Comments on: Qigong Students: Here’s How to Make Sense of the Meridians https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-sense-of-the-meridians Qigong and Tai Chi with Sifu Anthony Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sheridan https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63240 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 23:44:52 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63240 That was such a helpful post! I learned a lot about meridians. I knew some of the information, but it was so nice to have a comprehensive view!

]]> By: Sifu Anthony Korahais https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63206 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:19:19 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63206 In reply to Dorrie Emmel.

Hi Dorrie. I think you’re probably right that tuina is older than acupuncture, but I would need more research. However, I do know that qigong is older than acupuncture.

Yes, you can feel the patient’s energy through acupuncture needles, but it’s not a major diagnostic tool. The 4 Pillars of Diagnosis are: Asking, Listening, Looking, and Touching. Examples are Tongue Diagnosis (Looking), Pulse Diagnosis (Touching), and Face Reading (Looking).

I didn’t know that Dr. Palmer went to China, but I think your understanding of chiropractic is a bit dated. Modern methods don’t do a lot of bone cracking. It’s a holistic method that has a lot of similarities to Chinese medicine.

Regarding your idea of the palms up posture for yin and yang — it’s not correct. If you stand with your hands up and your palms forward, the front is not all yin. For example, the Stomach Meridian runs from your eye, down your chest, down the front of your leg, to the toe. That’s a yang meridian.

My example of the pale and tan is better. The areas of the body that get less sun are more yin. The areas that get more sun are more yang. It’s not as simple as front and back.

]]> By: Dorrie Emmel https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63202 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:04:54 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63202 This article and the comments are great, thanks everyone. I am going to step out here on a limb and say that my TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] teacher — we study herbs, tuina, nutrition, & ++ , but only reference to qigong, tai chi, etc — says that tuina was likely developed before acupuncture. This seems reasonable to me because humans had fingers & hands before they created needles. I’m wondering if when you use the acupuncture needles you feel people’s energy and use this and your intuition as a diagnostic tool, which you may when doing tuina. ………………….My second comment is that apparently [this from my same teacher] chiropractic comes from tuina. It normally only ‘moves’ bones but does not soften first, which is a key to the body being able to respond better to the bone placements / changes. Apparently the man who began chiropractic in the USA. Her understanding is that Mr Palmer actually went to China [or else learned from Chinese people in the western world] and left out those major portions, narrowing his practice to just moving the bones [this is my nomenclature, i don’t know how to refer to it. Some people call it ‘cracking’ but that sounds a bit harsh – which chiropractic can be].
————– I want to add something else concerning the yin & yang portions of the body. The concept of pale & tan may work for lighter-skinned people, but I have another way of understanding this. My perspective changed when I saw a Chinese diagram of the body. If you visualize a person standing with their arms raised above their head with palms to the front, everything in the front is yin, and what’s in the back is yang.

]]> By: Sifu Anthony Korahais https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63132 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:43:37 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63132 In reply to Terry H.

I’m glad you found it helpful Terry!

]]> By: Sifu Anthony Korahais https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63131 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:43:21 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63131 In reply to taproot.

Qi is always flowing, just like blood. But there is a sequence where each meridian is dominant for a period of 2 hours. That sequence is:

Liver (1AM-3AM)
Lung (3AM-5AM)
Large Intestine (5AM-7AM)
Stomach (7AM-9AM)
Spleen (9AM-11AM)
Heart (11AM-1PM)
Small Intestine (1PM-3PM)
Bladder (3PM-5PM)
Kidney (5PM-7PM)
Pericardium (7PM-9PM)
Sanjiao (9PM-11PM
Gallbladder (11PM-1AM)

]]> By: Sifu Anthony Korahais https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63130 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:38:26 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63130 In reply to Pang Kok Leng.

Sorry, I’m not sure I understand your question.

]]> By: Pang Kok Leng https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63129 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:54:31 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63129 Any particular qigong or any qigong?

]]> By: taproot https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63128 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:37:45 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63128 Does the qi flow through all these meridians in one giant, connected, sequential circuit? If so, what is that full path, from one meridian to the next?

]]> By: Terry H https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63127 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:50:08 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63127 Dear Sifu, thanks for a very informative article and one that includes the right way to pronounce Chinese words. I find this really helpful and few qigong teachers do this.

]]> By: mavis Urwib https://flowingzen.com/making-sense-of-the-meridians/#comment-63123 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:30:54 +0000 http://flowingzen.com/?p=19897#comment-63123 amazing post Anthony, full of great info but easily understood and especially the diagrams. thankyou so much for sharing. vitally interested in hearing more.

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