Health and overweight in the Ba-Tzu natal chart

Let’s talk about how disease forms in the body and how the Ba-Tzu system defines fat and overweight. At the same time, we will answer the question: can you lose weight with metaphysics?
Generally speaking, it’s all so simple that it’s even getting complicated already… 🙂 However, when speaking about subtle matters it often happens like that.
Metaphysics distinguishes 13 elements, which correspond to the 13 signs of the Zodiac and astrological nodes (which the Chinese poetically call Symbolic Stars) and planets. Indirectly – to signs of the Zodiac.
13 elements: the Void (Gemini), the Nothing (Capricorn), the Life (Leo), the Death (Pisces), the Time (Cancer), the Light (Virgo), the Shadow (Serpentor), the Darkness (Scorpio), the Chaos (Sagittarius), the Air/Metal (Libra), the Fire (Aries), the Water (Aquarius), the Earth (Taurus).
In the physical world there are 5 most common elements – the Metal (Venus), the Wood (Jupiter), the Water (Mercury), the Fire (Mars) and the Earth (Saturn). The others pop up here and there from time to time, such as the Void in natal charts.
When a person is born into the world, the planets and elements form a chart, fixing their position in the second of the person’s birth. And everything will depend on who “froze” there at this moment – fate, health, problematic and good periods of life and much more. The more active this or that planet is, the more this or that element will be presented in various houses, palaces, pillars and other tablets of the horoscope and natal chart. Be it jyotish, or ba-tzu, or western astrology.
This very moment creates the basis and foundation for all areas of this person’s life. Therefore, if some element is missing in the chart, you can even hang yourself with amulets like a New Year tree, the result will be negligible. It is like trying to build a house beyond the foundation, and the foundation is metaphorically the natal chart.
According to the wise Chinese astrologists, each of the five elements is, in their turn, divided into soft Yin and hard Yang elements, and in this position finds direct expression in the body system and has “its” organ. A person’s health depends on the balance of these five elements, and strengths and weaknesses are determined by the strength of the element in the chart.
The Wood is our nervous system. Also, Liver, Gallbladder and Eyes. Indirectly, hormones.
An imbalance of this element brings blood pressure spikes, arthritis, toothaches, thyroid problems, angina, nerve pain, insomnia and many more things related to the related systems.
The Wood expresses itself with a sour flavor and is most powerful in spring.
If the Wood is not supported by water (the Water element), it brings problems to the whole blood circulation and is fraught with strokes. And large amounts of the Earth element without the support and control of Wood produces all kinds of stomach diseases that will gradually affect all the organs located in the abdomen. On the other hand, too much Wood depletes the Earth, and again, we get stomach disease because of that, only in the form of reduced acidity, atonia and other joys of the lack of the basic element of the system.

The Metal is our Respiratory system.
Also Lungs, large intestine. Skin and Nose.
The Metal element diseases are immune disorders and autoimmune diseases, brain diseases, all kinds of respiratory sickness, nose, throat, skin, and lower intestinal problems.
Exhibits a flavor of spices and is strongest in fall. The Metal also directly affects hair and can cause emotional imbalances.
Let’s get to the point. Everyone is kind of aware that smoking is bad for you. Why is that?
Because your lungs are Metal. When you light a cigarette you are actually putting fire into a metal organ. What does fire do to metal? Yep, nothing good.

The Water is our Excretory and reproductive systems. Organs are kidneys and bladder. Its individual representatives are ears and bones.
Much, if not everything, depends on Water in the body. It nourishes the Wood, and limits the fire, and even has a special, kidney energy, if we can say so, which the Asian metaphysics distinguishes as a special kind of Qi energy. Therefore, the Water is responsible for all kidney and reproductive system diseases.
Pregnancy and “fertility” depend on the balance of water, because the charts without water or with its weak component affect a-priori infertile condition. In this case, conception can occur only by a miracle and a very rare coincidence of circumstances. For example, in winter, by the sea, in the month, day and hour of the water sign.
If you fail to get pregnant, check precisely the balance of the Water in the natal chart, and whether it is not an attacked and weak element.
Such wonderful delights as diabetes, prostatitis, spinal nerves, all kinds of crises and strokes, indirectly blindness, ear disease, and sexual disorders are also associated with Water and its imbalance.
The water is reflected by the salty taste, black and blue colors and is strongest in winter.

The Fire is our circulatory system and the brain.
Also, the small intestine and the tongue.
Fire, both Yang and Yin, represents everything related to blood. Heart diseases, inflammation of any kind, vascular disease, sepsis, high and low temperatures, anemias and blood imbalances. Separately, the brain and all sorts of disorders of the brain (psychiatry, stress, psychological problems, etc).
Fire “dries up” the chart, when there is a lot of it, it causes angina and blood pressure spikes. If there is a lot of fire, it is hypertension, if there is little, it is hypotension and insufficient blood supply to organs and extremities. This element stabilizes phlegm and moistens the mucous membranes of the body.

The Earth is our Digestive and lymphatic systems. Also, spleen, pancreas, excretion, muscles and mouth.
Let’s look at this element in detail, as fat accumulation and excess weight are related to it.
The Earth element has a sweet flavor, and it is what is reflected in the foods we eat. It is always a heavy and saturated element, whether it is at least black soil, or dry stony mountains. And sweets cause obesity, everyone knows that.
If a person has an overabundance of earth in the map or it is too wet (for example, a lot of water and earth), then all the body systems turn into a heavy viscous swamp. A person loses strength, gets weakness, digestive disorders, distortion of food habits, non-absorption of micronutrients and pancreatitis.

So why, exactly, obesity?
The Earth is indirectly connected to cells, the building material of the body. And it is the imbalance of the Earth that causes cells to both shrink and deteriorate, as well as to grow. And what does inordinate cell growth lead to? Obesity or cancer. Some start to get fat, others divide chaotically and grow wherever they want.
The Earth gives you the itch. That’s a fact. If there is a lot of earth, we have all sorts of swelling allergies, Quincke’s edema, incomprehensible itching here and there, all sorts of rarities like allergies to pressure (germography) and so on.
So if we take this thought further, we get a most curious answer to the question of why there are so many fat people these days. We have too much plastic, which is essentially made from petroleum and similar products. And oil is the concentrate of the Earth. Constant immoderate contact with the earth has this curious effect on the body.
There is no general recipe for weight loss in this regard, because everyone’s natal charts are different, and everyone needs to find their own balance and derive their own prescriptions. But if you suffer from any of the above, for example, you consume a lot of sweets and can not control yourself, try to eat all the sweets with something sour (add the Wood – deplete the Earth) and be sure to check the balance of the elements.
If you are suffering from stomach pains with high acidity or cramps, you can eat more herbs (cilantro, dill, celery, mint, arugula, etc., some thin and soft plants). Soft yin wood quite noticeably weakens the earth blockages in the stomach area, when taken internally.

As in other areas, the elements of the chart can encounter in the area of health, as well as react acutely to the elements coming into play in the year and tact. For example, rapidly growing tumors are caused by the collision of fire and metal in the chart.
The more deeply rooted the harmful and problematic element is in the chart, the more difficult it is to cure the disease. If the element that brings imbalance is on the “facade” of the map, without going deep into the basement and hidden trunks, the disease is treated quickly and without consequences.

Treatment in Ba-Tzu, Jyotish and Saju is a peculiar thing. As in Ayurveda, we are not trying to make more of something, we are looking for balance. Between cold and hot, wet and dry, water and fire. Hence the very unusual dietary recommendations of Indian doctors, who can allow kinda-like-harmful sugar, but forbid cabbage and tell you to eat only hot food.
This is because the doshas in Indian medicine look at the same map of flavors and elements from a healing perspective. So a kapha dosha imbalance is an excess of water, pitta is fire, etc.
Now that’s where things get simpler.

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