Guest guest Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 See _http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm_ (http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm) (http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2007 Report Share Posted October 19, 2007 A good chunk of the Su Wen (Chapters in the high sixties I think) is about calculations of Guest Qi in the course of seasons. Unschuld does as good a job as anybody describing it, I believe it's mostly in his more recent book on the Nei Jing. There is also a Blue Poppy book about Daoist Acupuncture which has a fairly concise explanation. Suffice it to say it is a fairly involved set of calculations based on stem and branch theory, Chinese astrology, and the nature of " normal " or " correct " seasonal weather and possible disease influencing weather. It formed a part of the theoretical basis for Liu Wan Su's work (Cold/cooling school), and consequentially probably is responsible indirectly for Warm disease theory. I don't really do much thinking from a doctrine based five element perspective, but I imagine there is plenty of possible approaches to take. I've certainly heard people talk about allergic disorders in terms of retained pathogens... I think Maciocia has a bit about asthma as a problem of retained wind, or wind and phlegm. It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to cook up a variety of TCM based etiologies for SAD... Wan Fang is sometimes available through local universities and research libraries. Par Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Thanks for these details. I will try to follow it up with the authors. Chinese Medicine , martyeisen wrote: > > See > _http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm_ > (http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm) > (http://tcm.health-info.org/prevention/Prevention.htm) > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 Hi Par Thanks for the supplementary details. I shall check the references in the college library. I have found some research online into SAD. regards Norman Chinese Medicine , " Par Scott " <parufus wrote: > > A good chunk of the Su Wen (Chapters in the high sixties I think) is about calculations of Guest Qi in the course of seasons. Unschuld does as good a job as anybody describing it, I believe it's mostly in his more recent book on the Nei Jing. There is also a Blue Poppy book about Daoist Acupuncture which has a fairly concise explanation. Suffice it to say it is a fairly involved set of calculations based on stem and branch theory, Chinese astrology, and the nature of " normal " or " correct " seasonal weather and possible disease influencing weather. It formed a part of the theoretical basis for Liu Wan Su's work (Cold/cooling school), and consequentially probably is responsible indirectly for Warm disease theory. > > I don't really do much thinking from a doctrine based five element perspective, but I imagine there is plenty of possible approaches to take. I've certainly heard people talk about allergic disorders in terms of retained pathogens... I think Maciocia has a bit about asthma as a problem of retained wind, or wind and phlegm. It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to cook up a variety of TCM based etiologies for SAD... > > Wan Fang is sometimes available through local universities and research libraries. > > Par > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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