Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸、アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture, LLC (480) 246-0624:  600 N. 4th Street, Unit 147, Phoenix, AZ 85004 Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Arizona Volume 2, No. 1:  December, 2008 Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions "How communicate to people who insist on the exclusive evidence of their senses the message of the all-generating void?"  Joseph Campbell Chapter One Liver:  Anger, Love, and Redemption #10     It is time to review the Liver (Wood) Element of the Five Elements. Organ     Liver Paired Organ    Gallbladder Element    Wood Direction    East Season    Spring Emotion    Anger Color    Green (also blue green) Dislike    Wind Governing    Tendon Manifestation    Eyes Taste    Sour Transformation    Redemption "Transforming anger into excitement rendering the process to personal salvation, and transforming it to spiritual love is the Liver Element of healing.  Out of the healing comes compassion.  However, compassion is met by its opposite, attachment, especially to love.  We must turn attachment to virtue so that true compassion manifests and radiates the transcended love."  Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 1, Chapt 1/#9, November, 2008) A Wood type person may be skinny, muscular, and bony. He is prone to digestive problems.  He is easy to get angry but displays extreme tenderness.  He may not sit still and moves swiftly from one place to another.  He may smell sour, has a greenish or yellow greenish tint (as in jaundice), and is weak against wind (a long time exposure to an air conditioner or a fan makes him sick).  He could be a very good leader or a healer. In The Beginning When our ancestors did not have technical knowledge to observe and understand the human body, they relied on empirical observations of external manifestation to infer the functions of organs within. They were apt to grasp nature, or the Intention* and the manifestation of diseases, and they perfected observation of the exterior and insight to the interior.  They emphasized the human body as a whole to the relationship with the natural phenomena they experienced; such as day and night, light and dark, hot and cold, and four seasons.  By regarding the human body as a small universe* (therefore, part of the Universe), astronomy and Ba Gua (八卦) were further refined to incorporate physics and mathematics.  By applying and establishing laws, they strived to attain the fundamental truth that transcended time* (The Tai Qi = The Oneness).  To this day, the fundamentals of Oriental Medicine have not changed over millenniums. *Intention:  Yi (意) *Small Universe:  we are made of atoms that are constantly vibrating (the energy). *The fundamental principle of western medicine is always changing. © 2008 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi/Japanese Acupuncture