Guest guest Posted April 16, 2010 Report Share Posted April 16, 2010 this is an issue i always harp on and one is where I disagree with how its expressed in the Yuen " school " . That is that dampness collects as a response or heat as a response to damp etc... To me this suggests a body " intelligence " of creating another, usually pathogenic substance, to correct an imbalance. I know that damp can follow heat or vice versa, whatever, but these can be explained in zang-fu, 5 element or more general CM terms rather than inherent responses to pathogens. Doug , RoseAnne Spradlin <roseanne.spradlin wrote: > > I wasn't going to write in on this one, since I consider myself not as > experienced in TCM/CM as many of you. But a thought came to me when this > subject came up. That is, from the Jeffrey Yuen point of view (and others, > I'm sure) there is always a relationship between heat and dampness in the > body. One or the other can be seen as the primary pathological process. > When there's heat, dampness often collects as a response; or when there's > dampness, heat will come as a response. Phlegm in the LU or upper burner > can be a response to heat, maybe even a kind of insulation to the heat. If > the heat has penetrated to the ST as well, and is damaging the ST Yin, then > the phlegm could likely go there as well. The idea to swallow the phlegm > may be a way of acknowledging what the body is trying to do in its response > to heat. The more one spits it out, the harder the body has to work to make > more phlegm. Maybe 'digesting' the phlegm in the ST is beneficial in some > way. > > The above is all conjecture. I have no idea, but am just trying to think it > through. > > RoseAnne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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