On Dreaming

Dream Action: Corresponding Condition

Anger: liver excess
Battered house in wind & rain: counterflow qi in spleen
Battles: lung qi deficiency in autumn
Beheading: counterflow qi in nape 
Bloody killings: lung qi deficiency
Body heavy, unable to move: spleen excess
Building walls & houses: spleen qi deficiency during late summer (& between seasons)
Burning: heart qi deficiency during summer
Cities & roads: counterflow qi in small intestine
Concealment, submerged in water from fear: kidney qi deficiency during winter
Concealment, lying prone beneath tree afraid to to rise: liver qi deficiency during spring
Crowds, gathering: pinworms (short worms)
Death & destruction, mutual: excess yin AND yang
Disputes & self-mutilation (or self degradation?): counterflow qi in gallbladder
Dungeons & cloisters, living in: counterflow qi in calves
Eating & drinking: counterflow qi in stomach
Falling: excess below
Fear: excess yin
Fields & meadows: counterflow qi in large intestine
Fights & destruction, mutual: roundworms (long worms)
Fire (big) burning: excess yang
Fire, rescuing items from: heart qi deficiency
Flying: excess above
Floating in air: counterflow qi in lung
Forests & trees: counterflow qi in liver
Giggling: heart excess
Giving: (stomach) too full
Hills & marshes: counterflow qi in spleen
Hunger & thirst: spleen qi deficiency
Mountains on fire w/smoke: counterflow qi in heart
Mushrooms & herbs, fragrant: liver qi deficiency
Obeisance & worship (kneeling & rising): counterflow qi in thigh
Receiving within (sex): counterflow qi in genitals
Soldiers: lung qi deficiency during autumn
Song & music: spleen excess
Spine disconnected from lower back: kidney excess
Strange metal objects: counterflow qi in lung
Shipwreck: kidney qi deficiency
Swimming: counterflow qi in bladder
Taking: too hungry
Urinating & defecating: counterflow qi in endometrium
Walking, or traveling: counterflow qi in bladder
Walking, unable to move forward while: counterflow qi in calves (lower legs)
War: lung qi deficiency in autumn
Water (big), wading fearfully in: excess yin
Water, living beside deep: counterflow qi in kidney
Water, living in: counterflow qi in kidney
Water, submerged in: counterflow qi in kidney
Weeping: lung excess
White things: lung qi deficiency

<clinical note from LS43: Excess should be reduced, counterflow qi/deficiency should be tonified.>

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