Perfect skin? Resilient, no itching (wind – CLICK), no rashes (heat – CLICK), no breakages, no pain? Well nourished (Blood energy good – CLICK. You have no need to be here.
Definition of health? Ability to adapt to change. You can’t do this if survival is not assured, as homeostasis is not automatic. To have great skin – you need to have abundant and quality of Blood (CLICK) MUST be protected.
This means great gut function. Easy living.
Skin – Provides a protective barrier against mechanical, thermal and physical injury and hazardous substances. Prevents loss of moisture. Reduces harmful effects of UV radiation. Acts as a sensory organ (touch, detects temperature). Thus we have the relationship skin and lung function in East Asian Medicine. The skin is the body’s largest and primary protective organ, covering its entire external surface and serving as a first-order physical barrier against the environment. Its functions include temperature regulation and protection against ultraviolet (UV) light, trauma, pathogens, microorganisms, and toxins. Wei Qi (CLICK) . .protective. Skin – pores allow the temperature regulation. The skin also plays a role in immunologic surveillance, sensory perception, control of insensible fluid loss, and homeostasis in general. The skin is also highly adaptive with different thicknesses and specialized functions in different body sites. Protection? Yang Qi.
Yang Qi
Auto immune? Attacking self – it is NOT biologically survivable to have the boundary between the world and self to be damaged. This is NOT a semi permeable membrane – we have them internally. This is a hard boundary. AND it is totally related to the gut function – is indeed the gut is lined by skin. The flaring is all about heat. Heat is partially lack of fluids – see the function of Yin Qi. How much, how clean water is being ingested daily?
Need water, fat, proteins and minerals – more on the ingredients for life here (CLICK)
The wastes move through and the body works as designed – thus the emotions all flowing as intended. The regularity of life’s rhythm’s, sun, sleep, movement, hydration and nourishment happen easily – in peace. Liver Qi unhappy sets the scene for the digestion to block up. The 5 flows do not flow – then the 6 ‘T’s start in – and we are in deep often life time distress – survival NOT assured
Self destruction? Iatrogenic. .
Here is a wee list – there are more
What exactly is an ‘immune system problem?
There are more than these. Does this include every single auto-immune disorder?
*. Achalasia
* Addison’s disease
* Adult Still’s disease
* Agammaglobulinemia
* Alopecia areata
* Amyloidosis
* Ankylosing spondylitis
* Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
* Antiphospholipid syndrome
* Autoimmune angioedema
* Autoimmune dysautonomia
* Autoimmune encephalomyelitis
* Autoimmune hepatitis
* Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
* Autoimmune myocarditis
* Autoimmune oophoritis
* Autoimmune orchitis
* Autoimmune pancreatitis
* Autoimmune retinopathy
* Autoimmune urticaria
* Axonal & neuronal neuropathy (AMAN)
* Baló disease
* Behcet’s disease
* Benign mucosal pemphigoid
* Bullous pemphigoid
* Castleman disease (CD)
* Celiac disease
* Chagas disease
* Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
* Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
* Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) or Eosinophilic Granulomatosis (EGPA)
* Cicatricial pemphigoid
* Cogan’s syndrome
* Cold agglutinin disease
* Congenital heart block
* Coxsackie myocarditis
* CREST syndrome
* Crohn’s disease
* Dermatitis herpetiformis
* Dermatomyositis
* Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)
* Discoid lupus
* Dressler’s syndrome
* Endometriosis
* Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
* Eosinophilic fasciitis
* Erythema nodosum
* Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
* Evans syndrome
* Fibromyalgia
* Fibrosing alveolitis
* Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
* Giant cell myocarditis
* Glomerulonephritis
* Goodpasture’s syndrome
* Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
* Graves’ disease
* Guillain-Barre syndrome
* Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
* Hemolytic anemia
* Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
* Herpes gestationis or pemphigoid gestationis (PG)
* Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) (Acne Inversa)
* Hypogammalglobulinemia
* IgA Nephropathy
* IgG4-related sclerosing disease
* Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
* Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
* Interstitial cystitis (IC)
* Juvenile arthritis
* Juvenile diabetes (Type 1 diabetes)
* Juvenile myositis (JM)
* Kawasaki disease
* Lambert-Eaton syndrome
* Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
* Lichen planus
* Lichen sclerosus
* Ligneous conjunctivitis
* Linear IgA disease (LAD)
* Lupus
* Lyme disease chronic
* Meniere’s disease
* Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
* Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
* Mooren’s ulcer
* Mucha-Habermann disease
* Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) or MMNCB
* Multiple sclerosis
* Myasthenia gravis
* Myositis
* Narcolepsy
* Neonatal Lupus
* Neuromyelitis optica
* Neutropenia
* Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
* Optic neuritis
* Palindromic rheumatism (PR)
* PANDAS
* Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)
* Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
* Parry Romberg syndrome
* Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
* Parsonage-Turner syndrome
* Pemphigus
* Peripheral neuropathy
* Perivenous encephalomyelitis
* Pernicious anemia (PA)
* POEMS syndrome
* Polyarteritis nodosa
* Polyglandular syndromes type I, II, III
* Polymyalgia rheumatica
* Polymyositis
* Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
* Postpericardiotomy syndrome
* Primary biliary cirrhosis
* Primary sclerosing cholangitis
* Progesterone dermatitis
* Psoriasis
* Psoriatic arthritis
* Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)
* Pyoderma gangrenosum
* Raynaud’s phenomenon
* Reactive Arthritis
* Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
* Relapsing polychondritis
* Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
* Retroperitoneal fibrosis
* Rheumatic fever
* Rheumatoid arthritis
* Sarcoidosis
* Schmidt syndrome
* Scleritis
* Scleroderma
* Sjögren’s syndrome
* Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
* Stiff person syndrome (SPS)
* Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
* Susac’s syndrome
* Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
* Takayasu’s arteritis
* Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
* Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
* Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS)
* Transverse myelitis
* Type 1 diabetes
* Ulcerative colitis (UC)
* Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
* Uveitis
* Vasculitis
* Vitiligo
* Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease