A very important medical concept that allopathic medicine has yet to understand concerns ?Winds.? We?re not just talking about the wind your grandpa rips in his special chair.
If you?re unfamiliar with Taoist concepts about the body, mind and spirit ? then let me clue you in on the most powerful and cost efficient style of healing on our planet? at least until we get more ?healing machines? from the Elohim aliens.
There?s an invisible energy called Chi that powers the body. Many refer to it as bioelectric energy in the West or ?orgone.? Another important aspect of the Taoist understanding of the human body is that ?changes or blockages in the organs can generate varying emotions.? 3rd: Pulses in the wrist can reveal the condition of the internal organs. Lastly, there are winds circulating inside your body, affecting your health and emotional life. These winds are created inside and outside of the body. The idea of outside winds affecting us is not as foreign as you may think. The people of Southern California dread the late summer arrival of the ?Santa Ana winds,? which arise in the desert and are felt to be the cause of accidents and psychological problems. The serenity of people living in many valleys of Switzerland is often disturbed by the annual arrival of strange winds that descend on peaceful valleys.
Wind is Chi that can enter from the exterior of the body or can arise in the interior of the body. Winds enter and exit through the navel, back of the head, forearms and lower legs. Good wind is Chi that is healthy and good for you. The ancient Taoists identified unhealthy, abnormal, and foul winds as winds that are pathological and perverse and called them evil winds. Evil winds become trapped as toxins, blockages, and energy that can?t move. Chi composes these winds, and when they are expelled from the body, the Chi becomes healthy again. The Chi itself is good, but it is in a bad situation. It is like having a room in your home that normally is full of good air, but if there is a dead fish or dead mouse in that room, then the air becomes unbearable and foul. Remove the offending cause, open the windows, and the air becomes pleasant again.
Nature?s winds arise from a difference in atmospheric pressure that moves the air from low pressure regions to high pressure regions, and by differences in temperature which move the wind from cold to hot regions. (Who can control them? Sometimes even the Gods have trouble with that.)
Within the body there are different pressures as well. They arise at places of congestion, hyperactivity, obstructions, and movements. Different temperatures arise in hyper (high) and hypo (low) activity areas. The bodies internal organs thrive at different temperatures and moistures: When the body is balanced the heart is hot, the kidneys are cold, the lungs are cool and dry, the liver is warm and moist, and the spleen is damp and warm. The mixture of the ?weather? in the body is pleasant. The organs maintain a homeostasis in the body by balancing each other automatically. The conditions of the organs are rarely ideal, and the organs are always going through different temperature changes. Such changes affect the body?s ?weather? and could cause winds or breezes to develop internally.
Winds carry toxicity out of the body. When winds exit the body often exist as burps, flatulence, a yawn, or a pop in the joint. Sometimes, the wind gets trapped in the body and cause hiccups, wandering pain, itching, fevers, pain in the joints, heaviness, sluggishness, cramps, headaches, vertigo, and in extreme cases, gout, paralysis, and arthritis. Winds can cause the hands and limbs to feel heavy and numb. Cramps are winds that are trapped around nerves, pulling on them and causing pain. Winds also cause migraines, eye pains, kidney pains, muscle pains, and poorly functioning organs.
Skin rashes are the clearest sign of wind problems. This can be a good sign, since it indicates that the winds are leaving the body. However, they are having a difficult time exiting, and you need to do more detoxification work. ~
I?m not forgetting how effective the emergency procedures are within allopathic medicine. If my father had a heart attack, believe I?d have him in the nearest western hospital for emergency heroic procedures. It?s the Eastern, Naturopathic, Complementary and Alternative medical traditions that are superior for long-term chronic degenerative diseases and offer little to no side-effects (not just symptom-management like Western medicine has devolved to, trying to cover up the uncomfortable symptoms so you leave a partially satisfied customer.)
A very important study in medicine these days concerns blood type. It can point to how to eat, exercise and even who?s a good spouse for you. A leading proponent of this field is a man named Toshitaka Nomi. Although the Japanese sometimes take it to an extreme level, this man has some amazing ideas and his book contains personality profiles ? even right down to what you should do for a living, whom you should marry etc? When I talk about them taking it to extremes, the Japanese system of blood-type analysis ketsu-eki-gata can sometimes take ominous undertones. Once you say, ?Type A is this,? or ?Type B is that,? the unavoidable next step is to say, ?Type B is superior,? or ?Only a Type O can be president.? Caste systems develop. A variation of this happens every day in Japan- for example, when a company advertises that it is looking for Type Bs to fill middle management positions.
Anyway, the study of blood types is a next step in evolution and can really help the human race become healthy again. There?s a good middle path without fanaticism that we can really reap the benefits from. For example, I eat according to my blood type and have become much stronger. Type Os thrive on intense exercise and protein based (acidic) foods where the types A and B thrive on vegetable and grains (high in starch ? more alkaline) and less-intense exercises like yoga and walking.
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