Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Episode 1

Sub Health
- body imbalance which not yet develop an illness. Examples: insomnia, hair loss, constipation, etc
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Among factors that may contribute sedation and tonification. *may contain misinformation
1) the direction of the inserted needle
2) the speed of motion of inserting/removing the needle
3) the rotation of the needle
4) the speed of motion of rotating the needle
5) the depth of the insertion needle



There are 3 treasures which are important for human life, namely
1) Jing (essence)
2) Qi (energy)
3) Shen (soul)
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Triple Burner / Triple Heater
1) Refers to 3 parts of heater: lower, middle and upper burner
2) it has relation with the movement of Qi and Water in our body
3) Upper - Heart and Lungs, Middle - Spleen, Stomach, Lower - Liver, Kidney, Large and Small Intestine, Bladder
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Blood Stasis VS Blood Stagnate
1) Both are them are not equal
2) Stagnate leads to Stasis
3) Blood Stasis could be caused by Qi Stagnate or Qi Deficiency
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