Jeffrey Yuen – Alchemy in Chinese Medicine (Ge Hong)

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• Jeffrey Yuen – Alchemy in Chinese Medicine (Ge Hong)Clinical Applications of Alchemy in Chinese MedicineWithin the context of Chinese medicine, understanding one’s ming-life or constitution and its associated yun-destiny or lesson plans affords an individual the ability to make conscious and notable decisions as to how to best live his/her life.

• In the same vein, an individual may also determine that the circumstances present in his/her current life are overwhelming and conclude with choices to make alterations to his/her constitution as a measure of bringing stability and perhaps even freedom from the prevalent difficulties in all aspects of his/her life, ranging from health, fortune, and relationship issues.Since ming-life is the product of the union of jing-essence entailed from one’s parents and the shen-spirit bestowed from tian-cosmos, the process of changing one’s constitution involves the transmutation of jing-essence through the practice of dan-alchemy or the transcendence of the shen-spirit in the discipline of chan-meditation.

• Such practices evolved into revelations that developed into techniques that were utilized by early Daoist adepts, of which some of these realizations were incorporated into Chinese medicine.

• In alchemy in Chinese medicine, the concentration was devoted to the transmutation of jing-essence by impacting its mechanism of dissemination, transformation, and fulfillment as decreed by the individual xing-nature/temperament.

• Recognizing the “density” attributed to jing-essence, alchemists focused on how to generate “reactions” that would distill, refine, and reconstitute its “state” through the dynamics of controlling the fire and maintaining the level of dissolution via water – as portrayed through the use of moxabustion and hydration prior to, during, and after treatment.