Acupressure - Yin and yang




For Understanding yin and yang let us take a motor car to construct an analogy. The outside is bathed in sunlight and is great yang (SMALL INTESTINES & URINARY BLADDER). The rim of the petrol tank inlet is lesser yang (TRIPPLE WARMER &GALL BLADDER), whilst the petrol cap is sunlight yang (LARGE INTESTINE & STOMACH). As we descend into the petrol tank we pass through the great yin (LUNGS & SPLEEN). The engine is absolute yin (PERICARDIUM & LIVER) and the exhaust, which is in contact with the outside, is lesser yin (KIDNEY & HEART). According to Chinese medicine the lesser yin organs had to be deep in the body and contain rapidly flowing substance. Moreover, they had to be in contact with the outside. The two organs which fit these requirements are the heart and kidney. Absolute yin is the Linking area between lesser yin and great yin. Since the great yin is the foundation of everything hidden and mysterious, the lungs and spleen were considered as great yin, and the liver and PERICARDIUM as absolute yin, which connects lesser yin and great yin. The liver lies between the pancreas (which is incorporated In the Chinese concept of spleen) and the Right kidney, whilst the pericardium undoubtedly lies snugly between the heart and lungs. The absolute yin is the foundation of greatness and honesty. In Western thought the heart figures in both these qualities but the liver tends to be ignored.

With respect to the yang organs, the stomach and large intestine are sunlight yang, which is the foundation of everything and permeates everything. Digestion and elimination, which is begun by the stomach and completed by the colon, is the foundation of everything in the economy of the physical body. The lesser yang is the foundation of and brings to life the orifices of yin. The triple warmer and gall bladder are regarded as lesser yang because they are situated deeply within the yin regions of the body and are, as it were, expressions of yin activity. Great yang is the foundation of existence from the beginning to the end and comprises the bladder and small intestine. 

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