THF and the Right Guan

[JJensen]

Hi All. I am currently watching the videos for the JG, but haven’t taken the pulse class yet. What is a tianhuafen right guan pulse?

[JJensen]

GZRST is my first thought.

[Clint Cain]

Convulsion disease is taiyang-yangming disease, which means a taiyang surface pattern with even more dryness and stiffness of the musculature. So, since there is a good bit of damage to the ying fluids, the pulse may be deep like a “pool with very little water in it.†Yes, the surface yang is also damaged, which does cause the interior to become cold, but the level of pathology here is of taiyang/the surface, so we are not yet seeing interior cold symptoms. And, since the body is drying out due to the yangming aspects of the pattern, it will tend to first heat up. Slippery pulses point to heating up of the blood, which is in turn heating up fluids. A THF pulse, referring to GLGZT in chapter 2, is a deep slippery R2.

[JJensen]

Since treating my own eczema was one of the reasons that got me studying Chinese medicine and as I had it as a baby, I’ll offer my favourite formula up as well. DGSNT could be a potential. I used to noticeablely sweat less than most of my Kung Fu students, but this last few months after regular dosing of DGSNT, I’ve definitely sweated a lot more than normal and my skin is better than normal. And it was one of the formulas that helped my eczema the most. Even though I have a big left guan, the hollowness of it can still point to DG potentially. Also reacting to heat and cold like you mentioned makes me think of Arnaud’s description of Jueyin, and hence DGSNT treats JYin.

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