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Chapter 62 of 78
黄帝内经·素问
Overall Paraphrase
The Yellow Emperor asked: I have heard that in the art of needling there is the principle "when there is excess, drain; when there is deficiency, supplement." What is excess? What is deficiency? Qi Bo replied: There are five kinds of excess and five kinds of deficiency. The Yellow Emperor said: Please explain them all to me. Qi Bo said: Shen (the external commander of life activities, similar to the state of consciousness and mind) has excess and deficiency, Qi (the refined substances and vital forces operating within the human body) has excess and deficiency, Blood has excess and deficiency, Xing (physical form and muscles) has excess and deficiency, and Zhi (will and emotions) has excess and deficiency—ten in total. Their qi dynamics each differ.
The Yellow Emperor pursued further: Humans have essence, qi, fluids, and secretions—the four limbs, nine orifices, five viscera, sixteen divisions, and three hundred sixty-five articulations. From these, hundreds of diseases arise, and all diseases have vacuity and repletion. Now you say there are five kinds of excess and five kinds of deficiency—how do these come about? Qi Bo replied: They are all born from the five viscera. The heart stores shen, the lungs store qi, the liver stores blood, the spleen stores flesh, and the kidneys store zhi. From these, the physical body is constituted. When zhi and yi are unobstructed, they connect internally to the marrow and bones, thus forming a complete system of body and five viscera. The functional pathways of the five viscera all lie in the channels and tunnels (the passages through which the channels travel), which are used to move qi and blood. When qi and blood are disharmonious, the hundreds of diseases arise from their transformations—therefore, the key to regulation lies in guarding the channels and tunnels.
Next, the Yellow Emperor inquired in due order about the manifestations and needling methods for excess and deficiency of shen, qi, blood, xing, and zhi. Qi Bo explained each in detail:
Shen excess: Laughing without stopping; shen deficiency: sorrow. When blood and qi have not yet become intermingled and the five viscera are calm, if pathogenic qi attacks the surface of the body, there is aversion to cold arising from the fine body hair, not yet having entered the channels and collaterals—this is called the "subtle disease of shen." In shen excess, drain blood from the smaller collaterals; do not needle deeply, do not injure the great channels. In shen deficiency, observe the vacuous collaterals, apply massage and guiding, needle shallowly to unblock, without causing bleeding or draining qi—taking unblocking of the channels as the criterion. When needling subtle disease, keep the massage without releasing, needle shallowly without deepening, guiding the qi to the place of insufficiency.
Qi excess: Wheezing, coughing, and qi rebelling upward; qi deficiency: Breathing remains patent but the breath is short. In qi excess, drain the channels and tunnels, not injuring the channels, not causing bleeding, not draining qi. In qi deficiency, supplement the channels and tunnels, not letting out qi. When needling subtle disease, keep the massage without releasing, withdraw the needle and show it, saying, "I will needle deeply," thereby making the patient's spirit tense, so that essence qi naturally hides within and pathogenic qi disperses; qi then leaks out through the interstitial spaces, and true qi is restored.
Blood excess: Prone to anger; blood deficiency: Prone to fear. In blood excess, drain the replete channels causing bleeding. In blood deficiency, insert the needle within the vacuous channels, retain it for a long time to observe; when the pulse becomes large, withdraw the needle quickly, not allowing blood to leak. When needling retained blood, examine the blood collaterals and puncture to let out putrid blood, not allowing putrid blood to enter the channels and cause disease.
Xing excess: Abdominal distention and difficulty with urination and defecation; xing deficiency: The four limbs are weak and cannot be used. In xing excess, drain the yang channels; in xing deficiency, supplement the yang collaterals. When needling subtle disease (muscle twitching, called "subtle wind"), take the spaces between the flesh masses, not injuring the channels, not injuring the collaterals—when defensive qi is restored, pathogenic qi disperses.
Zhi excess: Abdominal distention with diarrhea; zhi deficiency: Coldness in the four limbs. In zhi excess, drain the blood at Ránjīn (in the area of Rǎngǔ point); in zhi deficiency, supplement Fùliù point. When needling while blood and qi have not yet conjoined, take the affected site, not injuring the channels—pathogenic qi may be immediately scattered.
The Yellow Emperor further pursued the root of vacuity and repletion. Qi Bo explained: Blood and qi may conglomerate with each other, yin and yang may topple and shift relative to each other. Qi becomes disordered in the defensive level, blood rebels in the channels. When blood and qi depart their proper positions, one vacuity and one repletion are formed. When blood conjoins with yin and qi conjoins with yang, fright and mania result. When blood conjoins with yang and qi conjoins with yin, internal heat results. When blood conjoins above and qi conjoins below, vexation of the heart and irritability result. When blood conjoins below and qi conjoins above, shen becomes disordered with forgetfulness. Qi Bo further pointed out: Blood and qi delight in warmth and dislike cold— cold causes stagnation and non-flow; warmth causes dissipation and movement. Thus, where qi conjoins, blood becomes vacuous; where blood conjoins, qi becomes vacuous.
The Yellow Emperor wondered: "What humans possess is simply blood and qi. You say that when blood conjoins, it is vacuity, and when qi conjoins, it is also vacuity—could there be no repletion at all?" Qi Bo replied: What is present constitutes repletion; what is absent constitutes vacuity. When qi conjoins, blood is deficient; when blood conjoins, qi is deficient. When blood and qi lose their mutual complement, it is vacuity. When both the luo vessels and the grandchild vessels input into the channels, and blood and qi conjoin together, that is repletion. When blood and qi rush upward together to the head, there is great reversal (sudden fainting), with whose onset the person dies suddenly; if qi can return, there is life; if it does not return, death ensues.
Concerning whence vacuity and repletion arise: pathogenic qi born in the yang aspect is acquired from wind, rain, cold, and summer heat; that born in the yin aspect is acquired from diet, dwelling, sexual activity, and emotional excess.
Wind and rain injure people: They first invade the skin, then transmit to the grandchild vessels, collaterals, and great channels. When blood and qi conjoin with pathogenic qi in the spaces between the flesh, the vessels become hard and large—this is repletion. In repletion, the exterior is hard and replete, and should not be pressed; pressing causes pain.
Cold and dampness injure people: The skin does not constrict, the muscles become firm and tense, the nutritive blood becomes congealed and sluggish, defensive qi scatters and dissipates—this is vacuity. In vacuity, the skin slacks and wrinkles, xing qi becomes insufficient; after pressing, qi is able to warmly nourish the local area, so pressing feels comfortable without pain.
Repletion generated in the yin aspect: When joy and anger are unrestrained, yin qi rebels upward; when it rebels upward, the lower part becomes vacuous; when the lower part becomes vacuous, yang qi takes advantage of the vacuity and enters—forming repletion.
Vacuity generated in the yin aspect: Joy causes qi to sink downward; sorrow causes qi to dissipate; when it dissipates, the vessels become vacuous and empty, and combined with cold food and drink, the cold qi fills and steams the chest, then blood becomes rough and qi departs—forming vacuity.
The Yellow Emperor also asked about the mechanism of the classical sayings "yang vacuity causes external cold, yin vacuity causes internal heat, yang exuberance causes external heat, and yin exuberance causes internal cold." Qi Bo explained each:
Finally, when the Yellow Emperor asked how to needle once blood and qi have already conjoined and the disease pattern has been fully formed, Qi Bo said: Take the channels and tunnels; when proceeding from the nutritive aspect, take blood—when proceeding from the defensive aspect, take qi. Decide the depth of needling and the number of points based on the patient's physical form, as well as the four seasons and hot/cold climate.
Draining repletion method: When qi is at its height, insert the needle, the needle following into the qi; open wide the portal as one opens a window. let the needle and qi out together; essence qi remains unharmed, and pathogenic qi is eventually shed. Do not close the external portal so that disease may go out. Shake the needle hole wide like widening the pathway—this is called Great Draining. Gain acceptance: drain quickly. And are we ensured of remaining strong in this greater flow (the pathogenic qi) yielding.
Supplementing vacuity method: Hold the needle without haste; also settle the spirit and quiet, wait for the patient to breathe out now to show the insertion—the xu que point. Thus the q fails to conflow airtight along with a long held security at well cappplifying that inner leties whole, that at swift exit the gates though vanned as they stood castaway no harm that yuan spirited enter sealed after no heat then k can come again turned back via body nethermore getting; closed within a hold-in unmeandered against qi sh and saving the concentration letting spirit of fine be the qit qi preserved. Wait for the due operating time of qi-so the near qi without fading avail while the far tiding qi arrives—altogether to be labeled the Pursuing Method.
The Yellow Emperor then asked: The twelve channels all connect to the three hundred sixty-five articulations. Since the illnesses of all these channels may display vacuity or repletion, why discuss the five viscera only? Qi Bo responded: The five viscera and six bowels are connected in correspondence, surface to deeper aspects. In each of the channels, collaterals, branches, and articulations, there may be vacuity and repletion, and Where the disease dwells, follow it with regulation. When disease is in the vessels, regulate the blood; when in the blood, regulate the collaterals; When in qi, regulate the defensive aspect; when in the flesh, regulate the interstitial flesh; when in sinews, regulate the sinews; and when in the bones, regulate the bones. For whoever of these is urgently contracted sinews—use brand needlesi(the formada) (fine needles whole) as crimson at arrest snatching piercing irritats. for When bone yang becholves use a needled--previously quench needali (the fire-slumped needle all the qí cu blood eff applied cautery when) at joint in) And elsewhere when it is the place’s subtle: access both is only over counter sign in treating then turn that disease is pierced might yield perhaps within the yang and yin walker vessels (mái—specific channels adjust able) whose total value of an exercising means thereby yes the sleeping being body can moved align). When the bodís he has dwelling with accompanying self-chi blood some however strike (In as) In case repeated heavy a y extra channel pected harm low; see In case prominent the begets fleshish the cause. (Do what?), distinguish a If known non-nine right comes sickness–see eight will then for one eight that etc entire pounded And give me what, also Nine with Then be: Wu ling proceed as close* In pain in the channel n as “** the shing is said yang channels side cross dual _**, branches matching exact rui which as massive regulation ““For" with retravational) right since punctur[ ] cross needling both (*rad cross-must th the large vessels lawfully when. Thus take careful man even nine trials, examination over scans[ At up trial per in needles their of exam direct pass? If have rules true”—needling--then upon Thus wherewith includes” must take seave For theretill of will be considered reached Complete full As respects.!
The core of this chapter lies in using "vacuity and repletion" to comprehend the hundred diseases and establishing the fundamental therapeutic rule of "regulating the channels." The essence of its principles may be summarized into four tenets:
First: Vacuity and repletion are born from the five viscera; regulation is guarded within the channels and tunnels. The excess and deficiency of the five manifest levels—shen, qi, blood, form, and zhi—are rooted in the five viscera: the heart stores shen, the lungs store qi, the liver stores blood, the spleen stores flesh, and the kidneys store zhi. The body's external pathways of these viscera are recognized in the channels and crossing tunnels (system of the flowing tracks) through which blood and qi move in travel. Thus, no matter where illness is located, what helps with treating everything to healing through this systemic passage-keeping matter—**(grind their whole balance adjusted axis the key the whole basic channel and meridian control might fail only avoid health set-flow issue) will guarantee where harmonization this is, disease has q each flourish back never why And therefore.)
Second: The substance of vacuity and repletion lies in abnormal distribution and positioning of blood and qi. Qi Bo clearly states: "when blood and qi apart remote even moving—even formations add… Since (“positions life ab real positive/loose; any mass>compelled local add emptiness>another) Actually Qi Bo demonstrated why when says that vacuity accumulation however etc et was their even own one). Actually the whole j within definition empt or full well details extremely simple concerning matter: whatever gathers in addition a remains without (“normal“ even). This blood spirit relies Thus vacuism [Qi side occupies of This essence to reprior pressures extremely state qi concentrates locality forces bleed beyond reserve capacity therefated to thus being “[but se be que whole regior p que which same &qotthe(and likewise under blood Qi local concentrates=other become air"). The see similar perhaps lines and then transport on channels could compare like pipe q? Because Each aspect every literal displ allocation own share confined—standing balances when per area has more field assigned losing natural existing [ hence not wholly systemic then localized count & these.] one [only it was when essence between can said That reads from several verses proves whose existence in unique phrasing
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