In this pattern the liver’s function of storing blood is interfered with due to factors such as chronic sleep deprivation, skipping breakfast, rushing lunch or no lunch; nutrient poor diet, excessive coffee, lack of relaxation, lack of mindfulness, or hard core exercising combined with ‘explosive’ pre-workout supplements. This pattern…

This pattern is associated with a hyper-stimulated life that puts all the focus on yang and fails to nourish yin. Balancing kidney yin and kidney yang is the key to a long, happy and healthy life. It will nourish kidney yin, and thus produce enough marrow to fill the…

This pattern is affiliated with incontinence and us caused by excessive sexual activity or drug abuse, especially methamphetamines, which both weaken the bladder and fluids leak out resulting in frequent pale urination, but also incontinence. Symptoms: Frequent pale-abundant urination, incontinence, lower back pain, enuresis….

A chronic condition involving spleen and kidney. Your spleen controls transportation and transformation, and kidney yang warms the spleen to support its functions. Yang deficiency in the spleen or kidneys will cause dysfunction of transportation and transformation, leading to loose stools, diarrhoea, stomach rumbling, chronic diarrhoea, and a cold…

This pattern is caused by anger, frustration and resentment over a long period of time disrupting the balance of yin and yang necessary for healthy behaviour. The loss of yin causes liver yang to rise, which then sets off a chain reaction of unhealthy and dangerous behaviours. Symptoms: Headache…

Longstanding liver chi stagnation (from emotional tension and ongoing stress and inappropriate diet) is the cause of liver blood stagnation. Chi moves blood so when chi stops flowing, so does blood. When liver blood stagnates it creates the following symptoms: Symptoms: Depression, irritability, abdominal pain, abdominal masses and feeling…

Caused by a combination of emotional factors (continuous states of anger, resentment and frustration) with a hectic lifestyle that depletes kidney yin and jing (your life essence). It can also be caused by physical exertion over a long period of time. Liver wind is serious as it can develop…

The main aspect of this pattern is that the kidneys are too weak to receive chi from the lungs, and to hold it down. Chi accumulates in the chest causing an excess in the chest and a deficiency in the kidneys. Kidneys control inhalation and lungs control exhalation, so…

The heart and kidneys depend upon each other for support, but they also control each other. The heart descends to the kidneys to provide warmth (kidneys are the fire for all physiological processes) and the kidneys ascend to the heart to prevent it from becoming hyperactive (the heart stores…

Kidney yang deficiency affects many aspects of health including core energy, sexual energy, lower back strength, knee strength, bone strength, hair and reproduction. It is affiliated with CFS chronic fatigue syndrome. Lifestyle plays a crucial part in developing kidney yang deficiency. Kidney yang is referred to as the ‘fire…