Introduction of HyungSang (形象: shape and image?) Medicine (HSM)
Introduction of HyungSang (形象: shape
and image?) Medicine (HSM)
HSM diagnoses disease according to shape,
color, pulse, and pattern (形色脈證) in korean (oriental(O
Shape (形) refers to
essence, qi, spirit, and blood (精氣神血).
Image (象) refers to
five viscera and six bowels.
Pulse (脈) refers to
outward appearance (外形)
Pattern (證) refers
to miscellaneous signs (disease)
In the middle of them, shape (形) is very important. Pattern should be checked in relation with
shape.
# Shape and image (形象) can be divided according to point of view. For example, there is
male and female (男女), the constitution of gall bladder
and bladder, the shape and image of essence, qi, spirit, and blood (精氣神血의
形象), the type of fish, bird, animal which runs well, animal
which has developed back such as turtle (魚鳥走甲類), the
type of six channels, and so on.
# male vs female
in [周易 說卦傳], it is
said that the Way of Qian (乾) consists of male and the
Way of Kun (坤) constists of female. (乾道成男, 坤道成女)
Here, men and women are not identified only
by their reproductive organs, but also by ‘the characteristics of male and
female’ the following table.
The characteristics
of male and femal
|
|
male
|
female
|
|
形象
Shape and image
|
Shape (mainly)
|
Image (mainly)
|
|
耳目鼻口
The ears, eyes, nose, and mouth
|
The ears and nose
|
The eyes and mouth
|
|
八象
Eight images
|
The upper, left, posterior
And exterior
|
The lower, right, anterior, and interior
|
|
肥瘦
The fat and thin
|
fat
|
Thin
|
|
黑白
Black and white
|
black
|
White
|
|
剛柔
Hardness and softness
|
Hard
|
Soft
|
|
長短
Long and short
|
long
|
Short
|
|
性命의 根本
The root of life
|
The kidney
|
The breats (stomach)
|
|
天垂地積 1)
|
  Falling from the head |
  Piling up from the earth |
|
頭軀
The head and body trunk
|
Large head and small trunk
|
Large trunk and small head
|
|
肩臀廣狹
The wideness and narrowness of the shoulder and
buttock
|
Wide shoulder and narrow buttock
|
Wide buttock and narrow shoulder
|
|
燥濕
Dryness and dampness
|
dry
|
Damp
|
|
筋骨肌肉
The sinew, bone, and flesh
|
Sinew and bone type
|
Flesh type
|
|
胸腹背臀
The chest, abdomen, back,
And buttock
|
The abdomen and back
|
The chest and buttock
|
|
寒熱
Cold and heat
|
Presence of sweating
cold (water)
|
Absence of sweating
Warm (fire)
|
|
軀肢
The body trunk and limbs
|
The body
trunk
|
The limbs
|
|
氣勢
Qi force
|
The image of winter and fall
(cold)
|
The image of spring and summer (heat)
|
|
五官集散
The collecting and distributing of the five offices
|
dissipating
|
Collecting
|
|
五臟六腑
The five viscera and bowels
|
The five viscera
|
The six bowels
|
|
孔竅
The orifices
|
Nine orifices
|
Ten orifices
|
|
病理
The pathology
|
The vacuity of essence and qi, yang disease
(breathing),
physical illness, and sexual taxation
|
Blood vacuity, qi depression, yin disease (food and
drink)
mental illness, and the disease of menstruation,
vaginal discharge, and childbirth
|
1) as it is said the above, male has the Way
of 乾 (qian, heaven), male is concerned with the image
of that something piled up in the heaven the heaven (upper part) falls downward
so that has the figure of an inverted triangle (wide shoulder and narrow
buttock). And female has the Way of the 坤 (kun, earth),
female is concerned with the image of something piled up in the earth (lower
part) goes upward so that has the figure of a regular triangle (wide buttock
and narrow shoulder).
In general, men have wide shoulder and narrow
buttock, women have wide buttock and narrow shoulder. This is favorable image. But,
if woman has wide shoulder, this belongs to disease.
It was hard for her to conceive. She has
the figure of a man, how can she be pregnant? In 東醫寶鑑, 婦人門, it is said that if the qi of a woman is more exuberant than blood,
she fails to conceive. Even if she is pregnant, miscarriage occurs easily. In case
of this, the medicine which drains qi or supplements blood should be used.
If a woman looks like a man or a man like a
woman, this is considered as the shape and sign of phlegm (痰飮). The signs and shape of the phlegm appear.
( these infomation is from 東醫寶鑑形象解說 and 강의록 형상의학 2009)