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chinese medicine models
Small Intestine ~ Xiao Chang
psychospiritual approaches
definition
Small Intestine ~ Xiao Chang receives and transforms food by separating the Clear (Pure) from the Turbid (Impure), with the Clear becoming bodily fluids and the Turbid becoming urine - this function also operates on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels; regulates quality of Xue (Blood); is responsible for digestion and nutrient absorption; with the Heart, is responsible for sweating; and opens into the tongue.
» Healthy expressions are love, joy and the ability to discriminate; and, as the Princely Fire, warmth, vitality, excitement.
» The Small Intestine is affected by sadness which grips a person and destroys the mental clarity and capacity of sound judgment for which this organ is responsible. (Maciocia, p. 273) Weakness, dysfunction and illness are associated with cruelty, hate, indiscretion and impatience.
» Small Intestine Xu (Deficiency) signs include bluish lips with white border, emaciation, profuse sweating (Seem, p. 29); swellings of nodules; hemicrania; tinnitus; pain around the ear; and pain depressing the abdomen.
» Small Intestine Shi (Excess) signs include happiness, joviality, scarlet complexion (Seem, p. 29); congested abdomen; pain at temples and sides of neck; flaccidity of muscles and joints in the arms; especially the elbows; and reddish urine.
» Mental signs of Small Intestine channel disorders include poor mental assimilation, a feeling of mental deficiency due to inability to assimilate ideas, and insecurity. (Seem, p. 27)
dreams:
When the Small Intestine is weak, one dreams of large cities.
(from "Spiritual Axis" as translated in Maciocia, p. 115)
When one has small intestinal parasites, in dreams one dreams of crowd; with long intestinal parasites, one dreams of large cities.
(from "Simple Questions" as translated in Maciocia, p. 115)
footnotes
Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, pp. 115 and 273, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.