Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Medicine

Catherine J. Lumenello

• Publisher: Singing Dragon
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780857013354
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Acupuncture

This progressive handbook for Chinese medicine students and practitioners looks at gender, physiology, relationships and sexual attraction from the Chinese medicine perspective. Many standard diagnostic and treatment techniques are gender-based and do not work with clients who identify as LGBT or gender/sex/relationship fluid and so these communities are currently often underserved.

Catherine Lumenello accesses the Daoist, Buddhist and Confucianist roots of the medicine and explores the energetic pathways, the Three Treasures and other theories in order to understand the emotional etiology and treatment concerns prevalent within these client groups. The topics covered in the book include transgender issues, asexuality, sex addiction, sexual realignment surgery and polyamory. Incorporating client examples, illustrations, and an assortment of treatment approaches, this book is a radical re-examination of the potential of Chinese medicine.

Index

Abdominal Round-Rubbing 313

‘Above and Below’ technique 99

for bleeding injuries 190

for impact play injuries 187

post sex reassignment surgeries 99

treatment examples 100

absent Shen

client example 160

sexual obsession leading to 157–60

abstinence, dangers of long-term 140

abuse history

client example 224

physical, emotional, sexual 40

acceptance, Desire for 210

acupoints

to calm/nourish Shen 30

to harmonize Ancestral Vessels 80–1

to regulate Chong Mai 30

to warm Lower Dan Tian 77

Acupuncture

for absent Shen pattern 159, 160

to align three Dan Tian 78–9

for Anxiety/Fear in masturbation 144

for bleeding injuries 190

for breast binding 89

for Chronic Fear 218

for complex trauma 233

for Desire and Craving 295

for emotional transitioning 105

for Fear in masturbation 145

for Fear obstructing Kidneys 146

Five Element block treatments 28

for FTM hormonal homeostasis 95

for Guilt 257

for Heart Blood/Yin Deficiency 167, 232

for impact play injuries 187

for Jing-Essence obstruction and Ming Men Fire 151

for Kidney depletion from Chronic Fear 223

for MTF hormonal homeostasis 95

for nipple constriction 189

North-South axis patterns 239

for pathological asexuality 153

for Qi and Phlegm obstruction 32

for Repression 280

for Secrecy 277

for Secrecy and Repression 273

for Self-Loathing 312

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