Some Questions, please (was: hello)

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That last example you gave is fascinating, Gary! I'm slim, have pale skin, &

my TCM doctor has been strengthening my kidney yin to balance out my liver

yang. He's very helpful in explaining matters to me & with the knowledge I've

gleaned from this group, am starting to understand more & more. It still

means my knowledge & understanding are at a very rudimentary level though. I

don't pretend to know much & what I know, is mostly associated with my

condition.

 

I can't begin to say how much I appreciate all the information & explanations

found in this group. It's made such a difference with my grasp of TCM, along

with a few websites that I refer to frequently. Acuxo.com is one I often go

to, just to read & learn too. I'd like to thank everyone collectively for

their wonderful contribution here!

 

I've been using another TCM doctor (because she lives fairly close to my home)

who is quite good. But her use & knowledge of herbs is not nearly as good as

the original TCM doctor I went to last spring. He's a Korean doctor & TCM

professor & is knowledgeable about the use of foods for healing too. Now that

he's returned from Korea (where he was teaching & practicing for 9 months),

I've gone back to him. He's set up a diff clinic than before (a little closer

to me) & his prices for acupuncture & herbal teas are much less than the

closer TCM doctor. In fact, he's offered to teach me how to do acupuncture &

herbal treatments if I'm willing to travel twice a week to his place. (He is

an accredited professor (teacher?) of TCM therapy too.) As much as I'm

tempted, it's too long a journey in rush hour traffic & too stressful for me

to drive back & forth. I hate driving in heavy fast traffic. So I declined

for now.

 

There's one difficulty with discussing matters with my doctor. While his

understanding of English is *very* good, his spoken English isn't as good. I

have a great deal of difficulty understanding him & have to ask him over &

over what he said. I feel ashamed but he doesn't seem to mind.

 

One thing he said that I didn't understand was about my face colour. He asked

me if I noticed my colour improved after the last treatment. When I looked,

it seemed the same to me but then my face colour varies through the day

depending on what I'm doing. I normally have a bright face but not overly so.

 

But when I get a bit warmer, from either working or from external

temperatures, my nose turns bright pink - as pink as my cheeks which also

gets brighter. He said that it was from the influence of my heart on my lungs

(heat) & rising up to my nose. Could anyone explain this a bit more, please?

I know for a certainty that I have a kidney yin weakness (deficiency?) that

causes my liver yang to be in excess since it's not balanced well. I also

have ADD (with the hyperactivity part too) even at my age. While my migraines

& frequent headaches are almost a thing of the past, the inner calmness is

harder to keep even. My Korean doctor said he will work on that with me as I

couldn't achieve that with my other TCM doctor.

 

And could anyone tell me what is meant by a macular flush? Tell me what parts

of the face is reddened as I don't know exactly. While my cheeks are often

quite pink (people think I use rouge), & my nse pink when warm, my lips are

almost always pale. I don't know if that's simply normal when growing older.

Any thoughts, please?

 

Thanking everyone in advance & very grateful for all the help given here to us

inexperienced ones.

 

Judy

 

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 8:11:37 am Gary Wu wrote:

> To my understanding, fluid is controlled by 3 organs, lungs, spleen,

> and kidney, with each responsible for specific tasks.

>

> In TCM, we divide the 10 major organs into 2 categories, the Zan, and

> the Fu.

>

> Zan includes the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidney, which are

> complex organs.

>

> Fu includes the small intestines, gallbladder, stomach, large

> intestines, bladder, which are similar to " containers " .

>

> Lungs are responsible for distributing freah, clean water to our body.

> The spleen is responsible for transporting waste water to our kidney,

> where it filters and dispose the waste water.

>

> A good example would be a person with weak lungs will generally be

> skinny and have darker color skin(compare with his normal skin color)

> due to the lack of water being distributed throughout his body.

> Whereas a person with weak spleen would appear fat and have lighter

> color skin due to his lack of ability to dispose waste water. In a

> case where a person has weak lungs and spleen, you might see a person

> who is skinny and lighter colored skin which might appear quite

> healthy. It is quite fascinating how much information you can observe

> simply by looking at a person's appearance.

>

> Gary

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , Judy Wilkins <isomorphix

wrote:

>

> And could anyone tell me what is meant by a macular flush? Tell me

what parts

> of the face is reddened as I don't know exactly. While my cheeks are

often

> quite pink (people think I use rouge), & my nse pink when warm, my

lips are

> almost always pale. I don't know if that's simply normal when growing

older.

> Any thoughts, please?

 

Malar flush?

 

It's the blotchy redness of Deficiency Heat (Yin Deficiency) as opposed

to the uniform redness of Excess Heat.