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chinese medicine models
Large Intestine ~ Da Chang
psychospiritual approaches

definition

Large Intestine ~ Da Chang absorbs water; governs transformation and conveyance of waste from food to form stool; is paired with the Lung and relates to strength and sustainability as the Yang aspect of Metal.
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Weakness, dysfunction and illness associated with sadness, grief and worry. Worry depletes the Lung Qi which fails to descend and assist the Large Intestine in its functions.
» Healthy expressions are righteousness and courage.
» Large Intestine Xu (Deficiency)
signs include skin eruptions; itching; cold; difficulty warming up (Seem, p. 29); shivering; rumbling in the bowels; and diarrhea.
» Large Intestine Shi (Excess) signs include dry mouth; parched lips; hot body (Seem, p. 29); warmth and swelling along the course of the channel; distended abdomen; dizziness; constipation; and yellow-orange urine.
» Stagnation of Qi in the Large Intestine produces spastic abdominal pain and constipation with small stools alternating with diarrhea.

» Mental signs of Large Intestine channel disorders include mental confusion; defective elimination of ideas; stubbornness; complacency in being wrong; rigidity of thinking; and vulnerability to cold. (Seem, p. 27)

psychophysiology:
"Worry depletes Lung Qi which fails to descend and to help the Large Intestine in its functions. This results in stagnation of Qi in the Large Intestine, with the ensuing symptoms of abdominal pain and constipation with bitty stools alternating with diarrhea". (Maciocia, p. 277)

dreams:
When the Large Intestine is weak, one dreams of fields and rural landscapes
(from "Spiritual Axis" as translated in Maciocia, p. 115)


footnotes

Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, p. 115, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.