Marijuana is hard on the kidneys

Just found this and really fits in with what some people are saying on GLP. THere are ENDLESS medical articles on the adverse affects, but this is from a Chinese Medicine/ Acupuncture perspective. This is for those who already realize it's causing them problems, I'm not anti marijuana at all but needs to be in moderation like alchohol.
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Marijuana damages your Kidney and Jing Sexual Essence Systems by devastating your Kidney Qi, Yin and Yang, depleting and depolarizing your Jing Sexual Essence and confusing, provoking and exhausting your natural sexual functions.

Every drug has its own nature. It has a unique set of properties that can be described by a very specific curve of benefits and drawbacks. Marijuana’s benefit curve, whether you take it by prescription or otherwise, will at first seem to give you more than it takes. Over time, though, this curve reverses, and it will begin to take more than it gives you. If you’re addicted to marijuana during its taking phase, your high will get weirder and emptier every time you take it. It will also take you longer and longer to recover from it. That's part of the process of developing tolerance for marijuana. It's also when long-term damage begins. Long-term damage is the realm of the Kidney System.

Your Kidney System is responsible for your long-term health. It regulates the enduring cycles your body goes through over the course of your lifetime. By the time marijuana affects the level of your Kidney System, it is altering the course of your life in a serious way.

Many of the systems in you that marijuana affects are unconscious. That’s why it can be difficult to know what's happening to you until it's too late to do anything about it. There are a number of signs, however, that you can watch for to gauge where you are in the process.

You can tell marijuana's beginning to get hold of your Kidney System if you feel like you’re underwater when you're high. Another earmark that marijuana is affecting your Kidney System is that you'll feel fear. The fear can take many forms, but it often comes as paranoia.

When marijuana's beginning to claim your Kidney System you'll experience a loss of memory. This often takes the form of impaired or reduced short-term memory, and impaired or reduced comprehension of what's happening in your world. You'll also lose your ability to listen effectively. Marijuana can so damage your learning and attention skills over time that you may wind up with no ability to get back from the place it's taken you to.

When marijuana first begins to burn up your Kidney Yin it will make things seem hysterically funny to you. As your Kidney Yin gets more depleted, the funniness will end and paranoia will begin. Depending on your constitution, your burning Kidney Yin may leave you feeling speedy or sleepy.

When marijuana is affecting your Kidney System on a more profound level things seem like they’re happening in slow motion. Time seems to go on forever. What's really happening is your perceptions are moving very fast. This is when marijuana is burning up your Jing Sexual Essence. When marijuana's Toxic Heat spends your energy and deep Yin Fluids at this level it creates very substantial damage to your long-term health and wellbeing.

What is Jing Sexual Essence? The Chinese medical classics state that Jing Sexual Essence, Qi and Blood are the physical foundations of your mind and Spirit. Traditional Chinese Medicine views the body as if it's an amazingly intricate alchemical cauldron. This cauldron distills the substances you eat and breathe into concentrated subtle essences. Your body continually refines these essences into higher qualities of matter and energy. Your physiology then uses them to support its different functions. Jing is the highest level of physical refinement in this system.

Jing Sexual Essence is a storehouse for your life potential. Jing is your reserves. It determines the quality of your life experience and possibly even the length of your life as well. You may be trading a portion of your life potential for your relationship with marijuana.

Marijuana’s effects are serious because of how it affects your Jing. Traditional Chinese Medicine views the brain as a repository of Jing and potential. One of marijuana’s qualities is that it moves quickly into your brain and to very specific receptor sites on your core nerve cells. The parts of your brain that have the highest concentration of these receptors are the ones that control your experiences of pleasure, thought, memory, sensation, concentration, time perception and coordination. These are the areas of your brain that get the most poisoned over time, so they’re the ones that will get the most damaged.

When you first get involved with marijuana it doesn’t seem like there’s any harm in it. This is because marijuana burns up your potential before it claims anything you use for critical life functions. Your body does what it can to route marijuana's Poison to non-essential areas of your brain to preserve your life.

After you use marijuana for a while you develop a tolerance for it. This means you need more and more to get high. If you become more tolerant by continuing to use marijuana, a time will come when you won’t get high at all when you take it. You’ll just get more burned out. When you reach this stage you’re deep in the burned out core of your brain, nervous system and Jing Sexual Essence. It means that your Jing has been so charred that the basic alchemy of marijuana doesn’t work in your body any more. There’s nowhere left to go from there. If you're in this situation you desperately need to do something to replenish yourself. If you don't, and you continue to use marijuana, you can do yourself some very serious damage.
The main reason marijuana extinguishes your life force and longevity over time is because of the way it affects your Kidney and Jing Sexual Essence Systems. Marijuana’s very nature induces the aging process.

How does marijuana induce aging? Whenever any organ system in your body is over-working, your Kidney System will get involved to help out. The strain marijuana puts on you drains your Kidney Qi, Yang and Yin. Losing Yin is a big part of the aging process. Losing your Kidney Yin withers you up. Losing your Kidney Yang means losing the genuine Heat you need to maintain life itself. Losing your Kidney Qi means losing the functions of your organs. Marijuana speeds up and intensifies these processes that happen naturally as you age.

Let's compare the effects of marijuana with those of aging:

We already know that marijuana poisons you little by little over time. It creates Heat in your body, dries up your body fluids, Yin and Jing Sexual Essence. It confuses your digestive system, compromises your immune system and reduces your mental and emotional capacity for dealing with life.

The main issues we face as we age are toxification and a rising Fire of inflammation. This Fire creates a loss of fluids, Yin and Jing Sexual Essence. This loss compounds with a reduced digestive capability and less energy in general, which makes it increasingly difficult to thrive in the face of life’s demands.
Marijuana's effects, in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine, are very similar or identical to the process of aging.

Sex

Some people use marijuana to increase their sense of sexual pleasure. Yet over time marijuana poisons the very centers in your brain that are responsible for your sexual pleasure. This means that as you enjoy the experience in the moment, marijuana is burning up the physical foundation of your sexuality.

During this phase, your erotic sensations get heightened, but only if you’re high. As the marijuana poisons your Liver and Kidney Systems and confuses their functions, your sexual energy will begin to disperse.

Another reason you become sexually aroused when you get high is that your body feels marijuana's age-inducing effect. Your Jing is the physical foundation of your sexual energy. Your body reacts to marijuana’s premature biological aging by protecting your Jing and passing it on to the next generation before you get too old and poisoned to do so.

Your Jing Sexual Essence is the cream of your body’s manufacturing processes. Your body will do everything it can to protect your Jing. If you override your body’s impulse to protect your Jing Sexual Essence, your body will eject it in order to save its integrity.

You may feel hornier for a while as the marijuana depletes your Kidney Yin, but this falsely stoked sexual frenzy will only cause you to lose your Jing more rapidly. Once your Jing Sexual Essence gets depleted past a certain point, it may be very difficult or impossible to get it back. At that point the issue of sex will be one from your past. Marijuana damages the physical basis of your sexual function on every level.

Reproductive and Hormonal Changes

Did you know that marijuana affects people differently according to their gender?
If you’re male, as the marijuana poisons the parts of your brain that control your sex and growth hormones it can decrease your ability to produce Yang energy. It’s easy to tell if you’ve reached that state if you just don’t feel like doing anything, or you’re spaced out a lot of the time and have lost your edge. You're not producing Yang if you only want to have sex when you’re high. If you continue using marijuana, over time your testosterone levels will continue to drop, and so will your ability to produce healthy mature sperm.

Sperm is one of the most critical elements of your Jing. If you lose your ability to produce sperm, you’ll lose your ability to recycle it back into your body and nourish yourself with it. In terms of Western Medicine, your testosterone is an important hormone that plays a critical role in many of your body's functions. When your testosterone levels go down, so do your other functions. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, your sperm itself has similar functions.

Although marijuana's reducing your sperm count and retarding your sperm’s mobility might not affect your fertility, Traditional Chinese Medicine views this damage to your sperm as part of the greater destruction marijuana does to your Yang energy. Damaged Yang and Jing Sexual Essence will influence the quality of your offspring.

Marijuana affects women differently. As it poisons the part of your brain that controls your sex and growth hormones, marijuana increases your Yang energy and burns up your Yin at the same time. You'll become more masculine on physical, emotional and mental levels. Marijuana's masculinizing effect on women can easily affect your menstrual cycle and your ability to use your own natural hormones in daily life. Marijuana's side effect of changing your menstrual cycle is reversible. It may take several months of not using marijuana before your cycle becomes normal again if you’re not doing something to balance yourself from the marijuana.

Your hormones are another important part of your Jing Sexual Essence. Through the eyes of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the fact that Marijuana affects your hormones signals that it’s doing the deepest possible damage to your body. We say that it depolarizes your Jing. This is because much of the power of your Jing comes from its polarity. A strong polarization of your retained Jing is the foundation of your physical energy. For the sake of your health and longevity, you want to keep your Jing polarized for as long as possible.

Marijuana alters your Kidney and Jing Sexual Essence Systems in ways that are detrimental to your health.

If you're taking marijuana and you do get pregnant, please remember that marijuana crosses the placenta. The placenta is a network of blood vessels your baby uses to connect with your blood stream to nourish itself. That means when you get stoned, your baby does, too.

How much worse is it for your baby to get stoned while it's developing inside you? Way worse. Why? Because this is the time your child is creating its body. If the foundations of your child's body get poisoned while it's still inside you, the root of all its body systems will be damaged from the beginning of its life.

Although there’s no direct evidence that marijuana causes chromosome damage, using while you’re pregnant can give your child developmental damage. This can happen on both mental and physical levels. Studies have shown that if you use marijuana during your pregnancy your baby will be smaller than if you didn’t. Smaller babies develop more health problems in general.

If you’re nursing and using marijuana, you’re infusing marijuana’s Hot Poison right into your breast milk and into your baby. Research has shown that if you use marijuana during your baby’s first month of breastfeeding, it can impair your baby’s motor development. This can retard it for its entire life.

If you're pregnant or have recently given birth and are still breastfeeding, marijuana affects the development of your baby in negative ways. Your child will suffer from what you're doing, possibly for his or her whole life.

This means that if your parents used marijuana during your growth and development, it has impacted you in some very important ways.

If you’re using marijuana as you come into puberty, the potential long-term effects from the hormonal changes marijuana creates on you are much more dramatic. That's because this is the time your reproductive system is ripening and coming into flower. If your reproductive system gets damaged or compromised from the beginning of its development and maturation, it can take you a lot of time and energy to repair yourself, if it’s possible at all.