responding to phlegm

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this is an issue i always harp on and one is where I disagree with how its

expressed in the Yuen " school " . That is that dampness collects as a response or

heat as a response to damp etc... To me this suggests a body " intelligence " of

creating another, usually pathogenic substance, to correct an imbalance. I know

that damp can follow heat or vice versa, whatever, but these can be explained in

zang-fu, 5 element or more general CM terms rather than inherent responses to

pathogens.

Doug

 

 

, RoseAnne Spradlin

<roseanne.spradlin wrote:

>

> I wasn't going to write in on this one, since I consider myself not as

> experienced in TCM/CM as many of you. But a thought came to me when this

> subject came up. That is, from the Jeffrey Yuen point of view (and others,

> I'm sure) there is always a relationship between heat and dampness in the

> body. One or the other can be seen as the primary pathological process.

> When there's heat, dampness often collects as a response; or when there's

> dampness, heat will come as a response. Phlegm in the LU or upper burner

> can be a response to heat, maybe even a kind of insulation to the heat. If

> the heat has penetrated to the ST as well, and is damaging the ST Yin, then

> the phlegm could likely go there as well. The idea to swallow the phlegm

> may be a way of acknowledging what the body is trying to do in its response

> to heat. The more one spits it out, the harder the body has to work to make

> more phlegm. Maybe 'digesting' the phlegm in the ST is beneficial in some

> way.

>

> The above is all conjecture. I have no idea, but am just trying to think it

> through.

>

> RoseAnne

>