I had a Brownout during the holidays, only went to 3 parties.
This year’s brownout I felt weak and sickly, with fatigue, leg pain, rib pain, all the time.
At the end of I had a seizure.

Reading and writing were difficult.
My wife said I looked grey on the day before my seizure.

All my life I have had periods of symptoms I called brownouts.
They started with me feeling tired followed by days of arthritis and GERD.

The world just went through a pandemic shutdown, and I was already depressed! I was recovering from losing my home in Paradise due to the Camp Fire. I took advantage of the off time to heal my body and brain. As mentioned earlier, I started going to medical doctors, taking test, and supplements.

As I review what I have written in my blog, it reminds me how much I loved studying Chinese characters, Asian culture, and the role of women in Neolithic China. I enjoyed, learning to read and write Chinese Characters, as well as, reading books on philosophy, history, and medicine, supported my understanding.

I improved my lifestyle, went on several strict diets and I read many books on diet and health. My favorite author is Jason Fung a medical doctor who backs up his statements with references.

I loved watching Call the Midwife, a drama about a naturally dramatic event. In this series the midwives are nuns trained as nurses operating out of their convent. This is for mature audiences only and it helps to have a medical background, but the stories deal with difficult subjects in a heartfelt way.

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Acupressure massage has been a part of my adult life. I was attracted to taking acupressure massage classes because of my chronic pain and stiffness. During a massage class you give and receive. And I like both. It changed my life. I was not good at conversation but I was good with my hands.

I always massaged family and friends. At work I found that massage smoothed the wheels of progress. I have many stories. I’ll be telling some in the months ahead.

During the ’70s I worked in electronic product design and in the evenings studied massage and practiced on family and friends.

In electronics I developed a reputation for being able to solve the most difficult problems. One time I saved a company from bankruptcy because I designed a product that they had signed a contract with a huge penalty. I got an offer from the chief engineer. Name Your Price.

I started taking massage classes in 1970. After a decade of treating family and friends as well as trading massages with other professionals. I quit my job in 1980

During the 80s I practiced and taught massage. In 1980 I was making $60 an hour for acupressure massage and had a waiting list, within months of starting my massage practice. That was a lot of money.

I had been teaching classes for 3 years and was known as Mr Shiatsu in San Diego County. What happened to convince me to go to Acupuncture school and get a license?

The news that an “Elderly Healer accused of “Massage Murder” http://www.runrg.com

I told the school administrator I was not interested in doing acupuncture. I wanted a license to practice acupressure massage.

During the 90s I taught and wrote a book about acupressure. In 1992 Joined a professional organization, California State Oriental Medical Association (CSOMA)

To begin the millennium I published a book, wrote professional articles, and got into politics.

In 2001 I published Pain’s Healing Secret, which boosts my teaching career. From 2002-2006 I wrote five articles for the California Journal of Oriental Medicine (CJOM) published by CSOMA. From 2002 to 2004 I join the CSOMA’s Board of Directors.

After fifteen years of using acupuncture assistants (AA’s), some of my assistants had asked me if they could study with me in a tutorial program. They wanted to study with me so that they could become acupuncturist without going to school.

I called up the California Acupuncture Board (CAB) and asking about a tutorial program.
The director asked me about my assistants. I explained what they were doing: moxa, massage, and taking out the needles. The director said “you can’t do that” and I said “What? Why?” I said, “People have been doing that in my profession ever since I was licensed.” You get busy, you hire an assistant. I said I even have nurses who work for me and they’re all trained. They said “no” you can’t do that. They sent me a “cease and desist order” in the mail.

From 2002 to 2004 I joined the Little Hoover Commission (LHC) to make a case for an acupuncture tutorial program.

During the 10s I started this blog and wrote articles for the Lotus Guide, a local alternative newspaper.

So far it is the boring 20’s.

What if you could recover faster from any injury you might face while also building up additional strength you didn’t have before in the site of the injury? Well, with traditional Chinese medicine’s help, and my guidance to help refine your use of the acupressure technique you can!

Recently, I discussed how acupressure and the Magic Needle from traditional Chinese medicine contributed to my original rapid healing technique Moxibustion. If you’d like to read more about this or even support my book, click here for more details!

In the video above, taken 12-28-2017 two days after the break, I show how my broken arm (which was injured in the humerus area) allowed me a small range of motion up and down, while also allowing me to turn my arm in either direction, though it was certainly uncomfortable to do so. I have said before that our bodies are amazing, and one of the incredible ways we have adapted as humans is demonstrated in this video. Naturally, my body pain prevented me from having my normal range of motion in my broken arm in order to allow it to heal. However, as we know, while some instincts may have helped us survive thousands of years ago, sometimes some encouragement is needed to allow your body to enter the rapid healing process. The encouragement I’m referring to, of course, is stimulating acupoints via acupressure, moxibustion, or both depending on the treatment(s) that will work best for the injury.

In my case, I experienced all three types of bi blockages (damp bi, blood bi, and wind bi) in response to the break that occurred in my humerus area. I discussed more what this might look like in last week’s article that you can view by clicking here if you like.

Now that I determined that I was experiencing a decreased range of motion due to the pain and bi blockages, it was time to stimulate the area to cause rapid healing to go into effect, that way we can improve upon that loss in the range of motion.

The first step is to find Ashi Points (pronounced uh-sure like the popular artist) to release the energy in them, causing the pain to be reduced while strengthening the area of the injury, which in this case is my arm. At this point, you will notice that my arm was still uncomfortably sore, so I relaxed a little bit and put my arm on the table slowly. This caused my forearm to become painful, an example of the wind bi I was referring to previously.

Then it becomes time to press LI-4 or Co.4 (Colon 4) and I do so while bringing my arm inward a bit, which also helps decrease the pain so I can relax, allowing me to focus on stimulating LI-4. LI-4 is a powerful pain relief point, and as I press the muscle against the bone I can feel the pain decreasing from the uncomfortable level it was at, causing chills and releasing energy as it does so. Now that I was experiencing less pain I moved the arm back onto the table outwardly which was noticeably less difficult now that I stimulated the wonderful LI-4 acupoint.

After locating where I was stopped, I walk around using my fingers, using pressure on the particularly painful area where a break in the bone was. I did have acupuncture done in the area that didn’t fully resolve the issue, so I put pressure in the most painful area (where that break in the bone was) until the pain becomes more in the distressing area, though I could still handle it. The constant pressure causes the pain to become a sharper kind of pain though it decreased back into the uncomfortable area. When I move the position of the pressure I am applying slightly, the pain becomes distressing again as I found the sharpest, most painful spot that was also swollen. This area where the swelling is, where the sharpest most painful spot resides, is the damp bi, which is where the powerful healing Qi energy is stored. As I continue to press on this area, the energy releases, therefore decreasing my pain. This healing energy likes to move, so when it becomes blocked like this it, of course, becomes painful, which is why this stimulation of the damp bi makes the pain decrease.

With this therapy, once the pain becomes uncomfortable instead of distressing it is time to find a new area where the Qi is stuck, that way we can apply the pressure there and release the damp bi blockages everywhere they are occurring in the affected area. This will help to continue decreasing the pain until it goes from being uncomfortable, to sore, and even to nothing in some cases.

The area I was working on to start with in this video at least in regards to my arm, (not LI-4, though stimulating LI-4 did allow me to continue with stimulating my arm) as well as the upper break I experienced, which is one of the reasons stimulating it, causing the rapid healing to occur was so incredibly important. After some time of doing this therapy in the area of my arm where the damp bi was occurring, I am finally able to relax and the sensation of the flow of Qi was restored, though I was still able to find another area where damp bi was occurring and I began working on that area as well, which was the sharpest pain yet, though I was still able to manage it.

After some time of stimulating this, the pain dropped to simply being uncomfortable instead of distressing, and back up to distressing when I would wiggle the pressure in the point, though it would within seconds drop down again to just being uncomfortable, causing the energy to come down my arm. The break was about two inches though it didn’t show that in the x-rays because of the angles in which they were taken.

At this point, I sink down putting more pressure on my arm, stretching it, which was the goal at that time to start exercising that injury in that direction in order to help my body do that rapid healing. After stretching the injured arm in all sorts of directions, the pain in the lower break sharpens, and I press in the sharpest point again with mild pressure, causing the pain to ebb away as the qi flows. At this point, it’s time to give the injury a break as for acupressure since the arm, in general, was pretty sore, so it becomes a great time to exercise it. While exercising the injury was a challenge, the pain was the kind that felt good, especially since I knew it was a productive helpful pain that was going to allow me to use my arm better, and more pain-free on my end so I could continue helping my wonderful patients via acupuncture.

Now that the arm was quite sore because of all the healing that I stirred up, it became time to stimulate Co.4 again. This pain was uncomfortable, and I note in the video that I rarely have to go to distressing for pain (in LI-4) at this point after doing the initial therapy. When the pain was really bad in my shoulder the day after the break after I stopped using pain pills, the pain at that point was excruciating until I went into a perfectly still meditative state which would bring me into an uncomfortable pain level instead. Stimulating LI-4 (or Co.4) helped at that point as well, and it became even less painful than the shoulder.

Thank you for going on this journey of learning how to apply rapid healing to a complicated fracture with me, and I can’t wait to see what else we can explore together!

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I published a book known as Pain’s Healing Secret in 2001, after selling around 2000 copies to mostly my students, I am exploring and expanding upon the original topics to provide extra information through my Youtube Channel and blog.

The interesting name for Pain’s Healing Secret comes from a technique of rapid healing that uses a little pain to alleviate acute or chronic pain.

The secret, of course, is this particular technique of rapid healing that I will discuss later on in this article and in the video. There are no known works that go into detail about this technique in a way that is helpful to knowledge seekers that wish to know more about listening to what their body is trying to tell them via pain. I was also unable to find anything like this on the internet, of course, until today as I am bringing this to all of you.

Why is this technique still a secret? This technique utilizes a combination of acupressure and the moxa stick which is also known as the Magic Needle. While the Magic Needle was initially revealed 300 years ago, and the original sole use of the moxa stick was revealed with it. (The original use of the moxa was to create little blisters on the skin to help alleviate pain.) My rapid healing technique (Moxibustion) combines these two techniques together in this unique way and has only recently become available for widespread use. If my rapid healing technique intrigues you, please click here to hear more about the basic concept of MoxaPressure, which is the technique I’ve created and refined for non-invasive pain relief. You can even click here if you are interested in purchasing my book Moxibustion for Pain Relief, otherwise known as Fire Your Pain with Moxibustion.

As for the history of the Magic Needle, An acupuncturist and a Confucian scholar, one of the most esteemed scholars being a palace scholar who had passed the most challenging test available set by the Emperor, which Han Yei Fong was and did, becoming the highest rank of Confucian scholar that you could aspire to be at the time.

This scholar wrote a book in which he explained that a Daoist monk came to him and said that it is time to reveal a Daoist secret healing technique. The monk Purple Aurora said “now is the time to publish a Daoist secret healing technique, which is called the Magic Needle” and he offered to show Han Yei Fong how to do it. He also gave the scholar permission to work on it with his apprentices if Han Yei Fong promised to publish the book and spread the word as far as possible.

Han Yei Fong published this book in 1717 and it immediately became a bestseller. This book had two parts, the first being a list of issues that could be treated (both chronic and acute.) The first part is a list of symptoms and diseases, which then explains how to heal these using this new rapid healing technique.

The second part was how the method was kept secret by the Daoists and how it was revealed by this mysterious monk. The author (Han Yei Fong) also wrote about a kind of acupuncture that was not dependent on the standard acupoints and meridians, yet rather it was based on the bi syndrome which describes how to get to the root of the pain, healing it. This way, the body no longer becomes stiff and painful around the affected area, which even allows the person to return to active life.

This method is called meridian dredging today but it’s particularly clear that this method was long ignored by acupuncturists doing standard acupuncture. Han Yei Fong revealed this other entire aspect of the art that is acupuncture, utilizing this bi syndrome.

Now I’ve also discovered this on my own, while guided by the empirical concepts of the points, meridians, and the three types of bi blockages.

The damp bi which contains a huge quantity of healing qi that became stuck, the blood bi that causes the muscles to stiffen up and hide the damp bi, burying it, causing it to be hard to find, then finally there is the wind bi, which is where you feel pain in another part of your body that was unrelated to the original injury. For example, when my humerus was broken I felt pain in my forearm. The pain distant from the break is called wind bi because pressing and rubbing the distant pain didn’t help alleviate it. The useful aspect of wind bi is it can help lead you to the damp and blood bi, allowing you to utilize the rapid healing techniques to alleviate the root of the pain.

Additional information on bi blockages and my studies are coming soon; However, in the meantime feel free to reach out via Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, or Twitter–Let’s go on a journey of self-discovery together during these interesting times!