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What is Lung Yin?
How do you keep 'cool' when life stresses? How do you tell your friends to calm down if they're getting angry? ("Let's all just take a few deep breaths and then we'll discuss it...!")
Where do Yoga teachers tell you to breathe from?
Where do you concentrate your mind when you're meditating? (Not all, but many kinds of meditation.)
Each of those questions is easy to understand when you understand Lung Yin. Of course, you need to know about Lung Qi as well so take a moment to check that too.
The Lung channel has various pathways, including a Primary (of which only the surface points are shown, see picture) and a Divergent channel.
Surprisingly, the Primary Lung channel doesn't actually begin in the lungs! It starts further down, in the upper abdomen near the stomach, very near the point Zhongwan CV12.
From there, it goes further down, to below the umbilicus, to a point know as Dantien, or Qihai CV6.
So the direction in which Lung energy works is downwards, but it also descends to these two important points along the path of its channel.
Qihai is the point Dantien that people say you should concentrate on when meditating. (Not in all forms of meditation, however.)
It's also the place you try to use when doing Yoga-type deep breathing. Sending your mind down to this point can have a deep, calming effect, when you know what to do.
But also, taking deep breaths sends energy down there, combating the rising energy from stress. (Stress? What are the symptoms of stress? Well, usually they ascend, giving you tense shoulders, furrowed brow, restless fingers, biting your lips ...! Read more about this under Qi Stagnation and my book on it.)
Although made up of empty space, your lungs keep you alive. You can do without almost every other major organ - though not your heart! - for a while, but without your lungs you're dead within minutes.
They generate Qi for you - read about what that does at Lung Qi.
Working with your Kidney energy, to which Qi is descended when you breathe, you can stay calm and alert. They moisturise your skin and hair, and they regulate what are called the Water passages.
These functions are Yin functions: calming, moisturising, cooling. Your skin is flexible and toned, your voice stable, your mouth and throat are moist, and your energy steady.
The Lung energy also controls your Qi between 3am and 5am, indeed, in some ways up to 7am. That helps with your sleep patterns.
What happens when your Lung Yin becomes deficient? Those calming, cooling and moisturising functions weaken.
First read up on Yin deficiency causes in general. Then read the following.
Long-term causes that take time to develop
Lung Yin deficiency can also arise from other deficiencies, like Kidney Yin deficiency, which usually arises from overwork, and from poor eating habits which caused Stomach Yin deficiency.
From Liver Qi stagnation
It can also arise as a result of Lung Qi deficiency, itself caused by long-term Liver Qi stagnation. Why? Because Liver Qi stagnation prevents free movement of Qi.
If someone is all 'buttoned up' and doesn't let himself vent feelings, (venting feelings lets Qi flow through the lungs), the lungs can't move and expand properly as in good breathing. When Qi doesn't flow through them Lung Qi stagnates and can lead to Yin deficiency.
This could also happen if someone doesn't breathe fully the normal way, say during sex or masturbation. Sex usually releases Qi stagnation, but in this case the Lung Qi stagnates and blocks the Lungs which, because sex causes Heat, tend to dry out.
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Our bodies mostly have an organic tendency to warm up when Qi doesn't flow properly. So when Lung Yin has been deficient for some time - perhaps for years - an additional factor comes into play, called Empty Heat. Think of the moisturising qualities that healthy Lungs provide. If, because of deficient Lung Yin, this is absent, then a situation of weak heating occurs. This is because, by moisturising, the Lungs help to cool, just as on a hot day you can cool yourself by spraying water on your skin. But when there's no such moisturiser, and you don't sweat enough, you continue to warm up. |
If tempted to visit your doctor with these Empty Heat symptoms, he'll suspect a low-grade infection and probably offer antibiotics.
If you've been coughing for more than a month or so, even slightly and in the evenings, he may want to do more thorough investigations.
Of course it's up to you whether you go ahead with such investigations. These might include X-rays which are also 'drying'.
Personally, we'd try to take a holiday (NOT somewhere too hot or dry)
where we can take pleasant, not-too-taxing exercise such as swimming or walking. We'd need at least 2 weeks of it. (Why? Because if we've been working hard, it'll take us the first week to relax and calm down. Then we only have one week to recover. We need more.)
And we'd get some acupuncture before and after the holiday.
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