Nitty Gritty of Husband Wife Imbalances (a question)

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Dear Newsgroup

 

The following message text was ask by a practitioner friend

of mine. He would welcome any relevant responses to the

questions he asks.

 

Thanks in advance

Persis

 

 

 

 

Message Text:

 

Has anyone got any views on this one...it's a recurring

dilemma for me!!!

 

Husband Wife imbalances:

 

I have seen several women with what seems to be the

opposite H/W pulse picture (eg: right pulses much much more

deficient than left pulses) - all of them have been in some

type of severe pain (spinal especially) for some time and

one recently lost her husband.

 

At college we learnt what amounts to Worsleys view from

1980's onwards (that a male or female with stronger pulses

on the right amounts to H/W imbalance), but prior to the

1980's Worsley was saying the opposite which was in keeping

with Li Shi-Zhen's view (pg: 501 - 503 in Leon Hammers

pulse book):

 

" Both men and women have a slight yin-yang imbalance which

is reflected as a slight difference between the right and

left pulses. The left is yang and the right is yin. Men

have more yang qi. So, provided their qi is well regulated,

their left hand pulse is stronger. Women have more yin

blood. In women, provided their qi is well regulated, their

right hand pulse is stronger. "

 

I feel I should be observing and making a distinction

between male and female 'normal' pulses and respecting that

a H/W imbalance in a male manifests differently than a H/W

imbalance in a female*

 

So in the case of my patients presenting with this 'reverse

H/W' pattern, would it be wise to pull energy over to the

right hand side using the same methodology we use for

dealing with the H/W pattern we learnt at college?

 

- eg: use fire points on the earth channel/lung channel etc

to pull energy from the left over to the right?

 

These patients have made great progress with almost purely

TCM-based TX, but their pulses are still very much

imbalanced and I feel that until the relative strengths

between left and right sides are more even, their deepest

underlying need has not been addressed.

 

* One final thing - if we are respecting the fact that the

balance of yin and yang is different between male and

female, would needling yin points on the right side and

yang points on the left side for women (reverse for men) be

a helpful treatment technique?

 

 

Lee

 

 

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