cotton pulse and hypothyroidism

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Hi group,

Perhaps someone else can corroborate these phenomena---I have had

four patients who had cotton pulses and were also hypothyroid. Leon

Hammer (via Dr. shen I presume) describes the cotton pulse as

representative of sadness, an inability to express anger, or blaming

others for their plight. Any thoughts about the connection?

Joe

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Chinese Medicine , " Joe "

<qimoves> wrote:

>

> Hi group,

> Perhaps someone else can corroborate these phenomena---I have had

> four patients who had cotton pulses and were also hypothyroid.

Leon

> Hammer (via Dr. shen I presume) describes the cotton pulse as

> representative of sadness, an inability to express anger, or

blaming

> others for their plight. Any thoughts about the connection?

 

Dr. Hammer elaborates cotton also as sad in the sense of resignation,

powerlessness, which could correspond to lack of the fire/Yang, which

would make sense as Yang vacuity associates with hypothyroid. He also

describes it as trapped Qi at the surface, which implies stagnation

of WeiQi.

 

Adding Jeffery Yuen's depiction of WeiQi as a form of Yang Qi, the

cotton would be affecting the sinew channels, the level of Wei Qi.

This associates with both the senses (awareness of the outside) and

reflexive, instinctual movement. So also Yang vacuity (hypothyroid)

failing to support Wei Qi, which then stagnates, renders one with a

sense of powerlessness, lack of defensive as well as aggressive

strength to respond adequately to external challenges.

 

With Jeffery Yuen's schema of energetic levels, the Wei Qi level

manifests psychologically as mood, as untargeted reactive feeling

such as sadness not relating to specific causes. If the stagnation

reaches deeper to the Ying Qi level (aka Qi & Blood in the Luo and

primary channels), here emotion would come into play, as targeted and

socially informed feelings, carried in the Blood, e.g. ones

relationship to anger or blame. If the stagnation and exhaustion goes

even deeper, overcoming Ying Qi and then challenging the Yuan Qi /

Jing Qi level (Divergent and 8 Extraordinary channels), then the

psychological issues at the level of temperament / constitutional

disposition would come into play.

 

Dr. Hammer finds the superficial stagnation (cotton quality), over

time, can exhaust or otherwise affect deeper levels. In this context

I can envision the emotional issues he describes – inability to

express anger, blame, etc.

 

, L.Ac.