In the Chinese calendar, with the 5-6 of May we enter the summer season, said Li Xia. Summer for the Chinese employs the month of May and the entire month of June, July and ends with, months where the sun is present for a maximum number of hours.

The spleen is the organ of reference in May, this organ in Western medicine plays a very little consideration. The spleen is in fact classified as a hematopoietic organ called the secondary. It is considered as a storage organ and blood cleansing.

The actual production of blood cells and white series of serious red in adulthood is mainly borne by the spinal cord. The removal of the spleen in fact is not decisive for survival. It is now believed that the function of the spleen is not yet fully elucidated, its role for now seems to be mainly carried out in childhood before the bone marrow to develop fully.

In Chinese medicine the spleen is classically associated with the earth element, but also belongs to the element fire, which is the dominant element of the summer season. And 'interressant see that the bagua of the spleen is the same channel of the fire two solid lines that contain the center of a broken line. Its hour is the one that goes from 9 to 11 am.

The spleen in English and Chinese splendidly named Pi spleen but not the body to a much larger energy function, which is considered located at the center of the body or middle jiao, which exists even in patients without splenectomy or spleen. His role is very broad and, as its central location, it acts as a pivot to the energy of the whole organism.

The spleen is the engine that we take the energy from food, and is closely connected with the stomach. As indicated by the bagua filled out and empty inside just like the element of fire, or suffering from empty need to be fed. It is a fact that we represent yin fire with a candle, and understand that proper nutrition is essential to keep this flame alive and happy.

We define the spleen as the 'organ most easily exhaustible but also more easily rechargeable. When the spleen is really exhausted as in some acute illness, the patient has no appetite and fatigue refers to the associated underlying desire to go to bed. During periods of fasting or starvation or overwork the spleen is the first organ to suffer.

It is believed that the spleen manages moisture around the body and more than any other organ in particular suffers from an excess of moisture, both internally and externally from food from the atmosphere. When humidity is too high it engulfs the spleen in the true sense of the word, our fiammela off and could not turn on because it is as if we had wet the wick! These patients are often overweight, sensitive digestion, which is usually longer and more laborious, can suffer from recurring fungal infection, arterial hypotension and sometimes the water retention in the legs

The spleen is connected to the organ lung with which it forms the bulk channel or layer called tai yin, this link is also important because it manages the important and vital respiratory function and then another vital source of food: the oxygen. A deficiency of the spleen may be related to forms of asthma, cough, or even nervous lump in my throat. People report that they have a sort of tickling or phlegm in the throat. In these cases it may also be involved increasingly the organ liver is also directly connected with the lung.

Finally in the circulation of energy in the calendar as well as the spleen precedes the heart and with this noble organ is closely related and are believed to intervene in the production of blood either directly or indirectly. We consider the blood as an organ closely linked with emotions not by chance have the same prefix: "emo". And here we find the connection with our third largest source of nourishment: the emotions. It 'easy to understand how this organ is sensitive to the emotions. For the health of the spleen emotional nourishment to avoid are the concerns and ruminations. Deficiency of 'organ manifestations such as the spleen may be performance anxiety, but also real panic attacks associated with palpitations and sweats that are the heart organ related events in an indirect way.

What can you do to support this importantissmo organ that seems to handle the three basic nutrients of man: food, oxygen, emotions? There are three main recommendations:

Taking care of avoiding too much moisture to accumulate, by reducing to a minimum of sugar and dairy products. And 'also useful not eating on the run in hours or less suitable, and if possible stay away from ice cream that are unfortunately the food more harmful for this organ.

Listening to their fatigue and the ability to stop in time to recharge your batteries, leaving the duty and sacrifice to the bitter end maybe even asking for help when needed, reminding us that we are not superheroes even if we want so much!

Cleaning of negative emotions that inevitably lead workings of a mind with exhaustion and loss of energy of this organ. In this regard, I suggest to study Buddhist philosophy to try to understand how our mind automatically leads to negative thinking.

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Finding a good doctor is difficult, we all agree, this is why many use other figures because traumatized from previous experiences.

And 'in fact common to think that doctors in general are especially able to do many tests, scared to death of the patient and, when it comes to finding therapeutic strategies, invariably resorting to the usual drugs, anxiolytics for anxiety, hypnotics for insomnia, anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids for pain in general until you get to opiates and so on.

People who see this as a limit attegggiamento are no longer willing to go to the doctors and this is a bit of a drama, ranging from the healer, osteopath and naturopath, usually paramedics or not graduates in medicine: some of these are really competent and serious, while others have a totally inadequate medical training and experience to evaluate some pathological situations together.

Often it is the latter category to show safety and infallibility, flaunting diagnosis absolutely certain about the origin of the disorder.

At le of all, though, one thing is certain: if the patient is important to find a good doctor or therapist, just as it is for the doctor to find a good patient. And, I must really say, it is not obvious.

A good patient is one who does not turn to the right and left from different specialists for different ailments, but he takes one step at a time, reporting and asking for advice on whether to go to other utilities. Although it is impossible to be experts in everything, the medicine should take care of all the districts, from the skin to "gut, shoulder ... that we should treat the subject in its entirety.

There are many, if not many, patients who think "the shoulder tract and ulcerative dall'agopuntore the gastroenterologist," or that a disorder is caused by one thing and another to another, it does not believe there is no connection and no a way to talk to who's taking care of just the shoulder.

A patient must be of first importance what the name says: of course the patient and doctor should be!

It often happens however that the patient decides to end his treatment without waiting for the doctor to tell him is, perhaps, is that if doctors used to take advantage, or perhaps for the common and usual hurry or maybe because he wants to manage his time and his decisions. What commonly happens today is that the patient achieved a modest improvement over 50%, deems sufficient.

Working with acupuncture and herbal medicine is to modify an imbalance, as can be seen in the case of a scale, it remains till it is completely removed, otherwise, more or less rapidly, the so-called relapses occur.

A good patient does not wait twenty years to treat a disorder by declaring, after the first five treatments, to be disappointed at the lack of that efficacy that, whether or partially, however, say they have heard on your body.

It takes at least one year of continuous therapy and two years of therapy in total contingent to think of a true healing of this disorder for over twenty years and if you say you care in three sessions will take around. (more ... )

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