Bazi Daily - 18/11/2010

Relative decline of yin or yang

Relative decline of yin or yang refers to pathological changes of yin or yang that declines below the normal level, including relative decline of yin and relative decline of yang. This morbid state mainly results from insufficiency of healthy qi in the body.

To be specific, relative decline of yin refers to insufficiency of yin-fluid and relative decline of yang to insufficiency of yang-qi in the body. Usually relative decline of yin or yang leads to the imbalance between yin and yang which brings on hypofunction of the viscera.

Relative decline of yang refers to deficiency-cold syndrome due to insufficiency of yang-qi that fails to restrain yin-cold and warm the viscera. The usual clinical symptoms are whitish complexion, aversion to cold, spontaneous sweating, slow and weak pulse. This morbid state was described as "deficiency of yang leading to cold" in Huangdi Neijing.

Relative decline of yin refers to deficiency-heat syndrome due to insufficiency of yin-fluid that fails to restrain yang-heat and nourish the viscera. The usual clinical symptoms are reddish complexion, tidal fever, night sweating, thin and rapid pulse. This morbid state was described as "deficiency of yin leading to heat" in Huangdi Neijing.

Since yin and yang depend on each other and no one can exist without the other, relative decline of yin or yang may affect each other with the development of pathological changes. That is to say that prolonged deficiency of yin will lead to deficiency of yang and protracted deficiency of yang will bring on insufficiency of yin-fluid, eventually resulting in deficiency of both yin and yang.

When relative predominance of yin or yang and relative decline of yin or yang become extremely serious, it will lead to declination of healthy qi and bring on special changes of pathogenesis known as "loss of yin" and "loss of yang" which consequently cause death due to separation of yin and yang.

 NOTE  :   
 
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==>  'The Importance of Yin-Yang Equilibrium'
 
When the Bazi is too YIN, the Yang cannot survive ; when the Bazi is too Yang, the Yin cannot survive. 
 
 
 

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