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(mish-mash reply to several messages)

 

My guess is acidity is yang-ish, alkalinity

yin-ish. Mainly from the corrosive nature of

acid. Yang is the principle of activity (qi is

the physiological activity itself). And corrosion

is the decomposition of yin/substance.

 

Makes sense that the skin would benefit from

acidity, as it’s a locus of weiqi, which is pure

yangqi, like vicious front-line soldiers. My

acupuncturist says the blood should be more

alkaline. I really don't know, but am going with

her prescriptions vs my chronic blood xu.

Skin/wei acid and blood/ying alkaline seems like a plausible complementarity.

 

One curiosity is that something like

lemon somewhat acidic helps promote alkalinity

in the blood. (according to this acupuncturist).

As I told her I take a juiced lemon (together

with a juiced orange) first thing every morning.

 

Which brings me to the cool-head / warm-feet

issue. And bathing? (Yehuda) Does Moses

Maimonides provide a theoretical framework for

his prescription, i.e. why? Especially at the end

( " …as soon as one perspires and the body becomes

relaxed, one should rinse off and leave the

bath… " ) closely approximates sauna therapy, as

practiced in central/northern Europe (and

possibly traceable back to Turkish-, Roman-bath protocols).

 

My point is to explore how specific practices may

evoke specific results. Consume sour (lemon) to

evoke alkalinity. Drink hot liquid to cool the

body. Americans tend to shug-a-lug 32 oz icy

drinks to feel cooler. As I understand it, (at

least some) people in hot Mediterranean and

mid-eastern places will drink hot, as hot coffer.

Makes sense to me consuming hot beverage turns

on the body's own air-conditioning; flooding the

GI tract with cold liquid will yield a heating

response, as well as snuff-out st/sp yang. So, to

pose a leading question, do you suppose Moses M

means heating the head is to make the head hot?

Or to evoke some other response?

 

A recent scientific concern is investigating

" inflammation " going on in brain vasculature.

E.g. migraines are, for some time now, thought to

relate to some sort of neurological inflammation,

as a more refined explanation than simple

dilation/contraction of vessels. That jives with

Health Concern's note in the clinical notes that

Resinall-E (anti-inflammatory tissue mending

herbs plus protolytic enzymes) can be considered

for migraines. I've been trying that, and there

may be something to it, at least popping a couple

of Res-Es at the first hints of M-HA does seem to

help fend it off (personal, anecdotal evidence).

 

And then there's the latest on high blood

pressure relating to some inflammatory condition

in the brain (a web link that appeared here in

this forum a couple of days ago). This would seem

to relate to the M-HA findings.

 

That sounds close to Jeffery's notion that it's

good to siphon heat (inflammation) away from the

shui/brain (via the foot shao-yang pathways on

the head). It's already well-known that GB-41 can be useful with migraines.

 

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:05:16 +0000 (GMT), Hugo Ramiro <subincor wrote:

>>…. Chris and M.Maimonides seem to describe opposing views on bathing…

 

As implied above, I didn't address bathing (a

technique), but rather keeping (using unspecified

means) a cool head (inflammation-free state).

Maybe hot water helps head keep cool? I know

keeping the head warm and cozy feels good amidst

a raging migraine. Warming the body can help it

clear infection-type inflammation. I think there

may be some subtle aspects to these issues. Does

Moses M (basically Greek medicine, I've been

taught) use homeopathic or allopathic principles?

Or if some of both, when and how?

 

 

 

 

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