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The Relationship Between the Kidney and the Heart in Chinese Medicine - Part Two 1 © Chinese Medicine Times - 2012 The Relationship between the Kidney and the Heart in Chinese Medicine - Part Two by Leon Hammer n part one, we observed that from the very it is familiar to all. `Heart Yang’ fashions the beginning in-utero and throughout life the primacy imagination and inspiration of `Heart Yin’ into a I of the heart, and especially of the water-fire recognizable object that we recognize and appreciate as relationship [Kidney Heart Harmony]. a work of art or a discovery of science. It is what Thomas Edison called `perspiration’. The ultimate Kidney-Heart Disharmony and Sleep source is Kidney Essence. `Pericardium Yin’ protects creation and `Pericardium Yang’ projects it, enhanced harmoniously by the Triple Burner. If both the Heart and Kidney are yin deficient [left distal and proximal positions are Tight, sleep is very All of the functions of the Water from Divine Love and restless. One will easily wake at the smallest sound or Divine Spirit and Divine Power, awe and faith, will disturbance. and courage in the face of the unknown, all are potential becoming a reality through the expressive If the Heart is yin deficient [left distal Tight] and power of the Heart, the great communicator that Kidney Qi-Yang is deficient [left proximal position reaches out to the world with the `Word’. Will power, Feeble-Absent], sleep resembles the Heart Blood zhi, a prime function associated with the Kidney, has deficient pattern. One wakes after approximately five been described as the ability to put one’s Heart into hours sleep and then can return to sleep after a short what one is doing. while. This may be due to the Kidney Essence’s control of the bone marrow that is not making Some expressions that come from the Heart is sufficient blood and blood is yin. unfamiliar to the culture into which it is introduced. The unfamiliar inspires the inherent `fear of the Increasingly common, if both the Heart and Kidneys unknown’ that responds to eliminate the perceived are qi-yang deficient, [left distal and proximal Feeble- danger and the creator is threatened at which point they Absent], we have a restless sleep pattern similar to the can withdraw or persist. That persistence requires Heart –Kidney Yin deficiency. However, there is no courage, courage that man the creator draws from God restless agitation and more depression. The individual the creator [Kidney Qi-Yang], from the Water of our is physically very uncomfortable in the reclining existence, the spirit of the `Kidney Qi’ in man, the position. `essence.’ If the Heart Yin is deficient [Left Distal Tight] and The inspiration and passion ensconced in `Heart Yin’ Kidney Qi-Yang deficient [Left Proximal Position [DRRBF], that longing comes from our `gut' and Feeble-Absent], circulation is impaired making the cannot be denied except at a much greater price than all person sluggish. The Heart Yin deficient condition is the `mistakes' along the way that are not mistakes at associated with agitation that in this instance manifests all, only ruts in the road that make us turn to a different as a strong tendency to worry that can interfere with direction. We have a mind [heart] and an ego [`Kidney sleep at any step along the way, especially at the Qi’] and hopefully they have at least a tenuous beginning. connection to keep us from making fatal mistakes. i Dragon Rises Red Bird Flies In passing it should be noted that following the disruptions in Kidney-Essence that make us Kidney is the potential, the primordial soup out of psychologically vulnerable, all psychological which the unconscious is manifested and realized disturbances are maladaptive maneuvers [usually through the Heart-Mind as` Heart Yin’. The inspiration misconstrued as `defensive’] that are employed as a and passion ensconced in `Heart Yin’ is unconscious way for an individual to stay in `contact’ in order to and as original as the individual from whom it is survive and stay `intact’ ii . They are functions of springs. Yet once brought to a reality by `Heart Yang’ Pericardium yin, the protector of the Heart, as 2 © Chinese Medicine Times - 2012 described in Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies.iii [Message is: To get love must be perfect] Adult [paradise Lost] Literature and Shen-Hun-Po Avoid judgment of finished product by “never finishing” With regard to the Shen, Hun, Po etc., during our Avoid criticism material life on this planet, Fire and Water meet in the Generally cold, even to the bone Earth phase, the other source of Heart Blood. Addictions Ultimately all are expressed by the Shen-Heart that Alcoholic for 30 years recovering for 15 years houses Awareness through which all reaches Cocaine consciousness. 8 months age 30 yrs Pot irregularly for 17 years `Water is of heaven cascading down into the heart Nicotine where it is life on earth.' Another version is that the 31 years ages 14 to 45 Fire of heaven entered the Heart and was taken by the Triple Burner to be stored in the Mingmen, the source Mental-Emotional of Kidney Yang. Li Shi-Zhen supports this perspective in this 16th century excerpt: “According to recent a. What else would you want to be different about findings, mingmen is located between the two yourself or your life apart from not being involved with kidneys."21 This Fire of the Mingmen is carried to the cigarettes and alcohol? Heart by the Triple Burner and resides there to the To not be afraid to fail. degree that the Heart is free of longings and addictions. To charm less and listen more. Triple Burner is a servant of ming men for the To believe that I am as smart as I pretend that I am. distribution of Original Breaths, yuan qi, through the To have not smoked body.* To have not given up potential by drinking b. How are you a problem to yourself or others now or Case study in the past apart from alcohol? Patient: Female Age 60 5’1 125lb Identifiable Problems Chief Complaints [only those relevant to presentation] Avoid judgment of finished product by “never finishing” 1. Physical “ not as directed” a. Breathing difficulties Agitated- Scattered- multitasking rather than Sx: focusing on one thing Emphysema, 60% Avoid reflection SOB severe Never sat down long enough to think Worse Avoid directly expressing anger: hold it until On mild exertion- walking up hills situation intolerable and move on Hx: Impulsive and Impatient Child Opportunist Delicate; multiple illnesses and asthma. Move through life according to what comes along Adult that seems convenient for the moment- Smoke for 40 yrs- one pack/day No goals or direction of own Bronchitis every winter Problem to Self b. Back Problems Impatient. judgmental. procrastinator. Sx: disorganized Low back & dull Hx: Identifiable Strengths Severe trauma going back 35 years without healing c. Bowel Problems Survived Constipation since very young; every few days Stopped smoking Currently sometimes loose Stopped drinking No appetite since childhood d. Fatigue Honest Fatigue after eating Empathetic: Good friend; helper [except self] e. ROS Ended addictions Child Daughter graduated high school Youngest child [Paradise Gained] Understands herself re: Overprotected: Fragile child Would change about self if did it over again Considered perfect- could do no wrong To not be afraid to fail 3 © Chinese Medicine Times - 2012 Signs Overprotected: Fragile child Considered perfect- could do no wrong 1. Pulse Consequence All the findings are summarized here with only the Adult [paradise Lost] ones important to our conversation in the Heart and Avoid judgment of finished product by “never Kidneys in italics [in the interests of space]. finishing” a. HEART Avoid criticism i. Qi deficiency [Mild to Moderate] Comment Mitral Valve: ~ Choppy; ~Rough Vibration; Amplitude There is the issue of her being born `fragile’ with many Change [3] signs and symptoms of Kidney Yang-Jing deficiency Rate slightly Slow complicated by overprotection that deprived her of a ii. Phlegm-Misting the Orifices [Severe] sense of self that she could recover from failure. [Fear LDP: Slippery [3] of Unknown and diminished courage to overcome it] iii. Heart Qi Agitation [Moderate] [blue color around mouth] LDP: Smooth Vibration [3] Message is: 68] To get love must be perfect iv. Yin deficiency [Moderate] LDP: Tight 2. SECONDARY [Fire] b. KIDNEY-BLADDER a. Compensatory adaptations to `defend’ her fragile i. Separation of Yin-Yang [Severe] ego [from failure] 1). LPP: Changing Qualities: Feeble Always to avoid judgment of a finished 2). RPP: Intensity Changing [3] product by never finishing. ii. Qi deficiency Called `defenses’; LPP: Feeble; Qi Depth Diminished; Reduced I call them `adaptations’-usually `mal- Pounding adaptations’ as with this patient. iii. Neo-plastic Activity (Stagnation of All Substances) i. Pericardium Yin Excess [?] 1). Acting Out RPP: Muffled [?] a). Whenever she was faced with a life decision she iv. Excess Heat grasped at the nearest escape such as an impulsive LPP: Tense; Robust Pounding injudicious marriage or signing on to a equally v. Blood Stagnation in Lower Burner [Moderate] impulsive sailing adventure vi. LPP: ~choppy [3] b). Describes herself as an `opportunist’ vii. Blood Deficiency [Severe] 2). Denial RPP: Thin [4] a). An ego defense mechanism that operates 2. Tongue unconsciously to resolve emotional conflict, and to Swollen [3+]; shallow teeth indentations: reduce anxiety by refusing to perceive the more Thick yellow Coat- thicker at root unpleasant aspects of external reality Wide crack down middle with yellow coat b). Describes self as “non-reflective” Sides red- pale underneath 3). Displacement Tip indented From awareness of anxiety about wasting her life to 3. Eyes cigarettes and ultimately to emphysema, to alcohol and Pale: Blood deficiency drugs and thereby Liver Yin/Yang deficiency and Loss of discreet lines Separation of Yin and Yang Right- horizontal line ii.
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