I've been delving into Traditional Chinese Medicine the last few months, and finding it quite interesting. My mind - that's filled with Michael Pollack's structured water ideas - wonders about the modern understanding of TCM concepts of "dampness" and other main concepts. "Dampness," functionally, is an accumulation of water in the body. I can't help but see it as Pollack's "bulk water " - water that's not currently charged and so, is not holding structure, you know - BULK, lol. As I see it, the body that's "damp", needs more charge so as to be able to structure water and build tissue, flow blood and other fluids. Another is the concept of bodily heat vs cold. The common understanding is temperature. As I see it, it is whether something is metabolically active or not; or whether a food gives the body energy ("hot") or takes away energy in order to be metabolized ("cold"). Also, as per food, is it alive (hot) or is it dead (cold)? Heat is (+) charge, while cold is (-) charge. Heat disperses and confers, cold coagulates, and receives. And "stagnant" is where tissue has thickened and is no longer "living" or "rotting" .... just in a state of stasis, like a fibrous thallus at the end stage of the somatid cycle. Nothing is flowing, no change is taking place. it requires a spark to start on the cycle of life again. Lastly, "wind" - wind is the movement of positive charge into areas of less density of positive charge (deficient qi, perhaps). I don't have anything else to add to those thoughts at the moment... just felt like sharing ideas - for you, for me not to forget!