A good wind.

From here

Big winds moved through Elwood over the weekend.
People blew into the store
like washing blown off a line.
Shirts and pants and dresses and socks mixed with leaves
and paper and dirt and dust gathering bread and vegetables and jars and cans
...whooshing in and flying out
our wooden and glass door banging, banging behind them.

It was enough to drive us all mad.
I had to hold on the the counter so as not
to blow down the street and be plonked into the sea..



In Traditional Chinese medicine 'Qi' is the vital essence,
both energy and matter in all things.

"Qi that stagnates causes accumulations resulting in obesity,
tumors, cysts, cancers, and the multitude of viral and yeast related
diseases that plague those with sedentary lives and refined, rich diets."

Chinese medicine also uses 'balance' YIN and YANG
or the SIX DIVISIONS OF YIN and YANG,
those are:

YIN YANG
COLD - HEAT

INTERIOR - EXTERIOR

DEFICIENCY - EXCESS

and DIAGNOSIS by the SIX INFLUENCES:

WIND
HEAT
COLD
DAMP
DRYNESS
SUMMER HEAT


Here is how to counteract WIND by Traditional Chinese Medicine
from the book 'Healing with Wholefoods';
:

"Condition:
WIND
(YANG)

Symptom in the body:
Arises and changes quickly. e.g.,
transient pain, spasm, convulsion,
tremors, nervousness, dizziness,
emotional turmoil.
Especially affects the liver.
Extremes of wind
may cause conditions of stasis:
strokes, paralysis, numbness.
Wind frequently combines with other influences
to carry them into the body,
as in the wind/cold condition
of the common cold....."

DIETRY SUGGESTIONS

To counteract wind/cold, use
oats, pinenuts,shrimp, ginger, fennel, basil, anise, and valerian.
black soya bean, black sesame, fresh flax seed oil, sage, chamomile,
lobelia.
Avoid eggs, crabmeat, buckwheat, rich foods in general
cause wind by promoting liver stagnation. "



Today in Elwood the day is clear
it was a good wind that blew
away all of the clutter from the last few months
and made way for clear days ahead.