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:
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
- The Growth
- Development
- Mature and Age
- Sickness and Death
of the human body are the results of changes in the movement of:
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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