What this pattern means
Traditional medicine describes the body's balance in five climatic energies: Wind, Heat, Humidity, Dryness and Cold. Each belongs to an element and an organ pair. Wind belongs to the Wood element pair, the Liver and Gallbladder; Heat belongs to Fire, the Heart and Small Intestine.
Liver Heat Blazing is what happens when Heat joins the Wind of the Wood pair. The deck that accompanies Nadiswara training names it "Wind-Heat: Liver Heat Blazing". Signs traditionally associated with it include irritability, outbursts of anger, dizziness, headache and constipation. The picture to hold in mind is the one Nadiswara's older sample reports used: a fire fanned by wind burns hotter, rises faster and dries out everything around it. Heat rising to the head is why the traditional signs cluster around the temper and the head, and why fluids and elimination are affected lower down.
The pulse carries the same chain the deck describes: thought leads to emotion, emotion to breath, breath to the heart beat, and the heart beat to the pulse. Nadiswara reads that chain in reverse, so a pulse recorded in a moment of smouldering irritation can point back to the Wind-Heat pattern behind it.
How it shows in a Nadiswara report
- Your main patterns. Liver or Gallbladder may appear as the Main focus, with the Wood element chip and a level chip of Mild, Moderate or High. Liver is the Yin organ of the pair and Gallbladder the Yang.
- Five elements. On a pulse session's "Five Elements" card, Wind and Heat may sit high. The pulse explanation may name a pulse the sample reports call Full Rapid, "forceful and accelerated", their marker of internal Heat.
- Wellness at a glance and body balance. Stress, which the app marks "lower is better", and Emotional balance may stand out, and the energy slider may lean towards restless energy.
- Mind and Food tabs. The thought pattern may read restless, irritable and impulsive, with "Try this" steps that calm; the food guide may favour Cooling foods and place spicy, hot and oily foods under "Avoid".
Inside the wellness report walks through each of these parts with a sample reading.
Diet and lifestyle
The food guide and "Try this" steps for a Heat pattern follow the sample reports' own Pitta advice: cool the system down, favour bitter and hydrating tastes, and keep heating foods, drinks and habits to a minimum. The Do column repeats a sample report's own suggestions for a Pitta-high member; a practitioner adapts them.
Do
- Cooling, hydrating and mildly nourishing foods
- Bitter and sweet tastes: leafy greens, berries, purple grapes
- Mild herbal teas the report names, such as rose
- Meditation, pranayama and moonlight walks
- Regular meals; eat before hunger turns into irritation
Avoid
- Spicy, hot, oily, fermented and salty foods
- Sour foods, refined sugar and too much tea
- Pepper, garlic, ginger and strong spices
- Alcohol and other hot drinks, smoking
- Long hours in the sun, skipping meals and fasting