1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPLEMENT CHANNELS THE COMPLETE CHANNEL SYSTEM

2. DAOISM Celestial Masters (Tian Shi) Lady Wei (Wei Hua Cun) -- 252–334 AD Jade Purity/Higher Purity (Shang Qing) Ge Hon - 3 rd Generation Sun Si Miao – 18 th Generation … Jeffrey Yuen – 88 th Generation

3. HISTORY & MEDICINE Shang Oracle bones Shaman medicine Altered State Magic ancestral 1700 - 1027 BCE Warring States 476 - 221 BCE I shi - advisors “100 schools” Nei Jing Attempt to understand disease Why How Han Han Synthesis Confucianism Daoism Legalism Oral tradition written down Shan Han Lun Chao Yuen Feng – The Origin of disease Wu Wei – first known physician -Needling Depth Location Timing 206 BCE - 220 CE Tang San Si-Miao 590 CE-682CE Imperial Physician 618 CE - 907 CE 3 Kingdoms To Jin 220 CE – 420 CE Hua To Huang Fu-Mi Jia Yu Jing Wang Shu-He Mai Jing Ge Hong Alchemical tradition

4. ESTABLISHED MEDICINE – SONG DYNASTY 960-1279 1045 CE – Movable Type 1076 – Tai Yi Ju – Imperial Bureau of Medicine / The Imperial Academy Administrative Structure – Emperor AND officials Increase in Schools, education and private libraries Govern the practice and registry of Medicine administrations of exams outlaw of “Bell” doctors and apprenticeship Regulation/registration Standardization of etiology (external/Internal/neither) Specialties and Treatment Strategies Abandoning 8 out of the 9 traditional needles Synthesis of North and South – Herbal tradition vs. Acupuncture Standardization of points, point functions Role of officials in the bureaucracy, sovereign fire and ministerial fire PC channel added Focus on Zang Fu – less Channel theory

5. CHALLENGES TO ACUPUNCTURE Epidemics Treating the individual – unique condition, unique treatment Pathogen = Cold vs. Heat (Epidemic spreads like fire) Herbal Medicine Easier to administer Substantial Accessible - done individually.

6. THE CHANNEL SYSTEM IN THE CLASSICS Sinew channel Chapter 43: Wei Qi circulates between the skin and the sinews and cannot travel in the blood Su WenLing Shu Chapter 13: pathways in detail Chapter 59: pathology of stagnant Wei Qi in the sinews Luo channel Chapter 18: Great Luo of the ST Chapter 10: Pathways, Visibility Chapter 21: Treats rebellion Qi Chapter 22: S&S, treatment protocol Chapter 27: “Emptied” Luo Chapter 39: Appearances of Blood Chapter 62: Obstructed Luo keeps the pathology in the limbs, blocking the antique points rendering PM ineffective Divergent channel Chapter 63: Mobilize pathogens away from the ZF into the joints Chapter 11: Pathways, “Study these first…they are the very breath of the superior physician”

7. THE ENERGETIC LAYERS OF THE BODY Wei Ying Yuan External anatomy Acute conditions Mood Internal anatomy Vessels Emotions, Subconscious Constitutional anatomy Bone Marrow, DNA Congenital, Hereditary Temperament, Unconscious Qi Blood Jing

8. Blood Qi THE CHANNEL SYSTEM Wei Ying Yuan Divergent Primary Sinews Luo 8 Extra

9. COMPLEMENT CHANNELS Primary = Primacy Needed to support life Interaction between us and the world Complement, not Secondary These channels are here to help preserve life Storage place for challenges that interfere with daily life

10. CHANNELS OF PATHOLOGY Created as needed Do not exist with the absence of pathology Storage financed with body’s resources LUO CHANNELS DIVERGENT CHANNELS

11. CHANNELS OF PATHOLOGY Jing Qi Wei/Defensi ve Yuan Divergent Exterior factor Blood Ying Interior factor

12. DITCHES AND RESERVOIRS EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY VESSELS The level of Jing Almost unlimited capability of holding (Dai Mai) Transmission to the next generation (unresolved pathology)

13. DISEASE NEMESIS Unresolved pathogen Body’s priority – preserve life (protect ZF) Availability of resources in the body Holding pathology in latency = Bi obstruction