Chinese medicine and the Qi of herbs

Hey guys, welcome to Learn Feng Shui, where you'll learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view, taking out the myths and superstition. If you like weekly tips as well as fun folklore tales, you'll enjoy learning Feng Shui with me. Hey guys, I want to revisit a little bit about traditional Chinese medicine and talk about the Qi of food. Hey guys, if you're interested in joining the Feng Shui Club and you miss the announcements the other day, I'm adding four monthly group calls via Zoom to the Feng Shui Club. So this is designed to help people at their Feng Shui understanding and level really digging and understand Feng Shui and be able to plan their month and use a date selection with Feng Shui and Feng Shui adjustments, as well as help those who are practicing digging a little bit deeper and have a better understanding of things like, you know, concepts like flying stars and how to use them.

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So shout out to Master Kevin Chan. I'll put a link to his YouTube channel because it's very informative. If you don't really have much of a background in Feng Shui or Chinese metaphysics, it might be a little too explanatory maybe for you, but I would go check it out anyway. He's really an amazing teacher. So he in his video went through each of the elements and you kind of talked about what you want to look at for in health.

So I'm not going to cover that, but what I want to cover is something that he talked about, which is the flow of the Chi of the herbs. So Chinese medicine is not one that I actually know very much about. It is part of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics that covers the medicinal, it's herbal and medicinal and acupuncture and acupressure, stuff like that. That is in the medical category of the Wushu or the five arts. And so traditional Chinese medicine, it's very, very lengthy and very difficult to kind of master because it has a lot of components to it.

But one thing I have been trying to do recently is to try to look at my body or try to think about how my body feels and think about what kind of supplements I can add to it. So one thing that Dr. Kevin Chan does point out is that Chinese medicine is not a quick fix. So what happens with Chinese medicine basically is your organs are assessed. So it's just, you know, five in and five in organs.

So they're kind of assessed in basically whatever symptom you have in your body, whether your feet hurt or your muscles hurt or you have headaches or whatever, sinus issues, everything can be linked back to your organs because your organs, you know, promote this flow of energy within your body. And if one of your organs isn't functioning correctly, that means there's some sort of Qi blockage. And there's a variety of ways you can help to unstick the Qi, which is actually also things like Qi Gong and Tai Chi, which I talked to Samantha about if you caught that podcast. If you didn't, I would highly go back and recommend you listen to the podcast about Tai Chi with Samantha Plovey. But in that podcast, she talked about the fact that she had some health issues and one of the ways that she kind of moved the Qi around and she was able to make sure that her health issues didn't turn into something serious is that she started doing Tai Chi and they worked unblocking all the Qi.

So really it's about unblocking the Qi and having your organs all function correctly. And if you're already having some sort of symptoms like you're already diabetic or you already have some sort of liver failure, you know, that means one of those organs is not functioning correctly. And you should go seek medical attention. But what you might want to do is also look into including, you know, Chinese herbs and Tai Chi. And it would be something you would have to talk to your doctor about.

So I'm not a doctor. I'm not giving you medical advice, but I just thought the flow of energy within your body and talking about the flow of Qi with the food is very interesting. So initially, first comes the diagnosis. Again, this is assessed off of your organs. So each organ is associated with an element in the inner gang, you know, so one of the five elements, which is water, metal, fire, earth, and water.

And so, you know, the whatever system you're having, having problems with the medical, the Chinese medical practitioner will look at those organs and associate them with the organ or associate them with the element. And then they will prescribe you some sort of herb. So for Mosher Health.com, it says while Chinese herbs may be prescribed single, they are often made into formulas to maximize the effectiveness of each while counteracting the unwanted effects. They can be prepared in different ways, including teas, powders or syrups. So they're generally given in these different ways, but it's usually always herbs.

So why are herbs prescribed? And what are these herbs represent? The reason herbs are used, and this is the explanation that got me interested and got me looking more into it, is that whenever an herb is grown, think about it this way, I have a mint plant. My mint plant grows in the summer. All summer along this mint plant is gathering the Qi from the sun, you know, the summer sun.

And it's growing, and I'm able to harvest it and use it. So mint is a summer plant, and the summer of course is associated with the element of fire. And so this is basically how these Chinese herbs work. Whatever season your herbs naturally grow in, they harness the Qi from the sunlight, and they capture it. And of course when they're dried out, that Qi is stuck, you know, or captured inside that herb.

Plants grown in the spring are associated with that element of wood. Plants grown in the summer are associated with the element of fire. Plants grown in the fall are associated with the element of metal. And plants grown in the winter are associated with the element of water. So what happens to earth, as you may know, earth is the falls in between each season.

And so if you need the element of earth, you get an herb that's actually grown all year round because the harness is the Qi from every season. One thing you do have to watch out for is a plant, you know, when you're buying herbs, you really do want to buy herbs that are from a reputable source. A lot of times when they come from different countries, you have to have them assessed because you don't really know what's in them. They might contain like heavy metals, and the Mosher Health dot com says they could sometimes contain prescription drugs. So you really have to get them from a reputable source.

And make sure you're getting the best herbs. Another thing is that unfortunately if your herbs are grown and maybe you want to drive them out yourself, if they're grown in a greenhouse and they're grown through different seasons, and not actually capturing the Qi of that season. And so one thing you want to make sure of is that it's not something that is, you know, like, farmed commercially, that, you know, it's just kind of forced to grow all year round because you really do want to capture the Qi of the season that it's associated with for it to actually be effective. And it's high a little bit of Feng Shui in because we're talking about health. One of the errors you can't focus this year is the East.

So the number four flying stars that's generally associated with health is visiting the East this year. The element of Yinwood and the element of Yinwood is always called the heavenly ye, and it's associated with medicine and especially plant medicine. So one thing you can do is you can put your vitamins in the East of your house, you can put your medicine there. You can do any sort of like health treatments there, maybe get a little exercise in the East this year. If you can't use the East of your house, what you can do is locate the East area of your room and use the East direction within that room also, that work.

All right guys, well I hope you enjoyed today's episode of a little bit of a different focus, but I just thought it was a really cool topic. So again, if you would like to learn more about Feng Shui Chinese metaphysics, visit my website. And hopefully you visit me for the class for April. It's going to be April 18th, 4 p.m. or the third Sunday of every month.

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