The root of Enegy

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I am interested into understanding fatigue from the point of view of Chinese medicine and Qi practices. I encountered several situations where some of my friends were complaining to have lack of energy or being fatigue quite often so I started to dig into this question. The root of energy is said to be in the kidneys in the TCM system. So this question also relate to the root of our vital energy, how we preserve it, how to increase it if possible.

Now this energy must manifest in the blood pulse wave that TCM use to make diagnosis. Thus my intuition tells me I can assess the level of energy/fatigue by measuring/reading the pulse.

Does any one has some reference or description of pulse wave related to lack of energy?

Thanks for helping,
Patrick

[Anonymous]

Hi Patrick,

This site – https://www.sacredlotus.com/go/diagnosis-chinese-medicine/get/4-pillars-pulse-images-tcm-diagnosis – documents some of the pulses that are recognized in Chinese medicine.

There’s another good site here – https://theory.yinyanghouse.com/theory/chinese/pulse_diagnosis.

There’s also an interesting paper here – http://www.zhongyi.ch/A-TCMBooks/Fatigue.pdf – that looks at chronic fatigue from a TCM perspective.

As you can see general issue of fatigue can come from many sources and diagnosing the root cause is a complex process.

One of the nice things about Tai Chi/Qigong is that they tonify the whole system and often resolve problems without needing to find the root cause.

Hope this is useful

Trevor

[Anonymous]

The loss of energy through unconscious activity should be considered a priority.

Including : daydreaming, fantasising, negativity, leaking energy out of your eyes or senses, nervousness, sexual improriety, and much of the culture that eats your energy alive.

All of which will sap you into … a sap.

Not much good charging the kidneys if you are like a colander.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Trevor,

Excellent references.
Yes, they show that diagnosing and treating chronic fatigue is very complex.

Fatigue is also a symptom of the Fibromyalgia syndrome.
There is clinical evidence that tai chi may be a useful treatment for it.
Wang, “A Randomized Trial of Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia,”
The New England Journal of Medicine, 363;8, August 19, 2010.

Paradoxically, sufferers have been told about tai chi, come to my classes, but just don’t have the energy to work with it.
There is no magic bullet, acupressure point or meridian that overcomes this syndrome.

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