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Just like the ghost points themselves we are going deeper into the body as we cover more ghost points this week.
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Ghost Points Series Continuation
00:00:06
Speaker
This week on Voices from the Mountain, we're jumping right back into ghost points for part two. Who are you going to call? I'll probably just call Steven. We'll say that we finished our talking about Clean One, Gui Le.
Understanding Gui Shin
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Speaker
Nice. Nice. And now we have Gui Shin. Correct. Again, another Shin. That one's Shin instead of Shin. Uh-huh. Okay.
00:00:33
Speaker
Tones, for those of you. We're keeping track.
Paracardium 7: Ghost Heart Explained
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Speaker
This is Paracardium 7. Nice, darling. Yeah, I was going to say, is it darling? It is. Yeah. This one, there's not a whole lot of resources like the classics. I haven't read a lot about necessarily why they call us this one, but there's two really key things to pay attention to.
00:00:56
Speaker
Obviously, calling it the heart, like ghost heart makes sense. Not just because Michoach went off on that thing with the heart stuff, that's not at all. But what it does make sense is because it's a pericardium channel and therefore affects the heart. But the second thing it really makes, you got to remember, and anytime you use the word xin in Chinese, you got to remember it also means the middle. So it's like the center of something, the middle of something.
Linguistic Significance of 'Middle' in Chinese
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And so here when we talk about
00:01:26
Speaker
Like just like if you're going to say the center of like, you know, country or something or a person.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yes, our heart isn't located in our center, but that's also another word that means those two things. It means literally the anatomical heart, but also the middle of something. So here you could say it's like kind of the middle of the process, right? The fourth point is getting fairly far into the sequence, kind of into the center of it. So either one of those translations I think is a pretty reasonable one. And I haven't really seen any classic resources that would point one or more than the other. Okay. And then is this the same middle that
00:01:58
Speaker
that Chinese people use kind of all the time for like middle kingdom, we're in the middle, like as humans between heaven and earth. So it's has like a bigger just like, I'm human. And so I'm in the middle kind of thing. Similar idea, but different character. That one really, that one's Zhong. Okay. That one's Zhong. Like Zhongguo is how you say middle kingdom in Chinese. Gotcha. Which by the way, shout out to just in case people think that that sounds funny, that they call themselves the middle kingdom. They're not saying that the middle of the universe or the middle of the world.
00:02:27
Speaker
They are just saying that they're stuck between a bunch of other countries that want to invade them. Right? Mongolians. You guys ever seen the South Park where they build the Great Wall around South Park and then the Mongolians start attacking it out of nowhere?
China as the Middle Kingdom
00:02:42
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But yeah, no, it's a huge continent and there were warring tribes on all sides.
00:02:48
Speaker
Exactly, which then, of course, China became an imperial power and then started controlling on all sides, too. So it goes both ways, I guess. Totally. That's how you win the go game. You don't just... You can't be on defense all the time. Ah, dude, you should... We should do a go episode. Yeah, I mean, it'll just be me winging it like with JoJo, but... It'll just be me listening, you know? It's a good time. We'll do a disclaimer in the beginning and we'll call it a day.
00:03:19
Speaker
Just because I'm a fan of doing things while they're next to each other, so this is out of order, Lao Gong also makes an appearance, Paracardium 8, Gui Ku, Ghost Cave. Very good. Yeah. Yeah, you can call it a cave, a den. Any of those will work. Yep. Just for reference, because just like we learn herbs in pairs, I'm doing these in groups.
00:03:46
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Oh, interesting. I like it. So that it sticks better.
UB62: Exploring Ghost Road
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But... So not necessarily in the sequence, by the way. He just mentioned the ninth one. It was quite cool. Yeah. But just to put it there with Daling and Laogang, that you can know that those two points in a row on the Para Cardium channel are both ghost points. And I like it. But the next one in order, the fifth one, would be UB62, Gui Lu, Ghost Road. Nice. Very nice. Lu. That's right.
00:04:17
Speaker
And this one, I'm assuming, is for people who are struggling walking. Oh, that's such a good point. It could be. And that's a really wonderful understanding of it. You want to explain why you mentioned that, Asher? Because the point is also the opening for the yang chao, which is the walking vessel. I don't know. They have other names, but it's the walking vessel. Right, walking, motility. Yeah, motility. I've heard heel vessel. Yeah, heel too.
00:04:48
Speaker
But Asher's right, it should never be called a heel vessel. It's just that the left radical in the character means foot. So then that's the only reason as far as it's on your heel. But Asher's very much right. It's about the cross-body movement and motility, specifically the act of walking because that's one of the most fundamental contralateral movement patterns that we have. So anything to add?
00:05:14
Speaker
So that's one. So absolutely. Yeah. So this could be like, for instance, mental illnesses where people can't walk, right? Or like they have vestibular diseases and stuff where they can't balance correctly. Um, literally could be even like, um, it's not usually where they have dysfunction in their actual muscles. It's they have a dysfunction in controlling those legs and muscles, right? Um, not, not atrophy, not like things aren't firing. It's like things aren't firing together.
00:05:43
Speaker
Right. Yeah. So like they might get beginning mixed signals and stuff exactly a lot more. If it was more like anatomical, then we would often do that more. But if it's more like a coordination thing, then this fits a lot better. So that would be one. The second thing is Gui Lu. Not only does it mean like the human walking, but it could also be the pathway of the ghost inside the body as well.
Depth and Wind Entry Points
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Oh, okay.
00:06:08
Speaker
And this can connect to a lot of things. Yes, we know that the tie-on channel is the exterior of the body, specifically the foot tie-on channel, which this point is on the bladder channel. So one might say that, well, if this is an exterior influenced issue, then could that be also be the pathway of the ghost? Right. Or the ghost-like pathogenic factor. Totally. And I think too also may be important to notice that
00:06:32
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The, uh, out of, you know, the, the first five, it's like we have do, which is like external just because of it being on the back. You have the lung, which is this external thing again. Right. And then you have the urinary bladder one, which is also external. So, and then as we continue to go, it's like, maybe we go deeper. I know we definitely hit, we hit run one eventually, which is very deep. So.
00:06:55
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True. Maybe the order has something to do with the levels as well. Yeah, the depth that it goes in. And in general, you're right. Like we said, you start out with that gong because it's at the exterior, and then this is like a pathway. And just like wind tends to have its pathway into the body. So you might, there's a UB point called feng len, tu cun down. It's a parallel to T2, whatever that one is. It's on the UB channel.
00:07:22
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I don't know. It's one above Fei Shu, one above the Long Shu point. Yeah. Sorry, I'm blanking right now. Whatever. We all know where Long Shu point is and go one to and above that. And that's Feng Man. Feng Man, sorry. That one is the gate of wind, unlike Feng Cher, which is the gallbladder point up here. Is that 20 or something? 20? Yeah. Is it just straight 20? 20.
00:07:46
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20. And that's the pooling of wind. Well, you have to go in somewhere before you can start accumulating. And so fengman is more useful for very, like you caught the wind day one, fengchu, you caught the wind week one, and fengfu, you caught the wind month one, if you know what I mean. So that's showing you depth inward. Yeah. Cool. Fengfu is that due channel point. Extremely dangerous. Please don't need a due point in the wrong way.
00:08:16
Speaker
The next one we're about to do it to you. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Well, that's very timely. So as we're going deeper into the body, right? Yes. We get to do 16. Is it Jade Pillow 2 or is Jade Pillow somewhere else? Jade Pillow is above, yeah. It's just above. That's at the pillow point on the head. So just above it, yeah. Actually on top of the cranium instead of at the base of the occiput. Right. OK.
00:08:46
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Like, mine's very obvious. I have a football-shaped head. I know you guys are just listening to it,
Symbolism of the Ghost Pillow Point
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Speaker
but if you look at the back of people, so some people, look for the people who can get away with wearing baby sunglasses. Well, kid sunglasses. I can't. I'm not joking. Like, I'm a full-grown human. I don't think I'm a small person. I'm like six feet tall, and I can wear kid sunglasses. Oh, no way.
00:09:09
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I got a football head. It is very much like this, front to back, not a whole lot side to side. It seems to work all right for me. Anyway, you can really see my jade pillows pretty well. The jade pillows, then, it's going to be like Du-17 on top of the occiput. I assume it's the next one. Yeah, OK, cool. I don't got you then. The really knobbly bits. So this one is Guizhen, ghost pillow. That's right. That's right, Guizhen.
00:09:39
Speaker
And so this one, yeah, you can call it ghost pillow, but remember, this really is just a place, I mean, obviously it's a pillow, it's a place to rest your head. And so this is often where it's more like a resting spot, like where it will start hankering down, right? Just like we said, the wind has to enter into the wind gates when we're dealing with wind and then it pools in places. Well, now we're getting to a place where instead of it traveling, instead of it doing those things or even exiting, now it's starting to hunker down and reside.
00:10:08
Speaker
And as you might guess, this is really one of the more like kind of transition points into that deeper level now. Right, totally. And so feng fu is literally the resident, like where wind resides. So when we talked about the gate of wind, feng man, that's where it enters, feng shu, where it pools and coagulates and gathers, and then feng fu, where it's actually taking residence.
00:10:37
Speaker
I mean, we think about, we go camping all the time. We don't usually build a cabin where we camp. This one is the cabin. And that's why when you deal with Fung Fu, there's a couple key things. I'm just going to do a slight public service announcement for you practitioners out there. As far as I know, Cam recommends this for wind heat colds. Is that right, Asher? Does that ring anything bell? I mean, the wind part, I would definitely be like, yeah, yeah. The one that has wind in its name is for wind.
00:11:07
Speaker
I don't remember. I was really bad at CAM actually. Well, I'm happy to hear that because I am not a fan of CAM. So throw the Machochas out and throw the CAMs out. They tried hard and they missed the mark. Actually CAM was written by a guy. I read this little like wee article on him and he's a Beijing dude. He doesn't practice acupuncture. I don't even think he has a license. No, he just compiled the most used points for any given whatever and that was it.
00:11:34
Speaker
Yeah, at best he's a translator, he's not an acupuncturist, or at least a practicing one. I can't even remember if he had a license. Anyway, and I remember in this little article, they even asked him, they're like, do you get acupuncture all the time? He's like, no, why would I get acupuncture? I'm healthy.
00:11:47
Speaker
Really? The person who wrote your acupuncture book doesn't get acupuncture regularly? Let's try and think this out. But anyway, he really does have a lot of problems in his book. And the first one that I found, I haven't read the book, obviously. People give me books to look at and I just start complaining. That's my MO.
Feng Fu Point and Needling Dangers
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And so he I saw this wind he went and he puts feng fu in there and I'm like, okay guys, let's be real There's like, you know 10 acupuncture points on the entire body that you could cause serious harm with and feng fu is like number one Yeah, are you telling me for a sniffle? You're gonna try and needles like literally our most dangerous point
00:12:26
Speaker
It's one of the only points that has truly caused an accidental death in China sure, but it's also How you needle that one too? Yeah, cuz if you needle it superficially because you're trying to create a little like air vent for some wind Then maybe not so much if you're going deep into the skull Yeah, and you kind of have to be angling up to to hit vital stuff Right and the big one you don't want to hit is the hypothalamus because that's what kills people, right?
00:12:56
Speaker
But so Ash is right. If you were going like point something twins in most of it, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. And if you're not angling it upward, which you never should, in general, you'll be fine. And it's not like we don't needle this point. So I would be like for wind heat, it's absolutely insane to needle this point. But for stroke, it's insane not to needle this point. There's no single stroke patient I've ever met who's actually had a cerebral hemorrhage.
00:13:22
Speaker
who does not need this point. You absolutely have to, and in fact, you're doing your patient a disservice if you don't give them this point. So do we use it? Are you kidding? We have to use it, but you use it when you need it, right? You never bring out the cannon when you just need a pistol or something. Totally. So what kind of sensation are you looking for then out of? Fung Fu? Yeah. That's a good point. It's usually an opening, relaxing sensation of the occiput. Okay.
00:13:49
Speaker
But Asher brings up a really good point when you're dealing with stroke patients anyway. When you talk about like these ones, they're actually a lot of the ghost points really are much more shallow. And in fact, there's a recommended depth for each one of them that we'll go through at the end once we get all the names in. Cool. So next one, we're continuing on our journey and we're getting deeper into the body because the next one is ghost bed. I have stomach six, Gui Chuang. Very good.
00:14:18
Speaker
Good pronunciation, Guizhuang. Just getting lucky over here. You're doing a stellar job. Chinese not easy. This one's on the masseter, right? Correct. And then is this a local point then at a certain point for TMJ and for clinching, for all the stuff that's happening in the person's mania behavior? Well, so did they talk about it being on the stomach point?
00:14:45
Speaker
I mean,
Stomach and Heart Fire Connection
00:14:46
Speaker
I just know it's stomach six. I don't know what the. There it is. There it is. Yeah. So, um, and you're saying, can you say one more time what you said about the. Curious if, cause insane people clench your teeth a lot or, you know, there's a lot of, you know, there's tension there. Um, and if they're speaking chaotically crazily, then you can see another reason for that one too.
00:15:06
Speaker
You bet. So both of those very key inability to speak, you bet. And then here's a real big one, real big one. Obviously we've been dealing with the heart so far. This is not all heart stuff. It can't all be hard stuff that would, you know, again, we are described why that was goofy. Machocha would be right if it was all heart stuff. Can't have that. The 14th good point is just Machocha smiling back at us. I got one.
00:15:33
Speaker
No, it's not. But here's an interesting point that when we're dealing with heart fire, probably if not the number one, I'd say the number two cause of heart fire, and really might even be number one, is stomach fire. There's just such a powerful connection. If you look at how we treat them too, a lot of the time when we're treating fluid deficiency in the chest and heart really, specifically though here, ying nutri to fluid deficiency, so a certain kind, not blood deficiency,
00:16:02
Speaker
where actually that same formula for instance, is also useful for generating moving fluids in the stomach or in the middle burner. So it's a fascinating connection. And if you look at, say, the lungs in the stomach connection, I mean, really, it's just phenomenal.
00:16:19
Speaker
So when you think about stomach to really the entire upper burner, which is half lungs, half heart, it has a phenomenally strong connection. So when there's stomach yin deficiency to the point of what we might call yin atrophy or fluid atrophy, like that's just extreme, right? That's how we call it. And in which case in Chinese, we call it fei wei, or
00:16:41
Speaker
like a lung atrophy syndrome or something. That's how you try and translate that one. That one means there's just no more fluids. And that same formula called Maimon Dongtang actually works for the stomach and atrophy fluid, fluid atrophy as well. So like just no more fluids left in the stomach and therefore a total loss of function and lots of upsurging.
00:17:00
Speaker
Same thing with the lungs. And it's fascinating that the exact same formula, exact same formula treats both. So this connection between the stomach and both of the upper burner organs is just massive. And so check out how many people have with stomach fire, then have difficulty sleeping or stomach fire, then have lung problems. It's really just phenomenal. So when we went back to say,
00:17:25
Speaker
You know, sleeping is mostly your shun from your heart and your one from your liver. And then I said the two kind of corollary organs that we also do deal with our middle burner, which you can't really separate spleen and stomach here and then kidneys. This would be pointing to the stomach. So there's a famous phrase from the Nijing, and it says, Wei bu chu, it's a wo bu an.
00:17:44
Speaker
which means when the stomach is not harmonized, people can't lay down peacefully. And what that means is when the stomach is upsurging, people can't fall asleep. Totally. I wonder if that has another crossover with the aortic artery in the stomach region. Because when that's full and everything, you can feel that if you lie down. I love that, too. Yeah.
00:18:12
Speaker
stignations and all that kind of stuff. And I don't know much about it, but it was pointed out when we were doing abdominal palpation that, oh, you shouldn't be able to feel this artery going off and we're palpating on each other. And we're all like, I feel the artery going off. I feel the artery going off. We'd all just eaten lunch, which I didn't realize was part of the thing is that we had all eaten and then we're all lying down.
00:18:38
Speaker
And then of course that was going to be pushing up on the artery. So there was a grain of salt, uh, teaching lesson that was, that was missed at the time. That's such a good point, dude. Was that in your twin hour class? We did a horror class. It was like very short. It was one or two days of horror diagnosis.
00:18:58
Speaker
Well, that is correct. And the people who focus on that more in China are the people who do lots of Jinjing, the Sinyu Channel people. Oh, okay. Isn't that crazy that there's a whole group of people that really are Jinjing people? Yeah, what? Do they just need to know Jinwell points? Well, that's an interesting point. No, if you go back to the Jinjing, there's actually a lot more than Jinwell though. I know Jinwell here for MSK in America is very powerful or very prominent.
Jinjing Points and Qi Flow
00:19:25
Speaker
The way I was, that was the only point on the Jingjin was the Jingwell. Oh, see the way they use it is it's very, cause they tend to be in a subset of Twena people. And so it's much more about where am I releasing? And actually the biggest focus is not the Jingwells. It's actually around your joints. Yeah. That's what I would think from like the Qigong thing. Cause that's where everything gets clogged up anyways. Exactly. There's not good flow through joints. No. Cause that's, those are your natural crooks in the stream. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Okay.
00:19:55
Speaker
Sweet. That's a good point that Asher is a practitioner of Qigong and martial arts too, and you can see why that's so important because he feels what a lot of people are saying, right?
00:20:05
Speaker
Also, I was really broken before I started Chicago and stuff, which really helped because it was like, you can tell a difference. I feel this for my patients sometimes. The people who come in rock bottom, it's like, we're going to turn things around and they're never going to look back. And the people who are getting by but want a little help, we're going to give them a little help and they're going to be like, I'm going to go back to fuck off and I'll be back in a couple of months with the same problem or worse kind of thing. Yeah, exactly.
00:20:34
Speaker
It's so true, man. It's so true. There's a great example of martial artists too, one of the best Tai Chi practitioners in the last hundred years. What's his Chinese name? In English, we just say Chen Man Ching. I think it's Chen Man Jing, but it's funny because most of the things I've read about him are in English. That was back when I was practicing martial arts in the Denver Boulder area.
00:20:57
Speaker
Anyhootie, that practitioner who was basically one of the best Tai Chi practitioners in all of Taiwan, which I know is a little place, but I had a lot of good practitioners, and he came to America a lot, and same thing. He was a sickly child with maybe TB or something, but he couldn't stop practicing Tai Chi, otherwise he'd get sick again. Yeah. No, I think I've heard the same, yeah. It was like, I was just really sick. I had to do it.
00:21:21
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Yeah. And then 20 years down the road, they're like, okay, well now you're a freaking beast. He was a skinny little dude, but boy, he could fight like the best of them.
00:21:31
Speaker
And he just loved it so much he kept doing it. But yeah, the first 20 years was by necessity. Yeah, I think this, we talked about this a little bit, sometime ago, where we talked about the, the consistency that's needed. And I think when I first heard the story about this guy, it was also like the difference of talent because he was like, I wasn't talented. I wasn't like, yeah, amazing. Like I was, I had to, I had to do this thing. And like, if you're talented and like, send me healthy, like,
00:21:57
Speaker
you can start you know twenty years in my forty year journey or whatever just by doing it every day it is so true man i love it you said that that's usually what i tell man i'm sorry for those of you. Wow i think people just like all this good stuff anyway but yeah when it comes to like i had to do to.
00:22:16
Speaker
graduation speeches up at Boulder two years in a row. Sure. And I feel like maybe I'm not the person designed for that because my general gist is like, it's not about you. It's about the art. Yeah. No. Well, there's a, I was thinking about this earlier because we were talking about Machocha and we were talking about
00:22:34
Speaker
You know, we have this baseline foundation, which then lets us expand and do things. And that's what we should
Art Lineage in Martial Arts
00:22:39
Speaker
do. Right. But then not having an unstable base or a misleading base runs us into problems. And it's kind of like that all of our successes, quote unquote, in the clinic are like not due to us, but are due to our lineage. Right. Like our, like we're standing on the shoulders of giants and like, it's because we have a great art that these things come about and just that, oh, like you, you missed that.
00:23:04
Speaker
And it's easy to get off track if the giants that you're standing on are like not actually giants because it's a shaky foundation. Mis-translated. Heck yeah, man. I mean, you literally described exactly what Chen Menching said too. They said, like, I think you paraphrased as well. They're like, well, why are you such a powerful martial artist? He said, yeah, I'm a weak guy. I'm just practicing a great art. Yeah.
00:23:23
Speaker
But it's the same thing. And I always, of course, graduation day, it is about how much they've done. But the key here is, it's not just true, but it's also liberating to realize it's not about the individual practitioner, it's about the art. Because when you're stuck, which if you don't ever get stuck, then shit is really, shit's great, right? That is just confusingly bad.
00:23:47
Speaker
If you see no problems, then there's big problems. Anyway, when you come into those problems, I feel like individuals would just crumple. There's no, what are you going to do? But lineages don't. You just go back to where you came from and you get so much more knowledge and so many answers to your questions that now
00:24:07
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even just having asked that question in that specific way, you'll probably be able to get so much more out of the classics. You're like, oh, well, I think the classic was talking about this. And then you try it and you're like, that really is what it's talking about. Or that leads me to this other thing in the classics. Yeah, it's really just the sweetest thing. So that's the whole point of it. It doesn't have to be about the individual, but that's both pride. It's a prideectomy. You have to exercise your pride.
00:24:36
Speaker
Totally. More size, not exercise. And then the second thing is it's basically like a giant safety blanket because that's where everything comes from. And that's where just go back to that. People are winging stuff, right? Don't wing it. Go back. Yeah. Go back to your safety blanket. We apologize for people who graduated from SWAC in the last couple of years and I had Steven as our speaker. He only meant good things.
00:25:07
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I'll do a makeup one on the pod. All right, so where were we? Oh, yes, we were at Jacho, the stomach six, you called it, right? Yeah.
00:25:17
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Yup. And Guizhuang. So this one, again, the same idea, is this truly the bed of the ghost? Nope. It's just telling you, again, it's furthering that same idea of its residing location. So it's sinking in further. And, you know, you can, just like Asher said, there is the idea that when people have stomach issues that they can't sleep well, that is also an element too. Just like wind issues, they often can't sleep well either and so forth. So we had the pillow point before, but then also this one, Josho.
00:25:48
Speaker
Alright, should we head over to 8? Yeah, I have 8 as Gui Shur, Ghost Market. Ghost Market. Ren24, so right on the other side of that connecting the bridge from the Ren and the Do. I have a note on this one for being for a chaotic speech, so it makes sense for where it's located. Market, I think, is going to be an iffy translation, right?
00:26:14
Speaker
How'd you pick that up? Well, because we use Fengshare for the same reason. It's like a deeper wind, internal wind thing. That's right. So what's better than market? Internal administration of. Okay. Still wordy. So Asher is exactly right. When we talk about that gallbladder point, 30 something? 31.
00:26:38
Speaker
It's not windy city or windy market. It's the internal administration of wind, meaning how is your body internally regulating its wind?
00:26:47
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And hence, when people say it's an itching point, that's actually fairly correct because itch is internal wind, right? So then when we say here, what is Gui Shi? Is it the marketplace where all the ghosts come out and buy their best vegetables? They're like, oh man, your ghost daikon is just kicking this year. It is not a ghost marketplace. It is that internal administration of the shun and therefore
00:27:14
Speaker
the not functional shan or kuei. I was going to get myself some ghost peppers and call it a day. Give yourself some serious lung heat. And then the point chengjiang is super key too. Whatever the Chinese name for that point. Container of fluids.
00:27:33
Speaker
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. It's like the older or the container of fluids. That's right. Because you need a bibbity when you're a baby. And then the idea here where it's like generating the fluids that then would anchor and so forth. Yeah. I was going to ask about that. Do you use that point to generate fluids?
00:27:56
Speaker
I think you really should. Yeah. Okay. Because chung, old chung, like literally liquids and fluids. Sure. I don't tend to use it as much. My favorite for fluids or there's a couple, obviously the yin points are great. So jiaohai on the kidneys, but I love the, and the shangju shu, the lower hussy point of the large intestine. Sure. Yeah. Which I think Japanese lineages tend to use that a lot for fluids as well.
00:28:20
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I figured, cause it's a point of sea of blood, but it's going to get some, some hitters from, from all over. And then because the large intestine, the small intestine control gin and yeah. I was going to ask when you do the ren 24 point, are you thinking about gin specifically? Yeah. Or all fluids? I'd say all fluids. Okay. Yeah. Cause it's your first receptor. Exactly.
Gui Tang: Ghost Hall Significance
00:28:46
Speaker
It's the entry point. Got it. It's, it's your cool gong.
00:28:49
Speaker
Yeah, it's very good, like Pallas. Look, it's Hugo. Speedy. Well, you have to refer back to it in practice otherwise. Exactly. That's the best way to memorize it, right? Yeah. Okay, so internal administration of the ghosts still leaves me some thinking as to what we mean by the internal administration of ghosts.
00:29:14
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like basically regulating its movement passage and so forth on the inside. Just like Feng Shui is dealing with regulating and controlling wind on the inside. Right. But with the wind, I don't know if we've talked about on the podcast yet, but we've talked about wind having a virtuous side to it. So in that way, it would make sense to have the body be like, oh yeah, we have this
00:29:36
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area section idea where we're making the wind move internally because we want a little bit of movement internally. We need things to move. With the ghost one, is there a positive side of having ghosts moving around the body? I get a great point. The positive side of basically what you would consider a negative thing like a ghost would be the shun.
00:29:59
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So shun positive, ghost negative, kuei negative. And so a kuei is basically a dysfunctional shun. And therefore, this one to regulate the kuei would be able to release and liberate or whatever you want to do, not hamper down the shun. Gotcha. Sweet. That works for me. Also, it does have the fluid component. So remember, we're kind of anchoring. Again, with yin.
00:30:28
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yeah okay awesome our next one we we mentioned before because i paired it with pericardium 7 we have pericardium 8 lau gong or in this case guei ku ghost cave that's right very good guei ku so cave getting deeper yet again
00:30:45
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Very nice. And this one has the, uh, not it's just a cave, which is deeper, but it's hidden. So a lot of times this is kind of like, we were talking about this before, but like blood heat is often where kind of quote unquote hidden or like annoying, stubborn dermatological things will lay or reside.
00:31:03
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And you're like, hey, things are going better. Exercise is good. My liver feels great. No skin diseases. And then the climate changes and stress gets worse and everything else. Skin disease pops back up. Same thing. How can we get rid of this thing? A lot of times when dermatological land, that's because it has an underlying blood heat component. And as long as you don't get rid of that, you're always going to be susceptible to it. Well, similar to this one, Gui Ku would be like, oh, this person's mostly pretty good. They're like a functional,
00:31:32
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whatever, schizophrenic autistic person or something. But then, you know, there are times where it's really going to flare its head. So it's kind of that hidden one. Yeah. This one makes me think of the bipolar for sure. Cause it's like, you can get away with, you know, some off days, uh, being bipolar, but then all of a sudden it'll rear. It's like they had, and it's a different beast altogether. Totally. And we know Lao Gong is going to clear heat like a razor. Yeah. Fire point on a fire channel.
00:32:02
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Mm-hmm. Good way to think about that, yeah. What were you thinking of, just yin spring? Just yin spring. And yin spring of the yang within yang. Yeah, sure. Guardian of yang within yang. Okay, next one. It would be Do 23. Uh-huh. Gui Tang. Great. Gui Tang. Ghost Hall. That's right. Shang Xing, the upper star point. Is that the normal opinion? Yep.
00:32:30
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and then Gui Tong. So this one is kind of like, well, what is a Tong? It's kind of like where you're thinking about, okay, you came into the vestibule, you came into the atrium and now you're almost closer to like the chambers, right? Oh yeah. Heading in. Deep inside the fortress. That's right. Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:32:53
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I'd say you're pretty much in the resting room, you could call it a bedroom if you want, I guess. And then you just thought, you know, because we're like one or two away from the very end here. Yeah. Okay. That wraps it up for this episode on Ghost Points. Come back next week for the last and final installment.