Guest guest Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Dear Sandy, I have to tell you that I can be extremely sarcastic and I am a lot more careful than I used to be, so please don't take anything personally... I didn't see the post that this was referring to in the first place... but I found the resource... In 5 element Chinese medicine Sarcasm is in the liver gallbladder/wood http://perfecteyesight.net/articles/Foodemotions.htm see the last section of this article, but here it is.... "Anger and aggression are signs that our life energy is blocked, either from without or from within." Kindness and peaceful creativity are signs of a healthy liver wood element, "whereas irritability, anger, hatred, rage and fury are signs of a wood/liver imbalance. Weak liver energy expresses itself "in apathy, sluggishness, resignation, and depression…irony, sarcasm, and cynicism are found in people who, often in childhood, lost the ability to approach and interact with other people." They have given up making plans, goals and being creative. In Chinese medicine, the liver is the "House of the Soul." The weak liver also manifests as melancholy." The Feng Shui of Food and Emotions - Part 5, By Robert Lewanski In Zen Shiatsu, "The small intestine's role is highly amplified in Zen Shiatsu Theory. On the one hand it ceases to be an assistant to the spleen and acquires its own role in the digestive system, as in Western Physiology, and on the other it is recognized for its relationship with the heart both in assimilating information for the heart to integrate and also in providing a link between heart and hara. A connection with the blood is stressed, and as a result many symptoms which in TCM would be associated with the Liver or the Spleen are in Zen Shiatsu related to Small Intestine." -Shiatsu Theory & Practice Carola Bereford Cooke Zen shiatsu puts the formation of blood in the fire element - heart and small intestine, and only in the bone marrow under extreme conditions, so the Small intestine decides what to assimilate...It sorts what is pure and impure amd assimilates the pure....The fire element sense organ is the tongue, taste is bitter, odor is scorched, ......and some of the ancients related this to sarcasm.... It was demonstrated in class that if you extend your arm and point your index finger to make it look like a gun,(lengthening heart meridian and small intestine down the arm) the other 3 fingers are actually pointing back at your own heart, with SI and Heart on the little finger, so what you send out comes right back at you. The idea is that something is repressed, which gets distorted, and comes out bitter or scorched via the tongue, and that small intestine needs to be treated....but that it is related to and also hurts the heart. I was surprised when I learned that the meaning for sarcasm comes from the Greek "to tear flesh", and emphasizing "mocking or cutting or contemptuous remark", because it was much more neutral in my mind, and just a different flavor of humor. I still think of it as a gift but its more like the sharp point of the knife and not the dull edge, so its powerful medicine.....and more inflammatory.... The fire element can either be contained and tamed like in a fireplace or an uncontrolled destructive energy.... I hope this clarifies, take care, Patricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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