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For the last 80 - 100 years, western medicine has held the false belief that it’s ‘modern’ practices based on the scientific use of chemicals and surgery is the most superior in the world.
It is strange then that the Pharmaceuticals are now spending so much time and effort into researching and trying to put patients on so many Eastern ‘herb’ treatments that have been used for millennia in the East.
In this second article, Jen Ni Koh looks at meridian massage for weight loss and general health and uncovers one of the fundamental causes of disease and how to overcome it.
 In this article, I would like to share the secrets of the East to stay young, healthy, slim, vibrant and virile! I’ll also be showing you just how Meridian Massage is self health maintainance, literally at your finger tips!
Also in this article, I will be sharing on the base oil which is called Vital Meridian because it acts like the ‘wings of the tiger’ as it is effectively used to carry the other oils to twelve of the fourteen meridian lines. In later articles, I would go through each oil to share the efficacy, functions, applications and locations of massage.
However, before going further into the subject, some basic understanding needs to be established. Once you understand the primary concepts you will see that you literally can have...
Health at your finger tips!
Living is about Life Force
Anything that is alive on earth radiates energy, as it vibrates or resonates at a certain definite frequency. If you were to measure the frequency of the energy a healthy body emits, it would be around 62 - 68Mhz. As we get less healthy, this frequency drops in both frequency and strength. (A bit like the signal fading on a radio station) If it drops to as low 25MHz, that is near fatal. So there are two questions that need answering: How do I keep myself healthy and strong? And: How can I avoid things that would make me ill? Lets look at the second question...
What is the Source of Degenerative Diseases?
Recently medical research has successively stated that inflammation could be the source of many degenerative diseases. Professor Carl Nathan of Cornell University points out:
“It is hard to find a medical problem that is not related to inflammation; this includes chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, dementia, retardation of the immunity system, etc. All these could have a close relationship with chronic inflammation. This piece of medical news will definitely catch everyone by surprise. Indeed, if one should continuously ignore the warning signs of degenerative inflammation of the body, this would lead to serious consequences.”
What exactly is inflammation?
Inflammation is the body’s first defence reaction to external toxins such as bacteria, viruses, chemical substances and even environmental factors such as stress and indulgence. When toxins invade the body it will damage the balance of the immunity system and result in inflammation reactions and elevate the inflammation index in the blood. In the long run this could lead to various chronic degenerative diseases.
However, if we can deal with the mother of all diseases, i.e. inflammation, there is no reason for any of us to get chronically ill!
So how can we deal with inflammation?
Obviously, in the case of over indulgence (where we overload the bodies ability to cope with the quantity or quality of the food we give it) we need to cut down on the things that don’t do us any good.
Another way is through massage - using health at your finger tips! There are several different kinds of massage such as Thai, Balinese, Indian, Swedish and Chinese Meridian and aromatic massages. Some use herbs, essential oils, and others use massage oils like jojoba, olive, grapeseed oil.
Let me go back to the first question: How do I keep myself healthy and strong? I would like to share on Chinese Meridian massage as it is one of the most effective for help in weight loss through reduction of toxins in the body as well as general health.
What is Chinese Meridian massage?
It is a simple form of self health maintenance. Some basic knowledge needs to be explained first.
Chi is a concept unique in Chinese medicine and is best translated as energy. Chin-Lo are the passages or meridians for Chi to pass through. ‘Chin’ are the main thoroughfares to the internal organs. ‘Lo’ are the branch lines to connect to the main thoroughfares. Thus the Chin-Lo connects all the internal organs, limbs and bones making them like an inseparable organism. Over 1000’s of years, chinese doctors have mapped these meridians and correlated just what point on each meridian line has the greatest effect on each part of the body.
Massaging frequently on the meridians lines can promote the passing of the Chi and/or unblock these inflamed areas enabling us to stay healthier and younger longer. We use the ‘guasa’ board, ie a scraping instrument, usually an animal horn e.g. ram’s horn or other natural product because using plastic instruments creates static electricity, which is bad ‘chi’.
So here is a tip. Never use a plastic comb as there are hundreds of accu points on the head. As you pass the comb you generate static electricity and that de-energise you
With all that goes on in our lives, it is normal for the body not to be in balance all the time. However it is important generally to try to keep it in balance to avoid getting sick. That’s because imbalance over a period of time will normally manifest itself as a symptom like a cold, a flu or similar. A continuous, consistent imbalance in the same organ over a longer period of time could lead to a chronic disease. That’s why getting the body back into a balanced state is so important. To do that we need to massage on the meridian lines I spoke about earlier.
How to locate the meridians and the meridian points?
Take a look at a “meridian chart” of the human body. They show a line of the meridian or a line joining particular points. At the specific meridian point (or acu-point) press lightly around this area until you find a spot which feels a little hollow or depressed. This is a meridian point.
If you press a bit harder on the point you will normally feel pain if you lack Chi (energy) or have too much energy flowing through to that particular organ neither of which is generally good.
Normally you should only massage the point lightly or semi-hard to help the Chi flow more optimally.
The wonderful thing about meridian massage is that one does not need to be accurate on the points, as when one generally massage along the meridian lines, that would be fine, unlike acupuncture where it is necessary to find the exact point to administer relief.
What is the benefit of using pure essential oils for meridian massage?
Everything in this universe sends out some form of vibrational energy having a particular frequency. Human beings do so as do plants, trees, herbs and even rocks and crystals.
A normal healthy body has a frequency of 62-68MHz. If this frequency changes even a few kHz we can get light symptoms of diseases or feel tired, at around 58 MHz we get diseases such as cold and flu. Cancer can set in at 42 MHz.
Essential oils have frequencies spanning 52-320 MHz and the frequencies of those are coherent with that of the human body. Essential oils can therefore be used to balance the body for better health. By using them at specific meridian points the body absorbs the frequencies of the oils faster.
There are three concepts of healing with the use of essential oils
1. Hormone concept: According to eastern understanding, essential oils are plant hormones that influence the reproduction of the plant. This is the key behind the plant’s ability to attract bees and other pollinators for reproduction.
As humans lack stem cells, we are unable to reproduce ourselves like the plants. However, high quality specially blended essential oils are able to influence our body hormones to normalize the degenerative organs of the body.
2. Defense and Protection concept: Essential oils repel harmful insects and kill bacterial, viral and fungal infections to protect the plant. It has the ability to seal the plant’s wounds and increase immunity to disease because of the phytoncidere of the plant.
3. Energy concept. Essential oils resonate at a high frequency, high energy wave that stimulates our immune system. This means, depending on which part of the organ that needs to be regenerated, we need to find the essential oils that resonate the closest to it. For e.g. the essential oils resonates with an amplitude of 0.004 volts and our body resonates at 0.003 volts. That of the oil being greater, it will revive our organs. When we are sad or stressed, our body resonates 0.001 volt!
Currently, there are sensitive machines measure the energy of each of our organs in the body. The machines computer compares the reading taken against a stored data base of known readings as a basis for its diagnosis.
A skillful operator can input the specific data relating to each of the essential oils and find out which would be the most effect for a particular patient.
Hence, it can be used as an aid to improve blood circulation and digestion, decreases congestion, reduces inflammation and stimulates as well as help to regulate our health and energy levels.
With this method, it is also able to stimulate production of white blood cells to build our immune system.
Using Essential Oils: Nature’s Antibiotics
Essential oils have a lot in common when it comes to medicine. Most essential oils are highly antiseptic, anti fungal, anti inflamatory and able to kill harmful microorganisms such as bacterial and viral infections. They attack bacteria and viruses effectively because they easily enter tissues and cells that harbour infection. And they most often leave the beneficial organisms alone.
The three methods of germ warfare
1. Sterilsation. This method destroys all reproductive bodies of bacteria and spores to achieve zero-bacteria state. This is extremely costly and almost futile process.
2. Disinfection. This method reduces the disease-causing bacteria to a safe level such that it becomes non threatening
3. Antisepsis or Bacteriostasis. Essential oils destroy harmful bacteria, interrupt the growth cycle of bacteria and starve them to a dormant state by restricting their abilities to reproduce etc. by interupting their metabolism, thus effectively destroying them..
Bacteria-elimination Properties of Essential oils
There are four mechanisms of bacteria-elimination:-
1. Essential oils ‘denature’ the RNA and DNA of the protein part of the bacteria
2. Disrupt the membrane walls of the bacteria by dissolving it
3. Cripple the enzymes of the bacteria
4. Attack the chemical balance of the bacteria
Medicinal Compounds in Essential Oils
Essential oils are very effective for treating bacterial infections. The essential oil’s therapeutic uses depend on which compounds it contains. Because essential oils have a very complex chemistry, they contain more than one type of compound and so work by using a combination of the bacteria elimination mechanisims I outlined above.
Terpenoids - Use Mechanisms 1,2,3,4 example of this group are Eucalyptus, Green Tea, Thyme, Lavande, Chypre, Lotus, Muget, Sandalwood
Phenols - Use Mechanisms 1,2,3,4. example here are Thyme, Basilic.
Ketones - Use Mechanisms 1,2,3,4. Menthe is a prime example of this group.
Aldehydes - Use Mechanisms 3,4 here a good example is Citronelle
What massage oils to use?
I use the meridian massage oils from Satalylene International, France as they offer a marriage of eastern Chinese herbs and western essential oils. (See info box above) These were formulated in collaboration with Yang Ming University, Taiwan through Yang Shen Biotech R&D Centre (Biochemistry and research arm of the Yang Ming University). They are the only one in the world that have made new advancements in the science of biotech aroma-medicine.
The Head of the research team from Yang Shen, Prof Tsai, has developed the Magnolia Essential Oil. His able associate Prof. Lin developed all the other 4 biotech pure essential oils.
The oils that are considered as breakthroughs are: Magnolia oil, Forsythia Detox Oil, Angelica Ardent Oil, Nepenthe Oil and Vital Meridian Oil. This is driving the medical care and wellness market into new areas of healthcare via inhalation and meridian massage. The latest to the stable of essential oil is Masculine Oil, which is the ‘chinese Viagra’ for men, with no side effects. It is currently undergoing patent rights registration.
Learning the use of essential oils or meridian massage would equip us 60% to be able to take care of ourselves. But when we combine the diffusion of essential oils with meridian massage we can take more or less 100% care of ourselves!
Can Essential oils control Virus/SARS?
Yes, essential oils with alcohol compound and aldehyde can treat viral infections ie. Eucalyptus, Lavende, Green Tea, Sandalwood, Citronelle, Chypre, Orange, Neroli, Rose, Menthe and Thyme.
Compared to the bacteria, virus has no wall membrane and is easier to destroy when it is in the air. It cannot last more than 2 hours in the air if it doesn’t get to a host. It needs to reside on a host to survive. Once it is on a host, viruses are difficult to eradicate without harming the host’s own cells. Medical science can’t touch most viral infections.
The key to control viruses is to have a healthy immune system and to protect oneself from secondary infections.
The first oils that I want to share with is about vital meridian essential oil, which is the base oil and took the longest to produce.
A famous Ching Dynasty doctor said “Wormwood can go mildly through all the 12 meridians”. Used in conjunction with the “Herb Essential Oil Series” it can help Bel’Air’s pure essential oils to work more quickly into the meridians and multiply their potency for health recuperation and maintenance.
Wormwood is also called moxa grass. It is a perennial plant of which stem and leaves have a special fragrance. Dr Sun Si-Mau, the lord of medicine in Chinese history, lived to 100 years old because he often used moxibustion at the Zu-San-Li point of the feet. (stomach meridian to increase or decrease weight).
Any products that can handle the blood circulation, relieve an endocrine and gastrointestinal disorder is a sure way to ensure good health and reduce body weight whatever diet you follow!
Contents of wormwood essential oil
Argy wormwood leaf, frankincense, myrrh, ginger and 20 Chinese herb essential oils.
Functions: Relief stress of body and mind, promote circulation of blood and ‘chi’, relief endocrine and gastrointestinal disorders.
Application: Use straight or mix with a neutral carrier oil (not baby oil as that is mineral oil that will not absorb into your body) to massage feet, back, chest, forehead between the eyes, at the temples, behind the neck. Or mix with other pure essential signature oils, eg. Basilic, Green Bamboo, Green Tea or Thyme on specific points.
Each month I will be telling you about a specific essential oil in detail. Although I’ll mention many others too. Thats because each of them have both general and specific uses. Both are important to know about. And I am sure you will surprised how much you already know. What do you know about lavender for instance?
Each of the oils has a special use at different meridian points so let’s have a look at those now.
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