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location: Frist page Theory & Efficacy The Cultural Connotation of “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes (Gong Shen Dan Xue)”(Ⅱ)
2018-05-28
The Cultural Connotation of “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes (Gong Shen Dan Xue)”(Ⅱ)

Then how to preserve essence to strengthen the body? Doing “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes” of Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Shi Er Fa is an effective way. The reason can be concluded into these three points:

I. This routine can affect the Mingmen Point and warm the innate endowment.

According to Nanjing, the Mingmen Point belongs to the kidneys and serves as the resting place for the essence and the mind. (Indicating that Mingmen is the foundation of human life. Ming means life, and Men means gate in the Chinese language). Also, this point is the place where mind and the source qi rest. Men put his essence here and women use the point to nourish their abdomens (people use the Mingmen Point to maintain their reproductive function). The qi here can flow to the kidneys (the Mingmen Point has the same function as the kidney). “The moving qi of the kidneys” is the origin of life, the foundation of the viscera, the root of the twelve meridians, the gate of breath and the origin of the triple energizers. “Thus if the Mingmen Point malfunctions, the person’s life will come to an end.”

When doing “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes”, the exerciser should use his mind to strengthen his Mingmen Point and bend his body mildly. These movements have at least two important effects.

1) Warming the Mingmen Point which is under the second lumbar spinous and creating the effect of “warming the blood to let it flow, heating the meridians to make it smooth”.

2) Effectively promoting the renal function, which is one of the innate foundations and “carries the genuine yin and the genuine yang”to nourish the essence, the yin and the kidneys and strengthen the body.

II. This routine can help dredge vessels and meridians, such as the Governor Vessel, the Thoroughfare Vessel, the kidney meridian and the urinary bladder meridian.

Neijing wrote that the Governor Vessel travels on the back, which is a yang area. The qi in this vessel can govern and promote other body parts, so it can also be called “the vessel ruling all the yang”and “the sea of yang vessels”. The book also introduced that the Governor Vessel goes through the spine, belongs to the kidney and enters the brain. It has a deep relation with the brain and the spinal cord.

The branch of the Thoroughfare Vessel goes out from the stomach, retreats to connect the Governor Vessel, and goes upward into the spine.

The kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin starts from the little toes, goes aslant through the soles (the Yongquan Points) ... goes along the inner side of the thighs and enters the spine at the leg end(the Changqiang Point) ,goes through the spine, belongs to the kidney and winds the urinary bladder.

The urinary bladder meridian of food-taiyang starts from inner corners of the eyes...enters the cranial cavity, winds the brain...goes down to meet at the Dazhui Point...then goes along the spine horizontally on its two sides at a distance of 1.5 cuns, arrives at the waist (the Shenyu Point), enters the muscles on the two sides of the spine, goes deep into the body and winds the kidneys.

In Health Qigong Dao Yin Yang Sheng Gong Shi Er Fa, “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes”can help the exerciser through the bending movement to pull and stimulate these vessels and meridians above, facilitate the running of qi and blood and their function of nourishing the whole body(carrying nutrients to the viscera), bringing the effects of growing marrows, nourishing the the yin, the kidneys, the innate essence, the acquired essence, and the waist.

III. This routine can help the Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel successfully connect with each other.

Neijing told us that the Conception Vessel starts from the perineum under the Zhongji Point and ends at the vertex. It goes through the Guanyuan Point in the abdomen, reaches the throat, goes upward to the lower jaw and passes through the face. (see Picture 1)

The Governor Vessel starts from the perineum, goes through the spine, goes up to the Fengfu Point under the occipital part, enters the brain, reaches the vertex (the Baihui Point), then goes down to the nose, enters the gingiva to meet the Conception Vessel. (see Picture 2)

When doing “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes”, because the Governor Vessel which goes up the spine is turned downwards after the exerciser bends his body, it meets the Conception Vessel which goes up at the Guanyuan Point (the place where men store their essence and women store their blood) three cuns under the navel. According to TCM theories, the connection between these two vessels is the connection between yin and yang, bringing great vitality and the effects of nourishing the essence, improving somatic functions and strengthening the body. Just as Zhubingyuanhoulun wrote: “The harmony between the yin qi and the yang qi makes the yin changes under the influence of yang. That leads to pregnancy.” “People are born with the yin qi and the yang qi, and grow up with the help of them.” Zhouyi Xici also wrote: “The balance between yin and yang is the Tao.” “The yin and the yang have their virtues and the strong and the weak have their own characteristics.”

These are the Cultural Connotation of “Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes”. To help you understand these meanings deeper, I have a little rhyme for you:

“Bending the Body to Brush the Shoes”to get bright ideas.

Connecting the Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel to dredge all the vessels.

Warming the Mingmen Point and calming the viscera.

Cultivating the genuine qi and the source qi to maintain longevity.

(By Zhang Guangde and Si Chaoquan)

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