wisdom teachings

Dec

2013

Aging and the Elderly Patient

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.

Dec

2013

Post-Menopause

A woman, post-menopause, has great potential to realize within herself the wise woman and the mother of her greater community. With her inherent embodiment of female wisdom, post-menopausally she may cultivate the spiritual power of the Sage.

From the progression of blood sent from the Heart down to the Bao Mai [uterus] in preparation for potential growth of a human addition to the world, in menopause, this direction of flow ceases. Rather than blood nourishing the uterus, blood instead remains focused in the Heart to nourish a woman’s own spirit.

Women routinely ask how one keeps their sanity during this transition?

My response is ever-the same:

Nature, Art, Diet, Meditation, Kindness, Chinese Medicine, Movement