Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Everyone This is a question about the visual representation of the diagnostic principle that many call excess and deficiency, and my teacher preferred to call fullness and emptyness (most accurately translated from swedish) . As most of you seem to use the words excess and deficiency i have chosen these words here. This conversation is not about the terminology but about the didactic images. (the terminology and meaning of the principle may of course be important to the images). The visual representation I was presented with during my education was the " floating staples " that show balance when the tops are just in the surface, deficiency when it is lower and fullness when it is higher, and false fullness, when both are under the surface but one is lower than the other. I try to make an image here and hope I have not simplified this to much: ______ balance | |______ excess | | | | | | deficiency _________ | | __ deficiency/false excess | | Two years ago I was presented with another image that represented this... as far as I know it comes from a knowledged german sinologist/TCM professor. The images I try to do here: balance:, reaching its target (connection/communication) € ´|` | € deficiency: not reaching € ´|` € excess: missing the target, ´|` € / / | € this image shows an interesting aspect of sedation... to pull down the energy and let it find the track again towards balance (and if needed tonify after sedation) my questions are... do you have other images that could represent this principle? or would you like to comment upon these pictures? Holger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 sorry.. the pictures were not translating here is a verbal translation: I think " floating staples " is communicating... yes? in the other image: imagine a point from where an arrow, representing the energy, comes. there is another point representing the target for the energy. in balance the line with the energy is reaching it's target in deficiency the line and arrow is to short and can't reach it's target .......... tonification is needed in excess the line and arrow is to long and miss the target .......... needs sedation to find the target/track towards the target again. Holger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hi Holger, Another image I have come across is this. That excess is of pathogenic qi. The pathogenic qi has to be drawn off without leaking the healthy qi. Sharon - Holger Wendt Chinese Medicine Friday, September 19, 2003 9:18 PM Re: excess-deficiency - images sorry.. the pictures were not translating here is a verbal translation: I think " floating staples " is communicating... yes? in the other image: imagine a point from where an arrow, representing the energy, comes. there is another point representing the target for the energy. in balance the line with the energy is reaching it's target in deficiency the line and arrow is to short and can't reach it's target ......... tonification is needed in excess the line and arrow is to long and miss the target ......... needs sedation to find the target/track towards the target again. Holger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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