Ping Shu Yuan Newsletter Spring 2020

2 – The 6 Healing Sounds 
In Traditional Chinese Medicine every organ has its own emotion and sound. The 6 Healing Sounds detox the organs and bring back balance and harmony and enhance your immune system. The sequence is starting from Lungs to Kidneys, to Liver to Heart to Spleen and to end with Triple Burner. If you feel an organ needs more strength then you increase the healing frequency. In the video we show only two times per organ, do it for yourself at least 3, 6 or 9 times. See: https://www.pingshuyuan.com/blog/

3 – Use acupuncture points to massage
Most easy points to massage are on the Lung and Large Intestine meridian: masssage your self and find the most sensitive points, they need attention! If you have fever and belly pain, press LI 4 and LI 11.To increase your energy and to boost your immune system press Gallbladder 34 and Stomach 36.
   
4 Food and drink 
a) Avoid cold foods and drinks as they consume extra energy.
b) Fresh ginger tea in the morning or throughout the day. Ginger is often used in Chinese Herbal formulas for treating common cold, flu, chest infection,asthma etc. and is known to help activate the body’s immune system.
c) All white food is good for the Lungs, think of asparagus, shan yao (buy it in the Chinese toko), rettich, chicory and pears. Here is a nice and simple receipt with pears for dry cough:
Almond Stewed Pear
•15 g of almonds
• peeled slices of pear, into a bowl
• honey
Put everything in a bowl, cover it with water for about 20 min. and drink it, enjoy!
d) Onion Soup when you catch cold
In the first stage of catching cold (runny nose, feeling cold/shivering, painful throat) this onion soup might help:
– Bring 3 onions, ginger, garlic and pepper in a bowl to a boil. Add some noodles if you like and vegetables like cabbage and carrots. You need to sweat a little bit from this soup to dispel the cold from your body. 

Zhang Zhongjing: compassionate doctor during epidemics
Zhang Zhongjing (150 – 219 C.E.) is one of the most influential doctors in the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Living in difficult times where many people died during war due to infectuous diseases, he dedicated his life to relieve suffering of others. In the preface of his book Shang Han Lun (‘On Cold Damage’) he writes about his own loss: “My family [..] once counted over two hundred members, [..] but in less than ten years, two thirds have died, seven tenths from cold damage.”
In his time, of course Corona, Sars and Ebola were not known. Zhang Zhongjing wrote about the attack of cold pathogens, hence his book. Whatever name we label a disease, infectuous diseases have always been challenging life. Zhang Zhongjing saw with his own eyes ‘the untimely loss of so many lives that could not be saved’. His book Shang Han Lun helps practitioners untill today to understand the origin of illnesses and how to treat them.
Zhang Zhongjing was also a sharp observer of human behavior. His time was not so different of ours: “Moving forward into society, [people] are unable to love and know themselves. [..] Men who pursue the ways of the world race in competion for vain ostentation [..] neglecting the body in pursuit of material possessions, [their situation is as] walking on [thin] ice.”
Let’s hope that the Corona virus leads to a global shift of consciousness, compassion and the wish to relieve the suffering of others in the spirit of Zhang Zhongjing…