HOT AND COLD IMBALANCES - Video

In the principal pair of Hot and Cold, the imbalance is differentiated according to the imbalance’s energetic nature. Heat is yang in nature, it overactivates and accelerates the body’s processes. Cold is yin and will do the opposite. It will slow down or weaken processes and, because it has a contracting nature, it will create blockages of qi, xue and jinye. The precise symptoms will again depend on whether it is a xu or shi condition and whether it is an interior or exterior condition.

There are often situations in which there is both Heat and Cold present simultaneously. There may be, for example, Heat and Cold in different organs at the same time. There may be Heat in the upper part of the body and Cold in the lower part. There can also be Heat and Cold in different aspects of the body, for example Wind-Cold in the exterior and Heat in the interior.