Understanding Chinese Yin and Yang in the Field of Medicine (Chapter 2) #FamilyLife
Chinese doctors have a set of diagnostic rules to detect the various types of pain. An ache at the back of the head is usually characteristic of stagnation in the channels governing the urinary bladder and top of the liver. Chinese techniques, acupuncture in particular, is especially suitable for most kinds of sharp or acute pain. Relief is often instantaneous and permanent. Chronic pain usually takes some time to respond to treatment. To understand the principles of Chinese medicine, it is essential to grasp the essence of Chinese philosophy and its central concepts of yin and yang forces in nature, at once opposing yet independent – male and female, negative and positive, call them what you like. Every object or phenomenon in the universe is compounded of these two aspects. The Chinese masters describe a complex law of the unity of opposites that operates between yin and yang. If the masculine force, yang, embodies fire and all that is bright, hot, upwardly mobile, and a...