Marijuana harms your Digestive System by drying up your digestive fluids and your production of appropriate digestive enzymes. It alters the flow of nutrients into and out of your blood stream, creates Pathogenic Heat in your digestion, and confuses the function of your ‘Middle Jiao’, or overall digestive abilities.

This level of marijuana intoxication comes when it affects your Digestive System. A large part of marijuana’s direct influence impacts your Stomach and Pancreas. This is what gives you the munchies and is a strong part of your rush.

Munchies happen for three main reasons:
  1. The Hot nature of marijuana dries up your digestive fluids. Digestive fluids are the basis of your Thin Fluids and the production of Yin for your entire body. This drying up confuses your Stomach and Pancreas, which throws off the enzymatic processes of your digestion and triggers you to desire food from an illusory digestive Fire.
  2. The Fire of the marijuana confuses your Middle Jiao, or digestive function. This compromises the integrity of your Spleen System, which then fails to support your Brain and other organs with adequate nutrition. This is the main factor that gives you a rush. Your Spleen System is striving to keep a balanced flow of food supply to all of your organs in the midst of a wildly shifting psychedelic landscape. Your body will do anything to normalize your Spleen System to get you back in balance. Eating is the quickest way to do it.
  3. Your body wants to dilute and antidote marijuana’s Poison. The fastest way to do that is by eating and drinking.
Marijuana can also make you feel thirsty for all the above reasons. That’s another reason you get cottonmouth. You’re feeling how the Marijuana is burning up your Thin Fluids and Yin. Your body is doing what it can to bring you back into a state of balance.

Marijuana’s Heat in your digestion is a constant irritant. It throws your entire digestive function off. It also tends to dry out the full length of your digestive tract over time. This slowly compromises the function and movement of your Intestines. Beyond the obvious discomfort of slow-moving Intestines, the slow transit time of digested materials increases the toxification of your whole body. It retards your fresh Yang energy from flourishing and bewilders your Large Intestine’s capacity to maintain its role in your water metabolism.

The process I described above is only one of the ways marijuana depletes your Qi. You manufacture Qi from the air you breathe, the food you eat and by transmuting your Jing Sexual Essence into more physically active forms of energy. Your digestion is therefore a very important source of energy for you. The way your digestion functions dictates many of the ambient feelings that run through you as you go through your day. When your digestion gets congested, nothing else seems right.

Marijuana’s effect on your digestion happens whether you smoke or eat it. Marijuana affects your Lung and Digestive Systems at nearly the same time. If you smoke it, the effect on your Lungs will be more pronounced. If you eat it, the effect on your digestion will be more pronounced. You will have slightly less Fire to deal with if you eat marijuana rather than smoke it, but the effects go straight to a deeper level of your body when you eat it.

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