Scroll One "nine needles & twelve source points"

Question 1

Disperse

Answer 1

To support the inner being to allow departure.

Question 2

Tonification

Answer 2

To follow, to assist, to agitate

Question 3

Where are the blood pulses distributed?

Answer 3

Shu Points

Question 4

What is The Triple Heater?

Answer 4

artificial construct, metabolic system, the fatty tissue around the kidneys- the adrenals, has no material structure

Question 5

adrenals

Answer 5

fatty tissue around the kidneys

Question 6

What does the Triple Heater incorporate?

Answer 6

Respiration, Digestion, and Elimination

Question 7

What is the lower Heater?

Answer 7

The Bowels

Question 8

How do we examine the client to see if the qi needs to be tonified or dispersed?

Answer 8

tonify causes full heat which gains qi, disperse causes a timid heat which loses qi

Question 9

Where is the Valley Qi located?

Answer 9

qi from food

Question 10

where are the cubit or inch pulses located?

Answer 10

wrists

Question 11

where does the harmful qi move within the body?

Answer 11

upper body

Question 12

What organ allows person to set boundaries?

Answer 12

liver

Question 13

what part of healing kidney Qi related to?

Answer 13

mental development and mental states

Question 14

what happens when the water element freezes?

Answer 14

causes the marrow to stop flowing up the spine to the brain causing rigidity and stop nourishment

Question 15

what time of the year is the kidney related to?

Answer 15

winter

Question 16

what time of the year is the lungs related to?

Answer 16

fall

Question 17

what is fall a time of?

Answer 17

having to let go of things that carried deep meaning fall apart that is beyond our control

Question 18

is our will yin or yang energy?

Answer 18

yang fire energy

Question 19

where is will located within this organ?

Answer 19

right kidney

Question 20

what is wisdom viewed as within the five element theory?

Answer 20

the path of least resistance

Question 21

what can we see in people with a deficiency in the water element in the kidney?

Answer 21

over exertion within the fiery will of right kidney and they do not stop and continue to react to life instead of reflecting

Question 22

how do we calm the fire and deficiency in the right kidney?

Answer 22

intend to add some water and earth to the right kidney to allow the “lava” like substance to move and circulate. pull out the rocks to allow such flow

Question 23

what lies between the left and right kidney?

Answer 23

the mingmen channel

Question 24

What is the Mingmen channel?

Answer 24

gate of destiny

Question 25

where is the mingmen channel located?

Answer 25

behind the navel

Question 26

What does the mingmen do when it opens?

Answer 26

encourages the movement of water

Question 27

How do we open the Mingmen channel?

Answer 27

the left kidneys water and right kidneys fire must meet at the mingmen, allowing the communication of of yin and yang to take place

Question 28

what are the symptoms of kidney yin imbalances?

Answer 28

bone problems, hearing loss, ear infections, hair problems, urinary, sexual and reproductive problems, poor growth and development of mind and body

Question 29

kidney yin deficiencies

Answer 29

dizziness, ringing in ears, dry throat/mouth, fever, low back pain, weak legs spontaneous sweating, red tongue

Question 30

if you are working on the head, what organ channel should you work on?

Answer 30

kidney channel

Question 31

what side of the body is the kidney channel?

Answer 31

left side of body

Question 32

what side of body is the bladder channel?

Answer 32

right side of body

Question 33

what is an example of kidney yang deficiency

Answer 33

pale tongue

Question 34

what does the yang deficiency look and feel like within the body?

Answer 34

coldness and clamminess of the skin

Question 35

what does yin deficiency look and feel like within the body?

Answer 35

it signals a lack of nourishment in the body which affects a person’s ability to cool down, calm down and establish harmony in the body.

Question 36

kidney yang deficiencies

Answer 36

frequent urination, edema, asthma, enlarged pale tongue

Question 37

what are the characteristics of yang

Answer 37

fast hard solid focused hot dry active masculine sun

Question 38

what are the characteristics of yin

Answer 38

slow soft yielding wet passive feminine moon