The Meridian Cure: Use Qigong and Acupressure to Cure Yourself What Doctors Can't: Hay Fever, Sinusitis, Dandruff, Gut Issues, Etc. A Personal Experience-Based Manual

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Intro

Supernatural existence: must be

One of the key reasons I was quite comfortable to create ISGP's Supernatural Research Center in 2025, wasn't just because I was planning to release the Ayahuasca Bible and the Godlike Dreams, but also because I've been working and experimenting with the meridian system of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) since 2010 - and really since 2006 without really knowing it. Not only is the existence of this energy system to me as normal as having a toothbrush, I have been able to cure or control a lot of health issues with it that doctors have repeatedly told me is not within their ability to do so.

A personal secret

This is a subject though I don't like to talk about, because it allows me to do things - in various settings that I'm not going to divulge for now - that no one else can. This is also why I stick to describing the basics - which, granted, is about 90% - although less than 50% of the fun. It's still a very unique manual though that should save you an easy 3,000 hours of research and self-experimenting. I'll probably expand the manual in the future anyway.

In short, this is the manual on qigong and the supernatural that, already as a young teen, I was always dying to have.

Historical cover up of the supernatural?

I put the history of qigong and meridian knowledge in an appendix. The main thing I'm honestly struck by is how easy it would have been for anyone in history to produce a manual like I have created here. And yet, it wasn't done. There's some important work out there, which I will discuss, but it could have been done so much more practical and convincingly.

I look at the parallels with ghosts. Despite some personal experiences, in that case I can't be 100% sure yet, but it blows my mind how little tangible information on this subject exists in all of history. Belief in ghosts and spirit attachment to the meridian system - which I have been dealing with a lot through the Ayahuasca Bible and the Godlike Dreams - used to (vaguely) exist at one point in East Asian history. In fact, it still exists in certain sects. But pretty much nothing - if anything - has been written about it. They are all oral traditions among various monk-type persons.

It does raise the question if there is some kind of cover up going on here - throughout history. The meridian system is so easy to work with, yet no one anywhere could figure it out, except some people on East Asian mountains? And even they didn't properly record and expand the research? No one influential, including governments, science and the media, spread the information far and wide? No one in the West could? Largely dominated by the Vatican for countless centuries? None of it makes any sense. At least to me.

Then again, everything on planet Earth is a lie. All religions. All cults. Including the cult of atheism. And all politics. Earth is a strange place.

What I cured and controlled

Acupressure and qigong certainly have been crucial to develop ISGP. With me, it caused some kind of semi-subconscious stress issue, despite also really enjoying the ISGP research. In fact, it might be much more than just "stress", looking at how the qigong for hour after hour removed hyper-cold energy from the top of my head in particular, which the Black Caapi later considered demonic-type infections.

Anyway, within three months of starting to pretty much full-time study ISGP in 2003, I got massive, very thick dandruff. Every time I started working on ISGP, I got this tremendous scalp itching. However, when I would play Counter-Strike for 32 hours and subsequently 28 hours straight - partly as a test, partly as an old addiction - I would have no itching and no scalp issues. I chose ISGP, of course. Then, after curing the dandruff overnight with homeopathy, within 2 weeks I developed massive hair loss - again combined with scalp itching whenever I worked on ISGP. Through failures like that, I eventually ended up studying qigong, acupuncture, and acupressure.

Without my own system of qigong and acupressure, quite possibly I'd be dead. And under all circumstances my quality of life would be non-existent. As I would still be suffering from:

1. uncontrollable year-round hay fever, forcing me to stay inside with all air vents closed;
2. hay fever that spread to my throat, causing sudden uncontrollable coughing - and really choking;
3. a 100% stuffed nose and sinuses, 24/7;
4. sinus contents continually dripping down into the throat, leading to endless swallowing;
5. uncontrollable dandruff on top of my head at the very least down to my beard;
6. rosacea around my nose;
7. a painfully ice cold nose and face in general in any kind of cold;
8. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)-type symptoms;
9. and major heartache, anger and aggression issues.

These issues developed over the years and decades. And all of them I have brought under control with acupressure and qigong. I could say "cured", but as just discussed, with a lot of these issues there's an emotional component to it, so every time you fully cure it, within weeks, months, or years, the symptoms come back. Or slightly shift.

But first I managed to cure the rosacea (also by not eating so much chocolate). Then the IBS - mostly (also by not eating bread and tons of sweets, although all that is secondary). In the next stage, while trying different techniques, initially I was able to breathe through my nose again, despite an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) doctor earlier saying there was nothing he could do. The same techniques to make this possible, also resulted in removing heartache, anger and aggression issues - mostly. Enormous amounts of psychedelics and new insights did the rest.

From there, I cured the hay fever for birch trees - which occurs from late March to late April. In between, I slowly learned how I could make dandruff disappear quickly. Eventually I was able to cure the hay fever for grasses as well, for the months of June and July, and which requires me to dig much deeper into the meridian system. This all came to pass for the first time in 2010 and 2011, so quite a while ago.

The throat hay fever - which seems to have been a side effect of the sinus-related qigong and acupressure - and dripping sinus contents (due to antibiotics ruining my gut), I was able to cure the last (they also appeared the last), but really by just not being lazy and including a bunch of old practices, most notably Small Universe / the Microcosmic Orbit.

What I haven't fixed

Of course, I can't heal everything. Since 2008 I have a weird dry eyes issue that still today really has never been resolved. Even the dark circles under my eyes, which I've had forever and only slowly grow worse it seems, do not diminish at all - despite having removed tons of bad ice cold energy from all around my eye sockets and the top of my head. My intestines also are much more sensitive these days after first sucralose and then a few Amoxicillin antibiotics pills wrecked it - and only kefir brought it a little bit back to normal. A partially latent double middle ear infection remains a permanent danger as well.

In other words, let's not even talk about healing something like cancer. I am optimistic that it is possible to build up "enough juice" to heal either everything, or almost everything - also based on experiences I skip mentioning for now in this article - but this requires a different kind of mind: one that is obsessed with sitting still in a meditative state. I.e., hours of highly effective practice every day, from a young age.

My lazy, wandering, eternally-distracted mind is not ready for those type of practices. But yours might be.

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Summary of key qigong components

It took about a thousand hours of initial studying in 2010-2011 to figure out that the meridian system of Traditional Chinese Medicine might just be the solution for some of my health issues, and then to figure out which qigong systems and exercises would work. Various qigong systems do quickly produce at least some results in the form of tingly sensations or heat, which on top of that tend to match certain meridian points. I have had good results along those lines with systems as Ba Dua Jin and exercises as 5 Point Breathing.

However, for me, much of it is too vague. And this tends to be a deal breaker as soon as sensations or results diminish or disappear. I need to know why I do a certain exercise. And I need to see results in terms of better health, better emotions, or the clear build up of some kind of qi-related "superpower".

So in the end, I was really searching for a qigong system that works with the meridian system from the point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine practices such as acupuncture, even more so after I became convinced that it was real. It gives you something to hold on to: I do exercise A to stimulate point or meridian B. This leads to sensation C, and a lessening of related symptoms D and E.

This attitude basically landed me with aspects of systems promoted by qigong masters as Lam Kam Chueng, Mantak Chia, and Chunyi Lin. I looked at the overlap of some of the exercises that clearly were focused on the meridian system, mixed it with traditional acupressure, and off I went experimenting - also looking a bit at systems as Reiki and Quantum Touch.

Eventually I found the following basic components to always work in clearing specific meridian systems and points:

Pressure

This is by far the quickest way to unblock, assuming you use heavy pressure from every possible angle. Not so much that you start doing damage, of course, although you'll often be sore the first one, two, or three times when acupressuring an area, in particular when it's skin on bone. It's not unlike desensitizing your shin with Thai boxing, which also may well to a degree involve blockages in the meridian system being worked out.

Many traditional systems and advice along these areas talk about "light tapping" and such. Forget about it. That will take forever, if it does anything at all. With me, acupressure usually is uncomfortable, and often very painful. It is not always painful in the traditional sense though. I unblock my nose, for example, by "crushing" it on a piece of wood, while twisting, turning, and pushing it in every possible angle with my full upper body weight on it. This isn't painful, but it often leads to extreme energetic-acidy-burning sensations, as well as energy powerfully streaming down through my gums, into my throat (where part of it gets stuck, so be mindful of that), and towards my tan tien (where often subsequently knots form that need to be massaged away). It's an "energetic pain".

Focus

Energy goes where you focus your mind. If you have an acupuncture point or specific area on your body that needs healing, it's key that you put your mind there. That is, if you are doing a form of qigong. With acupressure, this focus is not important.

Breath

Focus and breath work together. Without focus, energy doesn't concentrate in one spot, while without breath you die. The manner in which you breathe while focusing can have major effect. Holding your breath, deep and slow, fast while moving focus from spot to spot, or reverse - breathe in deep while sucking the stomach in and breathe out while expanding the stomach - can generate very different results and sensations. Most of these are completely different practices for different objectives.

Palms

Using the palms of your hands is not necessarily essential when you focus and breathe well. However, pointing your palms at the acupressure point you are trying to unblock, can greatly increase efficiency. Focus is key though. Deep meditative relaxation and - if possible - sleep also greatly increase efficiency. Those really get the energy moving. Alternately, if you do it while watching movies or miniseries, it will work without focus. Eventually you will feel your hands and arms get really cold or warm, depending on the stage of healing. It just goes a lot slower.

With "palms" I'm referring to a spot not at the center of the palm, as the idea often goes; but right across the initial "hill", generally about 1 inch (2.5 cm) sitting on the lifeline, dead center. This is always where all the time, since 2010, I have (strongly) felt hot, (ice) cold, sometimes "windy" energy, often moving into the lower arms through a deeper part of the wrist, somewhere in between the hand bones.

This clearly is some kind of transformation point, to suck bad (often very cold) energy out of meridian points, move it up the lower arms, and probably, through the Ren channel, somewhere to the Lower Tan Tien for disposal. I have never felt the energy move all the way up to my shoulders though, even when lower in my arms the energy movement was extremely intense, so I can't tell with 100% certainty where all the bad energy goes. Except that:

1. the intensity of the energy always reduces in minutes to maybe a few hours at most;
2. as it moves up the arms, any emotional distress and-or physical problems reduce and eventually might disappear;
3. bad energy generally moves towards the lower tan tien area, where it disappears, sometimes only after acupressuring newly formed knots in this area away.

Hence, bad energy clearly is being removed.

Mind you, these sensations have not been vague at all. When I first started to heal myself in 2010, many spots all across my chest and head caused such painfully ice cold sensations in my hands and arms that I had to regularly take breaks. The sensations might start like a little "cold windy air" around the fingers, but too many times have I felt this point near the base of the palm. It actually doesn't feel like a major "point" at all, but more like a small opening to a deeper-laying energetic tube going through the wrist.

Emotion and lifestyle

I consider the meridian system the "emotional system". At its most basic level, because as you dissolve blockages and remove bad energy, especially around the heart area, you notice that very often your emotional state also improves at the very same time. Not over days, weeks, or months - but maybe even more immediate than physical symptoms.

This is very important to realize, because it means that if you don't change your lifestyle, or work on gaining additional insights that may change your perspective or give you closure, qigong and acupressure likely are only going to be a temporary fix. A very crucial temporary fix, but nevertheless temporary. In fact, without the qigong and acupressure, emotional blockages in the form of dark, cold energy - resulting in stubborn emotional behavior you cannot overcome - might linger for years, decades, or lifetimes. So it's important to always remove it.

Apart from its dogmatic, traditional approach, I think this is one of the fundamental flaws of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Similar to western medicine, it has no incentive to cure patients, due to the principle, "A patient cured is a customer lost." They stick needles in you, dissolve the blockages - at least in part - give you expensive herbs that do little to nothing - but whatever problems they cure, come back pretty quickly. I went to three TCM practitioners. None asked me about my life or my emotional state, even with one father teaching his two daughters. I did notice though that when they jammed a needle in my Yin-Tang point, it caused energy to move down into my nose. So I paid a lot of attention there, and learned you can achieve the same effect with acupressure and qigong.

Key qigong exercises

There are a thousand+ versions of qigong. I personally haven't bothered with almost any of them. They come across as elderly gymnastics with no proof any of it works, or works better compared to the systems discussed here. The three that I zoomed in on at a very early stage were Zhan Zhuang, and the overlapping systems of Mantak Chia and Chunyi Lin, plus a few personal adaptions - as well as experiences with Quantum Touch.

Acupressure

Discussed previously.

(Adapted) Zhan Zhuang

This is what I mean with the "palm healing practice". The main difference with various "healing systems" is that Zhan Zhuang keeps distance between the palm of the hand and the area that is being worked on. I'm not one hundred percent sure this is crucial (it seems to work stronger that way, at the very least), but it certainly works very well that way. Whether you keep a distance of one centimeter, an inch, or 1 meter from bare skin, in my experience, really doesn't matter.

The key thing to remember is to point the palms of your hand directly towards the area you are working on. If there are any major blockages here, certainly with enough focus, you will quickly find your hands becoming cold - like a slow cold breeze is moving through them, or if they are holding a cloud of cold air. At a later stage, or if the blockages aren't severe, you will feel your hands becoming warmer. In between all this, you might feel some magnetic sensations. All of this means that the area is being improved, and depending on what you are working on, you should see an improvement in physical symptoms and your emotions.

Forget about the traditional view that you have to do this exercise standing up. It will drive the average westerner insane. After going insane myself, I have always done it while sitting or lying down. It works just as well, and you can maintain the practice infinitely longer.

Another key point is that you don't need to focus on one of the tan tiens: the lower (just below or at the navel), middle (the heart at CV-17), or upper (the middle of the head, at the level of the Yin-Tang). You can focus you palms anywhere on your body where energy is stuck. This can be at any of the traditional points of the meridian system, but in my experience just about anywhere else too. Keeping all the focus on a tan tien, while surrounding points still are strongly blocked, doesn't seem like the most efficient practice to me.

So basically I implement Zhan Zhuang as Reiki, except that you have the meridian system as a guide. Reiki doesn't have this, so it is too vague for me, even though I'm sure it can work.

Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit

Personally I have found Chunyi Lin's Small Universe practice to have been key in both establishing sensations and curing a number of issues. They are the exact same though as Mantak Chia's better known Microcosmic Orbit practice, except that there's variation in the number of points focused on. Both are about unblocking the Ren and Du meridians that divide the torso in two and are connected to every other meridian in the body, as well as the three tan tiens. It's quite possible that this exercise goes back thousands of years.

To make this exercise many times easier, I listen with a Bluetooth headband to an old audio tape of Chunyi Lin, in which he guides your breath through the Small Universe points. Even though I quickly move faster than the tape, it continually brings me back to the practice if my thoughts wane. Only when I do it like this, and with a little practice, can I do the exercise for 45 minutes or more. That is, if on top of that I listen to a podcast. If not, I often get bored after 5 or 6 minutes. You can get serious benefit though just by doing three full loops a day, taking 3 minutes at the most.

Similar to Zhan Zhuang, I don't bother doing this at all in some kind of "special stance". I just lay on my back or side, often quickly falling asleep after a few loops. Especially when I haven't practiced in a while, the exercise quickly makes me sleepy. I assume this is due to various energetic blockages being removed.

The first time I did Small Universe I practiced for 20 minutes. I fell asleep minutes later, only to quickly awake to a powerful sensation of energetic buzzing all across my torso and "wind" forcefully blasting out of my Du Mai 14 (GV-14) at the base of my neck - known in qigong as the "Dorsal Gate". It was such a powerful sensation that I panicked a bit from it. Early on I would also develop very warm, sweaty hands in the days after practicing. These "extreme" sensations quickly dissipated though.

The advice here is: if you want to have a high chance of physical symptoms appearing, in order to prove the existence of the meridian system to yourself, do the Small Universe or other qigong exercises right before sleep, and do it relatively long.

Over the years I noticed that it seems beneficial to mix up acupressure, Zhan Zhuang, and Small Universe. For example, I might not get any sensations anymore from Small Universe after a certain period of time. But then, after a little acupressure or Zhan Zhuang, Small Universe clearly would move around some sort of energy again.

However, it wasn't really until 2026 that once and for all I established that the Small Universe practice is very important as one of the core exercises to do. For many years some of the regular heavy duty unblocks in and around my nose area - which always flows down towards the tan tien - managed to get stuck inside my throat. The problem is that I can't acupressure my throat all that easily. It's also a little annoying to try and "palm" this area for long periods of time. I tried point-breathing into it, which did lead to sensations. However, the problem with my throat slowly kept worsening over the years - likely because every few months I have to remove huge amounts of bad energy from my nose area. So I would have a low level itch throughout the year, and regular also the issue would return of having way too much sinus contents dripping down into the throat, leading to endless swallowing.

Eventually, in early 2026, when I hadn't really practiced Small Universe seriously for years, I went back to it. First 3-4 minutes a day. Then a bit longer. Always right before falling asleep. I'd say that within a week I noticed that my excessive swallowing issues were gone, and so was the itch in my throat. This wasn't really full blown hay fever season though. But now that it is, I barely have had any itches in my throat. And certainly the suddenly extreme throat itchings and coughs haven't returned.

Mind you, I haven't been practicing Small Universe consistently in months again - because I'm lazy with it. But the positive effects are there. I suspect it's great at moving away little bits and pieces of remnant bad energy. And as Chunyi Lin has claimed, from what I remember, just steadily doing Small Universe for 20 minutes a day can get you to a really high level of qigong.

Point-breathing

This is just a variation of Zhan Zhuang, Small Universe, and experiences with Quantum Touch, that I started experimenting with spontaneously. Instead of using your palms, or continually moving from point-point in a circle dividing the torso, you keep breathing into one or a small number of problem points.

For me, this is the way to quickly get rid of any dandruff whenever it reappears. I just lay down on my side, ready to go to sleep, put on my headband with Chunyi Lin breathing guidance, and I start breathing in and out of my Yin-Tang point between my eyebrows. The first few days I will likely fall asleep within minutes, but after 30 minutes of total practice the dandruff in my eyebrows and beard likely have largely disappeared already.

To get rid or control dandruff on the head, it might be better to breathe from the Yin-Tang to GV-18 or 19 on the back of the head, and push it back to the Yin-Tang. Keep going like this. However, to fully get rid of dandruff, you might need to unblock all the points on the top of the head, between GV-18, the Yin-Tang, and off to the sides - and on top of that start doing things in your life that do not generate stress.

ISGP researching and writing for 16 hours a day became the cause of dandruff for me within the first three months, so I have always needed this qigong practice to keep dandruff away. Nobody showed me. I had to figure it out over a 1,000 hours of initial studying of alternative practices. In fact, even when learning programming, I get dandruff sooner or later. But when I play Counter-Strike for 28-32 hours straight - as of old - no itching and no issue. Because the emotions are all different. Ironically, I like the emotion of having been devastatingly useful to my intellect far more than the mixed happy-empty feeling after playing so much Counter-Strike. But the road itself is much more stressful, in some ways.

Another point-breathing exercise I found useful was breathing from just below the navel through the body towards the kidney, and back - so through the lower tan tien and its front and back openings. At one point it quickly improved my stools. It was my mini variation of the "mini-orbit", that circles energy through the Hui Yin point on the perineum as well.

Yet another powerful point-breathing exercise was breathing from my perineum (the Hui Yin point) to the top of my head and back, moving the energy through the centerline of my body. I fell asleep in record time for maybe a week: within a minute or so. But then, after the apparent initial unblocking, my instant tiredness stopped, and I stayed awake. I have no clue what this exercise could improve for me, physically, to be honest. But it probably is good for something. Apparently all the chakras / tan tiens in the body are tied through some kind of center-line meridian. But I have never actually felt any of that.

The Moving of Yin and Yang

This exercise I never do, because physically and mentally it's too demanding, and I am not sure how effective it is, and for what. But for me it has been quite potent in getting a strong sense of magnetism between the palms of my hand and the body. That is why I include it. I got it from Chunyi Lin's Spring Forest Qigong manual, likely in 2010.

To do the exercise, just stand up straight, one palm facing your navel, the other facing your forehead. Start moving them up and down, in opposite directions, behind one another, while imagining a column of light at the center of your torso, from your perineum to the top of your head.

Matrix Energetics: a fun distraction

This is a fun one. In 2006 I went to a Matrix Energetics seminar of Dr. Richard Bartlett in New York City. He appeared on Coast to Coast AM in 2007 and 2009, so that should be a dead giveaway that he is spreading disinformation. But he hadn't appeared on the program yet, and it's a type of energy work that claimed it could heal my kyphotic back. So why not give it a chance? I thought.

Me being me, I immediately caused problems for Richard. I made sure to be sitting front row, and was among two dozen or so to be called on-stage to be worked on by Richard himself for demonstrational purposes. Until I came up, all participants "fainted" when "Messiah Richard" touched them. Well, not me, leading to a lot of gasps in a packed ballroom with likely 500-800 participants. All I felt was him physically pushing me back, and his assistants telling me to, "Just fall back. We'll catch you." I just took a step back and refused to fall, thinking it would be totally disingenuous to make people believe that I "fainted" from Richard's "magical touch".

I also found him to be slightly "off". He greeted me, but didn't say anything to me when I caught him alone in the elevator with his son, although I'm sure he remembered me as "the guy who didn't fall", like everybody else. During subsequent breakfast he was surrounded by a small group of assistants, and now he certainly was talking, endlessly explaining them all kinds of "philosophies" - and being a pretty audible presence in the entire cafeteria. It may be nothing, but it struck me as a bit cultic.

That having been said, after practicing Matrix Energetics with other participants - most of whom striking me as friendly and ordinary - for some time, late at night I did notice for the first time that I had these spontaneous, relaxing movements being made by my arm. These spontaneous "qi recalibrations" became extremely normal to me in later years, first through Quantum Touch and later qigong and acupressure.

The idea of Matrix Energetics, as far as I remember it, was simply to touch two points on the body and imagine a connection between them. That just seems to be a form of qigong, as qi follows your focus and breath. I doubt it is a very powerful form, but nevertheless a form of qigong and-or energy work. But it certainly did not cure my kyphosis...

Also, I did meet a very cute, very pretty girl at the seminar that I ended up practicing with. She immediately was very "gropy" during the energy work, and I immediately had a crush. So that may play into things. But being touched by her was pure bliss. I don't remember the details, but it just felt so amazing. I don't know if it was the crush, the places she touched, or if it was the additional dimension of energy work, but I know one thing: playing with Matrix Energetics doesn't hurt.

Quantum Touch: definitely works

Quantum Touch is a bit of a new age system that may have been bigger in the 2000s than it is today. I did a seminar in the Netherlands with it, in 2007, and it was quite enlightening. For starters, it really did work. And powerfully so. The main thing that I remember was a woman working on my stomach, with she ending up getting nauseous from doing so - in similar fashion as I later experienced doing qigong on myself. This is something that was warned about both in the books and at the seminar. If I am correct, the way to overcome it, is to breathe deeper and more intensely.

Most notably why I say it works is because I had two additional 3-hour sessions with the person who gave the seminar. As a result, for years my back felt great again. As mentioned earlier, I have a kyphosis, so there's a tendency for my back muscles to become permanently cramped. No amount of massaging - and certainly not any "dry needling" - has been able to relax the muscles again. This actually is an issue physiotherapy struggles with: muscles often keeping a tendency to form knots no matter how many times you rub them out. But with Quantum Touch, after hours-long energetic spams, the muscles were fully relaxed again for years.

Under all circumstances, Quantum Touch is a form of qigong. Ironically, with the first 3-hour session, I took a book with me on Zhan Zhuang and basic qigong work. The seminar instructor had no clue about any of it. She just didn't know any of that existed. But what she did to me, did work.

Long-distance psychic healing: Chunyi Lin could

In 2010 I had a scheduled long-distance telephone-"healing" with Spring Forest Qigong founder and qigong master Chunyi Lin, located in the United States, about 7,000 kilometers / 4,400 miles away. I never had any hope of healing anything with just one session, but I wanted to see if I would actually feel *something* - as proof that something "psychic" or "psychokinetic" like this is possible. Over the phone, Lin said he noticed various blockages, but more interestingly, I quickly began feeling a little nauseous and then started repeatedly burping as some kind of energy was being released. This experience was just before I started keeping a Qigong Diary, so probably July 2010, but a later entry for August 13, 2010 reads:

"[Doing Zhan Zhuang] in front of stomach for almost two hours. ... Felt considerable nausea in lower and middle stomach the last 40 minutes. Reminds me of healing sessions with Chunyi Lin."

The phone session definitely did "something", and likely was considerably more potent than the manner in which I was doing it locally. In fact, burping sensations have been extremely rare for me, and I wonder if this happened due to a lot of blockages being removed all at once.

I couldn't afford to spend the 70 euros or so per session to do any follow ups, so that was that. Anno 2026 I see that the price per session is $155, and it may not be with Chunyi anymore. It's likely going to be an interesting experience to have. But I do wonder if Chunyi could have fully healed me. Maybe if I started getting ice cold followed by a sensation of strong heat - per all my own "exorcisms" and demon experiences - I would have a different impression. You likely have got to do a lot of the work yourself.

Checking up on his presence today, I see that Chunyi has never been invited to Coast to Coast AM, which is a great sign; and in general isn't very prominent. I know his material works, but even apart from that, these are green flags.

Beyond all this, you might want to try healing a friend remotely. Trying to heal somebody else, for example with your palms, works from some distance. So you can just try to extend this distance. And eventually try to do it from your mind's eye. It is possible. That's for sure.

Moxa / mugwort burning

Moxa I put in a bit of a different class. These incense sticks are used a lot in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). They consist of dried mugwort (Artemisia argyi) leaves. They allow for a steady, slow, and very reliable burn, producing a lot of smoke in the process. In TCM, the heat of the moxa burn is thought to be able to clear meridians and meridians points.

Meridian unblocker

Per my Qigong Diary, I did many hours of moxibustion on myself from August 27 to September 1, 2010. On occasion I definitely could tell that the heat of the moxa was being absorbed by an acupressure point and transported along the meridian, or to other meridians. This sensation was relatively rare though. It only happened at a few points.

When working at the top of my head - where I removed large amounts of ice cold energy through my palms in later instances - moxibustion repeatedly seemed to release pent-up emotion, making me feel better. Acupressure and Zhan Zhuang-type qigong do this as well though. Moxibusting this same area also caused an acidy-burning sensation down the Ren channel in the front of the torso. I would have the exact same experience later on doing acupressure around the eyebrows - with Zhan Zhuang-type qigong apparently not being able to move enough energy quick enough to experience this. It's just a particular type of bad energy being moved towards the lower tan tien for removal.

Actually, rereading my Qigong Diary, I'm beginning to suspect that the extreme heat I experienced on September 2, 2010 just below the navel actually was the result of having done hours and hours of moxibustion in the days prior. I always assumed the heat was due to practicing the mini-orbit for the first time, or one of the first times, and this powerfully opening up a few blockages. However, it seems clear that moxa heat is absorbed by the meridian system. And it might well be that this caused some kind of "double whammy" the next day - when I wasn't using moxibustion anymore.

Overall, I am inclined to conclude that I'm not convinced of moxibustion's effectiveness compared to the combination of qigong and acupressure. This is also why I never really used it beyond a few days of heavy experimentation. It does do *something* - but is it the most effective at clearing meridians? I don't think so. At most it might be better at clearing certain energies.

Protector and demon cleaner

The statement "might be better at clearing certain energies" of the previous section actually was carefully chosen. When Amazon rainforest shamans conduct Ayahuasca sessions, they generally have the area blanketed in tobacco smoke. Why? I assume for the same reasons I was told during a successful Black Caapi exorcism session: to ward off bad spirits, as the connection to the soul is much more open during such sessions. Especially people with bad thoughts, or those looking for dark portals, as I ended up doing, can become vulnerable to demonic-type influences in this state.

I wasn't opposed to the thinking, but I never thought much about it and did a few dozen Black Caapi / Ayahuasca sessions at home without any kind of smoke protection. After I ended up with permanent nightmares after my 2018 Hell trip, moxa specifically was introduced during the subsequent exorcisms to get rid of these nightmares. It worked. At least, whatever darkness was in me, was removed from my body.

However, something around me kept lingering, blocking any mushrooms from growing around me for the next 4.5 years. Trying to grow the mushrooms in a moxa-infused cabinet did not work during this period. Eventually - in a new house, where I encountered the same problem - I literally had to grow the mushrooms in the garden out of sight of my house and myself. Also Satan and Lilith always completely invaded my house during sessions without any worries of moxa smoke. And the final exorcism that got the mushrooms to grow again, took place outside without any moxa smoke - which only blanketed the inside of the house. For an hour+ I just had my fingers stuck inside the mycelium while "sky-breathing" the demons out to the cosmos. It all sounds ridiculous, but all of it happened, is well documented in the Ayahuasca Bible, the Godlike Dreams, and the 'Bloodfire' song, and it worked like a charm.

The thing is, ultimately I cannot be certain that the moxa was responsible in 2018 for making my nightmares fully disappear over two sessions, or if it purely was the mix of Black Caapi and (fresh) mushrooms. I absolutely refuse to do any Ayahuasca or LSD-type sessions though without moxa smoke everywhere around, including a makeshift sleeping bag, and without regularly deeply inhaling it into my lungs.

Now, one of the reasons that I started using moxa as a replacement of traditional shamanic tobacco smoke, is because already in May 2013 I read that certain people dealing with ghostly hauntings found it just as effective as white sage, or more effective. I can't guarantee any of these claims were true, but I had my own experiences in 2013 with moxa helping so clear certain blockages, and always wanted an alternative to "witchy herbs". Moxa has an entirely different association, so I liked that.

Already in October 2010 I had read a paper that always stuck with me. It involves a 1997 interview published in the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine with a Shinto priest named Hideo Izumotome. 2 The entire interview has always been a mindbender to me. Almost every sentence is worth citing, so here you simply have a PDF link to the interview. To summarize, Izumotome made the following points:

1. "Dark energy" can be stuck inside meridians, organs, or in "heavy cases", the chakras.
2. Light and dark energy are carried over from past lives, and involve karma.
3. Izumotome looks at "the aura, at the light, to see [these] problems."
4. Guardian kami spirits help in the healing process.
5. Psychic abilities of the eyes, ears and mind are developed through Shinto chants.
6. Moxa is "ten times stronger" at treating meridians than acupuncture, especially when it comes to removing this "dark energy".
7. Scarring moxa often is key to fully and quickly remove the dark energy.
8. For meridians, Izumotome often prefers treating the points on the fingers.
9. If dark energy is not located in the meridians, he "will open up the mind-body on the top of the head", treat "the lower sex energy chakra", or check the heart area, because "the dark energy likes to threaten the heart chakra area."
10. Acupuncture occasionally is the only option.
11. Acupuncture needles often need to be infused with the practitioner's positive energy for maximum effect.
12. Creating a positive and loving connection with the patient is important for successful treatment.

I occasionally checked if Hideo Izumotome was invited to Coast to Coast AM, because at that point you know it's disinformation. But Izumotome is even more obscure than qigong master Chunyi Lin, who certainly was able to affect my meridian system - from another continent.

I also have to say, Izumotome's spiritual views pretty much completely fits the worldview as I experienced it through Black Caapi sessions from February 2013 on. Initially it was all about burning away karma from past lives - in my mind's eye manifesting as demons and dark insect-like energy. Visions of all kinds of spiritual entities, as well extreme cold and heat sensations that overlap with the meridian system, accompanied these exorcisms. Over the years, tons of Black Caapi session effects and Godlike Dream possessions can be tied to the meridian system as well. Maybe the main difference is the Black Caapi doesn't like to talk about past lives, because it's a useless concept to something or someone who will forever and never exist, with everything being nothing more than a permanent, ever-changing dream. In fact, reading the last part of this interview after I wrote this paragraph, Izumotome says:

"We need an ongoing process to promote self-healing, healing of our neighbors, healing our patients, healing this planet. Chanting and meditation is that process. Always, heal yourself first. This is not selfishness. This is good selfishness. You have to love yourself first, then your neighbor. You are creating your own world. Shinto teaches that you are God and creator. That's why you have to love yourself first. That's what the chant teaches. You are God and creator, and it lasts forever." 3

Somehow, I doubt that this guy ever took Black Caapi, mushrooms, LSD, or salvia when he spoke these words. Yet his message is the same as all these psychedelics. It's quite fascinating, much more so even than it was in 2010 when I first (must have) read these words.

In the end, I don't really know what is going on with the deepest aspects of these meridian system-tied practices in places as India, Tibet, China, and Japan. You'd think that information would be well-documented all across the world "if it's real". But maybe apart from Shaolin kung fu "qi manipulation" (which I can't vouch for), it's not - even though at least a large part of it is real. That's where once again we get to the question of a spiritual cover up going on on planet Earth.

So to summarize, I am quite certain that moxa plays a role in removing dark energy from the meridian system. In terms of its smoke chasing demons away from certain areas, or from within the body, I don't know. I certainly did get the impression on occasion that it helps. But maybe all smoke is equal here. Or the Black Caapi played a bigger role in the past than I have assumed.

Maybe it would be best for me, after 16 of doing virtually nothing with them, to try out the chants (audio and text) and meditation practices of Izumotome. According to him, this will lead people to "see light and energy [and] darkness in people's bodies, [to develop] lots of intuition [and for] your guardian kami angels [to] hear and help you." 4

1. Chant from the "hara", i.e. tan tien: "from behind the belly button or lower."
2. Keep your focus on the "Third Eye" while doing this.
3. Practice the following for 25 minutes a day:
   • Chant 9 times. Then meditate for 3 minutes.
   • Chant 6 times. Then meditate for 2 minutes.
   • Chant 3 times. Then meditate for 1 minute.

The term "Third Eye" is very vague. But this should simply mean the Yin-Tang and Ajna Chakra, both located in the middle between the eyebrows; not halfway up the forehead.

Furthermore, it seems you can just chant the English translations, as it seems silly that only the Japanese translations of these chants would work. It seems to be purely about focus and intent.

But we'll see.

Qigong sensations

Traditional Chinese Medicine talks about external factors as wind, cold, heat and dampness being able to disrupt the flow of meridians. For a long time I thought these maybe were to-be-expected experiences during treatment. But they aren't. They're external causes, that nevertheless still need to be driven out of the meridians. Asking AI for historical descriptions of to-be-expected sensations during treatment, not a whole lot comes up. Most are focused on obvious effects of needle insertion, with a few descriptions of mild sensations along the meridian due to needle insertion, like flows, warmth, or a "spreading feeling". Specifically asking if any intense cold has been described as an experience, results come up empty. I also never read about that, back in the days that I spent countless hours using search engines to find every possible obscure article on the subject matter.

So, as always, I will just describe what I personally experienced. Keep in mind, this is purely about *personal experience*. Not theoretical ones.

Warmth

Together with qi trickles, this is the most common sensation during qigong (acupressure doesn't generate heat, generally), especially when doing Zhan Zhuang palm-type work. It's the main sensation that tells me if what I am doing is working. If I am holding my hands in front of any of the main problem points of my Ren and Du channels, and I'm not feeling my hands get warm in a manner of 1 or 2 minutes, I'm likely not properly focusing. Or, I have not done the practice in a long time, and I might literally need to "warm up" - possibly by unblocking the hand-arm channels first.

Heat

While warmth is extremely common, actual heat is very rare. It seems to signify relative large amounts qi energy overwhelming and busting open a blockage. That probably explains why the only times I had this sensation with qigong was early on, in August and September 2010, as documented in the Qigong Diary.

The only other time I experienced such intense heat, was on April 27, 2013, during a Black Caapi session. This was preceded by very cold energy being removed, and then my torso being filled back up with very hot energy. More details on that a few paragraphs down.

Intense cold

One of the most enigmatic sensations that I have experienced is extreme coldness, and it isn't even all that rare. This sensation has only happened during qigong, almost all from using palms, and I don't think ever from purely acupressure - although you might feel coldness stuck in your nose, for example, when doing the latter.

There are several versions of this cold energy though. Let's discuss them one by one.

Intense cold tied to blockage removal

Early on, in 2010, Zhan Zhuang palming removed enormous amounts of ice cold energy from the entire top of my head, forehead, nose, and to a degree also my chest area. You're talking about ice cold energy that would cover my skin like a blanket or move through skin and bones like a cold haze.

As made clear in Qigong Diary extracts, this almost exclusively happened while using my palms, and it also were the healing points on my palms that clearly were removing this cold energy, up into the arms, from where it likely - through the front Ren channel - ended up around the Tan Tien area.

An entry for September 4, 2011 features an exception, talking about how seemingly pure breath-focus work in the lower torso caused "cold-feeling energy currents high in the torso and shoulders", in addition to automatic "shaking of shoulders and arms." This sense of coldness here was very, very mild though. It did not involve much energy compared to the local palming experiences.

An entry for March 15, 2016 may also involve an exception, with bouts of apparent coldness while only doing breath-focus work on the chest area for a long time. The coldness wasn't intense enough for me to be certain though.

Intense cold tied to spirits and demonic activity

The main exception to palming-type qigong in terms of experiencing ice cold energy has been during Black Caapi sessions and later on, during the Godlike Dreams. In the Godlike Dreams, waking up to being ice cold all over, or to ice cold breezes, always involved spirit attacks or demonic presences of various kinds - in the immediately preceding dreams that is. I have a whole section on these meridian system-linked dreams in the Godlike Dreams article.

Interestingly, the Black Caapi session in which this happened though was my very first demonic exorcism, this on April 27, 2013. To cite from that session:

"3. What's going on? Water is filling up my body. I'm getting cold. Wow! In seconds I got extremely cold all over. So cold. What the hell?! Even the towel I'm lying on feels cold.

"4. Thick black clouds. I'm breathing them out, from deep within. Scary and terribly black. This is not going well."

Then a few minutes later:

"6. Jesus, such heat! Oh my God, such heat in my stomach! Did I spill something?! No, that is not possible. Oh my God, this heat! Oh my God. The source of the heat, it's just above my Tan Tien. Aaahhhh! Hot liquid is poured back in. Pure and clear. Beautiful clear liquid is being given back. It's like my upper stomach, from about my navel and up is, is filled with this hot liquid. It's SO hot. I'm a little worried actually that I will get burned if it gets any hotter. The center of the heat is located just above my navel. Oh! Such heat! Such heat! Incredible. Such heat. Jesus, such heat. Oh my God, such incredible heat. *Laughing* Not normal anymore."

At one point I had a vision in one of the Godlike Dreams that the meridian system can get clogged by large numbers of unseen demonic bugs. In other cases they might involve larger demons. The details as to how exactly this works, I do not know. All I know, and have discussed, is that exorcisms work in getting rid of anything from permanent nightmares to getting mushrooms to actually pop out of the ground again around you.

Intense cold tied sexual energy

I have experienced ice cold energy on a different type of occasion as well. If a man doesn't ejaculate for a long time, his Sperm Palace area and penis start developing an intense heat known in Daoism-type qigong practices as Jing energy. When you remove this energy though, at least the unaroused aspect of this energy in the balls, it feels intensely cold as well. Although it feels the same, I have a feeling this is not the same type of cold energy that you remove from areas in the body plagued with physical issues, or the type of cold energy tied to demonic activity in dreams and Black Caapi sessions.

Dreams and spirit attachment releases

The energy shifts of qigong definitely can trigger intense dreams. Early on, for example, after I removed a lot of coldness and pain from my chest area, I had an unusually intense dream of being bodypainted by two pretty girls, and woke up feeling unusually happy. I've had these type of dream reactions to intense qigong happen on other occasions, but they have always been for just one night and do not happen that often.

I address this aspect a bit in the Godlike Dreams article. In later years I noticed a link between doing qigong practices after long periods of not doing them, and the immediate triggering of "haunting dreams" - in which I was attacked or chased by an evil spirit. This only happened solidly in the Godlike Dreams era, and that era came about due to a whole lot more than merely doing qigong and acupressure. But I did get a sense that qigong work removes spirit attachments.

Underground qi rivers and trickles

Whenever you do acupressure or qigong, almost always there are what I call "energy trickles" radiating from the point you are working on, or somewhere nearby. Generally they are subtle but very noticeable. If you strongly work on a point (for example by heavy rubbing and pressure), they can become quite intense. Only very occasionally have I felt a true powerful "qi river" flow between my skin, at least one example of which I describe in the qigong diary.

Initially I always looked up if the "trickles" and "rivers" corresponded to documented meridians. Almost always they did, and this was one aspect of experiences that convinced me that the meridian system is real.

Over the years I haven't bothered to look up the meridians anymore. I generally just work on points on the Ren and Du Mai meridians, and generally every time I feel sensations, it's energy moving downward or upward via these central meridians. It happens all the time. Looking at the front, usually the movement is down, towards the lower Tan Tien, but when you remove a blockage, the energy stream can also radiate a few acupuncture points up. I have had this happen a lot while unblocking a few heart-tied points in the upper chest: CV-20 to 22. Unblocking it can lead to rather strong, but brief, energy movements up into the nose and forehead. This strongly opens the nose and also immediately comes with an improvement in any kind of heartache being felt in this chest area.

The strongest sensations, apart from Small Universe practice results, have come from my "crushing the nose" practice. Putting my full upper body weight on the nose while twisting it in every possible direction (and then "crushing" it again once you found another great angle), can release large amounts of stuck energy - at least with me. And for years that resulted in powerful energetic streams down into my upper gums, all around.

Ironically, this never resulted in the acidy-burning energy down the central Ren meridian that pressing nearby points below the eyebrow would generate. And yet the stuck energy in the nose often feels the same. So there is some mystery there.

Back and tailbone qi streams

On plenty of occasions I have felt energy move or rush up my spine, including through the tailbone. In my Qigong Diary I note how the first time doing Small Universe - for 20 minutes before sleeping - in 2010 led to me waking up to a powerful flow of qi going up my spine and literally blasting out of Dorsal Gate at the base of the neck. For qi flow sensations in my tailbone, I specifically have entries in 2011 and 2015 mentioning this. All of this simply is the result of the circular Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit of the connecting Ren and Du meridians. They connect to all other meridians in the body and cut the torso in half.

Of course, in Hinduism, the tailbone is considered the place where a "Divine Feminine"-esque serpent-like kundalini energy is stored. The practitioner needs to rise this "up the spine" in order to become "enlightened". I honestly don't know how literal this is. Outside of a lone Black Caapi session that was far from the first, I never had a serpent spontaneously move through my spine. It actually reached out in my dreams weeks before I ever took (the wrong variant of) Black Caapi, but in the dream it was contained in a glass box, trying to break out.

In the end, it's a mysterious experience, especially because the serpent's teachings aren't exactly "full spectrum". There seem to be other energies and-or primal forces out there that can reach out through the meridian system.

Throbbing / pulsating

This is a variation to the more common trickles. It's possible to feel a healing meridian throbbing. I certainly felt this early on with Zhan Zhuang in front of the heart.

Energy deep inside the tan tien and solar plexus

In the first version of the article I wrote that I have never felt the lower tan tien. This appears to be incorrect, as in a dream log for April 31, 2017, I noted:

"I wake up with this powerful energy current in my tan tien, radiating up to my solar plexus area. It's definitely not a surface movement and this would mark possibly the first instance of REALLY feeling my tan tien - and NOT the more superficial Ren meridian and points as CV-4, CV-6."

I have read from a number of Dao Bums forum dwellers back in the day that they have had these same experiences, and I trust my own notes, but I cannot remember the experience itself anymore; only vaguely the related dream.

Pain

When dealing with heavy blockages, meridians can feel quite painful during qigong, sometimes for hours. I, for example, experienced this in mid August 2010 on a number of occasions.

Intestinal rumblings and gurgles

I don't have this sensation much anymore, I think, but for many years while doing qigong work my "stomach" (technically: intestines) would start rumbling and gurgling. I always associated this with released bad energy from the nose and chest area consistently moving down, through the Ren meridian, to the lower Tan Tien area. The heavier the "trickles" "upstairs", the heavier the rumblings "downstairs", so I can't reach any other conclusion than the rumblings and gurgles being tied in with the arrival of bad energy. And because this usually is the last of any issues, I have to assume the intestines also play a role in the ultimate release of bad energy.

Nausea

Early on, while doing qigong, this experience was very common. It could sometimes last for an hour+. In fact, while I had someone else working on my stomach area during a 2007 Quantum Touch seminar, she already reported feeling a strong sense of nausea. Also during my first Black Caapi sessions in 2013-2015, becoming a little bit nauseous was not uncommon. This was extremely pure and heavily filtered Ayahuasca, that would never make me nauseous in later years. I always associated this feeling with bad energy being removed.

Blood in stool and-or pain in intestines

I remembered these experiences wrong. I thought they had happened three times or so, years apart. And always after intensely practicing the Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit very intensely and quite long after not having done it for maybe a year or longer. Checking my Qigong Diary though, it happened over half a dozen times, occasionally with a minor painful sting in the intestines, and always when doing lower tan tien breathing. It has been triggered by (intense, long) point-breathing, reverse breathing, and Zhan Zhuang. In my case, it always was very clear red blood, and this was never accompanied by diarrhea. With repeated practice the blood disappeared.

Apart from likely healing certain intestinal ailments, similar to the intestinal rumblings and gurgles during energy work, I suspect that the intestines play a key role in the ultimate removal of bad energy from the body. I have gotten the same very strong impression during Black Caapi sessions. The thing is, I've never seen anything unusual in my urine or stool. So whatever is released, remains invisible. Even farting is not a consistent way of expelling bad energy from the body.

Farting

An increased incidence of farting does happen on occasion after starting qigong sessions, and not just when working on the intestines. Looking at the Qigong Diary, I had a bout of "extremely foul gas" when palm-healing my chest in 2016, and let out "gigantically foul farts" in 2017 after focusing on the Yin-Tang point between the eyebrows, after not having done qigong for a long time. In both cases I tied this to the qigong work, not being aware of having eaten anything out of the ordinary.

Burping

As far as I have documented, the only time that qigong resulted in a lot of burping was when I was working on the solar plexus on November 16, 2013. The other exception was during the phone healing session with Chunyi Lin in mid 2010.

Warm, sweaty hands

After experimenting with the Small Universe practice one of the first times, the next day people would tell me I have warm, sweaty hands. This strictly was the result of this practice, as I noticed the issue from the moment I woke up that morning. It never happened again though. Not that I remember at least.

Flu-type sickness

I've gotten sick a lot immediately following qigong practices after long periods of absence. However, they only happened when doing Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit - another one of the key indications that it is a subtle yet powerful exercise. The first time it happened I was sick for 2 full days with flu-like symptoms, such as a swollen throat, headache, and fever.

In later years - after having become full blown or near sick at least 3 or 4 times - this link with Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit practice reboots became so obvious that I would start out with no more than three full loops before going to bed. And even this, on a number of occasions, led to a swollen throat or a minor headache by the time I woke up the next day... In fact, in January 2026, when I started doing this exercise much more frequently - after soon noticing it cleared my throat issues - I almost got sick the first 2 or 3 times. And I only did it 3 loops max per day.

I don't know what this exercise does to the body, but I'm guessing that the release of toxins overwhelms the immune system, which never has been overly strong with me to begin with, especially not in late 2025 and early 2026 when I was fighting a pretty decent double ear infection. As I mention elsewhere, these toxins are invisible though. I've never seen or smelled something unusual about my pee or stool when releasing large amounts of "bad energy", except maybe a little bit of clear blood.

Burning acid energy

This sensation is very common for me when removing energy from around the nose and eye socket area. In particular, when I "crush the nose", after not having done this for 6 months to a year, it for certain will result in this type of hard to describe energy. But it definitely has a burning and a separate acid quality at the same time. It's very uncomfortable, to the point I sometimes have to ease off a bit with the pressure.

At least for a long time when I pressed the little indentations in my upper eye sockets, and slightly to the inside of them as well, I would also get this intense burning-acidy energy. However, this time it would not be local, but I would feel it powerfully flow down the Ren meridian in the chest and upper stomach area. This happened on numerous occasions. Coincidentally, these areas also were the most painful to press of any spot on my body. But only with me. When I pressed these spots with other people, they'd feel nothing out of the ordinary.

From rereading my Qigong Diary, I also learned I initially had similar symptoms while using moxa at the top of my head.

Itchy pimples and yellow puss

I experienced itchy pimples appearing all over my body in mid July 2011, after and during heavy qigong sessions. They continued appearing as I was writing my log, and often in meridian spots that were being healed in this period. At least one of the pimples had some dry yellow puss on it. I also documented how at least one of the pimples was preceded by a typical meridian throbbing at that point.

Boogers

At least three times I've had a situation while unblocking my nose energy-wise, that there was a transitionary state in which all of a sudden, within hours, I would develop a huge amount of large boogers. These would have to be removed or they would (still) obstruct my nose breathing. The first time, in late 2015 and early 2016, this lasted for months, because I didn't know what I had done. In later years I would recognize this as a transitionary state, would just continue with my "crushing the nose" acupressure practice and additional Zhan Zhuang qigong with the palms, and generally it would clear up in 2 or 3 days.

Overall, this booger issue only occasionally happened while unclogging the meridian system. It seems you need a specific set of (remaining) blockages to produce it.

Magnetism

This is not super-common, but it has happened on occasion. For me it has always involved a feeling that my palms are being pulled from and pushed towards certain energy points in the body.

Spontaneous movements: recalibration vs possession

I first experienced these during Matrix Energetics in 2006. After having practiced it for some time during the day, I woke up in my hotel room at night with my arm just spontaneously moving around. I experienced it a second time in 2007, while being worked on for my back with Quantum Touch for 6 hours straight. Regularly my arms and back just wanted to "dance" as the session progressed. It also worked: my muscles permanently relaxed in a manner no physiotherapy, or dry needling, session could achieve.

During the qigong period from 2010 on, these spontaneous movements became very normal to me, especially with regard to leg spasms. From 2013 on with Black Caapi they started happening as well, both with the moving of energy, as well as during apparent possessions by various entities. By the time the Godlike Dreams started hitting with full intensity in 2016-2020, I would express all kinds of entities and things upon wake up, from snakes to butterflies to being tied down - always with meridian-type energy absolutely raging throughout my body and parts of my body. That's the one common denominator.

I'd make a distinction here between spontaneous movements due to energy recalibrations versus possession-type of expressions.

Energy moving through feet

I would have skipped this, because I thought the first time I powerfully experienced this was during an August 2025 Black Caapi and mushroom-driven Ayahuasca session. During that session, outside, which involved a major exorcism, I strongly felt energy moving UP into my feet.

However, I also talked about energy moving through my feet during an August 7, 2010 qigong session. In that case energy was moving down into my feet, although it may not have moved down into the wooden floor of my house.

On August 21, 2010, my feet became warm, the warmth apparently radiating from the feet's Yongquan points, considered the counterpart to the healing points on the palm. In that case I did not document if energy was moving up or down into the ground. It might be interesting to note that immediately preceding this was extreme coldness in the palm points, while a 2013 Black Caapi session first involved the removal of ice cold energy, following by the introduction of really hot energy.

^Ryodoraku: mapping meridian changes

Ryodoraku is a way to measure the strength of meridians. I always kept the results of two measurements from 2010, but I can't find them at the moment. I might expand later.

^^

Qigong diary entries: 2010-2025

Intro

From 2010 to 2022, and again briefly in 2025, I maintained a qigong diary / logbook. As I'm going through it in 2026, it's really fascinating to see all my heavy-duty symptoms in the first few days, weeks and really the first year of practicing qigong. I'll expand the entries in the future.

ZZ = Zhan Zhuang = using palms at a distance from the problem points.

July 2010: Energy up the back and heavy pressure at the neck

"A first 15-20 minute session [of Small Universe / Microcosmic Orbit] before bedtime. Woke me up two hours later when a rather powerful pressure was felt at the base of the back of my neck (Ta Chui, Big Vertebra Centre, or Dorsal Gate) and a deep qi current [years later update: indicates also chong mai activity] was running up my spine."

Aug. 6, 2010: Extreme coldness and improvements

"After lying down. Trying to figure out if this works too: The Moving of Yin and Yang: August 1-6:

1. Stool improved after first few days.
2. Don't feel heart stinging anymore.
3. Don't feel stomach aches anymore during meditation.
4. Pretty extreme coldness at top of the head that seems to come down a bit with the hands. Hands also start to feel really cold, but in reality, when you touch them, they are very warm. Happened twice in a row."

Aug. 7, 2010: Stomach improvements

"(ZZ in front of belly... August 7): While watching 24, hands got warm, then felt cold (but weren't). Occasionally some hot flashes and the slight feeling that energy was running down into my feet also. After 1.5 hours some considerable nausea in lower stomach. Went away. One or two uncomfortable energy push-throughs in stomach on right side. Maybe stomach or kidney channel."

Aug. 8-9, 2010: Cold flows and fields; intense heat in arms

"After lying down. (ZZ high up above face... August 8-9): Intense cold in hands, in front of face and arms for the first hour/1.5 hours. In the beginning I felt an intense cold stream along the lung channel and also large intestine channel (these feelings came back at times although less strong). Slowly hands and arms began to feel warmer although somewhat cold feeling persisted for a while (even though physical temperature of hands did increase all the time). Cold sensations in face, especially in, around (right side) and below the nose persisted and got quite intense – like a cold fog was permeating the whole area. When holding the arms in front of belly again it felt like a powerful energetic pressure had been built up in the underarms. Went to sleep after a while. Remember waking up from intense heat in arms. Did ZZ two more times after breakfast and went to sleep again. Again woke up from just intense heat in the arms up to the chest. The day after, my hands were feeling extremely hot when working on the computer. In between all this I also felt the healing points in my arms trickle and activate."

Aug. 13, 2010: Stomach nausea and Chunyi Lin healing session reference

"August 13: ZZ in front of stomach for almost two hours. Briefly some considerable sneezing sensation in right nostril. Sensations like this have come and gone quite regularly lately. Felt considerable nausea in lower and middle stomach the last 40 minutes. Reminds me of healing sessions with Chunyi Lin. Didn't really go away."

Aug. 18, 2010: Trauma undoing, and sudden blockage clearing

"Seem to feel PC3 (cardiac pain; fear; shaking hands; stomach pain) itching and throbbing while doing 40 minutes of ZZ in front of chest. At 38 minutes, at exactly the same moment that Jack Bauer in 24 rammed a scissor in someone's throat, all of a sudden it felt like something light fell on my feet along liver 1 to 3 – like all of a sudden a blockage cleared."

Aug. 19, 2010: Meridian heart pain

"6 hours (almost 7 officially) of ZZ. Kept it mainly in front of chest and it is interesting that it does seem to give me a dull pain in the right side of my heart."

Aug. 20, 2010: More meridian heart pain

"5 hours of Zhang Zhang, mainly in front of chest. Makes chest feel painful and constricted. Started out with some Ba Dua Jin, 1 and 3 (maybe 10 minutes in total). Made my nose itch and also my inside ears briefly. Also did a little orbit for maybe half an hour.

"At night: Did palming for some time. Went well laying down. Did the little orbit a bit. Still not getting anywhere with that."

Aug. 21, 2010: Meridian heart pain, cold hands, and warm feet

"Did about 5 hours of qigong, mainly in front of chest. Upper portion of chest with radiation to right arm got quite painful this time. Did some Ba Duan Jin, similar to yesterday. Felt my nose occasionally. "Did a total of 1 hour of (eye) palming. It seems I can feel the tension quite well, especially in the upper part of the eye orbit. "Did 60 minutes of ZZ holding the hands in front of face with palms away. First time I did this I felt my healing points in palm go ice cold within minutes. No real sensations in hand (little bit of tingling along small intestine and large intestine) except that they get quite warm. Most obvious thing is that the feet got very warm (first the left; then the right) and this seems to radiate primarily from the Yongquan point here (kidney meridian). "When doing another 20 minutes of this ZZ combined with 5 point breathing (towards heart) my healing point in left palm flared up a bit for some minutes. Immediately also my Yongquan points/feet became very warm. Within minutes I could also feel my Baihui at the top of the head tingle, soon followed by additional tingling (all peaking at the point of moving energy through here) tingling on the upper part of the back of the head. Interesting."

Aug. 28-29, 2010: Moxa causes meridian movement

"Moxa therapy for several hours, for the second time. CV12 bit sensitive. Whole top of head and back of head seems a bit emotional. When moxa-ing LI4 it seems this point was absorbing the heat and transporting it up the arm. Felt it continuously moving towards LI5."

Aug. 29, 2010:

"Moxa therapy for about an hour. Points treated: Spleen 1 and several points around the base of the feet. Bladder 66 itched a bit in both cases, so moxa-ed them too, just as Bladder 67 which also flared up a bit. Moxa-ing CV12 [around the solar plexus] caused a belch, some nausea - like yesterday. Kidney 27 - which used to be emotional when doing acupressure - seemed to expel some emotion, but the moxa stick was up."

Sep. 1, 2010: Moxa causes some sensations

"First time in weeks I needed quite a bit of toilet paper.

"Lots of moxa. Baihui: felt right inner ear itch in the beginning. Felt slight trickling towards ears. Ears seem to become warm after a while. Felt a burning nausea along ren channel which had received extensive moxa just before. Baihui needs several additional hours of stimulating. A far less intense but still burning nausea came back when I went back to Baihui hours later. This time it was centered around tan tien instead of predominantly around solar plexus.

"Spleen 3 on the right side seemed to respond to moxa with movement along foot being felt. Stomach 36 and Spleen 6 have also received quite a bit of moxibustion. Ming Men and lower back Bladder points received moxibustion, just as GV1. Felt relief in quite a bit of points and briefly some burning nausea when addressing points at the height of the Ming Men. Hui Yin: did not feel anything.

"C7 and other points on head also received moxibustion. Felt relief on GV24 and high up on back of the skull.

"Nose still the same..."

Sep. 2, 2010: Extreme heat below navel

"No moxa today. ... Did sexual energy drawing away thing today. Did mini-orbit later that day on and off for maybe half an hour of which 10-15 minutes laying on the couch. Fell asleep and woke up within an hour with a very intense heat sensation just below my navel (which didn’t physically feel hot). It was so hot I triple checked if I didn’t have an ignited moxa stick between me and my morning robe (even though that didn’t make any sense). The heat sensation subsided after 5-10 minutes. Very intense, and I’m glad with it because I really needed a breakthrough."

July 7, 2011: Heartburn symptoms during upper chest work

"Began focusing on CV-20 after Yin-Tang did not seem to produce many sensations anymore. Very soon a lot of itching along the front of the nose, the Yin-Tang and up along the Governing Vessel up the head, primarily just in front of the Bai Hui. Also sensations along midline between nose and lower jaw. Never in the throat. These strong sensations disappeared after the first time, but occasional itching in the nose keeps coming back.

"Interesting, the first two or three times there was a strong burning sensation from upper abdomen to the chest. Seemingly a symptom of heartburn (seemingly the same feeling earlier felt while working at above-eye point) (coincidentally CV-21 is indicated for gastro-oesophageal/heartburn problems). Was also briefly felt when working on CV-17 but after that disappeared. Regularly felt qi flow quite strongly from Hui-Yin to Ming Men.

"Good focus on CV-20 for several hours. Stinging and pressing pains come and go. At some point a very cold sensation flowed down into the front and outsides of upper legs. Cold kept lingering for a while. Soon thereafter a brief cold sensation was felt in de middle of the hamstrings of the right leg."

July 12, 2011: Itchy pimples and yellow puss

"Continuing upper chest ZZ. Since today several itchy pimples on my body. Already yesterday two on my chest, but very minor. They feel like severe mosquito bites, but that's impossible. Lying inside a duvet cover as sleeping bag and no mosquitoes anywhere in the house for weeks. When I woke up, one of these itchy pimples was somewhere between stomach 42 and 43 on the feet of the left foot. Another was soon thereafter discovered on the lower right leg, just to the right and below stomach 36. In the evening, while typing this, another very itchy one appears on the upper inner left arm. Seems to be just before heart 2. Interestingly, an internal branch of the heart meridian comes from behind CV-20 where I’ve just spent 1,5 hours focusing on with hands in front of the point. Another just a tiny bit below Spleen 6 on the right leg. Amazing, another one up and coming while typing this. Also on left upper arm, at LI 12. Noticed throbbing there while taking a leak several hours earlier before starting latest sessions. Probably related. Next day: another on the right chest. In line with internal heart meridian again from CV-20. Now at left Kidney 5, even some dry yellow puss. Big bump. Also one on right lower leg, at GB channel it seems."

July 15, 2011: Extreme cold in head

"Interestingly, have not had any leg shakes anymore. Only briefly a few sensations in right leg.

Working on head. Bow head up, so now it is much easier to do lengthy sessions. Extreme coldness along the entire top. Seems to even briefly lodge in upper arms (flow is from palms up in arms). After first 1-2 hours it seems the coldness extends in a haze to the nose. Relatively little sensation, certainly in the rest of the body. Initially some flaring up of Governing Vessel at the top, but the cold pressure is the most prominent."

Sep. 4, 2011: Gas, burning anus, spasms, cold energy

"Focusing on CV-6, CV-4, and CV-3 resulted in brief increased activity such as bubbling (mostly slightly lower now), some energy flows/tingling, and shaking of the right leg. This subsequently subsided. Burning anus and a lot of gas.

"Focusing on the center, behind CV-8/CV-6, quickly led to significant reactions. Shaking of both legs. Cold-feeling energy currents high in the torso and shoulders. Shaking of shoulders and arms. Also some shaking of the torso. These effects also subsided quickly. Later, focusing behind the solar plexus resulted in several instances of violent shaking of the torso."

Nov. 16, 2013: Farting, followed by burping

"Last night made a contraption that suspends my hands in front of my stomach or chest. Had the hands about 5 hours in front of my lower stomach. Lots of gas. In the night I woke up, feeling the energy in the lower tan tien (meridian area). But I also had peculiar perspectives. [Later explanation: a trance state.]

"Today did some work on my chest with ZZ. Less pain after a while (not extremely severe), but did still feel a bit hollow, especially high up in the chest... Consistently feel nose when touching upon the area high in the chest, around CV-20.

"Don’t feel that much anymore when doing ZZ longer around tan tien. No real pain around lower tan tien. No real spasms. But definitely uncomfortable for many hours. Uncomfortable feeling rose to chest in the beginning and came back when focusing on higher acupuncture points. Again, like everything flows down. Lots of gas. Changed to local nausea and burping when focusing on solar plexus area."

Dec. 16, 2013: Tan tien fireball, cold flows, spirit flashes, dreams

This involved a Black Caapi mixed with Chaliponga session:

"Visions of the tan tien being opened up in a fireball that burned away karma. Also saw many colors, apparently of the chakra.

"I automatically focused on GV-23, a huge problem point on top of my head. Real or not, I saw some related flashes of spirits. Interesting when you look at the Ayahuasca tradition. I focused on GV-23 last night for an hour before going to sleep. Cold shivers occasionally run in the wrong direction, backwards, all the way down, to my tailbone.

"I fall asleep. Have a dream. I walk in the woods: dark, howling wind, branches swaying back and forth everywhere. I hear a very loud, super scary sound of children playing or something similar. It is typical again of that mega-intensity of Ayahuasca dreams. I wake up with a jolt and feel an intensely cold energy flow going down my back. GV-23 is just a ghost point. BUT... I noticed my lower back was also exposed, and that alone could have made it feel cold. Still, I have the feeling that something was going on. Very interesting, GV-23 is a ghost point."

Dec. 18, 2013: Seeing and healing the chakra system?

By accident I ran into this again. This involved a Syrian Rue / Harmala mix with Chaliponga:

"4:13: While I’m laying here, I get an impression of the color blue. Blue flowers, appearing as I breathe out. Yes, something blue. A blue cone, divided in parts, maybe geometric.

"6:17: Yes, indeed, while I breathe from my Yin Tang to my Bai Hui, I very strongly get the impression of blue flowers, or blue energy. Okay, flowers of a different color.

"7:08: I get the impression of red flowers around my heart. A red color around it. Yellow below it. Green. Orange. Sssssssh! Aura or chakra system. [I start shaking.] I see all kinds of colors and colored spirals. [Shaking heavier.] All kinds of colors.

"15:04: I feel it low. I see a brown liquid just leaving me. Like I’m a barrel, the tap is opened, and everything just runs out. Orange. Yellow now. Green now. Purple. Red. It’s related to [skipped]. Orange flames. Red flames. Purple flames. So much light. [Heavy releases.] Oh, all that light. It’s just a light show. Like my aura. It’s being worked on, being cleansed. [Heavy releases and shaking.]

"16:57: Amazing. My head just consists of all kinds of colors. My lips, all kinds of bright, neon-like colors. [Heavy whooshing breaths.] Each new breath results in new colors. The colors just keep coming. They are super-bright. It’s working on my head. It seems to be working great. [Shaking.] This is amazing. Amazing. Amazing. I feel energy flowing like a mist towards my crown and over it a little bit. [Heavy out-breaths.]

"19:55: Oh, you’re nose is all black. It’s not good. These are not healthy colors. A little smog-like, dull orange and yellow colors. I see so many colors. So many colors. I see a whole pyramid of light shining down on my face. It is super, super-bright. It almost hurts my eyes.

"22:58: I see the front of my body is like a dark, dull mountain. Like and old man mourning. A whole landscape of it. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. I’m floating in a large cylinder, with the stuff that came from my body. A Zikr dance, a silent Zikr dance.

"6:58: [Skipped] Pink liquid. No, purple liquid is being secreted in an insect-like way. I get the impression of an insect, but I really see cage-like structures and rosters. Darkness. Spider legs. You bring with you so much knowledge. It looks as if these Zikr spirits, these dervishes, are plucking my brains. We want to give back. We want to give back. [Releasing breaths.] I really feel like they just completely plucked my brains. They are really willing to give everything back I desire. What do I desire?

"4:01: I keep seeing images. It doesn’t stop.

"47:20: Violent gang. Violent gang. The energy, it has all gathered in my face. It’s being collected. It’s a brown liquid. [Shaking.] Much of it is being thrown out with the water. Bas Rutten, who is throwing out the water, is the one standing in the kitchen. That’s quite funny."

Sep. 12, 2015: Blood in stool after tan tien breathing

"Did two days of quite serious tan tien breathing while going to sleep. First night I woke up: very strong thoughts about [a past relationship] and strong feeling of kidney meridian on the inside of the legs. After the second day I had blood in my stool - which has happened before under similar circumstances."

Nov. 10, 2015: Lots of blood in stool after tan tien reverse breathing

"Focus on heavy reverse breathing before going to sleep for 5-10 minutes. First night I wake up from dream after 2 hours. I feel this extremely heavy pulsing at left Bladder 11/12 close to my left shoulder. I have a sense of it being blue in color. In the dream I imagine it’s a demon or bad spirit of some sort. Slowly I awake and begin to realize I’ve been doing reverse breathing for the first time in well over 6 months. The strong pulsing lasts for another few minutes before fading away.

"Even before falling asleep 2 hours earlier I felt trickles along the tailbone, slightly off to the left or right, and higher up in the back.

"Later that day I go to the restroom. Turns out, the most amount of blood ever is coming out with the shit. I wonder if it’s an external injury, as things seem a little sensitive. However, I never have seen close to this amount of blood. There’s a lot of blood on maybe 10 percent of my shit. Haven’t poked into it to see if it is also lodged inside of the shit.

"In any case, this is the 3rd or 4th time I’ve been wondering about a connection between a lot of tan tien breathing (or seemingly the more effective reverse breathing) and blood in my stool."

Nov. 12, 2015: heavy energy movements and outpoor of blood in stool, after reverse breathing

"Another set of reverse breathing focused on the tan tien 5-10 minutes before sleeping. Hope to make this standard. Minor sensation at the back of the head, below the bulge, and also at the top of the head while performing. Spasms in left leg when lying flat, but not when laying on my side with legs a little stretched – which I prefer with reverse breathing.

"I wake up, probably after two hours. Extremely powerful senses in my hands and the lower parts of my lower arms. Heavily wiggling my fingers, stretching them and holding my wrists close to my upper chest, like I'm imitating some kind of hamster.

"As somewhat expected, another huge outpour of blood with my stool. The blood was smeared all along one side of the poop. I don't seem to have any external injuries, not of the extent that would cause these bleeds.

"By the way, flax seed clearly turns my stool green and a little yellowish. Whenever I don’t take it, it goes back to being brown."

Nov. 17, 2015: More blood in stool after reverse breathing

"Plenty of reverse breathing. Also again opening up the ren channel with acupressure. Again a lot of blood in stool, similar to previous days. No (little) sharp pain this time. Might be a lump to the back of anus."

March 15, 2016: Foul gas, possible coldness from non-palm qigong

"Several evenings focusing on chest without palms. Definitely an effect. Lots of leg movement and more movement as I sleep. Seems I start to fart extremely foul gas for quite some time. It seems on a few occasions I became cold."

April 31, 2017: Megan Fox and tan tien-solar plexus interaction

In the first version of the article I wrote that I had never felt the lower tan tien. This appears to be incorrect, looking at the following dream wake up. However, I cannot remember the experience itself anymore; only vaguely the dream, which ended up being at least slightly psychic and prophetic:

"A dream of Megan Fox, or really almost the same as her. Skinny jeans, short jacket, very sexy, very beautiful. And very nice. She's my best friend. We're doing everything together. And she's very protective. At one point I manage to drive my car off a cliff or something and she just helps get the car back on the road. She says nothing about this embarrassing episode to the group we meet up with.

"I wake up with this powerful energy current in my tan tien, radiating up to my solar plexus area. It's definitely not a surface movement and this would mark possibly the first instance of REALLY feeling my tan tien - and NOT the more superficial Ren meridian and points as CV-4, CV-6.

"I'm having this strong emotional feeling of unconditional friendship - female friendship - which generally gets messed up by relationship complications and me being me. There's definitely a shift in energy here with the previous night, because there's no intense sexual energy. Instead of interacting with the Sperm Palace, the tan tien is interacting here with the solar plexus. Or so it seems. Very unique, this feeling."

July 10, 2016: Blood in stool after lower tan tien Zhan Zhuang

"Some blood in stool after focusing with hands on lower tan tien area. Very good stool last couple of days. Still no heat in lower stomach though."

June 12, 2017: "Crushing the nose"-discovery

"Wake up around 2:00 a.m. Feel some itch in my nose, so decide to initiate more anti-hay fever measures. Rubbing the bone-cartilage point on point sides doesn't induce sneezing anymore though. Rubbing the sides of the nose hard feels like it's beneficial, but also doesn't induce sneezing.

"However, when I squash the tip of my nose with my palm (after bending the tip over), a hot, sharp, expansive and very uncomfortable energetic itch develops in my nose area that runs to the upper part of mouth/gums towards my throat. I also feel a very familiar burning pain in my lower gums, the central part. My stomach begins to rumble like crazy as stuck energy is clearly being removed. I bend and press the nose in all possible ways, and very hard, until the sensations lessen. As usual, my nose feels very supple and smooth afterwards.

"It seems imperative to squash the protruding nose skin structure (around the nostrils) against the deeper cartilage sections to get the stuck energy efficiently out. This might be, because it forces the stuck energy into the major Ren meridian, making it much easier to transport down and away."

^^

Appendices

History timeline of meridian system knowledge

This section has been copy-pasted from ISGP's 'World History in Timelines', with a few updates here and there. It details the history of the alleged Yellow Emperor, Jainism, Daoism, esoteric Buddhism, Shintoism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Western medicine: a prestige cult focused on money-making

The lack of medical cures for chronic issues within western medicine maybe is not so strange. Everything is based on "prestige" and making money. I actually have an (unpublished) article in which I detail all the destructive-, non- and sub-optimal advice of physiotherapists and so-called "prestigious" doctors and orthodontists. In case of doctors, they have even resorted to outright lies - complete with pompous psychopathic behavior. Eccentric behavior - doctors seemingly taking too much of their own candy - also is incredibly rife. Anno 2026 I've gotten thoroughly sick with all of them - and often I only went to "create a paper trail" and to "test them out", knowing full well they can't fix a thing.

Luckily there's AI these days. Similar as with lawyers or just about any other profession, AI tends to give vastly better advice than humans, with none of the arrogance. Combine this with me having about 6-8 doctors to compare, and all the differences and similarities become extra clear. The problem is: You give a monkey a degree, some money, and a little accompanying prestige, and too many most don't care one bit anymore if they actually help people, or how "commoners" look at them. All they're busy doing is feeling "superior" to everybody who didn't get their specific degree, and simply enjoying the side-comforts: sex, money, prestige, and (vacation and party) fun. They also generally strongly "follow protocol", because that's how you keep your "prestige". It's how you avoid lawsuits and getting tossed out of your profession.

So yes, western medicine excels only at blunt, invasive therapy, of which surgery likely is the one with the least amount of side effects. It is completely based on pharmaceutical companies looking for maximum profit. And "a patient cured is a customer lost", as the saying goes. Antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, and just about every other big pharma-prescribed "medicine" have massive amounts of (often permanent) side effects, and often doesn't even work that well. In ISGP's article about FDA corruption, I demonstrate how the same overlapping network of globalist Trilateral Commission companies are poisoning the population with overly processed and junk food, artificial sweeteners, questionable seed oils, pesticides, and microplastics, while at the same time coming up with the so-called "solution" in the form of expensive medicines - which also ruin people's health.

Looking at that, it may not be so surprising that natural cures - often just as, or more, effective than medical ones - tend to be massively overlooked, with doctors having zero knowledge on it and seemingly being more arrogantly dismissive of them than ever (in my 2024-2026 experience). I already offered alternatives with articles and oversights as the Natural Cures Database in ISGP's Health Center. However, in my opinion and experience, assuming you don't destroy your health by not eating healthy enough, nothing beats working with the meridian system in terms of reducing and curing chronic disease. You certainly can't fix everything - I assume, as I don't know how far a dedicated person can take things - but you can fix a lot.

TCM: a traditionalist cult also focused on money-making

A lot of people criticize western medicine, only to point to things as Traditional Chinese Medicine as the solution. I disagree, to a large extend. As I initially pointed out in an Emotion and lifestyle chapter here, Traditional Chinese Medicine isn't all that different. While multinationals haven't replaced individuals doctors here, these doctors poke needles in you, massage you, or moxa you, and then expect you to keep coming back. So much is clear, because all three practitioners that I visited early on (two Chinese ones, and one western one) never explained a thing, and they certainly didn't ask me about my emotions - the key element throwing your meridian system out of whack.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if TCM practitioners don't (fully) realize how the meridian system really is the "emotional system", looking at the cult-like adherence to a 2,000 your old practice. Actually, checking up on it, the 300 B.C. Huangdi Neijing already identified the 'Seven Emotions' that can disrupt the meridian system:

1. Joy
2. Anger
3. Worry
4. Pensiveness / Overthinking
5. Sadness
6. Fear
7. Fright / Shock

So the concept is there, but nothing was done with it with my three practitioners.

Personally, I also quickly started asking why quite a few points on the meridian charts don't exist, particularly on the face. The Yin-Tang in between the eyebrows, and also some just below the eyebrows, are the most obvious of these. The Yin-Tang certainly is a known point. And it clearly is a key part of the Du Mai meridian and the Small Universe and Microcosmic Orbit system, but no one wants to update the "traditional charts".

I actually read an official schoolbook on Traditional Chinese Medicine, explaining the basics of the meridians. I also had chapters on it in a college book for physiotherapy (that we didn't have to learn). All of it was rather vague and steeped in thousands of years old practices and jargon. Are there really any studies proving everything that is being said? I didn't get that impression. It's just too vague for that. There also was nothing in them along the lines of, "Try is to get some practical sensations." I provide that. And I'm nothing more than a "dabbler". I have little interest in practicing qigong or acupressure when not absolutely needed to make my life better.

^Notes

1. *) 16th century, Sri Purnananda Giri, 'Satcakranirupana' ('Sat-cakra-nirupana'), verse 32 on the Ajna chakra / Third Eye, additional explanatory "commentary" by Sri Kalicarana traditionally (already in the 16th century) included with this verse (and all verses): "The Author describes the Ajna-Cakra between the eyebrows in the seven verses beginning with this. ... This Lotus is between the eyebrows, as the following shows. "Going upwards after entering the throat and palate, the white and auspicious Lotus between the eyebrows is reached by Kundali.""
   1924, Sir John Woodcroffe (Arthur Avalon was his pseudonym), 'The Serpent Power', pp. 395-396. From p. 317 he provides a full translation of the 'Satcakranirupana', including Sri Kalicarana comments, and his own footnotes. Woodcroffe refers to "Bhrumadhya", meaning "the middle between the eyebrows", as a key word here used in traditional Sanskrit texts. p. 148: "The highest of the six centres called Chakra in the Sushumna is the Ajna, a position which corresponds frontally with the space between the eyebrows (Bhrumadhya), and at the back with the pineal gland, the pituitary body, and the top of the cerebellum."
   p. 209: "In Ch. IV, v. 80, of the Hathayogapradipika [15th century yoga manual], it is said that concentration between the eyebrows is the easiest and quickest way of attainment of Unmani Avastha [no-mind state]."
   *) Various yoga pages refer to a Bhrumadhya-drstih practice, but tend to be low quality. Extra ChatGPT check for the meaning of bhrumadhya-drstih: "Gaze at the middle of the eyebrows. ... Bhru = eyebrows. ... madhya = middle. ... drsti = gaze."
2. July 1997, no. 10, Jake Paul Fratkin, as published by the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine, '"Healing in the Fire of Moxa": Acupuncture for Spiritual Purification an Interview With Shinto Priest Hideo Izumoto'.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.