Psychoemotional Effects of Points

If you are familiar with acupuncture you could read the books by Lonny S. Jarrett. His first book "" has a section on quite a few much-used points. His second book "" discusses nearly every point on every meridian.
Lonny Jarrett practises Five Element Acupuncture (with strong emphasis om psychological / spiritual issues).
If you read German you could try "Den Geist verwurzeln" by Josef Müller, also a Five Element acupuncturist.
Good luck.

Koos

Hello Max,

As you are finding out, there is the possibility of disruptions from meditation and other other internal arts practices. Some of these are changes that we must go through and pass quickly and others are from forcing training (breathing, visualizations, etc.) and/or incorrect technique.

In qi gong circles this disruption is often called the "running fire" and it can have a host of symptoms. Most often it is caused by improper breathing techniques, particularly forcing the breath and denying the natural movements.

You should, as you are already planning, see an acupuncturist, ideally one who is also a martial artist or at least has training in qi gong. This should help you along with a short term cessation of training and, when you continue, a longer term view of your practice.

On your own the best thing to do is to stop your training for a short period of time until you are feeling better. Try to do more physically oriented activities such as jogging, biking, etc. along with more light hearted activities such as playing/listening to music, basically whatever makes you happy and will let your body balance back into a more neutral state. By guiding or forcing your qi to descend you can easily make things worse for yourself. If you are going to continue to practice, simple standing meditation is most likely the best as it will allow the energy to settle down into the legs (which is why stronger physical activity is often helpful).

When you are feeling better and continue your practice, ensure that you take your time, breath naturally regardless of technique and let your body and energy develop slowly over time. You absolutely can not rush your training, it is impossible.

Hello Chad, thanks for your advice. Yes, I have become aware that forcing visualizations and forcing the breath without lightly settling myself into a calm meditative state agitates me and places excess in my chest area. This in turn makes me irritable, impatient, and although energized- it feels excessive and tiring afterwards. I will now pace myself.
The good news is that with just two treatments I am not getting anymore emoitoinal outbursts for the past several days (good news for those I live with too!). I am also avoiding situations which I know can stress me out and cause a tantrum. Also sleeping better and am taking Wen-Dan- Tang and Xiao Yao San.

Dear Sirs,

The case under discussion appears to be that of Phlegm that can not be seen. Check the following treatment for effective results..

1 Phlegm in heart misting the mind can cause several mind related conditions. It is excess type of disease.

For treating this condition, tone CV (Ren)-12 and UB-20. This will tone spleen and stop formation of phlegm.

Sedate P-5, H-9, UB-15, St-40, GV-26

P-5 sedation will remove phlegm from heart and opens up blockage in heart and brain.

H-9 sedation removes blockage in heart

UB-15 sedation will clean heart passages and orifices

St-40 sedation expels phlegm and stops formation of phlegm.

2 The case described may respond better to the following treatment for phlegm fire obstructing heart. .

Phlegm fire obstructing heart is spleen qi deficiency problem, can cause violent behaviour, insanity and manic depressions, rash and violent behaviour, insanity, manic depression, hitting and scolding people, uncontrolled laughter, uncontrolled agitation of mind, muttering to self, aphasia or even coma in severe cases, mental restlessness, palpitations, bitter taste, easily getting startled, incoherent speech, mental confusion, red tongue with yellow sticky coat, mid-line crack on tongue with yellow prockles in the crack, tip of the tongue being redder, rapid full pulse.

For this, one needs to remove heat from heart, stop formation of phlegm and calm the mind. The treatment could be,

CV (Ren)-12, UB-20 tone both as in (1) above.

H-7, H-8, H-9, P-5, P-7, CV-15, St-40, Sp-6, GV-20, GV-24, UB-15, Liv-2, Liv-3, GB-13, GB-15 sedate all.

This point combination can relieve the patient of many of behavioural and emotional problems. In the case described, the second treatment of phlegm fire obstructing heart may give better results.

Some points are discussed in (1) above

Sedation of P-7, CV-15, GV-23, GB-13 will cool the mind

H-7 sedation reduces heat

H-8, H-9, UB-15 sedation will remove excess heat from heart

Sp-6 sedation will stop formation of phlegm, help expel phlegm and cool the mind

Liv-2 sedation will reduce heat in entire body

Liv-3 sedation will remove heat from the upper warmer and coole the mind.

GB-15 sedation will help the pationt to come out of mania as well as depression

Chad, what would you suggest?

DD Chhaya