Understand the nature and relationships of the six stages or levels of disease.
Tai Yang, Yang Ming, Shao Yang, Tai Yin, Shao Yin, Jue Yin –
Essential to the method of diagnosis developed in the Shang Han Lun.
Dr. Phil Garrison, DAOM, interviews Dr. Yaron Seidman, DAOM
Truth is evident but often ignored or yet unrealized. This moment is the path.
We suffer the blocks of our own emotions and grievances. To bring about homeostasis and harmony sometimes we must shift in our perceptions and awareness to change the experience. As microcosms of the great universal whole, the forces and flow of nature offer self-organizing and self-correcting resonance. The process of healing and growth happens in this moment. Allow the simplicity of nature to guide you.
Reverently entering nature and observing the flow of streams, rivers, and waterfalls is, in itself, one of the natural remedies for a troubled mind. Water benefits the ten thousand things and yet does not compete with them. Water dwells in places the masses of people detest. People detest such places not because they are bad, but because they are unfamiliar; they are held back by fear of the unknown or thrust forward in fearful arrogance, in either manner not trusting in the Tao.
Photo by Marc Newland
Fear is the emotion that ultimately causes the most difficulties. Learning to move gracefully around obstacles, like water does, is one of the aims of practicing T’ai Qi. Joining the flow of Tao, wherever it may go, leads one to unusual places, but places meant to be visited by those who have devoted themselves to the Tao.
Each of us a different face of the same journey. Adapted from Spirit of Peace, by Subhuti Dharmananda.
In aging, one must be so careful with everything lest it affect a host of health-related backlash. In treatment of our aging and elderly patients, emphasis of treatment pertains significantly to declining Kidney essence. However, the most serious diseases of aging are also caused by phlegm, blood stasis and internal wind. The pulse of the elderly patient read in Chinese medicine is frequently found to be hard, wiry and slippery. These three factors play a role in the pathologies of aging from which stroke, coronary heart disease, cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, as well as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases are commonly occurring conditions.
