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Part 1 Qi-Blood (Vaporized body fluid and blood) theory

Qi-Blood circulates in our human body continuously and unceasingly. It circulates 25 rounds of body’s Yang during the daytime and 25 rounds of body’s Yin during the nighttime, altogether 50 rounds in a whole day. Our body fluid and blood must be in a vaporized form to be driven in meridians and blood vessels. Thus, they need to be heated to become vaporized form. The heat is provided by heart and Mingmen (Kidney Yang), thus, heart fire (King fire ) and Ming men Hsiang fire (premier fire) are called. Mingmen Hsiang fire is the heat in kidney. It turns body fluid into vapor. This vapor is blown by liver wind to circulate in our body. The heart fire also turns The blood into vaporized form. The blood is a highly nutritious substance. It’s constant oxidation produces heat which keeps the heart fire and Mingmen Hsiang fire Unquenchable and our whole body warmed, but, excessive heart is harmful to our body.

　　The kidney control bones’ The kidney fluid vaporizes and ascends from bone marrow to cerebrum. Thus, cerebrum is like the sea of bone marrow. The vaporized kidney fluid in the cerebrum is like the cloud and fog in the sky. It condenses to become rain and dew to nourish the whole living things (organs, cells) Thus, the disorder of neck spine causes the vapor not able to ascend or descend normally, and illness such as aches or hemiplegia etc. produced accordingly. If the neck spine is twisted badly causing the block of the vapor movement it may be mortal. If the lumber spine is hurt badly, paralysis of the lower body may be caused. As it is written in some of the traditional Chinese medicine classics, “The Kidney Qi (vaporized form of kidney fluid) comes out of Mingmen, goes through bones, out of fingertips and back to the five yin viscera and six yang viscera” The viscera illness caused by disorder of bones has not yet been able to be detected by any scientific instrument up to now. Don’t get it wrong.

　　The low density body fluid vapor goes into cells through membrane to nourish the cells. Then the high density blood vapor draws it (after used low density body fluid vapor) out. This is so called cell Qi exchange. The usage rate of body fluid vapor by cells is less than 1%. Thus , when the blood vapor goes into the small intestine (here we mean proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle distal convoluted tubule, glomerular capsule)to be washed over 99% of its nutrients must be reclaimed to kidney. If the reclamation is out of order, the nutrients flow out of body through urine, such illness as urinated protein etc may be caught, and the extreme case is diabetes. Thus, the body fluid vapor must not be too dense, that means the food we eat must not be too nutritious, otherwise, it can not go into cells through memlorane and ill-nourished cells ary are dying. This is the same reason why high blood sugar causes fatigue and sleepiness.

There fore, light food is the secret of health, like flower or vegetable growing, too much fertilizer causes the withering of the plane. Many illnesses without knowing the pathogen are caused as a result of wrong nutritional idea. On the other hand, heavily blood loss patients must not drink much water. Otherwise, the body fluid vapor goes into blood, the blood becomes less dense and can not draw out the fluid in cells. Causing the stop of cell Qi exchange. Then the cells are dying and eventually causing the death of patients. Besides, the water we drink into our body must absorb heat to be vaporized to go into blood. So, it consumes blood heat. If we drink too much water, the blood temperature will be lower than normal. Then, the heart will be affected causing paltitations. Drinking much water as a health rule, right or wrong ? Think about it !

　　We live in the atmosphere and are under the invading of 6 exogenous pathogenic factors: wind, summer heat, damp, dryness, cold and fire (excessive heat) all the time. No matter our body is hurt by anyone of these, the common symptoms are stagnant

Qi and congealed blood, Stagnant Qi results in the shortage of oxygen causing yawning, fatigue, and sleepiness. Severely stagnant Qi causes the vaporized body fluid to freeze into liquid form or even thick as phlegm which irritates the bronchi to cough. Congealed blood causes the blockage of cell Qi exchange and results in muscle pain, lumbago, joint pain, or even pain every where in our body. Meanwhile our body summons up all the strength to resist the disease. It takes the forms of blood pressure going up, blood temperature going up, and blood sugar going up, just for the purpose of resisting the disease out of our body. They are our body’s natural reations not pathogenic factors. Thus, is using medicine to control blood pressure and blood sugar fight or wrong? At this stage, resisting the disease out of our body is the most important thing to do. After the disease is chased out of our body, every thing is back to normal include blood pressure, blood sugar and temperature. Therefore, how do we just treat medical examination data without curing the real pathogenic factors?

　　When our body starts to resist the disease, but it does not go out, this means the shortage of body’s function or Qi we can practice moxibustion on acupoints B12,

B13, GV4, GV12 to help the body’s Qi producing more heat and pressure to chase out the disease, we can use a blower instead to prevent burning. If this doesn’t work, we can practice moxibustion on acupoints CV4, CV8, CV12. If this doesn’t work again, we can practice moxibustion on acupoints K1, SP6, S36, G34 If our body produces enough pressure, very few cases are not cured. Where there is a blockage in our body, there is a pain Where there is a pain, there is the application of the blower. The discomfort will disappear after the unblock of stagnant Qi and congealed blood. At the same time, if we drink some hot soup with the ingredients of ginger, white part of scallion, brown sugar, and fermented soybean. The curative effect will be unrivaled. Any flu caused by 6 exogenous pathogenic factors will be cured.

　　The deficient Qi of our body contracts diseases easily. If we use above mentioned way chasing the disease out, but in a short time. The disease come back again, we need to take the Chinese medicine Pu chung I Chi Tang (補中益氣湯) to supplement Qi to chase the disease out of our body. It is not easy to contract disease with enough Qi in our body. No matter it is SARS or Bird flu. We must remember treating a disease the early the better Don’t wait until the disease goes deep inside our body. At this stage. We have to distinguish which pathogenic factor it is and where inside our body it goes. Then, the right medicine can be prescribed. There fore, it is better to treat a disease in the beginning, as it is written in the ancient Chinese classic “The Book of Changes” It is better to deal a problem in the beginning stage, don’t wait until it varies.

　　When using a blower to treat the flu, if the body is not sweating, we must blow the body to sweat. Then continuely blow The body to stop sweating. If the body is sweating, we blow until the body stops sweating. I tends to contract a disease when the pores are open. Some of the patients may fell dizzy and start to vomit. After vomiting, the disease is gone No further treatment is needed. The patient Turns healthy. This one of eight principal therapies as diaphoresis, emesis, purgation., harmonization, warming nouri – shment, purification, tonification and elimination. Very few patients, if ever, will faint during the blowing In that case, we must pinch the patient’s acupoint, GV26, put a slice of ginger in his/her mouth, vive him/her warm water to drink frequently and blow his/her acupoints K1 and S36 The patient will regain consciousness in no time. Calling an ambulance is of no use or even fatal in such situation. Anyway, there is a potertial danger in any theraphy, but This therapy based on traditional Chinese medicine is the safest.

　　The blood inside our body is in a vaporized form. Not fluid form. Cold results in congealed blood. After wash without blowing the hair dry may cause headache of this kind. Eating too much ice, the cold freezes the stomach blood, may result in cancer right under the esophagus. Wearing a miniskirt in winter, the cold freezes the womb blood, may result in menstrual problems. If the cold hits the bladder, it may result in urinary incontinence. What picture it is that a beautiful girl wares a diaper! Eating ice during menstrual period is very easy to cause a congeal blood and then develop to a womb tumor. If the womb tumor festers, it becomes a cancer, Don’t be too brave to try it. Cold descends. It hunts the lower pare of our body. It may hurts a man’s spermary causing cold semen and inability of fertilization. It may hurt the womb producing a tumor. It may hurt the kidney or liver producing a liquid lump. Since the invention of refrigerator, air conditioner etc, the number of cancer patients has been soaring. Many think that scientific products promote our quality of life. However ,who knows its potential danger. Especially stagnant Qi caused by being in an air-conditioned place may result in a pathogenic damp syndrome and it may turn in to a phlegm syndrome. If the phlegm syndrome becomes chronic, the excess heat inside our body can not be relived, if may result in a heated phlegm stoke.

　　Blood transfusion is very common in hospitals and the blood banks are always running out of blood. However. Does blood transfussion really do good to a patient? The blood being transferred into a patient’s body must be vaporized to be usable. The process consumes a large amount of heat and energy. The blood vaporization in four limbs malfunctions and the two feet turn dark and even develop ulcers. At this stage, is there a therapy except supplementing Qi heavily and unblocking congealed blood? However, an amputation may be the case if the patient turns to western medicine.

　　Vaporized blood is protected in the blood vessel and is nourished by the vital principle (essense ) of Pericardium Meridian of Hand, jueyin. If there is excess heat developed in the blood, it may rupture the blood vessel, so does a bump or an operation. The leaking blood outside blood vessel congeals and malfunctions the circulation of Qi-Blood. If the congealed blood permeates into the joint cavity and mixes with the vaporized body fluid, it erodes the bones causing stabbing pain to the patient. Eventually the eroded bones collapse. It happens in pelvis joint and knee joint quite often .and is called atrophied arthritis in western medicine. After the replacement of an artificial joint. There is more congealed blood produced. The congealed blood win flow down to feet. The feet will turn dark and very ichy. At this stage. If there is a cut by scratching it can hardly be healed, because the congealed blood blocks the circulation of Qi-blood and the nutrients can not reach to it. In other words. The metablism of cells stops functioning. At the same time. The connection area of an artificial joint and bones without the nourishing of bone marrow fluid is decaying causing necrosis and another operation is needed. When will be the end of the disasters? There is no therapy except the unblock of congerled blood for treating a disease caused by congerled blood. If the congealed blood is in the area not far from the Skin, it can be sucked out by cupping which is more convenient and effective than any other therapy.

　　The blocked circulation of Qi-blood caused by congealed blood. Always blocks the nourishment of the farther side of the body. Thus. Parkinson’s disease, itch and muscular dystrophy develop. If only the congealed blood is removed with patience, the muscular dystrophy is not incurable. However., many cases stop treatment halfway and end up in mourning.

　　A hemorrhage in head after a car accident may turn out to be a headache, a dizziness, an inbalance when walking, an eye problem etc in years time. There was an extreme case that a patient with a hemorrhage in head was diagnosed nasopharyngeal carcinoma through x-ray and treated to be on the verge of death. How few patients can survive and live a normal life after a cancer treatment? This kind of patients should be treated with bone correcting and unblock of congealed blood. It is not incurable.

　　Excess heat causes the leakage of Qi A patient with excess heat in the body often feels thirsty, watch out the slogan”Drink much , keep healthy” until one day, the thirst can not be quenched, all kind of illness appears, such as diabetes. Bubbled urine, turbid urine, spermatorrhea, calculus, etc. The worst and mortal cases are shrinked kidney and exhausted kidney. Don’t expect drinking much water to quench the problem. No way. Heat ascend. If there is a rupture of Qi vessel in the head, it is called a germ-free meningitis. If the rupture is in other organ n like breast, a liquid tumor is formed. This kind of patients should be Treated with purification therapy first and then breaking the seagnant Qi and transporting the liquid out of affected area Without removing the excess heat, can an operation heal the illness? Another kind liquid tumor is produced because pathogenic cold freezes Qi into liquid form. In this case, warming nourishment therapy is to be used instead of purification therapy. Is it right that as soon as a tumor is seen, there is an operation? If the pathogenic factor is a cold, anti-inflammation pills add up more cold to the body How priceless is a patient’s life !

　　Excess heat (fire )scorches causing the fluid dry out If there is a fire in blood Qi the blood Qi turns viscous and it flows with diffculty and eventually a tumor develops This kind of tumors grow faster be cause fire has a nature of fast. At this stage, purification therapy and elimination therapy should be applied .Try to fight the fire with a scalpel? This kind of tumor on skin is called a boil. At the beginning it can be subdued from inside by using elimination therapy. If the boll festers, Qi and blood become weak, tonification therapy should be applied. How may deaths are caused by the idea of using chemicals to kill germs of cancer cells? After all. The flesh decays then the germs come to eat it ,It is not the case that the germs come then the flesh decays. The therapeutic idea should be getting rid of the decayed and generating the new. Without decayed cells in our body the germs don’t come. Killing can not solve the problem. If the illness is chronic, he patient’s Qi should be looked after . Ther idea of using only one kind of medicine to attack the illness all the way through without noticing the different stages that an illness develops is totally wrong .How many medical incidents have thus happened?
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