In recent days, I have gained much in the aspect of moxibustion, but I have been quite tired every day and have to get up early the next day, so I haven’t updated much. I will write a bit when I have time next.
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Last Sunday, I met a distinguished successor, Brother Wang, from the Wuwei Moxibustion school. From him, I learned a lot about moxibustion. But talk is cheap; let’s test each other — I moxibustion others, and others moxibustion me.
Let me first explain something unrelated: I was diagnosed with lumbar disc bulge in the first half of the year. It’s not severe but causes long-term discomfort. One senior brother could detect this by pulse diagnosis. He said he felt a numb sensation on the “chi pulse” during diagnosis, which generally indicates blood stasis. I later confirmed this sensation on others, but it requires a very quiet environment to perceive. A few days ago, Teacher Liu, who does Qiankun hand diagnosis, also detected this; he uses the middle finger’s metacarpal bone as the reference for the spine, dividing it into upper, middle, and lower parts corresponding respectively to cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae. My reaction point is obviously on the lumbar section.
I can understand all this; it’s holography after all. Pulse diagnosis, ear diagnosis, abdominal diagnosis, even if I were to make up something like scapular diagnosis or buttock diagnosis, they probably all have diagnostic significance.
Back to last Sunday’s moxibustion, when my Shenshu point was being moxibusted, I could clearly feel my lower back being filled up (originally my lower back felt empty, like it was about to break; now it felt full, more solid, although the lower back didn’t actually thicken). I mentioned this before in A004 Boldness and Caution, after stimulating Zusanli, a heat flow runs from the toes along the inner back side of the thigh to the waist, filling it. This time, there was directly heat or even more other things filling the waist and then moving downward.
It started on the right side. At first, there was a blocked sensation, like pressing on the “numb tendon” at the elbow. Then the blockage locally seemed to break open, a cold chill traveled down the inner backside of the thigh to the sole of the foot and was discharged; by the end there was basically no cold, only warmth. After ending the right side, it immediately started on the left side. That blocked feeling at first should be nerve compression; with long-term compression, nerves become dull. When moxibustion relieves some pressure, it paradoxically feels blocked. Continued relief of the compression and reduction of inflammatory responses eventually eliminated the sensation. The sequence of right then left was because my left side was more severe.
Moxibustion definitely works
The above is my feeling while having my waist moxibusted, but today’s focus is actually the text below—the feeling under the healer’s hands.
The teacher who moxibusted me started to wonder: why are my hands so numb today? This had never happened before and it wasn’t numbness from holding up the hands for too long. A sudden thought came to my mind — isn’t this the numbness a certain senior brother felt when taking my pulse? So I conveyed what the senior brother said and solved her doubt.
But when I put these recent experiences together over the past few days, I gained a new understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis: earlier, I said pulse diagnosis, hand diagnosis, ear diagnosis, etc. are based on holography, but I now think that’s inadequate. There should be a higher level of understanding— as long as a connection can be established, any approach is capable of communicating information, including the status of disease. Some approaches are easier to achieve, some harder.
Pulse and hand diagnosis are relatively easy; acupuncture is more difficult; moxibustion is even more difficult. Even diagnostic and treatment methods I currently can’t comprehend, like Zhuyou technique or Daoist methods—how do they establish contact if there is no channel? It’s just that I don’t know how to find these channels yet, just like some time ago, I didn’t know that moxibustion and pulse-taking could convey such rich information.
Conclusion
I hope everyone can calm down and slowly perceive, whether it’s pulse-taking, massage, acupuncture, moxibustion, even abdominal fluid extraction or dressing changes. I believe if you calm down and do it seriously, the effect will definitely improve!