Today I'll be talking about Traditional Oriental Medicine, but no cringing, it's really pretty easy to understand once you get the hang of it, and when you do, you will begin to think of your body in a completely different way, a way that really makes total sense, and will more than likely answer at least half a dozen questions which have mystified your regular doctor, especially when you've had pain in areas which didn't indicate a broken bone, pulled muscle or injured nerve!

Let's leap right in comparing western symptoms with the Oriental explanation of why things are not quite right in different situations. You already understand the concept of energy flows, the organs having an emotional and mental job as well as their physical one, so let's expand that a bit further.

How many of you have ever had intestinal 'flu or food poisoning, and with the pain in your abdomen had chills and shivers in your arms and shoulders and abdomen? Just about everyone I'll bet! Well, the chills and shivers are energy which is out of balance and both the Large Intestine and Small Intestine energy flows are in the arms, and Liver flow, trying to help remove toxins, runs through the gut area.

What about women with really painful periods? In addition to numerous clients, I also had periods that were so bad I would black out from pain, but I also had pain which radiated down my right leg and was absolutely crippling to the point my leg would actually go limp and drag along: the Spleen flow which energetically governs the reproductive organs, and gives them energy begins in each big toe and travels up each leg, right where the radiating pain was so severe. Yes you can have terrible pain right in a flow, and it has nothing to do with nerves! In terms of this radiating leg pain, from which I and others suffered, we all had energy blocks in the Spleen flow, and once everything was balanced the pain never happened again. Doing the now Patented System™ in my book, it is also possible to clear up endometriosis (the result of backed up energy), irregular periods, irregular ovulation, and even reverse menopause if desired. Here's a few more examples which explain how the simplicity and logic of Chinese Medicine work very well.

The Chinese understood we become ill when our emotions--primarily--become out of whack, because each physical organ also has an energetic and emotional function. The lungs process and release grief and sorrow from the body, so a physical cold is the body's way of weeping and shedding grief if we don't cry when we are sad. The kidneys process fear. What about little kids who get so scared they wet their pants? Or when we are so frightened, that even as adults we get shaky 'weak knees'? Again the Kidney flow starts in the bottom of each foot and travels up the legs. Bladder flow is also in the legs, and Bladder is the energetic paired partner of Kidney, receiving what Kidney emotionally dumps, in addition to physical urine. Sometimes we are so scared that Kidney flow is utterly depleted dealing with our terror and we shake with the loss of energy.

What happens when we don't cry as children, and little boys are told it isn't "manly" to cry. Or little girls are told it isn't "ladylike" to get angry. As adults we have men and women doing the opposite--men get sad and snarl, lash out, women get angry and burst into tears in the midst of an argument. Each sex is holding onto the emotion they need to release, yet through inappropriate manners teaching as children, hang onto, causing Back Flow energy situations.

Do you know what happens when we have a great deal of old anger stored inside our body? We can become addicted to alcohol, because the Liver processes the emotion of anger yet anger can also numbed by liquor. Its energetic partner organ, the Gall Bladder, deals with issues of "control," so when a drinker becomes out-of-control, often anger and violence erupt. Similarly with cigarettes, nicotine numbs excessive grief in the Lungs. Where do doctors place the Nicotine Patch on the body to help people give up smoking in America? Right between Lung Energy Points 1 & 2 in the upper arm area! But what happens with the Patch? People have side effects, because there are also other energy flows in the arms too. Heart, Small Intestine, Large Intestine--palpitations, digestive problems, menstrual irregularities are just a few side effects of the Patch which make complete sense in terms of other flows in the arms. Heroine addicts are so desperate to be happy, and feel Joy--the emotion of the heart--that they'll mainline via the blood, straight to the heart, and if they do too much they have heart attack and die.

Excessive, unprocessed emotions will also go to other areas of the body, seemingly far away from the actual organ. Anger can collect in the eyes--cause pressure--glaucoma or Devil's Eyes is classed as an "angry" disease in Oriental Medicine. Deep seated fear or sexual exhaustion can reveal itself as black circles under the eyes.

There is another important factor: Each organ works at peak efficiency for two hours a day, and has a low time as well, when it is most vulnerable to illness, exactly twelve hours after peaking. Lung time is 3-5 a.m.; how many people have ever woken up in the middle of the night, with a soaking wet pillow, knowing that you'd been crying yet not too sure why? Just Lung getting rid of some old grief you no longer needed to hang on to. Bladder's low time period is 3-5a.m., a time when many men with prostate problems have to get up to relieve themselves or small children wet their beds. It's also when we have our worst nightmares, Bladder being the receptacle for Kidney's fear, and certain points on Bladder flow also store much genetic and ancestor memory--ever had nightmares about ancient cultures or battles? Or 5-7a.m., Large Intestine peaks--great time to have a bowel movement and 7-9a.m., Stomach's peak time, is the perfect time to have a good nutritious breakfast! Each organ is associated with a healing color, so wear yellow, it will keep your immune system healthy, or green to help rid the body of anger, or support self control, or red if you have a weak heart, blue or black to help with kidney ailments or with general energy storing, and white to help boost lung processing. The full Hours Chart is shown on page 67 of Woman Heal Thyself.

What about migraine headaches? Do you know that by massaging a point in your hands (Large Intestine 4) you can get rid of a migraine in a few minutes, or stop one if you feel the symptoms (blurred vision, nausea, vomiting: use Stomach 8--called Head Support--coming on and a panic or anxiety attack can also be stopped using the Large Intestine 4 point, also called Ho Ku. Why? Because the Large Intestine's mental chore is to processes "pure and impure thoughts"--stress is mental constipation, and anxiety is brought on by the way the mind perceives reality, spiraling into out of control, abject fear and terror. So by massaging the area in a counter clockwise direction you release the energy from the body, clockwise brings in new energy. Yet you never massage Large Intestine 4 if you are pregnant and wish to remain so; it is a Forbidden point during pregnancy.

The healing system in Woman Heal Thyself is the same. Women can learn to work with 24 points which have been hands-off for nearly 5,000 years, take control of their bodies, and alleviate Pre Menstrual Syndrome, cramps, post period depression, endometriosis, overly long or very heavy bleeding can be tamed, enhance fertility, regulate their cycles and, if they don't want to be pregnant, then bring on their period each month. These specific points are called the Forbidden Pregnancy Points, off limits because if someone is pregnant, massaging or needling (acupuncture) these points will bring on a miscarriage in 1-3 days.

Menopausal women can also use the points each month, just as if they were still menstruating, to balance their energy flows and stop hot flashes and increase their sexuality. One of the reasons women in menopause lose the ability to be sexually aroused via their nipples, is because two major energy flows run through the breasts and one is a "hot line" straight for the pelvic area...it just happens to be the energy flow which governs the sexual organs, and during menopause, this flow in particular becomes diminished.

Some of these Forbidden Points are also potency points for men, and can help with prostate problems of middle and old age or declining sexuality.

What I have briefly touched on, the ancient Chinese knew, understood, and used on a daily basis for the purpose of maintaining a state of optimum health. They went to doctors for a tune up, only to maintain their health, not because they'd become ill. They also used ear piercing and the wearing of gold earrings to treat health problems, and tattooed over acu-points for the same reason. Woman Heal Thyself will help anyone do the same thing, it's written simply, on purpose, so that a 14 year old girl with menstrual problems could grasp what was going on, and also 50, 60 or 70 year old women with difficulties arising from the state of menopause. Over the years, since the book's release in the USA in 1995, I've had thousands of letters from men and women asking for help or saying thanks for writing this book--it works. I'm honored that Element Books brought Woman Heal Thyself, to this side of the Pond in England.

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Question time after the lecture:

"Jeanne how did you discover this incredible use of the Forbidden Points?"

First of all, there is no other book on the Forbidden Pregnancy Points of Oriental Medicine. I am apparently the first person in about 5,000 years to have investigated them, and it began with the simple question of "OK, so when can we use them?" after my teacher had just told us all about their negative aspects--Never use them during a pregnancy, they are so powerful a miscarriage will occur in 1-3 days. Guaranteed. This was the classic teaching.

Yin Yang theory hit me right between the eyes: what she was teaching was incomplete. The whole basis of Chinese medical theory states that for everything negative, there's its positive opposite creating balance and harmony. Nothing good had been taught about these points in 5,000 years, classic Yin Yang theory states that for everything negative there is an opposite positive; so logically there had to be an equally positive collective use of these points for women.

It would appear that students of Oriental Medicine have been learning the subject like parrots, without question for at least 5,000 years. So I investigated them, used myself as a guinea pig for a year, cleared up a horrendous history of menstrual problems, including endometriosis and cramps that were so bad I took codeine and morphine each month. Friends tried the System I developed, then clients: we all got the same improvements: whatever ailed each individual in terms of their reproductive organs, cleared up; one student of mine cleared up her blocked fallopian tube, endometriosis, irregular ovulation and became pregnant all within three months, with only one ovary, after trying to conceive for six years, and gave birth to baby girl on my birthday nine months later! I finally perfected the Forbidden Pregnancy Points System™, of which I am the only teacher, which allows women remarkable control over their bodies.

Woman Heal Thyself should be a forever-book, from one generation of women to the next. It gives women back power over their bodies, without the use of pain killers and powerful drugs, it takes them out of victim mode where their periods are concerned and contraception. If a woman has no desire to be pregnant then why wait to find out if you're pregnant at the end of your 30 day cycle and end up in a possible moral dilemma? Simply learn to bring on your period each month, three days early, without knowing if you conceived, or go to your acupuncturist and have them stimulate these points for you. That's why the points were Forbidden during pregnancy: they terminate! And what a gift these Forbidden Points are to any woman who has ever been raped and does not wish to conceive as a result of that barbaric and violent act!

Question: "You mentioned panic and anxiety attacks. Can you elaborate please?"

Yes, and I'll read right out of Woman Heal Thyself. "Depression and panic attacks are far more serious than dark moods. Women who suffer from these illnesses are not being "emotional," an inaccurate cliché. We do have the capability of healing ourselves. By thinking positive thoughts we can learn to stop depression and panic attacks before they occur or take root. When we become depressed or begin to have a panic attack, a chemical imbalance actually occurs in the brain, and the situation goes from bad to worse to abject misery or terror.

A panic attack results from extreme anxiety and the reason for it is always personal to the individual experiencing it. An attack is usually caused by a fear or dread of a place or thing, perhaps elevators, or heights, airplanes, financial misfortune or bad planning, open spaces (including venturing outside the house), underground parking lots, nightmares, or a fearful thought that actually escalates within the imagination until it becomes out of control. If you'd ever had a panic attack you'd know it! The fear is accompanied by physical sensations within the body, such as sweating, heart palpitations, trembling, a feeling that the chest is being pressed in upon so that breathing becomes near to impossible. Nausea and even diarrhea are present. Terror is all that exists.

The mind does a number on itself with fearful or imagined happenings; the thought process speeds up, goes out of control, then into overdrive, and then outer obit. The poor individuals going through this would like to crawl out of their skins and run away from the panic, away from their minds. Panic attacks have been known to lead to suicide because the terror is so enormous that some people can no longer bear what they are experiencing.

A panic attack begins with the way the mind perceives reality, and the mental function of each organ is what is at risk when we panic…. During a panic attack, the panic of the mind has overloaded Stomach's ability to digest thoughts—physical nausea manifests. Large Intestine is attempting to remove all impure thoughts as fast as possible—excessive sweating. Kidney, overwhelmed with fear, is unable to create an open mind to see that the fear is irrational. Bladder, kidney's partner, is also being bombarded with creations of the imagination, and is having trouble dealing with impure ideas. The Liver, receiving no good energy from the Water organs of Kidney and Bladder, is on K-rations of energy and is incapable of the foresight to see that the situation will indeed pass. The Heart is trying to coordinate all mental function, which is so out of control that it speeds up-palpitations—trying to sort out the other organ's overload. The Small Intestine, working to discriminate between pure and impure thoughts—or real and unreal—is completely overloaded by the progression of energy coming from Stomach, large Intestine, Kidney Bladder and Liver, as well as being dumped on by its partner organ, the Heart. Guess what? Diarrhea. The Pericardium, struggling to get a grip on some semblance of rational, sensible sense of self worth, is on red alert, squeezes the heart, which feels as if the chest is being constricted—which it is—and breathing becomes a problem."

To stop a panic attack immediately force yourself to think a funny thought, force yourself to laugh, or even weep—both increase oxygen to the brain. Massage Large Intestine 4, then Stomach 36, Kindey 1, Bladder 60, Liver 2, Heart 5 and 7, Small Intestine 4, and Pericardium 9—all counter clockwise to disperse bad chi, and beware which are Forbidden Points! "Think bunny rabbits!" as a friend of mine would say.

In addition to the healing system women can do for themselves, there is a chapter on men's health and what to do for impotency or prostate cancer, there is an Index for general problems release points, a new look at disease progression and information on how incredibly effective auricular therapy—acupressure of 365 points on each ear—can be, and why. Blessings and be well.

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