WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:14.960 Welcome to Destiny. 2 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.320 Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. 3 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.759 This is Thanksgiving week here in the United States. So 4 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:05.439 happy Thanksgiving from your friends at Destiny Earth Ancients and 5 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:09.519 the special edition of Earth Ancients that we hear about occasionally. 6 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.599 And I hope you have a chance to be with 7 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:18.680 your family and your friends during this festive occasion. And 8 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:23.480 it really is the beginning of the holiday season, the 9 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:28.840 Christmas holiday season or Hanukkah. And you know, we're thinking 10 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:35.159 about the good year. We've had, the positive interactions, the 11 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:40.480 new friends, and you know, giving thanks for all the 12 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.159 good things that have happened. Hey, this is Cliff, your 13 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:47.840 host of Destiny. And you know, as we settle into winter, 14 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.239 not quite render yet. Winter is December twenty first, but 15 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:57.519 it's getting cooler and the sun's going down earlier. I 16 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.920 have to be very careful now because I need to 17 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:01.640 get out at least three or four times a week 18 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.000 for a little hike. So if I if I wait 19 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:10.639 longer than like three o'clock, the sun's is dark at five. 20 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.919 So I got to get out early. And so that's 21 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.560 critical to get some fresh air, at least for me, 22 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.680 a guy who sits on his posterior for hours at 23 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:30.599 a time, producing podcasts, editing podcasts and getting the word 24 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:40.520 out about our guests. So anyway, happy Thanksgiving and on 25 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.960 where we go. The program today is another in the 26 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.800 series of tools for transformation, and I wanted you guys 27 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:54.520 to hear exactly the importance of acupuncture and traditional Chinese 28 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:59.960 medicine as a complimentary healing tool when you are unwell, 29 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:07.199 all feeling unbalanced, or perhaps depressed and filled with anxiety. 30 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:11.000 And these are all normal conditions that we have in 31 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:15.280 our fast paced Western society. You know, if you're working 32 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:18.680 all the time, you're not listening to your body, and 33 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.919 you can get you can get run down, you can 34 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.759 get fatigued, you can have little aches and pains, you 35 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:28.120 can have migraines. There's a million different problems that you 36 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:33.879 can deal with. And as a complimentary medicine, traditional Chinese 37 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:38.400 medicine is a wonderful alternative to taking a drug or 38 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:44.240 depending on aspirins or painkillers. It's a subtle, holistic way 39 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:53.039 to help ease your discomfort, ease the pain, and kind 40 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:56.960 of help you move back into equilibrium, which is feeling better, 41 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:03.280 having more energy, and reducing the aches and pains. And 42 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:08.879 I'm really blessed with my current acupunctures. His name is 43 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:12.680 John Cooco. We've had John on about three years ago 44 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:19.319 talking about the traditional Chinese medicine, but today we're going 45 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.639 to dig into it, and I'm gonna have him give 46 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:27.480 you an explanation for why it's so powerful. Why our 47 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:33.160 ancestors not a few thousands years ago, five plus thousands 48 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:40.240 years ago, incorporated these healing methods into their everyday activities, 49 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.360 not when they got sick, but more likely when they 50 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:50.079 were sensing that they were coming up on potential physical problem, 51 00:04:50.680 --> 00:05:00.160 perhaps the flu, other conditions that required some attention. It 52 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:04.600 know that, and we'll hear about more about this today. 53 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.360 That not only has acupuncture been around for thousands of years, 54 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.959 it doesn't rely solely on the wisdom of the Chinese. 55 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:24.600 They have found mummies with various tattoos that are acupuncture points, 56 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.839 and we don't really know what that means. It might 57 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.399 mean that this person has a condition and these are 58 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:37.319 markers that need to be adjusted and attended to for 59 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:42.959 them to remain pain free, illness free, or whatever. Acupuncture 60 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:47.079 is extremely sophisticated, and it has to do with chi, 61 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.240 the energy that surrounds us, but it's also in our body. 62 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:56.839 And this is what's really fascinating, the meridians of the body. 63 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.120 We talk about the lay lines of the Earth, these 64 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:06.040 energy fields, these energy highways. The body has meridians like 65 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.120 the meridians like the Earth, but they are throughout the body, 66 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:12.720 from the top of the head all the way to 67 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.920 the body of your feet, and it's a super energy 68 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:18.279 highway that runs. 69 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:18.680 Through the body. 70 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:26.839 When you manipulate these meridians with needles, with massage, with 71 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:33.360 certain other types of therapy, you trigger healing, You trigger 72 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.959 greater awareness, You trigger hormonal releases and other fantastic physical 73 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:50.639 manifestations that your body is not only desires, but actually 74 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.480 can use for healing. And this is why these traditional 75 00:06:54.519 --> 00:07:00.199 healing techniques, although they're not really well accepted by the 76 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:07.639 traditional medical allopathic community, they have more long the effects 77 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:12.000 are much more long term and beneficial without taking a drug, 78 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:17.879 without having to be surgically treated for surgery or radiation 79 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:22.399 or whatever. And once you hear our program today, I 80 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:27.959 really recommend that you consider visiting your local acupunctures and 81 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:33.160 if not, then perhaps if you're interested in alternative healing techniques, 82 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.120 perhaps look into it a little bit by going to 83 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:45.000 your Google search and punching in acupuncture benefits. Acupuncture is 84 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.759 not only old thousands of years old, it looks to 85 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:55.959 be powerful healing technique. And I go in once a 86 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.199 month for what I call a routine checkup, and so 87 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:06.680 they'll John will check me and then we'll get on 88 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:11.959 a table and I'll have my acupuncture treatment, which concludes 89 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:13.920 with a short massage. And I got to tell you, 90 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:17.759 once I have that, my week just runs better. The 91 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.240 rest of the month until my next appointment just flows, 92 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:28.480 just flows a lot better. So today's program is Meridians Acupuncture, 93 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:35.960 an old world, forgotten medicine. And my guest is John coco. 94 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:40.759 Hey. 95 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.200 The seventh annual Grand Egyptian Tour is coming up. We 96 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:48.759 have Mohammad and Nohah by him with us. We're going 97 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.519 to be visiting Tennis, Egypt, which is very very old. 98 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:54.519 We don't know what happened there. It looks like a 99 00:08:54.559 --> 00:09:01.440 catastrophic event happened. It has megalithic structures, statues, and some 100 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.039 large pieces strewed around Muhammad. What do we know about tennis? 101 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:06.559 What makes it so unique? 102 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:12.399 What we know about tennis unfortunately so little, but it 103 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:16.200 is so little incompiliar with the importance and the greatness 104 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:20.399 of Tennis, but for us it is very high level 105 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.440 of information. Number one, what we know that Tennis was 106 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.720 a great center of knowledge in Incia issupt. 107 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.399 It was the big city. 108 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:35.759 Receiving all the travelers and immigrants and visitors to Egypt 109 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:40.960 from the northeast part of they come across Sinai. The 110 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:45.879 second thing about Tennis that there was a massive size 111 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.080 tembile or I can call it big town. We call 112 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:55.080 it temble dedicated to Amonra. This temble or this village, 113 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:58.279 if I can call it this way, was completely built 114 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.799 out of rose granite. From one You know what people 115 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:07.799 don't know that there was more than twelve obelisks in Tennis, 116 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.559 maybe more, but the remains some of them still in 117 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.919 good condition, but all of them are laying on the ground. 118 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.720 The one they took it to the Grand Museum, the 119 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:19.399 one in front of the main gate of the Grand 120 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:23.519 Museum is from Tennis, and the one in Tarry Square 121 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:27.799 now is from Tennis. So there are about ten obelisks 122 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:31.679 or eight obelisks still there at Tennis. So the story 123 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:36.240 is very strange because we expected even if the temple 124 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.600 was in bad condition. We expected more ruins to see 125 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:45.360 more cat ORed blocks, but we found only few. But 126 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.279 we found the biggest. By the way, there are remains 127 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.200 of blocks weighing more than two hundred ton and three 128 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:57.279 hundred toon we found the foot of a statue. According 129 00:10:57.320 --> 00:10:59.720 to the dimension of the foot, the statue would be 130 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.559 more more than fifteen hundred ton. 131 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.679 The foot is like a car size. Wow. 132 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.759 Okay, so we don't know what happened exactly. It must 133 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:13.200 be something very strong hit tennis and hit that temple 134 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.320 and it causes it caused great damage, like great exublusion 135 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.600 happened inside the temple and caused that all the pieces 136 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.679 are scattered on a distance maybe like three or four 137 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.279 kilometers wide. 138 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:29.159 Amazing. 139 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:32.080 When people go to tennis, they're going to feel the 140 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.960 magic and they feel the dips of the history of tennis. 141 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.679 Coman join us. It's gonna be April twenty eight through 142 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:42.120 May tenth. For all the details and the itinerary, go 143 00:11:42.200 --> 00:12:22.720 to Earth Ancients dot com Forward Slash Tours. It's been 144 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.159 a while since we had John Coco on the program. 145 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:29.120 He is the owner of Coca Wellness in Berkeley. He 146 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:33.759 is my acupuncturist, he's excellent, and we want to continue 147 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.679 on with our theme of tools for transformation, because we're 148 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:42.759 all fixated with allopathy, which is your traditional i should say, 149 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:50.240 conventional doctor and in that environment, and I want to 150 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:56.000 expand on the acupuncture process and what it means when 151 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:01.320 you go to a traditional Chinese medical doctor, the benefits 152 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.720 of it, and perhaps more details that will make you 153 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.480 understand why so many people find it just the way 154 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.360 to go. So, hey, John, good to see it. Man, 155 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:11.559 thanks for joining me again. 156 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:13.559 It's an honor. Thanks brother. 157 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:20.440 Talk a little bit about your background when you decided 158 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:25.399 to become a acupuncturist. What was the motivation for you 159 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.279 to do this kind of work? 160 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.320 Wow, that's that could take a long time. It was 161 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.399 the short version, oh man. Okay. The short version is 162 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:39.759 I traveled and met medicine people along the Silk Road. 163 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:45.840 Not really, but did a Fiji in Australia walk about, 164 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:49.200 and in Fiji I met a medicine man who told 165 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.159 me I was a healer. And I could go into 166 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.480 that in depth, but basically, there are people who can 167 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:57.679 tell you what you should be doing, and sometimes you 168 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:03.960 just need to listen. So family comes from healers. Different 169 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:08.919 kinds of healers, herbal healers, spirit healers. And they wanted 170 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:12.360 me to be a white coat doctor or a preacher, 171 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:19.559 and they wanted me to go into seminary and h yeah, 172 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.960 but yeah, you know, and the spirit calls you, you 173 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:25.840 got to listen. So then I got into traveling around 174 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:31.039 and chasing volcanoes and finally found the Big Island. And 175 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.840 when I got to the island, I was home. I 176 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:38.799 found my fire. Wow. And so now I'm here in Berkeley, California, 177 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.799 hanging out with you. Very cool. 178 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.720 Yeah, And I've been with John I think at least 179 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:49.600 three years, maybe more, and he's a miracle worker when 180 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.039 it comes to all kinds of health conditions. When we 181 00:14:53.120 --> 00:15:00.559 speak about the history of acupuncture or traditional chin medicine 182 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.600 as a whole, how old is is acupuncture? How how 183 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:05.639 far back does it go? 184 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:11.960 Oh? Wow? Okay, So let's let's just theoretical, because maybe 185 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:16.240 I was there, maybe you were there, but we're just guessing, okay, 186 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.559 and this is from documented evidence. So the first question 187 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:24.360 is how old is medicine itself? Right the beginning of time, 188 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:29.039 people start breaking bones, burns, you know, in caves. So 189 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.440 I would say formal acupuncture. Is that what you're talking about, 190 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:33.840 you're talking about like Pudney. 191 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:36.759 Yeah, I mean what we think of traditional Chinese medicine. 192 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:41.600 I read, you know, different aspects. Some people say it's 193 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.039 twenty five hundred years old, some people say it's five 194 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:50.039 thousand years old, and yeah, I'm just curious, what are 195 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.519 your what is your feeling on? When the what the 196 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.759 inception when someone began to discover these meridians that we're 197 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:57.240 going to discuss today. 198 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:04.279 Well, uh, there's a a master of Japanese acccuncture named 199 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:10.120 Shoodo Denme, and his idea is that the people who 200 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:18.679 were seamstresses putting needles through thread on people to actually 201 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:26.279 fit their clothes right. So someone actually probably punctured someplace 202 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.639 on the body and someone felt a nerve sensation, achieved sensation, 203 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.960 and then they started paying attention to that. That's one idea. 204 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:42.240 Another idea is that people were already seeing these channels, 205 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:45.919 these lines and so energy lines, and there's certain people 206 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.759 who can do that. It's very rare. I know, I'll 207 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:55.320 just full disclosure. One time I tried doing some mushrooms 208 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.399 and I could see these channels and mainly because I'm 209 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.720 doing this work twelve hours a day. But it's it's 210 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:09.680 in my field, right vision field. And basically, if you're 211 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.799 a Rishie and you lived in the mountains and there 212 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.680 were there were no distractions, and you grew up this 213 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.839 way and you were fostered from a very early age 214 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.839 because someone saw your gifts and and then you know, 215 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.079 you were the person that everyone brought anyone who was 216 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.720 sick to in the mountains, that person probably could see 217 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.440 these subtle energy lines, right, and so it wasn't like 218 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:38.160 something where we had to experiment or find scientific evidence 219 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:41.920 for that. It was it was plain as day. Now, 220 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.079 there are other ideas such as the points came first, 221 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.039 and if you have these acupuncture points first, before needles, 222 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:54.599 there were actually maxa or scarring techniques. So we were 223 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.039 in the cave. Going back to the cave, and basically 224 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:03.359 you're caterizing different areas where there's a lot of pain. Right, 225 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:05.000 Let's say there's a lot of nerve pain in a 226 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:09.880 place and you actually put some fire, a fire stick, 227 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.480 you put you put a branch into the fire, and 228 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.799 then you put that right into that place that hurts, 229 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.599 and oh the pain went away. Hum hmm. Okay, So 230 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:23.039 that's an idea, right, I mean, that's that's pretty primal, 231 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:28.559 so I think that's legitimate. We also know that there 232 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:33.559 is the tattoo uh man in in the in Europe, right, 233 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.359 what's his name, the the ice man. He had tattoo 234 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.759 lines uh. 235 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.920 He had markets for what could be acupuncture points. So 236 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.079 what of that marketunc points he's thought to be He 237 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:50.640 thought he's about to be three or four thousand years old, back. 238 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.839 Guy at least, yeah, at least. And this is not 239 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:59.799 in you know, China, this is in your eur Asia Europe, right, Yeah, 240 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:04.960 So basically I don't think that China can take claim 241 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.319 to own this or to have started this. However, we 242 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:12.160 do know that the Egyptians, you know, we're doing piercings 243 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.000 in the ear going back at least five thousand years 244 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.640 They were doing surgery. They were doing cataract surgery at 245 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:23.079 least five thousand years ago. So I believe that this 246 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.119 is at least five thousand years old. And it took 247 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.160 until about twenty two hundred BC when they started writing 248 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:35.480 this stuff down, compiling it's that's written. We have this evidence. 249 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.960 It's in the Inner Classic then Agen and so in 250 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.519 the Lingshu, all these points. Everything has been documented, organized analyzed, 251 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.079 and so it's at least twenty two hundred years old, 252 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:49.599 but the oral history is much older. 253 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.960 So you're saying that the documents that we see of 254 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:58.039 illustrations of the body with these needle points, these points 255 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:01.640 on the body, that's about that's that shows up about 256 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.359 twenty two one hundred BC. 257 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.759 Now about two hundred BC is when it was written 258 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.400 and compiled in the Qin dynasty. You've heard of the 259 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.720 Yellow Emperor. Maybe saw the movie Hero, Yeah, if you 260 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:20.759 saw that, Jong Emo and a great movie has jet 261 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:24.440 lie in there, right, and basically it's all under heaven. Right. 262 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.400 So there were these warring states periods and they were 263 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:31.880 fighting for hundreds of years, centuries, and finally there was 264 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.160 an emperor that united all the kingdoms in China and 265 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.680 also burned a lot of the histories, but also compiled 266 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.079 a lot of the science and a lot of that 267 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:45.599 was put into these texts. So we have evidence from 268 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.599 the Malongdi tombs, we have we have a lot of 269 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:53.839 evidence from that time period that this medicine is at 270 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:56.440 least twenty two hundred years old. 271 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:03.400 And when they were documenting the techniques, what was the 272 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.359 application for all illnesses or were there specific illnesses it 273 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:08.119 was good for. 274 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.920 Yeah, so you know people come to us mainly for pain, right, right, pain, 275 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:17.079 stressed neurological disorders, kind of cological disorders, et cetera. But 276 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.839 back then, you know, this was the cutting edge medicine, right, 277 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:24.759 this was state sponsored medicine. I mean like they would 278 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:29.319 get the smartest people in all the lands, have them 279 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:32.799 basically go through tests and find out who were going 280 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.880 to be the ones to treat the emperor. Right. So 281 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:40.200 that's the stuff that's written in these texts. So it 282 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.440 was used for everything. And remember acupuncture is only one 283 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.759 of the eight branches of Chinese medicine. 284 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:51.079 Yeah, give us the full spectrum. It's acupuncture, herbs, bodywork. 285 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.759 What else? Right? So the first three or the heaven 286 00:21:54.359 --> 00:22:02.000 heavenly branches, right, So there's meditation, there's diet and movement diet, right, 287 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:06.079 and so those three are the most important because if 288 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:12.039 you actually can do those things, you don't need anything external. Right. 289 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.319 If you meditate, if you have the right attitude, if 290 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.920 you are someone who eats in harmony with seasons, you 291 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.400 don't eat too much of anything or too little of anything, right, 292 00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:29.599 and you move with the chi that you're in the 293 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:33.559 field that you're in and you keep circulating your blood 294 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.119 your chi, then you'll live a long, full life. So 295 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.880 those are the top three, and those are three things 296 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:44.160 that you can learn by yourself anywhere. You can go 297 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:46.400 to YouTube right now, or you can find a teacher, 298 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:48.480 or you can just walk in nature and just know 299 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:51.960 that it's in your DNA, right, So those are the 300 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:56.960 top three. Then there's functue and astrology. And what's interesting 301 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.839 is functue, which is not something that's really like in 302 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.599 the purview of a lot of Westerners, but it's just 303 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:08.079 part of life for people in Asia, right. This is 304 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:12.240 environmental medicine. And what we need to think of is 305 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:18.680 how do we survive and thrive with other beings in 306 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:21.759 harmony and how do we flow so we don't waste 307 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:24.960 our time and energy, right, And that's how you live 308 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:28.680 a full life. If you're a candle that burns too fast, 309 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:31.319 you know your wax that just spills out right makes 310 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:35.799 a mess, right, And so this is really important. Functual. 311 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:37.599 We'll talk a little bit more about this when we 312 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:39.200 go out. I can show you some of the functual 313 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:43.720 of our clinic. And then astrology, which I think a 314 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:47.279 lot of your viewers listeners are really into I'm sure 315 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:52.720 you know. Of course, if you ask some scientists, they'll 316 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.359 say it's just random variables, and people want to believe 317 00:23:56.400 --> 00:23:59.680 what they want to with biases, right. However, I really 318 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.599 believe that it's important to look at the big cycles, 319 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.039 the cosmic cycles, right, not just the individual cycles. So 320 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:09.880 if you look at, for instance, the Chinese zodiac cycle, 321 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:13.440 we're in the snake gear this year, right, and a 322 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:15.680 lot of people, i'm sure have gone through a lot 323 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:21.799 of internal work sloughing off a lot of the shadow stuff, right, 324 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:27.480 unveiling what's underneath the surface, right when we mold this 325 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:31.079 this skin. So that's that's a Jupiter twelve year cycle. 326 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.640 And it also coincides this year with a I think 327 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.720 a big solar flare cycle as well. So it's been 328 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.240 a very intense, intense year. We just had a G 329 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.720 four storm last week, right, So you know, these things 330 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:50.720 all matter and they influence us. So ninety nine nine 331 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:53.759 percent of who we are is from the Sun, right, 332 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:56.799 and the rest is from this planet, and we just 333 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.200 don't give that enough credit, right, So that's FUNCTU. And 334 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:02.359 then if you keep going through that, so those are 335 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:04.640 things that we all share. Then we go to the 336 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:08.640 personal stuff. Right. So we've done five branches. The other 337 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.279 three other things you think of when you come and 338 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:14.200 you pay money to see someone like me, Right, that's 339 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:18.559 the body work, that's the herbs, right right. And so 340 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:25.920 basically the acupuncture is the lowest branch. So the branch 341 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.599 that is most invasive is acupuncture, which is actually very 342 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.839 un non invasive. We barely put these needles in people. 343 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.319 And what we're doing is we're guiding chi through the body. 344 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.480 We're just speaking to the body and reminding it that 345 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:51.039 actually there's something there that could be internally released or tonefied, nourished, 346 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:55.640 stimulated in order for there to be harmony and balance 347 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:56.759 in the body. 348 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.440 Find to find chi, John, What I mean this is 349 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:01.119 a huge thing. 350 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:07.359 Uh? What is chi? And how do you manipulate it? Man? 351 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:08.200 These questions? 352 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.880 I told you, I told you to be ready, buddy. 353 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:16.519 Yeah, okay, So the best way for me to explain 354 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.519 she she is functional, she is relationship. I have a 355 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:23.200 teacher who passed years ago who said she is time. 356 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:26.720 All right, So I'm just gonna show you right here. 357 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:36.279 Let's turn this around, all right, So this is a 358 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:39.519 tests have been and you see that steam coming out, Yeah, 359 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:44.440 that's chi from the right, from the teapot, that's yeah. 360 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:48.160 And you see that that's that's that fire, that's young. 361 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:55.400 And you see the water in there, yes, fire underneath water. 362 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.759 Great chi. Okay, So we drink a lot of tea 363 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:02.880 here you can see right here. That'll be the next 364 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:08.359 time we talk. And actually I should drink some tea. 365 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:14.680 So what does she Chi is like steam engine energy? 366 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.880 I mean, you know, what happened was a long time 367 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:23.440 ago in eighteen hundred's. These French guys, they they were 368 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:28.240 introduced to acupuncture and Chinese medicine and energy medicine. It 369 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:31.160 was really popular at the time, so that was the language. 370 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:35.480 And so what they do is they translated chi into energy. 371 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:38.359 It made the most sense. Okay, But she is more 372 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.279 than that. And that's what I mean by that because actually, 373 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.559 if you see the character of chi, it's it's actually this, 374 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:49.519 it's the steam that's cooked coming off cooking rice. Okay, 375 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:53.640 So when you think about that, it's it's it's invisible, 376 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.640 but it's also visible. You saw the steam. 377 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.599 It is like life force. Would you say, like life 378 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:00.119 force of the body. 379 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:05.720 Uh So, Prana you know numa prana. These are very 380 00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:12.240 similar terms, right right, And yes it does enliven activate 381 00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:16.000 our own our own processes so that we can keep 382 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:17.240 living for sure. 383 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:22.519 Right, Okay, Now I want to jump into the meridians 384 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.720 because this is a huge part of the traditional Chinese 385 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:33.160 medicine practice, and we know that the earth has meridians. 386 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:40.240 It's not necessarily accepted by traditional archaeologists, but if you 387 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:45.079 talk to older traditional people like the Maya or the 388 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.519 current Egyptians, they know about it because it was handed 389 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.799 down to them. The meridians are the body are an 390 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.160 energy super highway. Talk about the meridians just for a second. 391 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.839 Tell us about the meridians and why they're important. 392 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.880 Yes, So I like what you said, super highway of 393 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:07.599 the body, right, Okay, So there are also these blue lines, 394 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:12.119 you know, those little roads that are on the map, right, 395 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:16.119 Those are also channels too. There are so many different 396 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:19.119 ways for that she that steamed that I just showed 397 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:22.400 you for that to travel through the body, and it 398 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:27.799 travels through open spaces. Those open spaces could be vast 399 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:32.359 blood vessels, it could be interstitial tissue, could be factial lines, 400 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.279 It could be through the nerves, right, It could be 401 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:39.960