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The Yin and Yang of Jade
Many of the descriptions of jade on the Ying Yu Jade web site include reference to yin and yang.
If you wear jade as jewelry, you purchase the jade you like and wear it happily. But if you wear jade as "medicine", then yin and yang are helpful to understand.
Yin and yang and the basis of Dao, Chinese medicine, feng shu, and the Book of Changesi. If you look at the yin yang symbol, half is black, half is white, and each half has a little of the other color in it.
There is much information about Dao, yin and yang and feng shui, Chinese medicine available online, which you can search. It's endless! But this article will provide a summary from the Daoist point of view. Simple definition of Dao: being in harmony with nature.
Yang is related to the male, in China the Dragon is a symbol of yang, the sun, light, summer, day, right and strong. Yin is related to female, the Phoenix is a symbol of yin, the moon, dark, winter, night, left and weak.
In Chinese medicine, illness is when yin and yang are out of balance. The Chinese doctor makes a diagnosis looking at your tongue and feeling all the pulses to determine which meridian need attention. When qi energy gets stuck in a meridian, acupuncture is a way to clear the meridian so the qi flows smoothly. Chinese herbs also balance the yin and yang. That's why when you take Chinese medicine it is only for a limited time, and not like taking supplements and vitamins that are taken all the time. Chinese medicine is used until the balance is achieved.
When you wear jade, the qi of the jade flows into your body, and your body qi flows into the jade. In the movie "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", there is a part where the Chinese woman is leaving her family, and each family says goodbye and gives her a piece of jade off their body. The Chinese believe that jade becomes the person who wears it. So when you wear "jade as medicine", it helps if you know how you are using it.
Basically, a soft green jade piece has good energy for health, and balance of body, mind and spirit. Green jade has been cherished in China for centuries, not only for its beauty, but for its qi energy. And what I mean by jade is Chinese jade, mined in China. Burmese jadeite wasn't introduced until the 19th century. There's a tradition of color treating jadeite to make it look more beautiful, but the process of bleaching the jadeite stone with acid and then adding polymer color makes the stone brittle and loses its qi energy. Chinese jade, mined in China, is actually the "real" jade, and can be the classic green jade that bangles, pendants, gua sha tools, jade rollers, ben wa balls and eggs for kegel exerice, and other jade health tools are made from. Chinese "river jade" is mined near rivers, and the minerals add many colors to the jade stone, which make it very Dao, and very good for wearing as "medicine".
The colors of
jade are also related to the meridians, the elements, and can help as
"medicine", and there is information about the colors of jade
in the blogs. White jade is related to the lung meridian, metal, helpful
for the lungs, for chronic pain, the large intestine, the flavor is pungent,
and the sense is the nose. Yellow or light honey jade is related to the
spleen meridian, element is earth, flavor is sweet, the sense is mouth,
and related to muscle. Green jade is related to the liver, gallbladder,
the element is wood, flavor is sour and sense is the eye. Red or dark
honey jade is related to the heart, the element is fire, taste is bitter,
and related to the vessels and sense is tongue. Black or lavender jade
is related to the kidney, the element is water, urinary, ear, and related
to bone.
Most people are attracted to the color of jade that is most helpful to
them. The eyes see the jade and send a message to the brain, and the gut
sense tells you if it is good for you. Trust your gut! Here are some examples
of a yin and yang balance for some people:
A person lives in a hot climate, so benefits from cooling yin, light green or white. But needs some veins of green, or moss in the jade for yang energy to balance.
A woman who is past menopause needs jade ben wa balls for kegel exercise. She has dryness, leaks urine. She can benefit from the yin of the lighter color jade to balance the yang of leaking urine and urge to "go", and the yang to increase moisture. A good choice for her would be the yin yang set of ben wa balls.
A person has chronic pain, a low functioning thyroid, but is otherwise basically healthy. Yin white or light jade balances the yang of the chronic pain. Chronic pain sometimes brings depression, and white jade related to the lung meridian balances pain from depression. But some yang black, charcoal or darker green jade helps the too yin thyroid.
A woman who travels likes to wear her white jade bangle with veins of imperial green because it is the jade bangle she wears all the time. She adds a black or charcoal jade bead bracelet or pendant for protection from toxins, including disease, and toxic people.
You can do an online search of your medical problems to find out if they are yin or yang according to Chinese medicine. In your search engine, put in your health problem and add Chinese medicine to the search. For example: "arthritis Chinese medicine" and you will find out if it is yin or yang. That will help you with your jade choice.
The topic of yin and yang and jade color is endless, and a reason it is a blog topic several times each month. Ying Yu Jade was started as an offshoot of Calm Spirit web site. Kathleen's first trip to China in 1999 was to learn Chinese medicine, and learn more tai chi and qigong. Learning about jade qi and body qi led to relationships with jade carvers who made the health tools from good quality Chinese jade suitable to users all over the world, We know how important the qi from the jade is to people, and are committed to buying and selling high quality pure and natural jade.
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