Guest guest Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 In a message dated 3/10/2003 4:22:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, acupuncture writes: > Message: 1 > Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:53:39 -0000 > " mish1232242 " <mish1232242 > health not disease > > > I have a simple question? How would you best define health? > > The six ways to know if you are healthy, according to my TCM practitioner: The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet will be warm (the tops of both will be cool) and your forehead will be cool. Normal appetite: hungry at meal times, food tastes good, and you consume the proper amount of food to maintain the body properly (not too much or too little). You will have a normal b.m. once a day, preferably between 5-7am and it will be a normal brown color and formed (not too hard or too loose, not hard balls or long strings, a feeling that the bowels have been emptied). You will have between 5-7 urinations per day. Not dribbling, but good quantity and force. The color should be a light yellow. More or less urination per day is not good health, nor is a dark color or a clear color. You will sleep through the night and not wake up a lot (you may have disturbed sleep once in a while, but if it is every night then you are not in good health). Also you should feel rested on awaking and ready to face the day with energy (which shows good Kidney function). If you are a male you will wake up with an erection. If female your nipples will be firm on awaking. So that is the TCM lecture from my TCM practitioner for the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Never heard of that last point of diagnosis before, and it's the only one I'm not passing on. Never really have " morning wood, " and I'm only 23. What's that mean? - bonmotSarah Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:48:21 EST acupuncture acupuncture Re: Health not disease > In a message dated 3/10/2003 4:22:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, > acupuncture writes: > > > > Message: 1 > > Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:53:39 -0000 > > " mish1232242 " <mish1232242 > > health not disease > > > > > > I have a simple question? How would you best define health? > > > > > The six ways to know if you are healthy, according to my TCM practitioner: > > The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet will be warm (the tops of > both will be cool) and your forehead will be cool. > > Normal appetite: hungry at meal times, food tastes good, and you consume the > proper amount of food to maintain the body properly (not too much or too > little). > > You will have a normal b.m. once a day, preferably between 5-7am and it will > be a normal brown color and formed (not too hard or too loose, not hard balls > or long strings, a feeling that the bowels have been emptied). > > You will have between 5-7 urinations per day. Not dribbling, but good > quantity and force. The color should be a light yellow. More or less > urination per day is not good health, nor is a dark color or a clear color. > > You will sleep through the night and not wake up a lot (you may have > disturbed sleep once in a while, but if it is every night then you are not in > good health). Also you should feel rested on awaking and ready to face the > day with energy (which shows good Kidney function). > > If you are a male you will wake up with an erection. If female your nipples > will be firm on awaking. > > So that is the TCM lecture from my TCM practitioner for the day! > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2003 Report Share Posted March 13, 2003 A valid question but there are many semantic issues to deal with are you prepared for them? We define health combining 4 aspects of life 1. Physiological Health 2. Mind/Pyschology Health 3. Spiritual Health 3. Worldly - Financial Health Some call it Happiness - most have such a dichotomous view of the world one finds it hard to get beyond the two dimensions of right/wrong, Black/white, Man/woman, Yin/Yang etc. Yet health is NOT dichotomous whether be 1 or all 4 of the aspects above. We TCM professionals and laypeople alike understand dichotomies exist in peoples' frameworks for understanding the world and I must duely note that a question of the type you propose to this list will have NO one correct answer but a variation of answers adatping culture, education, political preference, religion and a variety of other filters people see the world through. (that by the way includes me). So the pragmatic implications maybe simply be if one is happy then they maybe consider themselves healthy. However a health professional/prationer may on the other hand focus only on being disease free to be healthy even if the patient in question has thoughts on a daily basis that wares out the jing or general energy. There is no simple answer to your question it is indeed one of the all time difficult kohans to solve. > > Sincerely > > Pat Dooley > > Life Style Trainer and Author > > > > - > " mish1232242 " <mish1232242 > <acupuncture > > Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:53 PM > acupuncture health not disease > > > > > > I have a simple question? How would you best define health? > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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