Every Nadiswara wellness report ends up at the same place: a short list of meridians that need attention, each with an organ name, an element chip, a Yin or Yang chip and a level. If those words are new to you, this guide is the place to start. It explains what Yin and Yang mean in the report, which twelve meridians the report can name, and how to read a finding.
Yin and Yang, in the report's own words
Yin and Yang are the two sides of every organ. The Yin-Yang chart in the Nadiswara report uses a simple legend:
- Yin – "Nourishment / Fluids / Cold"
- Yang – "Functional / Heat"
Think of a lamp. Yin is the oil: the reserve of substance and fluid that the organ draws on. Yang is the flame: the organ's activity and warmth. An organ can run short of oil (a Yin deficiency, as in Kidney Yin Deficiency) or burn too hot (a Yang excess, as in Liver Heat Blazing). Neither is "good" or "bad"; what matters is the balance between them.
The twelve meridians
A meridian is the channel through which an organ's energy is said to flow, and the twelve regular meridians are named after twelve organs. These are the organ names the Nadiswara app uses:
| Element | Yin organ | Yang organ |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | Liver | Gallbladder |
| Fire | Heart | Small Intestine |
| Fire | Pericardium | Triple Warmer |
| Earth | Spleen | Stomach |
| Metal | Lung | Large Intestine |
| Water | Kidney | Bladder |
Each element has one Yin organ and one Yang organ, and the two work as a pair. In the report's charts the pair is written with the Yin organ first: Liv/GB, HT/SI, SP/ST, Lun/LI, KD/UB. Pericardium and Triple Warmer share the Fire element with the Heart and Small Intestine.
Six of the twelve are Yin organs: Lung, Spleen, Heart, Kidney, Pericardium and Liver. Six are Yang organs: Large Intestine, Stomach, Small Intestine, Bladder, Triple Warmer and Gallbladder. As a rough rule, the Yin organs store and the Yang organs move.
How a finding reads: Main focus, Secondary, Tertiary
On the report's Overview tab, "Your main patterns", captioned "What your reading points to", lists up to three findings:
- Main focus – the meridian that the pulse or tongue photo and the member's answers point at most strongly. The organ name is set large, and the score card above repeats it as the "Main pattern", for example "Liver · Cold".
- Secondary – the next most relevant meridian.
- Tertiary – a third finding worth watching.
Each finding carries an organ name, a chip such as "Wood element", a Yin or Yang chip, a level chip of Healthy, Mild, Moderate or High, a short description and a "Read more" link for the full text. For a returning member, "Since your last visit" shows whether each pattern has Eased, stayed at the Same level, Increased, is New or has Cleared. A Nadi Pariksha session shows the pulse recording above the list; a Tongue Wellness session shows the tongue reading instead.
Behind the scenes, each finding is identified by a code that joins the organ with its pattern, such as a Gallbladder Cold or a Large Intestine Heat finding. The same organ can appear at two ranks if both its Yin and its Yang side need attention.
Reading the Yin-Yang chart
In the sample PDF reports this site draws on, a chart headed "Yin Yang of the Five Elements" shows one pair of bars per organ pair, the blue bar for the Yin side and the red bar for the Yang side; in the app, the same idea is carried by the Yin or Yang chip on each main pattern and by the "Five Elements" card of a pulse session. Reading the chart is a matter of comparing the two bars:
- A tall Yang bar with a short Yin bar suggests an organ that is working hard without enough reserve: Heat with Dryness.
- A tall Yin bar with a short Yang bar suggests reserve without enough activity: Cold with Humidity.
- Two balanced bars suggest an organ pair that is not asking for attention right now.
The written reading then connects the findings using the five-element cycle. A sample report reads "Lung/LI heat due to Spleen/stomach heat": the Earth pair passed its excess Heat to the Metal pair that follows it. The five elements article explains that cycle.
What a TEM point is
TEM stands for Traditional Energy Medicine, the practice Nadiswara's founder teaches. In the app's visit history, each session shows a TEM point: the single acupuncture point the report selected for that visit, written as the point and the technique, for example a sedation point on the Large Intestine or Stomach meridian.
The TEM point is written for trained practitioners, not as an instruction for members. Acupuncture point suggestions in the Nadiswara therapy reports are marked "for trained practitioners" for the same reason. Members can act on the food guide, the "Try this" steps, the pranayama and the yoga; the points are for the person holding the needle.