Conception vessel strengthening

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Is there any particular food or supplements that help to support and

strengthen the conception vessel? I took an acupressure course a

while ago, but they don't have any of that kind of information for

the " extra " meridians. For the others I have the list of colors

associated with the meridian, time of day it is active, etc.

[Guest guest]

What colors do you have associated with the meridians?

 

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Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:22 AM

[Chinese Traditional Medicine] Conception vessel strengthening

Is there any particular food or supplements that help to support and strengthen the conception vessel? I took an acupressure course a while ago, but they don't have any of that kind of information for the "extra" meridians. For the others I have the list of colors associated with the meridian, time of day it is active, etc. Post message: Chinese Traditional Medicine Subscribe: Chinese Traditional Medicine- Un: Chinese Traditional Medicine- List owner: Chinese Traditional Medicine-owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/Chinese Traditional Medicine

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What colors do you have associated with the meridians?

 

Is there any particular food or supplements that help to support and strengthen the conception vessel? I took an acupressure course a while ago, but they don't have any of that kind of information for the "extra" meridians. For the others I have the list of colors associated with the meridian, time of day it is active, etc.

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Each of the yin organs is paired with a yang organ to achieve a balance in the

body. Each of these pairs share a common element, tissue, sensory organ that

they control, a color, climate & emotions they are affected by etc..

 

Lung/Large Intestine - tissue = skin/hair, sense organ = nose, color = white,

sound = weeping, emotion = sadness, taste = pungent.

 

Stomach/Spleen - tissue = muscles, sense organ = mouth, color = yellow, sound =

singing, emotion = worry, taste = sweet

 

Heart/Small Intestine - tissue = blood vessels, color = red, sound = laughing,

emotion = over-joy, taste = bitter

 

Urinary Bladder/Kidney - tissue = bone/teeth, sense organ = ear, color = black,

sound = groaning, emotion = fear, taste = salty

 

Pericardium/Sanjiao - tissue = blood vessels, sense organ = tonge, color =

purple, sound = laughing, emotion, over-joy, taste = bitter

 

Gall Bladder/Liver - tissue = tendons, sense organ = eyes, color = green, sound

= shouting, emotion = anger, taste = sour

 

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>Is there any particular food or supplements that help to support and

>strengthen the conception vessel? I took an acupressure course a

>while ago, but they don't have any of that kind of information for

>the " extra " meridians. For the others I have the list of colors

>associated with the meridian, time of day it is active, etc.

 

I checked my books for this one and couldn't find any direct information.

But I did find some implied information.

 

The important thing to remember about the Conception Vessel (aka Ren, aka

Directing Vessel), the Governing Vessel (aka Du), and the Penetrating Vessel

are that " All these three vessels originate directly from the Kidneys and

flow down to the perineum (at Huiyin Ren-1) from where they take different

pathways: the Directing vessel flows up the abdomen along the midline, the

Governing vessl up the back and the Penetratingh vessel up the abdomen along

the Kidney channel. These three vessels can be seen as the source of all

the other extraordinary vessls as they originate directly from the Kidneys

and are therefore connected to the Essence. They, more than the other

extraordinary vessels, can be used in clinical practic to affect the

patient's energy at a deep constitutional level. " (Maciocia, The

Foundations of , p.356.) (In a way the Penetrating Vessel

could be said to be the origin of the other 5 Extraordinary vessels.

Maciocia, p. 360.))

 

In many ways the 8 Extraordinary meridians are like a system of dams and

irrigation channels. They are a place for energy to go when it is blocked

in one of the main channels (like drainage ditches that can absorb extra

water from a heavy rainfall and prevent flooding (Maciocia, p. 355)), but

they also can release energy to the 12 main meridians when they are lacking

in energy (like in hte case of shock (Maciocia, p. 355).

 

The 8 Extraordinary vessels also circulate Essence (Jing) around the body,

" thus contributing to integrating the circulation of Nutritive Qi with that

of the Essence. " (p. 355) In addition the Governing, Conception, and

Penetrating Vessels " circulate Defensive Qi over the thorax, abdomen and

back. " (p. 356) In other words they play a role in how much resistence the

person has to external Evils.

 

The Conception and Penetrating Vessels " regulate the 7 and 8 year cycles of

women's lives and men's respectively. " (p. 356.)

 

The Conception and Governing Vessels are the only two of the 8 Extraordinary

meridians to have their own unique points - like Conception Vessel 6,

Governing Vessel 4, etc. The other 6 Extraordinary meridians " share " points

with the 12 main meridians or the Conception Vessel. For example, the

Opening point of the Penetrating Vessel is Spleen 4, the Coupled point is

Pericardium 6, and the starting point is Conception Vessel 1. (For those of

you new to TCM, think of streets and avenues with intersections. Usually a

person who lives on the corner of Main Street and Mimosa Avenue will take

Main Street to get home. But if traffic is unusually clogged on Main

Street, the person may take Mimosa Avenue to get home. The 8 Extraordinary

meridians are alternative routes that " cross " the 12 main meridians.)

 

The reason I'm going into detail here about the 8 EMs is that usually

they're used to treat imbalances in other meridians and in Organs in the

body. For example, because the Conception Vessel is the " Sea of the Yin

channels " , points on it can be used to nourish Yin anywhere in the body.

Likewise, the Governing Vessel is " the Sea of Yang channels " and can be used

to influence the Yang channels and strengthen Yang in the body. Usually we

speak of imbalances in other parts of the body, not in the EMs, and the EMs

are used to treat the imbalances in the main meridians and Organs. For this

reason, we usually don't speak of colors or times of day being associated

with EMs.

 

But like so much in TCM, sometimes there is a two-way relationship between

the EMs and the main meridians and Organs. Sometimes there can be a problem

in the Governing, the Conception, or the Penetrating Vessels which is

impacting on the main meridians and Organs, and these three EM channels have

to be addressed directly instead of just being used to influence the main

meridians and Organs.

 

The main things that can go wrong is insufficiency of Essence (Jing) and

Blood in the Conception and Governing Vessels, and Deficiency and Cold in

the Conception and Penetrating Vessels. The former is seen after very long

and very debilitating chronic illness (and we're also talking some major

Kidney Yin and Yang, especially Yang, Deficiency here as well as not enough

Essence and Blood in the Conception and Governing Vessels). The latter can

be connected with all kinds of reproductive system problems.

 

There are Materia Medicas which list EMs targeted by herbs. I don't have

one of these. I do have the Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica by

Bensky and Gamble which lists cinnamon twigs, aka Gui Zhi, aka Ramulus

Cinnamomi Cassiae) - which is an herb that warms the Exterior - combined

with Fructus Evodiae Rutaecarpae (aka Wu Zhu Yu - an herb for warming the

Interior and expeling Cold) for " abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea, and menstrual

irregularity due to cold from deficiency in the penetrating and conception

vessels. " (p. 30.)

 

Cinnamon bark (aka Rou Gui, aka Cortex Cinnamomi Cassiae - also classified

as an herb for warming the Interior and expeling Cold) is combined with Dang

Gui (aka Radix Angelicae Sinensis) and with Radix Ligustici Chuanxiong (aka

Chuan Xiong) " for dysmenorrhea or amenorrhea due to cold from deficiency of

the penetrating and conception vessels. " (p. 302)

 

Rhizoma Cibotii Barometz (aka Gou Ji - a Yang tonic herb) is combined with

Cornu Cervi Parvum (aka Lu Rong - velvet of young deer antler - another Yang

tonic herb) for vaginal discharge from cold deficiency in the Conception and

Penetrating channels. " (p. 349)

 

Someone else on the list may know if there are any guide herbs for the

Conception Vessel. (A guide herb is one that will direct the actions of

other herbs to a particular meridian or Organ.) Some of the acupunturists

may know of points to use for Cold due to Deficiency in the Penetrating and

Conception vessels.

 

In general, I imagine that any food which is good for the Kidneys is going

to benefit the Conception, Governing, and Penetrating Vessels since they

originate in the Kidneys. Some of the foods which tone up the Kidneys are

black sesame seed, string bean, sword bean, wheat, and kidneys. (Henry C.

Lu, Chinese Natural Cures, p. 281.) (Note: I would be careful of the wheat

because wheat is a Damp-engendering food. Very often when certain Kidney

imbalances are present, certain Spleen imbalances also are present, and

together the two can create some severe edema problems due to water not

being properly transported and transformed. Some cases of the " addictive

allergy " that some people have for wheat may be cases where the individuals

are Kidney Deficient and are craving wheat as an unconscious way to tonify

the Kidneys. Unfortunately because wheat also is Damp-engendering it can

end up doing more harm than good in cases where there also is Spleen

Deficiency.)

 

Herbs which benefit the Essence should also be considered.

 

Sorry for so much detail, but I needed to establish for those new to TCM

just how different the Extraordinary meridians are, and how they're

different. I also needed to underscore that it is the nature of the problem

that determines the correct herb. For example, both fenugreek seed (aka Hu

Lu Ba, aka Semen Trigonellae Foeni-graeci) and privet fruit (aka Nu Zhen Zi,

aka Fructus Ligustri) have an affinity for the Kidneys and the Liver. But

fenugreek seeds are a Yang tonic herb and are contraindicated in Yin

Deficiency whereas privet fruit is a Yin tonic herb which is contraindicated

in Deficiency of Yang. But what about cases where both Yang and Yin

Deficiency are present - which is usually the case when the Kidneys are

Deficient in one? Use them both in a formula provided the other criteria

for the herbs also are present. Whenever there is dual Kidney Yin and

Kidney Yang Deficiency, one will always predominate. In fact, one can be so

much more severe than the other that it can mask the symptoms of the other.

Use more fenugreek seeds than privet fruit in the formular for a person who

is predominately Kidney Yang Deficient. Or, add another Yang tonic herb to

the formula. If the Kidney Yin Deficiency predominates over the Kidney Yang

Deficiency, use more privet fruit in the formula than fenugreek seed, or,

add another Kidney Yin tonic herb.

 

Victoria

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

There's no need to write all that.

 

Once again, here's my website which contains a very complete introduction to the Five Phases and a list of all of their psychophysiological associations with the body (which you'll find at the bottom of the page).

 

 

http://www.lieske.com/5e-intro.htm

 

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dlmw

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Friday, August 31, 2001 8:42 PM

Re: [Chinese Traditional Medicine] Conception vessel strengthening

Each of the yin organs is paired with a yang organ to achieve a balance in the body. Each of these pairs share a common element, tissue, sensory organ that they control, a color, climate & emotions they are affected by etc..Lung/Large Intestine - tissue = skin/hair, sense organ = nose, color = white, sound = weeping, emotion = sadness, taste = pungent.Stomach/Spleen - tissue = muscles, sense organ = mouth, color = yellow, sound = singing, emotion = worry, taste = sweetHeart/Small Intestine - tissue = blood vessels, color = red, sound = laughing, emotion = over-joy, taste = bitterUrinary Bladder/Kidney - tissue = bone/teeth, sense organ = ear, color = black, sound = groaning, emotion = fear, taste = saltyPericardium/Sanjiao - tissue = blood vessels, sense organ = tonge, color = purple, sound = laughing, emotion, over-joy, taste = bitterGall Bladder/Liver - tissue = tendons, sense organ = eyes, color = green, sound = shouting, emotion = anger, taste = sour________Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.comCommunity email addresses: Post message: Chinese Traditional Medicine Subscribe: Chinese Traditional Medicine- Un: Chinese Traditional Medicine- List owner: Chinese Traditional Medicine-owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/Chinese Traditional Medicine