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Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 8, February 2012

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #8

I used these words in my last newsletter: 昏 昏 (by Lao Zi:  “as if asleep”).  It is also seen in some acupuncture writings: 

            得之者、身体軽健、容衰返壮、

            昏 昏黙々、如醉如癡、                        張紫陽 (Zhang Zi Yang:  984-1082)

Basically it reads:  “When one masters (Qi Gong, etc), the body becomes light and healthy, the form may decline but it becomes more active, it is as if asleep and silent, being drunk (dazed) and ignorant (nonjudgmental).”

Neither Lao Zi nor Zhang Zi Yang promoted drunkenness or ignorance.  What they meant was, after years of training and mastering, that it was the letting-go of ego that brought harmony in the mind and the body.  As Lao Zi said:  我独昏昏、我独悶悶 = “I am as if asleep, fuzzy and disinterested.”  Detachment, from emotions, what has already taught as norms and mores, psychological factors such as Oedipus and Electra complexes, and physiological sufferings such as pain, is very difficult.  Brain function is to memorize.  All past and current emotions, knowledge, and experiences are processed and stored.  However, it does not discern facts from illusions.  Discernment, which is a perception, takes little bit more conscious and conscientious processing (as opposed to just “seeing.”).  Most of us fall to a trap of brain’s thinking pattern, automatically following commands of the brain:  “I’m hungry and I eat whatever is available (vs. I eat healthy foods).  I just had an accident, but I don’t feel much pain, so I am ok (don’t need help).” Ego blocks communication between the brain and the heart, and readers who read my past newsletters know that thinking is an illusion.  Thinking only creates more thinking, it is illusionary, and therefore, it is not a solution.  Yet, we think and think, creating a delusion of fear even for future.  Future is unknown, yet for some, it is an impending disaster or failure.  Where we fail is in lack of acknowledgement that we are already fine and successful and in failure to address a right question that is what it is we need to let go of.

Heart desire, however, is different.  Heart communicates with the subconscious and it already knows the answer to our question because a decision for right course of action has been already made for us a long time:  as Joseph Campbell said, “follow your bliss.” Many choose the ego instead, and we suffer.

The Spleen Element is in the center of the Five Elements.  It harmonizes all the others.  It pairs with the Stomach.  The beginning of the acupuncture meridians starts from the center of the Stomach, then, the Lung Element, which is the first meridian, is stimulated.  The Stomach is the beginning of the Qi and the Blood.  They must flow.  All diseases are due to stagnation.  The emotion attached to the Element is worry and it stagnates.  When the digestive and elimination systems are in harmony, we worry less (remember from my last newsletter that prolonged constipation is a holding pattern and prolonged diarrhea is a rejection pattern?) and we judge less.  This is one of the reasons why a Spleen type person is likeable to many.  Less ego, more harmonized we are.  It is a road toward illumination (a self discovery) and toward compassion.  Lao Zi and countless others followed the road, so can we.

Namaste.

© 2012 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC

Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 7, February, 2012

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #7

(all my newsletters are found at my website:  www.japanacupuncture.com)

I am far cry from being a realize person.  I have my own weakness that I need to address and deal with, notably, my quick anger.  I am a 100% Wood type person*1 and have a type A personality. My anger rises quickly and dissipates quickly.  The ego and the subconsciousness exchange dualistic fights in my head. Then fear sets in and I procrastinate, all the while, despite the confusion, I know exactly what my heart desires tell me to do.  Let us see what Confucius said*2:

子曰、君子不重則不威、学則不固、主忠心、友不如己者、
過則勿憚改                                                   
                                      『論語』　学而篇

If an ideal person (as a human being = a realized person) does not have dignity, then there is no seriousness (meaning:  one should not be irresponsible or careless: 君子不重則不威).  Education does not make stubbornness (meaning:  one should be flexible: 学則不固).  Honesty (or sincerity) should be the central quality (主忠心).  Do not associate with people one cannot respect (or honor) (友不如己者).   If one makes a mistake, do not hesitate to correct immediately.  (過則勿憚改)           

Extra literatures also add:

子曰、過而不改、是謂過矣、　　　『論語』　衛霊公篇
Making an error and not correcting, this is called negligence (a mistake).

           

子夏曰、小人之過也、必文、            『論語』　子張篇
A lowly person (a non-realized person), when he makes a mistake, he tries to cover it up with words.

Trouble with me is that lately I am becoming more stubborn as I age.  Perhaps, because I grew up in Japan where the sense of properness and the sense of right and wrong are culturally ingrained, I judge constantly.  Let us look into  the Tao Te Jing.

Lao Zi:  Tao Te Jing Chapter 20

           

唯之与阿、相去幾何？　

How much difference is there between answering with respect (with a light voice: 唯) and answering with arrogance (with a scolding voice: 阿)?

善之与悪、相去若何？

What are the difference between good and bad?

我愚人心也哉、沌沌兮

I am like an ignorant person.  I am in the state of confusion (non-judgment)

俗人昭昭、我独昏昏　

People are wise and judicious.  I am an individual (我独) who is in the darkness (not to distinguish, nor to judge) as if am asleep. 
俗人察察、我独悶悶

People observe in details.  I am an individual who is fuzzy and disinterested.

Lao Zi teaches us that the Way is having benevolence and an accepting heart as big as the ocean and the mind capable of moving preoccupation (attachment) like the wind in spring.  With the non-attachment mind, there is no judgment, only the calmness.

On the Western culture, I admire Baruch Spinoza (Espinoza):  "By substance, I understand that which exists in itself, and is conceived by itself, that which does not need the conception of any other thing in order to be conceived."

How to achieve the substance?  I follow AUM (some spell as OM).   As you might know AUM or OM is said to be the primordial sound that was present at the creation of the universe.  It is said to be the original sound that contains all other sounds, all words, all languages and all mantras*3.  I interpret as:  the “A” is an “ah!” part of a discover or an experience.  The “U” is an “um…” part of an understanding of it.  The “M” is an ““mmm…” part of comprehension of it.  And the most importantly, the silence after the “M” is an integration.  Understanding, comprehension, and integration, and the silence, since words cannot describe what Is is experienced.  If we are stuck with words, we are only arguing (or wondering) endlessly trying*4 to understand things, but not really doing the integration to experience who we truly are.

Worry, anger, or any emotion is a word and a sensation that we try to understand.  Each emotion has a story*5.  A story comes from how we are brought up; mores and values that we have been taught.  We are constantly judging ourselves and reflecting those onto others.  If we can detach the story and depersonalize it, then there is only an event that has created an emotion.

An event just happens (we are not in control.).  Accept it as Is and observe:  do not personalized.  Feel the emotional energy shifts in our body and mind.  Only the depersonalization of an event can settle and dissipate the emotion we experience and observe.  With the non-judgment mind, simply “I” deceases, and what we have thought about others no longer mean much. (我独昏昏, 我独悶悶)

In Oriental Medicine, I believe that depression and anxiety come from dysfunctions of the digestive system and they belong to the Spleen Element.  Depression and anxiety are issues of the Stomach and the Spleen and the Liver.  Unending darker thoughts in the mind are issues of the Large Intestine and the Kidney dysfunctions.  If they come with neurosis and sweaty hands, then the Liver, the Gallbladder, and the Heart are involved.  In all cases of excessive worrying, deep depression, anxiety and a panic attack, we must treat the digestive Element. Try not to forget the PC points as the most effective in all these cases. 

For those who have depression and anxiety issues, seek professional help.  Try not to resolve by yourself:  you cannot.  Accept that you need help.  Sooner you seek help, faster you gain back yourself and are on the road to well-being.

When we are capable of integrate emotions and have the unshakable substance within us, we become humble like Spinoza and Lao Zi.  Humbleness is the key.  I am working on it.

Namaste.

*1 review my Wood Element chapters.

*2  my readers know that I am an admirer of Lao Zi much more than Confucius.

*3  Wikipedia

*4  I am always telling the difference between “trying” and “doing.”

*5  Zeerahk Khan

© 2012 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC

Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 6:  December #2., 2011

Japanese Acupuncture (480) 246-0624

600 N. 4^th Street, Unit 147, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #6

As I wrote in my last newsletter, it is quite important to know who we are by knowing an exact sentence that follows “I am.”  However, as you are aware, the usage of “I” is a dualism.  “No sooner had he defined and delineated himself-then he was afraid.  Fear is the first response to being something, to imagining yourself…he wishes that there were someone else in the world.  So now comes desire.  First fear and then desire come right out of having said “I.” (Joseph Campbell:  Myths of Light).  Transcendence is the realm of non-dualism, free from differentiations and meanings.  We must go beyond concepts and symbols.  Unfortunately, transcendence cannot be taught.  We can only learn to walk on a right pass toward it (hence, the Dao – 道).

Each person has his/her own reality and experience.  Since intellectual is in the domain of dualism, only thing we have is an experience.  It is an experience of “This,” “It,” “Is,” and “Being.”  The universe does not have a meaning or a purpose, it only has This moment at the present time*1.  We fail to understand This because we use will and were, forgetting to live in the moment of now.  Worry is a great example.  If you are worrying about finance, change all your verbal sentences to the present tense, then money happens because you create possibilities of the future today.  Creativeness doe not happen in the future.  It only happens in the moment of now.  Worrying is procrastination, it only gives us future troubles and sorrows.  Since we are higher consciousness beings, we must strive to achieve This moment.  Ignorance is our worst enemy.

Since the Spleen is the Element of digestion, here are some psychosomatic symptoms associating with it.  Bear in mind, these are my own assessments.

            Diarrhea:                        fear*2, worry

            IBS:                                  rejection, abandonment

            Constipation:                 holding pattern (fear, worry)

            Ulcer:                              fear and anger (strong anger or hysteria)

Worrying reduces the digestive function and weakens the absorption rate of nutrients.  We feel weak and depressed since not much nutrients are absorbed.  My primary protocol for acupuncture is to increase the absorption rate and smooth out the digestive function.  For the purpose, I usually start from the front side (supine position). 

My suggestion for all of you is to have natural herb supplements for the digestion in your medicine cabinet.  There are many Chinese herb formulas that are superior to any chemical medication.  If you have a weak constitution, you should also have digestive enzymes.*3

Since is it is now almost at the end of 2011, I would like to end this newsletter with a famous Buddhist story.  When Buddha was a young man still straining to seek out the truth, he went to a high mountain (the Himalayas) where he met a ferocious demon that ate human flesh.  The demon was reciting holy verses.  Young Buddha was given the first half about all things were impermanent and the truth was the cause of suffering.  In order to hear the second half, the demon demanded that young Buddha threw himself from a cliff so he could eat him. Young Buddha obliged and was given the second half about an obliteration of endless cycle of life and death was the way to non-suffering, nirvana.  Upon hear this, young Buddha went up a cliff and fell.  But the demon was actually Indra in disguise, caught him in the air, and brought him down to the ground.  Upon confirming the seriousness of young Buddha, Indra bowed and asked to be illuminated.

    諸行無常         是生滅法

   生滅滅已         寂滅為楽                  『大般涅槃経』 Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra

All existence is in a state of flux:  impermanence.

The endless cycle of birth (life) and extinction (death) is the law (truth, view) = suffering

Obliterate the endless cycle (no life, no death),

The obliteration is nirvana:  non-suffering

Note:

It is not that we suffer because the flux exists.  Suffering rises from our perception (or belief) that the permanence exists (a bondage).

Namaste, and have a great new year!

*1  Of course, quantum physics has many dimensions.

*2  Fear shows up mostly in the neck and the shoulder.  Anger shows up in the lower back.

*3  Certain foods such as diakon have a large amount of digestive enzymes.

© 2011 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC

Spleen: Worry, Harmony, and Illumination #5 （日本鍼灸 アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 5:  Dec., 2011

Japanese Acupuncture (480) 246-0624

600 N. 4^th Street, Unit 147, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Happy Holidays To Everyone

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #5

The Spleen Element is in the center and its emotional component is worry.  When worry goes down to the kidneys, it becomes fear.  When it passes through the diaphragm and entered the lungs, it becomes sadness, and when it enters the heart, it turns to joy*1.  The Spleen controls digestive issues, if its functions are weak, it does not help the liver and worry becomes depression and could become paranoia.  Caroline Myss talks about the chakra system in which she says it is easy for the wisdom to get stuck in the throat chakra and therefore the heart desire does not communicate with the brain.  How many times do we experience what we say through the mouth turns out to be exactly opposite of what heart desire tells us?  When worry successfully passes through the diaphragm, meaning you know how to breathe right, like the yoga breathing technique, it enters the heart and turns to joy.  When there is joy in the heart, emotions become wisdom; only then, the brain will follow the heart desire.  We are grounded.  We speak the truth (without lying to ourselves).

Our problems reside in not knowing who we really are.  Our brain is constantly lying or denying and thoughts always betraying (remember from my past newsletters, all emotions are illusion and thoughts only give us the endless thoughts), and we suffer.  How to rise above?  Know the sentence after “I am…”  I am “what?”  Make a couple of sentences you feel right about yourself.  For example: I am a good man.  I am an honest man.  I am the best teacher, etc.  When you practice the simple exercise everyday and every moment, our subconscious has no other choices but to make you who you are.  One important thing is that the sentence has to be in the present tense.  Will and was would never work.  You must address in the present tense (where do you think the Power of Now comes from?).  Many of you know that this is exactly how hypnosis works.  Presenting a false statement in the present tense and making it real.  If you follow the logic, anything is possible:  there is always hope.

As for Oriental Medicine, placing one’s Self back in the right place starts with a treatment of the digestive system.  My style of acupuncture calls for reduction of pains in the abdomen first.  Pain in the abdomen is a diagnostic tool many Japanese masters have followed*2.  Persons with diabetes, GERD, IBS, Crohn’s Disease, celiac disease, and other digestive problems must be treated with the Spleen/Stomach meridians (of course, LI/SI meridians are good, too).  However, as I wrote in the last newsletter, treating just the Spleen and the Kidney suffices in many occasions*3.

Remember, when worry takes over you, learn how to breathe, let go the emotion, pay more attention to the sky and trees, and surrender.   Sometime (most of the time for me), it is better to let the Universe takes care of you.  Attune to it, and you are just fine.  When you start feeling like you are guided, you are on the right road.

Namaste.

*1:  In Oriental Medicine, the Heart itself does not ever go dysfunctional (it is the peripheral such as the pericardium which becomes impaired), therefore, it is the only Element that has a positive emotional attribute. But keep in mind, if too much joy, it becomes delusional and manic.

*2:  Popular among the Japanese practitioners are the abdominal and the pulse diagnoses. 

*3:  I yet to prove this point firmly by more of my own treatments.

© 2011 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC

Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸アリゾナ）

Flu Season Is Upon Us

Here are tips to prevent catching cold & flu.

Start preparing in the month of September.  Preparing in October when people around you are already sick is too late.  Remember, we catch cold either from the feet or from the neck.  Slight sensation of cold air at the feet or the neck is the sign that pathogen is entering your body system.  Keep your feet and neck warm.  Stop wearing sandals and flip-flops.  Start wearing socks and shoes.  Be aware of other signs such as slight headache, chills, coughs, body aches, and yellow-green mucus.

Drink more fluids, especially alkalized water.  Eat balanced diet with green leafy vegetables.  Take extra supplements such as Vitamin C.  Reduce alcohol consumptions.  Alcohol seriously compromises the immune system.  When you drink alcohol, remember to drink three times as much water soon after.

Sleep well.  Sleep extra hours in winter.  Preserve your energy:  not exercising to exhaustion and do not sweat too much.

Be careful when you transit from one environment to another.  For example getting up from bed to cool morning air, or after getting out of hot shower.  If you feel chills, you are catching cold.

Avoid large gatherings.  If someone blows breathe to your face, you will get sick.  Avoid smoking and toxic environment.

Early detection and prevention is crucial.  Remember, when pathogen goes through the diaphragm, it is too late:  meaning, if you have a diarrhea, stomachache, or fever, then it will take a long time to recover.  Go and see a doctor.  However, if treated early, you will develop an immune system for the season, and you will be free of cold and flu unless a different strand comes to our city.

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Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸アリゾナ）

Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 4:  Aug, 2011

Japanese Acupuncture (480) 246-0624

600 N. 4^th Street, Unit 147, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Article From New York Times     August 9, 2011

A Campaign to Carry Pregnancies to Term by Jane E. Brody

The article writes, “as many as 36 % of elective deliveries now occur before 39 weeks, and many of these early deliveries are contributing to an unacceptable number of premature births and avoidable costly complications…those delivered at 36 to 38 weeks had two and a half times the number of complications compared to those delivered at 39 to 40 weeks…respiratory distress, jaundice and low blood sugar.”

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #4

As I mentioned in my last newsletter, I found many Americans, especially women, to be Spleen Deficient.  Below is the basic Five Element Theory on the Spleen Element for you to understand the type.

Element:              Earth

Season:                in between seasons:  late summer

Direction:            center

Color:                  yellow

Sense:                  lips/mouth

Tissues:               muscle/flesh

Smell:                  fragrant

Taste:                   sweet

Emotion:             worry

Voice:                  singing

Action:                sitting

Liquid:                saliva (drooling) (spitting is the Kidney 
                            Element)

Weather:              damp

Spirit:                  intention (and intelligence)                       

A Spleen type person*1 tends to wear yellow clothes*2, likes yellow color foods, smells nice, and sometimes humming.  But may have a yellow skin tone, weak stomach and digestive functions.  Loves to eat, especially sweets and meats.  Tends to be overweight (could be picky about foods) and sits a lot.  Can withstand damp weather.  Has good intention and is grounded, but worries a lot.  Sometimes, a poor decision maker, not so strong willed.  Easy to develop neuralgia.  Could be sexually excessive, and may need to refrain from sex for longevity.  If the Liver is excess, becomes nervous and irritated.*3

*1:  in general

*2:  in the subconsciousness

*3:  IBS, Crohn disease, etc.

Keep in mind, it is a generalization.  However, the Five Element is quite useful in treatments of acupuncture.  Indeed, if a person is really Spleen Deficient or Excess, his skin tone is yellow, has flabby muscles and digestive problems. 

One quality I admire about a Spleen type is the trait that can manage all the other four types.  He can get along well with everyone (the Element in the center).  Sometimes, he is not even fazed by anger emanated by a person like me, a Wood type.  His character is more rounded in personality, not edgy.  There is a sense of serenity around him:  easy to be friend with, and easy to speak to. 

Yet, constant worry gives him digestive problems. When he does not have them, his intention is clear and his intelligence radiates.  He becomes a traffic controller in the middle of an intersection, confidently directing what must be done.  How does he get out of difficulties and how does he achieve his full potential?

Once again I need to remind readers that worry is an emotion, therefore, it is a thought pattern:  a chain of thoughts that leads to endless thoughts.  The merry-go-round in the mind must stop by realizing that all emotions are illusions, and they come and go.  Observe emotions rise and fall, and you realize that every time worry is subsided is the time you thought about something positive.  Ok, even a positive thought is a thought that has an endless cycle too*4, but at least, you know how to counter balance the worrying cycle.  First defense against worry is to be positive and to feel great.  Purge negative emotions and thoughts.  One of my clients said to me once:  “god's gifts have many different forms.”  If it is a bad day, think of it as a god’s*5 gift in a different form:  a word “bad” is a thought, and therefore, is always relative.*6

Another way to avoid worry is to be creative.  Set a goal and allow the stream-of-consciousness takes its own course.  When you are faced with a canvas, a mold for sculpture, or a musical instrument, every step you take to create is a decision-making.  Creativeness is in the “doing” not in the “trying.*7”  Trust the stream-of-consciousness*8:  there is no worry to be worried about.  Let go, and enjoy creative life.

Third way is to trust tomorrow.  Future is always uncertain.  The best we can do is to trust.  Future has nothing to do with worrying about finance or relationship.  It just comes.  Live in the moment today, and let the future comes to you.  If you do something right today, there is something right tomorrow:  trust me, this is how future works.

Fourth way is more practical:  eat right.  If you are eating heavy cheese, greasy, fried,  salty, and overly sweet foods, yes, you do get depression and anxiety.  Cut down on foods that make you sick by stagnation.*9  A Spleen type has problem with weight, and needs to be careful and aware of what he eats, and he tends to sit a lot, so, do some exercises.

As for practicality of acupuncture treatment, I am amazed that treating the Spleen, the center, indeed, is good for almost everything.  It has become my focal point on the back of the body.  Master Sawada said that all diseases pass through the diaphragm, go to the Liver, then to the Spleen, and end up at the Kidney.*10  Idea is to treat in the reverse order and everything would get better:  placing priorities to the Spleen and the Kidney*11 to cure all diseases, and it works! (There is an order to the treatment, however)  More I practice, deeper I bow to former practitioners and ancient Chinese masters. 

Namaste.

*4:   Giddy to weird

*5:   I am not a Christian, but, by “god,” I mean the Universal Love, 
        or I can also call it It.  I am more of a Zen-ist but do not belong to 
        Zen or to Buddhism.

*6:   Wished that we were taught how to cope with emotions in our schools 
        as basic education.

*7:   All Zen art works are just that!

*8:   In the context of this newsletter, “trying” is “worrying.”:  
        you worry, therefore, no “doing.”

*9:   As many of you already know, cheese is a phlegm and highly acidic 
        and stagnant food.  It (phlegm) creates “1000 weird diseases” according 
        to the Chinese classic.

*10:  For the fist time reader:  all organs are capitalized to distinguish from 
         the western medicine.  Their functions are slightly different.

*11:  The Spleen is Intention and the Kidney is Will, together, they generate 
         Wisdom and Intelligence.

                   

一霊有万霊　        一霊顕万霊                        万霊帰一霊

一魂有万霊            一魂顕万霊                        万霊帰一魂

霊魂是神

Indirect Translation:

Within the One Spirit, there are Ten Thousand.  Ten Thousand Spirits return to the One.

(A living cell has tens of thousands of elements and has the power to mobilize them.  A living cell reflects all intentions and thoughts of a person and is influenced by them.  Within a single living cell, the wholeness of a person resides.  By Master Shirota)

© 2011 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC

Welcome New Members

Japanese Acupuncture, Phoenix, Arizona （日本鍼灸アリゾナ）

 August 11, 2011

Welcome New Members

In the past few weeks, quite a few of you become members and I thank you.  I plan to give more benefits for members as we go along.  Please read the bottom page for this month special.

About Acupuncture:

In the simplest term to describe how acupuncture works and why it works is that:

1)  All living cells strive to be balanced.  They always (every minute and every second) want to be healthy.* The human body developed an elaborate system such as the endocrine and the immune systems to balance, to be in homeostasis.  Acupuncture restores the balance, and this is the primary reason why an acupuncturist treats the whole body rather than aiming for a segmented, specialized approach common in western medicine.

2)  Hairs and nails will grow until death.  We have the healing power within to regenerate until we decide to go.  Doctors still do not know the source of the regenerative power and are unable to tap into it.  Qi (in Chinese, Ki in Japanese) is the Life Force Energy.   Where and how does this happen?  It is written in the Chinese classic text written 2000 years ago.  “The Mist of the Lungs (oxygen) combined with the Gu Qi (food energy – carbon/carbohydrates) which is produced by the Spleen (and the Stomach) to become the Blood.”  Blood and Qi must flow.  All diseases are caused by a stagnation of the Two.  The stagnation manifests along an acupuncture line called the meridian (like the foot reflexology). Acupuncture restores the flow and maintains the balance of the two energies by treating the lines.  As long as the Two flows properly, we have a stronger power to regenerate cells.**

Suggestion:

Try not to be your own doctor.  Do not assess a prognosis by yourself.  Once in a while, ask me how many sessions you need.  Most of the time, when people assess themselves, they end up prolonging symptoms and not getting healthier.  Concentrate now.  You will get better and healthier in the least amount of time, and in a long run, you will save money.

Special Of The Month For Members Only (Ends on August 31, 2011)

30% off from regular price of Ba Wei Di Huang Wan (H-07), the kidney Chinese formula:  regularly $32, 30% off = 22.40 + tax = $24.48

Benefits of this formula: any kidney/bladder ailment, diabetes, edema, vertigo, tinnitus, night sweat, cold hand/cold feet, cataract, Alzheimer, ED, low libido, etc.

I recommend anyone over the age of 40.  Aging is the weakening functions of the kidneys.  Order and pick up at the time of your appointment.

(Next Month:  alkalizing droplets by TriMedica)

*This is deep down in the cellular level. Each cell has memories.  If you doubt it, ask any organ transplanted person.  They can tell you stories of the past which were the donor’s history.

**Yes, meniscus disk eventually be regenerated (we use knees everyday, so wearing is greater but it does not mean we need to live with pain forever).  Yes, spine is also regenerate.  Degenerative disease is, to me, just a word.  Aging is about degeneration.  We are loosing proteins and are aging but we do regenerate at the same time.