Wood
Wood is an element of growth, originality, creativity, and evolution. The Liver and the Gallbladder are the two wood governed organs in the body. The Liver, a yin organ, influences emotional flexibility and the flow of energy on a cellular level. The organ has a strong impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of the immune system along with storing the bodies’ blood, a physical manifestation of one’s true self. The Liver rules one’s direction, vision, sense of self-purpose and opens into the eyes. Lastly, the Liver absorbs what is not digested and regulates blood sugar. Imbalance in the Liver can lead to great problems. Moodiness, anger, pain, poor self esteem, lack of direction, addiction, and indecision are all associated with the Liver organ. Muscle spasms, numbness, tremors, eye diseases, hypertension, allergies, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis are also a result of Liver imbalances. The Liver Meridian begins on the big toe, runs along the inner leg through the genitals and ends on the chest. The Gallbladder, a wood controlled yang organ, governs decisiveness. The Gallbladder also creates and stores bile. Imbalance of the Gallbladder can lead to indecisiveness along with obesity. The Gallbladder meridian begins at the outer edge of the eye, moves to the side of the head and trunk, and ends on the outside of the fourth toe.
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Famous quotes containing the word wood:
“It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds in the forests of most of our towns to support many fires, but which at present warm none, and, some think, hinder the growth of the young wood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses.”
—Robin Wood (b. 1931)