The power of modern medicines seems to be the hope for most AIDS victims who are in the final stages. But these medicinals need to be formulated with an eye toward understanding their energetic effects, so that specific formulas can be customized for specific patients or at least specific types of the illness. Only then can side effects be avoided or minimized and only then can the medical community understand on whom to use what treatments. Protease inhibitors work for some and not others because of the energetic as well as chemical effects of the drugs. By energetic effects I mean the effects medicinals have on the subtle energies of the body, the body as viewed as a series of energy vortices rather than merely a chemical machine.
Temperature means the inherent effect the medicinal has on the body after ingestion.
Black tea for example, whether drunk hot, cold or tepid, once ingested, has the energetic effect of cooling the body. Direction means whether the substance causes energy in the body to rise toward the head or sink toward the feet, and also float towards the body's surface or sink deeper toward the core. Taste means whether sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, bland or a combination. Different tastes have different actions. In brief, sweet tonifies, sour astringes, salty softens hardness, bitter clears heat, pungent disperses and bland acts as diuretic.