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MACULAR DEGENERATION 357more successful for freeing the flow <strong>of</strong> the network vesselsand dispelling stasis.2. Some Chinese textbooks also give the pure patterns <strong>of</strong>spleen qi vacuity, liver depression qi stagnation, and qi stagnationand blood stasis for this disorder. However, since thiscondition is a geriatric disease, such pure patterns are notclinically realistic. According to Yan De-xin, we can expectblood stasis to play a part in all diseases <strong>of</strong> the elderly.Likewise, if there is qi, blood, yin, and/or yang vacuity witha chronic, enduring disease, then there will be liver depressionqi stagnation. In addition, because A) blood and bodyfluids flow together and B) aging is closely associated withspleen and kidney decline and debility and the spleen andkidneys are two <strong>of</strong> the three viscera which control water fluids,phlegm turbidity <strong>of</strong>ten complicates any and all <strong>of</strong> theabove patterns.ENDNOTE1 Pizzorno, J.E. & Murray, M.T., A Textbook <strong>of</strong> Natural Medicine, JohnBastyr College Publications, Seattle, WA, 1989

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