Seasonal Advice: General Advice

A great aspect of Chinese Medicine is that it relates the external environment to the internal environment of our body. A vulnerable place is the back of the neck, which is called the Wind Gate, or ‘feng men’ in Chinese. It’s a gate where Wind can enter the body, thus causing a common cold.

Wind carries external pathogenic influences (EPI’s) into the body. With a common cold, the EPI’s responsible are Wind carrying Cold or Heat with or without Dampness. This may seem strange to Western thought, but if you watch people, you’ll see that it’s often true. Since I get to work on people’s health, I see what changes occur when the external environment changes.

I’ve noticed that when people start catching colds, the weather makes changes at the same time. When the weather makes big changes, especially seasonal, it’s brought by the wind as pressure fronts come and go.

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