Understanding Our Morphology and Biorhythms

There are many things about our physical bodies we can never do anything about such as the color of the iris of our eyes. There are others over which we have some control such as our lifestyle habits. 

With better understanding of the energies at work, your Phytobiodermie professional gains more knowledge and tools to increase the personalization of your treatments and this gets you better results.

Knowledge of your biorhythm (see previous posts) improves your selection of treatments and home products, all totally adapted to your energetic needs at the particular point in time.

At any time, it is appropriate to have a treatment to balance the energies of your biorhythm. It can be done as part of any body treatment and would be personalized to you. 

A most interesting aspect of the biorhythm is the intelligence we gain to personalize the right anti-aging treatment for you.  Knowing the energies of your biorhythm gives you and your therapist a high level of confidence anticipating how the sequence of the "Destruction Cycle" of Traditional Chinese Medicine will engage your personal aging process. That information helps decide how to construct a plan to mitigate the appearances and other effects of premature aging. 

Remember that the energies of the biorhythm are simply a set of influences amongst many. They never are an overwhelming and inescapable power because each of us is also subjected to many other factors, principally genes, climate, diet and lifestyle, yet both morphology and biorhythm are important tools to better understand the energetic tendencies that affect each of us. They can also explain the reasons behind chronic conditions.

Knowledge of Your Biorhythms

Knowledge of your biorhythms assists the Phytobiodermie® professional to select appropriate Phytobiodermie® treatments and products to use at home, all totally adapted to your energetic needs at the particular point in time. 

Knowledge of your biorhythms has a number of other applications. For example, if someone is Metal and feels a need to go through a detox program (diet and treatments), it is best done during the eighteen days of transition before the Metal season starts.

At any time, it is appropriate to have a treatment to balance the energies of your biorhythm.  It can be done as part of any body treatment and would be personalized to you. 

A most interesting aspect of the biorhythm is the intelligence we gain to personalize the right anti-aging treatment for you. Knowing the energies of your biorhythm gives you and your therapist a high level of confidence anticipating how the sequence of the "Destruction Cycle" of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) will engage your personal aging process.  That information helps decide how to construe t a plan to mitigate the appearances and other effects of premature aging.

Remember that the energies of the biorhythm are simply a set of influences among many. They never are an overwhelming and inescapable power, because each of us is also subjected to many other factors, principally, genes, climate, diet, and lifestyle, yet morphology and biorhythm are important tools to better understand the energetic tendencies that affect each of us.  They can also explain the reasons behind chronic conditions.

Biorhythms: Six Energies and Five Elements

Ancient Chinese doctors and Taoist philosophers conceptualized man living between "heaven" and "earth." From earth they derived the five elements, their laws and principles. The theory of the five energies (of earth) pertains to, and regulates all earthly things, namely, matter.

From "heaven," meaning the atmosphere or cosmos, they observed six energies:

• Heat
• Cold
• Humidity
• Dryness
• High pressure
• Low pressure (climatic depression)

The ancient philosophers observed that the cosmic energies could influence any of the five elements or earthly energies. It is easy to observe that during any season the days can be very different from each other. For example, any summer day can be:

• Windy (Wood energy)
• Very hot (Fire energy)
• Humid (Earth energy)
• Dry (Metal energy)
• Cool (Water energy)

Continuing with the above example, we can say that any summer day can express:

• The Wood of Fire  (windy summer day)
• The Fire of Fire  (very hot summer day)
• The Earth of Fire  (humid summer day)
• The Metal of Fire  (dry summer day)
• The Water of Fire  (wet/cold summer day)

Since each of those energies can be manifested during any season (the energy of an element), it confirms that all energies affect each one of the five elements.

The effect of six energies on the five elements makes for thirty possible energetic influences, but since each situation always has a yin and a yang version, it makes for a total of sixty conditions that follow each other in a predictable way and that repeat themselves at the end of each cycle. As a result, the specific energy dominating any given year will be repeated only sixty years later.

It is interesting to notice that traditional Taoist astrology recognizes twelve signs (similar to the twelve signs of the zodiac), named according to an animal (i.e., a rabbit or a rat), but each animal is differentiated by one of the five characteristics of the five elements (green rat, red rat, yellow rat, white rat, black rat). As a result, they also have a sixty-year cycle.

Each year represents the energy of one of the sixty possibilities. The year of birth determines, for an adult, the dominating physical energy that will influence the individual's physical characteristics. It is his or her biorhythm of the year. It gives an indication about the likely esthetic and health challenges that will be encountered in the process of aging as a consequence of energetic imbalances.

The same concept applies for the energy of the month of birth, pointing to a biorhythm of the month. That energy influences the physical growth of the youngsters, but from the mid-twenties onward, it switches to influence the psychological characteristics of the adult while the energy of the year becomes the dominant one affecting the physical aspect. Phytobiodermie® provides trained therapists with tables to identify both the biorhythm of the year and of the month for their client.

The Two Manifestations of Acne

Most people visualize acne as pussy red pimples invading the entire face and certain parts of the body, mostly the backs on men. The condition is what Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recognizes as yang-type acne. There is another type of acne, the yin-type, that is cystic and inner where the fluid has hardened and the skin might not be red. Yin-type acne can also appear on the back.

The two different manifestations of acne cannot be treated the same way and with the same products as opposed to what some well advertised cosmetic lines attempt to do.

Two different manifestations cannot have the same cause and the same remedy. This is why acne is so persistent. 

Further, bacteria do not cause acne. The presence of bacteria is a symptom and not a cause. 

Most common acne treatments only address the symptoms. This is why temporary relief if often achieved, but it is just that–temporary.

Acne is an Earth condition that needs to be treated as such. Severe conditions will require a serious series of treatments to balance the energetic root cause. Drainage of the lymph is essential, not only on the face but all over the body, particularly in severe cases. Bath treatments sponsoring lymph drainage are well advised.

There should be a highly personalized approach to acne. It is not only based on the type of acne but also on its location relative to reflex zones. Yang acne on the liver zone is a different type of acne than a yin type on the upper cheeks, the stomach zone. In each case, the energy of the element corresponding to the reflex zone must also be balanced.

Eye Area: The First to Show Aging

The eye area is a sensitive one where signs of age manifest early. Not surprisingly, it is a very active energetic area with three meridians near the eye (bladder, stomach and gallbladder) and three meridians that end nearby (triple warmer, small intestine and large intestine). While product-only treatments can help, adding the energetic work of rebalancing all six meridians on each side is important. 

This can be very effectively accomplished by directing the color of light corresponding to each meridian to the area with Phytobiodermie's Biostimulateur™ in toning mode on all points. This energetic treatment is as good as it can get as a non-invasive and holistic treatment.

The eye-cup, a flat small glass cup used with the Biodraineur™ (drainage machine) is selected to darin the fluids around the eyes and to flatten away the small lines. There might be puffiness or dark circles under the eyes. This is a kidney reflex zone. Puffiness points to an excess of kidney energy and dark circles to a lack.

The Biostimulateur,™ thanks to its unique "disperse" and "tone" modes, is very useful in dispersing the excess of kidney energy or in toning the lack of it. It is done with the soft vibrations of the machine module tip in light contact with the skin while it is gently moved over the area. 

Frequency of Skin Treatments

When a skin condition in need of balancing requires a series of treatments, it is advised to do them over a relatively small period of time. Series of energetic treatments are most effective when about 24 hours elapse between treatments within the series. It is best not to exceed three to four days between treatments.

After the skin has been balanced, it is advisable to maintain it that way by periodically doing a balancing treatment

Follow the Energetic Calendar to select your products, your treatments and their timing. It is particularly important during the energetic season of the element of your biorhythm to receive the treatment of the season. 

When possible, do no less than five balancing treatments a year, once per energetic season, selecting for the Earth treatment the 18-day prior to the season of your element. For people with a manifested Earth condition, the ideal is to also do one Earth treatment during each one of the four Earth periods, making a total of eight treatments a year.

Do Not Forget the Scalp!

Many people have the same problems on their scalp as they do on their face. There are excellent Phytobiodermie scalp treatments using the same or similar products as for the face. They provide welcome results and great relief fro mthe discomforts of scalp problems. Any of those problems left untreated can be a resin for premature hair loss. 

In-depth treatments from trained Phytobiodermie practitioners are recommended and simpler home treatments are also available. A healthy scalp is a most important factor in enjoying healthy hair. Healthy scalp and hair respond better to styling, too. If you color your hair or subject it to any kind of chemical treatment on a regular basis, your scalp most likely requires soothing and balancing treatments.