Welcome
A typical session with me as a post surgical follow up. You are part of a session – watching how a senior clinician works. Please note my thinking pauses. Train of thought that happens . . . This person. Their life. My interface with her past history and what we have so far covered in her healing. Well out of the protocol. Q – Who has a ‘standard body’? A – we have all had ‘a life’. Carrying residue. (Body remembers Everything That Has Ever Happened To it).
15 and 8 years after a C section, 4 after a breast removal and 2 years after ovaries and tubes gone. All of her female relations dead due to the gene mishap. Most of her male ones also. Including breast cancers. This was ‘preventative’ measures as her mum died (left the house when she was 10 years old – as the invasive radiotherapy meant that she could never go back home) when she was 15 and she did not want this for her children).
Picture – adhesions – sliding and gliding of the viscera unlikely.
NOTE – when watch in these videos – the left top has ‘1.00’ . If you move cursor onto the ‘+’ sign – you can increase the speed of speech – I usually review these at 1.70 comfortably – to watch first time comfortably – maybe set – at least 1.30
1 – Checking – what is where?
We have in front of us a real woman’s body. We all hold a lot in (too busy being mum to everyone to attend to ourselves is the usual story – and it festers eventually)
2 – Iodine painted on
Everyone seeing me is painted with iodine – see more (CLICK). Also eBook in online course ‘Reset Your Metabolism’ (CLICK) as the entire reasoning for the need for all of us (especially cancer prevention – as she is not made aware of how she can help herself (besides live in fear). The orthodox medical people seem to be innocent of the ’cause and effect’ thinking any farmer would go through – nutrients available? Aptoptosis is unlikely without free access to iodine(CLICK). Doreen’s past health history is awash with lack of nutrient support – as all of us now are.
3 – Take out the cold
Need Qi to flow. The temperature differences we can feel (and use a non contact thermometre to check) needs resolving. All my sessions tend to start with pulling out the cold that has arrived in between seeing them. Cold lurks within (CLICK) and stops life working well. How do we expect their Qi (they are not well – hence seeing us – for whatever – lack of flows is the underlying issue of all consultations) to be fully flowing when it is keeping the cold invasions that daily life are full of – at bay?
4 – Rescue the Yang – pull out the cold
It would seem to me that this is the key reason bodies fall over – not being able to live with what the elder’s all prohibited through their ministrations – ‘old wives’ tales’ – all were about NOT getting cold and wind exposure – and definitely never adding in cold intentionally – as the medicos consul all to do when they damage themselves and in fluid and foods ingested.
5 – Pull ups to evaluate how we are traveling with Sp Qi rescue
To cool down the oven (CLICK) to then NOT be able to process foods well is not the way to live well . . . Also Italian way to pull out splinters/pricklies – cupped it out. Perineal pull up – to show the connective tissue integrity return – SP Qi improvements (See – ‘all fall down’ CLICK).
6 – Not getting cold
Always good to get the background . . In Australia obstetrically it seems that ice is being used as a ‘pain’ relieving ‘treatment’ and it is demanded of the patient to be used – they do not know that Cold is NOT a Mother’s Friend. See free eBook here (CLICK). Doreen shares her ‘snug’ experience.
7 – Preparing the ginger slice and moxa to put onto the newly cupped navel
In addition – after taking out the cold – 2nd step – add in some Yang Qi so the body can fully participate in the healing session you are setting up for it. (Remembering that this is a scar session – and we need Qi to be moving). A great tool – fresh ginger to use as a platform, and also as a heating agent in itself.
8 – Moxa on ginger/prewarmed salt on navel
Use an odd number of heating sessions – I usually use 3 – and add on more salt in the final moves. If the salt is getting too hot – please make sure you tell the person that they are not supposed to feel hot under the tissue. If they have an ‘outy’ navel – be very careful to use enough salt in the tissue to insulate them against. First Do No Harm!!!! This has been done many times – half way through Doreen tells us about past changes here. Very profound – rescue the Qi!!!
9 – Treat the back to treat the front – and vice versa
What next? Sacral integrity . . thus good flows (or not) to the pelvic organs.
10 – Sacral check out
Check for swelling, discolouration and past breakages. How the sacrum works on women – is the point of least resistance is the hinge on it (to allow free passage of babies) allows us to have a built-in stress /shock absorber. Maya work is incorporated in the times we live in – this context in my Living Ligaments courses (CLICK)
11 – Freeing STUCK – structure determines function – and the QI must flow
The mainstay of all life – Qi moves. Home self care massage course – Foundational Moves. The diaphragm gets caught up with all emotional responses and all congestion due to lack of movement – sitting down is the curse of modern life – lymph then is unable to flow – setting us up for all forms of ‘damp’ (CLICK) to congeal and block up the life force.
12 – Checking – Reiki also
Self massage course – also on Foundational Moves. Ovaries/tubes and breasts all gone. No accounting for consequences no medical conversation about bone health. Periods – started when mother went out of her life – at 10ish. Very handy tool – Reiki – as well as the ability to know when to give the body a ‘breather’ to settle into the massive changes wrought so far.
13 – Pricklies
Starting in on ‘being an acupuncturist’ some may finally think . . Checking first and review constantly – this is interactive. 8 Extras – they store residue – which Bl 62 is the sorest – insert. GB points to stabilize /assist the ligaments. Many GB 30 (Often 5 on each side – angling into the actual points – big area – I used to poke and pop it in sorest points – is now too sore for most as they sit all day – so 5 covers a multitude of sins – then we do the glut slides as touchies work – and can go a lot deeper after the release the pricklies allows. – to undo all we all stash in the pelvic area – Dai Mai.
Calming the Shen (2nd run of the Shu points for the Yin organs) plus Bl 17 and then I run up the GV line noting all sore interfaces and use also the Hua Tuo points as needed to release this. As I have had major allergy with moxa – we used the not good enough – but better than nothing ‘moxa hats’ – are charcoalised – NOT vibe-rational – but do give out powerful heat – not good enough – really need REAL smoky moxa – but it is a lot better than nothing – and another option would be infra red lamp – a VERY poor second also – need the real moxa going into the channels via the needles. .(and use cooling points – always I have in Bil Bl 11, 17 and 40 – so as not to overrun the body with heat that may be contraindicated.
14 – Checking the sacrum again.
The GV lower points MUST be engaged – when you run your fingers down a woman”s sacrum you will usually NOT find a smooth ride – but you will be stopped – this is a great indication of why she is seeing you – the blockage at this level ensures she will be pelvically challenged. Using GV 1 ensures that there are less blockages instantly – recheck the sore intervertebral spaces . . Few escape my using this on them – it is the Luo point for the GV (covering all neck ad base of head issues) and also undoes all blockages of Qi and anything else in the GV /spine and pelvis . .
15 – Checking again
I recheck the sacral – lumbar ligament attachment as shown by the balance/imbalance of the sacral spine. I have in the past been working to correct her uterine position – still has her womb – but no ovaries/tubes.
16 – Checking – iodine replacement . .
I always go back to see what the iodine is up to – often it is so faded – a great sign – pop more on – Doreen’s body is faring so much better since she has been diligently applying at least daily – on a different part each time. I reminded her that her ovaries (which need a lot) – are removed. She can move her iodine attentions everywhere. (For metabolism, fluid movement (lymph in the body) and to ensure that atoptosis is working. (Her breasts are also missing).
17 – Stuck Belly Blood corrections
Setting the body up to win with clearing out the Stuck Blood in the abdomen distally using 8 Extras M and Xi Clefts before we tackle the actual scar. See more of the work that is foundational here. Points – Liv 4, GB 41, Ki 8, Sp 8 – sometimes also Liv 5. Dr van Buren – said St 30 – in monthly for 2 years to help clear out the troubles caused. This is transformative energy /body aligning.
18 – Interactive needling . . checking – making differences
May look like a lot of needles. It often is. We are reconnecting the body’s electric circuits. I have done this twice before – 9 years and then nearly a year ago. There is enough sensitivity to be cleared distally – I am concentrating where the scar broke down 20 years ago with the first C section.
19 – Checking Qi flow
Story – release after a few weeks of the first needling of this scar . . Also using Xi Cleft points of the St and GB meridian to check out what else is blocked . . please refresh your understanding of the functions other Xi Clefts as they are magic helpers in clinic .
20 – Needles out
Removing needles . .
Checking what we have achieved.
21 – Using moxa over the scar to reconnect
Always I use indirect moxa over the scar after I have tried to get some blood out of it – get the QI flowing is why we start in on any intervention. I have moxa extraction fans in the room which are left on after the session.
We were pushed for time. The usual massage moves – lymph flowing are not included in her session. Usually are but she had to race off to work .
Here you see what I would have done – the 2005 younger Heather working on someone elses’ much needled scar. She started with a huge valley as her C section was a botch up – and thus she is very happy to be used as a demo model – as without my ministrations she would have been compromised as so many are – this is about ANY abdominal scarring – not only C sections but I have focused in on these as we end up seeing so many women who have ‘had’ to have a surgical extraction of baby – and are left with less than perfect Qi flow – as evidenced by the loss of sensations. Start with the back – you work on the front. How to find these points Moxa on Cv 2,4,6 and 12.
C – section avoidance?
Ideal .. . start with more ingredients – as in ensure the Vitamin D3 levels are over the recommended ‘allowance’ as this then sets the minerals and fat soluble vitamins needed for easy lives to be activated and working with her to produce easy births and babies – and lives forever after!
Look here (CLICK) and also at the resources l have on this page – as instantly downloadable tools for everyone to use safely and with confidence that all written and presented really works!\
Breast feeding after C Section?
Often tricky – consult the genera information (CLICK) and after C section – found here (CLICK).
What next for you as an acupuncturist?
Please see more in this series of a senior clinician handing over her clinical secrets . .this is just the beginning. Please do not think this is all that you may need to know to replicate these results.
I strongly urge you to have watched the eLotus Moving Blockages 1 – 4 series. All I have on their site here (CLICK) My 43+ years of observations as a practical, very pragmatic clinician who never takes limitations or the word ‘no’ lightly.
What I found on the internet – as there is always something else people can do to help themselves.