Guest guest Posted September 16, 2002 Report Share Posted September 16, 2002 " Blood and Essence mutually affect each other. Each of them can trnsform into the other. " As we have already seen, Essence plays an important role in the formation of Blood. On the other hand, Blood continually nourishes and replenishes the Essence. " (Giovanni Maciocia, The Foundations of , p. 52.) (My note: In order for this to happen, the person must get enough rest.) The role that the Essence plays in the production of Blood is that Essence produces Marrow. (Remember the functions of Kidney Essence. This is one of them.) The bone marrow comes from the Marrow, and bone marrow plays a role in producing both Blood and blood. Maciocia points out that this sophisticated understanding of Blood/blood production was recognized in China as early as 1695.) (p. 49) " A doctor of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Lu, in his book 'Medical Transmission of the Zhang Family' (1695), says: 'If Qi is not exhausted, it returns essences to the Kidneys to be transformed into Essence; if the Essence is not depleted, it returns Essence to the Liver to be transformed into Blood'. " (p. 49.) This is why sometimes the Root of Blood Deficiency is not the Spleen, the Heart, or the Lungs or Liver, but the Kidneys. " When lying down, the Blood regenerates itself in the Liver, hence the importance of having adequate rest (especially lying down), in cases of deficient Liver-Blood). " (pp. 50-51) If the Blood is not being regenerated, it's not nourishing and replenishing the Essence. Victoria _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 Hello Victoria, I often see you quote extensively from Maciocia, and am wondering, do you retype all of these quotes each time you share them with us? Or do you have an electronic copy of his works? If it is an electronic copy, where can we find such a thing? Thank You, Bryon Judy Fitzgerald [sMTP:victoria_dragon] Monday, September 16, 2002 9:08 AM Chinese Traditional Medicine [Chinese Traditional Medicine] Blood-Essence Relationship " Blood and Essence mutually affect each other. Each of them can transform into the other. " As we have already seen, Essence plays an important role in the formation of Blood. On the other hand, Blood continually nourishes and replenishes the Essence. " (Giovanni Maciocia, The Foundations of , p. 52.) (My note: In order for this to happen, the person must get enough rest.) The role that the Essence plays in the production of Blood is that Essence produces Marrow. (Remember the functions of Kidney Essence. This is one of them.) The bone marrow comes from the Marrow, and bone marrow plays a role in producing both Blood and blood. Maciocia points out that this sophisticated understanding of Blood/blood production was recognized in China as early as 1695.) (p. 49) " A doctor of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Lu, in his book 'Medical Transmission of the Zhang Family' (1695), says: 'If Qi is not exhausted, it returns essences to the Kidneys to be transformed into Essence; if the Essence is not depleted, it returns Essence to the Liver to be transformed into Blood'. " (p. 49.) This is why sometimes the Root of Blood Deficiency is not the Spleen, the Heart, or the Lungs or Liver, but the Kidneys. " When lying down, the Blood regenerates itself in the Liver, hence the importance of having adequate rest (especially lying down), in cases of deficient Liver-Blood). " (pp. 50-51) If the Blood is not being regenerated, it's not nourishing and replenishing the Essence. Victoria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 Thank You for your hard work for all of us Judy Fitzgerald [sMTP:victoria_dragon] Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:43 PM Chinese Traditional Medicine RE: [Chinese Traditional Medicine] Blood-Essence Relationship >I often see you quote extensively from Maciocia, and am wondering, do you >retype all of these quotes each time you share them with us? Or do you >have >an electronic copy of his works? I'm typing each time. Victoria _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2002 Report Share Posted September 17, 2002 >I often see you quote extensively from Maciocia, and am wondering, do you >retype all of these quotes each time you share them with us? Or do you >have >an electronic copy of his works? I'm typing each time. Victoria _______________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2002 Report Share Posted October 6, 2002 I am having a little difficulty understanding... Can someone please clarify the role that Blood has in producing Essence? Or can someone perhaps point me in the correct direction if I wished to learn more on this relationship? Mbanu Chinese Traditional Medicine, " Judy Fitzgerald " <victoria_dragon@h...> wrote: > " Blood and Essence mutually affect each other. Each of them can > transform into the other. [snip] > On the other hand, Blood continually nourishes and replenishes > the Essence. " (Giovanni Maciocia, The Foundations of Chinese > Medicine, p. 52.) (My note: In order for this to happen, the > person must get enough rest.) [snip] > " A doctor of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Lu, in his book 'Medical Transmission > of the Zhang Family' (1695), says: 'If Qi is not exhausted, it returns > essences to the Kidneys to be transformed into Essence; if the Essence is > not depleted, it returns Essence to the Liver to be transformed into > Blood'. " (p. 49.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 7, 2002 Report Share Posted October 7, 2002 walmart_hurts wrote: > > I am having a little difficulty understanding... Can someone please > clarify the role that Blood has in producing Essence? Or can someone > perhaps point me in the correct direction if I wished to learn more > on this relationship? I look at it this way: Liver stores the Blood, Kidneys store the Jing (essence). There is a saying in Chinese medicine - " Liver Kidneys Same Mother " which is to say that the Liver and Kidneys are very close and what effects one will effect the other. Even biomedicine recognizes that the Liver and Kidney both derive from the same embyological tissue. So, when Jing becomes deficient, Blood does as well. You can think of this in the five element scheme as the mother not nourishing the son. The same thing applies in reverse, when the Liver Blood is deficient, the Jing can become deficient was well. A hungry (deficient) son will suck all the energy out of the mother. So Liver Blood defiency can lead to a Jing deficiency. There are a few herbs that address this particular relationship too. They include the three Blood tonics that also noursing Jing. They are Shu Di Huang, Gou Qi Zi, and He Shou Wu. Hope that helps explain the unfathonable. : ) -al. -- Al Stone L.Ac. <AlStone http://www.BeyondWellBeing.com Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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