Dear Friends,
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In most circumstances, I guess it is hard for people to generally connect winter and hair.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is fundamental and health 101.
In postings The 5 Pointers: South, North, East, West & Middle and Harmonious Cosmic Motion, I dealt with basic stuff of space-time and natural cycle and their corresponding influence on human Qi system.
The essence being to be in-step with external Qi, out of sync means out of balance and therefore below par health peformance.
Lets do a quick recap :
In the context of Chinese space-time concept, Winter is in the same grouping as :
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direction North,
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colour Black,
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element Cold Water,
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character Safe-keeping/Preserving,
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organ system Kidney,
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main body part corresponds to bones,
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taste is Salty,
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external outlet is Ear,
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pairing with Bladder system,
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emotionally relates to Fear,
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external bodily expression as Hair.
So any wonder why when one gets old :
- the teeth are getting weaker (teeth are part of bone system),
- hair losing its luster and dropping,
- losing hearing,
- needs to go to the loo in the middle of the night,
- hates cold water, likes warm
It all has to do with North/Winter/Kidney/Cold Water as per the cycle of Universal Four Seasons.
So that’s the fundamental that put Winter, Kidney and Hair in the same category, that’s why they are in common.
(If you look back into my earlier postings on the women’s x7 and men’s x8, you will get an idea why at around 21~28 and 24~32, the hair looks the most healthy in women and men respectively).
Therefore to address hair-loss problem, typically one has to address :
- kidney system issue,
- the blood issue (hair is by-product of blood as per TCM),
- the Lung-system issue (for it relates to the skin upon which the hair grows),
- one’s emotional state,
- life-style
The fundamental long-term treatment of hair-loss is to focus on :
- strengthening the Kidney system,
- improving the quality of blood and blood supply,
- improving the skin (which can be affected by dryness (Autumn/Lung/Metal grouping) and dampness (Mid Summer/Spleen/Damp Earth grouping).
- to control one’s emotional states (worry and fearfull are especially lethal),
- good amount of rest, as per natural cycle of “Winter” in each day, each year, each life-cycle etc,
1. To strengthen the Kidney, couple of simple actions :
- Do the Yoga Cobra-pose,
- Use thumbs to massage the back corresponding the the position of the kidneys,
- Take some Black Sasame soup (pouring hot water over black sasame power),
2. External Treatment (to improve blood circulation) :
- prepare some raw ginger juice, apply it to area where hair is thinning then massage using fingers and thumbs. Adding a little bit of warm water with some Chinese rice wine will help too.
These are simple troubles. Because they are simple, nobody will persistently follow it. As with most common human behaviour, anything “free” is taken to be “value-less”.
On the topic of “value”, I have addressed it in positings How much is a Peanut? How much is a Diamond?
Have fun.
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xy2,
Thanks for the posting on hair.
You are right that when one is given a simple and easy recipe, no one really believes in their effectiveness, so no one actually take you seriously.
So perhaps we should come together and package your ginger recipe into some fancy product and call it “Mohatsu” or “Sohatsu” and charge USD200 per bottle and it will be a hot sell!!
Merck, the manufacturer of Propecia is making tons of $$$ while helping men to gain some hair.
Eating sesame and drinking ginger juice has long been known in Japan for improving circulation and keeping the body warm in winter. Any difference between taking white and black sesame?
Also it is promoted that if we take more food with black /dark pigments (eg. black sesame, black beans, seaweed etc), it will help keep out hair black. Sort of makes sense, but I am more apt to think that it is not directly the pigmentation on these food but rather the nutrition available in them that helps.
Any comments?
Ch,
You will ind some answers in my earlier postings such as ” The 5 Pointers: South, North, East, West & Middle” and “Harmonious Cosmic Motion”.
The 5 directions, it is another way of saying the 5 major grouping systems, each corresponding to major “organ system”.
Notice it is “organ systems”, not organs.
Say with respect to “North”, we have the “kidney system”, which, amongst all things, will include the hair and color balck.
Therefore, if you have a choice, you will choose black sesame seeds for matters related to the kidney system.
Also “seeds” is the crystalisation of “living essence”, therefore seeds generally are beneficial to kidney system. However, as with all things, it is about balance, don’t try to put too much into the “kidney system” in the later cycle of life, this is not in sync with the “4 seasons”.
Over abundance will disturb the balance, too much “living essence” may unnecessarily promote “growth”, causing the wrong growth rate in the body. The result can be catastrophic. Therefore too much tofu can be counter-productive.
Seeds are incredible, if you take a week off from work, you can easily feel pretty good with just 20g of pine seeds a day and water.
As to making profits out of hair products, guess you can find a long list.
May be I should give it a thought, kanpo shampoo with an additional free CD on simple tips to hair growth, or link to my blog etc.
Have a great weekend.