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Hi Sarah, I understand your point now and I agree completely.

Marcos

 

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bonmotSarah

Chinese Traditional Medicine

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:31 PM

Re: [Chinese Traditional Medicine] Digest Number 575

 

 

Hello Marcos,

 

I meant that the TCM observation of exact two hour cycles for

body organs, as

is taught by many schools, is arbitrary (body organs probably

roughly follow

this system, but I doubt if there is a stop watch in the body

which is

precise down to the minute and second). In other words, this

twelve hour

organ clock is a way of organizing what has been observed by some

ancient TCM

practitioners to treat illness with some sort of precision, but I

do not

believe it can be precise down to the minute and second for each

body organ.

In this sense I feel that just as the hours, minutes and seconds

are assigned

to a twenty-four hour day by human observation of the earth's

rotation, this

too, is an arbitrary way of assigning some sort of order and

meaning to that

which might otherwise be confusing and chaotic ( it allows us to

organize our

lives into some kind of meaningful albeit linear sense). Anyway,

even the way

we have organized time is not exactly precise--therefore we have

a leap year

as a way of keeping this 24 hour day system running smoothly.

Just as we now

are gaining an understanding of time as truly being nonlinear, I

feel that

what Al is sharing here is another way of understanding TCM

treatment which

is somehow layered over the twelve hour meridian clock, but does

not

necessarily exclude its usefulness.

 

Sarah

 

As written by:

 

Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:09:55 -0300 (ART)

marcos lacerda <ishk18

 

The times of the organs are from the astronomy/astrology part of

TCM. and have to do with the correspondence of the Yin and Yang

predominating during the day/night. It's not arbitrary at all

and was made through observation and experience.

Marcos

 

 

 

 

 

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