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This begins with the Su Wen;

A transcript of conversations between Huang Ti, the Yellow Emperor of China circa B.C. 3000, and Ch’i Po, his master physician.

I have heard that in ancient times, the people lived to be over one hundred years old, and yet remained active and did not become decrepit in their activities. But in our time, they only reach half that age and become weak and failing. Is it that mankind is degenerating through the ages and is losing his original vigor and vitality? In ancient times, the people understood the Tao, the great principle of the universe. They patterned themselves upon the laws of Yin and Yang, were sober and led regular simple lives in harmony with Nature. For these reasons, they were healthy in mind and body, and could live to a ripe old age.

In our time, they drink alcohol as if it were water, seek all manner of physical pleasure and abandon themselves to intemperance. Their passions exhaust their vital forces. Their cravings dissipate their true essence. They do not know how to find contentment within themselves.

They are not skilled in the control of their spirits and devote all their attention to the amusement of the mind. For these reasons they degenerate and do not live beyond the age of fifty.

The sage teaches us to lead a simple and peaceful life; keeping energy in reserve prevents attack by illness; guarding against desires, the heart will be at peace; so while the body may fatigue, the mind does not. In this way one may still reach the age of one hundred.

Yin in the interior is the guardian of Yang; Yang in the exterior motivates Yin. Yin and Yang are the Tao of heaven and earth (the laws of unity and opposition), the fundamental principle of the ten thousand things (which creates all matter and its transmutations), the originators of change, the beginning of birth (creation) and death (the destruction of all things), and the storehouse of all that is mysterious in the natural world.

The treatment and prevention of disease must be sought in this basic law. Now the Yin and Yang have name, but no form.

Thus they can be extended from one to ten, ten to a hundred, one hundred to a thousand, then to ten thousand, so that they include ’ all things. All things may be classified according to their nature. When speaking of Yin and Yang, the exterior is Yang, the interior Yin; when speaking of the body, the back is Yang, the abdomen Yin; when speaking of the solid and hollow organs, the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidney are solid and Yin; the gall bladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, (and) bladder ─are all hollow and Yang.

Thus, the back is Yang and the Yang within the Yang is the heart; the Yin within the Yang is the lungs. The abdomen is Yin and the Yin within the Yin is the kidneys; the Yang within the abdomen is the liver and the spleen. Yin and Yang wax and wane. Functional movement belongs to Yang, which is electric, while nourishing substances are Yin, or magnetic; nor can one exist without the other. Thus are the myriad things able to come to birth. Yin and Yang acting upon one another, producing change.

Through these calculations, it is almost impossible that one cannot treat itself well─ into specifics changes.

Merely, ones could be overwhelmed in asking others help. But the real reason hereby:

 Why would not ones help itself first?

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