Thursday20 Mar 11:52 AM
Qi Bo's Sour Green Spring Liver Expansion Time
In honor of Equinox, Toby Sifton just emailed this lovely, ancient description of the onslaught of springtime—“During Spring the subtlety and vastness of the universe, the intelligence and intuition of the human being, the ability of the earth to produce the ten thousand things, the natural movement of wind, and the upward motion of plants, collectively produce the movement of the tendons, the color green, the shouting of the voice, spasms and convulsions, the eyes, the the sour taste, and the angry emotions. These are all associated with the liver, since the liver is responsible for maintaining the patency of the flow of energy, and its nature is movement and expansion.” - Qi Bo, The Yellow Emperor's Classic. Link (pdf excerpt). -[SA]
