TCM - Need good help, good thinking, not based on theory that is unclear

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Hope I don't get bashed for translating into biomed concepts....but one way

to think about the forward movement of the body in space is that the paired

spinal nerves that innervate muscles, enabling somatic movement, emerge from the

spinal cord, which is very much near the back of the body. These spinal

nerves synapse with the sympathetic chains of the autonomic; the sympathetic is

considered the more 'outer-focused' of the autonomic aspects, more 'yang'.

 

One could think of it as - the back of the body propels the body forward in

space (more yang), and the front of the body, the organs, more or less, draw

the body in (more yin), front to back, moving the body backward in space. Try

it is physical movement and it will make more sense than just reading it.

 

In thinking about Du and Ren both emerging from the perineum and ascending,

it is probably important to remember that they are extraordinary vessels; their

formation, developmentally, is different from the 12 regular channels.

 

Again, to give the biomedical analogy, our central axis develops from the

bottom of the embryonic disc as the 'primitive streak' about 2-3 weeks after

conception. The primitive streak develops from the bottom of the disc upward,

only later differentiating into endoderm (front of the body), mesoderm (middle

layer) or ectoderm (back of the body). The energetic template for this

material development (the extraordinary vessels?) no doubt exists before the

actual

material development.

 

--RoseAnne

 

 

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