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Yin Yang Theory in Chinese Medicine

last night my husband and I went to Yin Yoga if you've never tried Yin Yoga I love it it's very slow we hold the poses for about three to five minutes and it's the opposite of what we do usually for sports because we both love to hike Mountain Bike Run play tennis which is very young in nature and Yin Yoga is the opposite right it's all about balance so today we are going to talk about the yin yang Theory according to Chinese medicine how to use it in clinical practice and what is the depth of this amazing Theory which can be used with everything and every phenomenon all over the universe welcome back to my channel if it's your first time here I'm Clara and I create Chinese medicine and acupuncture contents for students and practitioners trying to make this medicine easy to grasp and fun to learn I'm all about the fun if you look at my screen right now we've got two young sign on both sides of my screen the purple one because I love purple can you see it's my favorite color if you've followed me for a while you probably know my two favorite things my favorite point is stomach 40 and my favorite color is purple so here we go you know not that you need to know but I figure I share so when it comes to the yin yang symbol as you can see it's on each side a lot of people see the symbol and it's everywhere when I was in Yin Yoga last night the symbol is in the room with candles it's everywhere A lot of people have necklaces and that symbol is everywhere but do people actually understand the meaning the full meaning of this symbol this is always interesting to me right because I think we see it but we don't so I wanted to start by talking about the word yin and yang because it was so used to utilize those two words we don't think behind it yin and yang are actually Chinese words right they are opinion which means they come from characters and then they're pronuncien and Yong the best we can because my pronunciation of Mandarin is and not good at all but they are Chinese words right and the reason it's not translated it's because yin and yang are a concept this is a concept a theory a concept and you can't translate a concept this is the same with Chi we can say oh it's energy but she is a concept it's a whole concept so we can't really call it energy right it's part of energy but that's not what it is only so Yin and Yong is two Chinese words that we present a symbol and that represents a theory that is a not translatable because it's a concept does that make sense so I think that's the first thing I want to start with and now we're going to look at the symbol itself to start with this Theory and then we're going to go into the deep and depths of this Theory and how to utilize in clinical practice the best we can right because it's part of the whole world so what I wanted to start with was not just the symbol but the characters because like I said the yin and yang words are coming from characters in Chinese right and you probably know this but I love Chinese characters because they depict they show a picture they show a image and we look at them and we see just strokes but actually they always depict an image so with the yin and yang when you look at the yin side and the young side or the yin and Young characters they're the same they represent a mountain a slope or a hill and then on one side you have the Yen symbol which means that the Shady part of the mountain and then on the other side you have the young symbol which represents the sunny part of the mountain right so yin and yang represent the light and dark or the shade and the sunny part right so it kind of shows the character shows you that they are light and dark and the symbol is often represented with like black and white and it's light and dark right so that's the the character to me represents really what the basic of the symbol is now let's look at the symbol itself again if you have questions put them in the chat and I'll try my best to answer them because I want to make sure I value you guys showing up on this live because I don't know what time is it but I know in India it's uh 1 30 in the morning so kudos for being here people for people who are in there in the middle of the night I'm just impressed you guys that's the love of TCM right so the symbol itself the yin yang symbol when you look at it it's called The Higher Supreme the taiji or you know it's basically representing the whole universe every phenomenon everything that happens depends on the balance of Yin and Young and the symbol shows exactly what yin and yang is about first it shows that there's two sides they kind of look opposite black and white right it shows Little Seeds within each side right you have the little black within the white and then vice versa so it shows that there is a little seed which means nothing is totally in or nothing is totally young it also shows that they're part of a whole they kind of assemble like a puzzle right together we put them together and they become a whole which means they can't live without the other it's a balance between the two right so the symbol itself we present everything that we're going to discuss today and how they figure this whole year which which starts from the itching or hygiene or I don't never know how to pronounce that but it's itching uh book which was 700 BC which started talking about yin and yang specifically the bagua or the trigrams which represent yin and young with a full line or broken line if you've never heard of the itching or iching in English um check it out because it's really the basics of um okay cool let's continue that okay so let's start with uh yes arifa it's all about balance you're absolutely right so let's look at let's look let's start again this is what happened when you live you can't just go oh I'm not next take right let's start with the how do we look at the yin yang right so hand pink waving hi um so when we when we look we have to defend to Yin or Yang in relationship to something else for example I would not compare an orange with a table and nothing in common there's nothing to compare right it's always when we look at two different entities but nothing is in and nothing is Young nothing which is quite interesting that way right it just depends on what you compare it to so in this one I'm gonna look at the example of water water is neither in Yen neither Young now if you compare water to steam because steam is warmer and anything that's warmer is more young than if you compare it to steam water is in a steam is Young so now water is Yin compared to steam however if we compare water to ice because ice is more in nature anything that's colder is more yen in nature if you compare water to ice now water is Young and I says Yin so see how water can be in and young depending what we compare it to I think it's the same in personality you know when I teach and I have a lot of students some people are some students are more extroverted some people are more introverted right so if I compare myself to my husband I am introverted I know most people think what because he's very on fire like he's full of energy he's really young compared to me um I'm much more young compared to him however I would be young compared to a friend of mine who's very shy very introverted um very quiet very calm so now I'm becoming young compared to her right so no nothing is Yin or young we understand that it always depends on what we compare it to I love that because I think it really represents what yin and Yong is about right and it's the same when we look at it if we compare uh the weather in different cities so I took some cities in Africa and in Europe uh because it made sense to me because I'm from France so you know um so when we look at yin and yang they are opposite right night is opposite of day winter is opposite of Summer right you look at opposition and right and left above and below right opposition front and back this is always an opposition but it's all again it's relative right to what you compare it to so if I look at the weather in Paris for example and it's raining and it's you know kind of cool it is going to be more Yen than if I compare it to Madrid because Madrid is going to be probably warmer than Paris because it's a bit more south so you know it might be right now in Paris it might be 12 and in Madrid it's about 19 to 20. so that makes Madrid young Paris Yin however if now I compare Madrid to Cairo in Egypt maybe in Egypt right now it's 28 30 degrees and in Madrid it's already 9 2019 degrees so now Madrid is Yen and Cairo is Young right it's always what we compare it to it's it's very simple to always do that in that perspective right so looking at the hold on let's start that looking at the yin yang Theory from the beginning how did they decide to take Yin and make it dark the moon uh and young the sun and the day right how did they pick a side well what happened is you know most of this is always trial and errors and Farmers decided that there was a time during the day where they were very active and then during the night they were resting so they Associated night time with rest with Derek right and then they Associated daytime with activity with sun so that's how it started it all right so you could see the Sun is going to be young and so is if we compare it to the moon that's Yin dark and light right of the day and then summer is more hot so anything that's more active that's more energetic it's going to be more young anything that's more dope that's more cold that's more um rest which means uh quiet time right that is more Yen so it's looking at two different kind of things Fire and Water upward and downward because fire is warm so it's more young and it goes up so upward is Young water is more Yen and it goes down so down or downward is Yin make sense right so I think um of tatsi Otachi says great content an amazing Channel thank you so much I love that thank you so that makes it simple when we look at opposition right so the opposite is pretty simple I think to me it makes a lot of sense sometimes when I teach I'm always thinking okay how can I make sense to this so we remember right because if I ask you okay I will winter and summer which one is Yin which one is Young it should be automatic well summer is warmer however we're gonna talk about this in a second is um the interdependence right so one cannot exist without the other there would be no day without night right there will be no summer without winter and I wanna always uh remind people that often people will tell me your students will ask the question well okay so here we are you know in Canada so we have the Four Seasons so we have um day and night but let's say you are in Alaska or in the North Pole or the South Pole right that's not going to be the same no it's not but again the interconnectivity or the interdependence is the same the North Pole needs a South Pole that's always been the case right so when you look at people in Alaska in the summer for example they have daytime forever right it never gets super dark at all like it stays 24 hours Sunshine however in the South Pole everything is in the dark everything is in the dark right it's dark for months and then you reverse it and then in Winter Alaska or the North Pole is completely dark while in the South it is not so it's very interesting to see that there's always a balance doesn't matter where you live is always a balance the season may look differently the change may look different but it's the same thing does that make sense so they obviously depend on each other right that makes sense matter and energy so energy is Young because it's movement matter is Yin because it's structure it's a matter right it's just what we're gonna look at in comparison but they can't live without each other it's like physiology and Anatomy we have our anatomy which is Yin right it's our structure and Physiology is how all this Anatomy is working to be able to have this beautiful healthy body that we have been given right so that's young the physiology is much more young because there's lots of movement the digestive system is functioning and it's going and doing its thing that's physiology that's young however it depends on the structure of the organ like all the organs that allow this to happen right we did the structure that makes sense so expansion contraction right anything that grows and expand is Young anything that contracts and comes in is in right so interior is Yin it's stereo is Young so the skin and everything that's on the surface of us is more young compared to the inside of us like our organs make sense so that's always dependent you know when we look at organs they depend on each other right the gallbladder depends on the liver and vice versa we're going to talk about those and why they were chosen as you know again and young Morgan because I get that question all the time all the time looking at the opposition again right so front and back wise back young and Frontier because again it comes back to the farmers and when they were outside they were always bent down you know to do whatever they were doing for the farming and the sun always hit the back first right the head and the back was hit by the sun the sun is very much more young right so the back is going to be more young while the front is going to be more Yin and again remember I said going in is more Yen going out is more young so a lot of time when the farmers will bend over and doing whatever they were doing when they were farming they were protecting the Yen they were always in right and then showing the back to the Sun so that's the front and back the head is always more young than the body because it is closer to the Sun it is closer to the top and it's at we said upward it's in the upper part right anything that's up is going to be more young anything that's lower is going to be more Yen so Earth is supposed to be grounding and Yen this is why kidney one is the best grounding point because it grounds us because that's the only point that is on the sole of the foot right and that when we put our feet flat on the ground outside on the grass we're grounding ourselves and we are becoming Yen were calming ourselves right the most young point is do 20 on the opposite see there's always opposition it's always opposition and do 20 do Meridian is a young Meridian who are kidney one of kidney Meridian is a young Meridian right so 220 is the highest point it's the closest to the sky the Sun the heavens and the Earth right so with not the Earth but the earth and the heaven are opposite Heaven is supposed to be young Earth is supposed to be in so same thing we have the most young point at the top that's literally the highest point which means anything at the top like the head is more young and if you look at all the meridians all the meridians that reach the head are young Meridian no Yen Meridian reaches the head right they stay on the body so that shows us that this is much more young and then the body is much more in make sense the sympathetic central nervous system sympathetic central nervous system is Young it's all about action activity fight or flight you know you're just going and it's constant that's what most patients that come and see us are in a state of which is a really a sympathetic State when they get acupuncture the idea or the idea behind doing a treatment of acupuncture is to put the patient in a parasympathetic state which is a rest and recover right so rest and recover would be more Yin more calm so that's more Yin and then sympathetic is more young so great question and when you look at personalities if you watch my um five archetypes video I just did this recently and I talk about the different personality the word personality the metal the word personality is much more young it's Taipei it's go go do do you know Vision goals action planning while the metal personality is much more Yen the people that have mental personality are going to keep their feelings inside they're going to be loyal and then uh they're gonna they're gonna be there for you but they're never gonna share feelings they're very closed in as a self preservation mechanism so you could see that how you can compare it absolutely now the masculine and The Feminine this is always very interesting just because there's so many to unpack on that subject when it is yin and yang I do biological level if you compare men and women men have much more testosterones so they have much more young they have much more energetic fire women are more estrogen bound right so they have tendency to relate to blood because they bleed every month which is more yen in nature so we usually say Feminine is Yin and masculine is Young however it doesn't mean that every man biological man and biological woman are Yin and Yang it just depends what you compare it to if you're comparing uh two women one might might have more masculine energy and one may have more feminine energy and same with men right so it's always what you compare it's not absolute it's never ever absolute with yenanyang that's what I love about comparing uh when it comes to men and women there is a lot more that we can go in depth but it gives you an idea why we go in and young depending on what we're looking at and it's really interesting in clinical practice because when I have men that come in the clinic and they could be very Yin personality very introverted or etc etc but I have tendency to use more young Meridian for men and more Yin Meridian for women specifically because of period and bleeding etc etc right another thing about the yin yang theory is is the mutual conception and that is has to do with a quantitative change right it's the adjustment constant of Yin and Yang and this is why when there's too much Yin or not enough young or too much we need to balance and that's what acupuncture does I always say to people when they ask me well you know does acupuncture cure this or cure that I always say acupuncture does not cure anything it does not treat or cure anything it literally nudges the body to self-regulate it helps the body to balance itself but the body is going to do the work because the body is amazing right so when there's an imbalance between within the body acupuncture is going to help it so when the season changes like it becomes warmer and it becomes colder that's a quantitative change right it is going to change constantly when we are children we are very young right lots of kids have lots of energy you have so much energy when you're young right you're very young in nature and you become a teenager and a young adult and then slowly midlife depending where you are in your life midlife you start to get a little bit more Yin right and then you're going towards the end of your life which is much more in so birth is Young death is in right we look at this however within that lifespan we're going to have a lot of Yin and Yang change as well so it's not going to be absolute the other part of the yin young is looking at the inter transformation so we know winter transform into summer and they transform into night but it always needs a uh right amount of change to transform and become something else so you know when we always say oh which one came first the egg or the chicken right and so for an egg to hatch it needs worms otherwise it's not going to happen there's always condition that has to be there in order for change to occur so change can be good like heat helps the little baby chick come out and hatch right so that's a good change uh less good change this is the yin and yang part of everything is when we go out and party all night and then the next day we have a hangover and we're laying in bed the whole day that change was not that great right so yin and yang can transform into each other all the time and it will change and it could be a good positive change or it could be alert lesson learned in life right but no matter what change is constant and that's why the symbol shows that you can constantly rotate between you and then you know just like day and night every single day it changes and every single night it changes the body is the same uh continuing on the union theory is they transform into each other that is the basic of Yin Yang like like it is really um they transform into each other and then there's always the seed of Yin within young and young within Yin so if you look at today it's beautiful sunny day in Vancouver yeah because it rains a lot here so it's sunny right so sun is young but everywhere the shade right your shade of the building shade of the tree those Shades everywhere that's Yen so even though it's a sunny day the shade is the little seed of Ian within the sunny day Young At Night often um I was in Iceland last year love Iceland you guys it's so beautiful and you know Iceland um had at night time the stars were magnificent and you see the Northern Lights as well right so nighttime is very Yin but Sunny you see all the northern lights and that's young that's light so that's young within Yin because Yin is the night makes sense so there's always a little bit of seed within every one of them and I'm going to talk about that um with the organs as well so this is comparing Yin and Yang in a basis of Chinese medicine now right that's the basic now deficiency and excess this is what I always have to kind of really reinforce with students deficiency is yeah Nexus is Young is that mean that every deficiency is Yen no does that mean every excess is Young no it's when you compare the two right deficiency versus excess but if you're comparing two deficiencies or two excess then that changes it's kind of like what we talked about when we talked about water versus ice and versus steam earlier chronic versus acute same thing chronic as you're not acute as young however doesn't mean that all chronic disorders Are Yin or acute or young right it's when you compare the two always deadness is definitely more Yin in nature because it's sticky it stops movement so I always think dryness is more young because it usually comes from heat drying everything front all in Meridian are in the front except stomach all young Meridian are in the back and back is always young right and then front is a medial is always in however the only young Meridian that's in the front is the stomach and that's a question I get all the time and I remember when I learned all the Meridian I thought well I don't understand the stomach is supposed to be young but it's in the front why because if you look at the stomach even though they put it in the Young organs and young energy and young Meridian it is very Yin in nature it is in charge of a lot of digestive system but it's very Yin in nature it's the most yen of all young organs it's the motion of all young meridian so it very much um you have to remember that if spleen for example is Yen liver is Yin does that mean no remember nothing is totally in so for example spleen energy is Yin however spleen's function or one of the function is to transform and transport the food to make nutrients that's a young energy that's the digestive system that's very energetic that's physiology however the spin is also in charge of producing blood and blood is very much Yin in nature blood producing blood is matter Yin matter energy right difference energy is Young matters Yen so Yen and blood and producing blood that makes the spleen it's Yin energy you look at the liver liver stores blood again that's Yin you store storage is always Yin while it's also in shared liver of moving Chi lots of movements of cheese so we're not tight and tense that is Young energy so each organ even though you compare them to the opposite entity like Spin and stomach level gallbladder they are not just Yin they are Yin compared to their young pertaining organ like liver and gallbladder but within themselves they have two things that are going to be Yin and young or two connection make sense okay so this is really what I want to reinforce today is that nothing is yet nothing is Young it's always what you compare it to and everything has Yin and Yong within makes sense okay okay so the whole point of Yin and Yang or specifically in Chinese medicine is we want to keep homeostasis or balance we want to balance everything we want to keep that fine balance balance is always going to move right if you've ever seen a scale if uh you know you have a scale with two books on each scale little plate and they're both the same weight nothing's going to move however if you drop a little piece of paper on one side Suddenly It's Gonna Get out of balance so it's going to shift right there's gonna shift that happen so there's going to be shift all the time we have stress we have lifestyle we have trauma we have event that happened that are going to put us out of balance and the idea is to try to get back into this homeostasis so balance of Yin and Yong as fast as possible because if we leave it longer and longer and longer there's going to be more and more imbalance between the two and that's going to be taking much longer to repair and to get back into that homeostasis so that's why it's really important to do preventative medicine that's what TCM is strong is preventative medicine right we do things to prevent our body to get out of balance as much as we can and when we do this we keep the shift smaller makes sense so let's look at what happened when we're out of balance right that's why we want to do now if there is an imbalance four things can happen either we have an excess of young too much young right in the body too much energy too much Young Too Much expansion too much heat too much or we have too much Yin too much cold too much stagnation too much Yin excess Yen right the other two things that can happen is we don't have enough young we are depleted in young we don't have enough fire in us it's like the temperature right and we feel cold all the time or we don't have enough Yin Yin is the cold side of it so it's our cooling system and sometimes we don't have that cooling system and we feel hot all the time so that's the deficiency of Yen so either we can have excess or deficiency of either Yin and yum so let's look at how or what the look that looks like so let's start with excess Avion if we have too much young that means we have too much heat in the body right and heat rises it goes up so it's very much a young issue so it's too big too much young right so we may feel hot all the time during the day sweat profusely we may have high fever if it's acute if it's chronic we could have if it's a lot of heat right we could have a thirst for cold drink and we're gonna Gulp and Gulp and gulp for cold drinks we can have a red Tong a rapid pulse we could have red face as well right we're gonna have anger and emotion that'll rise right the emotional rise anger is one of them it rises right A lot of people when they get angry what happened the face goes well have you seen a child getting very angry and having a temper tantrum they get so red and they're just like so much heat in the body right uh in general if there is bowel movement when there is excess young or excess heat there's going to be very smelly stools when there are smelly stools there's always excess heat that's one of um the symptoms that we see in that perspective right now let's look at the other one which would be the deficiency of Yin so yen is our cooling system if it's deficient and we don't have enough cooling system like your AC and your house is not working your house is going to get hot right so if you don't have AC you're going to get hot so if we don't have the cooling system because it's deficient Yin is deficient then we're going to get hot wow we talked about excess young which means we're going to get hot how do we compare and how we differentiate Yen deficiency not enough cooling system and we feel hot and young excess when we have too much heat and we feel hot because the treatment is not going to be the same right the treatment is going to be if we have excess heat excess fire in our body we're going to get rid of the excess we're going to clear the heat but for Yen deficient we don't have enough cooling system it's broken the AC is down we need to fix it we need to nourish it we need to repair it we need to donify it so it's a very different treatment so we need to differentiate the two so when I was talking about the young excess I said we're thirsty for cold drinks and we gulp gulp gulp with Yen deficiency we're still thirsty but We Sip so when I ask patients oh did you do you get thirsty oh yeah all the time do you Gulp or do you sip oh I sip water all day that is more of a yin deficiency when the young excess has bowel movement or constipation is very much a both both pattern young excess and Yin deficiency may have constipation and if they do young excess when they have a bowel movement it's going to be big smelly large amount with Yin deficiency patients it's going to be smaller little rabbit pellet little sheep palette dry small amount so think of Yin deficiency small symptoms young excess big symptoms young excess people will have red face we said anger red face Yin deficiency will have irritability so not as much as anger but it's smaller and just red cheeks instead of red face so see big versus small that gives you an idea now when it comes to Young excess we're gonna have sweating perfused during the day or easily sweating every time we're hot with Yen deficiency it only happens at night the sweating is going to happen at night and not the whole night just by little times right this is why menopausal women are becoming Yin deficient as they get older and young efficient for that matter and so they start having night sweat this is very common in older women specifically right so I give you an idea with Young Access also there's insomnia and the person is not going to sleep at all all night like at all right big versus small for Yin deficiency it's more toss and turn they sleep they wake up they sleep they wake up so they are getting a little bit of sleep it's just broken up let's look at the opposite yeah Nexus versus young deficiency right so we are going to look at Vienna access Yen access means there's excess cold in your body excess skin excess cold because yen is called in nature so that means that there is if there is excess cold what happens when we feel cold do we feel cold and go ah Sophia cold we're like no I feel cold and well tight and dense and we're trying to stay as warm as possible we don't want to move so think of when there's excess cold it creates ice in the body and ice is static it's not movement right it's congealed so what happens when we have excess cold it stops blood circulation so excess Yin always creates not only cold symptoms but pain because it stops blood circulation and when there is blood stasis and TCM it's always pain right that's what blood stasis is so when we have excess skin we have pain that is going to be local local pain for example dysmenorrhea the pain is on the lower abdominal region it's very very very painful we have cramps but if we put a heating pad over it we start to feel better so it's called pain it's not just pain that's fixed and local it's also that pain feels better when we put heat on it then we know there is excess cold because the heat makes it better it increases circulation and breaks the ice or melts the ice right the excess gold so it could be sciatica I see patients of sciatica all the time and you know it may be local and maybe traveling but let's say it's on the glutes area I know and a lot of pain they can barely walk into the office so much pain and then you look at it and you touch the area where it's there you palpate where it's very very painful and you feel the cold it's cold to the touch and when you put your needles and you put the heat lamp above it it makes a huge difference because the heat is going to help that be so anything that's Reynolds disease Reynolds is very local it's the fingers the tip of the fingers very cold right we want to put heat on it there's a blood circulation issue so it's local excess cold that's what we have to remember does that make sense okay five Center heat is a Yin deficiency issue and it's hot in the palm the soul and the chest that's five right the Palm two Palms Two Sole and the chest that's five Center heat and that's a Yen deficiency issue so let's look at the Young deficiency young is heat so if we don't have enough heat in the body We Are Young deficient not enough heat we're going to feel cold right so versus the one earlier what did we say we said Yin excess it's cold but it's Loco fixed and it creates pain young deficiency the person is called all over the body you know they're the people that want a blanket they want to be covered up they love saunas they love warm food and warm drinks and they're always cold everybody they also sitting in the room going oh this is nice and then they're like oh my God they're covered up when I teach in my class I know who's young deficient because everybody's sitting there and there will be two girls often that's girls uh two girls sitting there with their hat on their head the big coats on and they're taking notes and it's very cute because I'm like oh you're young deficient so that's something we see right away right the young deficiency the person is cold all over because they have no fire they have no libido libido Sex Drive is fire right it's about creation so they are low libido they are fatigue you know fire no energy it's like no energy so they're very fatigued and they feel cold all the time so those are the main symptoms kind of give you an idea of the difference between young deficiency versus Yin excess it's always good to compare the two and because in clinical practice we are going to treat this very differently within excess we are going to warn the person of course but break the ice so we need to improve blood circulation right we need to move blood scatter the cold or get rid of the cold and we need to warm the person or the area while young deficiency we're going to warm up the person with an inside so lots of soup and stews and teas right coming from the inside because the whole body is cold and we want to avoid all the cold outside factors like walking their feet like not covering our body with enough clothes and then we are going to tonify the young do mock sign make sure that we really bring the young up and nourish and warm the young so it's very different treatment right you could see that that's why it's important to make the distinction between those two so hopefully that made sense okay I'm just gonna go through this really quickly all this stuff by the way um is all from this book if you want any more I'm just gonna take a little quick break here and show you this is my Chinese medicine made easy book I have three books but this is the one that talks about the yin yang Theory the five elements the zone four again diagnosis it comes with my fillable intake form for my patients and there's the pdf version which has a lot of videos that are linked from it and then the the book ships all over the world but not everywhere I'm sorry the publisher doesn't ship everywhere but to a lot of places so you have options there but this book is really the foundation of TCM and my teacher used to say if you can't understand something go back to Foundation because it explains everything this is really important the foundation of a house is important foundation is what helps us grow right so in case you wanted to know that's where that comes from all the slides that we're doing today and the link to all my books including this one is in the description below in case you wanted to check it out okay let's go back to what we were doing so yin and Young Access to deficiency how do we get this so in general Young Access if it's acute it's an infection right it's a fever that we got an infection bacterial infection viral infection that's what happened also a lot of other famous can create access your medication drugs I mean illegal drugs uh spicy food alcohol for people that drink a lot of alcohol alcohol warms you up right if you overdo it it's going to create a lot of level heat level fire and too much heat in the body when it comes to excess heat and how do we get excess skin now it could come from eating all the raw cold food for people that cannot take this specifically if you do this in Winter uh in places where it's really cold as it is outside also of course acutely we can have a pathogen Invasion like let's say if we fall into a frozen lake we're gonna get excess Yen right we're going to get hypothermia that's acute excess cold excess yet so that we can have acute and chronic as well medication can create excess cold or excess skin for example antibiotics antibiotics are very cold to the body that's why even though they kill the bacteria they also create a lot of digestive system issue including cold in the digestion right that's what happened with this so and then how do we look at the cause of young deficiency or the cause of Yen deficiency so that's a little bit more intricate when it comes to Young deficiency it could be a weak Constitution weak kidney Essence weak kidney gin it could be again years of bad diet especially raw cold food and the person is very thin and very depleted and that increased the level of young deficiency it could be adrenal fatigue so adrenal fatigue when people overdo it and go go for many years it could deplete their adrenal and then they start getting really fatigued and then they start getting really cold and they really depleted the adrenal so they depleted the fire they're young right that makes sense chronic illness can obviously do that as well um chronic illness is going to deplete or yin and our young right it is going to be taking out a toll on our health when it comes to Yin efficiency um young pathogen can do that so if we have a Hemorrhage let's say we were burned in a house or like we were in a house and it burned and we got third degree burn that eventually will create the in deficiency so there's a lot of pathogens that can start with heat and eventually turn us into a year in deficiency uh depletes all our fluid right so profuse sweating so people that sweat a lot that creates a Yin deficiency also um severe vomiting right we lose all our fluid Yen division C comes for losing a lot of fluid it's very common as well so diarrhea etc etc so also emotions can deplete our yin and are young right obviously worry overthinking creates a lot of fatigue and depletes very young anger irritability depletes or a Yin eventually so there's all those that are going to create is really important when we see patients to always try to figure out the cause doesn't mean we can always figure out the solution but having a cause gives us something to start with and it's very important because in TCM we cannot Rectify or cure everything in anything but we can always found the cause there is always a cause it might take time to figure out what it is but there's always a cause doesn't mean there's always a solution right so oh I have all your three books and I love them thank you very much that's so sweet hi nadir oh my God that's so sweet you guys are so sweet thank you for the support by the way you guys because I love TCM I can give a lot um you know and so I appreciate the support so when we have [Music] um young deficiency we need to tonify warm the young right rectified for you have Yen deficiency we need to nourish and tonify the yin if we have too much young we get rid of it we clear the heat eliminate the excess and if we have too much Yin we are going to scatter the cold and move blood that's what we're going to do in TCM perspective now when we look at the eight principle look at us going crazy we're learning a lot we're here I'm so happy you guys are here uh this is fantastic so thank you again for being here I can talk about this forever you're going to shut me down the eighth principle is what we stirred everything in TCM with everything starts with the eight principle in clinical practice this is the basic then we can go more in depth with everything else right so the eight principles Are Yin and Yang excess deficiency right cold and hot and internal versus external okay so those are we compare all eight of them so the idea is six entity like external internal cold and hot deficiency and access are going to determine if the problem is more Yin or if the problem is more young for example if someone comes in and you think they're very deficient very weak very deficient so you think oh this is a Yin issue right and it is internal meaning the deficiency comes from splint sheet efficiency or spleen blood deficiency so that again it's internal it means it's Yin and then the deficiency is Yen right and this person is always cold that's the end so this is a Yin problem for sure however let's say that a person comes in and the problem is external they have skin issue like psoriasis it's a chronic issue they have psoriasis on their skin so that is external and so that's more young however this is chronic issue and it's coming from a deficiency according to your diagnosis and so now becomes Yen however the psoriasis gets worse with heat and you can see that there's a lot of excess heat or not excess heat but heat exacerbated so that's more young so there's two young heat and external and there's one Yin which comes from a deficiency maybe a Yin deficiency so now the problem is more young May makes sense so that's how we are going to look at the eight principle Sherman say peace and blessing thank you so much for being a master teacher and sharing your wisdom I gotta go and practice in clinical you go to school and you go to school you go to to practice thank you for coming you can watch the end on the replay I really appreciate that thank you shaman okay and then the last thing I wanted to talk about is again whatever we could compare it to right deficiency and access when we look at the eighth principle the length of a disease if it's been there for a long time versus if it's oh my of course I'm gonna I'm gonna get a call get a call in the middle of my life I thought I turned my phone off I'm sorry you guys okay so the length of disease is if it's a lung disease it's a deficiency versus if it's a short disease right something that's been there for not a long time it's the same with acute and chronic chronic is more Yen acute is more young if we compare the two someone that's very weak you know they walk into your um clinic and then they just walk slowly the voice is very weak they have no energy this sigh they sit there all hunched over that is very much Yin compared to someone that walks into your office and they have lots of energy they're very loud then they make a lot of gesture that is much more young right looking at two different things will give us Clues is this the deficiency is this a Nick an access if we look at someone that has a loud voice like I do that's more excess versus someone that can barely talk or has a weak low voice that's more of an issue or a deficiency issue now when we look at pain for example if someone says oh I have a lot of pain in my lower abdominal doing cramping during period it's a dysmenorrhea and the person is like I don't like to be touched I can put the heat back but don't massage me in there I don't want that oh it's going to make it worse so if someone dislikes the touch that is an excess right and usually it's an excess Yen because it's an excess cold and so when we could hit that the cramping goes away and again it's local fixed pain which is more in excess but if the person loves a massage they want to be massager like oh I feel so good that's often a deficiency okay so looking at those symptoms that's the question we want to ask patients to figure out is this an excess or deficiency if the pulse is very weak and you can barely feel it of course that's the deficiency if it's thin it's very very thin below your fingers that's a deficiency versus abounding Strong full pulse under the finger that is more excess I'm so happy you guys came in today I wanted to look at the yin and yang Theory because I think it's such an important basic theory about everything that we do in clinical practice and next week we'll do the Five Element Theory which is my favorite Theory so I hope you come in because that's the best I think it's so useful in clinical practice if you want more go to my website acuproacademy.com I got tons of resources you guys I have so much on there lots of free pdf lots of case studies lots of videos everything is in there all my courses my books 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