Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter Volume 1, No. 6: 2007
Only God Knows Have you ever wondered why some people loose weight and you don't? Given the same weight loss program, why are you the one always loose out? This maybe due to a constitutional di erence. However, chasing af- ter reasons why a certain person looses weight and an another doesn't is an endless loop. Oriental Medicine refrains from analytical deduction and logical answers, instead it simply accepts di erences as a universal truth or a god's manifestation. From a perspective of the Tai Chi treatment, the di erence may be due to the way we balance ourselves; eliminating what we do not need and tak- ing in what we need. Each individual has a unique processing system. Therefore, Oriental Medicine treats a person (as a whole) and not a dis- ease arising from an incidental cause and e ect. Oriental Medicine diagnoses each person according to his body type and the pattern of symptoms and gives a unique treatment. Neither a single treatment nor a super drug is for the masses, and simply said, Oriental Medicine is not prescriptive. One Step Ahead, Always I have already mentioned that a good doctor heals and prevents a disease whereas an ordinary doctor cures a disease and this is the fork that sepa- rates the extraordinary from the ordinary. In the Tai Chi treatment, I have often mentioned that Oriental Medicine treats the root cause of a disease. Anyone can place a needle and make it stick up on the head when a pa- tient experiences a headache. However, such a peripheral treatment does not cure the symptom and it may even aggravate it further. By focusing on the root cause of a disease, I am always a step ahead of a patient's re- quest and concern. My e ort is aimed at lot more deeper and higher concern such as how to give a quality of life and to prolong a life span.
Many people are accustomed to receiving an immediate result by western medication (but disregarding what would happen to the body in years to come) and hope that acupuncture can do the same. However, having ex- isting for over 2000 years, acupuncture is at higher level than a fast relief treatment modality. Yes, acupuncture can sometimes work like wonder, but the result only scratches on the surface level of what acupuncture really can do. Acupuncture is about the relational energy, it is about the interaction of Yin and Yang, therefore, it is about a relationship between a patient and a practitioner, and so doing, acupuncture evolves spiritually for the both to be at the higher level of consciousness. Simplest Thing You Can Do For Your Health No. 4 Sit comfortably on a chair, flex your fingers (cup your fingers), and place them about inch below the rib cage. Slightly push in to the abdomen, then take a deep breath and as you exhale slowly bend your body forward (the chest to the knee). The movement causes fingers to sink in deep into the rib cage and release the diaphragm. As you inhale, release fin- gers and come up. Repeat the process a few times if necessary. Your fingers should sink to the rib cage to one inch. If the abdominal mus- cle is very tight, massage the area and try again. Diaphragm is an important organ in Oriental Medicine, for it separates the Heaven* above (the Heart and the Lungs) and the Earth below (intes- tines and the Kidneys). In between the Human stands (the digestion sys- tem). This trigram (the Three-ness) is the core philosophy of Oriental Medicine: Tai Chi (the One-ness) to Yin and Yang (the Two-ness) and to the Three-ness. The Three-ness creates the Five-ness (zang organs**) and the Five-ness creates milliards of things. Tai Chi treatment is to do a reverse engineering on the phenomenon: understand any disease under the Five-ness, locate it in the Three-ness, diagnose into the Two-ness then to treat the root cause to bring the body to the ultimate balance of the One-ness. *words are capitalized to denote Oriental Medicine's understanding of their meanings.
**zang organs: Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys, and Liver
© 2007 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi/Japanese Acupuncture
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