feng Yuan (Penetrating Insight into Warm Heat) it says: " When one

> contracts the six environmental excesses and these do not result in

> [immediate] disease but [disease] occurs a long time later, these are

> called hidden evils... Hidden evils are hidden dryness, hidden cold,

> hidden wind, hidden dampness, [and] hidden heat. " So, according to

> this book, at least five of the six environmental excesses can become

> hidden evils. However, later in this article, it talks about

> summerheat evils also becoming hidden evils when mixed with either

> cold or dampness.

>

> According to the same book (Wen Re Feng Yuan), if " these [hidden

> evils] damage (shang) a person, they lead to kidney qi vacuity. "

>

> " Hidden storage " (fu zang) is where the hidden evils are located or

> stored in the body. This becomes clear when the author quotes various

> books about hidden evils being stored (zang) in the skin, stored in

> the bones, stored in the membranes, or stored in the bone marrow.

>

> According to the author of the Wen Re Feng Yuan, there are three

> mechanisms whereby hidden evils can be produced:

>

> 1. Evil qi becomes depressed [and therefore] lies deeply (or hides)

> and is not out-thrust

>

> 2. Righteous qi is not able to out-thrust the evils

>

> 3. Yin qi is " quilted, " i.e., muffled, burns or is scorched, and is

> dried up

>

> In terms of general characteristics, Ding Lei, the author of the

> journal article, says diseases due to hidden evils are insidious in

> nature, relatively serious, transform patterns quite a lot, have a

> long course, and are difficult to cure.

>

 

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