YIN AND YANG HEALING

 

       Yhe ancient principles of yin and yang are most helpful for deep healing.  We use this concept of balancing opposing forces to choose foods, nutritional supplements and other therapies that will be the most effective for each one of our patients.  This principle of balance applies to conventional as well as holistic therapies.

       The yin principle is cool, fragmented, expanded, receptive and feminine.  The yang principle is warmer, harder, more contracted, more active and more masculine. 

       On a hair mineral analysis, slow oxidizers are more yin, while fast oxidizers are generally more yang.  The slower the oxidation rate, the more yin people tend to be.  The hair must not be washed at the laboratory for accurate assessment of the oxidation rate.

      

 

CAUSES FOR A YIN HEALTH CONDITION

 

       Since around 1945, a number of factors have combined to make about 95% of people very yin:

 

       *    Radiation Exposure.  The detonation of atom bombs as well as nuclear accidents have spread radioactive particles everywhere on the planet.  Low-level radioactive emissions continue from nuclear plants, smoke detectors, computers, television sets and fluorescent lamps.  Widespread medical and dental use of x-ray machines and other devices add to our radiation burden.

      

      * Toxic Chemicals.  Thousands of yin toxic metals and chemicals exist in our environment.  Very yin toxic metals include lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum and beryllium.  Yin chemicals include solvents, pesticides, plastics and many, many others. 

 

       *    Changes In The Food Supply.  The use of hybrid strains of crops, along with synthetic pesticides and superphosphate fertilizers, have made the food supply much more yin.  Modern food processing and the addition of thousands of food additives have also contributed to this situation.

      

       *    Modern Medicine.  Most drugs are yin.  This includes most antibiotics, anti-depressants, anti-inflammatories and  other classes of drugs.  Surgery and radiation therapy are also very yin. 

 

       *    Recreational Drugs.  Alcohol, marijuana, heroine, LSD, Ecstacy and other psychedelics are extremely yin.

 

       *    Electromagnetic Pollution.  Computers, television sets, portable phones and especially cell phones produce very yin electromagnetic fields.  All wireless devices, motors, microwave ovens and many other electrical devices also produce these yin electrical fields.  Most people today literally live in a sea of extremely yin electromagnetic pollution.

 

       *    Our Planetary Position.  We are currently in a yin position in the 25,500-year cycle of our solar system through the Milky Way.  This topic is beyond the scope of this book, and will be addressed in a future book about healing of the mind and spirit.  This yin period of history will last about 2050 years.  Its qualities are change, reflection, questioning and the chaos that goes with it.  It began around 1950 and will last to about 3150.

 

 

YIN AND YANG ILLNESS

 

       Illness may be classified as more yin or mainly yang.  Many times the same symptom can have either a yin or a yang cause.  In hair analysis interpretation, the same symptom may be due to fast or to slow oxidation.

       For example, osteoporosis may occur in a fast oxidizer due to a copper deficiency.  However, it may also occur in a slow oxidizer.  In this case, the cause is biologically inactive or unavailable calcium.  This may, in turn, be due to adrenal exhaustion or other causes.  A proper corrective program depends on assessing the cause.

       Since most bodies are yin, most illness has a yin basis.  The symptom may appear yang, such as a tumor that is hard or contracted.  However, the underlying cause is usually a yin imbalance.  A yin therapy such as surgery or radiation may eliminate a hard tumor.  The long-term effects, however, are less curative and often harmful.

 

 

YIN AND YANG HEALING METHODS 

 

       Healing methods may be considered either more yin or more yang.  Healing methods that are more yang tend to heat, tonify and contract the tissues.  They include saunas, hyperthermia or fever therapy, sweating, exposure to the sun and the use of heat lamps.  Fasting, heating herbs such as ginger and burdock, coffee enemas and hot baths are also more yang therapies.  Others that are relatively yang include chiropractic manipulation, biofeedback, some acupuncture and acupressure.  Others include some types of meditation, some psychotherapy, certain kinds of body work and some color therapy.

       Yin healing methods tend to cool the body and flush toxins.  They include most homeopathy, visualization, imagery and the use of many electrical machines.  Others are most pharmaceuticals, radiation therapy and most surgery.  Megadose vitamin therapy and many synthetic or isolated nutrients are also quite yin, especially synthesized vitamins in high doses.

 

       Yin and Yang Foods.   Macrobiotics is a science of eating based on the principles of yin and yang.  The most yang foods are eggs, meats, sea salt, poultry, fish and cooked root vegetables.  Grains, cooked beans and cooked vegetables are more neutral.  Raw vegetables and fruits, juices, sugars, alcohol and drugs are much more yin.

       Cooking food and adding sea salt increase the yang energy.  (Table salt is refined and much more yin.)  Cutting up, grinding or powdering food makes it more yin.  Protein powders, for example, are much more yin than eating protein foods.  This is so because they are ground up into powder.  In addition, they are usually missing yang components of the original food such as fats and minerals.

       Flour products, in general, are much more yin than whole unprocessed grains.  Whole grain flours, however, are far superior to refined flours as the refined flours lack vital yang minerals and other nutrients.

       Raw Ôgreen drinksÕ and especially fruit juices are extremely yin food items.  They are fragmented foods.  The juices also lack the more yang component of fiber.

 

       Yin And Yang Detoxification.  Yang detoxification methods speed up a sluggish metabolism and often contract the tissues.  This forces toxins out, somewhat like ringing out a towel.  In contrast, yin detoxification methods flush toxins with cool and watery energy.  They slow down an overheated metabolism.

       As more people become yin, they require more of the yang detoxification methods to eliminate stored toxins.  This is one reason for the toxicity of many yin prescription drugs and a problem with some vegetarian diets.  Yin therapies such as raw food diets and juices may dissolve tumors, which are yang.  However, they cannot fully rebuild a body that is yin.

 

 

YANG HEALING

 

       Yang healing brings balance to almost everyone today.  Here is a summary of the basic nutritional approach.

 

       The Yang Diet.  This is a diet of mainly cooked, high-quality and natural meats such as lamb, beef, chicken and turkey.  Smaller fish such as wild salmon and sardines are also quite acceptable, although they are more yin than meats.  Lightly cooked eggs and cooked grains such as blue corn are also excellent foods on this diet.  Organic blue corn chips are, in fact, a superb grain food.  White and yellow corn chips, as well as potato chips, are nowhere near as yang or as healthful, as they are made with much more yin flours.

       Wheat and spelt are more yin and less desirable today due to the use of more yin hybrid crops.  These foods are also quite pro-inflammatory due to their high L-glutamine content.  Other whole grains, however, are excellent foods that are relatively yang.

       The diet also includes plenty of cooked vegetables, especially root vegetables such as onion, carrot, turnip and parsnip.  Others include rutabaga, daikon radish, garlic, celery root, ginger and burdock root.  Red beets are slightly toxic.  However, golden beets are excellent.  For most people, kelp is quite essential for its iodine content.  Sea salt is also essential for its trace element content.  Even those with high blood pressure can often use sea salt in moderation.

       Some goat dairy foods supply needed minerals and other nutrients, and are not excessively yin.  CowÕs milk products, on the other hand, are much more yin today.  This is due to the use of hybridized cows.  This applies as well, though less so, to organic cowÕs milk products.

 

       Less Recommended Foods.  Foods to avoid are sugars in all forms, including juices of most fruits.  We also recommend severely limiting most fruit and most uncooked food.  Fruit today is almost all hybridized and much more yin than in the past.  Even organic fruit is often heavily sprayed with superphosphate fertilizers that are very yin.

       Salads, while quite healthful, supply a lot fewer minerals than cooked vegetables.  Cooking both concentrates the food and renders the fiber more digestible.  Its minerals are not damaged by cooking.  In fact, they are rendered more absorbable when the fiber is broken down by cooking

       Raw foods, especially raw meats, eggs and dairy products, often harbor harmful bacteria and parasite eggs that may be difficult to wash off.  Recall that most food today is grown in nations other than the United States.

 

       Yang Supplements.  Supplements that are most yang include animal extracts such as glandular products, ox bile and pancreatin.  Vitamins derived from animal sources are also more yang such as vitamins A and D from fish liver oil.  Minerals are quite yang, as they are natural products that are quite contracted.

       Synthetic vitamins tend to be much more yin.  For example, we usually recommend lower doses of both natural source and synthesized B-complex and vitamin C, as these are quite yin.  Also, we rarely recommend MSM, the synthesized product for the joints, as it is also quite yin.

       Yang herbs include ginger, burdock, dandelion, milk thistle, skullcap and nettles.  Others that are slightly more yin but still excellent include peau dÕarco and Russian and Spanish black radish, among others.

 

       Other Excellent Yang Therapies.  We also highly recommend sauna therapy, preferably with an infrared electric light sauna, as it is the most yang.  Red color therapy is also quite yang and very excellent.  We also suggest spending half an hour a day in the sun.  Another vital yang therapy is rest and sleep, providing one does not sleep all day, and gets up and moves around every few hours.  Most people do not get nearly enough rest and sleep.

 

       Yin And Yang Attitudes.  OneÕs thoughts and attitudes can also be yin or yang.  Victim thinking is quite yin and disempowering.  Instead, we suggest systems of thought such as that found in A Course in Miracles.  This philosophy, along with similar teachings, emphasizes personal responsibility.  It fosters empowerment by encouraging one to take full responsibility for all  oneÕs thoughts and actions.  Today, many people consider themselves to be victims, a most yin attitude that causes multitudes of difficulties, both physical and emotional.

 

       Yang Therapy Appropriate For About 95% Of Adults.  Since most people are yin, including many children, most do best on yang therapy.  The other 5% or so require less cooked food, less animal products, fewer saunas and may eat more fruits and uncooked vegetables.

       Many who appear yang or who test yang with a hair analysis or other methods are in fact not so.  They are merely toxic.  As yang toxins such as anger and yang toxic metals and chemicals are eliminated, these people become quite yin in many cases.

       Understanding yin and yang as applied to healing can help explain why a particular therapy works for some, while it is less effective for others.  It can also help to understand why a healing system or therapy such as vegetarianism that worked well some years ago may not be as healthful or effective today.

 

 

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