Anyone got a good jow recipie?

Nei Jia: the Qigong and Taijiquan Forum Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Herb Ox:

First of all, there will most likely be symptoms of “Heat”, but not full Heat signs… more deficient Heat signs like "thirsty, but only want to sip; malar flush; heat/sweat on palms, soles, and chest; etc.)

Also, Yin Essence insufficiency can be one of the causes of Yin Deficiency, but not necessarily the only one, or the one that will always exist. In addition, the kidneys are likely going to be affected, regardless of whether they are the actual souce of the problem or not, because of its functional relationships with the other organs.

Di Gu Pi’s main strength is clearing severe deficient Heat syndromes that often manifest as very serious empty Heat symptoms such as “Steaming Bone Disorders”. And since Yin deficiency is typically involving either the lungs, liver, kidneys, or the heart (or all of them), then, yes, Di Gu Pi does have a positive affect on these organs. The action would be more to (1) clear deficiency heat, and (2) nourish Yin. And you are right… it does have a special action in clearing abscess in the Lungs due to Heat (especially deficiency Heat).

Action wise, “Cool Yin” would not be the case here, cause “Yin deficiency” implies that balance is tilted towards the Yang, which is why Heat signs persist. But because the Heat is due to a deficiency of Yin rather than an excess of Yang, you will see more deficient (also known as Empty) Heat signs versus excess (also known as Full) Heat signs. If you try to “cool Yin” down, you are only going to make the situation worse as you will cause the Yang to be even more excess. Unless you meant “cool Yin” by “making it better through nourishing and heat clearing”, which kinda implies what I meant in my previous paragraphy, then that would work.

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just to clarify, I was indeed referring to the act of using Yin nourishment to cool the empty heat - my terminology was just waaaayy off - my bad. Thanks for the clarifications, though, NTC. You stated it so eloquently… :wink: I’ll be adding your post to my ‘herb notes’ for certain.

peace y’all

brother ox

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Anyone have any more recipes to share?

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red-

ben gay or heating liniments are NOT suitable substitutes for dit da medicine.
they are for minor aches and pains and actually have very little efficacy beyond the psychosomatic response of relief from feeling the heat generated by either camphor or menthol or what have you.

There is a chinese version of those called Zheng Gui Shui. It is a sore muscle rub with the same effect as ben gay or icy hot or other like rubs, but none of these are iron hit wine. I would not that ZGS does have a couple of blood stasis releasing herbs in it, but it is not the focus of it to aid in hard conditioning.

Iron hit wine speeds healing of hematoma and contribute to the release of blood stasis. Ben Gay and the like do not do this to any level that could be considered acceptable in the practice at hand which is usually hard conditioning, Iron Palm, mook jong work etc etc.