EVIDENCE BASE IN EH POLARITIES

by Dr. Philip Andrew

It took scientists decades to develop rationalisations for immunology

(vaccinations) and 'psychoanalysis'. Even today in the modern age, no
one has definitely explained the complexities of the common cold;
neither have they explained how aspirin works in a way that is
precisely defined, although it has widespread use worldwide and
considered safe without a prescription.

The modern doctor, physician, or scientist can no longer refrain from

looking at the complete question of body energies as employed by the
Chinese for thousands of years in their healing systems. The medicine
of Occident and the Orient have now met face to face, and the
medicine of the world will not be the same, when the modern age of
enlightenment emerges and causes the reverberations to finally cease.

Because sickness is a disequilibrium caused by an excess or deficit of a

postive type or negative type of energy, we can classify all disease and
sickness into two main categories. A Yin sickness is caused by
excessive Yin activity or by a lack of Yang activity. In contrast, a Yang
sickness is caused by an excess of Yang activity or the lack of Yin
activity. The Law of Polarity is the schematic of the thinking philosophy
of Old China. This is the fundamental principle that rules all things and
beings and that which explains all existence. This is the law that has
been researched and studied by the Chinese for over 5000 years.
Traditional Chinese medicine is just one application of the exercise of
Yin and Yang, 'the Law of Polarity'. Yin and Yang are viewed as two
opposing but twinned corresponding aspects (or Poles), they exist in
everything and all spheres of life, and in the total universe and
cosmos. It is applied just as well to atoms, as it is to the galaxies.
Nothing is totally stable in this Universe and nothing remains
completely constant. Yin and Yang are constantly activated and in
motion, attracted to one another, yet seemingly in opposition at the
same time. Universe, the Earth, and Man are all subject to the forces
and oscillations between the two poles. Likewise, they are the opposing
and balancing forces of one entity, with a positive pole and a negative
pole. The two poles, though they oppose one another, are also allies,
they are complimentary and interrelated, by a most complex and
subtle set of relationships.

This therefore results in a type of 'duality', which is repeatedly

encountered in all of nature, cold and hot, man and woman, good and
bad, war and peace, heaven and earth, sweet and sour, sickness and
health. Yang is the 'positive' expression of this energy: masculine,
energy, light, warmth, dry, bright, active, creative. Yin is the 'negative'
version of the energy: cold, wet, dark, feminine, interior. It is that that
appears black, silent, and immobile. The Moon.

Yin energy is interior and inward, whereas Yang energy is exterior and
outward. Where a disease is going deep into the body, dpressing
functions of various organs and glands, then it is termed Yin disease of
the feminine. Where diseas seems to be coming to the surface and the
organs are overactive, it is termed a Yang disease of the masculine.
The Yin disease is always deep in the body whereas the Yang disease is
always more superficial. Where a disease is caused by the cold and
damp condition it is considered a Yin illness. In contrast, where the
illness is caused by the heat, or dry climate, it is of the Yang illness
variety.

Fortunately,the human body has a built-in mechanism to maintain the

homeostasis, in simple terms maintaining it in a state of harmony
between the positive and the negative, or Yin and Yang. Sometimes
these processes simply fail to function as designed, for either unknown
to man reasons, or by excessive stress. When the homeostatic
mechanism mechanics fail, or cannot cope any longer through
environmental stresses, etc. the body becomes ill or diseased, as Yin
and Yang are thrown out of kilter. The Yin and Yang principle is a very
simple and profound philosophy with a firm evidence base scientifically
and clinically.