Hi Gina,
With regard to the long term antibiotics and immune system support, I don't think the Metal gets enough attention.
This is how I see it as the specific aid to immune system recovery. Metal is our first line of defence at the exterior boundary but it is also our defence in the interior boundary. While TH communicates chi to the various systems, and Heart blood, metal communicates the sense of integrity of the whole. It is what is revealed when the brimming over of summer ceases with the coming of autumn; the actual form of the person stands proud. While metal shows us the limits of the person it is also the means, the messages by which the body maintains it's wholeness against invasion. Combined with Conception vessel 4 (intersection point of liver, kidney and spleen), I find working the metal channels to be very powerful. Metal gives rise to water through condensation of the vapour and turns it it into a useful form. (pretty good indication of the iron-age origins of this philosophy) It grabs it out of the air, as it where, just as the special exercises of chi gong and t'ai chi extract the energy of the earth-heaven space. The action of Metal is like the spiritual chi gong for the body, re-enforcing it's long term health. So I would definitely use metal to aid in the immune response and to counteract the depression of long term antibiotic use.
With regard to the long term antibiotics and immune system support, I don't think the Metal gets enough attention.
This is how I see it as the specific aid to immune system recovery. Metal is our first line of defence at the exterior boundary but it is also our defence in the interior boundary. While TH communicates chi to the various systems, and Heart blood, metal communicates the sense of integrity of the whole. It is what is revealed when the brimming over of summer ceases with the coming of autumn; the actual form of the person stands proud. While metal shows us the limits of the person it is also the means, the messages by which the body maintains it's wholeness against invasion. Combined with Conception vessel 4 (intersection point of liver, kidney and spleen), I find working the metal channels to be very powerful. Metal gives rise to water through condensation of the vapour and turns it it into a useful form. (pretty good indication of the iron-age origins of this philosophy) It grabs it out of the air, as it where, just as the special exercises of chi gong and t'ai chi extract the energy of the earth-heaven space. The action of Metal is like the spiritual chi gong for the body, re-enforcing it's long term health. So I would definitely use metal to aid in the immune response and to counteract the depression of long term antibiotic use.
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