How Ying Wei Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi blend into the seasonal infections in Pediatric part two

Hey, I'm so excited to come back to continue on part 2 of the previous subject.

So without delay, I'll kick off with the ever-moving clear nutrient energy, Qi which has these physiological functions:

TCM FUNDAMENTALS

This is How Ying, Wei, Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi blend into the seasonal infections in Pediatric part two:

Propelling Effect

Qi is in charge of the growth and development of the human body so that the  

• Inter organ and meridian physiological functions
• production of blood 
• metabolism of the bodily fluid 

are closely related to the smooth voyage of this Qi.  So any deficiency in the Qi will result in the retention of water and blood stagnation in the, particularly affected organ.

Warming Effect

I quote from the Emperor's Interior Sutra: 

{the officer in charge of the blood and Qi, loves warm and expels cold, cold causes atrophy and resultant stagnation, only warmth can expel the shrinkage and stagnation removed} unquote

This means that the Qi is very much like the resource of heat generation whereby the ability to maintain the normal temperature of the body and blood-fluid circulation is greatly dependent on the warming effect.

And so there are many examples of the warming effect felt in our routine especially among people who have cold hand and feet.

Defending Effect 

So we have touched on the Wei Qi which is solely responsible for the defence mechanism of the body when the seasonal virus starts to invade the body through the integumentary system.  Wei Qi derived from Yuan Qi which is also the ever-moving innate Qi defending the invaded virus so that the body can 'reboot' back to a healthy stage overcoming the invasion.  

Therefore

1. Yuan Qi = abundant = robust body = less prone to sickness
2. Yuan Qi = deficient = weak body = more prone to sickness

Gasification of Qi

Gasification is the process where Qi moves to combine with air inhales and the digestion of food to create clear nutrient for the body to function.

So again it boils down to the same effect so that the metabolism, inter-organ function, and all related physiological function like digestion to excretion of the turbidity are maintained at specific normal condition.

Capturing and yet not over spilling

The primary function of Qi is to capture in vivo fluidizable substance of the body so that under the normal condition:

• Blood will not overflow or overspill its pathway causing a haemorrhage
• The secretion of sweat and urine will not cause dehydration or water retention  in the tissue on the contrary.

As mentioned before the Qi movement in the above aforesaid 5 paragraphs would be seen as :

• 1) in term of pulsation of the heart and inhales from the lung match up to the Growth of blood and in turns produce and carry the Qi to all parts of the body.
• 2) in term of outspread movement of the liver would match up to the regulating of Qi in all aspects of the Optimal function in each organ.

We have come to an exciting moment for our topic as to how the 6 seasonal virus invasion can influence Qi deficiency and stagnation.

The 6 seasonal viruses as (Qi Transportation Theory) stated, namely:

• Wind
• Cold
• Heat
• Fire
• Wetness
• Dryness

Qi Deficiency

The causes of Qi deficiency are:

• Inborn deficiency
• Malnutrition
• Excessive laborious work

Lung Qi Deficiency

Indications are:

• Short breathing time
• Vocal voice slow and weak
• Difficulty in catching breathe especially after a short walk.

Spleen and Stomach Qi Deficiency

Indications are:

• Poor Appetites
• Indigestion

Kidneys Qi Deficiency

Indications are:

• Enuresis (bedwetting) a little different from incontinence 
• Nocturnal emission (wet dream)

Wei Qi Deficiency

Indications are:

• Sweating at rest
• Avoid windy condition
• Prone to catching a flu

So the Wind whether it's a hot wind or cold wind and the rest would invade the body with each own characteristics respectively which will be discussed in part three later on.

The relevant decoction at this point would be very brief as you can see in the picture attached.  

A decoction to tonic the Lung Qi deficiency

However, they are the most effective remedy for Lung Qi Deficiency.                           

Qi Stagnation

What is Qi stagnation?  

The normal condition for Qi is:

•  Smooth Sailing through the human body.

Therefore once the smooth sailing encounter obstacles of any order, the affected organs or meridian connection would develop a series of pathological changes which is generalised as Qi Stagnation.

There is a saying that goes like this; the mild sickness starts or triggers with the malfunction of Qi.

So:

• the uncomfortable emotion 
• infected seasonal virus invasion
• external injuries 

are examples that can cause Qi passage disorder leading to the resultant Qi Stagnation.

How are we going to interpret that there is a Qi stagnation instead of something else during TCM diagnosis?

Primarily, Qi Stagnation has the following main symptoms in the TCM perspective:

• 1) localised pain spots
• 2) Felt bloated
• 3) the pain come and fade away
• 4) affected pain spot is not fixed.
• 5) pain is related to emotion

Just to fortify these symptoms with these observations would clear any doubt in between:

• 1) Qi Stagnation  in the stomach will cause abdominal pain and felt bloated
• 2) Qi Stagnation in the Liver meridian channel would cause breast tenderness, abdominal bloated.
• 3) even the urge of defecation with an unfinished feeling is also part of Qi Stagnation in the digestive passage.

The treatment for Qi Stagnation would be to regulate and even out the blockage and it still boils down to the strong TCM Fundamentals implanted in you to dredge and clear out the flow of Qi in the liver.

I'll include the formula for these 2 decoctions in part 3 or the next blog and they are:

1. Chai Hu Shu Gan San
2. Xiao Yao San

To round up this topic on Qi Stagnation and Deficiency, the pathological changes in Qi would also result in Qi going in the reverse direction and Qi sinks in, causing organs to move downwards.

The common disorder when Qi moves in the reverse direction and sinks in are:

1. Vomiting
2. Hiccup
3. Giddiness
4. Diarrhoea
5. Rectum Prolapse
6. Cervical Prolapse
7. Impotence

Best of all 

Xiong

***Reference:

( Emperor's Interior Sutra is available on sales better known as the esoteric scripture of the yellow emperor in Amazon, it's just a different way of naming the book cover)

How Ying Wei Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi blend into the seasonal infections in Pediatric part one

Hey, I'm back to continue on the subject related to Pediatric.  There are a lot more which I'm going to write before link up the 6 kinds of seasonal infections like wind, cold and so on with the child development.  You would be able to digest them bit by bit just like the stages of baby growth discussed in the previous blogs.  

TCM FUNDAMENTALS

So you had learned about Zong Qi, Zhong Qi and Yuan Qi, I would introduce:

• Ying Qi

• Wei Qi

• Zhang Fu Qi

• Jing Luo Qi

in a relationship with Qi deficiency and Stagnation.  I'm going to discuss How Ying, Wei, Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi blend into the seasonal infections in Pediatric part one.

4 essential substances are forming the basic material requirement of the human body, namely:

• Essence
• Blood 
• Qi
• Fluid

is also the foundation for all organs and meridians to complete their respective physiological function.  They are the sustainable life-giving materials without which the human body is dead.

Yang's property

Qi is the ever-moving clear nutrient energy in charge of:

• Propelling
• Warming 
• Defending
• Capturing and yet not over spilling

Yin's property

Blood is divided into fluid and plasma cell; both are in liquid form.

So Fluid is termed as the common name for watery substances in the human body.

Both fluid and blood would function to lubricate and nourish the body with clear nutrients.

Therefore 

1. The Growth
2. Development 
3. Mature and Age
4. Sickness and Death 

of the human body are the results of changes in the movement of:

• Qi
• Blood 
• Fluid

in the life cycle.

Last and not least, the Essence is the innate important basic material requirement which has 2 meanings.  In the narrow sense, Essence refers to as the reproductive Essence.

Essence in the broader sense refers to every clear nutrient in the human body and called the Essence Qi.

So far okay for you and am I going too fast?

Qi is the very dynamic energy comprising of vital clear nutrients circulating the human body.  You can imagine Qi is reaching from near to every far end and classified as a momentum of air.  This momentum is vividly displayed as:

• Raise or ascend 
• Lower or descend
• Exit or move out
• Entrance or move in

I quote from the Emperor's Interior Sutra:

{The four phenomena; raise, descend, exit and move in, is found in every organ.}Unquote

The human lively hood in the fundamentals is found on this 4 phenomenon.

Therefore in another word, life will come to an end when this 4 phenomenon stops its function.

So I'll revise with you on Yuan and Zong Qi and blend in the Ying Wei Zhang Fu and Jing Luo 4 Qi to our subject on Paediatrics.

Yuan Qi

is the innate Qi derived from parents and store in the sealed Kidneys.  Primarily, Yuan Qi is in charge of driving the Growth, Development, Warmth and Stimulation of all vital bodily organs and the related physiological function.

So Yuan Qi becomes the driving energy of human life activities.  Therefore:

1. Yuan Qi = abundant = robust body = less prone to sickness
2. Yuan Qi = deficient = weak body = more prone to sickness

Ying Qi

is the nutrient-rich Qi that flows within the pulse together with the blood.  It is formed as a result of digested clear nutrient from the stomach and spleen.  So the primary function of the Ying Qi is continuously producing blood to carry nutrient-rich energy to all parts of the body.  So Qi and blood is one indispensable pair as one body in the TCM perspective.

Wei Qi

is the Qi that flows just exterior or outside of the pulse to defence the body against exterior seasonal infections.

It doesn't conform to the restriction by the pulse tubular structure.  Its primary physiological function is to disperse within the chest abdominal region to warm the organs in the aforesaid region.  The Wei Qi also travel outward to reach the integumental system to regulate moist and lubrication for the skin and hair.

Zong Qi

is derived from Yuan Qi after fresh air being inhaled by the Lung combined with the raised clear nutrients from the digestive effect of the Stomach and Spleen.  So Zong Qi localised in the chest region called Tan Zhong.  I will discuss more on this acupuncture point in later blogs as and when necessary.

So the primary physiological functions of the Zong Qi are:

1) regulate the breathing mechanism

2) energise and regulate the heartbeat.

3) regulate the bodily movement and temperature in the TCM perspective.

The apex of the heart (as the heart lies in situ) is located on the midclavicular line, in the 5th intercostal space (As shown in the picture above) where it serves as a medical indicator for cardiac apex beat.   Abnormal reading will foretell the underlining cardiac disease in the person about the Pericardium.

The Apex is the same point called Xu Li in the TCM perspective where the palpitation of the Xu Li is correlated to the pulse to prognosticate the abundance or total deficit of the Zong Qi.

Zhang Fu Qi

is derived from Yuan Qi to spread out to individual organ (or called Zhang Fu), as a result, we have Spleen Qi, Stomach Qi and so on.

Therefore these organ Qi is depicted as the basic material required to complete the self physiological function of the organ.

Jing Luo (Meridian)Qi

is again derived from Yuan Qi which passes through the meridian path and termed as Jing Qi.  So during acupuncture treatment, the usual observed reaction is the electrifying or heavy effect felt by the patient is referred to as "obtaining the Qi".  This means Qi is activated to reach treatment optimisation.

Am I going too fast and it is the end of part one in this blog?

I will be back soon to continue on the same topic part two.

Best of all

Xiong

***Reference:

( Emperor's Interior Sutra is available on sales better known as the esoteric scripture of the yellow emperor in Amazon, it's just a different way of naming the book cover)

How to link the TCM Fundamentals of the 6th Yin Organ - The Pericardium with the Integumentary System as well as the San Jiao(triple burner)

Hey, I've come to the closing of the TCM fundamentals with you just for one last organ:

• the 6th Yin organ, the Pericardium.  
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3 layers of the Pericardium

It's this Pericardium which links up with the San Jiao both in term of the inter-organ backup exterior-interiorly and also by way of Meridian path links up between the 2 organs.  The former is real and positioned close to the Heart and the latter is imaginary largest Yang organ making use of the 11 Yin Yang organs to complete the physiological functions from the facial organs to the abdominal orifices at the Urethra end and the Anus. 

The only shortcoming of the 2 organs is:

• their respective Meridian Paths and 
• Points are found along the arm and head.  

However, the 12 meridians paths link up with each other throughout the human body.  There are many reviews on the San Jiao but real philosophy is the innate Qi that passes through the organs very much like link-up of all the paths together which is so in reality.  The stress is the application of the San Jiao or the triple burner is realised when the appropriate understanding of the fundamentals blends in with the related Meridian knowledge to save the sick which is the basic instinct of every medical physician.  So if acupuncture application using the correct meridian path can do something on the terminal sickness, why are there still hesitation or forbidden to use it especially in the hospital.

I have seen patients claiming that their cancerous growth cannot be treated any longer using western drugs.  So after 6 months of my applied treatment, I had reduced and shrank the lump to reasonable small in size that doctor would say no medicine is needed as the growth is under control.

So the application of TCM with the correct Fundamentals is very important and I should divert back to our topic to feed you with more foundation today.

I will discuss more on treatment as and when we move in the various pathological studies.

I'm going to show you How to link the TCM Fundamentals of the 6th Yin Organ - The Pericardium with the Integumentary System as well as the San Jiao(triple burner)

TCM FUNDAMENTALS

The pericardium is the membranous capsule that covers and protect the heart. It's the 6th Yin Organ which also would comply with the Yin Organs fundamental as:

• Store without leakage or spillover(Storage)**
• Filled and never congested**

There are 2 layers of pericardium, namely the

• Fibrous  pericardium

• Serous pericardium

The fibrous layer is a very tough layer of fibrous tissue that sticks together with serous layer creating the limited scalability within the heart. The serous layer is then further divided into 2 layers called the

• Parietal pericardium
• Visceral pericardium or the epicardium.

So together they anchor the heart into position.

There is one important gap or cavity that lies between the parietal and epicardium which is filled with a specific quantity of fluid called the pericardial fluid.**  It is this fluid within the sealed cavity which will lubricate the movement, reducing friction on the heart surface as well as the prevention of over-distension of the heart.

In this way, it would maintain the quantity of blood contained at a specific constant under normal condition.

The problem associated with pericardium is always link with the heart and treatment is related to fortifying the heart Yin and Yang:*

Due to the scalability of the fibrous layer is very small,

so when the pericardial fluid is abnormally increased, it is not possible for the heart to expand exterior and as a result, 

• It would compress against the heart affecting it to diastole and restrict the backflow of the venous blood.

This would lead to symptoms like:

• Difficulty in breathing
• Anxiety
• Overall weakness
• Fever
• Acute chest pain
• Acute shoulder and back pain

The necessary medical procedure must be taken to reduce the pericardial fluid.

*Reference to my blog on the heart

 Best of all, 

Xiong

***Reference:

( Emperor's Interior Sutra is available on sales better known as the esoteric scripture of the yellow emperor in Amazon, it's just a different way of naming the book cover)