In my last post I promised to talk about the idea of probability waves and happiness. But before I jump into that let me digress a little. Two reasons for the digression, First, I don’t have a lot of time today but I’m feeling guilty for not posting in several days. The probability wave thing will take some time so I’m saving that for when I have more time. Second, I’m reading a book on blogging for your business. The good news its they recommend jumping right in and blogging. Tada! Mission accomplished. But they also recommend talking at least some about your business or at least subject related to your business. My first two posts had basically nothing to do with our tea business or tea at all. So, I want to say something related to The Immortalitea company.
Since I’m taking a course in acupuncture that includes a lot of Chinese medicine theory. I’ve been thinking about our main product, the herb Jiaogulan, and Chinese medicine. Specifically, we’ve been studying five element theory as it applies to treatment. The basic idea is each organ is associated with one of the 5 traditional Chinese elements, fire, earth, metal, water and wood. 
To treat a condition you need to identify the organ associated with that condition and its related element. You determine if the element needs to be tonified (strengthened) or sedated. You then examine the creative and destructive cycles and then, rather then working directly on the relevant organ, you treat related organs in a manner that either tonifies or sedates. Probably an example is called for.
Lets say your Kidneys are weak. The kidneys are associated with the element water. To strengthen them I want to strengthen the element that supports the element water. In the Chinese elements theory, water is supported by metal. The lungs are a metal organ. So in order to strengthen my kidneys with out doing something directly to my kidneys (they are weak so the idea is that direct action is too aggressive) then I instead want to strengthen the lungs.
On the flip side, the destructive cycle indicates that the water element is controlled by the element earth. The relevant earth organ is the spleen. So for weak kidneys I want to ask the spleen to back off for a while, reduce the control until the kidneys recover.
OK, so what about jiaogulan. The most widely touted benefit of jiaogulan is controlling high blood pressure. In TCM, blood problems are related to the liver. High blood pressure indicates an excess of Yang energy or fire in the liver. So hypertension requires a sedation of the liver.
I’m out of time. More next time on jiaogulan and five element theory.