Hot bath, relaxing herbs for yin deficiency?

[Guest guest]

Hi Michael,

Here's a personal case history that might be relevant. After about age 40 I

started to get a chronic yin-deficient dry cough every winter which always hung

on for months until spring/summer (trips to Florida also worked - I just

couldn't do that every year). Then I started taking a formula to supplement the

yin and I haven't had those winter coughs since. Other sxs of dryness were also

reversed by the yin supplement. So I'm pretty sure I had at least a mild yin

deficiency. And I've never had heat signs. I am much more yang deficient than

yin deficient (I'm always cold - hate winter - love heat - I rarely feel like

it's too hot).

So based on me, I'd say you can have a mild yin deficiency associated with

dryness or possibly early stage yin deficiency without heat. Maybe you have to

have a yang deficiency to counter and suppress classic heat signs. Hot baths &

saunas are great for me.

I am curious to see what others have to say about this yin def w/o heat question

....

(Good luck with your new Mac!)

Wendy Lehnert Lic.Ac. 

 

--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Michael Tierra <mtierra wrote:

 

Michael Tierra <mtierra

Hot bath, relaxing herbs for yin deficiency?

 

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 2:04 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry friends for my typos, I'm juggling the problem of adopting to an

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Macbook from my PC - so I've tried to correct them and hope to hear back on

 

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[] On Behalf Of daniel.schulman

 

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:07 AM

 

 

 

Re: How bath, relaxing herbs for yin deficiency?

 

 

 

Supplementary to this, I have often wondered precisely what a Sauna (and

 

part II, followed traditionally by jumping in the snow or ice cold water

 

naked) does in terms of Chinese Medical physiology. Obviously, it very

 

powerfully opens the pores and triggers sweating, followed, in the case of

 

jumping in the snow, with closing the pores. It must invigorate the Wei Qi

 

circulation mechanism. Any other thoughts. When might one consider it

 

particularly indicated, contraindicated?

 

 

 

 

 

<chineseherb academy%40g roups.com> , " Michael Tierra "

 

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> Is a hot bath with relaxing herbs in it contraindicated for someone with

 

yin

 

> deficiency? Someone asked me that question and reported how much better

 

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> person felt in the morning. I was interested in any of your opinions?

 

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> I remember Miriam Lee once said, " no heat, no yin efficiency " - I've

 

> wondered about that. Can one have yin deficiency without heat?

 

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> What if both yin and yang are deficient?

 

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> Michael Tierra

 

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[Guest guest]

Wow!! Sometimes I think TCM people are so caught up in theory that like the

emperor, they don’t know that there’s a flaw.

 

 

 

I think we’ve all seen yin deficiency without noticeable heat signs. I think

there must be another way to describe it but I’m not sure what it is –

perhaps our more scholarly TCM members can shed some light on this.

 

 

 

Michael

 

 

 

 

On Behalf Of wendy lehnert

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:46 AM

 

Re: Hot bath, relaxing herbs for yin deficiency?

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Michael,

Here's a personal case history that might be relevant. After about age 40 I

started to get a chronic yin-deficient dry cough every winter which always hung

on for months until spring/summer (trips to Florida also worked - I just

couldn't do that every year). Then I started taking a formula to supplement the

yin and I haven't had those winter coughs since. Other sxs of dryness were also

reversed by the yin supplement. So I'm pretty sure I had at least a mild yin

deficiency. And I've never had heat signs. I am much more yang deficient than

yin deficient (I'm always cold - hate winter - love heat - I rarely feel like

it's too hot).

So based on me, I'd say you can have a mild yin deficiency associated with

dryness or possibly early stage yin deficiency without heat. Maybe you have to

have a yang deficiency to counter and suppress classic heat signs. Hot baths &

saunas are great for me.

I am curious to see what others have to say about this yin def w/o heat question

....

(Good luck with your new Mac!)

Wendy Lehnert Lic.Ac.