Course Objectives
- Learn how to use the specific energies of late summer to improve your treatments.
- Be able to be in tune with the energies of late summer and benefit from them in your health.
- Be able to practise the two traditional qi gong exercises for the two fortnightly periods.
- Be aware of the multiple aspects active at this time of year.
Course Outline
0 hrs - 15 min
Understand the Lesser Heat and Greater Heat solar periods, the hottest time of the year, their benefits and dangers.
15 min - 45 min
Understand the images of the six 5 day periods. The warm wind arriving, the crickets taking refuge in the walls, the eagles flying high, the fireflies appearing from the rotting grass, the soaked earth and hot, humid air, the heavy rain falling.
45 min - 1 hrs
Learn the moxa and herbal plasters sanfutie used on specific days in the hottest periods of the year, using summer heat to treat winter diseases, increasing respiratory resistance to disease.
1 hrs - 1.25 hrs
Be aware of the 6th month, the lotus month, that helps the lotus flower in this hottest of months. Remember the Double Sixth, the 6th day of the 6th month, the Heavenly Benefits Festival.
1.25 hrs - 1.5 hrs
Be aware of the 6 associated hexagrams for these two solar periods and the aspects they reinforce: 50 The Cauldron, 55 Abundance, 59 Dispersing, 10 Treading, 33 Retreating, 32 Duration.
1.5 hrs - 1.75 hrs
Remember the small intestine meridian associated with the 6th month and how to use its points to help cool heat and increase ye fluids eg SI 1, SI 2, SI 5. Also SI 7 and SI 8 to benefit the shen spirit and SI 6 to support the elderly.
1.75 hrs - 2 hrs
Remember to protect the heart in this extreme heat time. Eat light foods, lychees, pineapple, watermelon to alleviate heat. Take an afternoon rest, avoid excessive sun, use the shade. Remember HT 3, HT 7 and HT 8.
2 hrs - 2.25 hrs
Make use of the matching meridian of the hand tai yin lungs, both to cool eg with LU 2, LU 5, LU 10 and to protect the heart eg with gui points LU 5, LU 9 and LU 11.
2.25 hrs - 2.5 hrs
Note the 8th branch wei at this time, the earth element as it is the pivot at the end of summer to autumn, the transition from fire to metal. As earth it will add some dampness to the heat.
2.5 hrs - 3 hrs
Learn the Lesser Heat and Greater Heat traditional qi gong exercises. Lesser heat exercise activates thoracic vertebra 4 and helps the gallbladder. Greater Heat exercise activates thoracic vertebra 3 and helps the lungs.
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Taught by Peter Firebrace
A graduate of the International College of Oriental Medicine, Peter Firebrace, FBAcC, has extensively studied TCM and Chinese language and philosophy. He was a co-founder of Monkey Press, teaches internationally, and also produces songs and poems on topics pertaining to TCM. Peter is in the process of setting up Guan Academy of Chinese Medicine for online teaching.
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