{"content":[{"text":"Dra. Electra Peluffo","bbox":{"left":0.638658,"top":0.107567,"width":0.21251700000000007,"height":0.022873000000000004}},{"text":"SHEN (mental energy, spirit, soul…) resides in the heart, which is \n why it is so important in Chinese medicine as well as in other medicinal \n practices. We can say in passing that this way of thinking is not \n uncommon in the West insofar as in Paracelso’s hermetical medicine \n the mind is situated in the highest part of the right auricle. Shen is \n harboured in the heart, and if we have emotions that upset the heart \n our mind loses harmony. It is one of the reasons that the Taoists \n sought to liberate themselves from their emotions in order to achieve \n a strong Shen. The liver is also involved as it is responsible for \n harmonizing emotions and you cannot separate Shen from the brain, \n the special organ that controls the mind, another name for Shen.","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.210822,"width":0.714585,"height":0.24892699999999995}},{"text":"In acupuncture, each viscera is characterized by a tendency towards \n a specific action, which differentiates itself from others and so \n defines its function in the body. They resemble that which to us is \n known as “vegetative souls” corresponding with “sensitive souls” \n not exactly the same but close. Each individual is unique, and no \n one else, through Shen. According to Chinese thinking Shen is not \n an abstraction, it is a reality which determines unique characteristics \n in each individual, Shen shapes that which will be the individual. \n One of the meanings of Shen is the type of “aspect” the person \n has, that is to say how Shen applies to spiritual and organic \n conditions. It is only through the heart that the shen of each zang \n arrives at its designated organ, as the sovereign is inside his \n ministers represented by them. For the Chinese, of all the human \n activities the most important is the shen. They represent an \n expression that designates the general phenomena of human life, \n its conscious and subconscious activity. It picks out the individuality \n of each organ. Harbouring Shen gives the heart the knowledge as \n to all that happens in the organism. In China there are five sacred \n mountains, but in reality they are assumed to be distributed","bbox":{"left":0.142928,"top":0.481928,"width":0.714599,"height":0.429531}},{"text":"Page 1 - SHEN. HUN. PO.","bbox":{"left":0.638658,"top":0.949945,"width":0.20633500000000005,"height":0.016337999999999964}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}