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Kidney 9 is the intersection point of the Foot Shaoyin Channel and the Yin Wei Mai.
It is also the beginning of the trajectory of the Yin Wei Mai.
The Foot Shaoyin channel is otherwise known as the Kidney Channel. Sometimes though it is helpful to consider the channel from the viewpoint of its extended connections, because it reminds us that the Kidney and Heart meridians form a cohesive unit, the Shaoyin. It pushes us to recognise the relationships rather than the separate identity of the channel. And it is these relationships which form the space between things.
A Clinical Evaluation and Eastern perspective on treatment options for
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) aka Systemic Exertional Intolerance Disorder (SEID)
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, known commonly in Australia as ME/CFS, is a complex, serious and debilitating condition characterised by extreme exhaustion, intolerance to physical exertion, sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction and pain. It “affects many parts of the body, including the brain and muscles, as well as the digestive, immune and cardiac systems, among others. ME is classified as a neurological disorder by the World Health Organization.” ("What is ME/CFS?", 2019) It has been known by a range of other names including “post viral syndrome, chronic Epstein Barr viral syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic neuromuscular viral syndrome”. (Battaglia 2005)
Blood Stasis in East Asian Medicine
Blood & Blood stasis
When we discuss Blood and more specifically Blood stasis or stagnation, (what the Japanese call Oketsu[i]) it is important to remember both aspects of Blood, the material Yin aspect and immaterial (Yang or Qi aspect) are affected and treated.
For Jarrett, the emotional or psychic factors that create Oketsu are as significant as the physical factors because the most… ‘fundamental stagnation in life is the kind that comes when the true self has been forgotten.’ (Jarrett, 2015, p133)
[i] ‘Oketsu in Japanese means unmovable, unhealthy, non-physiological blood or blood stasis. Other terms given to this phenomenon include, bad, and old toxic blood, or stagnation of blood caused by labour. O in this instance means old and ketsu means blood.’ See (Matsumoto, 2000) for further discussions on Oketsu.