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14 THE TREATMENT OF MODERN WESTERN DISEASES WITH CHINESE MEDICINEevil over time no matter what its original nature. As an extensionof this, the more habitually yang exuberant a person is,the more likely and the quicker this similar transformationwill be. This theory helps explain why most pathologies tendto transform into heat patterns even if their original diseasecauses or manifestations were not hot in nature.ZHU DAN-XI’S THEORY OF THESIX DEPRESSIONSZhu Dan-xi, a.k.a. Zhu Zhen-heng, was, chronologicallyspeaking, the last of the four great masters of the Jin-Yuandynasties. Zhu is remembered today as the founder of theSchool of Enriching Yin. Zhu Dan-xi’s six depressions are qi,blood, dampness, phlegm, food, and fire. Zhu’s theoryexplains why, if one has any one of these six depressions, onewill probably have more than one. In addition, his theoryalso uses Liu’s theory of similar transformation to explainwhy five of these six depressions tend to transform into heator become mixed with evil heat. 15To begin with, qi is responsible for moving and transformingblood, body fluids, and food. If, for any reason, the qibecomes depressed or stagnant, the blood will become static,fluids will stop and accumulate, and food will also becomestagnant and accumulate. If damp evils linger and endure,they will tend to congeal into phlegm. Therefore, qi stagnationis often complicated by blood stasis, damp accumulation,phlegm obstruction, and/or food stagnation.Vice versa, if, for any reason, blood, dampness, phlegm, orfood depressions are engendered in the body, because theseare yin evils consisting of physical substance, any of thesemay hinder and obstruct the free flow of qi. Therefore, evenSIX DEPRESSIONSQI DEPRESSION =MODERNTERMINOLOGICALEQUIVALENTSQI STAGNATIONBLOOD DEPRESSION =BLOOD STASISDAMP DEPRESSION =DAMP ACCUMULATIONPHLEGM DEPRESSION =PHLEGM OBSTRUCTIONFOOD DEPRESSION =FOOD STAGNATIONFIRE DEPRESSION =DEPRESSIVE HEATFIGURE 3THE FIVE DEPRESSIONS & FIREQI DEPRESSIONFOOD DEPRESSION➤➤DEPRESSIVE HEATFOOD STAGNATIONTRANSFORMING HEATDAMP DEPRESSIONPHLEGM DEPRESSIONBLOOD DEPRESSION➤➤➤DAMP HEATPHLEGM HEATSTASIS HEATFIGURE 4