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Wu Xing: "Five Phases" - Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) external application practices (exogenous methods) ... aka The 2nd Art: Yi (医) - Medicine - from Chinese Metaphysics called Wu Shu (五 术) or the Five Arts.
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Wu Xing (五行) is a fivefold philosophical scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs to the properties of medicinal drugs. The "Five Phases" are Fire (火; huǒ), Water (水; shuǐ), Wood (木; mù), Metal or Gold (金; jīn), and Earth or Soil (土; tǔ). This order of presentation is known as the "Days of the Week" sequence. In the order of "mutual overcoming" (相克; xiāngkè), they are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Metal. A conceptual predecessor of the rock/paper/scissors game.
The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. This device was employed in many fields of early Chinese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as Yi jing divination, alchemy, feng shui, astrology, Classical Chinese medicine (CCM), music, military strategy, and martial arts. Although often translated as the Five Elements, the Wu Xing were conceived primarily as cosmic agents of change rather than a means to describe natural substances.
CCM/TCM external application practices (exogenous methods):
Here is a subjective "best book" reading list of external Wu Xing methods that do energetic body healing work exogenously by skilled practitioners. In my opinion, some are amazingly effective and the benefits of others baffle me. Explore.
Note: Changlin Zhang, the Chinese physicist author of Invisible Rainbow makes an important distinction between Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and the less effective Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that was created as a watered down "scientific" compromise during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 20th century. However, both approaches have intrinsic value.
Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (4th Edition, First Printing, October 2019) Hardcover by Cheng Xinnong ... Definitive. We had a Chinese Temple Priestess who was an excellent acupuncturist. Jin has now relocated to California and her abilities and sexiness are missed.
Chinese Tui Na Massage: The Essential Guide to Treating Injuries, Improving Health & Balancing Qi (Practical TCM) Paperback – June 1, 2002 by Xu Xiangcai ... Good book on the Chinese "push - grab" massage method.
Gua Sha Scraping Massage Techniques: A Natural Way of Prevention and Treatment through Traditional Chinese Medicine – May 22, 2018 by Zhongchao Wu ... I have no personal experience with this modality, but it looks interesting.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Cupping Therapy 3rd Edition 2014
by Ilkay Z. Chirali MBAcC RCHM ... Definitive.
The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. This device was employed in many fields of early Chinese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as Yi jing divination, alchemy, feng shui, astrology, Classical Chinese medicine (CCM), music, military strategy, and martial arts. Although often translated as the Five Elements, the Wu Xing were conceived primarily as cosmic agents of change rather than a means to describe natural substances.
CCM/TCM external application practices (exogenous methods):
Here is a subjective "best book" reading list of external Wu Xing methods that do energetic body healing work exogenously by skilled practitioners. In my opinion, some are amazingly effective and the benefits of others baffle me. Explore.
Note: Changlin Zhang, the Chinese physicist author of Invisible Rainbow makes an important distinction between Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and the less effective Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that was created as a watered down "scientific" compromise during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 20th century. However, both approaches have intrinsic value.
Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (4th Edition, First Printing, October 2019) Hardcover by Cheng Xinnong ... Definitive. We had a Chinese Temple Priestess who was an excellent acupuncturist. Jin has now relocated to California and her abilities and sexiness are missed.
Chinese Tui Na Massage: The Essential Guide to Treating Injuries, Improving Health & Balancing Qi (Practical TCM) Paperback – June 1, 2002 by Xu Xiangcai ... Good book on the Chinese "push - grab" massage method.
Gua Sha Scraping Massage Techniques: A Natural Way of Prevention and Treatment through Traditional Chinese Medicine – May 22, 2018 by Zhongchao Wu ... I have no personal experience with this modality, but it looks interesting.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Cupping Therapy 3rd Edition 2014
by Ilkay Z. Chirali MBAcC RCHM ... Definitive.
Related Evolvements:
A Zen approach to bodytherapy: From Rolf to Feldenkrais to Tanouye Roshi – January 1, 1989 by William S. Leigh ... For those of you who think of massage as relaxing and relatively painfree, this blended technique, deep tissue acu-point method is the opposite and great for masochists. A Zen bodytherapist will let you vocalize the degree of intensity you can handle and dial it back accordingly, but it is still an ordeal to undergo. It is very effective though. Body toxins, emotional knots people often carry for a lifetime, all are released. Temple Terra Incognita's "Honey Priestess" Daien was trained by the William Leigh in Hawaii and introduced us to this brutal Art of Destruction.
Sexual Reflexology: Activating the Taoist Points of Love – Illustrated, May 22, 2003 by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei ... Highly recommended. "Reflexology is based on the premise that all our organs have reflex points on other parts of the body. It is most often associated with massage of the hands and feet. Yet the most powerful reflex points are on the sexual organs. Sexual Reflexology shows how to use the sexual reflex points in lovemaking, allowing sexual intercourse to become a form of ecstatic acupressure. In this way the entire body provides the sexual organs with energy and in return the entire body is stimulated with healing energy." Very important in Taoist dual cultivation sex magick practices like White Tigress/Jade Dragon work.
A Zen approach to bodytherapy: From Rolf to Feldenkrais to Tanouye Roshi – January 1, 1989 by William S. Leigh ... For those of you who think of massage as relaxing and relatively painfree, this blended technique, deep tissue acu-point method is the opposite and great for masochists. A Zen bodytherapist will let you vocalize the degree of intensity you can handle and dial it back accordingly, but it is still an ordeal to undergo. It is very effective though. Body toxins, emotional knots people often carry for a lifetime, all are released. Temple Terra Incognita's "Honey Priestess" Daien was trained by the William Leigh in Hawaii and introduced us to this brutal Art of Destruction.
Sexual Reflexology: Activating the Taoist Points of Love – Illustrated, May 22, 2003 by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei ... Highly recommended. "Reflexology is based on the premise that all our organs have reflex points on other parts of the body. It is most often associated with massage of the hands and feet. Yet the most powerful reflex points are on the sexual organs. Sexual Reflexology shows how to use the sexual reflex points in lovemaking, allowing sexual intercourse to become a form of ecstatic acupressure. In this way the entire body provides the sexual organs with energy and in return the entire body is stimulated with healing energy." Very important in Taoist dual cultivation sex magick practices like White Tigress/Jade Dragon work.
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