By Alicia Nolan
Yang begins it’s transformation into yin and we call it Indian Summer. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) calls it late summer and recognizes it as its own season. TCM theory also associates each season with an energy system and organ. Late summers trademark is the Spleen/Stomach system. In the physical body this is our digestive system and imbalances that might be more abundant include: loss of appetite, or increased appetite, poor digestion, and bloating. the spleen also rules thought and influences our capacity for thinking, studying, focusing, concentration and memorization. So we might see a lot of over thinking, over-worry, distraction, dwelling on things, obsession and anxiety etc…
Change in Season
Even if you don’t have a complaint each change in season is a good time to receive acupuncture to help the bodies energy assimilate to the change of the energy in the season. In this season it is to help the bodies yang transform smoothly into yin. Calm down the physical manic activity of the summer into a nice contemplative focused energy of Fall…. and stay tuned for Winter 🙂
Tao
“In ancient times those people who understood Tao (the way of self cultivation) patterned themselves upon the Yin and the Yang and they lived in harmony” The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine