This chapter states that the wei qi emerges from the eyes at sunrise and enters the urinary bladder channel, from which it flows successively through the remaining yang channels the rest of the day. At sunset it enters the kidney channel, traveling successively through the remaining yin channels during the night.
Both the urinary bladder and kidneys belong to the lower burner, so the lower burner is, in a sense, a starting point for wei qi circulation. There is nothing in this chapter, however, that would suggest that wei qi is formed in the lower burner; the text is exclusively devoted to a description of circulation xing. In clinical practice, kidney yang tonics are not used to tonify wei qi , and the lower burner is not targeted in any of the above formulas.
While kidney yang is sometimes tonified as a root treatment in extreme cases of wei qi deficiency with deficiency cold symptoms, the therapy must ultimately target the middle burner if it is to succeed. So, DoC, if you want to tonify wei qi , you have to focus on the middle burner, especially the spleen. If you bring the lung into the treatment, it will only be to assist the spreading of wei qi or to treat concurrent lung symptoms.
Kidney yang does not play a direct role in the production of wei qi , and tonifying kidney yang is only justified if there are clear signs of kidney yang deficiency, such as back and knee pain, cold limbs, etc.
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