[Procyona]

I used to doupt Eastern medicine, and long thought it as a mockery of science. Training with Wing Chun, I now see that there are things that combine really well with our practice, and I understand their meaning

These exceprtions are learned from a book Reading the Body by Ohashi Wataru:

Compared to western medicine Eastern medicine is more like an art. In practise, the healer does not heal, but is only guiding, and giving and taking takes place between the customer and healer. In the body every organ is connected to the whole system, coaffecting each other. In addition, every organ has it' own physical and mental task.

Small intestine for instance is the organ that takes what is important to us, and leaves out things that are not. In this respect, it works not only for your food intake, but also in regard to choosing things in outer environment. According to the book, if we lack the ability to take only things we want, our small intestine does not function well either, leading to imbalance in the whole body.

Sound a lot like Wing Chun, right? I find this really interesting!   

[Procyona]

Eastern medicine also makes a connection between emotions and certain organs: Fear is conneted to kidney, sadness to small intestine, hysteria to spleen. According to Ohashi's book, the unbalance in the body and these organs (either too active or not active enough compared to the rest of the system) can lead to overexpression on these feelings.

This kind of sophistication in the body sounds quite nice, but I am yet to discover if I can feel it myself