Your large intestine is the origin of change and transformation. It is responsible for movement and expression of your emotions. It is connected to your capacity to either ‘let go’ or get stuck holding on to things and physical and emotional detox….
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Your small intestine helps with digestion. It has an influence on judgement and gives you the power of discernment, and the ability to make good decisions. It separates the ‘clear’ from the ‘turgid’ in digestion and on a psychic level and plays a crucial role in the happy unfolding…
Your liver stores blood, regulates chi flow throughout your body for all physiological, mental and emotional functions, and it supports recovery. Happiness occurs when liver chi flows freely and anger when it doesn’t. With a healthy liver comes resoluteness and drive, and the capacity to plan your life. With…
Your san jiao is a function not a physical organ. It directs fluids and chi to all your organs. It affects your emotional flow and capacity to relate to people. San Jiao time (9pm – 11pm) can inspire people to have sex, especially men as they are more likely…
Your pericardium is closely related to your heart. It covers and protects the heart. It also has a strong influence on mental and emotional states. It is connected to joy and it influences the formation of healthy relationships. A weak pericardium can cause depression and anxiety and relationship difficulties….
Your lungs are the intermediary between you and the world. They build immunity to allergens and bugs, but they also build your immunity to the negative influences of other people. They are in charge of the mental-emotional sphere. Impaired lung function creates sadness, worry, depression, a tendency to crying…
There are several lifestyle and emotional factors that are related to Grave’s disease, but I’ll be looking specifically at the anger connection here. In Chinese medicine anger is neither negative nor positive, it’s part of the Five Element cycle and a creative force – if it is understood, expressed and…
When energy becomes stagnant you experience it as pain. Aching knees or lower back, for example, can be due to an injury or overuse which causes a localised inner deficiency that blocks the chi from flowing freely through the meridian in the affected area. But, if the stagnation takes…
Difficulty swallowing (if it is not a condition related to a neurological disorder or physical event) is connected with liver chi stagnation which means your chi is not flowing smoothly. In TCM the rhythmic contraction and relaxation of the throat, oesophagus and the opening of the stomach, that is…
As an ex-addict (in my youth) I understand chills experientially as well as academically. If a drug-user doesn’t get a hit they feel so cold they start shivering even on a warm or hot day. These chills are the stage before the shivering turns spasmodic (the ‘cold turkey’). The…
