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The Silver Bullet

KOSA
(Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture)

NeedleLess Acupuncture
 The Silver Bullet
KOSA
(Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture)
NeedleLess Acupuncture
BY

Byoung Soon Kim

M. Sc. of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture, L.Ac.

www.saahm.net
 Published by
KOSA of the America
Buena Park, CA 90621

Copyright  2011-2017 by Byoung Soon Kim

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or
any information storage and retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the copyright owner.

ISBN 978-0-615-54569-1

Printed in the Republic of Korea

 Dedication
This book is dedicated to the following people:

Ascetic Saahm: About 400 years ago, he Invented formulas that

completed the theory of YIN, YANG, and FIVE ELEMENTS and
helped thousands of patients suffering many kinds of diseases.

Master Rhee, JaeWon: resurrected Saahm Acupuncture 400 years

after Ascetic Saahm.

My father, Master Kim, HyungGwan: He is the best of the best

acupuncturists in the world. He completed the definition of FOSTER
and SUBDUE, which completed the KOREAN ORTHDOX SAAHM
ACUPUNCTURE. He has made KOSA one of the best medicines in
the world, and has fostered hundreds of students who have helped tens
of thousands patients.

My mother, Jo, KyungHwa: She learned KOSA before my father,

led my father to learn KOSA from Master Rhee and used to be one of
the finest acupuncturists in the world.

My brother, Kim, DalSoon: He is the second best acupuncturist in

the world. He has established the standards on KOSA, inspired me in
every aspect of KOSA, and assisted in publishing this book.

My wife, HyangSeon Yoo: She has always been with me and has
been constantly caring and supportive. I am deeply grateful to her for
that gift.

Dr. Eckman, Peter, Mr. Gilbert Yi and Mr. Thorsten Dahlmann:

They have helped me complete this book.

Who suffers pain, ache, illness, disease, disorder and/or

complication.

I have felt eternal gratitude to every one of the above and always
will be. The best requital to them I can think of is for me to help all the
people in the world independent of sex, race, age, country, religion, and
wealth.
 Acknowledgements
I want to give my huge Congratulation to Mr. Byoung Soon Kim,
from my heart, for publishing his new book, The Silver Bullet, KOSA.
Under the guidance of his father, Master Kim, HyungGwan and his
dedication, Mr. Kim poured his passion and researches into the Korean
Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture, which he has published today; a great
book.

The most impressive memory I have about Mr. Kim was his
passion to teach KOSA. He lived in Texas and came to Los Angeles to
give seminar to KOSA members. It was my pleasure to attend his
seminar to learn KOSA and the class used to pass the midnight due to
his teaching was so remarkable.

This book has provided the solutions to overcome the limitations

of western medicine, which I have felt during the 10 years while I have
been treating patients as a Family Physician in America and 23 years as
an Internal Medicine Doctor, Gastro-Intestinal Specialist in the
Republic of Korea.

I am confident that this book will not only be a great aid to those
who are studying and working in the Oriental medicine industry but
also to those who want to take care of themselves and/or their family
members.

Dr. Park, Byung-Gook, MD.

Family Practice, Santa Cruz, CA

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 Table of Contents
Table of Contents ............................................................................... vii
List of Illustrations ........................................................................... xix
List of Tables ................................................................................... xxiii
Author’s Foreword .............................................................................. 1
1 Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture ....................................... 5
1.1 Introduction ............................................................................ 5
1.2 History ................................................................................... 8
1.2.1 History of Acupuncture .............................................. 8
1.2.2 History of Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture ..... 9
1.3 Bonghan Duct and Living Egg............................................. 12
1.3.1 Bonghan Duct .......................................................... 12
1.3.2 Living Egg ............................................................... 15
1.3.3 Bonghan Ducts and Acupuncture Points .................. 16
1.4 YIN YANG and Five Elements Theory ............................... 17
1.4.1 History of the Theory of YIN YANG and Five
Elements................................................................... 17
1.4.2 YIN and YANG ....................................................... 18
1.4.3 QI ............................................................................. 20
1.4.4 FIVE ELEMENTS ................................................... 20
1.4.5 Interaction among elements ..................................... 20
1.4.6 The relationship of Parent and Child ....................... 20
1.4.7 The relationship of Subdual ..................................... 21
1.4.8 The relationship of Overaction ................................ 22
1.4.9 Relationship of organs in same element ................... 22
1.5 YIN YANG and Five Elements ........................................... 23
1.5.1 Five Elements – Organs ........................................... 23
1.5.2 Premier FIRE ........................................................... 23
1.5.3 Five Elements – Sense Organs ................................. 24

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 1.5.4 Five Elements – Tissue ............................................ 26
1.5.5 Five Elements – Manifestation................................. 28
1.5.6 Five Elements - Liquids ........................................... 30
1.5.7 Five Elements – Emotion ......................................... 31
1.5.8 Five Elements - Spirits ............................................. 33
1.5.9 Five Elements - Sounds ............................................ 33
1.5.10 Five Elements – Indication....................................... 34
1.5.11 Five Elements – Harms ............................................ 35
1.5.12 Five Elements – Environment .................................. 37
1.5.13 Five Elements - Food ............................................... 39
1.5.14 Vegetable Oil ........................................................... 42
1.5.15 Olive Oil ................................................................... 43
1.5.16 Food Inc. .................................................................. 43
1.5.17 Conclusion ............................................................... 44
2 The Bonghan Ducts and Disease & Pain .................................... 45
2.1 Organs and the Time of the Day .......................................... 45
2.2 Interconnections and Disease ............................................... 46
2.3 How Many Different Diseases Are There? .......................... 47
2.4 Standard Position and Terms of Direction ........................... 48
2.4.1 Terms of Directions.................................................. 48
2.4.2 WHO Standard Measuring Unit ............................... 50
2.4.3 Proportional Bone (Skeletal) Cun Measurement ...... 50
2.4.4 The Finger-Cun Measurement Method .................... 52
2.4.5 Contents of Descriptions for Bonghan Ducts ........... 53
2.4.6 Legend of Symbols in Illustrations .......................... 53
2.5 Arm Greater YIN Lung BD - METAL ................................ 54
2.5.1 LU11 – WOOD point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
................................................................................. 57
2.5.2 LU10 – FIRE point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD . 57

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 2.5.3 LU9 – EARTH point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
................................................................................. 58
2.5.4 LU8 – METAL point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
................................................................................. 59
2.5.5 LU5 - WATER point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
................................................................................. 59
2.6 Arm YANG Brightness Large Intestine BD ........................ 60
2.6.1 LI1 - METAL point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD ............................................................. 62
2.6.2 LI2 - WATER point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD ............................................................. 63
2.6.3 LI3 - WOOD point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD ............................................................. 63
2.6.4 LI5 - FIRE point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD ............................................................. 63
2.6.5 LI11 - EARTH point of Arm YANG Brightness
Large Intestine BD ................................................... 64
2.7 Leg YANG Brightness Stomach BD ................................... 66
2.7.1 ST45 – METAL point of Leg YANG Brightness
Stomach BD ............................................................. 70
2.7.2 ST44 – WATER point of Leg YANG Brightness
Stomach BD ............................................................. 70
2.7.3 ST43 – WOOD point of Leg YANG Brightness
Stomach BD ............................................................. 70
2.7.4 ST41 – FIRE point of Leg YANG Brightness
Stomach BD ............................................................. 70
2.7.5 ST36 – EARTH point of Leg YANG Brightness
Stomach BD ............................................................. 72
2.8 Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD ................................................ 74
2.8.1 SP1 – WOOD point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
................................................................................. 76
2.8.2 SP2 – FIRE point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD... 76
2.8.3 SP3 – EARTH point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
................................................................................. 76

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 2.8.4 SP5 – METAL point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
................................................................................. 77
2.8.5 SP6 – Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD .......................... 78
2.8.6 SP9 – WATER point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
................................................................................. 78
2.9 Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD .................................................. 80
2.9.1 HT9 – WOOD point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD 82
2.9.2 HT8 – FIRE point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD .... 82
2.9.3 HT7 – EARTH point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD 83
2.9.4 HT4 – METAL point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD83
2.9.5 HT3 – WATER point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD
................................................................................. 84
2.10 Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine BD ............................. 86
2.10.1 SI1 - METAL point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD ............................................................. 88
2.10.2 SI2 - WATER point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD ............................................................. 88
2.10.3 SI3 - WOOD point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD ............................................................. 88
2.10.4 SI5 - FIRE point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD ............................................................. 88
2.10.5 SI8 - EARTH point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD ............................................................. 90
2.11 Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD .......................................... 92
2.11.1 BL67 – METAL point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder
BD ............................................................................ 94
2.11.2 BL66 – WATER point of Leg Greater YANG
Bladder BD .............................................................. 94
2.11.3 BL65 – WOOD point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder
BD ............................................................................ 95
2.11.4 BL60 – FIRE point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder
BD ............................................................................ 95
2.11.5 BL40 – EARTH point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder
BD ............................................................................ 96
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2.12 Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD ................................................ 98
2.12.1 KI1 – WOOD point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
............................................................................... 100
2.12.2 KI2 – FIRE point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD . 101
2.12.3 KI3 – EARTH point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
............................................................................... 101
2.12.4 KI7 – METAL point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
............................................................................... 102
2.12.5 KI10 – WATER point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
............................................................................... 102
2.13 Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD .................................. 104
2.13.1 PC9 – WOOD point of Arm Absolute YIN
Pericardium BD ..................................................... 106
2.13.2 PC8 – FIRE point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium
BD .......................................................................... 106
2.13.3 PC7 – EARTH point of Arm Absolute YIN
Pericardium BD ..................................................... 108
2.13.4 PC5 – METAL point of Arm Absolute YIN
Pericardium BD ..................................................... 108
2.13.5 PC3 – WATER point of Arm Absolute YIN
Pericardium BD ..................................................... 108
2.14 Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer BD........................... 110
2.14.1 TE1 – METAL point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple
Energizer BD ......................................................... 112
2.14.2 TE2 – WATER point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple
Energizer BD ......................................................... 112
2.14.3 TE3 – WOOD point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple
Energizer BD ......................................................... 112
2.14.4 TE6 – FIRE point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple
Energizer BD ......................................................... 114
2.14.5 TE10 – EARTH point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple
Energizer BD ......................................................... 114
2.15 Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder BD ................................... 116

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 2.15.1 GB44 – METAL point of Leg Lesser YANG
Gallbladder BD ...................................................... 118
2.15.2 GB43 – WATER point of Leg Lesser YANG
Gallbladder BD ...................................................... 119
2.15.3 GB41 – WOOD point of Leg Lesser YANG
Gallbladder BD ...................................................... 119
2.15.4 GB38 – FIRE point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder
BD .......................................................................... 120
2.15.5 GB34 – EARTH point of Leg Lesser YANG
Gallbladder BD ...................................................... 120
2.16 Leg Absolute YIN Liver BD .............................................. 122
2.16.1 LR1 – WOOD point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver
BD .......................................................................... 124
2.16.2 LR2 – FIRE point of Leg Less Absolute Liver YIN
BD .......................................................................... 124
2.16.3 LR3 – EARTH point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver
BD .......................................................................... 124
2.16.4 LR4 – METAL point of Leg Less Absolute YIN
Liver BD ................................................................ 126
2.16.5 LR8 – WATER point of Leg Less Absolute YIN
Liver BD ................................................................ 126
2.17 Conception BD................................................................... 128
2.18 Governor BD ...................................................................... 130
2.18.1 GV1 – Governor BD .............................................. 132
2.18.2 GV14 – Governor BD ............................................ 133
2.19 Bonghan Ducts and Health concerns ................................. 137
2.20 Effectiveness of Locating and Manipulating Acupuncture
Point(s) ............................................................................... 137
2.21 Pain and Disease ................................................................ 139
2.21.1 Pain ........................................................................ 139
2.21.2 Disease and Illness ................................................. 140
2.21.3 Medicine and Drug................................................. 141
2.21.4 Self Maintaining System ........................................ 142

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3 Diagnosis ..................................................................................... 143
3.1 Observation ........................................................................ 143
3.2 Listening, Smelling, Auscultation and Olfaction ............... 144
3.3 Asking / Inquiring .............................................................. 145
3.4 Feeling Pulsation and Palpation ......................................... 146
3.4.1 Deficient or excessive ............................................ 146
3.4.2 Cold or Hot ............................................................ 148
3.5 Other Consideration ........................................................... 150
4 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas ........................................................ 151
4.1 Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 .............................................. 152
4.1.1 Fostering Liver ....................................................... 153
4.1.2 Fostering Heart....................................................... 154
4.1.3 Fostering Spleen..................................................... 155
4.1.4 Fostering Lung ....................................................... 156
4.1.5 Fostering Kidney .................................................... 157
4.1.6 Fostering Pericardium ............................................ 158
4.1.7 Fostering Gallbladder............................................. 159
4.1.8 Fostering Small Intestine ....................................... 160
4.1.9 Fostering Stomach ................................................. 161
4.1.10 Fostering Large Intestine ....................................... 162
4.1.11 Fostering Bladder ................................................... 163
4.1.12 Fostering Triple Energizer ..................................... 164
4.2 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #2 ............................................. 165
4.2.1 Subduing Liver....................................................... 166
4.2.2 Subduing Heart ...................................................... 167
4.2.3 Subduing Spleen .................................................... 168
4.2.4 Subduing Lung ....................................................... 169
4.2.5 Subduing Kidney ................................................... 170
4.2.6 Subduing Pericardium ............................................ 171
4.2.7 Subduing Gallbladder ............................................ 172
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 4.2.8 Subduing Small Intestine ....................................... 173
4.2.9 Subduing Stomach ................................................. 174
4.2.10 Subduing Large Intestine ....................................... 175
4.2.11 Subduing Bladder ................................................... 176
4.2.12 Subduing Triple Energizer ..................................... 177
4.3 Table of Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #1 and #2 .................. 178
4.4 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3 and #4 .................................. 179
4.5 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3, Quenching .......................... 180
4.6 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #4, Heating ............................... 182
4.7 Table of Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #3 and #4 .................. 184
4.8 Consideration ..................................................................... 185
5 Master Kim’s Achievement ....................................................... 187
5.1 No Pain, No Gain ............................................................... 187
5.2 Soothing and Pinching ....................................................... 187
5.3 Using Permanent Magnets ................................................. 188
5.4 Tapping .............................................................................. 190
5.5 Fundamental Rules ............................................................. 191
5.5.1 Rule #1 - Healthier Side or Opposite Side ............. 191
5.5.2 Rule #2 - Left for Male and Right for Female ....... 191
5.5.3 Rule #3 – Paring (or Opposite Sides and Opposite
Limbs) .................................................................... 192
6 Diseases ....................................................................................... 193
6.1 Acne ................................................................................... 193
6.2 Allergy ............................................................................... 196
6.3 Amenorrhea........................................................................ 200
6.4 Appendicitis ....................................................................... 203
6.5 Arthritis (Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder) .................. 204
6.6 Asthma, Bronchitis and Pertussis (Whooping Cough) ....... 208
6.7 Behçet's disease .................................................................. 211
6.8 Biliary Tract (Cholecystitis, Gall Stones) .......................... 213

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6.9 Bronchospasm.................................................................... 214
6.10 Buerger's Disease (Thromboangiitis Obliterans) ............... 215
6.11 Cancer and Tumor ............................................................. 216
6.12 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ................................................... 218
6.13 Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) .................................... 221
6.14 Chyluria (Chylous urine) ................................................... 224
6.15 Cold.................................................................................... 226
6.16 Conjunctivitis ..................................................................... 232
6.17 Constipation ....................................................................... 233
6.18 Cystitis ............................................................................... 234
6.19 Diabetes ............................................................................. 236
6.20 Dyslexia (Learning Disability)........................................... 238
6.21 Eczema, Atopy and Urticaria ............................................. 240
6.22 Enuresis.............................................................................. 241
6.23 Erysipelas ........................................................................... 243
6.24 Facial Paralysis .................................................................. 244
6.25 Fibromyalgia (FM or FMS) ............................................... 246
6.26 Glaucoma ........................................................................... 249
6.27 Gout ................................................................................... 252
6.28 Helicobacter Pylori ............................................................ 254
6.29 Hemorrhoids ...................................................................... 256
6.30 Hepatitis ............................................................................. 258
6.31 Hypertension ...................................................................... 260
6.32 Hyperthyroidism ................................................................ 264
6.33 Hypothyroidism ................................................................. 266
6.34 Impotence .......................................................................... 267
6.35 Indigestion ......................................................................... 270
6.36 Injuries ............................................................................... 271
6.37 Intercostal Neuralgia .......................................................... 274
6.38 Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS or Spastic colon) ............. 275
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 6.39 Kidney Stone (Urinary Stone) ............................................ 276
6.40 Leprosy (Hansen's disease) ................................................ 277
6.41 Leukorrhea ......................................................................... 279
6.42 Lou Gehrig's disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; ALS)
........................................................................................... 281
6.43 Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE) ............... 284
6.44 Mastitis............................................................................... 287
6.45 Meniere's Disease (Aural Vertigo) ..................................... 288
6.46 Migraine ............................................................................. 289
6.47 Multiple Sclerosis (MS) ..................................................... 290
6.48 Mumps ............................................................................... 293
6.49 Mutism ............................................................................... 295
6.50 Osteoporosis ....................................................................... 303
6.51 Pain .................................................................................... 304
6.51.1 Heartburn or stomach ache ..................................... 306
6.51.2 Inflammation of the esophagus due to a stuck
fishbone .................................................................. 306
6.51.3 Perforation of Gastric and Gastric Ulcer ................ 306
6.51.4 Pain at the Sole of the Foot .................................... 306
6.51.5 Cramps or Menstrual pain ...................................... 307
6.51.6 Pain at the spine ..................................................... 307
6.51.7 Low back pain ........................................................ 308
6.51.8 Pain on radius of arm ............................................. 309
6.51.9 Toothache (Odontalgia) ......................................... 310
6.52 Prostatitis............................................................................ 312
6.53 Rhinitis ............................................................................... 315
6.54 Sinusitis .............................................................................. 317
6.55 Tinnitus & Difficulty in Hearing........................................ 318
6.56 Urinary Retention (Incontinence) and Urinary Tract Infection
........................................................................................... 320
7 Conclusion .................................................................................. 321
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Bibliography ..................................................................................... 328
Index of Disease and Pain ............................................................... 329
Endnote ............................................................................................. 341

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 List of Illustrations
Figure 1-1 The National Flag of the Republic of Korea ........................ 19
Figure 1-2 Five Elements Diagram ...................................................... 21
Figure 2-1 Terms of directions ............................................................. 49
Figure 2-2 Proportional bone (skeletal) cun measurement ................. 51
Figure 2-3 Finger unit ........................................................................... 52
Figure 2-4 Arm Greater YIN Lung BD ................................................... 55
Figure 2-5 LU11 and LU10 .................................................................... 57
Figure 2-6 LU9 ...................................................................................... 58
Figure 2-7 LU8 and LU5 ........................................................................ 59
Figure 2-8 Arm YANG Brightness Large Intestine BD ........................... 61
Figure 2-9 LI1, LI2, LI3 and LI5.............................................................. 63
Figure 2-10 LI11 ................................................................................... 64
Figure 2-11 Leg YANG Brightness Stomach BD .................................... 67
Figure 2-12 ST45, ST 44, ST 43 and ST41 ............................................. 71
Figure 2-13 ST36 .................................................................................. 72
Figure 2-14 Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD ................................................ 75
Figure 2-15 SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP5 ....................................................... 77
Figure 2-16 SP6 and SP9 ...................................................................... 79
Figure 2-17 Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD .................................................. 81
Figure 2-18 HT9 and HT8 ..................................................................... 82
Figure 2-19 HT7 and HT4 ..................................................................... 83
Figure 2-20 HT3.................................................................................... 84
Figure 2-21 Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine BD .............................. 87
Figure 2-22 SI1, SI2, SI3 and SI5 ........................................................... 89
Figure 2-23 SI8 ..................................................................................... 90
Figure 2-24 Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD .......................................... 93
Figure 2-25 BL67, BL66, BL65 and BL60 ............................................... 95
Figure 2-26 BL40 .................................................................................. 96
Figure 2-27 Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD .................................................. 99
Figure 2-28 KI1 ................................................................................... 100
Figure 2-29 KI2 and KI3 ...................................................................... 101
Figure 2-30 KI7 and KI10 .................................................................... 103
Figure 2-31 Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD .................................. 105
Figure 2-32 PC9 and PC8 .................................................................... 107
Figure 2-33 PC7, PC5 and PC3 ............................................................ 109
Figure 2-34 Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer BD ............................. 111
Figure 2-35 TE1, TE2 and TE3............................................................. 113

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Figure 2-36 TE6 and TE10 .................................................................. 115
Figure 2-37 Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder BD .................................... 117
Figure 2-38 GB44, GB43 and GB41 .................................................... 119
Figure 2-39 GB38 and GB34 ............................................................... 121
Figure 2-40 Leg Absolute YIN Liver BD ............................................... 123
Figure 2-41 LR1, LR2 and LR3 ............................................................. 125
Figure 2-42 LR4 and LR8..................................................................... 127
Figure 2-43 Conception BD................................................................. 129
Figure 2-44 Governor BD .................................................................... 131
Figure 2-45 GV1 ................................................................................. 132
Figure 2-46 GV14 ............................................................................... 133
Figure 2-47 Front View ....................................................................... 134
Figure 2-48 Back View ........................................................................ 135
Figure 2-49 Side View ......................................................................... 136
Figure 3-1 Pulsation ........................................................................... 147
Figure 4-1 Fostering Liver ................................................................... 153
Figure 4-2 Fostering Heart ................................................................. 154
Figure 4-3 Fostering Spleen ................................................................ 155
Figure 4-4 Fostering Lung .................................................................. 156
Figure 4-5 Fostering Kidney................................................................ 157
Figure 4-6 Fostering Pericardium ....................................................... 158
Figure 4-7 Fostering Gallbladder........................................................ 159
Figure 4-8 Fostering Small Intestine................................................... 160
Figure 4-9 Fostering Stomach ............................................................ 161
Figure 4-10 Fostering Large Intestine ................................................ 162
Figure 4-11 Fostering Bladder ............................................................ 163
Figure 4-12 Fostering Triple Energizer ............................................... 164
Figure 4-13 Subduing Liver................................................................. 166
Figure 4-14 Subduing Heart ............................................................... 167
Figure 4-15 Subduing Spleen .............................................................. 168
Figure 4-16 Subduing Lung ................................................................ 169
Figure 4-17 Subduing Kidney.............................................................. 170
Figure 4-18 Subduing Pericardium ..................................................... 171
Figure 4-19 Subduing Gallbladder...................................................... 172
Figure 4-20 Subduing Small Intestine................................................. 173
Figure 4-21 Subduing Stomach .......................................................... 174
Figure 4-22 Subduing Large Intestine ................................................ 175
Figure 4-23 Subduing Bladder ............................................................ 176
Figure 4-24 Subduing Triple Energizer ............................................... 177
Figure 4-25 Quenching Lung .............................................................. 181
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Figure 4-26 Quenching Kidney and Heart .......................................... 182
Figure 4-27 Heating Lung................................................................... 183
Figure 5-1 Using Permanent Magnets ............................................... 189
Figure 5-2 Tapping ............................................................................. 190

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 List of Tables
Table 1-1 Relationship of YIN and YANG .............................................. 18
Table 1-2 Five Elements – Organs ........................................................ 23
Table 1-3 Five Elements - Sense Organs............................................... 24
Table 1-4 Five Elements - Tissue .......................................................... 26
Table 1-5 Five Elements - Manifestation.............................................. 28
Table 1-6 Five Elements - Liquids ......................................................... 30
Table 1-7 Five Elements - Emotions ..................................................... 31
Table 1-8 Five Elements - Spirits .......................................................... 33
Table 1-9 Five Elements - Sounds ......................................................... 33
Table 1-10 Five Elements - Indication .................................................. 34
Table 1-11 Five Elements - Harms ........................................................ 35
Table 1-12 Five Elements - Environment .............................................. 37
Table 1-13 Five Elements - Food .......................................................... 39
Table 2-1 Organs and the Time of the Day .......................................... 46
Table 2-2 Abbreviations of BDs for numbering acupuncture points .... 53
Table 4-1 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #1 and #2 ................................. 178
Table 4-2 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #3 and #4 ................................. 184
Table 4-3 Matrix of temperature and energy level ............................ 185
Table 5-1 Paring organs ..................................................................... 192
Table 6-1 Treating Acne on face ........................................................ 195
Table 6-2 Treating Allergy .................................................................. 197
Table 6-3 Treating Food Allergy by quenching .................................. 198
Table 6-4 Treating Food Allergy by fostering organ(s) ...................... 199
Table 6-5 Treating Amenorrhea by utilizing quenching the liver ....... 201
Table 6-6 Treating Amenorrhea by utilizing fostering the lung ......... 202
Table 6-7 Treating Appendicitis ......................................................... 203
Table 6-8 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on knee
by utilizing quenching the kidney ................................... 204
Table 6-9 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on knee
by utilizing fostering the kidney ..................................... 206
Table 6-10 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on the
knee by utilizing fostering the large Intestine ................ 206
Table 6-11 Treating Asthma .............................................................. 210
Table 6-12 Treating Behçet's disease by utilizing fostering the large
intestine ......................................................................... 211
Table 6-13 Treating Behçet's disease by utilizing quenching organs . 212
Table 6-14 Treating Biliary Tract (Cholecystitis, Gall Stones) ............ 213

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Table 6-15 Treating Bronchospasm ................................................... 214
Table 6-16 Treating Buerger's Disease (Thromboangiitis Obliterans) 215
Table 6-17 Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by quenching organs . 219
Table 6-18 Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by fostering the
pericardium .................................................................... 220
Table 6-19 Treating Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) by fostering the
large intestine ................................................................ 222
Table 6-20 Treating Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) by subduing the
liver................................................................................. 223
Table 6-21 Treating Chyluria (Chylous urine) by quenching the kidney
....................................................................................... 224
Table 6-22 Treating Chyluria (Chylous urine) by fostering the kidney 225
Table 6-23 Treating Cold by utilizing fostering the large intestine .... 230
Table 6-24 Treating Cold by utilizing fostering the lung .................... 231
Table 6-25 Treating Conjunctivitis ..................................................... 232
Table 6-26 Treating Constipation by fostering the large intestine .... 233
Table 6-27 Treating Cystitis by quenching organs ............................. 234
Table 6-28 Treating Cystitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine 235
Table 6-29 Treating Diabetes by utilizing fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 237
Table 6-30 Treating Dyslexia .............................................................. 238
Table 6-31 Treating Eczema by utilizing fostering the large intestine240
Table 6-32 Treating Enuresis by utilizing quenching the bladder ...... 241
Table 6-33 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the bladder ......... 241
Table 6-34 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the gallbladder ... 242
Table 6-35 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 242
Table 6-36 Treating Erysipelas by quenching organs ......................... 243
Table 6-37 Treating Erysipelas by utilizing fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 243
Table 6-38 Treating Facial Paralysis by quenching organs ................ 244
Table 6-39 Treating Facial Paralysis by utilizing fostering the large
intestine ......................................................................... 245
Table 6-40 Treating Fibromyalgia by quenching organs.................... 247
Table 6-41 Treating Fibromyalgia by utilizing fostering the large
intestine ......................................................................... 248
Table 6-42 Treating Glaucoma by quenching organs ........................ 250
Table 6-43 Treating Gout by quenching organs ................................. 253
Table 6-44 Treating Helicobacter Pylori by fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 255
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Table 6-45 Treating Hemorrhoids by utilizing quenching the large
intestine ......................................................................... 256
Table 6-46 Treating Hemorrhoids by utilizing fostering the large
intestine ......................................................................... 256
Table 6-47 Treating Hepatitis by quenching the liver ........................ 258
Table 6-48 Treating Hepatitis by utilizing quenching the liver........... 259
Table 6-49 Treating Hepatitis by fostering the liver .......................... 259
Table 6-50 Treating Hypertension by quenching organs ................... 261
Table 6-51 Treating Hypertension by utilizing fostering organs ........ 262
Table 6-52 Treating Hypertension by heating organs........................ 263
Table 6-53 Treating Hyperthyroidism by quenching organs .............. 264
Table 6-54 Treating Hyperthyroidism by utilizing fostering organs... 265
Table 6-55 Treating Hypothyroidism by utilizing fostering METAL
organs ............................................................................ 266
Table 6-56 Treating Impotence by utilizing quenching the liver ........ 268
Table 6-57 Treating Impotence by utilizing fostering the liver .......... 269
Table 6-58 Treating Impotence by utilizing fostering the heart......... 269
Table 6-59 Treating Indigestion by fostering the large intestine ....... 270
Table 6-60 Treating Indigestion by fostering the stomach ................ 270
Table 6-61 Treating Injuries by quenching organs ............................. 272
Table 6-62 Treating Intercostal Neuralgiaby by utilizing quenching the
liver ................................................................................ 274
Table 6-63 Treating IBS by fostering the large intestine .................... 275
Table 6-64 Treating Kidney Stone by utilizing quenching the kidney . 276
Table 6-65 Treating Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) by quenching organs
....................................................................................... 277
Table 6-66 Treating Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) by utilizing fostering
the large intestine .......................................................... 278
Table 6-67 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing quenching the liver ....... 279
Table 6-68 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing fostering the liver ......... 279
Table 6-69 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing fostering the heart ....... 280
Table 6-70 Treating ALS by utilizing quenching the liver ................... 282
Table 6-71 Treating ALS by utilizing fostering the liver...................... 282
Table 6-72 Treating ALS by utilizing fostering the heart .................... 283
Table 6-73 Treating Lupus by quenching organs ............................... 284
Table 6-74 Treating Lupus by utilizing fostering METAL organs ........ 285
Table 6-75 Treating Mastitis by quenching the stomach ................... 287
Table 6-76 Treating Mastitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 287
Table 6-77 Treating Meniere’s disease by quenching organs ............ 288
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Table 6-78 Treating Migraine by quenching organs .......................... 289
Table 6-79 Treating Multiple Sclerosis by quenching organs ............. 291
Table 6-80 Treating Multiple Sclerosis by utilizing fostering the large
intestine ......................................................................... 292
Table 6-81 Treating Mumps by quenching organs ............................ 293
Table 6-82 Treating Mumps by utilizing fostering the large intestine294
Table 6-83 A case of Treating Mutism by quenching organs ............. 296
Table 6-84 Treating Mutism by quenching organs ............................ 297
Table 6-85 Treating Mutism by utilizing fostering METAL organs ..... 298
Table 6-86 Treating Mutism by quenching organs ............................ 299
Table 6-87 Treating Mutism by utilizing fostering METAL organs ..... 300
Table 6-88 Treating Akinetic Mutism by utilizing quenching organs . 301
Table 6-89 Treating Akinetic Mutism by utilizing fostering the METAL
organs ............................................................................ 302
Table 6-90 Treating Osteoporosis by quenching the kidney .............. 303
Table 6-91 Treating Osteoporosis by fostering the kidney................. 303
Table 6-92 Treating Pain at the sole of the foot ................................ 306
Table 6-93 Treating Low back pain .................................................... 308
Table 6-94 Treating Pain on the radius of the arm ............................ 309
Table 6-95 Treating Toothache by quenching organs........................ 310
Table 6-96 Treating Prostatitis by utilizing quenching the bladder ... 312
Table 6-97 Treating Prostatitis by fostering the bladder ................... 313
Table 6-98 Treating Prostatitis by fostering the gallbladder ............. 313
Table 6-99 Treating Prostatitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine
....................................................................................... 314
Table 6-100 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing quenching the lung ........... 315
Table 6-101 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing fostering the lung ............. 316
Table 6-102 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing heating the lung................ 316
Table 6-103 Treating Sinusitis by utilizing quenching the lung .......... 317
Table 6-104 Treating Sinusitis by utilizing fostering the lung ............ 317
Table 6-105 Treating Tinnitus & Difficulty in Hearing ........................ 318
Table 6-106 Treating Urinary Retention (Incontinence) by utilizing
quenching the kidney ..................................................... 320
Table 6-107 Treating Urinary Retention (Incontinence) by utilizing
fostering the kidney ....................................................... 320

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 Author’s Foreword
We have been seeing or hearing many more kinds of bizarre diseases
have been discovered and a higher rate of patients than ever before.
Some physicians have been using even maggots and leeches to treat
patients because modern science has not been able to provide better
solutions.

Many people think that because acupuncture is an ancient type of

medicine and not scientific, acupuncture would not be able to provide
them with successful treatment. On the contrary, there is a group of
people who are satisfied with the help they have gotten from
acupuncture.

I have spoken with hundreds of oriental medicine doctors and

medical physicians. I have taught Korean Orthodox Saahm
Acupuncture (hereinafter, KOSA) to 69 practitioners in the United
States, Canada and Argentina, and I have demonstrated KOSA’s
capability in treating various challenging diseases, disorders and pains,
where other types of medical care was not able to provide successful
treatments.

Here is a few stories to show the effectiveness of KOSA.

On a cold winter day, I met a lady in a rental car lot in Knoxville

McGhee Tyson Airport in Tennessee. She had a runny nose due to
sinusitis and told me that it gets worse during the winter. I asked her to
give me her right arm. As soon as I pinched her WATER point of her
Lung BONGHAN DUCT with my fingers a few times, she told me that
she felt warmness in her chest and the nasal discharge had disappeared.

I happened to work with a chemical engineer for a few days. It took

me about a couple of hours to give him instructions on how to treat
pain and/or disease using KOSA with only his fingers. A couple of
weeks later, he sent me a thank you email stating that he had a stomach
ache and used KOSA finger pinching on the FIRE point of his Stomach
BONGHAN DUCT at his left ankle, and the ache went away
immediately and never come back.

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 A lady came to me asking if I could help her with her migraine
headache. It was constant for two days and was not relieved even
though she took ten times the dosage of an over-the-counter drug.
Because migraines usually lie on the Gallbladder BONGHAN DUCT, I
pinched her FIRE point of the Gallbladder BONGHAN DUCT located
on her right leg. She told me the pinching immediately eliminated the
terrible migraine. A few weeks later when she happened to see me she
told me the migraine had not come back again.

An elderly Hispanic lady came into my office pushing a walker with

her granddaughter. She had had surgery on both of her knees due to
arthritis. The scars were 12 inches long from her knee caps down to her
feet, and had not completely healed, and were 1/8 inch wide open. On
every inch of those scars she had tape to hold the cut skin together but
her movement made them fall apart and they were flapping as she
moved. Even though she was using a pain killer, the pain was so bad
that she had to rely on a walker, and had to labor to walk.
I attached three magnets (for subdual) at the FIRE points of the
BONGHAN DUCTs of the stomach, bladder and kidney at the foot and
ankle on both sides, because her scars and knees were right on the
Stomach BONGHAN DUCT (hereinafter, BD) on both sides, and
arthritis was caused by her hot kidney. Because she was overweight, by
oriental medical theory I knew she had to have deficient kidneys. The
diagnosis and placement of magnets took me less than five minutes.
As soon as the magnets were put on, I asked her to stand up from the
couch, but she was reluctant because she knew it would cause severe
pain. However, I convinced her to do so, since she would have to do it
eventually in order to go home. She stood up. She was very surprised to
find that she did not feel any pain. I asked her to walk without the
walker and she hesitated again. I insisted again. She began walking and
started to cry after a few steps of walking without the walker saying “I
don’t have pain.” Right next to her, her granddaughter kept saying
“Amazing.”

KOSA members have shown very consistent effectiveness for

various diseases and pains.

The previously described experiments convinced me that KOSA can

easily be understood by regular people and could be applied for their
own health.

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 In this book, most of the secrets of Korean Orthodox Saahm
Acupuncture will be revealed.
I hope this could provide an inexpensive tool and benefit readers
including those in the field of medicine.

The usage of needles won’t be described in this book for readers’

safety and health.

I would like to emphasize that the effect of this therapy varies from
person to person and the best method is to use needles only by a
licensed professional.

The benefits of KOSA described in this book are:

Easy to understand, learn and implement
Safe because no needles need to be used
Quick effects depending on the type of disease, history,
complications, nutrition and other factors
Broad range of application with different type of pain, illness,
sickness, disorder, ailment, syndrome, discomfort and/or disease

In this book, even though there are treatments of various diseases, I

want to convince the reader that even those diseases deemed incurable
or difficult to successfully treat by conventional medicine could also be
greatly helped by KOSA.

Once you go through this book step by step and point by point, you
may find that many different kinds of diseases, disorders, pains and/or
aches can be successfully treated.

For reference, some words have been capitalized to prevent the

readers from being confused. For example, the term BONGHAN
DUCT is the path of QI or the line connecting the acupuncture points,
and the organs and is replacing MERIDIAN and CHANNEL, which are
commonly used in the field of oriental medicine.

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 Goal

The goal of this book is as follows:

• To be safe by not either using needles or penetrating the skin with
needles
• To help the non-acupuncturist and ordinary people break the myths
associated with traditional oriental acupuncture
• To help people understand acupuncture could be done easily and
cost effectively by using magnets, fingers, or a rod like car key
• To guide KOSA to people who study and/or practice acupuncture
• To provide a new horizon with much more successful acupuncture
than ever before to people who study and/or practice acupuncture

Medical Caveat

In the US, medical diagnosis and treatment is constrained by law to

be the exclusive monopoly of state licensed practitioners. The diseases
discussed in this book are serious, often life threatening matters. The
content and the intent of this book may not or should not be construed
as giving medical advice or recommending medical treatment of any
kind. This book is intended for informational use only. Its proper
purpose is to support informed discussions between patient,
acupuncturist, and physician. It is to support the concept of genuine
cooperation in the patient-physician relationship, to help the patient
understand the medical science behind the treatment he or she receives
from the acupuncturist or physician, to inform about useful alternative
therapies and to help the patient identify those acupuncturists and
physicians who keep up with advances in their field.

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1 Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture

1.1 Introduction
There have been three frequently used claims by western medicine to
dispute the effectiveness of acupuncture.
• Placebo: This myth can easily be refuted because acupuncture has
been effectively used to treat animals like dogs, cats, and horses
that obviously will not have any preconceived thoughts about
healing.
• Acupuncture treatment anywhere on the body would show
some effect: People used for tests have unique health conditions.
Even though the method of insertion and manipulation of needles
used for a test was identical every time, the reaction would vary
depending on the person. If KOSA was used for the test, the
research should have different results because KOSA is
standardized and, thus, shows very consistent effects.
• Acupuncture compared with control treatment for certain
diseases have not shown significant findings in favor of
acupuncture: As described in the above, KOSA would have
shown significant findings compared to acupuncture.

Even though all the above three claims are officially accepted by
western medicine, there are many people seeing acupuncturists and
there are even medical physicians, osteopaths, chiropractors and other
medical specialists (in some states, there is no specific training required
for a medical or osteopathic physician to practice acupuncture)
practicing acupuncture.

KOSA in this book will show you that KOSA would show
significant findings in comparison to other types of acupuncture.

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 Unique Approach

I will use migraine as an example to describe the unique approaches

of KOSA.

Wikipedia i explains migraines as follows: “Migraine is a debilitating

condition characterized by moderate to severe headaches, and nausea,
about 3 times more common in women than in men. The typical
migraine headache is unilateral pain (affecting one half of the head)
and pulsating in nature, lasting from 4 to 72 hours; symptoms include
nausea, vomiting, photophobia (increased sensitivity to light),
phonophobia (increased sensitivity to sound), and is aggravated by
routine activity. Approximately one-third of people who suffer from
migraine headaches perceive an aura—unusual visual, olfactory, or
other sensory experiences that are a sign that the migraine will soon
occur. Initial treatment is with analgesics for the headache, an
antiemetic for the nausea, and the avoidance of triggering conditions.
The cause of migraine headache is unknown; the most common theory
is a disorder of the serotonergic control system. 75% of adult patients
are women, although migraine affects approximately equal numbers
of prepubescent boys and girls.”

The cause of a migraine headache is unknown in western medicine.

In KOSA, a migraine is usually directly related to the gallbladder
(usually a hotter gallbladder than normal).

“In western medicine, the treatment is initially with analgesics for

the headache, an antiemetic for the nausea, and the avoidance of
triggering conditions in western medicine and its success rate is not
satisfactory.” (Continued the abstract from Wikipedia)

Contrary to western medicine, the cause is usually known with

KOSA. The gallbladder is hotter than normal. Therefore it is necessary
to bring the gallbladder temperature down to normal which will lead to
a healthier gallbladder, in turn relieving the migraine.
As KOSA's theory is theoretical and effective, the benefits of KOSA
would be not only treating migraine but also treating most of the other
problems caused by a hot gallbladder.

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 It would be a very interesting subject for a scientist to study the
relationship between the gallbladder's temperature and migraine
occurrences.
With frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) the arm’s mobility has
been limited. By KOSA theory, frozen shoulders are caused by
unhealthy organs like the liver, lung, large intestine, and/or small
intestine and making those organs healthy should treat this problem.

Warning and/or Considerations

KOSA treatment should not be used on pregnant women, and it

should be used only after confirmation that the woman treated is not
pregnant. KOSA can be used on pregnant women, but some points
could result in a catastrophic incident. Thus, a pregnant woman should
seek a KOSA trained acupuncturist, rather than treating herself.
Patients with pacemakers should not use magnets as a means of pain
relief or any type of therapy. Magnets should never be placed over open
wounds. If a person is wearing magnets around a computer, it could
result in loss of data. Reports of nausea and discomfort have also been
documented with the use of magnets.
Depending on the type of magnet, the skin might get irritated or
cause tingling. If this happens, magnets should not be used.
If the patient feels something is wrong or the symptom(s) get worse,
then immediately stop applying KOSA, as the likely cause is incorrect
point choice.
Since everybody has different health conditions, the effect can vary
from person to person.
Using KOSA should be used solely under the user’s responsibility
and KOSA shall not be responsible for the results.

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1.2 History
1.2.1 History of Acupuncture

Acupuncture’s origins in Asia are uncertain. Nevertheless,

acupuncture has developed over a period of at least 3,000 years. Some
ancient needles made of stone and fishbone were discovered in Korea
on August 9, 1923.

Wikipedia ii describes acupuncture; In Europe, examinations of the

5,000-year-old mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman have identified 15
groups of tattoos on his body, some of which are located on what are
now seen as contemporary acupuncture points. This has been cited as
evidence that practices similar to acupuncture may have been
practiced elsewhere in Eurasia during the early Bronze Age.

The following are abstracts from a web site iii.

On August 9, 1923, needles made of stone and fishbone were
discovered in Korea and it is believed that they were used to practice
surgery and/or acupuncture. They used to be exported to China
because of their better quality than Chinese needles.
In 672, the Shilla Dynasty of Korea exported 400 needles to China
(Tang Dynasty).
In 692, the Shilla Dynasty of Korea established a medical college and
two medical doctors trained other medical doctors after developing
teaching materials, including THE CLASSIC OF SIMPLE QUESTIONS, THE
CLASSIC OF ACUPUNCTURE, THE CLASSIC OF THE PULSE, THE CLASSIC
OF DIFFICULTIES and THE CLASSIC OF THE BRIGHT HOUSE.

The following are abstracts from ex-professor Wooyul Jung iv ’s

contribution to the Minjok Oriental Medicine News v.
Sometime between 918 – 1392 in dynastic Korea, a Korean doctor
went to China and practiced acupuncture. There he divided an inch
long hair in ten pieces, inserted a needle in one of them and told other
people that the inside of the hair was empty.

The following are abstract from Acupuncture Alliance News’ web

site vi;
In 1093, Korea gave China (Song Dynasty) the book, KOREAN
ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION. China later wrote a book called
YELLOW EMPEROR’S INNER CLASSIC consisting of two parts, SIMPLE
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QUESTIONS, which discourses upon general theoretical questions and
SPIRITUAL AXIS, which focuses more closely upon acupuncture and
based on the book, KOREAN ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION.
For information, YELLOW and EMPEROR in YELLOW
EMPEROR’S INNER CLASSIC have their own meaning. YELLOW
color means center, king, or emperor in China and EMPEROR was a
school and was used to distinguish the school from other schools.

The following are abstract from Chosun Daily News’ web site vii;
In 1285, a Korean doctor, Kyungsung Sul of the Korea Dynasty was
invited to China (Yuan Dynasty) and he was honored by the Chinese
Emperor because he successfully treated inveterate diseases of the
emperor and his sons.

1.2.2 History of Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture

About 400 hundred years ago, during the Korean Chosun Dynasty,
an ascetic with the penname Saahm invented the Saahm acupuncture
formulas, utilizing YIN YANG and FIVE ELEMENTS theory, after
spending 13 years living in a cave. With his methods of acupuncture,
unique and never seen before, he treated thousands of patients
successfully. Before him, YIN YANG and FIVE ELEMENTS theory
had never been properly or clearly understood and utilized for
acupuncture treatment.

Unfortunately, his books about his formulas and practice records

were buried in a graveyard, and unknown until the early 1950s when
Master JaeWon Rhee (whose penname is SohGok) discovered these
books.
In 1958, Master Rhee wrote two books, THE OUTLINE OF
SAAHM FIVE ELEMENTS ACUPUNCTURE AND
MOXIBUSTION, which describes Ascetic Saahm’s formulas and
general acupuncture and THE ESSENSE OF SAAHM YIN YANG
FIVE ELEMENTS ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION about
Ascetic Saahm’s practice records including symptoms and treatment
points. He trained hundreds of acupuncturists.

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 Five Phases Acupuncture or Five Elements Acupuncture from Japan
had been introduced to western countries based on Ascetic Saahm
Acupuncture methods, but used only two points instead of four points,
commonly used by Saahm. Actually, KOSA varies the number of
points depending on the problem(s).

If there is only one symptom, only one point can be used and if there
are complications then the number of points used can exceed ten.
The treatment must be customized. The readers will learn this very
soon, later on in the book.

In 1962, my father, Master HyungGwan Kim (whose pen name is

SaahOk, born in 1920) was trained by Master Rhee. He had
successfully treated thousands of patients with various challenging
diseases like Arthritis, Atopic dermatitis, Asthma, Bell’s palsy,
Bleeding nose, Bronchitis, Esophagus cancer (or throat cancer),
Middle-ear infection, Nephritis, Anosmia (or no sense of smell), Palsy,
Pleuritis, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Rigor, Acne, Sinusitis, Pruritus,
Urinary bladder cancer, Uterine cancer, and many others.
He also wrote a book THE OUTLINE OF SAAHM FIVE
ELEMENTS ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION and has been
training approx. 800 people including physicians and OMD’s (Oriental
Medicine Doctors) since 1993.

One of Master Kim’s students, Gwangho Kim learned KOSA in

January of 1999. Gwangho Kim demonstrated the power of KOSA
when he attended the International Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM) conference held in Tianjin, China in 10/2006. This
demonstration surprised approximately 350 attendees with its quick and
excellent effectiveness. An elderly lady who had a frozen shoulder at
the conference was treated by him, and he used only one needle on her
foot (to be more precise, the EARTH point of the spleen). When the
needle was pulled out, she was able to raise her arm.

In September of 2001, Mr. JaeHoon Song visited Master Kim and

explained his problem to him. His job was teaching Chinese language
to oriental medicine doctors and students at an oriental medicine
college. He suffered from a cold knee, which none of his students could
help for sixteen years.
Master Kim compared both knees using the back of his hand,
because the back of the hand is much more sensitive to temperature
than the palm. Master Kim found the reason why Mr. Song felt his knee

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to be cold. It was not really cold, but actually hot. The higher heat
dissipation caused by the hotness of his knee made him feel cold.
Master Kim treated (subdued) his FIRE point of the Stomach BD
located at the ankle, and the cold feeling went away immediately.
Mr. Song was so impressed that he attended Master Kim’s lectures
with fourteen Oriental medicine doctors who had three to twelve years
of practice experience and one college student, who all were Mr.
Song’s students learning Chinese language.
As soon as Mr. Song learned KOSA, he started an organization
claiming that they invented Korean YIN-YANG Balancing
Acupuncture (Pyung-Chim) and Korean Five-Element Harmonizing
Acupuncture (Hwa-Chim).

In May of 2004, Master Kim taught Dr. WooHyun Park, the

Superintendent of the East West Hospital in Wien, Austria and Berlin,
Germany, a Guest Professor of the National University in Wien,
Austria, and a Professor of the National Medical University in
Vladivostok, Russia. He has taught KOSA to physicians in Austria,
Germany and Russia and they have successfully treated more than
80,000 patients with a success rate of higher than 90%. This rate is an
amazing number and is data that no one in the health industry can
believe except those associated with KOSA.

Dr. Park’s other students also have successfully treated patients with
incurable disease like Parkinson’s disease, Buerger’s disease, and so on.

Master Kim, after his twenty years of practice, eventually made a

turning point in medical history defining FOSTERING and
SUBDUING, which will be explained later on in this book. Until then,
for thousands of years, nobody figured out how to FOSTER and
SUBDUE even though they knew they had to do it. They have just
been hoping what they were doing was right. That was the reason why
no other acupuncture method could show the extremely superb results
that KOSA can.

In order to distinguish Master Kim’s acupuncture, he named his

acupuncture KOREAN ORTHODOX SAAHM ACUPUNCTURE
because there are a few people who claim they also can do Saahm
Acupuncture. However, their approaches are quite different than KOSA.

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1.3 Bonghan Duct and Living Egg
1.3.1 Bonghan Duct

Nobody had proven that the channels and acupuncture points

physically exist until Bonghan Kim, MD (1916 – 1966? North Korea)
presented his thesis about Bonghan Duct and the Living Egg in 1961.
The following is a summary of his research and of others who have
rediscovered Dr. Kim’s theory and abstracts from David Milbradt’s,
L.Ac. article on his web site viii.

In November of 2007, a group of Korean researchers lead by Kwang-

Sub Soh, Ph.D. has rediscovered threadlike microscopic anatomical
structures that correspond with the layout of traditional acupuncture
channels. Acupuncture channels are no longer imaginary lines, but
specific anatomical structures that, until now, have not been
recognized by current theories of anatomy. These channels have been
found inside of blood and lymphatic vessels and they also form
networks that overlay internal organs.
Kim's discoveries have been confirmed by a variety of studies with
rats, rabbits and pigs. Stereo-microscope photographs and images
from transmission electron microscopy in the research papers show
assemblies of tubular structures 30 to 100 µm wide (red blood cells are
6-8 µm in diameter).
Apparently these structures have remained undiscovered for so long
because they are almost transparent and so thin that they are barely
visible with low-magnification surgical microscopes.
They are also easily confused with fibrin, which coagulates and
obscures these structures when there is bleeding in dissected tissues.
Now that they have been rediscovered, researchers are investigating
their composition and function.
The tubular structures that make up Bonghan Ducts contain a
flowing liquid that includes abundant hyaluronic acid, a substance that
cushions and lubricates the joints, eyes, skin and even heart valves.
Also visible in the photographs are small granules of DNA or microcells
about 1-2 µm in diameter that contain chromosomal material highly
reactive to stem-cell antibody stains. When these cells were isolated
and then induced to differentiate, they grew into cells of all three germ
layers. These may be our body's natural source of pluripotent adult
stem cells, with the potential to develop into any cell in the body.

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 The novel threadlike structure passes through the lymphatic valve
Bonghan Ducts are also being compared to fiber-optic channels in the
body. These ducts may be able to carry an extremely high density of
information far beyond the limited, one-way signals of the nervous
system or the diffusive information carried by hormones in the blood
stream. A 2004 paper describes how bio-photons, produced by animal
tissues, may be emitted by DNA molecules to produce a laser-like
coherent light capable of carrying an enormous volume of information
through the Bonghan Ducts. The idea that acupunctures ducts conduct
light has already been substantiated by Russian research published as
early as 1991. They found that the light-conducting ability of the
human body exists only along the meridians, and can enter and exit
only along the acupuncture points. This finding has been confirmed by
a 1992 study in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a 2005
study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
where moxibustion and infrared thermography were used to trace
meridian pathways.
Kim Bonghan believed that the ducts system of communication was
in charge of the formation of the embryo and the control of growth
throughout the organism. He did a series of studies on the embryonic
development of the meridian systems of various animals. He found
that a chicken embryo begins to develop Bonghan Ducts within 15
hours of conception. It appears that Bonghan-duct communication
directs the development of all internal organs and may provide critical
information-feedback loops that create bilateral symmetry in our body.
The science of embryology has a clear understanding of only the very
earliest stages of fertilization and development. The unfertilized egg
has a top and bottom, but there is no distinction between left and right
or front and back. An acupuncturist would say that the orientation of
CONCEPTION duct and GOVERNOR ducts has not yet been established.
Without this primary axis of orientation, the embryo cannot develop.
The stimulus must come from the outside world and it is provided by
the action of the sperm entering the egg. From that moment on, a
guideline is laid out from the entry point of the sperm to the top and
bottom poles of the cell. The first time the fertilized egg divides into
two cells everything lines up along that meridian.

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 As the embryo continues to develop the side on which the sperm has
entered becomes the belly or YIN side, which is subdivided into right
and left orientations by the CONCEPTION duct. The opposite side is the
back or YANG side which is subdivided by the GOVERNOR duct.
In Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson says that what happens next is
a mystery in the science of embryology. "What controls the nearly
perfect external bilateral symmetry of the mammalian body? We have
remarkably little knowledge of the message system that controls
growth. There must be a whole interlocking system as yet scarcely
studied." Bonghan duct researchers appear to have discovered that
system. It is the only anatomically distinct structural network that
could possibly handle the high volume of information that would be
necessary to control embryological organization.
This relationship between acupuncture and embryology has also
been explored by Charles Shang, MD, who pointed out several striking
physiological similarities between acupuncture points and
embryological organizational centers. Both are areas of high electrical
conductance and both contain a high density of gap junctions, cellular
organelles that facilitate cell to cell communication. Shang theorizes
that the acupuncture points are the same as the discrete
organizational centers that embryologists have found to control the
development of embryos. He postulates that this system of growth
control centers or acupuncture points shape the embryo and then
persists in mature organisms for the purpose of coordinating
information, regulating homeostasis and managing the complexities of
ongoing repair and renewal of the body at a cellular level. Although
Shang's writing predates the recent research on Bonghan Ducts, he
theorizes:"The ducts may be a convenient way of activating intrinsic
adult stem cells."
Because the duct system organizes the development of the embryo
from the very beginning, well before the circulatory and nervous
system are established, it is not surprising to find that these systems
often overlap and interact. Many studies have clearly shown that the
stimulation of the duct system has a profound effect upon both local
blood circulation and imbalances in the nervous system. Furthermore,
because embryonic development reflects evolutionary development, it
is quite likely that the meridian system has more ancient origins than
other physiological systems. Shang states, "Its genetic blueprint might
have served as a template from which the newer systems evolved."

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 Plants do not have a nervous system, yet they display a high degree
of structural organization and complex responses to their environment.
Research published in Scientific American in August 1984 that
describes the effects of light transfer through plant stems may have
been looking at the ancestral precursors of the duct system.
Shang's growth-control model of the duct system does much to
explain why acupuncture has so few side effects. "Conventional nerve
stimulation usually results in unidirectional effects." Acupuncture is
very different from conventional nerve stimulation because it activates
a unique communication network that restores normal function in the
body. Activating the meridian system restores both hyperfunction and
hypofunction to homeostasis; the possibility of any adverse side effects
is extremely low.

Hereinafter, BD (Bonghan Duct) will be used instead of channel (or

meridian) to honor Bonghan Kim’s great work.

1.3.2 Living Egg

In addition to the above, in 1965 Bonghan Kim presented another

thesis called the LIVING EGG, whose essence is given below:
He confirmed and analyzed liquids flowing in Bonghan Ducts and
discovered there are many kinds of life substances like DNA, hormones,
hyaluronic acid, etc.
DNA in blood vessels exists in the form of a particle, which is called
the Living Egg, and which changes and becomes new cells upon cell
division, according to his observation.
There is something even before cells, and it circulates in Bonghan
Ducts controlling creation, aging and the destruction of cells. He named
it the LIVING EGG.
He also found that Living Cells flow through BDs, and differentiate
into other cell types wherever a wounded part is located.

This not only denies traditional theory that cells are created only by
cell division, but also makes the classic Bonghan Duct theory a great
new system to study.

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1.3.3 Bonghan Ducts and Acupuncture Points

In this book, I will mention only twelve primary and two

miscellaneous BDs because I do not think the others are important
enough to be dealt with.
In oriental medicine, everybody has twelve Primary BDs on each
side (left and right) and two Miscellaneous BDs at the center of the
body, front and back (Conception BD and Governor BD, respectively).
Those BDs are thought to join the internal organs with the skin, flesh,
ligaments, bones and all other tissues, and integrate each part with the
whole. Their functions are transferring QI and Blood, moistening and
nourishing the body, responding to dysfunction in the body,
transmitting disease and acupuncture stimulation, etc.
Acupuncture points are located on the skin on the lines of the BDs,
and every point is believed to have its own unique function.
There are 361 points on the body.

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1.4 YIN YANG and Five Elements Theory
Oriental medicine is based on the theory of YIN YANG and FIVE
ELEMENTS.
We all are a part of the cosmos and have the information of the
cosmos. YIN YANG are the same as the cosmos. Thus, understanding
YIN YANG and FIVE ELEMENTS will help us understand our bodies.
Oriental medicine has allocated organs in accordance with this theory,
established the relationships and interactions between organs, defined
the functions of the organs and the BDs of those organs, and five
elements locations on those BDs. For example, the Gallbladder BD
starts from head and ends at a toe. Migraine, which usually lies on the
Gallbladder BD, can easily be treated by making the gallbladder
healthy by manipulating one or two of the FIVE ELEMENTS points of
gallbladder.

1.4.1 History of the Theory of YIN YANG and Five Elements

In order to describe the history of the theory of YIN YANG and Five
Elements, Korean history shall be understood first.

The following is a brief abstracts from a web site ix.

There was an Empire called Hwan-Gook, in size 12,500 miles by
5,000 miles (length by width, respectively), which had a capital city
located close to Lake Baikal. There were seven Emperors in that
dynasty and they governed twelve states for 3,301 years from B.C.
7197 to B.C. 3897.
One of the twelve tribes secured their legitimacy by moving to the
mountainous Baekdusan area, which is located in the north of North
Korea, and established a country called Baedalgook, which is the
predecessor of modern Korea. There were eighteen Kings in that
Dynasty for 1,565 years from B.C. 3897 to B.C. 2333.
Among these was the Fifth King (Taewooui) who governed Korea
from B.C. 3512 to B.C. 3419, who lived 115 years. One of his princes,
the twelfth to be more specific, was named Bokhee (Fu Shi or Fu Xi in
the Chinese phonetic alphabet).

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 Bokhee was the first of the Three Sovereigns of ancient China. He is a
culture hero reputed to be the inventor of writing, fishing, and trapping
x
and the one who initially arranged of the trigrams .
Trigrams are eight diagrams used in cosmology to represent the
fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated
concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line either "broken" or
"unbroken," representing YIN or YANG, respectively. Due to their
tripartite structure, they are often referred to as "trigrams" in English.
The trigrams are related to Taegeuk (which means the great
xi
polarity) philosophy and the five elements .

1.4.2 YIN and YANG

YIN and YANG are Chinese words and can be translated as negative
and positive in English, respectively. Positive means that consisting in
or characterized by the presence or possession of distinguishing or
marked qualities or features (opposed to negative).

Followings are examples of this theory.

Table 1-1 Relationship of YIN and YANG

YIN YANG YIN YANG
MOON SUN GROUND SKY
NIGHT DAY COLD HOT
WATER FIRE DOWN UP
FALL RISE IN OUT
LOW HIGH DARK BRIGHT
MUDDY CLEAR FEMALE MALE
CONTRACT EXPAND WINTER SUMMER
INTERIOR EXTERIOR FRONT BACK
BONES SKIN BLOOD QI
BODY HEAD ESSENCE SPIRIT
CORPOREAL ETHEREAL PROTECTIVE
NUTRITION QI
SOUL SOUL QI

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 Everything has YIN and YANG in it just like a coin has a front and a
back. This means that there is no pure YIN or YANG but rather a
matter of what is more YIN or YANG. A woman can be represented as
YIN. However, inside of her is YANG and in order for her to be
neutralized she will have to talk more than a man. A permanent magnet
is dead because it does not change its polarity unless there is external
physical force applied to it. An electron (which is arbitrarily assigned a
negative charge) has positive characteristics like movement of rotation,
revolution, and gyration, so it would be classified as YANG, while a
proton (arbitrarily assigned a positive polarity) would have to not move
to be YIN (which is in accord with scientific observation) if YIN
YANG theory is accurate and true.
YIN is attracted to YANG and vice versa and therefore, life can be
sustained.

Figure 1-1 The National Flag of the Republic of Korea

The national flag of the Republic of Korea shown above has the YIN
YANG circle (Taegeuk in Korean, which means the great polarity) in
the center, which reflects YIN YANG theory.

The Taegeuk design dates back to the 7th century in Korea but recent
excavations go back even further. The design like two entangled
tadpoles was not found before the 11th century in China. The four
trigrams represent FIVE ELEMENTS.

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1.4.3 QI

QI (pronounced “chee” as in cheese) is the vital energy believed to

circulate around the body in currents, and with characteristics of
YANG, while blood is relatively YIN. Thus, when there is a problem
with blood or blood flow it might have been caused by the problem of
QI. It can be taken care of by manipulating QI.
Nobody has physically proven QI’s existence yet but I believe it will
eventually be proven physically, just like gravity has been.
KOSA does not use the term, “blocked Qi”. Because once Qi is
blocked, the organ related to that blocked Qi should die. Thus, when
people say “You have blocked Qi”, it is similar to a physician saying “I
am sorry we do not have treatment for you.”
Instead, KOSA says “Your organ is deficient, excessive, hot, cold or
some combination of these.”

1.4.4 FIVE ELEMENTS

The FIVE ELEMENTS consist of WATER, WOOD, FIRE, EARTH,

and METAL and are illustrated on the next page to help readers
understand them more easily.
As explained with regard to YIN YANG above, the outer organs are
YANG and inner ones are YIN.

1.4.5 Interaction among elements

YIN organs affect only YIN organs and YANG organs affect YANG
organs only. However, when a YIN organ gets weak (deficient) the
YANG organ in the same element tends to be deficient as well and vice
versa. For example, if you had a deficient lung, then, most likely you
would have also a deficient large intestine, because both of them are
categorized in METAL.

1.4.6 The relationship of Parent and Child

Foster arrows indicate the relationship of Parent and Child. The

starting part of the foster arrow is the Parent while the ends of the
arrows are the children. For example, the gallbladder is the Parent of
the small intestine.
When the small intestine is deficient, this has been caused by its
Parent, the gallbladder. The gallbladder is not healthy enough to foster
its child, the small intestine. Thus, in order to make the small intestine

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healthy, the gallbladder needs to be fostered (or made healthy enough
to foster the small intestine).

Figure 1-2 Five Elements Diagram

1.4.7 The relationship of Subdual

In the above diagram, the thin black arrows indicate the relationship
of subdual. The organs at the starting points of the arrows are subduing
the organs at the ends of the arrowheads.
For example, the spleen subdues the kidney and in turn the kidney
subdues the heart.

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 If you feel languor after meal, it is understood as follows: When the
working stomach gets excessive, it makes the spleen excessive in many
cases. An excessive spleen would subdue the kidney stronger than in
the usual condition, with an empty stomach. Since the kidney is the
organ, which represents energy and has become more deficient than
usual, you would feel languor.

1.4.8 The relationship of Overaction

This is the theory in which the opposite of subduing happens. For

example, spleen (EARTH) subdues liver (WOOD) rather than liver
subdues spleen.
This is rarely used in KOSA.

1.4.9 Relationship of organs in same element

Lung and large intestine are both in the METAL element. Many
people in Oriental medicine have the misconception that if the lung is
in a deficient condition, then the large intestine would be in an
excessive condition. Thus, the total force of YIN and YANG organs in
the same element never changes.
KOSA believes that a deficient lung usually accompanies a deficient
large intestine and vice versa.
This is very important and will be repeated in this book.

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1.5 YIN YANG and Five Elements
1.5.1 Five Elements – Organs

Table 1-2 Five Elements – Organs

Premier
- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
FIRE
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney Pericardium
Pancreas
Gall- Small Large Triple
YANG Stomach Bladder
bladder Intestine Intestine Energizer

In traditional oriental medicine, the spleen is a part of the five

elements system. However, it has recently been claimed that the
pancreas is also categorized in the EARTH element, and it is found that
pancreas problems can successfully be treated by the method of treating
the spleen.

1.5.2 Premier FIRE

In the above table, there are two items you have probably never
heard of, PREMIER FIRE and TRIPLE ENERGIZER.

PREMIER FIRE consists of the Pericardium and the TRIPLE

ENERGIZER as YIN and YANG functions. Since the TRIPLE
ENERGIZER is an imaginary organ and its functions are seldom used
in KOSA, I will give you only a brief introduction.
The TRIPLE ENERGIZER consists of an UPPER ENERGIZER, a
MIDDLE ENERGIZER and a LOWER ENERGIZER.
• The Upper Energizer includes the chest, neck, head and the
functions of the heart and lung.
• The Middle Energizer spans the region between the chest and the
navel, and includes the functions of the kidney and bladder, the
stomach and spleen.
• The Lower Energizer contains the lower abdomen and the kidney
and bladder (and usually the liver, however that is sometimes
placed in the Middle Energizer).

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1.5.3 Five Elements – Sense Organs

Table 1-3 Five Elements - Sense Organs

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Ears
Sense Lips
Eyes Tongue Nose (Genitals
Organs (Mouth)
and Anus)
Sense Color Sense Taste Smell Hear

The sensory functions are mostly controlled by the YIN organs or

indicate the health status of their own organ.
For example, most problems of the eyes including vision are due to
an unhealthy liver. Color blindness could have a chance of getting
treated if the liver improves.

WOOD - Liver and Gallbladder – Eyes

A lady with a lot of pain in her whole body was being treated by a
KOSA acupuncturist. She also had a vision problem where she only
had peripheral vision and could not see forward, but she did not
mention her vision problem to the acupuncturist. A physician told her
there was no remedy. Guess what? The acupuncturist quenched the
FIRE point of her Liver BD to treat the symptoms she told him about.
She then could see in front of her which she had never been able to do
until that moment.

FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine – Tongue

Dry tongue, stiff tongue, infection on the tongue, or tongue cancer

might be caused by a hot heart.
There was a young lady who had a white tumor in the center of her
tongue. It was measured three sixteenths and one thirty seconds in
length and diameter, respectively, and had been present for a few
months. Her parent took her to a physician and the treatment was laser-
cutting. A couple of weeks later it grew back. Since it was located at
the center of her tongue, quenching the FIRE points of the heart and the
kidney made her tumor fall off naturally, and it has not come back for
more than two years.
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 The kidney was quenched because its Bonghan duct is connected to
the Conception BD, which is located at the front center of the body.
Once again, oriental medicine’s approach is to make the organs
healthy, and improved organs can then treat the symptoms.

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Lips (Mouth)

Dry lips, which could even result in bleeding, would probably be

caused by hot stomach and quenching stomach would make them
normal.

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine – Nose

The nose has been regarded as the door of the lung in oriental
medicine. Sinus infection, sinusitis, ozena, anosmia (no sense of smell),
bleeding due to dryness and splitting (dryness causes even bleeding)
nasal skin problems and so on are the result of an unhealthy (most
likely deficient and hot) lung.

WATER – Kidney and Bladder - Ears (Genitals and Anus)

Problems with the ears, genitals and anus including tinnitus (or
ringing noise), impaired hearing etc. would be able to be treated
successfully, even though many people believe that impaired hearing is
a typical incurable disease or symptom.

A lady had no feeling on the sole of her feet and felt she was walking
on clouds. During the third or fourth treatment, the KOSA
acupuncturist found her wearing a hearing aid and asked her if she had
not noticed any difference in her hearing capability. He asked her to
take the hearing aid off because he thought there was a good chance
that her hearing had improved. The reasoning is that he was treating her
kidney and the Kidney BD starts from the sole of her foot. Because the
improved kidneys had improved her walking capability, they should
have helped her hearing as well. After examining her hearing,
amazingly, she was able to hear almost perfectly. After that, she has
never worn the hearing aid again.
An ex-coworker retired a few years ago. Working in chemical plants
for a few decades, his hearing had been impaired. I put a magnet on his
FIRE point of the kidney to quench it. Next morning, he told me that he
did not realize how loud he used to watch TV until after the treatment.

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 For ringing noises in the ear(s), depending on the sound, the
problematic organs could be classified as below:
• Kidney: Thin and weak noise, sound of a cicada or a high pitch
noise; usually requires treatment over a long period of time.
• Bladder: Noise of an airplane flying
• Triple Energizer: Sometimes a pulsating sound, or a burning noise
or echoing noise
• Small Intestine: An unclear or muddy noise
• Gallbladder: Sounds like a steel ball rolling on a steel tray

1.5.4 Five Elements – Tissue

Table 1-4 Five Elements - Tissue

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Sinews, Blood Hair / Marrow /
Tissue Flesh
Tendon Vessels Skin Bones

These are very important functions of the organs and without

understanding this, diagnosis and treatment would almost be
impossible. In general, these ten organs (in the first two columns) are
treated as fundamental parts of the body, but KOSA understands it in a
more detailed fashion as follows:
• Organs interact with other organs by fostering, being fostered,
subduing and being subdued.
• Organs interact with their related tissue as shown in the bottom
row in the above table.
• Organs interact with blood and Qi.

WOOD - Liver and Gallbladder – Sinews and Tendon

KOSA believes that Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig's disease

(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS) and paralysis are pretty much
the same disease with different names and symptoms, and they are
mostly caused by unhealthiness of the liver (hot, hot and deficient, hot
and excessive, deficient or excessive) and possibly other organ(s). For
example, since the Lung BD ends at the tip of the thumb, if the thumb
is a part of the symptoms, then the lung would most likely have a

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problem, although many people believe that it's only a neuronal system
disease.

FIRE - Heart and Small Intestine – Blood Vessels

The heart and small intestine are in charge of the blood vessels.
Varicose veins would be a typical example of this. Manipulating the
heart and/or small intestine would be an effective treatment.

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Flesh

Being corpulent or thin would mean these organs are excessive or

deficient, respectively. If the spleen and stomach are excessive, they
would weaken the WATER organs, the kidney and bladder. If you are
overweight, then you have most likely weak kidney and/or bladder.
However, many people have deficient EARTH organ(s) with deficient
WATER organ(s) also.

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine – Hair and Skin

In traditional oriental medicine, it is understood that the lungs are in

charge of the skin. Considering that the lung is exposed to the air, they
can be treated as a part of skin. However, KOSA thinks that the large
intestine is the organ in charge of the skin because the skin is YANG
rather than YIN and YANG interacts with YANG. The body hair is
under the control of the lung. KOSA believes most skin diseases can
successfully be treated by manipulating the large intestine.

WATER – Kidney and Bladder – Marrow and Bones

As explained about the WATER element and organs, the bones are
under the control of the kidney. Arthritis, which has been defined as an
“incurable disease” by the FDA, would be able to be treated
successfully with proper manipulation of the kidney and organs in
charge of the problematic area.

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1.5.5 Five Elements – Manifestation

Table 1-5 Five Elements - Manifestation

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Nails Breast & Hair Hair
Manifestation Face
(Toenails) Lips on body at head

WOOD – Liver and Gallbladder – Nails (Toenails)

Smooth and clean nails will represent that your liver is healthy, but if
they are deformed and/or rough that means the liver might have a
problem.

FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine - Face

If your face is reddish, then your heart might be hot and/or excessive.
On the contrary, a pale face usually means a cold and/or deficient state
of the heart.

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas – Breast and Lips

Although breast cancer is generally believed to be caused by a

problem of the breast itself, KOSA believes that it is a result of the
stomach’s unhealthiness, because the Stomach BDs pass the breasts.
Those patients with breast cancer would most likely have problem(s)
related to the stomach, for example, indigestion, hyperacidity, and so
on.

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine – Hair on Body

Too much or too little hair on the body would probably be an

indication of problems of the lung and/or large intestine. This item has,
in general, not been used as a health issue and/or a measure to diagnose
METAL organs in KOSA.

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 WATER – Kidney and Bladder – Hair on Head

Alopecia, baldness and rough hair are typical problems caused by

unhealthy WATER organs.

My hair used to be dark black until I was fifteen years old. Then, I
began to have gray hair and my hair had got grayer and grayer every
single day. I did not find out why until I read an article stating that
toothpaste might be harmful, depending on the situation. I began
reading the warnings on toothpaste boxes which read as follows:
“Keep out of the reach of children under 6 years of age. If more than
used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or
contact a Poison Control Center right away.”

When I told a physician this, he told me that he did not know if

toothpaste is a product to be treated carefully and he was not trained to
deal with the patients who accidently swallowed more than is used for
brushing.
In the movie, Home Alone, there is a boy asking the grocery store
cashier a question, “Is this toothpaste FDA approved?”
While writing this book, I called Colgate and asked the question if all
toothpaste products made by Colgate are FDA approved. The
representative answered that they are all manufactured in FDA
regulated plants, but not approved by the FDA as are all other products
made by them.
However, Dr. Bill DeVizio, DMD, VP, Colgate Dental Clinical
Researcher says that Colgate Total® toothpaste is the only toothpaste
approved by the FDA to prevent gingivitis on Colgate’s website xii.
I ate toothpaste way more than I used for brushing when I was ten
years old because my family was not rich enough for me to buy snacks
or something sweet. I think that was why it affected my kidney and I
have gray hair.
When you brush your teeth, you taste the toothpaste as sweet.
Tasting can only be realized by absorbing it. In other words, brushing
your teeth using toothpaste would result in your body’s absorbing the
chemicals of the toothpaste no matter how small the amount might be. I
would like to recommend that you use coarse sea salt instead of
toothpaste if you have serious health concern.

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1.5.6 Five Elements - Liquids

Table 1-6 Five Elements - Liquids

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Snivel /
Thick Shallow
Liquids Tears Sweat Nasal
Saliva Saliva
mucus

WOOD – Liver and Gallbladder – Tears

Tearing too much (epiphora) or dry eyes would be caused by

coldness or hotness of the WOOD organ(s), respectively. They could
be caused by deficiency or excessiveness as well, independent of the
organ's temperature.

FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine – Sweat

Too much sweating might not seem to be an important issue but just
an uncomfortable symptom in normal life. Nonetheless, when someone
wants to be a surgeon and is sweating too much, they would probably
not be qualified, because they may not able to hold the surgical
instruments properly. I heard that a student in medical college had to
have surgery as a treatment of the sweat glands in the armpit.

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Thick Saliva

Most babies who are drooling thick saliva show they have healthy
EARTH organs. If their drooling is much more or less than other babies,
then they might have a problem with the EARTH organs.

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine – Snivel / Nasal mucus

Snivel or nasal mucus is an indication of the lung. Some people say

that thickness and thinness of the mucus is an indicator of a cold or a
hot lung, respectively, but I do not think they are that relevant and
treating a runny nose will be described in the section, 4.4 Ascetic
Saahm’s Formula #3 and #4 (Page 179).

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 WATER – Kidney and Bladders – Shallow Saliva

Oriental medicine considers the kidney as a key organ for sustaining

life, and swallowing your own saliva as frequently as possible is one of
secrets of longevity. Dry mouth due to lack of saliva would be a sign of
your kidney’s unhealthiness.

1.5.7 Five Elements – Emotion

Table 1-7 Five Elements - Emotions

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Sadness,
Happiness, Pensiveness Fear,
Emotion Anger Grief,
Laugh Stress Fright
Sorrow

WOOD – Liver and Gallbladder – Anger

Anger affects the liver directly and enormously, and because the liver
is in charge of the muscles and/or tendons (which will be explained
later), so it might result in palsy. Even if your anger is weak, the
continued anger would gradually damage your liver and eventually you
will suffer liver-related issues including palsy. For those people who
get angry easier than other people, the WOOD organ(s) would probably
be unhealthy and treating them would make them more tolerant of
anger provoking situations.

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 FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine – Happiness and Laughing

Have you heard of people who died watching sporting events? Being
overly happy can hurt the heart. Nevertheless, there is a lot of research
on the relationship between laughing and longevity. An example is
given below.
For the first time, researchers have found that laughter causes the
endothelium, the inner lining of blood vessels, to dilate. This increases
blood flow, which is good for overall cardiovascular health. The
message is clear, and economical. "I think it would be reasonable for
everybody to loosen up, and spend about 15 to 20 minutes a day
laughing," said lead researcher Dr. Michael Miller, M.D. Director of
Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. xiii

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Pensiveness, Stress

Medical research has been trying to figure out the relationship

between stress and appetite. Cortisol hormone and Corticotrophin
Releasing hormone are typical subjects the scientists are looking at. In
oriental medicine, a healthy spleen and stomach would make a person
more tolerant of stress, and mild stress would not result in an increased
appetite. Stress would make the stomach warmer and the stomach
would ask you to eat more.

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine - Sadness, Grief & Sorrow

Sadness hurts the lung and large intestine, and the weakened
METAL organs would more easily be affected by sadness. On the
contrary, a healthy METAL organ(s) would treat chronic depression.

WATER – Kidney and Bladder – Fear and Fright

I met a middle school girl who had spinal curvature. Looking at the
five elements table, I told her mother that she needs to avoid novels,
movies, or anything that would make her daughter scared or frightened,
because those emotions would harm the kidney and, eventually, her
bones including her spine. She was very surprised to hear this and told
me her daughter was infatuated with them and she kept reading and
watching as much as she could even though she was shuddering with
fear.
Avoiding horror material and using a magnet to subdue the FIRE
point of the kidney for a few months corrected her spinal problem.

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1.5.8 Five Elements - Spirits

Table 1-8 Five Elements - Spirits

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Ethereal Mind / Intellect / Corporeal Will
Emotion
Soul Spirit Thought Soul Power

Spirits are very similar to emotions as explained in the section, 1.5.7

Five Elements – Emotion (Page 31). Those with strong healthy
WATER organs will have strong will power. If you think your will
power is not strong as you want, you would just have to make your
WATER organs healthy.

1.5.9 Five Elements - Sounds

Table 1-9 Five Elements - Sounds

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Shouting Crying
Emotion Laughing Singing Groaning
Sighing Whimpering

Angry people usually shout. However, if the person does not shout,
they would generally have healthy WOOD organs. Therefore, shouting
and sighing could hurt the WOOD organs. Sounds affect organs and
organs affect the type of sounds in both positive and negative ways.

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1.5.10 Five Elements – Indication

Table 1-10 Five Elements - Indication

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Indication Clench Depressed Sneeze Cough Shudder

WOOD – Liver and Gallbladder – Clench

Clenching one's hand is a typical symptom of palsy. It is caused by

WOOD organ(s) issues. It makes sense because a problematic WOOD
organ(s) would not allow you to move or stay still as you want. To the
contrary, recovering WOOD organ(s) would probably get rid of that
kind of problems.

FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine – Depressed

You might be confused because it was stated METAL organs are

responsible for depression. However, depression could also be caused
by problematic FIRE organ(s). How to judge which organ(s) is
responsible and needs to be treated will be explained later.

EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Sneeze

Sneezing is a sign of problematic EARTH organ(s).

METAL – Lung – Cough

Typical symptom of a lung problem is coughing.

WATER – Kidney and Bladder – Shudder

When a person feels cold, the coldness affects the WATER organ(s)
which will lead to shuddering of the whole body.

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1.5.11 Five Elements – Harms

Table 1-11 Five Elements - Harms

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Harms Walking Seeing Sitting Lying Standing

WOOD – Liver and Gallbladder – Walking

Diabetes: There are two types. Type I diabetes is called insulin-

dependent diabetes (IDD) or juvenile diabetes and is a severe form of
diabetes mellitus. Insulin production by the beta cells of the pancreas is
impaired, usually resulting in dependence on externally administered
insulin. The onset typically occurs before the age of 25.
Type II diabetes is non-insulin-dependent diabetes, adult-onset
diabetes, or maturity-onset diabetes. A mild, sometimes asymptomatic
form of diabetes mellitus is characterized by diminished tissue
sensitivity to insulin and sometimes by impaired beta cell function. It is
exacerbated by obesity and often treatable by diet and exercise.

A few years ago when I was in Korea to visit my parent, I happened

to talk to a man who told me his story.
A year earlier, he visited a physician for an annual checkup and
ended up being forced to be hospitalized because of his high blood
sugar level. Soon, he noticed that the hospitalized diabetics were
discharged only after they had died. He left the hospital without
consent because he did not want to die in the hospital. Then, he did
nothing but walking with a backpack with food and water bottles in it.
A couple of weeks later, his blood sugar level went down to normal.
As soon as he finished his talk, I heard a bell ringing and I was glad
to find a secret or key that had improved his diabetes.
My understanding of his healing process was that walking made his
liver weaker and with the liver’s less subduing force applied to the
pancreas it recovered its ability to produce insulin. This allowed the
insulin to work and lower his blood sugar level.

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 Whether it is type I or type II diabetes, the pancreas is the key organ
and western medicine has been trying to take care of diabetes
symptoms with externally fed insulin in either type. There is no feasible
scientific yet economic method available to control the amount
precisely. However, I think insulin fed externally would confuse the
health control system of the body and the system will eventually order
the pancreas to shut down the insulin factory and cause it to atrophy.
Diabetics rely on insulin more than before and getting peace of mind
would make them too lazy to be cautious, to make their bodies healthier
and to fight diabetes. When diabetics are told that their feet or hands
would have to be amputated, usually it is too late. I think KOSA could
help them even at that late stage.

Please exercise continuous walking for at least 30 minutes a day and

it will probably help. If you are dependent on insulin, please take two
small teaspoonful of cinnamon powder right after a meal, three times a
day. A KOSA member told me the granularity of cinnamon is very
important in regard to absorption in the small intestine and usually in
two days, the blood sugar level returns to normal without the help of
insulin. If the blood sugar level does not go down, slowly increase the
amount until you receive the desired effect on the blood sugar level.
Measuring blood sugar level shall be periodically and closely done so
that the dosage of drugs could be adjusted, so as to regulate the level
properly. If the cinnamon powder bothers you at any time, then stop
taking it.

I have heard many successful cases of cinnamon’s effectiveness and

there are very few side effects. Please consult with your physicians
about cinnamon.
However, because walking and cinnamon alone is not a perfect
solution and remedy, diabetic shall do enough exercise to win the war
against diabetes.
Please search 'Diabetes Deception' on the internet and get surprised,
feared, frightened and eventually smart so that you can win the war.

FIRE – Heart and Small Intestine – Seeing

The Heart BDs have branch paths passing the eyes and seeing things
too bright or flickering like CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitors, LCD
monitors or LED monitors for a long period of time might hurt the
heart.

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 EARTH – Spleen / Pancreas and Stomach – Sitting

Sitting on a chair for a long time would harm EARTH organ(s).

METAL – Lung and Large Intestine – Lying

Bedsores are common and are believed to be caused by continued

skin contact with the bed covers. The large intestine is weakened by
lying too long and results in worse protection of the skin in the weakest
area leading to the back getting bedsores.

WATER – Kidney and Bladder – Standing

A typical occupational disease is back injury and pain due to

standing all day long. Those people with jobs involving standing for a
long time would usually have weak WATER organs, especially the
kidney. Since the kidney is in charge of the bones, people with weak
kidneys would have a higher chance of bone related disease than others.
I do not understand why many employees, like receptionists, cashiers,
clerks etc. have to be standing all the time and are not provided with
chairs. Providing employees with chairs would save not only
employees but also the companies' money.

1.5.12 Five Elements – Environment

Table 1-12 Five Elements - Environment

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Seasons Spring Summer Interim Fall Winter
Directions East South Center West North
Colors Blue Red Yellow White Black
Climates Wind Heat Dampness Dryness Cold

Directions

Even changing the direction one is facing affects the grasping force
of the fingers.

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 The Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) was discovered by Dr.
Yoshiaki Omura MD, ScD, in 1977. Omura, who has degrees in
electrical engineering and in medicine, became aware of the Applied
Kinesiology Dysfunction Localization Principle in which touching a
dysfunctioning body area causes a large muscle, often in the arm to
weaken. While researching brain circulation, pathological tenderness,
and the hand's grasping force, Omura became convinced that finger
muscles were particularly useful for locating and diagnosing physical
dysfunction. He applied for a patent in 1985, stating, "It is the primary
object of the present invention to provide a method which permits
imaging of internal organs, localizing exact organ representations at
the front and back of the body of a patient and to provide significant
diagnostic capabilities." The US Patent Office issued the patent in 1993.

You can find more detailed information on how to do this test by

doing a literature search on the internet.
Different kinds of fruits, meats, vegetables, etc. would also show
differences in the force that the muscles can exert. There are a few
people fascinated by this and apply it in diagnosis and treatment,
however, I was told the result could easily be affected by any person
implementing the test. If the tester thinks it would be better for the
patient, then the results have a tendency to follow the tester’s thought.
If you could do it by yourself, it might be a good tool for your health.
Also, the fingers used for the test are on the paths of the Bonghan Ducts,
so the results might represent only some part of the body's condition.

Color

It may be difficult to believe that color also affects the organs, but
colors are associated with each organ. For people with a weak lung,
white clothes would be helpful to improve their lung.
TCM uses colored tape for treatment, and even in western medicine
colored light is sometimes used for weight loss, insomnia, skin disease,
pain, acne, depression, high blood pressure, bedsores, etc.

Climates

Wind might harm WOOD organs; heat might harm FIRE organs and
so on.

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1.5.13 Five Elements - Food

Table 1-13 Five Elements - Food

- WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Spleen /
YIN Liver Heart Lung Kidney
Pancreas
Small Large
YANG Gallbladder Stomach Bladder
Intestine Intestine
Putrid /
Smell Rancid Burned Perfumed Fishy
Rotten
Hot
Taste Sour Bitter Sweet Salty
(Pungent)
Harmful Hot
Salty Sour Bitter Sweet
Taste (Pungent)
Cattles Dog Horse Cow / Ox Chicken Pig
Setaria
Adzuki
Grains Barley Panicum Italica Rice
Bean
(Millet)
Wild Curled Green Bean
Vegetables Korean Leek
Rocambole Mallow Onion Leaf
Fruits Plum Apricot Jujube Peach Chestnut

Food helps its MOTHER ELEMENT organ(s). For example, pork

helps people with weak lung or large intestine.
However, as mentioned in Harmful Taste in the above table, sweet
food harms WATER organ(s).

A few years ago, I read an article about pickling hot vegetables, like
hot pepper in vinegar, in which a scientist discovered why the hot taste
disappears in vinegar.
HOT and SOUR are of METAL and WOOD, respectively. When
they are mixed, as METAL subdues WOOD, in turn HOT will subdue
SOUR. However, vinegar’s SOUR is stronger than HOT, so SOUR
wins over HOT and HOT gets weakened. Kimchi is an essential side
dish of Korean food and originated in Korea. Preparing kimchi requires
hot pepper because the HOT of METAL subdues the SOUR of WOOD
and therefore keeps kimchi preserved for a longer period of time.

Salt is supposed to help METAL organs and also WATER organs.

The myth is that many physicians recommend people to decrease the
consumption of salt.
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 Korean people say that deficiency (90%) is always better than
excessiveness (110%). No matter how good it is, if it is too much, then
it usually gets bad.
Until a few hundred years ago, salt was used as currency and the
word, “salary” was originated from salt in the late 14th century, as a
soldier’s allowance for the purchase of salt.
Most of the salt we can get in a grocery store has been crystallized
and bleached chemically, and contains a very small amount of minerals.
I believe there is no industrialized technology that can recover 100 %
of the chemicals from processing, and I think this might be the reason
why we need to decrease salt consumption.
Our bodies have the capability to regulate and control the salinity in
our bodies.
Good salt tastes good and has a lot of minerals essential to our bodies,
and I have seen a few reports that salt has greatly helped patients with
various challenging diseases and disorders. Korean natural salt is
abundant in minerals and is very cheap.
I will have to put this myth aside for now.

The important things I would like to mention here are about beef,
cheese, milk, butter and anything from cows and oxen.
The reason why beef is more tasteful than pork is from the fat. The
fatter the meat is, the more tasteful it is. When you would like to make
food more tasteful, you consume it with butter or oil. When you do
B.B.Q. you would see that a piece of beef never stops oozing fatty oil,
even though it looks as if it has totally been burned.
Fat’s melting point for beef and pork is from 113.0 to 122.0 deg. F.
and from 96.8 to 113.0 deg. F., respectively xiv. This means that not all
beef fat would melt in our bodies, unless they are chemically digested
first. In addition to that, because beef or dairy products would support
the FIRE organ(s), the heart and small intestine, consuming lots of fat
would result in too much heat in the body.

Even though some people claim that cancer cells could be killed by
heating them, my opinion is that cancer cells would have to be
quenched instead. Also, I think there is no feasible method to heat
cancer cells without sacrificing healthy cells.

There was a 14 years old girl who had bad constipation and could
ease herself only once a week. She used to usually make the toilet full.
Her other problem was atopic dermatitis.

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 Since heat is increased by consuming EARTH food, and that heat
would subdue the METAL organ(s), including the large intestine in
charge of skin, I recommended that she and her mother avoid food in
the EARTH category. About two weeks later, her mother told me all
the problems had gone. A few months later, her mother told me she
fixed her daughter beef and the old issues resurrected right away, and
then quitting consumption of the food in the EARTH column made her
daughter’s problems disappear again.

If you have a skin disease, please avoid food in the EARTH column
and try to consume those in the WATER column (only if you do not
have an allergy to them). If avoiding the EARTH food does not help
you, then all kinds of meat and all kinds of fish would have to be
avoided as well. If it still does not help, then avoid all food which
involves chemical processing and artificial spices and additives.

While KOSA believes that most skin diseases are due to problems of
the large intestine, the liver's unhealthiness could be another one of the
causes, even though it has seldom been seen.

It would be a very interesting research project to find out the co-

relationship between the consumption of beef and pork per capita and
respiratory diseases or skin diseases.

For the readers’ information, some brief information with regard to

vegetable oil and olive oil will be discussed next.

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1.5.14 Vegetable Oil

The following are abstract from Wikipedia. xv

There are two methods to extract oil.
The first one is physical extraction, which does not use solvent
extracts. It is made the "traditional" way using several different types
of mechanical extraction. This method is typically used to produce the
more traditional oils (e.g., olive, coconut etc.), and it is preferred by
most "health-food" customers in the USA and in Europe. Expeller-
pressed extraction is one type, and there are two other types that are
both oil presses: the screw press and the ram press.
The second one is The "modern" way of processing vegetable oil is
by chemical extraction, using solvent extracts, which produces higher
yields and is quicker and less expensive. The most common solvent is
petroleum-derived hexane. This technique is used for most of the
"newer" industrial oils such as soybean and corn oils.
One more thing about vegetable oil; A high consumption of omega-6
polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which are found in most types of
vegetable oil (e.g. soybean oil, corn oil - the most consumed in USA,
sunflower oil, etc.), may increase the likelihood that postmenopausal
women will develop breast cancer. A similar effect was observed on
prostate cancer in mice. Plant based oils high in Monounsaturated
Fatty Acids, such Olive oil, peanut oil, and canola oil are relatively low
in omega-6 PUFAs and can be used in place of high-polyunsaturated
oils.[citation needed] However, palm oil and coconut oil, even as un-
hydrogenated "natural" oils, are high in saturated fatty acids (lauric
and myristic acid) that have demonstrated negative effects upon
plasma cholesterol and cardiovascular risk factors. In fact, they are
commonly used in animal studies to induce atherosclerosis to
investigate the possible causes of the disease.

The point is that nothing is perfect in this world, and not all
chemicals used during the second process are recovered 100%. That
means that no matter how small it is, there is always some resides in the
oil which would be consumed by us. Nevertheless, I hope solvents
would be the only pollution we are taking into our bodies every day, no
matter how small an amount it is.

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1.5.15 Olive Oil

The following are abstract from a web site xvi.

One common myth is that heating olive oil will make it saturated or
trans-fatty. This is not true. As far as making a saturated fat, according
to Dr. A. Kiritsakis, a world renowned oil chemist in Athens, in his book
Olive Oil from the Tree to the Table -Second edition 1998, all oils will
oxidize and hydrogenate to a tiny degree if repeatedly heated to very
high temperatures such as is done in commercial frying operations.
Olive-pomace oils and virgin olive oils are both highly
monounsaturated oils and therefore resistant to oxidation and
hydrogenation. Studies have shown oxidation and hydrogenation
occurs to a lesser degree in olive oil than in other oils. But in any case,
the amount of hydrogenation is miniscule and no home cook would
ever experience this problem.
The International Olive Oil Council (IOOC) says about frying food
with olive oil: When heated, olive oil is the most stable fat, which
means it stands up well to high frying temperatures. Its high smoke
point (410ºF or 210ºC) is well above the ideal temperature for frying
food (356ºF or 180ºC). The digestibility of olive oil is not affected when
it is heated, even when it is re-used several times for frying.

1.5.16 Food Inc.

Many people think they have been taking care of themselves, their
families and our world. You would probably be one of them.
Please spare a couple of hours and watch the movie, Food Inc.,
which was directed by Robert Kener and shown in 2008. The movie is
about an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food
industry and the risks and health concerns that might be affected by the
industrialized farming and processing of food.

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1.5.17 Conclusion

The items described in this chapter have frequently been overlooked

by many people and treated as totally irrelevant to health disorders,
disease, illness, pain and so on. But they have actually been affecting
our everyday lives and health.

We have learned about YIN YANG and the Five Elements. In the
next chapter, we will learn how to apply them in dealing with various
challenges, and I hope you would be able to take care of yourself when
you complete a careful perusal and understanding of this material.

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2 The Bonghan Ducts and Disease &
Pain

In oriental medicine, the functions of the organs are not only just
what western medicine thinks of, but also what are described below
(but not limited to):
• Interactions with other organ(s) by sharing information through
interconnection and by subduing and fostering others,
• Healing its own health issues and also the areas which its Bonghan
Duct and branches are in charge of,
• Produces symptoms when it cannot take care of its own health
issues.

There are twelve Primary Bonghan Ducts and each set is distributed
left and right symmetrically. Thus, there are a total of twenty four
Primary BDs. Naming conventions are in the order of:
• Arm or Leg
• Greater YIN, YANG Brightness, Lesser YIN, Greater YANG,
Absolute YIN or Lesser YANG
• Organ’s name
• BD (Bonghan Duct)

2.1 Organs and the Time of the Day

An organ is in charge of the body for two hours each day. For
example, coughing generally acts up between 3:00 – 5:00 AM because
the lung is the most active organ during that period of time.
A few people in oriental medicine utilize the relationship between
organs and the time of the day for treatment.
However, KOSA does not.
For your information, this relationship is shown in a table on the next
page.
The time is given in military time.

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Table 2-1 Organs and the Time of the Day
No. BD Time No. BD Time
Arm YANG
Arm Greater YIN 03:00 – 05:00 –
1 2 Brightness Large
Lung 05:00 07:00
Intestine
Leg YANG
07:00 – Leg Greater YIN 09:00 –
3 Brightness 4
09:00 Spleen 11:00
Stomach
Arm Lesser YIN 11:00 – Arm Greater YANG 13:00 –
5 6
Heart 13:00 Small Intestine 15:00
Leg Greater YANG 15:00 – Leg Lesser YIN 17:00 –
7 8
Bladder 17:00 Kidney 19:00
Arm Absolute YIN 19:00 – Arm Lesser YANG 21:00 –
9 10
Pericardium 21:00 Triple Energizer 23:00
Leg Lesser YANG 23:00 – Leg Absolute YIN 01:00 –
11 12
Gallbladder 01:00 Liver 03:00

2.2 Interconnections and Disease

When BDs and their branches run, some of them begin and end at
certain organs, their paths including branches that pass through organs,
and they are interconnected to other BDs through acupuncture points.
Not only the twelve PRIMARY BDs described in this book
interconnect, but there are also eight MISCELLANEOUS BDs
interconnecting various BDs. I think this is how cancer can be
transferred to other organ(s).
Thus, needling one acupuncture point gets to affect not only a single
BD, which the point belongs to, but also other BDs and organs.
Because of this interconnection, in order to maximize KOSA’s
power, it is very important to consider BDs’ branches and the organs,
which the BDs pass through and begin and end at.

Only two MISCELLANEOUS BDs (Conception BD and Governor

BD) out of the eight are described in this book because these have their
own acupuncture points while the others do not. KOSA treats diseases
related to these two BDs by utilizing the twelve PRIMARY BDs only.
KOSA does not think these MISCELLANEOUS BDs are the cause of
diseases and/or pains.

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 Some diseases might appear more than once, and it is very important
to understand that those diseases discussed here could be related with
other organ(s) and BD(s).
Diseases and pains not discussed in this book would also be helped
greatly by KOSA, as long as you follow the formulas and fundamental
rules.

2.3 How Many Different Diseases Are There?

The following are abstract from a web site xvii.
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related
Health Problems (10th Revision, Version for 2007, Tabular List of
inclusions and four-character subcategories) classified by ICD (Acronym
of International Classification of Diseases) of World Health
Organization has managed to group everything into the alphabet A-Z,
each letter with 0-99 entries. Thus, 26 * 99 = 2,178.
However, another amusing answer found in www.answers.com xviii is
given below.
There are diseases, syndromes, disorders, etc. The question may
mean something like: Is there a count of pathological configurations?
Well, there is a lower bound, given by a count of all such pathologies
published, taking account of potential duplications. Perhaps
surprisingly, there is also an upper bound, given by (a modification of)
the product of the number of "pathologically susceptible artifacts", e.g.
tissue, genes, cells, etc. and the modes of pathologies, e.g. necrosis,
neoplasm, atrophy, etc. One can, in principle, create a disease whether
or not it has been observed: chose a chromosome, then select a locus,
replace a constituent, let us say replace a carbon atom (or a larger
species, as you like) with, say "nothing". We have a defect described as
a missing carbon on the gene in question. The hard part is determining
what the signs, symptoms and remediation would be. So we have an
estimate of perhaps 10^34 "diseases" possible in modern homo
sapiens, of which on the order of 10^5 have been described (cf. ICD-10),
and of which perhaps on 10^7 or 10^8 would be reasonably considered
to be "diseases".

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2.4 Standard Position and Terms of Direction
The standard position and the terms for the orientation of the human
body used in traditional acupuncture point location are not the same as
those used in modern anatomy. For example, according to the
traditional method, the palmar side of the upper limbs, or the flexional
side, is called the medial aspect. This medial aspect is the distribution
area of the acupuncture points of the three YIN arm BDs. The dorsal
side of the upper limbs, or the extensional side, is called the lateral
aspect. This lateral aspect is the distribution area of the acupuncture
points of the three YANG arm BDs. The side of the lower limbs closer
to the midline is called the medial aspect, which is the distribution area
of the acupuncture points of the three YIN leg BDs. The side of the
lower limbs away from the midline is called the lateral aspect. The
posterior portion of the lower limbs is called the posterior aspect, and
this aspect, along with the lateral aspect, is the distribution area of the
acupuncture points of the three YANG leg BDs. The anterior and
posterior BD lines of the head, face and trunk are the respective
distribution areas of the Conception BD and the Governor BD. These
BD lines are the baselines for locating acupuncture points on either side
of each pair of the two BDs. The modern anatomical position is
adopted by WHO Standard to describe acupuncture point locations: the
body stands upright, eyes look forward, feet together with toes pointing
forward and upper limbs hanging by the sides with palms facing
forward.

2.4.1 Terms of Directions

The terms of direction follow standard anatomical terminology.

• Medial and lateral: closer to the median sagittal plane is medial;
further away from the median sagittal plane is lateral. On the
forearm, the same concepts are replaced with ulnar and radial, and
on the legs, with tibial and fibular.
• Superior and inferior: closer to the upper (head) extremity of the
body is superior; closer to the lower (feet) extremity of the body is
inferior. Superior and inferior may also be used to relate the
location of acupuncture points to other points or anatomical
landmarks. In this case they refer to directly above or below on a
straight line.
• Anterior and posterior: closer to the ventral surface of the human
body is anterior; closer to the dorsal surface is posterior.

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 • Proximal and distal: closer to the trunk is proximal; further away
from the trunk is distal.

Figure 2-1 Terms of directions

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2.4.2 WHO Standard Measuring Unit

Because everybody has different lengths and sizes of hand, arm, foot,
leg and body, ordinary units like centimeters or inches cannot be used,
and there are three standards in oriental medicine used to locate the
acupuncture points, but only two, Proportional bone (skeletal) cun (B-
cun) and Finger cun (F-cun), will be explained in this book. Also the
description of how to locate acupuncture points will be limited to only
the points used in this book.

2.4.3 Proportional Bone (Skeletal) Cun Measurement

This method uses landmarks on the body surface, primarily joints, to

measure the length and width of various parts of the body.
Acupuncture point location is based on the measurements of various
parts of the body from the book Lingshu, (chapter on Gudu) combined
with the proportional measurements created by later scholars. (The
method is to divide the length between two points of particular joints
into equal portions. Each portion is equivalent to one cun, and ten
portions equal one chi). The primary proportional bone (skeletal)
measurements of the whole body can be seen in the following
illustration.

A From the cubital crease to the wrist crease: 12 B-cun

B From the apex of the patella (the centre of the popliteal fossa) to
the prominence of the medial malleolus: 15 B-cun
C From the inferior border of the medial condyle of the tibia (SP9)
to the prominence of the medial malleolus: 13 B-cun.
D From the inferior border of the medial condyle of the tibia to the
apex of the patella is converted into 2 B-cun.
E From the popliteal crease to the prominence of the lateral
malleolus: 16 B-cun

Note: Only the parts used for KOSA have been described.

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Figure 2-2 Proportional bone (skeletal) cun measurement

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2.4.4 The Finger-Cun Measurement Method

The finger-cun measurement method refers to the proportional

measurement method for locating acupuncture points based on the size
of the fingers of the person to be measured. This method is mainly used
on the lower limbs. When locating an acupuncture point, the
practitioner, in addition to using the proportional bone (skeletal)
measurement method, may use the finger-cun measurement of the
patient being measured in order to verify the standard location of the
acupuncture point.
• Thumb measurement: the width of the interphalangeal joint of the
thumb is taken as 1 F-cun. Please refer to the left illustration given
below.
• Middle-finger cun: The distance between the ends of the two radial
creases of the interphalangeal joints of the middle finger is taken as
1 F-cun when the thumb and the middle finger are flexed to form a
circle. Please refer to the right illustration given below.

Figure 2-3 Finger unit

Locating points has been referred to “WHO Standard Acupuncture

Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region” xix.

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2.4.5 Contents of Descriptions for Bonghan Ducts

• Name
• Functions
• Interconnections with other organ(s)
• Diseases that might be caused by the organ’s unhealthiness
• Additional information if necessary
• Figure of the Bonghan Duct
• How to locate five element points of the Bonghan Duct
BD flow directions described in this chapter are very important when
you use metal or wooden rod tapping techniques to foster or subdue.
YIN BDs’ acupuncture points are in the order of WOOD, FIRE,
EARTH, METAL and WATER from fingertips to elbows or from toe-
tips to knees. YANG BDs’ points are in the order of METAL, WATER,
WOOD, FIRE and EARTH from fingertips to elbows or from toe-tips
to knees.

Table 2-2 Abbreviations of BDs for numbering acupuncture points

YIN Organs and BDs YANG Organs and BDs
Bonghan Ducts
Organs Abbreviations Organs Abbreviations
Lung LU Large Intestine LI
Spleen SP Stomach ST
Heart HT Small Intestine SI
Primary
Kidney KI Bladder BL
BDs
Triple
Pericardium PC TE
Energizer
Liver LR Gallbladder GB
Miscellaneous
Conception CO Governor GV
BDs

2.4.6 Legend of Symbols in Illustrations

Solid lines: Primary BDs on which there are points.

Dotted lines: Primary BDs and branches without points.
Dots: Acupuncture points belonging to BDs
Triangles: Acupuncture points of interconnection
Arrows: Directions of BDs

Note: There are three illustrations that show all visible primary BDs:
Figure 2-47 Front View (Page134), Figure 2-48 Back View
(Page 135) and Figure 2-49 Side View (Page 136).
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2.5 Arm Greater YIN Lung BD - METAL
The lung implements the order of the King (heart) that controls the
QI so that QI can be distributed to the whole body.
This BD originates in the MIDDLE ENERGIZER (CO12 where the
end of the Liver BD’s branch ends), in the region of the stomach,
• descends to connect with the large intestine near CO9 and ST25,
• returns upwards to pass CO13 (the cardiac orifice of the stomach)
and traverses the diaphragm,
• penetrates the lung,
• ascends to the throat region,
• passes obliquely downwards towards LU1 where the lung BD
emerges and interconnects with the Spleen BD,
• runs through LU2 thru LU10,
• traverses the thenar eminence to terminate at the radial side of the
thumbnail at LU11.
• A branch separates from the lung BD at LU7, at the styloid process,
and travels directly to the radial side of the tip of the index finger,
where it links with the Large intestine BD.

Interconnections
• Conception BD and Triple energizer at CO12 and CO13
• Large intestine BD at LI1 through LU7
• Spleen BD at LU1

Symptoms of an unhealthy lung: Asthma, Coma, Cough, Dyspnea,

Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Facial paralysis, Fever, Fullness of the chest,
Headache, Hemoptysis, Pain and motor impairment of the elbow and
arm, Pain and swelling of the elbow and arm, Pain in the chest, the
medial aspect of the upper arm, the shoulder, the back, the wrist and/or
the hand, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Respiratory failure, Shortness of
breath, Sore throat, Stiff neck, Tonsillitis, and all diseases and pains on
the lung BD and its branch.

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Figure 2-4 Arm Greater YIN Lung BD

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 This is an amazing story.
A male Korean born in 1920 living in the US had abdomen pain and
he visited two hospitals where both did an MRI scan and found nothing
unusual or wrong.
When the gentleman visited his family in Korea, he had the fortune
of visiting a KOSA member.
The member asked him if he had any other health concerns than
abdomen pain. The man told him about his biceps which was cut close
to the shoulder 15 years ago during exercise. Since there was no
appropriate remedy available for that, he just let it go. It had gotten
worse and eventually he could not raise his arm and could bend his
wrist only 10 degrees.
During the treatment for abdominal pain, subdual of the FIRE points
of the BDs of the lung and spleen (LU10 and SP2) were added for his
arm problem. The abdominal pain significantly lessened right away.
Not being fully satisfied with that successful treatment, the patient was
asked to try to bend his wrist. He was able to now bend it 45 degrees.
The patient was very happy even though the KOSA member was
disappointed with that result in his mind.
Next morning, the patient’s son called the KOSA member and told
him that his father was able to raise his arm just like he had never had a
problem. His abdominal pain disappeared after three more treatments,
and he had been able to move his arm and wrist freely right after the
first treatment.
The treatment included subduing the FIRE points of the lung and
spleen. Subduing the FIRE point of the lung was used because the
biceps of the arm lies on the Lung BD. Subduing the spleen FIRE point
will be explained later.

KOSA can usually kill more than one bird with one stone during
treatment. In other words and as the above story shows, a patient with
migraine, rhinitis, menstrual pain, and hyperacidity, can all be treated
together at the same time. You do not have to visit the same number of
physicians as the number of your diseases.
Extraordinary, interesting, miraculous, fraudulent and mythical are
words used when you do not understand something. The above story is
not fiction, but just one of many typical results acquired by KOSA so
many times.
KOSA acupuncturists commonly have a problem in that their
patients have too much expectations, because they have heard about so
many miraculous results of KOSA treatments.

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2.5.1 LU11 – WOOD point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
On the thumb, radial to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-lateral
to the radial corner of the thumb nail, at the intersection of the vertical
line of the radial border and the horizontal line of the base of the thumb
nail

2.5.2 LU10 – FIRE point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD

On the palm, radial to the midpoint of the first metacarpal bone, at
the border between the red and white flesh

Figure 2-5 LU11 and LU10

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2.5.3 LU9 – EARTH point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
On the anterolateral aspect of the wrist, between the radial styloid
process and the scaphoid bone, in the depression ulnas to the abductor
pollicis longus tendon
Note: On the radial side of the palmar wrist crease, over the radial
artery.

Figure 2-6 LU9

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2.5.4 LU8 – METAL point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD
On the anterolateral aspect of the forearm, between the radial styloid
process and the radial artery, 1 B-cun superior to the palmar wrist
crease
Note: 1 B-cun superior to LU9

2.5.5 LU5 - WATER point of Arm Greater YIN Lung BD

On the anterior aspect of the elbow, at the cubital crease, in the
depression lateral to the biceps brachii tendon
Note: With the elbow flexed, LU5 is located at the cubital crease,
between LI11 and PC3, separated from PC3 by the biceps
brachii tendon.

Figure 2-7 LU8 and LU5

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2.6 Arm YANG Brightness Large Intestine BD
The large intestine sends the water, which is extracted from the food
delivered from small intestine, then transforms it to stool and transports
the stool to anus.
This BD has 20 points on each side and begins at LI1, which is
located at the radial side of the tip of the index finger,
• runs through LI2 thru LI15, (In between LI14 and TE15, BD
interconnects with Triple Energizer BD.)
• crosses behind the shoulder to the depression between the scapular
spine and the lateral extremity of the clavicle (LI16),
• travels in a medial direction, passing through SI12 (in the centre of
the suprascapular fossa) to GV14 (just below the spinous process
of the vertebra of C7) where it meets with the other five YANG
BDs of the arm and leg,
• from GV14 it enters the supraclavicular fossa in the region of
ST12 and connects with the lung before descending through the
diaphragm to join with the large intestine.
A branch ascends from the supraclavicular fossa along the lateral
aspect of the neck, passes through the cheek, and enters the lower gums,
• from the gums the channel passes through ST4 curves around the
upper lip and crosses to the opposite side of the body at GV26, at
the philtrum,
• from GV26, the left channel travels to the right and the right
channel travels to the left to terminate either side of the nose at
LI20,
• at LI20 the Large Intestine BD joins with the Stomach BD at ST1.

Interconnections
• Triple Energizer BD between LI14 and TE15
• Stomach BD at ST1, ST4 and SI12
• Governor BD at GV14, where there are six YANG BDs which
include Large intestine, Stomach, Small intestine, Bladder, Triple
energizer, and Gallbladder and GV26

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Figure 2-8 Arm YANG Brightness Large Intestine BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy large intestine: Aching arm, back,
and/or shoulder, Abdominal pain, Apoplexy, Appendicitis, Arthritis of
the mandible, Ascariasis of the bile duct, Atopy, Borborygmi, Car
sickness, Chorea, Coma, Common cold with fever, Constipation,
Cough, Deafness, Disorder of the cubital joint and its surrounding soft
tissue, Disorder of the shoulder joint and its surrounding soft tissue,
Dyspepsia in children and infants, Eczema, Edema, Epistaxis,
Excessive sputum, Facial paralysis, Febrile diseases, Fever, Freckles,
Glossitis, Headache, Hemiplegia, Hyperhydrosis, Hypertension,
Hypohidrosis Leucoma, Mastitis, Nasal obstruction, Neurodermatitis,
Pain and restricted movement of the elbow and arm, Pain and paralysis
of the upper extremities, Pain and swelling of the throat and pharynx,
Pain, constriction and numbness in the elbow and arm, Pain in the
forearm, and in the upper extremities and arm and in the wrist and hand,
Panic disorder, Paralysis of the upper extremities, Parotitis, Peritonitis,
Pharyngitis, Pneumonia, Redness and swelling of the fingers and back
of the hand, Radioactivity exposure, Rhinitis, Sciatica, Sea sickness,
Shingles, Shoulder and back pain, Simple thyroid goitre, Sinusitis, Sore
throat, Stomatitis, Tingling and numbness of the upper extremities,
Tinnitus, Tonsillitis, Toothache, Tremor, Trigeminal neuralgia,
Tuberculosis of the cervical lymph nodes, Vitiligo, and all diseases and
pains on the large intestine BD and its branch

Since the BD passes around the lips, it is used to treat problems of

the teeth, gums, and lips. In oriental medicine, bad QI affects (in order)
the skin, flesh, BD, and, lastly, the organs. If you have the flu and it
has been only a couple of days, then you could assume that bad QI still
stays at your skin level, of which the large intestine is in charge. Thus,
assuming you have fever, you just have to subdue the FIRE point of the
large intestine. If you use Ascetic Saahm formula #1 (fostering the
large intestine) instead, it would be better. If the cold is longer than a
few days, then foster the lung at the same time, and the effectiveness
would be much better.

2.6.1 LI1 - METAL point of Arm YANG Brightness Large

Intestine BD
On the index finger, radial to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-
lateral to the radial corner of the index fingernail, at the intersection of
the vertical line of the radial border of the fingernail and the horizontal
line of the base of the index fingernail

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2.6.2 LI2 - WATER point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD
On the index finger, in the depression distal to the radial side of the
second metacarpophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and
white flesh

2.6.3 LI3 - WOOD point of Arm YANG Brightness Large

Intestine BD
On the dorsum of the hand, in the depression radial and proximal to
the second metacarpophalangeal joint

2.6.4 LI5 - FIRE point of Arm YANG Brightness Large

Intestine BD
On the posterolateral aspect of the wrist, at the radial side of the
dorsal wrist crease, distal to the radial styloid process, in the depression
of the anatomical snuffbox
Note: The depression of the anatomical snuffbox is formed when the
thumb is fully abducted and extended between the tendons of
the extensor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis.

Figure 2-9 LI1, LI2, LI3 and LI5

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2.6.5 LI11 - EARTH point of Arm YANG Brightness Large
Intestine BD
On the lateral aspect of the elbow, at the midpoint of the line
connecting LU5 with the lateral epicondyle of the humerus
Note: When the elbow is fully flexed, LI11 is located in the
depression on the lateral end of the cubital crease.

Figure 2-10 LI11

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2.7 Leg YANG Brightness Stomach BD
The stomach changes food with the help of spleen and distributes
nutrition to the whole body.
This BD has 45 points each side. It begins at LI20 point (Large
intestine BD), which is at the lateral side of the nose at LI20,
• ascends to the medial canthus where it meets the Bladder BD at
BL1,
• descends laterally along the infra-orbital ridge to ST1,
• descends to enter the upper gum and curves to meet with GV28
and GV26,
• circles around the lips and meets the Conception BD at CO24 in
the mento-labial groove of the chin,
• runs laterally across the cheeks to ST5 and to ST6 at the angle of
the mandible,
• ascends anterior to the ear passing via ST7to GB3,
• ascends within the hairline of the temporal region to ST8, passing
via GB3, GB6 and GB4,
• follows the hairline to meet the Governor BD at GV24.
A branch separates at ST5 and descends along the anterior border of
the sternocleidomastoid muscle in the throat region to enter the
supraclavicular fossa at ST12,
• travels posteriorly to the upper back where it meets the Governor
BD at GV14,
• descends through the diaphragm, linking with CO13 and CO12 to
enter the stomach and connect with the spleen.
A further branch descends from ST12 along the mamillary line, 4 B-
cun lateral to the midline as far as ST18, then passes 2 B-cun lateral to
the midline and descends alongside the umbilicus to ST30 in the
inguinal region.
A further branch originates from the pyloric orifice of the stomach,
descends within the abdomen and meets with the previous portion of
the channel at ST30.
• travels laterally to ST31 on the antero-lateral aspect of the thigh,
• descends along the lateral margin of the femur to the patella and
alongside the lateral margin of the tibia to the dorsum of the foot,
terminating at the lateral side of the tip of the second toe at ST45.
A further branch separates from ST36, three B-cun below the knee,
and terminates at the lateral aspect of the middle toe.

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 A further branch separates on the dorsum of the foot at ST42 and
terminates at the medial side of the tip of the big toe at SP1 where it
links with the Spleen BD.

Figure 2-11 Leg YANG Brightness Stomach BD

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 Interconnections
• Large intestine BD at LI20
• Bladder BD at BL1, which is interconnected by BDs of the Small
intestine, Triple energizer, and Gallbladder
• Gallbladder BD at GB3, GB4 and GB6
• Governor BD at GV14, GV24, GV26 and GV28
o At GV24, BDs of Bladder and Stomach are interconnected.
• Conception BD at CO12, CO13 and CO24
o At CO12, BDs of the Stomach, Lung, Spleen, Small intestine,
Pericardium, Triple energizer, Liver, and Conception meet.
o At CO13, BDs of the Stomach, Triple energizer, Pericardium,
Lung, Small intestine, and Conception meet
o At CO24, BDs of the Stomach, Large intestine and Conception
meet.
• Liver BD at SP1 and Spleen BD at ST1 through Stomach BD’s
branch
• Small intestine BD at ST39

Symptoms of an unhealthy stomach: Abdominal pain or distention,

Aching or paralysis of the knee joint and leg, Acute and chronic
gastritis or gastro-enteritis, Acute epididymitis or intestinal obstruction,
Amenorrhea, Anorexia, Appendicitis, Arthritis of the shoulder or the
knee joint, Asthma, Bacillary dysentery, Borborygmus, Bronchitis,
Cancer of the esophagus, Chest and back pain, Conjunctivitis,
Constipation, Costal neuralgia, Cough, Chronic pelvic inflammation,
Cystitis, Deficient lactation in mothers, Diarrhea, Diseases of the
digestive tract, Disorders of the knee joint and its surrounding soft
tissue or the malleolus joint and its surrounding soft tissue, Distention
and pain in the chest and hypochondriac region, Dizziness and vertigo,
Dream-disturbed sleeping, Dysentery, Dyspnea, Edema, Enuresis,
Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Eye disease, Excessive sputum, Facial paralysis or
swelling, Febrile diseases, Gastralgia, Gastroptosis, Gastric and
abdominal pain, Gastric neurosis, Gastric or duodenal ulcer, Gingivitis,
Headache or migraine around the forehead, Hemiplegia, Hernia,
Hiccup, Hypertension, Intercostal neuralgia, Intestinal paralysis,
Lacrimation, Mandible arthritis, Mastitis, Menorrhagia, Mental
disorder, Myopia, Nausea and vomiting, Nephritis, Ophthalmalgia,
Optic atrophy, Pain and spasm of the rectus abdominis, Pain and
swelling of the dorsum of foot, Pain and swelling of the lips and cheek,
Pain or paralysis of the lower extremities, Paralysis of the abdominis,
Parotitis, Pleuritis, Prolapse of the uterus, Retention of urine,
Rheumatism, Salivation, Schizophrenia, Sore throat, Spasm of the
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masseter muscle, Spermatorrhea, Stiff neck, Testitis, Thermal burns,
Tonsillitis, Toothache, Trigeminal neuralgia, Twitching of the eyelids,
Urogenital diseases, and all diseases and pains on the stomach BD and
its branches

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2.7.1 ST45 – METAL point of Leg YANG Brightness Stomach
BD
On the second toe, lateral to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-
lateral to the lateral corner of the second toenail, at the intersection of
the vertical line of the lateral border and the horizontal line of the base
of the second toenail

2.7.2 ST44 – WATER point of Leg YANG Brightness Stomach

BD
On the dorsum of the foot, between the second and third toes,
posterior to the web margin, at the border between the red and white
flesh

2.7.3 ST43 – WOOD point of Leg YANG Brightness Stomach

BD
On the dorsum of the foot, between the second and third metatarsal
bones, in the depression proximal to the second metatarsophalangeal
joint

2.7.4 ST41 – FIRE point of Leg YANG Brightness Stomach BD

On the anterior aspect of the ankle, in the depression at the centre of
the front surface of the ankle joint, between the tendons of the extensor
hallucis longus and extensor digitorum longus
Note: ST41 is located between two tendons on the dorsum of the
foot which are more distinct when the ankle is in dorsiflexion,
and is at the midpoint of the line connecting the prominences
of the lateral malleolus and the medial malleolus.

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Figure 2-12 ST45, ST 44, ST 43 and ST41

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2.7.5 ST36 – EARTH point of Leg YANG Brightness Stomach
BD
On the anterior aspect of the leg, on the line connecting ST35 with
ST41, 3 lateral leg units inferior to ST35.
Note: ST36 is located on the tibialis anterior muscle.

Figure 2-13 ST36

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2.8 Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
The spleen digests the food and transforms nutrition into Qi, which is
transported to the whole body by the spleen. It also creates and controls
blood, is in charge of functions of the mouth and lips, holds organs in
their proper positions, transports QI to the whole body, controls the
four limbs, and affects intellectual activity.
This has 21 points each side and,
• begins at the medial side of the tip of the big toe at SP1,
• runs along the medial aspect of the foot, following the border
where the skin changes color,
• ascends in front of the medial malleolus at SP5,
• follows the posterior border of the tibia up the medial aspect of the
leg to a point 8 B-cun superior to the medial malleolus where it
crosses (and then travels anterior to) the Liver BD,
• ascends along the medial aspect of the knee and the antero-medial
aspect of the thigh to the lower abdomen where it intersects the
Conception BD at CO3, CO4 and CO10 before entering the spleen
and connecting with the stomach,
• emerges in the region of the stomach and ascends first at 4 B-cun
lateral to the midline then at 6 B-cun lateral to the midline, passing
through GB24, LR14 and LU1, and descends to terminate in the
seventh intercostal space on the mid-axillary line at SP21.
A branch ascends through the diaphragm, runs alongside the
oesophagus and spreads over the lower surface of the tongue.
A further branch ascends from the stomach, passes through the
diaphragm and flows to link with the heart.

Interconnections
• Stomach BD at SP1 and the stomach by a branch passed CO12 and
the spleen
• BDs of the kidney and liver at SP6
• Conception BD at CO3, CO4, CO10, CO12 and CO17
• Gallbladder BD at GB24
• Liver BD at LR14 and CO14
• Lung BD at LU1

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Figure 2-14 Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy spleen: Abdominal distention or pain,
Appendicitis, Ascariasis, Borborygmus, Constipation, Cough, Deficient
lactation, Diarrhea or loose stool, Dream-disturbed sleeping, Dysentery,
Dyspepsia, Dyspnea, Dysuria, Edema, Endometritis, Enteritis, Enuresis,
Frequency of urination, Functional uterine bleeding, Gastralgia,
General aching, Hemiplegia, Hernia, High fever, Hypohydrosis,
Impotence, Inflammation of the inguinal lymph nodes, Insomnia,
Intestinal paralysis, Intestinal parasitosis, Irregular menstruation,
Lumbago, Mastitis, Mental disorder, Menorrhagia, Nocturnal emission,
Numbness and chilliness of the leg and knee, Orchitis, Pain and
distention of the chest, costal and hypochondriac region, Pain in the
ankle joint, Retention of urine, Sperm problems, Spermatorrhea,
Thoracalgia, Umbilical pain, Urticaria, Vomiting, Weakness of
thelimbs, and all diseases and pains on the spleen BD and its branches

In oriental medicine, the spleen is the principal organ of digestion. It

transport nutrient and produces and regulates the blood. It is
responsible for the transformation of food into nourishment. While the
stomach receives food and moves things downward, the spleen
transports nutrients and moves things upward. When the spleen is
unhealthy, the body is unable to use the nourishment in food.
Nowadays, the pancreas is regarded as the spleen as well in oriental
medicine and treating health concerns related with the pancreas can be
done successfully by appropriately manipulating the spleen.

2.8.1 SP1 – WOOD point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD

On the great toe, medial to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-
medial to the medial corner of the toenail, at the intersection of the
vertical line of the medial border and horizontal line of the base of the
toenail

2.8.2 SP2 – FIRE point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD

On the great toe, in the depression distal to the first
metatarsophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and white flesh

2.8.3 SP3 – EARTH point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD

On the medial aspect of the foot, in the depression proximal to the
first metatarsophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and white
flesh

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2.8.4 SP5 – METAL point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
On the medial aspect of the foot, anteroinferior to the medial
malleolus, in the depression midway between the tuberosity of the
navicular bone and the prominence of the medial malleolus
Note 1: SP5 is located at the intersection of two imaginary lines:
the vertical line of the anterior border of the medial
malleolus and the horizontal line of the inferior border of
the medial malleolus.
Note 2: SP5 is located posterior to LR4 and anterior to KI6.

Figure 2-15 SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP5

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2.8.5 SP6 – Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD
On the tibial aspect of the leg, posterior to the medial border of the
tibia, 3 medial B-cun superior to the prominence of the medial
malleolus

2.8.6 SP9 – WATER point of Leg Greater YIN Spleen BD

On the tibial aspect of the leg, in the depression between the inferior
border of the medial condyle of the tibia and the medial border of the
tibia
Note: A depression can be felt inferior to the knee joint when
moving proximally along the medial border of the tibia. SP9 is
located in a depression at the angle formed by the inferior
border of the medial condyle of the tibia and the posterior
border of the tibia.

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Figure 2-16 SP6 and SP9

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2.9 Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD
The heart is the King of all other organs and thus it controls all the
other organs. Also, sagacity is originated from the heart.
This BD has 9 points each side. It begins from the branch of CO17,
which is located right in the center of the heart and connects there from
the branch end of the spleen,
• emerges from the system of blood vessels surrounding the heart
and descends through the diaphragm to connect with the Small
intestine through CO9.
A branch separates from the heart, ascends alongside the oesophagus
and then across the face and cheek to connect with the tissues
surrounding the eye (interconnects BL1 and GB1).
Another branch travels directly from the heart to the lung and
branches off.
• A branch descends to emerge from the axilla at HT1, then
o travels along the medial aspect of the upper arm (medial to the
BDs of Lung and Pericardium) to the elbow at HT3,
o descends along the antero-medial aspect of the lower arm to the
pisiform bone of the wrist at HT7,
o travels through the palm and along the radial side of the little
finger to terminate at the radial corner of the nail at HT9, which
is connected to the Small intestine BD at SI1.
• Other branch exits from lung, runs into the spine and interconnects
with the kidney.

Interconnections
• Conception BD at CO17 and CO9
• Bladder and Gallbladder at BL1 and GB1, respectively
• Small intestine at CO9
• Kidney through lung
• SI1 of the Small intestine BD at HT9

Symptoms of an unhealthy heart: Angina pectoris, Aphasia,

Deficient lactation, Disorder of the cubital joint and the shoulder joint
and its surrounding soft tissue, Hoarse voice, Hysteria, Insomnia, Night
sweating, Neurasthenia, Numbness of hand and arm, Pain in the arm
and the cardiac region, Paralysis of the upper extremities, Pain in the
costal and hypochondriac regions, joints and in the shoulder and arm,
Tremor of the forearm, Stiffness of the tongue, Palpitations,
Parkinsonism, Ulnar neuralgia, and all diseases and pains on the heart
BD and its branches
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Figure 2-17 Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD

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2.9.1 HT9 – WOOD point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD
On the little finger, radial to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-
lateral to the radial corner of the little fingernail, at the intersection of
the vertical line of the radial border of the nail and horizontal line of the
base of the little fingernail

2.9.2 HT8 – FIRE point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD

On the palm of the hand, in the depression between the fourth and
fifth metacarpal bones, proximal to the fifth metacarpophalangeal joint
Note: Between the fourth and fifth metacarpal bones, where the tip
of the little finger rests when a fist is made, at the same level
as PC8.

Figure 2-18 HT9 and HT8

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2.9.3 HT7 – EARTH point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD
On the anteromedial aspect of the wrist, radial to the flexor carpi
ulnaris tendon, on the palmar wrist crease.
Note: In the depression radial to the proximal border of the pisiform
bone, on the palmar wrist crease

2.9.4 HT4 – METAL point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD

On the anteromedial aspect of the forearm, just radial to the flexor
carpi ulnaris tendon, 1.5 B-cun proximal to the palmar wrist crease
Note 1: 1.5 B-cun proximal to HT7, at the same level as the superior
border of the head of the ulna
Note 2: 1.5 B-cun proximal to the radial side of the superior border
of the pisiform bone

Figure 2-19 HT7 and HT4

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2.9.5 HT3 – WATER point of Arm Lesser YIN Heart BD
On the anteromedial aspect of the elbow, just anterior to the medial
epicondyle of the humerus, at the same level as the cubital crease
Note: With the elbow is flexed, HT3 is located at the midpoint of the
line connecting the medial end of the cubital crease and the
medial epicondyle of the humerus.

Figure 2-20 HT3

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2.10 Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine BD
The small Intestine separates food transported from the stomach into
water and nutrition, which is sent to the bladder and large intestine,
respectively.
This BD has 19 points each side, and originates at the ulnar side of
the tip of the little finger at SI1,
• ascends along the ulnar aspect of the hand to reach the wrist where
it emerges at the styloid process of the ulna at SI6,
• runs through SI7 through SI15,
• runs through GV14 at the lower border of the spinous process of
C7, intersecting BDs of the Large intestine, Stomach, Bladder,
Triple energizer, and Gallbladder,
• descends into the supraclavicular fossa at ST12 and connects with
the Heart,
• descends along the oesophagus, intersecting the Conception BD at
CO17 and passes through the diaphragm to the Stomach,
• intersects the Conception BD at CO13, CO12 and CO10 and enters
the small intestine.
A branch ascends from ST12 at the supraclavicular fossa to cross the
neck and cheek to the outer canthus of the eye (while running through
SI16 and SI17, where it meets the Gallbladder BD at GB1, then travels
posteriorly towards the ear, where it intersects the Gallbladder BD at
GB11 and the Triple Energizer at TE20 and TE22 and enters the ear at
SI19.
Another branch separates from the above branch on the cheek and
ascends to the infra-orbital region (SI18), then along the lateral aspect
of the nose to the inner canthus where it meets with the Bladder BD at
BL1.
Another branch descends to ST39.

Interconnections
• Heart BD through SI1 and HT8
• Governor BD at GV14, where six YANG BDs of the Large
intestine, Stomach, Bladder, Triple energizer, and Gallbladder
meet
• Stomach BD at ST12 and ST39
• Bladder BD at BL41 and BL11
• Conception BD at CO17, CO15, CO13, CO12, and CO10
• Gallbladder BD at GB1 and GB11
• Triple Energizer at TE20 and TE22

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Figure 2-21 Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine BD

Symptoms of an unhealthy small intestine: Aching of the scapular

joint, Arthritis of the elbow, wrist and finger joints, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Cholecystitis, Deafness, Deficient lactation in mothers, Disorders of the
shoulder joint and its surrounding soft tissue, Epilepsy, Eye diseases,
Facial paralysis, Failing eyesight, Febrile diseases, Headache, Kidney
failure, Lumbago, Malaria, Mastitis, Mental disorders, Night sweating,
Numbness and aching of the upper extremities, Numbness of the
fingers, Occipital headache, Pain and constriction of the shoulder joint,
Pain and weakness of the arm, Pain in the back, Paralysis of the upper
extremities, Rigidity or stiffness of the neck, Sore throat, Swelling of
the neck and submaxillary region, Tinnitus, Tonsillitis, Toothache,
Trigeminal neuralgia, Vomiting, and all diseases and pains on the small
intestine BD and its branches

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2.10.1 SI1 - METAL point of Arm Greater YANG Small
Intestine BD
On the little finger, ulnar to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal-
medial to the ulnar corner of the little fingernail, at the intersection of
the vertical line of ulnar border of the nail and horizontal line of the
base of the little fingernail

2.10.2 SI2 - WATER point of Arm Greater YANG Small

Intestine BD
On the little finger, in the depression distal to the ulnar side of the
fifth metacarpophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and
white flesh
Note: When the hand is slightly flexed, the point is located at the
ulnar end of the palmar metacarpophalangeal crease of the
little finger.

2.10.3 SI3 - WOOD point of Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine

BD
On the dorsum of the hand, in the depression proximal to the ulnar
side of the fifth metacarpophalangeal joint, at the border between the
red and white flesh
Note: When the hand is slightly flexed, the point is located at the
ulnar end of the distal transverse skin crease of the palm, at the
border between the red and white flesh.

2.10.4 SI5 - FIRE point of Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine

BD
On the posteromedial aspect of the wrist, in the depression between
the triquetrum bone and the ulnar styloid process

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Figure 2-22 SI1, SI2, SI3 and SI5

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2.10.5 SI8 - EARTH point of Arm Greater YANG Small Intestine
BD
On the posteromedial aspect of the elbow, in the depression between
the olecranon and the medial epicondyle of the humerus bone
Note: When the elbow is slightly flexed, SI8 is located in the groove
for the ulnar nerve.

Figure 2-23 SI8

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2.11 Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD
The bladder stores water, which comes from the small intestine,
discharges the evaporated fluids and controls the WATER of the whole
body.
This BD has 67 points on each side and begins at the inner canthus of
the eye at BL1,
• ascends along the forehead to the vertex to intersect with GV24
and GV20,
• from the vertex, a branch descends to the temples in the region
above the ear, intersecting the Gallbladder BD at points GB7, GB8,
GB9, GB10, GB11 and GB12,
• from the vertex, another branch enters the brain, meets the
Governor BD at GV17 and GV16 then emerges to descend to the
nape of the neck where the channel splits into two branches.
The first (medial) branch descends along the posterior aspect of the
neck, intersecting GV14 and GV13, then descends alongside the spine,
1.5 B-cun lateral to the midline, to the lumbar region, and penetrates
deep into the interior via the paravertebral muscles to connect with the
kidneys and link with the bladder. A sub-branch separates in the lumbar
region, descends along the sacrum, crosses the buttock and descends to
the popliteal fossa of the knee at BL40.
The second (lateral) branch separates at the nape of the neck and
descends to the medial border of the scapula and then parallel to the
spine, 3 B-cun lateral to the midline, to the gluteal region,
• crosses the buttock to intersect at GB30, then descends along the
postero-lateral aspect of the thigh to meet with the previous branch
of the BD in the popliteal fossa at BL40,
• descends through the gastrocnemius muscle, emerges posterior to
the lateral malleolus at BL60, then follows along the fifth
metatarsal bone to terminate at BL67 at the lateral side of the tip of
the fifth toe, where it meets with the Kidney BD.

Interconnections
• Governor BD at GV24, GV20, GV17, GV16, GV14 and GV13
where both left and right bladder BDs meet as well
• Gallbladder BD at GB7, GB8, GB9, GB10, GB11, and GB12
• Gallbladder BD at GB30 from a branch at BL54
• Kidney BD at KI1

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Figure 2-24 Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy bladder: Abdominal distention and
pain, Aching of the shoulder joint, Anemia, Asthma, Back pain, Back
pain during menstruation, Blurring of vision, Borborygmus, Bronchitis,
Cardiac diseases, Cholecystitis, Chronic hemorrhagic diseases,
Common cold, Constipation, Cough, Cystitis, Deafness, Diarrhea,
Difficult labor, Disorder of the joints of the ankle and/or femor and
their surrounding soft tissue, Disorder of the ilio-sacral joint, Dizziness
and vertigo, Dream-disturbed sleeping, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, Dysuria
and other urogenital diseases, Edema, Endocarditis, Endometritis,
Enteritis, Enuresis, Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Eye diseases, Facial paralysis,
Falling out of hair, Fever, Fullness of the chest, Gastralgia, Gastric pain,
Gastric ulcer, Gastroptosis, General weakness, Headache (frontal, on
the sides, occipital, and/or vertical), Heat stroke, Hematuria,
Hemorrhoids, Hepatitis, Hepatomegaly, Hernia, Hiccough, Infantile
convulsions, Impotence, Insomnia, Intercostal neuralgia, Irregular
menstruation, Jaundice, Lacrimation, Lesions of the soft tissue of the
back, Leucoma, Leukorrhea, Liver diseases, Leg pain, Malaria,
Malposition of the fetus, Mastitis, Myopia, Nasal obstruction, Nephritis,
Neurasthenia, Neurotic nausea and vomiting, Nocturnal emission,
Numbness of the elbow and arm, Ophthalmalgia, Orchitis, Pain and
swelling of the ankle region, Pain in the back, heel, leg, shoulder, sole,
spinal column and the lumbo-sacral region, Paralysis and numbness or
pain of the lower extremities, Paralysis of the diaphragm muscle and
lateral aspect of the lower extremities, Pericarditis, Pleuritis,
Pneumonia, Prolapse of the rectum, Pruritus of the skin, Pulmonary
tuberculosis, Redness and swelling of the eye, Retention of urine,
Rhinitis, Sacral neuralgia, Schizophrenia, Sciatica, Sinusitis, Spasm of
the gastrocnemius, Spermatorrhea, Splenomegaly, Sprain of the lumbar
region, Stiffness and rigidity of the neck, Thoracalgia, Tinnitus,
Urogenital diseases, Urticaria, Vomiting and all diseases and pains on
the bladder BD and its branches

2.11.1 BL67 – METAL point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD

On the little toe, lateral to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal to
the lateral corner of the toenail; at the intersection of the vertical line of
the lateral side of the nail and the horizontal line of the base of the
toenail

2.11.2 BL66 – WATER point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD

On the little toe, in the depression distal and lateral to the fifth
metatarsophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and white flesh

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2.11.3 BL65 – WOOD point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD
On the lateral aspect of the foot, in the depression proximal to the
fifth metatarsophalangeal joint, at the border between the red and white
flesh

2.11.4 BL60 – FIRE point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD

On the posterolateral aspect of the ankle, in the depression between
the prominence of the lateral malleolus and the calcaneal tendon

Figure 2-25 BL67, BL66, BL65 and BL60

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2.11.5 BL40 – EARTH point of Leg Greater YANG Bladder BD
On the posterior aspect of the knee, at the midpoint of the popliteal
crease

Figure 2-26 BL40

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2.12 Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
The kidneys store the essence, and are thus responsible for growth,
development, and the reproductive functions. They assume the primary
role in water metabolism and control the body’s liquids.
This BD has 27 points and begins beneath the little toe,
• crosses the sole of the foot to KI1,
• runs through KI2 through KI6,
• intersects the Spleen BD at SP6, where the three leg YIN BDs
(Spleen, Kidney and Liver) meet,
• continues up the leg to the medial side of the popliteal fossa at
KI10 and along the postero-medial aspect of the thigh to the tip of
the coccyx where it intersects with the Governor BD at GV1,
• threads its way through the spine, enters the kidney and connects
with the bladder,
• intersects the Conception BD at CO3, CO4 and CO7,
One branch emerges from the kidney, ascends through the liver and
diaphragm, enters the lung and ascends along the throat to terminate at
CO23 at the root of the tongue.
Another branch separates in the lung, joins with the heart and
disperses in the chest to link with the Pericardium BD and CO17.

Interconnections
• BDs of Spleen and Liver at SP6
• Governor BD at GV1
• Conception BD at CO3, CO4 and CO7 where it interconnects with
the BDs of the Spleen and Liver
• Conception BD at CO23
• Bladder BD at BL67 through a branch
• A branch of the Kidney BD pass through the Conception BD at
CO17 and interconnects with the Pericardium BD.
• One of two branches of the Heart BD enters the spinal cord and
ends at the kidney.

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Figure 2-27 Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy kidney: Abdominal distention and pain,
Anorexia, Asthma, Belching, Borborygmus, Bronchitis, Coma,
Constipation, Cough, Cystitis, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Disorders of the
genital system, Dysuria, Enuresis, Epilepsy, Functional uterine
bleeding, Gastralgia, Hemoptysis, Hernia, Hiccough, Hysteria,
Impotence, Infantile convulsion, Intercostal neuralgia, Irregular
menstruation, Jaundice, Knee pain, Lower abdominal pain, Lumbago,
Mania, Mastitis, Meniere's syndrome, Mental disorder, Myopia,
Nephritis, Neurasthenia, Night sweating, Nocturnal emission, Orchitis,
Painful heel, Pain and swelling of the testis, Pain in the chest and costal
region, Paralysis of the lower extremities, Pleuritis, Postpartum
abdominal pain, Prolapse of the uterus, Shock, Sore throat, Spasm of
the gastrocnemius, Spermatorrhea, Thoracalgia, Tonsillitis, Toothache,
Nausea and vomiting, Uterine bleeding, and all diseases and pains on
the kidney BD and its branches

2.12.1 KI1 – WOOD point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD

On the sole of the foot, in the deepest depression of the sole when the
toes are flexed
Note: When the toes are flexed, KI1 is located approximately in the
depression at the junction of the anterior one third and the
posterior two thirds of the line connecting the heel with the
web margin between the bases of the second and third toes.

Figure 2-28 KI1

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2.12.2 KI2 – FIRE point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD
On the medial aspect of the foot, inferior to the tuberosity of the
navicular bone, at the border between the red and white flesh

2.12.3 KI3 – EARTH point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD

On the posteromedial aspect of the ankle, in the depression between
the prominence of the medial malleolus and the calcaneal tendon

Figure 2-29 KI2 and KI3

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 A lady who was the recipient of a kidney transplant told me a very
interesting story. After the transplant, she began to feel a tangling
sensation on the sole of her foot and asked her physician about it. He
suggested that she put a Coca cola glass bottle on the floor and roll it
with her sole. That solved the problem and both of them did not know
why it worked.
I explained to her that the Kidney BD starts from sole and
stimulating her sole must have done something to her kidney. As a
matter of fact, the WOOD point of the kidney BD is located on the sole,
and soft stimulating acts as fostering. Fostering WOOD subdues
EARTH and a weakened EARTH would have weaker subdual power to
WATER. Thus, it might have led to less subduing of the WATER of
the WATER YIN organ, the kidney, and must have thus eliminated the
problem.

2.12.4 KI7 – METAL point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD

On the posteromedial aspect of the leg, anterior to the calcaneal
tendon, 2 medial B-cun superior to the prominence of the medial
malleolus
Note: At the same level and posterior to KI8.

2.12.5 KI10 – WATER point of Leg Lesser YIN Kidney BD

On the posteromedial aspect of the knee, just lateral to the
semitendinosus tendon, in the popliteal crease

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Figure 2-30 KI7 and KI10

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2.13 Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD
The pericardium is an agent of the heart. Although the heart and
pericardium are both FIRE organs, the heart and pericardium are
referred to as the king and the premier, respectively. When YANG QI
stays at CO17 (located in the midline at the level of the heart), the
upper energizer gets developed. Thus, the emotions will become
flexible, good and joyful. This invisible organ wraps around the heart
and if the wrapping gets too tight, then you would feel tight in your
heart or get impatient.
This BD has 9 points on each side, and originates in the centre of the
chest, connects with the pericardium, and descends through the
diaphragm to the abdomen, passing through the triple energizers (upper,
middle and lower at CO17, CO12 and CO7, respectively).
One branch
• runs from inside the chest to emerge in the costal region 3 B-cun
inferior to the anterior axillary fold (near PC1),
• arches over the axilla, and follows along the anteromedial aspect of
the upper arm, between the Lung BD and Heart BDs to the cubital
fossa of the elbow at PC3,
• descends the forearm between the tendons of the palmaris longus
and flexor carpi radialis muscles to reach the palm at PC8,
• travels from the palm along the middle finger to terminate at its tip
at PC9.
Another branch arises from the palm at PC8 and follows the radial
aspect of the ring finger to its tip where its BD is connected to TE1.

Interconnections
• Conception BD at CO17, CO12 and CO7
• A branch begins from PC8 and interconnects Triple Energizer at
TE1, which is located at the fourth finger tip.

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Figure 2-31 Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy pericardium: Angina pectoris,
Apoplexy, Arrhythmia, Chronic skin infection of the hand, Coma,
Cough, Disorders of the wrist joint and its surrounding soft tissue,
Epilepsy, Febrile diseases, Fullness in the chest, Gastralgia, Heat stroke,
Hiccup, Hysteria, Insomnia, Lymph nodes, Malaria, Mastitis,
Neurasthenia, Pain in the back, the chest, the hypochondriac region and
in the medial aspect of arm, Palpitation, Parkinsonism, Pleuritis,
Schizophrenia, Stomatitis, Tachycardia, Tuberculosis with vomiting,
and all diseases and pains on the Pericardium BD and its branch

2.13.1 PC9 – WOOD point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium

BD
On the middle finger, 0.1 F-cun proximal to the radial corner of the
middle fingernail, at the intersection of the vertical line of the radial
side of the nail and the horizontal line of the base of the fingernail (In
Figure 2-32 PC9 and PC8 (Page 107), the location with a dot is the
point which KOSA uses.)
Note: WHO’s alternative position is “On the middle finger, at the
centre of the tip of the middle finger” (In Figure 2-32 PC9 and
PC8, page 107, the point with an open circle).

2.13.2 PC8 – FIRE point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD

On the palm of the hand, in the depression between the second and
third metacarpal bones, proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints. (In
Figure 2-32 PC9 and PC8 (Page 107), the lower right point with a dot
is the point which KOSA uses.)
Note: WHO’s alternative point is “On the palm of the hand, in the
depression, between the third and fourth metacarpal bones,
proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints” (In Figure 2-32
PC9 and PC8, page 107, the lower left point with an open
circle).

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Figure 2-32 PC9 and PC8

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2.13.3 PC7 – EARTH point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium
BD
On the anterior aspect of the wrist, between the tendons of palmaris
longus and the flexor carpi radialis, on the palmar wrist crease
Note: With the fist clenched, the wrist slightly flexed, the two
tendons become more prominent. PC7 is located at the
midpoint of the palmar wrist crease, between the tendons of
palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis, at the same level
as HT7, at the proximal extremity of the pisiform bone.

2.13.4 PC5 – METAL point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium

BD
On the anterior aspect of the forearm, between the tendons of the
palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis, 3 B-cun proximal to the
palmar wrist crease
Note 1: With the fist clenched, the wrist supinated and the elbow
slightly flexed, the two tendons become more prominent.
PC5 is located 3 B-cun proximal to PC7.
Note 2: If the palmaris longus tendon is not present, PC5 is medial
to the flexor carpi radialis tendon

2.13.5 PC3 – WATER point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium

BD
On the anterior aspect of the elbow, at the cubital crease, in the
depression medial to the biceps brachii tendon
Note: When the elbow is flexed at 45 degrees, PC3 is located medial
to the biceps brachii tendon.

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Figure 2-33 PC7, PC5 and PC3

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2.14 Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer BD
The triple Energizer reserves energy, transports it to all organs and
control the organs as well. This BD has 23 points, and begins at the
ulnar aspect of the tip of the ring finger and runs between the fourth
and fifth metacarpal bones along the dorsum of the hand,
• travels up the posterior aspect of the forearm between the radius
and the ulna and between the Large and Small Intestine BDs,
• traverses the olecranon of the ulna at TE10 and continues up the
postero-lateral aspect of the upper arm to the shoulder where it
intersects the Small Intestine BD at SI12,
• travels towards the spine via BL11 where it intersects the Governor
BD at GV14,
• ascends laterally to the highest point of the shoulder where it
intersects the Gallbladder BD at GB21,
• descends anteriorly into the supraclavicular fossa at ST12, then
disperses midway between the breasts at CO17,
• connects with the pericardium then descends through the
diaphragm to the abdomen via CO12, linking along its pathway the
Triple Energizer (upper, middle and lower at CO13, CO12 and
CO9, respectively).
A branch of the channel separates in the region of CO17, ascends to
emerge from the supraclavicular fossa,
• rises along the neck to the posterior aspect of the ear, circles
behind the ear via GB11 to the temples where it intersects the
Gallbladder BD at GB6, GB5, GB4 and GB14,
• winds down across the cheek, intersecting the Small Intestine BD
at SI18, and ascends to the inferior aspect of the eye.
Another branch separates behind the ear and enters the ear, emerges
in front of the ear to intersect the Small Intestine BD and Gallbladder
BD at SIl9 and GB3, respectively, and crosses the previous BD on the
cheek to terminate at the outer canthus of the eye at TE23, linking with
GB1.

Interconnections
• Small Intestine BD at SI12 (BDs of the Large intestine, Stomach,
Small intestine, and Gallbladder meet there.), SI18 and SIl9
(Gallbladder BD meets there)
• Bladder BD at BL1 and BL11
• Gallbladder BD at GB1, GB3, GB4, GB5, GB6, GB11, GB14 and
GB21

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 • Stomach BD at ST12
• Conception BD at CO9, CO12, CO13 and CO17
• Governor BD at GV14
• At TE17, BD enters into ear.

Figure 2-34 Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy triple energizer: Aphasia, Cloudiness
of the cornea, Common cold, Conjunctivitis, Constipation, Deafness,
Disorders of the elbow joint, shoulder joint, wrist joint and their
surrounding soft tissues, Epilepsy, Eye diseases, Facial paralysis,
Febrile diseases, Fever, Headache, Impairment of arm motion, Malaria,
Otitis media, Sore throat, Pain and swelling of the scapular joint, Pain
in the arm, back, hand, neck and shoulder, Parotitis, Redness and
swelling of ear, Rigidity and stiffness of the neck, Paralysis of the
upper extremities or hands, Thoraco-costal pain, Tinnitus, Toothache,
Trismus, Vomiting and all diseases and pains on the Triple Energizer
BD and its branches

2.14.1 TE1 – METAL point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple

Energizer BD
On the ring finger, ulnar to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal to
the ulnar corner of the fingernail, at the intersection of the vertical line
of the ulnar side of the nail and the horizontal line of the base of the
fingernail

2.14.2 TE2 – WATER point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple

Energizer BD
On the dorsum of the hand, in the depression superior to the web
margin between the ring and little fingers, at the border between the red
and white flesh

2.14.3 TE3 – WOOD point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple

Energizer BD
On the dorsum of the hand, between the fourth and fifth metacarpal
bones, in the depression proximal to the fourth metacarpophalangeal
joint

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Figure 2-35 TE1, TE2 and TE3

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2.14.4 TE6 – FIRE point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer
BD
On the posterior aspect of the forearm, midpoint of the interosseous
space between the radius and the ulna, 3 B-cun proximal to the dorsal
wrist crease

2.14.5 TE10 – EARTH point of Arm Lesser YANG Triple

Energizer BD
On the posterior aspect of the elbow, in the depression 1 B-cun
proximal to the prominence of the olecranon.
Note: When the elbow is flexed, TE10 is located in the olecranon
fossa.

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Figure 2-36 TE6 and TE10

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2.15 Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder BD
The gallbladder is in charge of purity, fairness and decision making.
Those who are plucky, spunky, daring, bold, courageous, or fearless
have a strong gallbladder or liver.
This BD has 44 points on each side, and begins near the outer
canthus of the eye at GB1, crosses to the anterior portion of the ear at
GB2 then ascends to the upper border of the zygomatic arch at GB3,
ascends to the corner of the forehead at GB4 and descends via points
GB5, GB6 and GB7 to the region above the ear where it meets with
TE22, curves posteriorly behind the ear to the mastoid process at GB12,
meeting with TE20 on the way, curves upwards across the side of the
head to the corner of the forehead at ST8 and descends to the
supraorbital region at GB14, ascends and curves across the side of the
head to GB20 below the occiput, crosses the top of the shoulder via
GB21 and TE15 to meet with the spine at GV14, passes laterally via
BL11 to SI12 then anteriorly to enter the supraclavicular fossa at ST12.
A branch emerges behind the ear and enters the ear at TE17, emerges
in front of the ear and passes via SI19 and ST7 to the outer canthus,
descends to the corner of the jaw near ST5, crosses the triple energizer
BD and rises to the infraorbital region, and meets with BL1, descends
to the neck, passing near ST6 and intersecting ST9 to rejoin the main
BD in the supraclavicular fossa, descends into the chest, meeting with
the Pericardium BD at PC1, crosses the diaphragm, connects with the
liver and unites with the gallbladder, continues along the inside of the
ribs to emerge in the inguinal region, encircles the genitals, runs
superficially along the margin of the pubic hair then enters deeply to
emerge at the sacral region where it meets the Bladder BD at BL31 thru
BL34 and the Governor BD at GV1, and emerges on the buttock at
GB30.
Another branch descends from the supraclavicular fossa to the
anterior aspect of the axilla, then passes through GB22, GB23 and
GB24, intersects the Liver BD at LR13, descends to the hip joint to
meet the previous branch at GB30 and continues down the lateral
aspect of the thigh and knee, descends along the lateral aspect of the
lower leg to the anterior aspect of the lateral malleolus, follows the
dorsal surface of the foot along the groove between the fourth and fifth
metatarsals to end on the lateral side of the tip of the fourth toe at GB44.
Another branch separates on the foot at GB41 and runs between the
first and second metatarsal bones to the medial tip of the big toe then
through the toenail to link with the Liver BD.

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Figure 2-37 Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder BD

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 Interconnections
• Triple Energizer at TE15, TE17, TE20 and TE22
• Stomach BD at ST5, ST7, ST8, ST9 and ST12
• Governor BD at GV14 where both sides of Gallbladder BDs
interconnect
• Bladder BD at BL1, BL11, BL31, BL32, BL33 and BL34
• Small intestine BD at SI12 and SI19
• Pericardium BD at PC1
• Liver BD at LR1 and LR13

Symptoms of an unhealthy gallbladder: Abdominal distention,

Acid regurgitation, Apoplexy, Arthritis of the knee joint, Arthritis of
the mandible joint, Asthma, Borborygmus, Chest pain, Cholecystitis,
Chronic constipation, Common cold, Costal and back pain, Cystitis,
Deafness, Difficulty in opening the mouth, Disorders of the ankle joint
and the surrounding tissue and the hip joint and its surrounding soft
tissue, Dizziness and vertigo, Endometritis, Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Eye
diseases, Facial paralysis, Facial swelling, Frontal headache, Functional
uterine bleeding, Gastralgia, Gastric acidity, General malaise,
Glaucoma, Headache, Hemiplegia, Hepatitis, Hiccups, Hypertension,
Hyperthyroidism, Inflammation of the axillary lymph nodes, Intercostal
neuralgia, Irregular menstruation, Lumbago and leg pain, Mastitis,
Migraine on the sides, Motor impairment of the upper extremities,
Nasal obstruction, Neurasthenia, Neurodermatitis of the lateral aspect
of the thigh, Night blindness, Ophthalmalgia, Orchitis, Otitis media,
Pain and swelling of the cheek and submaxillary region, Pain in the
ankle joint, axilla, back, foot, knee joint, lateral aspect of the leg, lower
abdomen, lower extremities, lumbar region and shoulder, Paralysis of
the lower extremities, Pharyngitis, Pleuritis, Rhinitis, Rigidity and
stiffness of the neck, Salivation, Sciatica, Spasm of the gastrocnemius,
Swelling and pain of the gum, Swelling of the cheek, Thoracalgia,
Tinnitus, Tonsillitis, Toothache, Vertical headache, Vomiting and all
diseases and pains on the Gallbladder BD and its branches

2.15.1 GB44 – METAL point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder

BD
On the fourth toe, lateral to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal to
the lateral corner of the toenail, at the intersection of the vertical line of
the lateral side of the nail and the horizontal line of the base of the
fourth toenail

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2.15.2 GB43 – WATER point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder
BD
On the dorsum of the foot, between the fourth and the fifth toes,
proximal to the web margin, at the border between the red and white
flesh

2.15.3 GB41 – WOOD point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder

BD
On the dorsum of the foot, distal to the junction of the bases of the
fourth and fifth metatarsal bones, in the depressionlateral to the fifth
extensor digitorum longus tendon

Figure 2-38 GB44, GB43 and GB41

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2.15.4 GB38 – FIRE point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder BD
On the fibular aspect of the leg, anterior to the fibula, 4 lateral F-cun
proximal to the prominence of the lateral malleolus

2.15.5 GB34 – EARTH point of Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder

BD
On the fibular aspect of the leg, in the depression anterior and distal
to the head of the fibula

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Figure 2-39 GB38 and GB34

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2.16 Leg Absolute YIN Liver BD
The liver is responsible for spreading and regulating the QI in the
body. Its character is flowing and free. It is also responsible for storing
blood when the body is at rest and is regarded as the most important
organ involved in women’s menstrual cycle and sexuality. While the
spleen is in charge of intellect and thought, the liver is in charge of
executive contemplation in cooperation with the gallbladder.
This BD has 14 points each side and originates at the lateral aspect of
the dorsum of the big toe at LR1 where it is interconnected with the
gallbladder, and runs along the foot to LR4, 1 B-cun anterior to the
medial malleolus,
• ascends along the medial aspect of the lower leg, intersecting the
Spleen BD at SP6, then continues to ascend anterior to the Spleen
BD to an area 8 B-cun above the medial malleolus, where it
crosses and continues posterior to the Spleen BD up to the knee
and the medial aspect of the thigh,
• continues to the pubic region via SP12 and SP13 where it encircles
the genitals, then ascends to enter the lower abdomen where it
intersects the Conception BD at CO2, CO3 and CO4,
• continues upwards to curve round the Stomach before entering the
Liver and connecting with the Gallbladder,
• crosses the diaphragm and spreads in the costal and hypochondriac
region,
• ascends along the neck and posterior aspect of the throat to the
nasopharynx to link with the tissues surrounding the eye (the "eye
system"),
• ascends across the forehead to the vertex where it intersects with
the Governor BD at GV20.
A branch descends from the eye system through the cheek and
encircles the inner surface of the lips.
Another branch separates from the liver, crosses the diaphragm and
spreads in the Lung, meeting with PC1.

Interconnections
• BDs of Kidney and Spleen at SP6
• Spleen BD at SP12 and SP13
• Conception BD at CO2, CO3, CO4 and CO12
• Gallbladder BD at GB24
• Pericardium BD at PC1
• Governor BD at GV20

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 • A branch begins at LR14 and enters lung to be subdued

Figure 2-40 Leg Absolute YIN Liver BD

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 Symptoms of an unhealthy liver: Abdominal distention, Chest pain,
Convulsions in children and infants, Diarrhea, Disorders of the knee
joint and its surrounding soft tissue, Dizziness, Eczema of the scrotum,
Enuresis, Epilepsy, Eye diseases, Femoral neuralgia, Headache,
Hepatitis, Hernia, Hypertension, Impotence, Infection of the urogenital
system, Inflammation of the pelvic organs, Insomnia, Irregular
menstruation, Lumbago, Mastitis, Menorrhagia, Pain in the costal
region, the hypochondriac region, the joints of the lower extremities,
the knee joint, the leg, the lower abdomen, the medial aspect of thigh,
and the penis, Paralysis of the lower extremities, Pleuritis, Prolapse of
the uterus, Redness and swelling of the eye, Retention of urine,
Splenomegaly, Spermatorrhea, Urethritis, Uterine bleeding and all
diseases and pains on the Liver BD and its branches

2.16.1 LR1 – WOOD point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver BD

On the great toe, lateral to the distal phalanx, 0.1 F-cun proximal to
the lateral corner of the toenail, at the intersection of the vertical line of
the lateral side of the nail and the horizontal line of the base of the
toenail

2.16.2 LR2 – FIRE point of Leg Less Absolute Liver YIN BD

On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second toes,
proximal to the web margin, at the border between the red and white
flesh

2.16.3 LR3 – EARTH point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver BD

On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second metatarsal
bones, in the depression distal to the junction of the bases of the two
bones, over the dorsalis pedis artery
Note: LR3 can be felt in the depression when moving proximally
from LR2 in the gap between the first and second metatarsal
bones towards the base of two metatarsal bones.

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Figure 2-41 LR1, LR2 and LR3

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2.16.4 LR4 – METAL point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver BD
On the anteromedial aspect of the ankle, in the depression medial to
the tibialis anterior tendon, anterior to the medial malleolus
Note: LR4 is located midway between SP5 and ST41.

2.16.5 LR8 – WATER point of Leg Less Absolute YIN Liver BD

On the medial aspect of the knee, in the depression medial to the
tendons of the semitendinosus and the semimembranosus muscles, at
the medial end of the popliteal crease
Note: With the knee flexed, LR8 is located in the depression medial
to the most prominent tendon on the medial end of the
popliteal crease.

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Figure 2-42 LR4 and LR8

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2.17 Conception BD
This is one of the eight MISCELLANEOUS BDs and is located at
the center of the front of the body, and begins at CO1, which is located
midway between the anus and the scrotum (men), or between the anus
and the commissural labiorum (women), and ends at CO24, which is
located right below the bottom lip. There are 24 points in this BD.

Symptoms of an unhealthy conception BD: Abdominal distention,

Abdominal pain, Amenorrhea, Anxiety, Aphasia, Apoplexy of the
flaccid type, Asthma, Borborygmus, Bronchitis, Cough, Diarrhea,
Dyspepsia, Dysuria, Edema, Endometritis, Enteritis, Enuresis, Epilepsy,
Excess salivation, Facial paralysis, Fullness of the chest, Gastralgia,
Gastric ulcer, Gastritis, Gastroptosis, Hemorrhoids, Hernia, Hiccups,
Impotence, Incontinence or retention of urine, Infantile regurgitation,
Irregular menstruation, Laryngitis, Leukorrhea, Menorrhagia, Mental
disorders, Neurasthenia, Pain and swelling of the throat, Pain in the
cardiac region and the penis, Palpitations, Pelvic inflammation,
Peritonitis, Pharyngitis, Pleuritis, Postpartum pain, Prolapse of the
uterus, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Spermatorrhea, Swelling of the gums,
Thoracalgia, Toothache, Urethritis, Uterine bleeding, Vomiting and all
diseases and pains on the Conception BD and its branches.

The conception BD interconnects all YIN BDs, which are the Lung,
Spleen, Heart, Kidney, Pericardium and Liver, and is called the Sea of
Six YIN BDs.

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Figure 2-43 Conception BD

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2.18 Governor BD
This is one of the eight MISCELLANEOUS BDs and is located at
the center of the back.
This BD begins at GV1, which is located midway between the tip of
the coccyx and the anus and ends at GV28, which is located at the
upper toothridge. There are 28 points in this BD.

Symptoms of an unhealthy governor BD: Abscess in the nose,

Anorexia, Anxiety, Apoplexy, Asthma, Back pain, Bronchitis, Chest
and back pain, Cold, Convulsions in young children, Cough, Deafness
and mutism, Diarrhea, Dizziness and vertigo, Dyspepsia, Dyspnea,
Eczema, Enteritis, Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Eye diseases, Facial paralysis,
Facial swelling, Febrile diseases, Gastralgia, Halitosis, Headache, Heat
Stroke, Hemorrhoids with bleeding, Hysteria, Impotence, Insomnia,
Irregular menstruation, Jaundice, Lumbago, Lumbago and back pain,
Malaria, Mental disorders, Nasal obstruction, Neurasthenia, Neurosis,
Pain and swelling of the gum, Pain in the sacrolumbar region,
Persistent cough, Poor eyesight, Poor memory, Prolapse of the rectum,
Rhinitis, Rosacea, Schizophrenia, Shock, Spermatorrhea, Stiffness and
pain in the neck, Stiffness of the spinal column, Toothache, Vertigo,
Vomiting and all diseases and pains on the Governor BD

The governor BD interconnects all the YANG BDs, which are the
Large Intestine, Stomach, Small Intestine, Bladder, Triple Energizer
and Gallbladder, and is called the Sea of Six YANG BDs.

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Figure 2-44 Governor BD

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2.18.1 GV1 – Governor BD
In the perineal region, inferior to the coccyx, midway between the tip
of the coccyx and the anus
Note: The subject may be in prone position or knee-chest position.

Figure 2-45 GV1

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2.18.2 GV14 – Governor BD
In the posterior region of the neck, in the depression inferior to the
spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra (C7), on the posterior
median line
Note 1: When the head is in a neutral position while the subject is
seated, the most prominent site on the posterior aspect of the
neck is the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra
(C7). Forward flexion of the neck may facilitate palpation of
the C7 spinous process.
Note 2: Slight rotation of C7 can be palpated by rotating the head
with the neck slightly flexed.

Figure 2-46 GV14

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Figure 2-47 Front View

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Figure 2-48 Back View

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Figure 2-49 Side View

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2.19 Bonghan Ducts and Health concerns
I happened to talk with a lady who had pain in her left thumb for a
few months. A name had not been given to this symptom and thus,
there was no remedy. She was telling me that she would go see a
physician and take an X-ray or CT scan. I told her it would be no use
because her lung was not healthy enough to take care of the problem no
matter what the root cause is. She said “My husband, a physician, also
told me exactly same as you’ve told me that they would not find
anything. But my lung is okay.”
Since her problem is located on her left thumb, which is on the path
of the Arm Greater YIN Lung BD, subduing (or quenching) LU10
(the FIRE point of the Arm Greater YIN Lung BD) on her right thumb
would have made her lung healthy and her healthy lung would have
successfully treated the pain.
Opposite side? Yes, opposite side. KOSA manipulates the healthy
side, not the unhealthy side.
Once again, her lung was not healthy enough to heal the pain in her
thumb whatever the root cause of it was.
Even though there is no noticeable symptom, it does not necessarily
mean the patient is completely healthy.
KOSA makes organ(s) healthy and healthy organ(s) treat the disease,
disorder and/or pain.

2.20 Effectiveness of Locating and Manipulating

Acupuncture Point(s)
A KOSA member was on a business trip while his mother-in-law
was visiting his family back home. He was told that she had a pain in
her knee. He instructed his wife to find the location of ST41, the FIRE
point of the Stomach, and let his daughter, a middle school girl, provide
acupuncture treatment to her grandmother. The pain went away
immediately.

What I am trying to say here is the following.

Firstly, choosing the acupuncture point(s) should be done not by
experience nor by experiment, but by logic and theory. That’s the
reason why I mentioned the above case where even a middle school girl
can locate the acupuncture point.
Secondly, even locating 1/16” away from the acupuncture point
would still be effective.
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 In conclusion, as long as you follow the instruction on how to locate
the acupuncture points as described in this book, you can assume that
you have located the acupuncture points correctly, which should be
accurate enough to achieve satisfactory results.

The Essentials

If a Bonghan Duct has been cut by accident, or surgery, it may not be

reconnected and the consequences might lead to a side effect.
For example, a woman had her gallbladder removed and after
surgery she had an ear ringing problem, although it was successfully
treated by KOSA. Another woman had her kidney replaced and
developed a tingling sensation on her sole.

There could be many ways of treating a symptom because Bonghan

Ducts and organs are intimately connected.
For example, although conventional western medicine considers a
symptom, e.g. vomiting, to be caused by the stomach’s unhealthiness, it
could have alternatively been caused by the liver’s problem, because
the liver has a branch that interconnects with the stomach.
Thus, treating stomach related diseases by treating the stomach only
might not work, and then, treating the liver should be considered
together with treating the stomach.

Please always keep in mind the following for the best results. Proper
understanding and utilization of these guides would, in most cases,
result in a successful treatment.
• Consider the functions of the organs from the point of view not just
of conventional western medicine, but also of oriental medicine
• Consider the interrelationship between the Five Elements and the
organs
• Keep in mind the paths and branches of the BDs

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2.21 Pain and Disease
2.21.1 Pain

In the dictionary, pain is defined as an unpleasant sensation occurring

in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or
emotional disorder, and suffering or distress.

There have been many efforts to reduce, relieve, numb, dull or

eliminate pain, and those efforts seem to be quite successful. Dilaudid
(or palladone), which is several times more effective than morphine,
has fewer side effects, although it is just as addictive, and it is regarded
as the most-effective drug. However, there are pains where even
dilaudid does not work. KOSA might be a great help with these pains,
which dilaudid cannot cope with.

Pain is essential in maintaining life, and without pain all animals

might have been exterminated from the earth. I heard a story about
dinosaurs that were so big that they did not feel pain even when their
flesh was bitten off by other animals. Hard to believe, but I find it
interesting.
Pain is an advance guard to prolong our lives, and it is asking us to
do something to cure or heal ourselves. Pain in the thumb means that
the lung, liver, spleen and/or kidney are in need of attention, triggering
an alarm and asking you to take care of your organ(s).
With the help of pain relief medicine, the organ(s) might gain the
self-healing strength to heal. However, if the lung, for example, is not
healthy enough to do self-healing, then you would have to keep
depending on painkillers. The problem raised here is that the lung
would lose a chance to be treated because you would not feel the pain
and treating the lung would seem unnecessary. The painkiller makes
you forget the pain, hoping that self-healing will kick in, and it will
heal itself.
Let’s say that your thumb had been pinched by something or
somebody pinched your thigh and even though there is no physical
damage you feel pain for days. Suppose painkillers do not heal nor take
the pain away. Then how can you heal, whether you use a painkiller or
not? Has there been any explanation for this mechanism? Aspirin is
used as an analgesic to relieve minor aches and pains, as an antipyretic
to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medication.

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 But, it does not kill any virus or bacteria. So, how can Aspirin help in
healing influenza, infection, or inflammation? Healthier organ(s) with
less fever and/or inflammation, which are helped by Aspirin, can kill
the virus and/or bacteria. This illustrates the excellence of KOSA's
approach, which is that KOSA makes unhealthy organ(s) healthy, and
also maximizes the healthy organ(s)' role in the self-healing system.

I was moving a freezer wearing sandals with a friend of mine in my

backyard. One of the bottom corners hit my right big toe and it began
bleeding with a cut ½” long and 1/16” in depth and width. He
suggested that I go to get treatment from the hospital across from my
home but I refused, and went inside the house instead. Since the wound
was located right on the Spleen BD, I subdued my left FIRE point of
Spleen BD (SP2). The bleeding stopped in less than 5 seconds, and the
pain was decreased drastically. A few days later, the wound was totally
healed. I had not used any painkiller or drug.
I am not saying that all bleeding could be stopped by acupuncture
only, and I would still ask you to see doctors. However, KOSA would
be a big help in the healing process.

2.21.2 Disease and Illness

Disease is defined as xx A pathological condition of a part, organ, or

system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection,
genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an
identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
Illness xxi is;
1. Poor health resulting from disease of the body or mind; sickness.
2. A disease.

Nowadays, many elderly people (even including mid 40s) have to

wake up to urinate a few times a night. Although people hear “You are
just normal.” the symptom indicates that the bladder and/or the kidney
are unhealthy. My parents are older than 80 years in age, and they do
not have to wake up to urinate. Although the word, NORMAL used in
the above way might be considered to be AVERAGE, it should not be
considered to be HEALTHY.
Whatever it is, if you feel uncomfortable, it should be regarded as
disease or illness, and treated to prevent new or more severe symptoms
from arising.

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 KOSA’s approach is to make the organ(s) healthy, and healthy
organ(s) treat the health problems, which would result in natural
healing and/or cure.

2.21.3 Medicine and Drug

In dictionary, medicine xxii is defined as:

1. The science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and
other damage to the body or mind.
2. The branch of this science encompassing treatment by drugs, diet,
exercise, and other nonsurgical means.
3. The practice of medicine.
4. An agent, such as a drug, used to treat disease or injury.
5. Something that serves as a remedy or corrective: medicine for
rebuilding the economy; measures that were harsh medicine.
6. Shamanistic practices or beliefs, especially among Native
Americans.
7. Something, such as a ritual practice or sacred object, believed to
control natural or supernatural powers or serve as a preventive or
remedy.

Drug xxiii is defined as:

1. A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a
disease or as a component of a medication.
2. Such a substance as recognized or defined by the U.S. Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act.
3. A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen that
affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior
and often addiction.

Nothing in the above guarantees anything regarding healing.

The important thing we need to know here is that all of medicine and
drug use in western medicine deals with the symptoms only, and not
the root cause. These substances usually create side effects even though
you may not notice them. In the real world, there is no drug action
which is as specific as a cruise missile. Even if there were such drugs,
still there would always be a chance of side effects, especially because
drugs are used more than is necessary.

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2.21.4 Self Maintaining System

The self maintaining system involves our body’s growth, self-healing,

etc. and affects our health whether we notice it or not. We are exposed
to various virus and bacteria at work and home and during commuting,
and our body tries to eliminate them to protect itself. A cut on the skin,
whether it is small as a paper cut or a 6" long cut due to surgery, must
rely on our body’s self-maintaining system to get it healed.

Knee Arthritis

A few years ago in Korea, an elderly lady over 80 years old had
arthritis in both of her knees, and all of her articular hyaline cartilages
were gone. Although her physician strongly recommended that she
have surgery, she refused, and instead, took KOSA treatment about a
month and half. When she went back to her physician, she had no
problem with walking and any activities using her knees. He took
another x-ray and his jaw dropped because her articular hyaline
cartilages were perfectly recovered. She had not changed her food, nor
taken something other than KOSA treatment. Most importantly, would
this result happen in other patients similar to her? My answer would be
“Most likely, yes.” The major part of the treatment was subduing the
FIRE points of her kidney and the BDs passing by her knees.

Cause of Diseases and Illness in Oriental Medicine

There are three categories of causes of disease and illnesses: external,

internal and other causes (miscellaneous).
1. External causes are wind, coldness, heat, dryness, and wetness.
2. Internal causes are joy, anger, depression, worry, pensiveness,
grief, melancholy, fright and fear.
3. Others (miscellaneous) are food and labor, tastes (including sour,
bitter, sweet, pungent, hot, and salty), hunger, overeating,
excessive sexual activities, insect or animal bites, and too much
work (including walking, seeing, sitting, lying, and standing).
The treatment in oriental medicine is to utilize the above
understanding in order to get rid of bad influences and/or habits, and to
make the responsible organ(s) healthy and balanced again.
KOSA directly manipulates the organs, which makes them healthy.
As a result, the self-maintaining system can maximize its capability of
healing and curing.

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3 Diagnosis

This chapter briefly introduces oriental medicine’s typical concept of

the four different diagnostic methods to the readers.
The section, 3.4 Feeling Pulsation and Palpation (Page 146) is very
important for KOSA and KOSA recommends readers not to skip this.

3.1 Observation
The following are frequently used for diagnosis in oriental medicine.
1. Spirit: The complexion, the eyes, and the state of mind
(depressive disorder, manic disorder, and epilepsy) are observed.
2. Face color:
a. The healthiness of the organs is believed to be reflected in the
following places: the left cheek, chin, nose, right cheek and
forehead represent the liver, kidney, spleen, lung and heart
respectively.
b. A person with a face color that is red, yellow, green, dark, and
pale respectively, have a tendency of getting diseases related
to the heart, spleen, liver, kidney, and lung, respectively.
However since this applies only to oriental people, please
disregard this.
3. Demeanor or appearance
a. Movement and tranquillity
b. Cough and panting
c. Convulsive spasm
d. Hemiplegia
e. Wilting and impediment
f. Chest and abdominal pattern
g. Delirious frenzy
h. Debilitation of the viscera and bowels manifesting as failure to
move properly
i. Others like overweight, thin, violent movement of the four
limbs, sitting with an extended neck, and sitting facing
downward
j. Areas to be observed: The eyes, nose, ears, teeth, gums, lips,
mouth, throat, and hair

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 4. Skin
a. Skin color like jaundice and as mentioned in item 2.b. above
b. Swelling and distention including edema
c. Maculopapular eruptions
d. Measles – wind papules and concealed papules
e. Scarlet fever
f. Miliaria Alba
g. Pox
h. Erysipelas
i. Damp toxin
j. Phlegm and vomit (clearness, frequency, taste, time of
occasion, and history)
5. Four limbs
6. Tongue: Certain area of the tongue represents the healthiness of
the organs: the heart, spleen, liver, kidney, triple energizer, lung,
stomach, gallbladder, and bladder. Also, the color, body shape,
and coating of the tongue are observed. A pale red tongue with a
thin white fur is healthy.

3.2 Listening, Smelling, Auscultation and Olfaction

1. Voice
a. Delirious speech
b. Muttering and mumbling
c. Loss of voice (sudden loss of voice, gradual loss of voice or
loss of voice at the end of pregnancy)
2. Respiration: Panting, breathlessness, wheezing, shortness of
breath, sighing and etc.
3. Cough and others: Whooping cough, diphtheria, sound of
vomiting, hiccup, belching, and sneezing
4. Smelling odors
a. Breath odors: Sour breath, foul breath and rotten and foul
breath
b. Sweet odors: Goatish smell and foul sweet odor in their
armpits
5. Phlegm and nasal mucus odors
6. Odors of urine and stool: sour odor of the stools, sloppy and fishy
stools, and etc.

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3.3 Asking / Inquiring
1. Food and taste
a. Food and appetite - poor or lack of appetite, poor appetite with
fullness in the stomach, hunger with no desire to eat or
excessive appetite and getting hungry easily.
b. Thirst
c. Taste - bitter taste, sweet pasty taste, foul taste, inability to
distinguish tastes, salty taste sensations, or pungent taste.
2. Chills and fever
a. Pattern of exterior, interior, half exterior, half interior and/or
alternate chills and fever
b. YIN and YANG and vacuity and repletion: Vacuity heat,
repletion heat, vacuity cold and repletion cold
c. Persistent high fever, tidal fever, irritable/vexing fever and
mild fever
3. Stools and urine
a. Stools and defecation
• Constipation: Dry stools, small bitty stools like goat’s stools,
alternation of constipationand diarrhea, and etc.
• Diarrhea: Borborygmi with loose stools, loose stools with
undigested food, bloody stool with mucus/puts, tenesmus,
first dry then wet stool, cock-crow diarrhea
• Flatulence, watery stool, prolapse of anus, hemorrhoids,
fistulas.
b. Urine and urination: Yellow urine, clear and profuse urine,
turbid urine, red urine, very frequent and copious urination,
urgent urine, scanty urine, red urine, painful urination,
enuresis, incontinence, difficulty in urine, dribbling urination
or retention of urine, dysuria, contracted scrotum.
4. Sweating and Perspiration: Spontaneous sweating, night sweating,
expiring sweating, yellow sweating.
5. Pain
a. Area
b. Type: Distending pain/bloating and fullness, pricking
pain/sharp and stabbing, weighty pain, colicky pain, pulling
pain, burning pain, cold pain, dull pain, hollow pain.
6. Dizziness
7. Sleep: Insomnia, lethargy.

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 8. Tinnitus
a. A loud, high-pitch noise like a whistle from an excessive liver
(mainly acute)
b. A low-pitch noise like rushing WATER by deficient kidney
(mainly chronic)
c. Deafness/hearing impairment
d. Red and painful eyes
e. Blurred/clouded vision
9. Menses and leukorrhea: Menstrual disorder, menstrual pain,
dysmenorrheal, leukorrhea, vaginal discharge, frequency, quantity,
color, smell.

3.4 Feeling Pulsation and Palpation

In a simple way, pulsation diagnosis is using diagnostician’s fingers
on pulsation measuring points as illustrated in Figure 3-1 Pulsation
(Page 147), and then, increasing the pressing force of diagnostician’s
fingers to read or measure the repelling power of the radial arteries.

There are twenty pulsation wave forms defined by NCCAOM

(acronym of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine) such as superficial, surging, soft, scattering,
hollow, leather, deep, hidden, firm, weak, slow, moderate, hesitant,
knotted, rapid, abrupt, hurried, moving, deficient, minute, thready,
intermittent, short, excess, rolling, tense, long, string, and large.
Although there are even more pulse diagnosis methods used in oriental
medicine, they won’t be described in this book.

The only method KOSA uses is described in this book as follows:

3.4.1 Deficient or excessive

Please refer to following illustration for easier understanding.

The right hand’s index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the
diagnostician will be put on the patient's left wrist at the FIRE, WOOD,
and WATER ELEMENTS points respectively.
The left hand’s index finger, middle finger and ring finger of
diagnostician will be put on the patient's right wrist at the METAL,
EARTH, and PREMIER FIRE points respectively.

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 The diagnostician equally increases the pressing force on these points,
and ceases increasing the pressing force when all three points’ pulses
are felt. He or she then holds this pressure and compares the repelling
forces of the points. This is the moment to compare the YANG organs’
strength because YANG is more superficial than YIN.
With this state, the strength of five YANG organs (Gallbladder of
WOOD, Small Intestine of FIRE, Stomach of EARTH, Large Intestine
of METAL and Bladder of WATER) is compared.

Figure 3-1 Pulsation

After comparison of the YANG organs’ strength, the diagnostician

increases the pressure further, and holds it and does the comparison of
the strength of the five YIN organs (Liver of WOOD, Heart of FIRE,
Spleen of EARTH, Lung of METAL and Kidney of WATER.)

The premier FIRE point could be neglected, or used only for other
informational purposes.

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 YIN to YIN and YANG to YANG. I think this rule is very easy and
simple to remember, yet it is a very effective rule. Here, Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1 or #2 kicks in.

Let’s assume that you have a migraine along the Gallbladder BD.
After comparison of the YANG pulses, if the gallbladder’s pulse is
stronger than the others, it indicates an excessive gallbladder and it has
to be subdued.
If it is weaker than the others, then the gallbladder is deficient and
will have to be fostered.
If it is neither stronger nor weaker, then the temperature of the
gallbladder would need adjustment.

3.4.2 Cold or Hot

Here comes Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3 and #4.

Usually, healthy adults breathe 18 times in a minute and they have
four beats per cycle of breathing. Thus they have a heart rate of 72
beats per minute.
If there are three beats or less in a cycle of breathing or five beats or
more in a cycle of breathing, it indicates the patient’s organs in general
are cold or hot respectively. Three beats or less per breath indicates
cold and five beats or more per breath indicates heat. In other words, 54
beats or less in a minute and 90 or more per minute are cold and hot,
respectively.
However, KOSA uses 60 beats or less a minute as the standard for
for cold and 80 beats or more as the standard for hot diagnostically.
Those people who exercise steadily and regularly have fewer than 72
beats per minute, sometimes even in the low 50s.
Many people taking blood pressure control pills have fewer than 72
beats per minute as well and this means that those pills are cheating the
health control system.
Although most of the health care industry regards the heart rate as
much less important than the blood pressure, the heart rate actually is a
very important vital sign in KOSA.
KOSA believes that we are born with a fixed amount of air and food
we can consume thus, the quicker you consume them, the less the
amount that would be available for you. In general, a slower heart rate
equals a more prolonged life.

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 The heart rate gets faster during meals and for about two hours after
a meal, because the stomach is working hard to digest the food. After
too many hours of sleep, the heart rate gets lower. Other activities
would change the heart rate too. Measuring the heart rate two hours
after a meal or with an empty stomach would be ideal and it should be
checked regularly.

The following is from the web site EverydayHealth.com xxiv for your
information.
Resting heart rate (beats per minute or bpm)
• Babies to age 1: 100–160
• Children ages 1 to 10: 70–120
• Children ages 11 to 17: 60–100
• Adults: 60–100
• Well-conditioned athletes: 40–60

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3.5 Other Consideration
Symptoms of heat, numbness, irritation, itching, acute pain, chronic
pain, etc. can simply be treated like a kind of pain.
The type of stool, frequency of bowel movements, color of the stool,
quantity of stool, diarrhea, having to go to the bathroom right after a
meal or during a meal, etc. would usually be caused by deficiency,
deficiency and hotness or hotness of the large intestine.

The reader might get confused because there are eight Bonghan
Ducts (or organs) related with asthma according to the list of diseases
described in the chapter, 2 The Bonghan Ducts and Disease & Pain
(page 45) which are the lung, stomach, small intestine, bladder, kidney,
gallbladder, Conception BD and Governor BD.
I understand the reason of this confusion, in that traditional oriental
medicine has successfully used more than one acupuncture point (or
Bonghan Ducts) for treating asthma. When the treatment was found to
be successful, they have listed all the Bonghan Ducts used. For
example, KOSA’s treatment for asthma utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the lung, includes the Bonghan Ducts of the
Spleen, Lung and Heart and depending on the situation, even a single
point treatment on the spleen can turn out to be successful. Overlooking
the organs’ interactions, the interconnections of the organs and five
elements theory could have made people confused, and resulted in
putting asthma in the list of the diseases related to certain organs or
BDs. Nevertheless, referring to these lists could be beneficial for
reviewing the treatment plan.

Nowadays, most diseases are caused by hot organ(s) due to pollution,

improper diet, too much food consumption, inefficient exercise, etc.
Therefore, quenching the organ(s) would be the most effective
treatment in many cases.

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4 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas
In this chapter, the four Ascetic Saahm’s formulas are explained with
diagrams and tables. These formulas are very logical and are the best
tool to balance the organs and to make them healthy.
Arrows with spears upward and downward are the points to be
fostered and subdued, respectively.

Interaction between organs

YIN organ(s) directly interact with YIN organ(s) and so do YANG

organ(s) with YANG organ(s).

Flexibility of KOSA

Because the above formulas consist of four points, Saahm

Acupuncture is often called “Four Needle Acupuncture”. Unfortunately,
many acupuncturists have misconceptions that they need to use four
points, only and always.
Depending on the disease, disorder, pain, ache, illness and
complication, KOSA has the flexibility of varying the number of
acupuncture points to be used. The variation and flexibility will be
described in the chapter, 6 Diseases (page 193).

Legends

The following are used to explain Ascetic Saahm‘s formulas as

shown in the following diagrams.

Arrows: Up Point to be fostered

Down Point to be subdued

Words in pentagon Top Element characteristic of the organ

Middle Name of the organ
Bottom Relationship of the organ

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4.1 Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1
The diagram of fostering the liver on the next page will be used to
explain Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #1.

Utilizing the Relationship of Parent and Child

Since the liver is a WOOD organ, its parent, the kidney (a WATER
organ) shall have to be fostered. Thus, we will foster the WATER point
of the WATER organ (the WATER point of the kidney). This is the
first point.

The second point is the WATER (parent element) point of the organ
to be fostered. In this case, it is the liver. Since its parent’s element
point (WATER of WATER) is fostered, the WATER point of the liver
(a WOOD organ) is fostered.

Utilizing the Relationship of Subdual

Since the lung (METAL) subdues the liver (WOOD), the lung shall
be subdued to weaken the subdual force of the lung and the METAL
point of the METAL organ (the lung) shall be subdued. This is the third
point.

As the METAL element is subdued in the third point, the METAL

point of the liver (WOOD, which is to be fostered) is subdued. This is
the fourth or the last point.

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4.1.1 Fostering Liver

Figure 4-1 Fostering Liver

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WATER point of WATER BD,

Kidney BD), KI10.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WATER point of WOOD BD,
Liver BD), LR8.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (METAL point of METAL
BD, Lung BD), LU8.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (METAL point of WOOD BD,
Liver BD), LR4.

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4.1.2 Fostering Heart

Figure 4-2 Fostering Heart

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Liver BD), LR1.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WOOD point of FIRE BD Heart
BD), HT9.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER
BD, Kidney BD), KI10.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of FIRE BD,
Heart BD), HT3.

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4.1.3 Fostering Spleen

Figure 4-3 Fostering Spleen

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD, Heart

BD), HT8.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (FIRE point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP2.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WOOD point of WOOD
BD, Liver BD), LR1.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WOOD point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP1.

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4.1.4 Fostering Lung

Figure 4-4 Fostering Lung

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,

Spleen BD), SP3.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (EARTH point of METAL BD,
Lung BD), LU9.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD,
Heart BD), HT8.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (FIRE point of METAL BD,
Lung BD), LU10.

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4.1.5 Fostering Kidney

Figure 4-5 Fostering Kidney

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (METAL point of METAL BD,

Lung BD), LU8.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (METAL point of WATER BD,
Kidney BD), KI7.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (EARTH point of EARTH
BD, Spleen BD), SP3.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (EARTH point of WATER BD,
Kidney BD), KI3.

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4.1.6 Fostering Pericardium

Figure 4-6 Fostering Pericardium

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Liver BD), LR1.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WOOD point of Pericardium
BD), PC9.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER
BD, Kidney BD), KI10.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of Pericardium
BD), PC3.

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4.1.7 Fostering Gallbladder

Figure 4-7 Fostering Gallbladder

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WATER point of WATER BD,

Bladder BD), BL66.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WATER point of WOOD
meridian, Gallbladder BD), GB43.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (METAL point of METAL
BD, Large Intestine BD), LI1.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (METAL point of WOOD BD,
Gallbladder BD), GB44.

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4.1.8 Fostering Small Intestine

Figure 4-8 Fostering Small Intestine

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Gallbladder BD), GB41.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WOOD point of FIRE BD, Small
Intestine BD), SI3.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER
BD, Bladder BD), BL66.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of FIRE BD,
Small Intestine BD), SI2.

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4.1.9 Fostering Stomach

Figure 4-9 Fostering Stomach

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD, Small

Intestine BD), SI5.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (FIRE point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST41.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WOOD point of WOOD
BD, Gallbladder BD), GB41.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WOOD point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST43.

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4.1.10 Fostering Large Intestine

Figure 4-10 Fostering Large Intestine

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,

Stomach BD), ST36.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (EARTH point of METAL BD,
Large Intestine BD), LI11.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD,
Small Intestine BD), SI5.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (FIRE point of METAL BD,
Large Intestine BD,) LI5.

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4.1.11 Fostering Bladder

Figure 4-11 Fostering Bladder

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (METAL point of METAL BD,

Large Intestine BD), LI1.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (METAL point of WATER BD,
Bladder BD), BL67.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (EARTH point of EARTH
BD, Stomach BD), ST36.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (EARTH point of WATER BD,
Bladder BD), BL40.

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4.1.12 Fostering Triple Energizer

Figure 4-12 Fostering Triple Energizer

• Foster Parent point of Parent BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Gallbladder BD), GB41.
• Foster Parent point of BD itself (WOOD point of Triple Energizer
BD), TE3.
• Subdue subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER
BD, Bladder BD), BL66.
• Subdue subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of Triple
Energizer BD), TE2.

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4.2 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #2
The diagram in 4.2.1 Subduing Liver (next page, 166) will be used to
explain Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #2.

The liver is called an organ of silence because even if up to 95 % of

the liver is damaged, the person may not notice any symptoms.
As far as I know, there are many people who have livers in an
excessive condition. In this case, the liver shall have to be subdued.
Here, Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #2 kicks in.

Utilizing the Relationship of Subdual

Firstly, in order to subdue the liver (a WOOD organ), the lung (a

METAL organ), which subdues the liver (a WOOD organ) shall be
fostered. Thus, the METAL point of the lung (a METAL organ) is
fostered.
Secondly, as the METAL element is fostered as above, the METAL
(subdual) point of the liver (a WOOD organ, which is to be subdued)
shall be fostered.

Utilizing the Relationship of Parent and Child

Thirdly, the Child organ (the heart, a FIRE organ) is subdued to

weaken (or drain) the fostering force of the Parent organ (the liver) by
subduing the Child element (FIRE point) of the Child organ (FIRE
organ, the heart).
Fourthly, as the FIRE element is subdued by the above, the FIRE
point of the organ (the liver, which is to be subdued) shall also be
subdued.

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4.2.1 Subduing Liver

Figure 4-13 Subduing Liver

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (METAL point of METAL

BD, Lung BD), LU8.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (METAL point of WOOD BD,
Liver BD), LR4.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD, Heart
BD), HT8.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (FIRE point of WOOD BD, Liver
BD), LR2.

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4.2.2 Subduing Heart

Figure 4-14 Subduing Heart

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER

BD, Kidney BD), KI10.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of FIRE BD,
Heart BD), HT3.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP3.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (EARTH point of FIRE BD, Heart
BD), HT7.

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4.2.3 Subduing Spleen

Figure 4-15 Subduing Spleen

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Liver BD), LR1.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WOOD point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP1.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (METAL point of METAL BD,
Lung BD), LU8.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (METAL point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP5.

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4.2.4 Subduing Lung

Figure 4-16 Subduing Lung

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD,

Heart BD), HT8.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (FIRE point of METAL BD,
Lung BD), LU10.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (WATER point of WATER BD,
Kidney BD), KI10.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (WATER point of METAL BD,
Lung BD), LU5.

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4.2.5 Subduing Kidney

Figure 4-17 Subduing Kidney

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (EARTH point of EARTH

BD, Spleen BD), SP3.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (EARTH point of WATER BD,
Kidney BD), KI3.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,
Liver BD), LR1.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (WOOD point of WATER BD,
Kidney BD), KI1.

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4.2.6 Subduing Pericardium

Figure 4-18 Subduing Pericardium

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER

BD, Kidney BD), KI10.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of Premier FIRE
BD, Pericardium BD), PC3.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,
Spleen BD), SP3.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (EARTH point of Premier FIRE
BD, Pericardium BD), PC7.

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4.2.7 Subduing Gallbladder

Figure 4-19 Subduing Gallbladder

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (METAL point of METAL

BD, Large Intestine BD), LI1.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (METAL point of WOOD BD,
Gallbladder BD), GB44.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD, Small
Intestine BD), SI5.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (FIRE point of WOOD BD,
Gallbladder BD), GB38.

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4.2.8 Subduing Small Intestine

Figure 4-20 Subduing Small Intestine

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER

BD, Bladder BD), BL66.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of FIRE BD,
Small Intestine BD), SI2.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST36.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (EARTH point of FIRE BD, Small
Intestine BD), SI8.

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4.2.9 Subduing Stomach

Figure 4-21 Subduing Stomach

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,

Gallbladder BD), GB41.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WOOD point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST43.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (METAL point of METAL BD,
Large Intestine BD), LI1.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (METAL point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST45.

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4.2.10 Subduing Large Intestine

Figure 4-22 Subduing Large Intestine

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (FIRE point of FIRE BD,

Small Intestine BD), SI5.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (FIRE point of METAL BD,
Large Intestine BD), LI5.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (WATER point of WATER BD,
Bladder BD), BL66.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (WATER point of METAL BD,
Large Intestine BD), LI2.

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4.2.11 Subduing Bladder

Figure 4-23 Subduing Bladder

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (EARTH point of EARTH

BD, Stomach BD), ST36.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (EARTH point of WATER BD,
Bladder BD), BL40.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (WOOD point of WOOD BD,
Gallbladder BD), GB41.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (WOOD point of WATER BD,
Bladder BD), BL65.

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4.2.12 Subduing Triple Energizer

Figure 4-24 Subduing Triple Energizer

• Foster subdual point of subdual BD (WATER point of WATER

BD, Bladder BD), BL66.
• Foster subdual point of BD itself (WATER point of Triple
Energizer BD), TE2.
• Subdue Child point of Child BD (EARTH point of EARTH BD,
Stomach BD), ST36.
• Subdue Child point of BD itself (EARTH point of Triple Energizer
BD), TE10.

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4.3 Table of Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #1 and #2
Table 4-1 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #1 and #2
#1 #2
Five Elements

Fostering Organs Subduing Organs

Bonghan
Ducts Foster Subdue Foster Subdue
Points of Points of Points of Points of

Liver KI10 LR8 LU8 LR4 LU8 LR4 HT8 LR2

WOOD

Gall-
BL66 GB43 LI1 GB44 LI1 GB44 SI5 GB38
bladder
Heart LR1 HT9 KI10 HT3 KI10 HT3 SP3 HT7
FIRE

Small
GB41 SI3 BL66 SI2 BL66 SI2 ST36 SI8
intestine
Spleen HT8 SP2 LR1 SP1 LR1 SP1 LU8 SP5
EARTH

Stomach SI5 ST41 GB41 ST43 GB41 ST43 LI1 ST45

Lung SP3 LU9 HT8 LU10 HT8 LU10 KI10 LU5

METAL

Large
ST36 LI11 SI5 LI5 SI5 LI5 BL66 LI2
intestine
Kidney LU8 KI7 SP3 KI3 SP3 KI3 LR1 KI1
WATER

Bladder LI1 BL67 ST36 BL40 ST36 BL40 GB41 BL65

Peri-
Premier FIRE

LR1 PC9 KI10 PC3 KI10 PC3 SP3 PC7

cardium
Triple
GB41 TE3 BL66 TE2 BL66 TE2 ST36 TE10
Energizer

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4.4 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3 and #4
Although antibiotics are used to treat infections, once the infection
area surrounds the bone, there is no treatment available other than
amputation. Every once in a while, you hear professional players of
basketball, baseball, football, etc. who have to pause or quit playing
due to inflammation and/or infection.
Infection and inflammation are accompanied by heat. Once the heat
is quenched, the body’s self-healing mechanism kicks in and treats the
problem.
Here, Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3 comes in and this would be a
great help to cope with the above cases.

When you have a runny nose, which gets worse in cold weather, it
would probably be caused by your lungs’ being colder than normal and
they cannot evaporate the moisture in the air.
Here, Ascetic Saahm’s formula #4 kicks in and this formula would
warm your lungs enough to get rid of the problem.

Ascetic Saahm’s formulas #3 and #4 are used to adjust the

temperature of the organ(s), and the Bonghan Duct(s) of the organ(s).
Formulas #3 and #4 are for quenching and heating, respectively.

Interaction between organs

YIN organ(s) directly interact with YIN organ(s) and so do YANG

organ(s) with YANG organ(s).

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4.5 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3, Quenching
The purpose of this formula is to quench the heat of organ(s).
Nowadays, because of pollution and improper nutrition many people
have problems related to inflammation and hotness. Therefore, formula
#3 is frequently used.

If a migraine sits right on the path of the Gallbladder BD, assuming it

has been caused by the hotness of the gallbladder (YANG WOOD
organ), then, we quench the FIRE of the gallbladder as follows:
1. Foster the WATER point of the bladder (YANG WATER organ):
By doing this, the whole body will get quenched and other
symptom(s) might be treated simultaneously whether the
symptom(s) are noticeable or not.
2. As the WATER element of the bladder is fostered in step one,
next foster the WATER point of the gallbladder (the organ to be
quenched.)
3. Subdue the FIRE point of the small intestine (YANG FIRE
organ): Similar logic to #1 above.
4. As the FIRE element of the small intestine is subdued, subdue the
FIRE point of the gallbladder to be quenched and this completes
Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3.

Let’s say there is kidney inflammation. The kidney is an organ with a

YIN WATER character.
The first point to foster is the WATER point of the heart (YIN FIRE
organ). As the WATER element is fostered in step one, the second
point is the WATER point of the kidney, which is also fostered in order
to quench the kidney. The third point is to subdue the FIRE point of the
heart (YIN FIRE organ). Lastly, as the FIRE element is subdued by the
third point, the fourth point is to subdue the FIRE point of the kidney,
which will quench the kidney.

To summarize the above, foster the WATER points of the WATER

organ and the organ to be quenched and subdue the FIRE points of the
FIRE organ and the organ to be quenched.
If there is problem with FIRE or WATER organ(s), like the heart
(YIN FIRE), small intestine (YANG FIRE), kidney (YIN WATER) or
bladder (YANG WATER), foster the WATER points of the organs of
WATER and FIRE and subdue FIRE points of the organs of WATER
and FIRE.

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 Order of Treatment

Quenching the lung is used for an example.

1. Foster
a. The WATER point of the WATER BD (the kidney’s WATER
point), KI10 (other BD than the BD to be quenched)
b. The WATER point of BD to be quenched (the lung’s WATER
point), LU5
2. Subdue
a. The FIRE point of the FIRE BD (the heart’s FIRE point), HT8
(other BD than the BD to be quenched)
b. The FIRE point of the BD to be quenched (the lung’s FIRE
point), LU10

Figure 4-25 Quenching Lung

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Figure 4-26 Quenching Kidney and Heart

4.6 Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #4, Heating

The purpose of this formula is to heat the organ(s). It is the inverse of
Ascetic Saahm’s Formula #3.
1. The following two points are fixed.
a. Foster the FIRE point of the FIRE organ (the heart for YIN
organs and the small intestine for YANG organs)
b. Subdue the WATER point of the WATER organ (the kidney
for YIN organs and the bladder for YANG organs)
2. Then, foster the FIRE point and subdue the WATER point of the
organ to be heated.

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 Heating the kidney, heart, bladder and small intestine uses the
same four points, fostering FIRE points and subduing WATER points.

Figure 4-27 Heating Lung

When malnutrition was not rare and many people’s problems were
accompanied by weakness and coldness, this would have been used
frequently. However, since a lot of diseases nowadays involve heat, this
formula is seldom used and might be used only for patients with a heart
rate 60 or fewer beats per minute.

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4.7 Table of Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #3 and #4
Table 4-2 Ascetic Saahm’s Formulas #3 and #4
#3 #4
Five Elements

Quenching Organs Heating Organs

Bonghan
Ducts Foster Subdue Foster Subdue
Points of Points of Points of Points of

Liver KI10 LR8 HT8 LR2 HT8 LR2 KI10 LR8

WOOD

Gall-
BL66 GB43 SI5 GB38 SI5 GB38 BL66 GB43
bladder
Heart KI10 HT3 KI2 HT8 KI2 HT8 KI10 HT3
FIRE

Small
BL66 SI2 BL60 SI5 BL60 SI5 BL66 SI2
Intestine
Spleen KI10 SP9 HT8 SP2 HT8 SP2 KI10 SP9
EARTH

Stomach BL66 ST44 SI5 ST41 SI5 ST41 BL66 ST44

Lung KI10 LU5 HT8 LU10 HT8 LU10 KI10 LU5

METAL

Large
BL66 LI2 SI5 LI5 SI5 LI5 BL66 LI2
Intestine
Kidney HT3 KI10 HT8 KI2 HT8 KI2 HT3 KI10
WATER

Bladder SI2 BL66 SI5 BL60 SI5 BL60 SI2 BL66

Peri-
Premier FIRE

KI10 PC3 KI2 PC8 KI2 PC8 KI10 PC3

cardium

Triple
BL66 TE2 BL60 TE6 BL60 TE6 BL66 TE2
Energizer

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4.8 Consideration
We have learned so far that there are basically two methods of
treatment, one involving deficiency and excessiveness, and the other
involving temperature.
To help understand this better, see the table below. We will use Case
C to clarify the complexity because it is commonly seen nowadays.

Table 4-3 Matrix of temperature and energy level

Symptom Deficient Normal Excessive
Cold A Formula #4 B
Normal Formula #1 - Formula #2
Hot C Formula #3 D

There are two approaches available.

Firstly, we could use Formula #1 to foster the organ, and anticipate
that the restored organ would be able to regulate its temperature.
Secondly, we could use Formula #3 to quench the organ, and
anticipate that the organ with a normal temperature would be able to
get healthy, just as a fever reducer can be used to treat patients with a
fever.
Usually, controlling the temperature shows quicker improvement and
more effective than dealing with deficiency and excessiveness.

There were two schools of thought in oriental medicine, one

emphasizing that heat is the main cause of disease, while the other
concentrated on coldness. The later school’s theory has dominated
oriental medicine and the book, DISCUSSION OF COLD-INDUCED
DISORDERS has been used as a reference.
When it comes to controlling temperature, KOSA believes that
subduing WATER or FIRE points to heat or quench, respectively is
much more effective than fostering WATER or FIRE to quench or heat,
respectively. This is the basis for sometimes using only one point to
effectively take care of temperature problems in many cases. Utilizing
all four points will give us much better results, however.
Also, in order to deal with more than one symptom or complication,
point(s) shall be added to treat all of the problems simultaneously. This
is the reason why KOSA is very effective and powerful, and can treat
problems which the patients did not even tell to the practioner.

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5 Master Kim’s Achievement

How to Foster and Subdue

KOSA’s method of using needles concerning when to insert, when to

pull out, how deep to insert, which one to twist, how to twist, how
many times to twist, etc. is very unique. Since this book is not for using
needles, KOSA’s method of needling won’t be described in this book.

5.1 No Pain, No Gain

After forty years of experiences, Master Kim mastered the secret of
the definition of how to FOSTER and SUBDUE the point(s).
That is ‘No Pain, No Gain’, which is the Egg of Columbus and the
secret of thousands years, that has been uncovered by Master Kim, who
has completed traditional oriental medicine including KOSA.
No matter what technique or manipulation is used, if the patient feels
pain from it, then it is working as subduing. If he or she does not feel
pain, then, it is working as fostering.

5.2 Soothing and Pinching

For soothing or fostering, please refer to the illustration in the
section, 5.4 Tapping (Page190).
Put the pad of the finger on the point to be fostered and press it
slightly. Move the depressing finger out in the direction downstream of
the organ’s BD flow, and lift the pad of finger from the skin. For
example, the direction of downstream at LU9 is towards to thumb or
LU10. Please refer to the Figure 2-4 Arm Greater YIN Lung BD (Page
55), the arrows indicate the direction of downstream.
The more times of fostering, the better the effectiveness of this
fostering technique. Nevertheless, soothing or fostering by the fingers
is not effective as other methods described in this book.
The result is based on the number of soothing strokes, and not its
force. Thus, do not use much pressure.
Pinching is used to subdue a point. The greater frequency of pinching
and more painful intensity of pinching would result in a more effective
subdual

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5.3 Using Permanent Magnets
The north pole of a magnet is the pole which, when the magnet is
freely suspended, points towards the earth's North Pole in northern
Canada.
When the North Pole and the South Pole of a magnet is touching the
acupuncture point (or skin), it has the effect of fostering and subduing,
respectively.
Ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials are the ones normally
thought of as magnetic. Since the materials of a magnet do not affect
the results, either one can be used as long as it is convenient and it does
not incur the effects of irritation, itching, stinging, or any other
uncomfortable sensation on the skin. The strength of a magnet affects
the result and it seems that the stronger ones work better than the
weaker ones. However, I have not personally found a specific
relationship between the strength of the magnet and results of the
treatment.
My preference of magnets is the disc type, which is axially
magnetized and has a size of 1/16" dia. x 1/32" thick (5,233 Gauss) or
1/8" dia. x 1/32" thick (13,200 Gauss).
It is mostly recommended to put on magnets for three hours or two
hours per use for the heart rate of 79 or less beats a minute or 80 or
more beats a minute, respectively. However, the hours of magnet use
needs to be varied individually. Once the magnets are removed, they
could be reapplied a few hours later. For example, if those with a heart
rate of 78 beats a minute used magnets for three hours, they can reapply
magnets after three hours of removal.
If there is any problematic sensation at the point of contact on the
skin by the magnet, or if you notice any new symptom or discomfort
occurring, the magnet should immediately be removed.
My preference of tape is 3M MicroporeTM Surgical Tape, which is
made of paper.
You can get magnets through one of the links below.
http://saahm.net/links.html
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/default.asp?PARTNER=kosa

A lady who was stepping out of the pub asked me if I had any drugs
for heartburn on me. I told her I didn’t. I asked her if she would try my
magnet therapy and she told me that she would. I put the South Pole of
a magnetic rod for about ten seconds on ST41 at her right ankle, which
was to quench the FIRE point of her stomach and she told me her
heartburn went away.

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 I usually make a magnet rod, which consists of six or eight
cyliderical magnets (1/4” in diameter and 1” in length, 6,549 Gauss)
and I hold the magnet rod at the center, so that the magnet field would
not affect me.

Figure 5-1 Using Permanent Magnets

WARNING
Never fall asleep with magnets on the acupuncture points,
BDs and BDs’ branches of HEART and PERICARDIUM.
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5.4 Tapping
A few years ago, during a business trip, I happened to be with a
coworker who had a pain right on the middle of the transverse crease
on the dorsal side of the right wrist. Because the pain area was located
on the Triple Energizer BD, I tapped on his left TE6 with a car key
while holding the key so that the tip of key was directed towards his
hand (this is upstream direction of the Triple Energizer BD). Right after
about a dozen times of tapping, he began smiling and tilted his head
because he could not believe the fact that his pain went away.

Please refer to the illustrations below. Tap on a point while holding

the key so that the tip of the key faces toward the downstream and
upstream of the BD for fostering and subduing, respectively. The
recommended inclination angle of tapping is 45 degrees or less. The
more taps leads to better results. When you are dealing with pain,
increase the number of taps until the desired effect is achieved. When
pain is not involved, the effect would not be noticed immediately and
therefore, tapping should be done about fifty times (at least) in a day.

Figure 5-2 Tapping

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 Remarks
• The material of the tapping rod can be anything like steel, wood,
stone, etc.
• The tip of the tapping rods should be dull enough not to harm the
skin or flesh.
• Tapping should be mild enough not to harm the skin or flesh.
• The best way to subdue and foster is to use magnets. The second
best method to subdue is pinching and to foster is tapping.

5.5 Fundamental Rules

5.5.1 Rule #1 - Healthier Side or Opposite Side

What if a patient has a problem on the left side?

Then treatment should be applied to the right side, the healthier side,
or opposite to the side with the problem.

5.5.2 Rule #2 - Left for Male and Right for Female

If both sides of a body have a problem with the same severity or the
problems are on the center line of the body, then, the following rule
applies.
Treatment for a woman should be applied to her right side while
treatment for a man should be applied to his left side.
If you would like to improve left side earlier than the right side since
you are a left hander, treatment should be applied to the right side
regardless of sex.
For example, for a man with heartburn, ST41 (the FIRE point of the
stomach BD) at his left ankle shall be treated and a woman with
heartburn shall be treated on her right side.

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5.5.3 Rule #3 – Paring (or Opposite Sides and Opposite Limbs)

There are six pairs as below.

Table 5-1 Paring organs

- Limbs YIN & YANG Organs Limbs YIN & YANG Organs
Greater Greater
Arm Lung Leg Spleen
YIN YIN
Lesser Lesser
Arm Heart Leg Kidney
YIN

YIN YIN
Absolute Absolute
Arm Pericardium Leg Liver
YIN YIN
Lesser Triple Lesser
Arm Leg Gallbladder
YANG Energizer YANG
YANG Large YANG
YANG

Arm Leg Stomach

Brightness Intestine Brightness
Greater Small Greater
Arm Leg Bladder
YANG Intestine YANG

To be simple, the pairs are Lung & Spleen, Heart & Kidney,
Pericardium & Liver, Triple Energizer & Gallbladder, Large Intestine
& Stomach, and Small Intestine & Bladder.

For examples, problems of the lung and/or Lung BD can be treated

by using the Spleen BD and problems of the stomach and/or stomach
BD can be treated by using the Large intestine BD.
Thus, stomach ache can be treated by subduing LI5 (the FIRE point
of the Large intestine BD) instead of ST41 (the FIRE point of the
stomach), for him and her, on his left and her right side, respectively.
However, subduing both LI5 and ST41 would be even more effective.
If this patient also has migraine on her right side, subduing TE6, the
FIRE point of the Arm Lesser YANG Triple Energizer BD and/or
subduing GB38, the FIRE point of the Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder
BD on her left side can be added. However, although stomach ache can
be regarded as located at the center, because the migraine is on her
right side and shall be treated at the same time, the treatment shall be
applied to her left side.
If the migraine is located evenly to left and right side, the treatment
shall be applied to her right side according to rule #2. However, if she
wants her right side migraine to be treated first, then the treatment shall
be on her left side.
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6 Diseases

Because there are so many different kinds of diseases and pains with
various levels of severity, health condition, auto-immune system, self-
healing system, self-maintaining system, complications, causes, etc. it
is literally impossible for me to put them all in this book.
Diseases and pains described here can be seen commonly or rarely
and they have been intentionally chosen in a mixed fashion.
My intention is to provide readers with tools and how to use them to
cope with various diseases and pains successfully whatever they are.
The following proverb would explain my intention better.
"Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how
to fish and he won't starve for his entire life."
Since using needles is not described here and needles won’t be used,
the effect might not be as good as with using needles. Nevertheless, the
techniques described would still be able to provide you with
satisfactory results. If not, please be patient and keep trying and you
would eventually be so.
Also, I have put important information here and there, as necessary,
so please enjoy discovering those precious teachings and try not to skip
them.

6.1 Acne
According to WHO’s ICD classification xxv, acne is categorized in
L70 and there are ten codes of Acne vulgaris, Acne conglobata, Acne
varioliformis (Acne necrotica miliaris), Acne tropica, Infantile acne,
Acné excoriée des jeunes filles, Other acne and Acne.
According to Wikipedia xxvi, acne is a general term used for eruptive
disease of the skin. It is sometimes used as a synonym for Acne vulgaris.
However, there are several different types of acne: Acne conglobata,
Acne miliaris necrotica, Tropical acne, Infantile acne/Neonatal acne,
Excoriated acne, Acne fulminans, Drug-induced acne/Acne
medicamentosa (Steroid acne), Halogen acne, Chloracne, Oil acne, Tar
acne, Acne cosmetica, Occupational acne, Acne aestivalis, Acne
keloidalis nuchae, Acne mechanica, Acne with facial edema, Pomade
acne, Acne necrotica, Blackhead, and Lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei.

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 There are many consumer products fighting acne consisting of oral
pills and skin applications. The bottom line about acne is that there is
no cure according to the manufacturers’ information, oral pills have
side effects, the skin application products penetrate the skin, and
bacteria are involved.
Let’s talk about the skin application products’ penetrating the skin.
How deep would they penetrate? Would they affect the skin only?
Once having penetrated the skin, would they not harm healthy skin
parts?
I think all toilet articles should be controlled by the FDA more
strictly, because they penetrate the skin and there would always be a
chance to harm the consumers. Is the inside of the skin not the inside of
the body?

A question might be raised, ‘How can acupuncture kill or remove

bacteria?
The answer is simple.
Not all skin gets eruptive but some part of the skin does so. This
means that the healthy part of the skin would stay just fine while the
other weak areas get eruptive. Thus, if we make all the skin healthy,
then the skin will not only protect itself but also cure or heal the
problematic area.
What KOSA does is to make the organ(s) in charge of the skin
healthy so that healthy organ(s) can make the skin healthy, and kill or
remove bacteria.

The common factors of acne are the skin and bacteria, whether
inflammatory or non-inflammatory.
KOSA’s understanding is that the large intestine is in charge of the
skin. Thus, KOSA’s treatment would consist of two key parameters,
which are fostering the large intestine and taking care of the BDs
related to the problematic area. The problematic area whether
inflammatory or non-inflammatory can be assumed to be hot and thus,
it should be quenched.

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 Below table is to treat the acne on face.

Table 6-1 Treating Acne on face

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Stomach - ST41
5 Bladder - BL60
6 Gallbladder - GB38
7 Triple Energizer - TE6
8 Liver - LR2
Points on the rows from No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete fostering
the large intestine.
The rest of the points are to take care of the problematic area on the
face, and some of them can be excluded depending on the area. In order
to decide whether to exclude or to include a point, please refer to the
illustrations of their BDs. Please pay attention to the branches of the
BDs because they might contribute to the symptoms and results as well.
Quenching the liver is included not just because the Liver BD branch
has a path on face, but also because it is in charge of detoxification.
If the acne area includes the Bladder BD on the back, you just have
to add subduing the FIRE point of the Bladder and/or Gallbladder
depending on the location of the problematic area.

No matter how excellent KOSA is, if you would not pay careful
attention in treating, it would not work. So, please read thoroughly the
section, 1.5 YIN YANG and Five Elements (Page 23) and apply the
theory to help you.
Also, please pay attention to the food, especially because the food in
the EARTH element category would make hotness worse. When just
stopping the food in the EARTH element category does not help as
hoped, the best practice would be becoming a vegetarian until the
problem is solved.

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6.2 Allergy
The reason why the incidence of atopy in developing countries has
generally remained much lower seems to be that they are more tolerant
of causes (or healthier) than the people in the US. This means that we
in America have been eating, drinking or contacting bad or harmful (or
industrialized) things too much.

In the movie ‘Food Inc.’ there is a lady farmer’s dialogue as below.

“There's antibiotics, that's put into the feed and, of course, that
passes through the chicken. The bacteria build up a resistance, so
antibiotics aren't working anymore. I have become allergic to all
antibiotics and can't take 'em.”
When I was a teenager, it was not unusual that there was a rotten egg
when I bought a case of a dozen eggs. Not good refrigeration during
transportation and storage in the store might have been a reason, but I
believe the more important reason would have been that antibiotics
were not used at that time. In doubt are you? Leave an egg outside of
the refrigerator and check how many days it would take to be rotten,
please.

The most important parameters related to allergy would be the skin,

respiratory system and immune system.
A FIRE requires three elements: heat, fuel and oxidizing agent
(usually oxygen). The FIRE is prevented or extinguished by removing
any one of them.
Unfortunately, to deal with allergy, removal of the skin, respiratory
system or immune system is not an option. The problem is that just
avoiding allergens and treating it by traditional medicine (including
modern medicine) would not be sufficient.

A physician in New York told me about her brother who died

because of allergy. There was no name for his disease because his
symptom was beyond imagination.
His allergy was originally not unusual compared to what other
patients show. As time went by, he became more allergic to more
allergens from just fruit and then, wheat and then, rice and then, all
kinds of grains, and then, even water. He died just because of allergy
and his sister, even though she was a physician herself, there was
nothing she could do to help him.

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 The large intestine is in charge of the skin and the lung could be
regarded as related to the skin as well. A healthy lung and large
intestine would make the immune system healthy as well.
Now, we need to make smart and logical decisions.
Fostering the lung and large intestine consists of fostering EARTH
points and subduing FIRE points. Fostering the kidney and bladder are
done by fostering METAL elements/points (lung and/or large intestine)
and subduing EARTH elements/points. In order to choose the more
appropriate approach between fostering the METAL element or the
WATER element, we need to check what other symptoms we have and
what organs are related to those symptoms. Whatever you feel
uncomfortable about should be treated as a disease, and it should be
treated at the same time, because your body is a living system with self-
maintaining systems consisting of organs. Treating all the symptoms at
the same time is of the key to the benefits of KOSA.
Also, the heart rate should be measured and taken account of, if you
are not on blood pressure pills, because if it is 80 or more beats a
minute, your body condition is hot. In this case, choosing fostering
METAL organs to foster the EARTH element/points and to subdue the
FIRE element/points would make sense.

Following table would help you understand and make the right
decision.

Table 6-2 Treating Allergy

Symptoms or Discomfort
FIRE EARTH METAL WATER
Heart / Lung / Foster Details
Spleen / Kidney /
Small Large
Stomach Bladder
Intestine intestine
Yes Yes Yes No Foster
No Yes Yes No METAL EARTH elements
Organ Subdue
No No Yes No FIRE elements
No Yes Yes Yes Foster
WATER METAL elements
No No Yes Yes organ Subdue
EARTH elements
However, there are two things to be reminded as follows.
• No symptoms does not necessarily mean that your organs are all
healthy.
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 • In order to foster a WATER organ, subduing the EARTH element
might have to be eliminated unless strong (or healthy) EARTH
organs are confirmed. This flexibility is another key benefit of
KOSA
If ingesting food and/or drinks result in immediate allergy symptoms
(less than in two hours because food stays in the stomach for two
hours), it would probably involve the stomach. If it takes two hours or
more, then it involves the small intestine and/or large intestine.

When the heart rate shows hotness with 80 or more beats a minute,
quenching organ(s) would be the best treatment as following.

Table 6-3 Treating Food Allergy by quenching

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Small Intestine - SI5
2 Bladder BL66 -
3 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
4 Stomach - ST41
5 Kidney KI10 KI2
6 Heart - HT8
7 Lung LU5 LU10
8 Liver - LR2
Points on rows, No. 1 thru No. 3 and No. 5 thru No. 7 (except for
KI2) are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3 for quenching the
large intestine and lung, respectively.

For food and skin allergy, quenching the large intestine (No. 1 thru
No. 3) is used. In order to deal with stomach problems at the same time,
No. 4 can be added.
For respiratory allergy, quenching the lung (No. 5 thru No. 7) except
for KI2 is used.
Because the kidney and liver are in charge of detoxification,
subduing KI2 and LR2 (the FIRE points of the kidney and liver) can be
added for all kinds of allergy.
If you have allergy to foods, the skin and the respiratory system, all
of the points in the above table would better be used.

Fostering the WATER points of the stomach and liver has not been
included in the table because subduing the FIRE points is more
effective than fostering the WATER points. Nevertheless, for the more

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aggressive treatment and quicker improvement, you can add fostering
these WATER points.

Once the symptom becomes satisfactory for a few days or longer,

then it would probably be time to change the method from quenching to
fostering the kidney. To do this, Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 is used,
which is fostering the METAL points and subduing the EARTH points
as in the following table.

When the heart rate is normal from 61 to 79 beats a minute, the

following table will be used.
The previous treatment utilizing quenching can still be used for those
with a normal heart rate.
This treatment can be applied to those with a hot heart rate as well
because both of the treatments use subduing FIRE points.

Table 6-4 Treating Food Allergy by fostering organ(s)

No. Organs Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Spleen SP3 -
5 Heart - HT8
6 Lung LU9 LU10
7 Kidney - KI2
8 Liver - LR2
The points on rows from No. 1 to 3 except for ST41 and from No. 4
to No. 6 are to foster the large intestine and lung for food & skin and
respiratory system allergies, respectively. ST41 can be added to deal
with stomach related issues more aggressively.
Subduing the FIRE points of the kidney and liver can also be added
to either allergy treatment above to enhance their detoxification power.
As mentioned in previous treatments utilizing quenching, all of the
points in the above table can be used as well.

If the skin allergy is located on the Pericardium BD, subduing PC8

(FIRE point of Arm Absolute YIN Pericardium BD) would better be
added and the addition of subduing LR2 (FIRE point of Leg Absolute
YIN Liver BD) would be even better because they are in a pairing
relationship.

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 For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, it would
be better to consult with KOSA members.

Lastly, insect stings, animal bites, and knife/metal cuts could also be
much helped by fostering the large intestine because the symptoms
stays on the skin level, and the history is relatively short.

No matter how excellent KOSA is, if you would not be careful in

choosing treatments, they would not work. So, please read thoroughly
the section, 1.5 YIN YANG and Five Elements (Page 23) and apply the
theory.
Please pay attention to food, especially because the food in the
EARTH element category would make hotness worse. I would be glad
if you remember that I have mentioned that the best practice would be
to become a vegetarian for a few months until the problem solved.

6.3 Amenorrhea
Primary and Secondary Amenorrhea
Primary amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation in a woman by
the age of sixteen. Secondary amenorrhea is when an established
menstruation has ceased—for three months in a woman with a history
of regular cyclic bleeding, or nine months in a woman with a history of
irregular periods. This usually happens to women aged 40–55 as part of
menopause, but can occur earlier as a pathological state.

KOSA’s approach
The WATER organs (kidney and bladder) are in charge of the
genitals (or sex organs). In oriental medicine, it is understood that
blood is generated by the spleen and stored in the liver. The Liver BD
also passes through the sex organs.
Considering these parameters, it would be obvious that there are
three organs: the kidney, spleen and liver, which might have to be
manipulated. If the sex organs are directly (or physically) involved, the
bladder would have to be included as well.
Practically, without skill in pulse diagnosis, it would not be easy for
you to find out whether their organs' conditions are in deficiency,
normal or excessive. However, here is a simple and accurate tip from
KOSA. It would be easier to do a thermal check by measuring pulse
beats a minute. 80 or more beats a minute and 60 or less beats a minute
are signs of hotness and coldness, respectively.

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 The treating points for hotness would be as following.

Table 6-5 Treating Amenorrhea by utilizing quenching the liver

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Paring BDs
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Liver LR8 LR2 -
2 Spleen SP9 SP2 -
3 Kidney KI10 KI2 -
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 Leg Greater YANG
Small
5 SI2 SI5 Arm Greater YANG
Intestine
The points of rows 1, 2 and 3 are to treat amenorrhea.
The bladder points have been added to take care of pain near the
pelvis and/or spine. The small intestine points are to take care of the
pain even better.

In case of coldness (60 or less beats a minute), the inverse treatment

of fostering Fire points and subduing WATER points instead, would
have to be used.
Fostering SP6 would be very helpful because at that point, the three
leg Yin BDs of the kidney, spleen, and liver are crossing, and fostering
SP6, in many cases, helps in balancing these three organs. Also, this
treatment of adding SP6 can be used whether the condition is caused by
hotness, coldness, deficiency, excessiveness or a combination of these.

When the heart rate is normal (from 61 to 79 beats a minute),

deficiency, excessiveness or normal strength of the organ(s) would be
the issue.

If you got angry frequently and for a long period of time, even
though you have held it in well enough that nobody noticed it, there is a
good chance that you have excessive liver (and most likely, hot too). If
this is the case, even though WOOD organs are supposed to be subdued
by METAL organs to be balanced, the liver easily upsets the spleen and
the lung and makes both the spleen and lung deficient.

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 The treatment for this case would be fostering lung as following.

Table 6-6 Treating Amenorrhea by utilizing fostering the lung

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Paring BDs
EARTH Points FIRE Points
1 Spleen SP3 - -
2 Lung LU9 LU10 -
3 Heart - HT8 -
4 Liver - LR2 -
5 Kidney - KI2 -
6 Bladder - BL60 Leg Greater YANG
Small
7 - SI5 Arm Greater YANG
Intestine
Points in rows 1 through 4 are to complete fostering the lung, and
KI2 is to help the kidney recover from the hotness.
Points in rows 6 and 7 are for pain near the pelvis and/or spine.

This approach is preferred to other ones involving fostering and

subduing organs, because most of people have deficient lungs.

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6.4 Appendicitis
Acute Appendicitis

You need to see a physician immediately, and this KOSA treatment

is only for those cases when a physician is not available in a very short
period of time, and is only to be used while waiting for a physician’s
treatment, or only after an appendectomy has been completed.
Please keep in mind that KOSA without using needles would
probably not be sufficient enough treatment to take care of this problem.

KOSA’s approach

Since the appendix is right at the beginning of the large intestine, and
appendicitis’ symptoms are inflammatory, quenching the large intestine
would be the most appropriate approach.

The treating points for hotness would be as follows.

Table 6-7 Treating Appendicitis

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Small Intestine - SI5
2 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
3 Bladder BL66 -
4 Stomach - ST41
5 Spleen - SP2
6 Liver - LR2
7 Kidney - KI2
The points of rows 1, 2, and 3 are to quench the FIRE of the large
intestine utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3.
The rest of the points are points of BDs which closely pass the
location of the appendix.
Since the problematic area is located on the right side, the treatment
should be applied to the left side whether the patient is female or male.

Once the appendectomy has been completed, this KOSA treatment

would help you recover in a very short period of time.

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6.5 Arthritis (Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder)
Treating rheumatism or rheumatic disorders is identical to treating
arthritis.
The kidney is in charge of the bones. Arthritis, which refers to
diseases of the joints of the body, would be occur due to an unhealthy
kidney in general and the various organs whose Bonghan Ducts pass
the afflicted areas.

Osteoarthritis and/or rheumatoid arthritis of the left knee of a man

There are six organs whose Bonghan Ducts pass around the knee: the
Stomach, Spleen, Liver, Kidney, Bladder, and Gallbladder. To find out
which organ’s Bonghan duct passes the problematic area, you need to
walk, bend, rotate etc. It is usually located on the Stomach BD but I
would like to add the Spleen as well because this case’s approach is a
good example, and could be applied to treating other diseases
simultaneously.

The first step would be quenching the kidney and other organs
related to the problematic area. Here, they would be the Kidney,
Stomach, and Spleen. Thus, we need to utilize Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3 and the following points will be used.

Table 6-8 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on knee

by utilizing quenching the kidney
Foster Subdue
No. Organs Paring BDs
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
2 Kidney KI10 KI2 Leg Lesser YIN
Small
3 - SI5 Arm Greater YANG
Intestine
4 Bladder BL66 - Leg Greater YANG
5 Stomach ST44 ST41 Leg YANG Brightness
6 Spleen SP9 SP2 Leg Greater YIN
Large
7 LI2 LI5 Arm YANG Brightness
Intestine
8 Lung LU5 LU10 Arm Greater YIN
Points on rows, 1 and 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3
for quenching the kidney, and the points on rows from 3 to 5 are to

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quench the stomach. Points on row 6 are to quench the spleen BD
which passes the knee.
Points on row 7 and 8 are chosen by the theory of paired BDs. Thus,
fostering the WATER points of the above organs and subduing the
FIRE points would be the complete treatment.
If you would like to make this more aggressive, fostering SI2, the
WATER point of the small intestine and/or subduing BL60, the FIRE
point of the bladder could be added.

Although the patient is male, which means that the treatment is

supposed to be applied to the left side, since the problematic area is on
the left, the treatment should be applied to the right side (healthier side).
Also, subduing FIRE points is more effective than fostering WATER
points and, thus, fostering WATER points can be eliminated depending
on the severity of the arthritis or how quickly you would like to get
improvements.
This treatment would be best for those with a heart rate that indicates
hotness, with 80 or more beats a minute.

KOSA understands that most of diseases are due to weak and hot
organ(s), which is caused by, once again, improper and/or unbalanced
diet, insufficient exercise, and bad environment including pollution.
As a result, this arthritis could be successfully treated if we bring the
temperature of the kidney and other organs related to the BDs passing
the problematic area down to normal and make them healthier as a
result.

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 Once the symptom becomes alleviated for a few days or longer, then
it would probably be a good time to change the treatment method from
quenching to fostering the kidney. To do this, Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#1 is used, which is fostering METAL points and subduing EARTH
points as in the following table.

Table 6-9 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on knee

by utilizing fostering the kidney
No. Organs Foster METAL Points Subdue EARTH Points
1 Lung LU8 -
2 Spleen - SP3
3 Kidney KI7 KI3
4 Stomach - ST36
Points on row 1 through 3 complete fostering the kidney, and ST36 is
for the problematic area where the BD passes. By doing this, the kidney
would recover enough to regulate its own temperature.
In this case, paring Bonghan Ducts is not used to make the
explanation brief. However, paring can be added to make the treatment
more aggressive.
What is in need of consideration though, is that with weak spleen
and/or stomach (deficiency of them based on their symptoms), it would
not be a good idea to subdue SP3 and ST36. In this case, it would make
better sense to foster ST45 instead, which is the METAL point of the
stomach.

Considering the limitations of this fostering kidney treatment, you

might want to think of an alternative approach, which is fostering the
large intestine as follows.

Table 6-10 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis on the

knee by utilizing fostering the large Intestine
Foster Subdue
No. Organ Paring BDs
EARTH points FIRE points
1 Spleen SP3 SP2 Leg Greater YIN
2 Lung LU9 LU10 Arm Greater YIN
3 Heart - HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
4 Stomach ST36 ST41 Leg YANG Brightness
5 Large Intestine LI11 LI5 Arm YANG Brightness
6 Small Intestine - SI5 Arm Greater YANG
7 Kidney - KI2 Leg Lesser YIN

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 Points from No. 1 to No. 3 and from No. 4 to No. 6 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering lung and large intestine,
respectively.
Subduing FIRE points of SP2 and ST41 has been added to make the
treatment more aggressive.
Subduing the FIRE point at KI2 has been added because the kidney
is in charge of the bones.
This treatment would be a safer option than the method of fostering
the kidney described earlier Table 6-9 Treating Osteoarthritis and/or
Rheumatoid arthritis on knee by utilizing fostering the kidney (Page
206).

Infectious arthritis

Most of, if not all, infectious arthritis could be treated with the
methods for treating Osteoarthritis and/or Rheumatoid arthritis.

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6.6 Asthma, Bronchitis and Pertussis (Whooping
Cough)
Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways.
Symptoms could be prevented by avoiding triggers, such as allergens
and irritants, and by inhaling chemical like corticosteroids.

I had always enjoyed Steven Spielberg’s movies until I saw one of

his movies, War of the Worlds (2005). Aliens’ tripod fighting machines
implanted underground long before human kind come out of ground
and attack human right before the extinction.
However, all of a sudden, Morgan Freeman’s narration is heard.
“From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and
drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of
man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that
God in his wisdom put upon this EARTH. By the toll of a billion deaths,
man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's
infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges, for
neither do men live, nor die, in vain.”
That’s it. In vain. Indeed the movie ends so in vain and disappointing.
Whether they were bacteria or viruses, they exterminated aliens.

KOSA is to make organs healthy and balanced and healthy organs fix
the problems naturally and prevent other diseases and/or pains from
happening.
Please keep in mind that no matter how strong bacteria or viruses are,
there have always been survivors in this world and only healthy (not
strong) people would survive them.

You become more frequently to contact the ads about getting rid of
germs than ever before. I think they are trying to threaten you claiming
there are insects on your bed, germs are everywhere and so on. They
have even come up with spray killing germs in the air. I am wondering
if those products would kill germs only, while not hurting consumers’
healthy cells.

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 I do not like to see the people wearing medical uniforms in public
like in restaurants because they have higher chance of being exposed to
harmful germs at their work and spreading them in public. If their work
place is cleaner than the public area, then they would probably bring
germs to their work. They might have washed their hands and arms but
how about their hair, face, neck, and uniforms?

Whenever I go to fast-food store and look at the workers prepare

food, I do not feel pleasant because I feel the reason why they wear
disposable gloves is not to get their hands dirty by bread, meat,
vegetables and etc. Please pay attention to what they are doing wearing
disposable gloves, opening door of microwave or grills, operating timer
buttons, using knives, packing the food with papers and etc. Don’t you
think they need to do something about it?

What I am trying to say here is that the germs, allergens and etc. are
not the causes but the triggering factors of asthma. With the same
environment, some people show asthma symptoms while the other
people do not. The intermediate cause of asthma is weak lung or weak
respiratory system and the root cause of it is bad food, industrialized
food, unbalanced diet, inadequate exercise, toxic chemicals and
pollutions from living environment and etc.

Once again, KOSA’s approach is to make organs healthy and organs

make the disease and pains fixed. This concept does not end here but
has to be applied to all kinds of disease and pains.

If the heart rate is 80 or more in a minute, then quenching lung would

be more efficient than fostering it.
Quenched lung or lung with normal (or optimal) temperature would
become to have the capability of recovering itself from deficiency or
excessiveness.
This is the excellence of KOSA that it is flexible that the treatment
can be customized for the optimum results.

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 The following table can be used for the treatment.

Table 6-11 Treating Asthma

Foster Subdue
Method No. Organs
EARTH WATER FIRE
1 Kidney - KI10 -
Quenching
2 Lung - LU5 LU10
Lung
3 Heart - - HT8
4 Spleen SP3 - -
Fostering
5 Heart - - HT8
Lung
6 Lung LU9 - LU10
Points from No. 1 to No. 3 are to quench the lung and this would be
good for those with hotness of heart rate with 80 or more beats a
minute.
Those from No. 4 to No. 6 are to foster lung and this would be good
for those with the normal heart rate between 60 and 80 beats a minute.
Both of them have subduing FIRE points of heart and lung.

Those with coldness on heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute

might get some benefits from fostering lung. But, because it involves
quenching lung, it might not work and in that case, a KOSA
acupuncturist would better be sought.

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

If the patient is a child, using all of the points described earlier in this
section might be too aggressive and subduing FIRE point of lung,
LU10 would be sufficient. If the result is not satisfactory, you can add
fostering WATER point of lung, LU5.

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6.7 Behçet's disease
The treatment of Behçet's disease would be pretty much same as
treating Buerger's Disease. We just have to quench the inflammation
wherever the symptoms are located at.

There could be two approaches.

The first one is fostering large intestine while quenching all
problematic organs.
The second one is quenching organs with problems and this would be
more effective if the heart rate indicates hotness.

Utilizing fostering large intestine

Table 6-12 Treating Behçet's disease by utilizing fostering the large

intestine
Foster Subdue
No. Organs Remark
EARTH FIRE
1 Stomach ST36 ST41 Mouth
Large
2 LI11 LI5 -
Intestine
Small
3 - SI5 -
Intestine
4 Spleen - SP2 Mouth, Blood
5 Heart - HT8 Mouth, Blood
6 Liver - LR2 Mouth, Blood, Genital Area
7 Bladder - BL60 Genital Area
8 Kidney - KI2 Detoxification, Genital Area, Mouth
Points at No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete fostering
large intestine.
Please keep in mind that BDs with branches pass the mouth have
been added and so have organs with functions in oriental medicine.
If there are other problematic areas than the above, you just have to
add subduing FIRE points of the organs related to BDs’ paths and
functions of them.

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 Quenching organs

Table 6-13 Treating Behçet's disease by utilizing quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Remark
WATER FIRE
1 Stomach ST44 ST41 Mouth
Large
2 LI2 LI5 Mouth
Intestine
Small
3 SI2 SI5 -
Intestine
4 Spleen SP9 SP2 Mouth, Blood
5 Heart HT3 HT8 Mouth, Blood
6 Liver LR8 LR2 Mouth, Blood, Genital Area
7 Bladder BL66 BL60 Genital Area
8 Kidney KI10 KI2 Filtering, Genital Area, Mouth
Points at No. 3, No. 5, No. 7, and No. 8 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3 or quenching.
Please keep in mind that BDs with branches pass the mouth have
been added and so have organs with functions in oriental medicine.
If there are other problematic areas than the above, you just have to
add subduing FIRE points of the organs related to BDs’ paths and
functions of them.

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6.8 Biliary Tract (Cholecystitis, Gall Stones)
Treating this disease starts from finding BDs and organs related to
gallbladder.
BDs close to gallbladder are stomach and kidney and we know the
problem is at gallbladder.

I will describe quenching organs only here because we know there is

a problem with gallbladder and it has to be taken care of immediately.
Thus, quenching gallbladder would be the best treatment. However, if
the problem is acute, then KOSA absolutely recommends that you’d
better see a physician immediately.

Table 6-14 Treating Biliary Tract (Cholecystitis, Gall Stones)

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 -
2 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
3 Small Intestine - SI5
Even though kidney’s being deficiency or hotness is the cause of this
disease, this would probably work because YIN organ of small intestine
is heart and quenching small intestine would cause heart quenched as
well.

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6.9 Bronchospasm
Bronchospasm is a sudden constriction of the muscles in the walls of
the bronchioles. Since it involves the muscles, liver in charge of
muscles would better be considered as a part of the treatment. Other
than that, the treatment would be very similar to treating asthma. Please
refer to the section, 6.6 Asthma, Bronchitis and Pertussis (Whooping
Cough) (Page208).
When the heart rate indicates hotness, quenching lung would show
better results.

Table 6-15 Treating Bronchospasm

Fostering points Subduing points
Method No. Organs
EARTH WATER FIRE
1 Kidney - KI10 -
Quenching 2 Lung - LU5 LU10
Lung 3 Heart - - HT8
4 Liver - - LR2
5 Spleen SP3 - -
Fostering 6 Lung LU9 - LU10
Lung 7 Heart - - HT8
8 Liver - - LR2
Points from No. 1 to No. 3 are to quench the lung and this would be
good for those with hotness of heart rate with 80 or more beats a
minute.
Those from No. 4 to No. 6 are to foster lung and this would be good
for those with the normal heart rate between 60 and 80 beats a minute.
Both of them have subduing FIRE points of heart and lung.
Adding fostering LR8, the WATER point of liver to quench lung
would be more effective
Those with coldness on heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute
might get some benefits from fostering lung. But, because it involves
quenching lung, it might not work and in that case, a KOSA
acupuncturist would better be sought.

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6.10 Buerger's Disease (Thromboangiitis Obliterans)
A Korean living in Canada had Buerger’s disease and he had an
arrangement having his legs amputated in a hospital in Japan. He
visited home country to walk on his feet for the last time before surgery.
He had successful treatment by a KOSA member in his hometown.
When he met physicians in Japan, they could not believe what they
were seeing because his legs were just fine. The surgery was cancelled.
Symptoms are on arteries and veins of the hands and feet, because
blood circulation in those areas is not sufficient.
We have learned that blood is generated, stored, and distributed by
spleen, liver, and heart, respectively. If skin and flesh is involved, we
need to treat large intestine and stomach, respectively.
Because deficient lung and large intestine are common problems of
ours, we could come up with an approach of fostering large intestine as
following. This treatment is quite aggressive because blood circulation
system stays all over the places.

Table 6-16 Treating Buerger's Disease (Thromboangiitis Obliterans)

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Paring BDs
EARTH Points FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5 -
3 Small Intestine - SI5 Arm Greater YANG
4 Heart - HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
5 Liver - LR2 -
6 Spleen - SP2 -
7 Lung - LU10 -
8 Triple Energizer - TE6 Arm Lesser YANG
9 Pericardium - PC8 -
10 Bladder - BL60 Leg Greater YANG
11 Kidney - KI2 Leg Lesser YIN
12 Gallbladder - GB38 Leg Lesser YANG
Points at No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete fostering
large intestine. Points of ST41 and from No. 4 to No. 9 are for the BDs
located at hands.
Points of No. 11 and No. 12 are pairing BDs and this is to make the
treatment more aggressive. When these are used, this treatment would
be the same as to treat the feet problem.

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6.11 Cancer and Tumor
According to Wikipedia xxvii, researchers divide the causes of cancer
into two groups: those with an environmental cause and those with a
hereditary genetic cause. Also, that causes of cancers are Chemicals,
Diet and exercise, Infection, Radiation, Heredity, Physical agents,
Physical trauma and inflammation, Hormones, and Others is described
in it.

Years ago, I was watching CNN in a restaurant and there was a

young woman had a breast cancer and had exercised in a gym at least
an hour a day for years. A physician told her that the cause was too
much inhaling ozone during her exercise.

Master Kim says that all of us were born with a fixed amount of air
and food we can consume. In other words, no matter how good it is, too
much always hurt and is worse than too less.

A friend of Master Kim’s, when he was 68 years old was

hospitalized due to esophagus cancer and he could not swallow any
food or liquid because esophagus was blocked by tumor. Liquefied
food was being fed to his stomach through the hose inserted in his
esophagus through his neck for ten days in hospital. The treatment
forthcoming was supposed to be radiation therapy for a few days and
then surgery to cut off the tumor.
Since Master Kim carried a needle all the time, he used the needle at
his friend’s FIRE point of stomach, ST41 and subdued for three
minutes on his left ankle because he is male.
Five minutes later, Master Kim suggested him to try to drink grape
juice in a can in which there were grape grains. He used to throw up
whatever he drank in five minutes but he didn't at that time. Their being
enthusiastic made him drink up a can of grape juice without any
problems at all. It was the first time any kind of food was naturally
delivered to his stomach through his mouth and esophagus since the
last 15 days. In the evening after Master Kim left him, he could eat all
regular food provided by the hospital.
Next morning, he ate not only the breakfast but also three potatoes
additionally. Master Kim provided him with the second treatment just
like the first one. His friend had a few days of radiation therapy only
and was discharged. Even five years later, there had been no
reoccurrence.

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 Treatment with needle and the other ways describe in this book
would show different effectiveness and not all esophagus cancer would
be able to be cured because everybody has different severity, history
and different self-healing capability. Nevertheless, still, this would help.

Liver cancer would be treated by quenching liver.

Stomach cancer would be treated by quenching stomach.
Bladder cancer would be treated by quenching bladder.
Breast cancer would be treated by quenching stomach.
Lung cancer would be treated by quenching lung.
Complication of liver and bladder cancer would be treated by
quenching liver and bladder simultaneously.
Complication of liver, bladder, and lung cancer would be treated by
quenching liver, bladder, and lung simultaneously.

Skin cancer would be treated by quenching large intestine. If

quenching lung is added, the treatment would be more effective
because lung is YIN METAL organ while large intestine is YANG
METAL organ and they would co-work. Quenching liver can be added
as well to make the treatment even better. Because fostering large
intestine and lung consist of fostering EARTH points and subduing
FIRE points, subduing the FIRE points of BDs passing the problematic
area with skin cancer would have to be added.

If cancer is not located at organs, for example, treating prostate

cancer could be very similar to the one described in the section, 6.52
Prostatitis (Page 312).

Utilizing paths of BDs and BDs’ branches and organs’ functions are
imperative.
In order to treat aggressively, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3
(quenching) would be preferred to other formulas.
Once the results are satisfactory, the quenching treatment plan can be
changed to formula #1 or #2 (fostering or subduing) considering the
theory, rules, paring and other parameters.

Treating tumor is identical to the treatment of cancer.

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6.12 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Syndrome is described as below in Wikipedia xxviii.
In medicine and psychology, a syndrome is the association of several
clinically recognizable features, signs (observed by a physician),
symptoms (reported by the patient), phenomena or characteristics
that often occur together, so that the presence of one or more features
alerts the physician to the possible presence of the others. Specific
syndromes tend to have a range of possible etiologies or diseases that
could create such a set of circumstances. I.e. there is an important
distinction between Parkinson's disease and a Parkinsonian syndrome,
whereby the latter could be caused by the former, but also by other
conditions such as progressive supranuclear palsy or multiple system
atrophy. In other words, in a medical setting, a syndrome might
narrows down the possible diseases a patient may possess, just as
speaking English might focus a guess as to the country in which that
person originates.

I guess the reason why the word, syndrome has been introduced to
medicine is that there are just too many diseases to name them
individually. Also, it is obvious that most of those diseases with the
word of syndrome have no cause identified and no effective treatment.

Affected areas of this carpal tunnel syndrome are the thumb, index,
long, and radial half of the ring finger. These areas are directly related
to BDs of organs of Lung, Large intestine, Pericardium, and Triple
energizer. However, since median nerve is believed to be most
suspected and it is located right on Pericardium BD, taking care of
pericardium would be the most important part of the treatment.

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 The first treatment we can think of is when the heart rate shows
hotness and following treatment would be expected.

Table 6-17 Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Paring BDs & Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2 -
Middle finger
2 Pericardium PC3 PC8 & Ring finger
Arm Absolute YIN
Thumb
3 Lung LU5 LU10
Arm Greater YIN
Large Index finger
4 LI2 LI5
Intestine Arm YANG Brightness
Triple Ring finger
5 TE2 TE6
Energizer Arm Lesser YANG
Middle finger
6 Liver LR8 LR2 & Ring finger
Leg Absolute YIN
Thumb
7 Spleen SP9 SP2
Leg Greater YIN
Index finger
8 Stomach ST44 ST41
Leg YANG Brightness
Ring finger
9 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
Arm Lesser YANG
Points of No. 1 and No.2 are to complete quenching pericardium, as
per Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3.
Points of No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5 are to take care of the problematic
fingers including hand.
The rest of them are to achieve more intensive treatment utilizing
pairing BDs and can be excluded.
Fostering WATER points except for KI10 and PC3 can be excluded
as well.

When a person with the cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a munit is
sensitive to cold, swapping FIRE points and WATER points in the
above table is required to heat organs. However, it would be a very rare
case.

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 When the heart rate is between 60 and 80 beats a minute, Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3 would probably still work. However, if it does not
work, then Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 would have to be used as
following.

Table 6-18 Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by fostering the

pericardium
Foster Subdue Paring BDs &
No. Organs
WOOD Points WATER Points Description
1 Liver LR1 - -
Middle finger
2 Pericardium PC9 PC3 & Ring finger
Arm Absolute YIN
3 Kidney - KI10 -
Large Index finger,
4 - LI2
Intestine Arm YANG Brightness
Triple Ring finger
5 - TE2
Energizer Arm Lesser YANG
Points from No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering pericardium and points of No. 4 and No. 5 are to
take care of the problems of index finger and ring finger, respectively.
You can add subduing WATER points of the paired BDs to the
above. However, what to keep in mind is that this treatment includes
subduing WATER points and it might result in heating pericardium and
other organs.
If ring finger is not involved, treatment of triple energizer can be
eliminated.

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6.13 Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
The treatment described here would be applied after when the visit to
physician and the first aid provided by them have been finished. I am
not saying that this KOSA treatment would not be of help in the first
stage but since this book is not to deal with the emergency situation, the
physicians shall be sought first. Once the symptom has been stabilized
after physician’s treatment, KOSA would be a great help.

Symptoms appear usually on the right and the left side for men and
women, respectively.
KOSA is not concerned if the affected brain is on the left of the right
side but the affected side is concerned and the healthier side will be
treated as usual.

The names of Thrombotic stroke, Embolic stroke, Systemic

hypoperfusion, Venous thrombosis, and Intracerebral hemorrhage are
just the classification of symptoms and no causes to KOSA.

Most of the cases involve in hotness and/or excessiveness of liver

because the heart rate usually indicates hotness. Thus, there could be
two different approaches, either subduing liver or fostering large
intestine.
Subduing liver, as per Ascetic Saahm’s formula #2, consists of
subduing FIRE points and fostering METAL points.
Fostering large intestine, as per Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, is with
fostering EARTH points and subduing FIRE points.
As you might already have noticed, both of them include subduing
FIRE points.
Fostering bladder or kidney could also be adopted but there are very
few people have healthy stomach and/or spleen, subduing EARTH
points may not be appropriate and also, utilizing quenching FIRE
would not be possible either.

In order to enhance QI and blood circulation at the problematic area,

fostering large intestine would be an excellent approach because the
stomach is in charge of the physical energy in oriental medicine. Thus,
fostering large intestine would be most recommended. However,
depending on situation subduing liver might be another excellent option
instead of fostering large intestine.

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 Fostering large intestine would be as following. Fostering lung could
be used instead.

Table 6-19 Treating Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) by fostering the

large intestine
No. Organs Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
Points from No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 for fostering large intestine. Subduing LR2 is to weaken
and quench the liver. Subduing FIRE points of other organs has not
been disclosed and deciding on which ones is within your discretion. I
will give you the guide line as below though.
Clenched fist can be caused by two reasons. As there are no tendons
and muscles extending, clenching fist is caused by stronger palm than
the back of hand. It would be either excessive palm (or YIN BDs or
YIN organs) while the back side is normal or weak back of hand (or
YANG BDs or YANG organs) while the palm side is normal. Making
fingers and/or fist straight opened would usually not cause pain.
However, if the pain arises, it is easy that you just have to subdue the
FIRE points of organs in charge of those areas. But if there is no pain
involved, then you would have to use the one by one trial method by
subduing FIRE points of YIN organs (lung, pericardium, and heart),
YANG organs (large intestine, triple energizer, and small intestine), or
all of them.
This concept could be applied to clenched toes as well because it is
the fight of kidney and stomach. If the foot or ankle is bent towards
inside, it means that YIN organs are stronger than YANG organs,
probably because of the pared BDs. Greater YIN are with lung and
spleen, while absolute YIN are with pericardium and liver and Lesser
YIN with heart and kidney, respectively.
Talking about flattened face or less wrinkles, the flattened side is
weaker than the other side because the healthier side would pull the
weaker side’s skin.

As a conclusion, you just have to find right organs by referring to

BDs’ illustrations and subdue the FIRE points of them. You could add
the paired organs’ FIRE points for the better results.

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Table 6-20 Treating Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke) by subduing the

liver
No. Organs Foster METAL Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Lung LU8 -
2 Liver LR4 LR2
3 Heart - HT8
As described previously during explaining fostering large intestine,
subduing other FIRE points has been intentionally omitted.
You just have to understand the contents about fostering large
intestine and add METAL points to be fostered and FIRE points to be
subdued depending on the problematic organs.
You can utilize the paired organs as well.

This disease would not be easy to be successfully treated.

So, please be patient and change the method alternatively depending
on progress or results.

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6.14 Chyluria (Chylous urine)
The important organs related to this disease are kidney, bladder, and
genital organs.

KOSA understands that overwork or emotion is not the causes but

the triggering parameters. And if you are healthy, those parameters
would not be able to result in the symptom of this disease.

Good medicine should be able to make the people tolerant of

environmental attack, like sadness, annoyance, anger, tension,
overwork, and etc.

Whether the heart rate indicates hotness or normal as long as it is

more than 60 beats a minute, quenching kidney as following would be
the most appropriate.

Table 6-21 Treating Chyluria (Chylous urine) by quenching the kidney

No. Organs Foster WATER points Subdue FIRE points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Heart HT3 HT8
3 Liver - LR2
4 Bladder - BL60
Points of No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3 to quench kidney.
Points of No. 3 and No. 4 are have been added because liver is in
charge of genital organ and bladder is YANG organ to YIN kidney and
also involved in urination.

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 When the heart rate is 60 beats or less in a minute, the method would
probably have to be changed to fostering kidney as following.

Table 6-22 Treating Chyluria (Chylous urine) by fostering the kidney

No. Organs Foster METAL points Subdue EARTH points
1 Lung LU8 -
2 Kidney KI7 KI3
3 Spleen - SP3
4 Liver - LR3
5 Bladder BL67 BL40
Points of No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#1 for fostering kidney.
However, SP3 could be omitted because people with healthy spleen
are rarely seen and subduing spleen might not be a good idea.
LR3 could be omitted as well because in general liver is in the
condition of excessive and hotness.
Both points of bladder could be manipulated because people usually
have deficient bladder.

Fostering liver might also be considered as a treatment method

because it consists of fostering WATER points and subduing METAL
points.
But, since there are many people with excessive and hot liver and
deficient and hot lung, the avoidance of fostering liver is rather
recommended.

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6.15 Cold
Wikipedia xxix describes common cold as below.
The common cold (also known as nasopharyngitis, acute viral
rhinopharyngitis, acute coryza, or a cold) is a viral infectious disease of
the upper respiratory system, caused primarily by rhinoviruses and
coronaviruses. Common symptoms include a cough, sore throat, runny
nose, and fever. There is currently no known treatment that shortens
the duration; however, symptoms usually resolve spontaneously in 7 to
10 days, with some symptoms possibly lasting for up to three weeks.
Efforts to develop a vaccine against the common cold have been
unsuccessful. Common colds are produced by a large variety of
rapidly mutating viruses; successful creation of a broadly effective
vaccine is highly improbable.

You can get information about Swine Flu and Guillain–Barré

syndrome from Wikipedia as well. However, I do not believe the
accuracy of that information ”the rate of Guillain–Barré syndrome
incident caused by swine flu vaccine is so very low that it could be
negligible”.
I know two healthy male workers have Guillain–Barré syndrome
after swine flu vaccine shots in a city with a population about 26,000
two years ago. They almost died and have ended up losing jobs.
The other problem is that there is no way to find who would be the
next victim of the vaccine.

I personally do not trust the accuracy or truths of the contents at

Wikipedia because the information over there is made on the basis of
the consensus. For example, there are islets so called “Dokdo” in the
East Sea of the Republic of Korea. Just because Japan claims they are
Japanese’s, Wikipedia describes they are in dispute.
If I create a thread in Wikipedia claiming that I am the owner of it,
would Wikipedia keep that thread and post Wikipedia’s comment that
Wikipedia is in dispute? What if a half of Chinese people claim
Wikipedia is a Chinese organization?

Heliocentrism was proposed in the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of

Samos but no support had been given to it. Nicolaus Copernicus
presented it to his friends sometime before 1514 and it took a few
decades for it to be reached educated people all over Europe. The truth
cannot be judged or decided by consensus and truth exists itself.

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 Please search ‘swine flu vaccine conspiracy’ on the internet. You
would find many interesting articles about swine flu vaccine.
One of them says, “which I do neither believe nor want to do so, is
that the purpose of pushing vaccine is to implant identification chips in
our bodies.”

Speaking of chip, please search the words, “verichip (or verification

chip)”, “Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521 - National Medical Device Registry”
and “implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient
identification and health information” on the internet.

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced

vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard.
This is the headline of an internet article at
http://www.naturalnews.com xxx and the following is the abstract of it.
(NaturalNews) Following the State of Maryland's threats against
parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were
herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed
personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly
vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from the State
Attorney General, various State Judges and the local School Board
Director, all of whom illegally conspired to threaten parents with
imprisonment if they did not submit their children to vaccinations.
The State of Maryland has now turned to Gestapo tactics to force its
medical will upon the People, stripping parents of any right to decide
how they wish to protect their own children from infectious disease.
Health authorities there have already announced their intent to
essentially kidnap parents and throw them in jail, removing them from
their children for up to thirty days if they continue to refuse to have
their children vaccinated. This will all be conducted at gunpoint, with
armed personnel and attack dogs at the ready, making sure nobody
steps out of line, and suppressing any attempt at public dissent against
the Orwellian vaccination policies.

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 The entire campaign against these parents is blatantly illegal. There
is no law in Maryland requiring the vaccination of children, thus
parents who refuse to do so may not be legally charged with violating
any law. Instead, Maryland health and school authorities are using
Gestapo-like tactics, threatening to charge the parents with child
truancy violations, criminalizing them for daring to protect their
children from the dangerous chemicals found in vaccines (including
thimerosal, a chemical additive containing a neurotoxic form of
mercury).

The other interesting article is the one dated on 01/29/2006 from The
New York Times’ web site xxxi. The followings have been quoted from
the first page among six pages.
Title: Why Revive a Deadly Flu Virus?
1. One morning last August, Terrence Tumpey, a research scientist
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta
2. A synthesized version of an influenza virus that, nearly a century
before, killed between 20 million and 50 million people
3. In the 20th century, flu pandemics occurred in 1918, 1957 and
1968. The last two killed two million and 700,000 people
respectively - again, claiming most of their victims among the
young, the old and the weak.
4. Tumpey and his colleagues say they hope that their resurrected
microbe will help prevent a calamity, not cause one. They want to
know what made the 1918 flu, which began as a virus native to
wild birds, mutate into a form that could pass easily from one
human to another. That question has been weighing on the
minds of flu experts since 1997 - since the first fatal case in Hong
Kong of the avian flu that has since killed more than 70 people in
Asia. So far, all of its victims probably caught the disease from
handling infected poultry and not from other people. How close is
it to crossing the same lethal line that the 1918 virus did? What
can be learned from the virus that caused the great pandemic
that might help us avert another one?
5. Its genetic code is now in public databases, where other
researchers can download it to conduct experiments. Scientists
from the University of Wisconsin and the National Microbiology
Laboratory in Canada have already collaborated to reconstruct
the virus from the publicly available sequence. How easy would it

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 be for a bioterrorist to exploit the same information for
malevolent ends?
6. "Give me $100,000 and two months, and I can recreate it right
here in my lab," says Earl Brown, a flu researcher who specializes
in the evolution of virulence at the University of Ottawa. "You
wouldn't be able to tell it from the real thing that was around a
hundred years ago. Would it kill at the same rate as in 1918?
Probably. But you really don't want to have to find that out. You
don't want to give this thing a second time around."

Please pay attention to the phrase in the previous page, ‘claiming

most of their victims among the young, the old and the weak’.
No matter how lethal the viruses were, the healthy survived. This is
what I am trying to point out.

Another one, in a video clip with a title of ‘The Swine Flu

Conspiracy’ from YouTube xxxii, there is a physician says that he had
swine flu vaccine shot a day ago and he feels great.
However, his right eye was flickering because of tic or flu shot?

For another one, please visit a web site xxxiii. In that web site there is a
video clip with a title ‘Swine Flu Vaccine Will Be Mandatory in USA Pt.
1’. There are other sites telling about this mandatory thing too.
In some States, you would probably get a fine with amount of $1,000
or become a criminal just because you refuse to get a shot. If you fear
of the side effects of vaccine and you don’t want get a shot, you must
be rich. Would I get a big chunk of compensation from State when I get
Guillain–Barré syndrome due to flu shot? Can they even afford paying
that kind of big pay out? Are they even willing to acknowledge the side
effects of vaccines?

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 This is the last abstract in this book about swine flu vaccine xxxiv.
In conclusion, I strongly advise against getting inoculated with any
2009 H1N1 vaccines. Because of the present “emergency,” these
vaccines have bypassed the FDA’s normal testing procedures, and
there is, by law, no way to sue the pharmaceutical companies who
manufacture the vaccines. If you get negative physical blow-back from
the vaccine (maybe quickly, maybe years down the road), that’s just
too bad.

In the early stage of the common flu or during first two days, the best
treatment would be fostering large intestine instead of fostering lung
because, in oriental medicine, the disease stays at the skin level, which
is YANG, and has not penetrated deep down to blood vessels or organs.
The following table would be suggested.

Table 6-23 Treating Cold by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Lung - LU10
5 Liver - LR2
6 Bladder - BL60
7 Gallbladder - GB38
Points of No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering large intestine.
Subduing FIRE points including ST41 at No. 4 thru No. 7 are to treat
other symptoms like cough, sore throat, runny nose, and nasal
congestion, muscle aches, fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, and etc.

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 If the cold’s history has been two days or more, fostering lung as
below would be a better choice.

Table 6-24 Treating Cold by utilizing fostering the lung

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Spleen SP3 -
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Large Intestine - LI5
5 Liver - LR2
6 Bladder - BL60
7 Gallbladder - GB38
8 Stomach - ST41
Points of No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#1, fostering lung.
Subduing FIRE points at No. 4 thru No. 8 are to treat other
symptoms like cough, sore throat, runny nose, and nasal congestion,
muscle aches, fatigue, headaches, loss of appetite, and etc.

You can add other organs’ FIRE points to be subdued and omit the
points in the table. This is the beauty of KOSA and calling Saahm
Acupuncture as Four Needles technique is due to misunderstanding.
The treatment shall be customized depending on the patient’s
symptoms.

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6.16 Conjunctivitis
Let’s find out which BDs and BDs’ branches have pathways to the
eyes. They are: the stomach, heart, small intestine, triple energizer,
gallbladder, and liver.
We know conjunctivitis’ symptoms and signs, which indicate hotness
of the eyes and their tissues, and thus, we know we need to quench
those BDs as below.

Table 6-25 Treating Conjunctivitis

No. Organ Foster WATER points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST44 ST41
2 Heart HT3 HT8
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
5 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
6 Liver LR8 LR2
7 Kidney KI10 KI2
8 Bladder BL66 BL60
Points at No. 7 and No. 8 have been added to complete Saahm
Formula #3 so as to make the treatment more aggressive, but they can
be skipped as well.

This treatment can be applied to other diseases and/or pains related to

the eyes, for example, dry eyes, no tears, etc.

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6.17 Constipation
Constipation is another condition which makes people frustrated, and
not easy to deal with either.

Some people judge the status of the large intestine depending on the
stool's color, softness, hardness, shape, frequency, etc., and modify
their treatments accordingly.
The stool of an old lady in her mid 70s had been green for more than
40 years no matter what kind of food she ate. Traditional oriental
medicine thinks that the color indications for the large intestine are as
follows: when the stool’s color is gold, bright and dark, it indicates
healthy, cold and hot, respectively. Because of this, the KOSA member
who was taught this idea a week earlier, thought that the old lady must
have a cold large intestine. Nevertheless, I asked him to try the
treatment of fostering the large intestine. This treatment for a week
changed her stool color to gold, which is the healthy color.
An organ which has recovered from deficiency or excessiveness, can
regulate its own temperature and also, an organ which has recovered
from coldness or hotness, can recover from deficiency or excessiveness.

Based on this idea, the following treatment would generally help, as

long as the heart rate is 60 or more beats a minute.

Table 6-26 Treating Constipation by fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
The points in the above table are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
This treatment could also be applied to patients with diarrhea or any
other symptoms related to the large intestine.

It might seem to be too much to you if I recommend the changes in

diet, but, to KOSA, it is never too much to ask you to change your diet.
Being a vegetarian and avoiding foods in the category of the EARTH
element, which would generate heat, would be imperative to deal with
constipation appropriately and efficiently.

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6.18 Cystitis
This disease involves inflammation, the bladder, kidney, and genital
organs. The other organ involved as a function of its BD’s path is the
liver, because it is in charge of the genitals along with the kidney, and
the path of the liver BD’s branch passes genitals.

Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 or #2 (fostering or subduing organs,

respectively) could be considered for treatment, but quenching organs
would be more effective because inflammation is the important
parameter.

Quenching

Table 6-27 Treating Cystitis by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 -
Small
2 SI2 SI5 -
Intestine
3 Kidney KI10 KI2 -
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
BD’s branch path
5 Liver LR8 LR2 Detoxification
Leg Absolute YIN
6 Pericardium PC3 PC8 Arm Absolute YIN
Points at No. 1 thru No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching the FIRE organs of both the heart and small intestine and
the WATER organs of both the kidney and bladder.
Points at No. 5 and No. 6 are to reinforce the power of the treatment.
Either one or both of LR8 and PC3 can be skipped.

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 Fostering large intestine

Table 6-28 Treating Cystitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
5 Kidney - KI2
6 Pericardium - PC8
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Quenching (or subduing the FIRE points of) the liver and kidney at
No. 4 and No. 5 are to help detoxification. Quenching other organs,
whose BDs pass the problematic areas, should be added.

The above two approaches would work for both those with hot, and
with normal heart rates of 80 or more beats a minute, and from 61 to 79
beats a minute, respectively.
For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute might
be able to use fostering the large intestine. But, because fostering the
large intestine includes quenching FIRE points, it might not be a good
idea and consulting a KOSA acupuncturist would be better.

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6.19 Diabetes
I think that an entirely dead pancreas would rarely be seen. What I
am trying to say is that there always might be a chance that making a
malfunctioning pancreas healthier could be successful, and KOSA
treatment is worth trying, whether it is type I or type II diabetes.

As mentioned in the section of 1.5.11 Five Elements – Harms (Page

35), walking makes an excessive liver (WOOD) weaker or healthy and
this liver’s weakened subdual force on the EARTH organs (spleen and
pancreas) helps the pancreas recover from deficiency. If the symptoms
are so severe or complicated that he or she could not walk, treatment
should be concentrated on the urgent symptoms. While treating urgent
symptoms, there is a good chance that the blood glucose level would
naturally become normal.

Walking continuously for 30 minutes at least once a day and taking

two spoonful of ground cinnamon right after meals three times a day as
described in the section of 1.5.11 Five Elements – Harms (Page 35)
would also greatly help in brining the blood glucose level to normal.

I have recommended that you to watch the movie, Food Inc. Once
you see that movie, you probably would not like to consume meat like
beef, pork, and chicken and dairy products like cheese, milk etc. Also,
you probably should avoid all flesh-eating, including fish and shellfish.
You would have to consume organic vegetables and avoid all kinds of
chemically processed food.
Whether your heart rate indicates hotness or is normal at 61 or more
beats a minute, and whether the type of the diabetes is I or II, it would
probably be best to utilize fostering the large intestine because there are
very few people who have a healthy stomach and large intestine.

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Table 6-29 Treating Diabetes by utilizing fostering the large intestine
No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Lung LU9 LU10
5 Bladder - BL60
6 Kidney - KI2
7 Liver - LR2
8 Spleen SP3 SP2
The points at No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, the FIRE point of the stomach is to take care of
hotness and/or inflammation of the stomach.
Fostering LU9, the EARTH point of lung and subduing LU10, the
FIRE point of lung are to make the lung healthy so that energy flow
could be improved.
Subduing BL60 and KI2, the FIRE points of the bladder and kidney,
respectively, is to take care of hotness and/or inflammation of those
organs.
Subduing LR2, the FIRE point of the liver is to take care of hotness
and/or inflammation of the liver.
Fostering SP3, the EARTH point and subduing SP2, the FIRE point
of the spleen are to improve the pancreas’ function.

This would be a typical treatment for diabetes, and you can add and
omit points (as long as EARTH points are fostered and FIRE points are
subdued) depending on the symptoms and/or complications of diabetes.

If your heart rate is 60 beats or less in a minute, you would better

consult with a KOSA member, because a more accurate diagnosis
utilizing palpation is required.

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6.20 Dyslexia (Learning Disability)
According to Wikipedia xxxv, dyslexia has the causes of Cerebellar
theory, Evolutionary hypothesis, Magnocellular theory, Naming speed
deficit and double deficit theories, Perceptual visual-noise exclusion
hypothesis, Phonological deficit theory, Rapid auditory processing
theory, and Rapid auditory processing theory and a famous actor, Tom
Cruise has overcome dyslexia with help by Scientology.

It is interesting that Wikipedia usually does not describe diseases

without information about treatment. Maybe dyslexia does not seem to
be a disease to Wikipedia.

A friend of mine asked me if I could treat dyslexia and told me that

his son, a fourth grader in elementary school, had dyslexia, and he
could not read a simple phrase in a book. He asked me to try KOSA on
him.
A few days later, he brought his son to me and I had to use the
palpation method. He was found to have a deficient large intestine and
his heart rate indicated hotness. Thus, I applied magnets as in the
following table.

Table 6-30 Treating Dyslexia

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Bladder - BL60
5 Gallbladder - GB38
6 Triple Energizer - TE6
The points at No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, the FIRE point of the stomach is to take care of
hotness of the stomach.
Subduing BL60, GB38, and TE6, the FIRE points of the bladder,
gallbladder, and triple energizer respectively, is to take care of the
hotness of those organs, which have BDs’ paths that run on the head.

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 Although I do not believe those magnets made his organs normal
immediately, I gave him a book and let him read and his parent were
watching him.
Amazingly and miraculously, he was able to read the phrases, word
by word and line by line, flawlessly.
A few months later, when his father came to me, I thought the
dyslexia reoccurred and I asked him if it had reoccurred.
He said to me “I would like you to see my son once more to make
him read faster.”
He was just joking but I still think his son’s faster reading from
KOSA treatment would not be impossible.

A KOSA member told me a story about his son in college.

He gave his son a KOSA treatment based on fostering the large
intestine because of diarrhea. Even though a couple of treatment took
care of his diarrhea, the son kept asking his father to continue to give
him the treatment because he could concentrate upon everything better
than ever before.
Before the treatment his concentration had been so poor that he had
difficulties in college classes and he used to have a car accident every
month. The son noticed the improvement in his concentration just after
one treatment, and he ended up having more treatments.

Although there has yet to be collected enough data on successful

treatment of dyslexia, I am quite confident that KOSA treatment would
be a great help for dyslexia and intellectual and/or emotional challenges
including ADD/ADHD and Learning disabilities.

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6.21 Eczema, Atopy and Urticaria
KOSA assumes that these are caused mainly by a weak large
intestine. Thus, treating eczema would simply be fostering the large
intestine and the following table would apply.

Table 6-31 Treating Eczema by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
The points at No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing LR2, the FIRE points of the liver is to take care of the
cases when the liver’s problem is the root cause.

Even though making the stomach, large intestine, and small intestine
healthy eventually takes care of eczema, it would be better if the BDs
which pass the problematic areas get treated (subduing FIRE points on
them) at the same time. For example, eczema on the back of the hand
could be treated by subduing TE6, the FIRE point of the TRIPLE
ENERGIZER and GB38, the FIRE point of the gallbladder, because
both of them are paired with Lesser YANG.

It might seem too much to you if I recommend the changes in diet

again, but to KOSA and me, it is never too much to change your diet.
Being a vegetarian and avoiding foods in the EARTH element, which
would generate heat, would be imperative to deal with the diseases in
this section appropriately and efficiently.

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6.22 Enuresis
The bladder, liver, and kidney are involved in urination because the
bladder holds the urine, the liver is in charge of muscle and tendons,
and the kidney is in charge of the genitals. Because the BDs and their
branches of these organs pass the head, manipulating these would
stimulate the brain.
There could be two approaches: using Ascetic Saahm’s formulas #3
and #1. #3 would be quenching the bladder and #1 would be fostering
the bladder, gallbladder or large intestine.

For those with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, the
following would be the best treatment.

Table 6-32 Treating Enuresis by utilizing quenching the bladder

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 BL60
2 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
3 Liver LR8 LR2
4 Kidney KI10 KI2
The points at No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the bladder.
The points at No. 3 and No. 4 are to quench the liver and kidney,
respectively.

For those with a normal heart rate from 61 to 79 pulses a minute, the
following two treatments can be considered.

Table 6-33 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the bladder

No. Organ Foster METAL Points Subdue EARTH Points
1 Large Intestine LI1 -
2 Bladder BL67 BL40
3 Stomach - ST36
4 Liver LR4 LR3
5 Kidney KI7 KI3
The points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the bladder.
Fostering KI7 and subduing KI3 are to foster the kidney, which is the
YIN organ paired with the bladder.

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 Subduing ST36, the EARTH point of the YANG EARTH organ, the
stomach, might be a problem because there are many people who have
hot and deficient stomachs. If you are in doubt, it would be safe to omit
this.

Table 6-34 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the gallbladder

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Bladder BL66 -
2 Gallbladder GB43 GB44
3 Large Intestine - LI1
4 Liver LR8 LR4
5 Kidney KI10 -
The points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the gallbladder.
Since many people have a deficient large intestine, subduing the
METAL point of thelarge intestine would not be appropriate, and
should probably be omitted.
The liver is the YIN WOOD organ while the gallbladder is the
YANG WOOD organ. So, fostering and subduing the points indicated
on the liver BD can be applied, but because the liver tends to be hot and
excessive, this could also be omitted.

Table 6-35 Treating Enuresis by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
5 Kidney - KI2
6 Bladder - BL60
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Quenching, or subduing the FIRE points of the liver, kidney and
bladder from No. 4 to No. 6 are to take care of enuresis.
Although this treatment may seem to be weak in coping with
enuresis because there is only one point used for the bladder, it would
still be effective enough to get a satisfactory result.

For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, please
consult with a KOSA acupuncturist.

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6.23 Erysipelas
Since this usually involves high fevers, shaking chills, fatigue,
headaches, vomiting, and general illness including skin problems,
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching would be more effective than
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.

Quenching

Table 6-36 Treating Erysipelas by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8
2 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
3 Kidney KI10 KI2
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
6 Stomach ST44 ST41
7 Liver LR8 LR2
Points at No. 1 thru No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3 to quench the heart, small intestine, kidney and bladder. Since the
large intestine is in charge of the skin, quenching it at No. 5 should be
added. Points at No. 6 and No. 7 are for the problems related to eating,
diet, digestion, detoxification, etc. Quenching other organs, which have
BDs that pass the problematic skin areas, should be added.

Fostering large intestine

Table 6-37 Treating Erysipelas by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
5 Kidney - KI2
Points at No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#1, fostering the large intestine.
Quenching (or subduing the FIRE points of) the liver and kidney at
No. 4 and No. 5 is to help detoxification. Quenching other organs,
whose BDs pass the problematic skin areas, should be added.

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6.24 Facial Paralysis
Once the liver, stomach, and other organs are recovered, these
healthy organs would take care of the symptoms whatever the causes
are, because liver is in charge of muscle and the Stomach has BD and
BD branches pretty much all over the face.
The organs in charge of BDs which pass the face and possible
problematic areas would be the Large intestine, Stomach, Heart, Small
intestine, Triple energizer, Gallbladder, and Liver.
If it is in an early stage or with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a
minute, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs as
follows would be good.

Table 6-38 Treating Facial Paralysis by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Purpose
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 -
2 Small Intestine SI2 SI5 -
3 Kidney KI10 KI2 -
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
Skin, BD and branch on
5 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
face
Digestion, BD and branch
6 Stomach ST44 ST41
on face
Muscle, branch and
7 Liver LR8 LR2
detoxification
8 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6 BD and branch on face
9 Gallbladder GB43 GB38 BD and branch on face
Points at No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the FIRE organs, the heart and small intestine
and the WATER organs, the kidney and bladder.
Quenching the pericardium utilizing paring with the liver in
ABSOLUTE YIN can be added.
Accidentally, the points at No. 8 and No. 9 are already paired, in
LESSER YANG.

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 Fostering large intestine

Table 6-39 Treating Facial Paralysis by utilizing fostering the large

intestine
No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
5 Kidney - KI2
6 Triple Energizer - TE6
7 Gallbladder - GB38
Points at No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, the FIRE point of the stomach is added to reinforce
the treatment of the stomach.
Quenching the liver, LR2 is to treat the muscle problem.
Quenching (or subduing the FIRE points of) the liver and kidney at
No. 4 and No. 5 is to help detoxification.
Points at No. 6 and No. 7 are added because their BDs and branches
have paths on the face.
This treatment can be used not only for those with a normal heart rate
but also those with a hot heart rate.

Those with a cold heart rate would better seek a KOSA acupuncturist.

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6.25 Fibromyalgia (FM or FMS)
The following have been abstracted from Wikipedia xxxvi.
Fibromyalgia (In new Latin and Greek, it means muscle and
connective tissue pain; also referred to as FM or FMS) is a medical
disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain and allodynia, a
heightened and painful response to pressure. It is an example of a
diagnosis of exclusion. Fibromyalgia symptoms are not restricted to
pain, leading to the use of the alternative term fibromyalgia syndrome
for the condition. Other symptoms include debilitating fatigue, sleep
disturbance, and joint stiffness. Some patients may also report
difficulty with swallowing, bowel and bladder abnormalities, numbness
and tingling, and cognitive dysfunction. Fibromyalgia is frequently
comorbid with psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety
and stress-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder. Not
all people with fibromyalgia experience all associated symptoms.
Fibromyalgia is estimated to affect 2–4% of the population, with a
female to male incidence ratio of approximately 9:1.
Evidence from research conducted in the last three decades has
revealed abnormalities within the central nervous system affecting
brain regions that may be linked both to clinical symptoms and
research phenomena. These studies show a correlation, but not
causation. Some research suggests that alterations in the central
nervous system might be the result of childhood stress, or prolonged or
severe stress.
Historically, fibromyalgia has been considered either a
musculoskeletal disease or neuropsychiatric condition. Although there
is as yet no cure for fibromyalgia, some treatments have been
demonstrated by controlled clinical trials to be effective in reducing
symptoms, including medications, behavioral interventions, patient
education, and exercise. The most recent approach of a diagnosis of
fibromyalgia involves pain index and a measure of key symptoms and
severity.
Fibromyalgia is considered a controversial diagnosis, due to lacking
scientific consensus to its cause. Not all members of the medical
community consider fibromyalgia a disease because of a lack of
abnormalities on physical examination and the absence of objective
diagnostic tests. Fibromyalgia has been recognized as a diagnosable
disorder by the National Institutes of Health and the American College
of Rheumatology.
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 The treatment of this disorder would not be much different than that
of other diseases described in this book.

The first treatment is quenching the organs with problems and this
would be more effective if the heart rate indicates hotness, 80 or more
beats a minute.

Table 6-40 Treating Fibromyalgia by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Purpose
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 -
Small
2 SI2 SI5 Bowel movement
Intestine
Detoxification, Bone, Joint,
3 Kidney KI10 KI2
Urination
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 Urination
Large
5 LI2 LI5 Bowel movement
Intestine
6 Stomach ST44 ST41 Digestion, Swallowing
Detoxification, Muscle and
7 Liver LR8 LR2
Tendon
Triple
8 TE2 TE6 BD and branch
Energizer
9 Gallbladder GB43 GB38 BD and branch
Points at No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the FIRE organs of the heart and small intestine
and the WATER organs of the kidney and bladder.
Points at No. 5 thru No. 7 have been added to treat the functions
listed in the purpose column, and their BDs and branches could be
passing by the problematic area as well.

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 The second treatment is fostering the large intestine while quenching
all problematic organs as follows.
This can be used not only for those with a normal heart rate (61 ~ 79
beats a minute) but also for those with a hot heart rate of 80 or more
beats a minute.

Table 6-41 Treating Fibromyalgia by utilizing fostering the large

intestine
Foster Subdue
No. Organs Purpose
EARTH FIRE
1 Stomach ST36 ST41 Digestion, Swallowing
Large
2 LI11 LI5 Bowel movement
Intestine
Small
3 - SI5 Bowel movement
Intestine
Detoxification, Genital Area,
4 Kidney - KI2
Mouth
5 Bladder - BL60 Genital Area
6 Liver - LR2 Mouth, Blood, Genital Area
7 riple Energizer - TE6 BD and branch
8 Gallbladder - GB38 BD and branch
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, the FIRE point of the stomach is added to reinforce
the treatment on the stomach.
Points at No. 4 through No. 6 have been added to treat the functions
in the purpose column.
Points at No. 7 and No. 8 have been added to take care of the
problems on their BDs and branches.
You can add subduing the FIRE points of BDs, whose paths or
branches pass the problematic area.
Utilizing pairing of BDs would be more effective.

Also, please go back to the section, 1.5 YIN YANG and Five
Elements (Page23) and read it thoroughly, so as not to miss any
functions described there.
You’d better seek a KOSA member if you have a heart rate
showing coldness, 60 or less beats a minute, because heating instead of
quenching might have to be used.

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6.26 Glaucoma
The following have been abstracted from Wikipedia xxxvii.
Glaucoma is an eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage,
permanently impacting vision in the affected eye(s) and progressing to
complete blindness if untreated. It is often, but not always, associated
with increased pressure of the fluid in the eye.
The nerve damage involves loss of retinal ganglion cells in a
characteristic pattern. There are many different sub-types of glaucoma
but they can all be considered a type of optic neuropathy. Raised
intraocular pressure is a significant risk factor for developing glaucoma
(above 21 mmHg or 2.8 kPa). One person may develop nerve damage
at a relatively low pressure, while another person may have high eye
pressure for years and yet never develop damage. Untreated glaucoma
leads to permanent damage of the optic nerve and resultant visual
field loss, which can progress to blindness.
Glaucoma can be divided roughly into two main categories, "open
angle" and "closed angle" glaucoma. Closed angle glaucoma can
appear suddenly and is often painful; visual loss can progress quickly
but the discomfort often leads patients to seek medical attention
before permanent damage occurs. Open angle, chronic glaucoma
tends to progress at a slower rate and the patient may not notice that
they have lost vision until the disease has progressed significantly.
Glaucoma has been nicknamed the "silent thief of sight" because the
loss of vision normally occurs gradually over a long period of time and
is often only recognized when the disease is quite advanced. Once lost,
this damaged visual field cannot be recovered. Glaucoma affects 1 in
200 people aged fifty and younger, and 1 in 10 over the age of eighty.
If the condition is detected early enough it is possible to arrest the
development or slow the progression with medical and surgical means.
Although intraocular pressure is only one of the major risk factors for
glaucoma, lowering it via various pharmaceuticals and/or surgical
techniques is currently the mainstay of glaucoma treatment. Vascular
flow and neurodegenerative theories of glaucomatous optic
neuropathy have prompted studies on various neuroprotective
therapeutic strategies including nutritional compounds some of which
may be regarded by clinicians as safe for use now, while others are on
trial. Medication and/or surgery could be provided for treatment.

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 There are six different types of surgery including Canaloplasty, Laser
surgery, Trabeculectomy, Glaucoma drainage implants, Veterinary
implant, and Laser assisted non-penetrating deep sclerectomy.
Generally, these operations are a temporary solution, as there is not
yet a cure for glaucoma.

Have you noticed something odd in the above description? While

glaucoma is described as resulting from the optic nerve suffering
damage, both treatments by medication and surgery are just trying to
lower the intraocular pressure only. The root cause is never touched.

KOSA’s treatment is to manipulate the organs in charge of the eyes

as follows, and to have the recovered organs fix the problem.

Treating this disease is pretty much the same as treating

conjunctivitis.

Organs with BDs and BDs’ branches that have paths to the eyes are
the Stomach, Heart, Small intestine, Bladder, Triple energizer,
Gallbladder, and Liver.
We know glaucoma’s symptoms and signs, which indicate hotness of
the eyes and their tissues, and thus, we know we need to quench those
BDs as below.

Table 6-42 Treating Glaucoma by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST44 ST41
2 Heart HT3 HT8
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
6 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
7 Liver LR8 LR2
For all other symptoms than glaucoma, you just have to add fostering
WATER points and subduing FIRE points of the organs in charge.
This treatment can be applied to people who have a heart rate that is
normal or showing hotness.

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 On December 19, 1979, Master Kim presented Gukchim during the
International Acupuncture and Moxibustion Conference in Seoul, the
Republic of Korea.
Gukchim, named by Master Kim, is a kind of acupuncture that treats
all kinds of disease related to the eyes and, even more, improves eye
vision. Glaucoma is one of the diseases related to the eyes and vision,
which can be successfully treated by Gukchim.

Speaking of vision, I would like to recommend to you to have an

optician´s shop as the best business you can own. I can bet you will
never lose your money. I will tell you why.
Whenever you visit an optician’s shop you are supposed to find your
vision has gotten worse than before.
You have your eyes examined and get to buy a new pair of glasses.
Wearing new glasses is supposed to make your sight uncomfortable,
so you go back to them and complain they do not fit your vision.
They tell you that you can go back to them after two or three days of
wearing them, if you still feel uncomfortable.
Two or three days later you would not think you are in need of going
back to them because your eyes have adapted to the new glasses.

When they examine your eyes, then is not the moment you have your
eyes in an average or median condition.
Your vision changes every single moment and you just don’t feel the
difference. Thus, the perfect fit when you wear glasses for the first time
would not happen.

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6.27 Gout
The following material has been quoted from Wikipedia xxxviii and
only what is noteworthy is mentioned.
Gout (also known as podagra when it involves the big toe) is a
medical condition usually characterized by recurrent attacks of acute
inflammatory arthritis—a red, tender, hot, swollen joint. The
metatarsal-phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is the most
commonly affected (~50% of cases). However, it may also present itself
as tophi, kidney stones, or urate nephropathy. It is caused by elevated
levels of uric acid in the blood which crystallize and are deposited in
joints, tendons, and surrounding tissues.
Once the acute attack has subsided, the levels of uric acid are usually
lowered via lifestyle changes.
The increase is believed to be due to increasing risk factors in the
population, such as metabolic syndrome, longer life expectancy and
changes in diet.
Signs and symptoms: Other joints, such as the heels, knees, wrists
and fingers, may also be affected.

KOSA’s approach

Gout, a name which is applied to a disease related to the joints of the

body, would occur due to an unhealthy kidney in general, and problems
of the organs whose BDs pass the affected areas.
If this theory is accurate and somebody researches it, he or she would
find a very close association with symptoms related to the kidney.

According to my experience, most diseases are due to weak and hot

organ(s), which is caused by, once again, improper and/or unbalanced
diet, insufficient exercise, and bad environment including pollution. As
a result, this arthritis could also be successfully treated if we bring the
temperature of the kidney and other organs related to the BDs passing
the problematic area down to normal, and make them healthy later on.

Since the metatarsal-phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe is the
most commonly affected (~50% of cases), treating the metatarsal-
phalangeal joint at the base of the big toe only is described and treating
other area can be done by utilizing this treatment and also the paired
BDs.

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Table 6-43 Treating Gout by quenching organs
Foster Subdue FIRE
No. Organs Pairing Bonghan Duct
WATER points points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
2 Kidney KI10 KI2 Leg Lesser YIN
3 Stomach ST44 ST41 Leg YANG Brightness
4 Spleen SP9 SP2 Leg Greater YIN
5 Large Intestine LI2 LI5 Arm YANG Brightness
6 Lung LU5 LU10 Arm Greater YIN
Points on rows, No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3 for quenching the kidney, and the ones on rows, No. 3 and
No. 4 are to quench the hotness on the Bonghan Duct paths of the
stomach and spleen at the foot, respectively.
Points on row No. 5 and No. 6 are used by the theory of pairing
Bonghan Ducts.
Thus, fostering WATER points of organs and subduing FIRE points
of organs would be the complete treatment.

Subduing FIRE points is more effective than fostering WATER

points and, thus, fostering WATER points can be eliminated depending
on the severity of the gout, or on how quickly you would like to get
improvements.

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6.28 Helicobacter Pylori
The following has been abstracted from Wikipedia web site xxxix.
Helicobacter Pylori can inhabit various areas of the stomach,
particularly the antrum. It causes a chronic low-level inflammation of
the stomach lining and is strongly linked to the development of
duodenal and gastric ulcers and stomach cancer.
More than 50% of the world's population harbors Helicobacter Pylori
in their upper gastrointestinal tract.
Symptoms associated with Helicobacter Pylori can be vague or vary
over time.
They may be non-specific, or caused by other conditions.
Inflammation of, or damage to the stomach lining (gastritis) by
Helicobacter Pylori may cause mild or serious reactions to the
stomach's contents - stomach ache or abdominal pain, acid reflux,
regurgitation, vomiting, belching, flatulence, and nausea.
If untreated for a long time, Helicobacter Pylori infections may be
related to several serious illnesses: Gastroesophageal reflux disease
(GERD), peptic ulcers (duodenal or gastric ulcers), and cancers of the
esophagus and stomach.
Studies have recently been published suggesting Helicobacter Pylori
activity could be suppressed via dietary methods.

A 2009 Japanese study in Cancer Prevention Research found that

eating as little as 70 g (2.5 ounces) of broccoli sprouts daily for two
months reduces the number of colonies of Helicobacter Pylori bacteria
in the stomach by 40% in humans. This treatment also seems to help
by enhancing the protection of the gastric mucosa against
Helicobacter Pylori, but is relatively ineffective on related gastric
cancers. The previous infection returned within two months after
broccoli sprouts were removed from the diet, so an ongoing inclusion
in the diet is best for continued protection from Helicobacter Pylori. xl

A 2008 study published in Korean Journal of Microbiology and

Biotechnology found kimchi (fermented cabbage) contains a bacterial
strain "showing strong antagonistic activity against Helicobacter
Pylori." The bacterium strain isolated from kimchi, designated Lb.
plantarum NO1, was found to reduce the urease activity of
Helicobacter Pylori by 40-60% and suppress its binding to human
gastric cancer cell line by more than 33%. xli

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 In addition to the above studies, there are other articles claiming that
the eradication of helicobacter pylori would increase the chances of
diseases related to the esophagus, and that more than 60% of those
patients who have eradicated helicobacter pylori have gotten re-
infected, and that even the eradication of helicobacter pylori is very
difficult to obtain in certain groups of people.
I was told that physicians are not much concerned about helicobacter
pylori any more, as long as they are not the cause of a disease related to
the stomach.
However, I still see a lot of advertisements for drugs and food
supplement products claiming that helicobacter pylori may cause
stomach cancer, etc.
In the movie, Food Inc., Michael Pollan says “The industrial food
system is always looking for greater efficiency, but each new step in
efficiency leads to problems. If you take feedlot cattle off of their corn
diet, give them grass for five days, they will shed 80% of the E. coli in
their gut. But of course that's not what the industry does. The
industry's approach is-- when it has a systematic problem like that-- is
not to go back and see what's wrong with the system, it's to come up
some high-tech fixes that allow the system to survive.”
Earlier in this section, I mentioned two studies claiming that eating
kimchi or broccoli can reduce the number of Helicobacter Pylori
bacteria. Dr. Pollan says that 80% of cows’ E. coli in their gut could be
shedded in five days with grass feeding. These are very important
indications that a correct diet can greatly help to treat disease and keep
a healthy life.

Manipulating the stomach by KOSA might be able to do much better.

Many people have a weak and hot stomach with a weak and hot large
intestine as well. Thus, fostering the large intestine would be the best
approach to dealing with Helicobacter pylori.

Table 6-44 Treating Helicobacter Pylori by fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
Points of No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing the FIRE points of the stomach, ST41 is to deal with the
symptom.

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6.29 Hemorrhoids
This disease involves the large intestine, kidney, liver, and stomach.
The BDs of the Kidney and Liver have branches pass the problematic
area and its muscles. The stomach is in charge of the flesh.
There could be two options: either quenching the large intestine or
fostering the large intestine.
Quenching the large intestine is used for people with a hot heart rate
of 80 or more beats a minute.
Fostering the large intestine is used for those with a normal heart rate
of from 61 to 79 beats a minute. However, quenching the large intestine
can be applied to those with a normal heart rate as well.

Quenching the large intestine would be done as follows.

Table 6-45 Treating Hemorrhoids by utilizing quenching the large

intestine
No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
2 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
3 Kidney KI10 KI2
4 Liver LR8 LR2
5 Stomach ST44 ST41
Points at No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching the large intestine.
Points at No. 3 thru No. 5 are for detoxification, and to treat muscle,
tendon, and flesh including the problematic area coursed by their BDs’
branches.

Fostering the large intestine would be done as follows.

Table 6-46 Treating Hemorrhoids by utilizing fostering the large

intestine
No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Liver - LR2
5 Kidney - KI2
Points at No. 1 thru No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
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 ST41, the FIRE point of YANG EARTH organ, which is the stomach,
has been added to quench the flesh.
Quenching (or subduing FIRE points) of the liver and kidney at No.
4 and No. 5 are to help detoxification and to take care of their BDs’
branches.

If the heart rate indicates coldness with 60 or less beats a minute,

there would no other option than fostering the large intestine.
However, the body condition can change, and should be carefully
monitored, and if the symptom gets worse or other new symptoms
develop (which would be very rare), he or she should stop this
treatment and consult with a physician or a KOSA acupuncturist.

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6.30 Hepatitis
The following are the abstracts from Wikipedia xlii.
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver characterized by the
presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The condition
can be self-limiting (healing on its own) or can progress to fibrosis
(scarring) and cirrhosis. Hepatitis may occur with limited or no
symptoms, but often leads to jaundice, anorexia (poor appetite) and
malaise. Hepatitis is acute when it lasts less than six months and
chronic when it persists longer. A group of viruses known as the
hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide, but it can
also be due to toxins (notably alcohol, certain medications, some
industrial organic solvents and plants), other infections and
autoimmune diseases.

Whether viruses are involved or not, we need to pay attention to the

description that the condition can be self-limiting (healing on its own).
I understand that ‘healing on its own’ means that the healthy liver can
prevent hepatitis from happening or heal on its own and making the
liver healthy can help the liver heal on its own.

If the hepatitis is acute, the liver is not fighting the inflammation and
we just have to quench the liver as below. For those with hot or normal
heart rates of 61 or more beats a minute, this would work fine.

Table 6-47 Treating Hepatitis by quenching the liver

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Liver LR8 LR2
3 Heart - HT8

If you have other symptoms like muscle and joint aches, fever,
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and headache then you would have to add
or omit fostering WATER points and subduing FIRE points of the
related organs as following.
Please refer to the section, 6.51 Pain (Page304) to establish the
optimum remedy for various conditions.

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Table 6-48 Treating Hepatitis by utilizing quenching the liver
Foster Subdue
No. Organ Description
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 - Joint ache
2 Liver LR8 LR2 Muscle ache
3 Heart - HT8 -
Joint ache,
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
Headache
Nausea, Vomiting
5 Stomach ST44 ST41
and Headache
6 Large Intestine LI2 LI5 Diarrhea
7 Gallbladder GB43 GB38 Headache
Fostering the WATER points and subduing the FIRE points of other
organs in charge of the involved BDs’ paths should be added.

If the hepatitis is chronic, we can assume that the liver might be in

deficiency rather than excessiveness, because the liver has gotten tired
of fighting the hepatitis, and hepatitis has been winning the war.
In order to foster the liver, we need to utilize Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 as following.

Table 6-49 Treating Hepatitis by fostering the liver

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Liver LR8 LR4
3 Lung - LU8
However, since there are many people have deficient lung, subduing
METAL points of the lung (LU8) might have to be omitted.
Also, because this formula includes fostering WATER points, this
treatment can be utilized to quench the other organs but, at the same
time, if the heart rate indicates coldness, you would have to seek a
KOSA acupuncturist.
When you have additional symptoms to hepatitis, you just have to
add fostering WATER points and/or subduing METAL points of the
organs, which are in charge of.

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6.31 Hypertension
Hypertension is a very difficult problem even for KOSA, because
there are a lot of factors involved.

The following are commonly used prescription drugs and how they
work.
• ACE inhibitors widen blood vessels and help to relieve high blood
pressure by blocking the production of the hormone angiotensin II.
• Alpha blockers work by relaxing the blood vessels. This allows
blood and oxygen to circulate more freely around the body,
lowering blood pressure and reducing the strain on the heart.
• Angiotensin II receptor antagonists work by blocking the action of
a substance in the body that causes blood vessels to tighten. As a
result, they relax blood vessels. This lowers blood pressure.
• Beta blockers work by blocking beta receptors that are found in
various parts of the body. Blocking beta receptors prevents the
action of two chemicals, called noradrenaline and adrenaline,
which are produced naturally by the body. These are often referred
to as the 'fight or flight' chemicals, because they are responsible for
the body's reaction to stressful situations.
• Calcium channel blockers work by relaxing and opening up the
blood vessels. They can also be used to treat arrhythmias, which is
when there is an irregularity in the heartbeat. This allows blood to
circulate more freely around the body, lowering blood pressure and
increasing the flow of blood to the heart.
• Diuretics are WATER pills used for treating high blood pressure
(hypertension) and an accumulation of fluid. They work by
blocking salt and fluid reabsorption in the kidney, causing
increased urine output (diuresis). The mechanism of their action in
lowering high blood pressure is not well understood.
• Direct renin inhibitors work by blocking an enzyme in the body
that is necessary to produce a substance that causes blood vessels
to tighten. As a result, the blood vessels relax and decrease the
blood pressure. When the blood pressure is lowered, the amount of
blood and oxygen to the heart is increased.

None of the above deals with the root causes. Since the heart rate is
not generally considered, and multiple drugs are often combined to
achieve the goal of a normal blood pressure, the natural heart rate
before taking hypertension drugs is often hard to know, and this makes
accurate diagnosis difficult. Also, stopping drugs all of a sudden to find
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the natural heart rate is not recommended, and it does not necessarily
mean that the heart rate would be natural.
Because the systolic blood pressure is the blood pressure in the
vessels during a heartbeat, and in measuring it, the blood vessels must
be pressed down, hypertension might be regarded as due to an
excessive YIN of the heart. If this statement is accurate based on such a
theory, then heating the FIRE organs would make the blood vessels
expand to circulate blood more freely.

For people with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, it

would be appropriate to apply quenching the heart as follows.

Table 6-50 Treating Hypertension by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
Regulates blood
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
pressure
2 Heart HT3 HT8 -
3 Liver LR8 LR2 Stores blood
4 Spleen SP9 SP2 Generates blood
5 Lung LU5 LU10 -
6 Large Intestine LI2 LI5 -
7 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
8 Stomach ST44 ST41 -
Points at No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching the heart.
Other points quenched are to make the treatment more aggressive,
and the contents in the column of remarks describe the purposes.
The lung and large intestine have been added because they would
probably be in deficiency due to being subdued by heat (the FIRE
organs of the heart and small intestine subdues the METAL organs of
the lung and large intestine, respectively).

Food (even only water or drinks) makes the stomach work hard for
up to two hours, and a hard-working stomach makes the heart rate
higher than when it is empty.

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 Fostering the lung or large intestine would be recommended for
people with a normal heart rate between 60 and 80 beats a minute
because many people have a deficient lung and/or large intestine.

Table 6-51 Treating Hypertension by utilizing fostering organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
EARTH Points FIRE Points
1 Spleen SP3 SP2 Generates blood
2 Lung LU9 LU10 -
3 Heart - HT8 -
4 Stomach ST36 ST41 -
5 Large Intestine LI11 LI5 -
6 Small Intestine - SI5 -
7 Liver - LR2 Stores blood
Regulates blood
8 Kidney - KI2
pressure
9 Bladder - BL60 -
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for SP2 and from No. 4
through No. 6 except for ST41 are to complete Saahm’s formula #1,
fostering the lung and large intestine, respectively.
SP2 and ST41 are to make this treatment more aggressive and these
could be omitted.
Either fostering the lung, or the large intestine, or both of them
together can be used as necessary.
Points from No. 7 and No. 9 could be omitted depending on the
symptoms.
Subduing other organs’ FIRE points to treat other symptoms could be
added to the above table.

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 Heating the heart for people with a heart rate 60 or fewer beats a
minute, which indicates coldness, would be as below.

Table 6-52 Treating Hypertension by heating organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
FIRE Points WATER Points
1 Kidney KI2 KI10 Regulates blood pressure
2 Heart HT8 HT3 YIN FIRE organ
3 Liver - LR8 Stores blood
4 Spleen - SP9 Generates blood
5 Small Intestine SI5 SI2 YANG FIRE organ
Points at No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#4, heating the heart.
The rest of the points have been added to heat the related organs
more quickly.
Because the organs’ deficiency and/or excessiveness have not been
identified, heating the heart (and small intestine) has been chosen.
Because the heart rate might have been changed by blood pressure
drugs, new symptoms or worsening of the blood pressure might occur.
In that case, treatment using this method should immediately be
stopped and consultation with a KOSA acupuncturist is required.

There is an instrument on the market claiming that the blood pressure

could be lowered to normal by controlling one's breathing.
We know it takes 3.33 seconds per a breath (or 18 breaths a minute)
in a normal healthy person. Find out how many breaths you take a
minute with an empty stomach, and try to lower the breathing rate, like
16, 15, 14, 13 or even 12 breaths a minute or 4, 5 or 6 breaths a minute
for 35 minutes or longer every day. It would not matter how much air
you are inhaling and exhaling because the number of breathing cycles
in a minute is the key point. For easier application, while looking at the
second hand of a watch, try breathing with a cycle of four seconds (two
seconds for each inhaling and exhaling) for at least 35 minutes a day.
This makes 15 cycles a minute. You might want to lengthen the cycle
time from four seconds to five seconds because the longer the interval,
the better.
Please keep a log and compare the data daily. This might be a big
help for a certain group of people.

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6.32 Hyperthyroidism
To KOSA, this disease indicates the hotness and/or the excessiveness
of the thyroid. Although the thyroid is not assigned to a certain organ in
oriental medicine, this disease could be treated by utilizing BDs which
have paths and/or branches that pass by the thyroid, which would be the
Lung, Large intestine, Stomach, Spleen, Heart, Kidney, Gallbladder,
and Liver.

Utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs as below

would be the best treatment for treating patients with a hot heart rate
(80 or more beats in a minute). This could also be applied to patients
with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute.

Table 6-53 Treating Hyperthyroidism by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Bladder BL66 BL60
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Heart HT3 HT8
5 Lung LU5 LU10
6 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
7 Stomach ST44 ST41
8 Spleen SP9 SP2
9 Gall Bladder GB43 GB38
10 Liver LR8 LR2
The Points from No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the kidney, bladder, small intestine and
heart.
The other points are for treating the organs whose BDs or BDs’
branches pass near the thyroid.
With the above treatment, most of the symptoms would be covered.

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 The alternative approach would be utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#1, which would be fostering the lung or large intestine as below.
This could also be applied to patients with a hot heart rate of 80 or
more beats a minute, and also those with a normal heart rate of 61 to 79
beats a minute.

Table 6-54 Treating Hyperthyroidism by utilizing fostering organs

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST44 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Spleen SP3 SP2
5 Lung LU9 LU10
6 Heart - HT8
7 Kidney - KI2
8 Bladder - BL60
9 Gall Bladder - GB38
10 Liver - LR2
The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 and from No. 4 through No. 6
except for ST41 and SP2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1
to foster the large intestine and lung, respectively.
ST41 and SP2 have been added to make the treatment more
aggressive.
The other points are for treating organs which have BDs or BDs’
branches that pass near the thyroid.
With the above treatment, most of the symptoms would be covered.

People with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute would better
consult with a KOSA acupuncturist.

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6.33 Hypothyroidism
KOSA thinks that hypothyroidism might be treated as a deficiency of
organs while hyperthyroidism indicates the hotness of organs.
Since the thyroid is very near the trachea, and many people have
weak lungs, fostering the lung would be the best treatment.

Table 6-55 Treating Hypothyroidism by utilizing fostering METAL

organs
No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Spleen SP3 -
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Stomach - ST41
5 Large Intestine - LI5
6 Kidney - KI2
7 Gall Bladder - GB38
8 Liver - LR2
The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1 to foster the lung.
The other points are for treating organs which have BDs or BDs’
branches which pass near the thyroid.
With the above treatment, most of the symptoms would be covered.

Those having a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute would

have to seek a KOSA acupuncturist.

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6.34 Impotence
The following abstracts are from USA TODAY Website xliii.
Men who regularly take pain relievers such as ibuprofen and aspirin
may be at increased risk for erectile dysfunction, new research
suggests.
Men who use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) three
times a day for more than three months are at a 22% increased risk of
erectile dysfunction, reports Steve Jacobsen, director of research for
Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in this week's Journal of
Urology.
"Regular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use is associated
with erectile dysfunction beyond what would be expected due to age
and other conditions," he says.
More than 30 million people a day take these prescription and over-
the-counter pain relievers.
The observational study, which began in 2002, included 80,966 men
ages 45 to 69 who were members of Kaiser managed care plans in
California. Erectile dysfunction was assessed by questionnaire and
NSAID use was determined using pharmacy records and self-reported
data.
Regular users were about 2.4 times more likely to have erectile
dysfunction than men who didn't use those drugs regularly or at all.
Even when the scientists controlled for age, race and ethnicity,
smoking, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and coronary artery
disease among other health problems, a link between NSAID use and
erection problems still existed, said Jacobsen.
Common NSAIDs, Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs include
Acetaminophen, Advil, Aleve, Alka-Seltzer, Anacin, Anaprox, Aspirin,
Aspirin-free Excedrin, Bextra, Bufferin, Bayer, Celebrex, Excedrin,
Ibuprofen, Mediprin, Motrin, Naprelan, Naprosyn, Nuprin, Vioxx.

Source: Journal of Urology

The following are abstracts from USA Today xliv.
A previous smaller study suggested a similar link, but Jacobsen says
it's too early to conclude that ibuprofen is the reason for erectile
dysfunction. He says that the drugs have many proven benefits, and
that men whose doctors have prescribed NSAIDs for other reasons
shouldn't cut them short.

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 The results raise more questions than they answer, says Stephen
Kraus, professor and vice chairman of urology at the University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He says NSAIDs have been shown to reduce risk of heart disease, so
the same should be true of erectile dysfunction, which can be linked to
circulation problems. "If it works for one, you'd think it should work for
the other. But lo and behold, the opposite is what they saw in this
study. The question is why?" Kraus says.
The study authors suggest several theories, including that while
treating someone to improve blood flow may potentially make
erections better, it could also hinder other pathways involved in
healthy erectile function.
"It needs to be tested in a clinical trial designed to look at this,"
Kraus says. He agrees it's premature for men to avoid NSAIDs based
solely on this new research.

The problems of pain relievers I think are as follows.

• They are not guided missiles working on a specific area of the
body or a specific symptom.
• They will have to be absorbed by the digestive system which
affects the whole body as a result.
• They are dealing with symptoms only, not the root cause.
In this section, psychological causes are not discussed.

This problem involves the heart, kidney, bladder and liver. The heart
delivers blood to the whole body. The Kidney is functionally in charge
of energy, and in charge of the genitals by its BD’s path. The liver BD
also passes the genitals.

For a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, utilizing Ascetic

Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs would be the best approach and
its points are as follows.

Table 6-56 Treating Impotence by utilizing quenching the liver

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Liver LR8 LR2
3 Heart - HT8
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Small Intestine SI2 SI5

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 The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for KI2 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the liver.
Adding KI2 is to make the treatment more aggressive.
The other points are for quenching the bladder and the small intestine,
which is the YANG FIRE organ.

With a normal heart rate from 61 thru 79 beats a minute, Ascetic

Saahm’s formula #1 would be utilized to foster the liver as below or the
treatment described in the previous Table 6-56 Treating Impotence by
utilizing quenching the liver (Page 268) could still be used.

Table 6-57 Treating Impotence by utilizing fostering the liver

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Liver LR8 LR4
3 Lung - LU8
4 Bladder BL66 BL67
5 Heart HT3 HT4
The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1 to foster the liver.
However, most people have lung deficiency, so subduing LU8,
which is the METAL point of the YIN METAL organ may not be
recommended and should probably be omitted, especially when you
have any diseases related to the lung, bronchus, or respiratory system.

With a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, Ascetic Saahm’s

formula #1 would be utilized to foster the heart as below.

Table 6-58 Treating Impotence by utilizing fostering the heart

No. Organ Foster WOOD Points Subdue WATER Points
1 Liver LR1 -
2 Heart HT9 HT3
3 Kidney - KI10
4 Bladder - BL66
The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1 to foster the heart.
However, because many people have deficient kidneys and bladder,
the points at No. 3 and No. 4 are not recommended, and consultation
with a KOSA acupuncturist is advised.

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6.35 Indigestion
With normal and hot heart rates of 61 or more beats a minute,
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine as below
would be the best treatment.

Table 6-59 Treating Indigestion by fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
The points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, which is the FIRE point of the stomach, has been
added to quench more effectively the pain in the upper abdomen, upper
abdominal fullness and feelings of fullness earlier than normal when
eating, bloating, belching, nausea, heartburn, etc.

With a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, another Ascetic

Saahm’s formula #1 would be utilized, to foster the stomach as below.

Table 6-60 Treating Indigestion by fostering the stomach

No. Organ Foster FIRE Points Subdue WOOD Points
1 Small Intestine SI5 -
2 Stomach ST41 ST43
3 Gallbladder - GB41
The Points from No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 to foster the stomach.
Because the stomach works better when it is warm than when it is
cold, when you have lack of appetite, this would be a good approach.
Nevertheless, when other symptoms of inflammation, infection, pain,
etc. coexist, this treatment cannot be adopted because this heats up the
FIRE point of the YANG FIRE organ, which is the small intestine. In
this case, fostering the large intestine as at the top of this page is
recommended instead.

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6.36 Injuries
The second scene of the movie, Sicko, 2007, directed by Michael
Moore shows that Adam is stitching the injury right above his right
knee by himself because he was uninsured and could not afford to see a
doctor.
I hope his wound has healed successfully.
I guess he was aware of the risks of inflammation and infection and
took appropriate measures when he stitched it.

Whether it is an injury or surgery, there is always a chance for the

wound to get infected, and the infection won’t go away easily.
You might have heard news stories every once in awhile, that big
sports stars have had to retire due to infection following surgery.

No matter what structures are involved in injuries, and no matter how

long the injuries have been present, the following correlations should
be considered, and quenching the appropriate organ(s) would be good
to deal with the injuries.
• Stomach: tissue: flesh
• Large intestine: skin
• Liver: muscle and tendon
• Kidney: bone
• Paths of Bonghan Ducts and BDs’ branches
• Pairing of BDs and BDs’ branches
• Pains, aches, irritations, numbness, and etc. are usually due to
hotness or indicate hotness

Let’s talk about Adam’s case and what KOSA would do about it.
His cut includes skin and tissue and is located on the path of the
Stomach and right above his right knee. Thus, following Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3 would be chosen as follows.

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Table 6-61 Treating Injuries by quenching organs
Foster WATER Subdue
No. Organs Remark
Points FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 - YANG WATER
2 Stomach ST44 ST41 BD passes the wound
3 Small Intestine - SI5 YANG FIRE
4 Large Intestine LI2 LI5 Skin and pairing
5 Kidney KI10 KI2 Bone
The Points from No. 1 thru No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the stomach.
This can also be called quenching the large intestine because the
large intestine is quenched as well.
Points of the large intestine have been added because the large
intestine is in charge of the skin and both the stomach and large
intestine are in a paired relationship as YANG Brightness.
If the cut was deep enough to damage the bone, fostering the
WATER point and subduing the FIRE point of the kidney would have
to be added as shown in No. 5.

When the bone has been fractured, whether it is a simple fracture or a

compound fracture, as long as the bones are in normal alignment,
KOSA treatment would help reduce the pain and shorten the time
required for healing.

Since Adam’s cut was located on his right side, the treatment should
be applied to his left side.

In the section 2.21.1 Pain (Page 139), I mentioned my own injury at

the right medial great toe along the Spleen BD.
The wound was bleeding and painful. A few seconds later after
subduing SP2 and LU10 on my left side, the bleeding stopped and the
pain went away.
The reason why LU10 was added was that the spleen and lung have a
paired relationship as Greater YIN organs.
Adding quenching the large intestine would have been better because
the cut included the skin.

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 A lady had a car accident and suffered a fracture of her right radius,
and she could hardly lift a bag weighing one pound because of the pain.
Since her pain was right on the Large intestine BD, I pinched LI5, the
FIRE point of the large intestine, on her left hand a few times and she
could lift 2 pounds with no pain immediately.

The section, 6.51 Pain (Page 304) will describe the variety of KOSA
treatments for various pains and you will find similarities between this
section and that one.
As long as you remember the following, figuring out an adequate
treatment won’t be difficult at all.
• The theory of YIN & YANG and the Five Elements, how they
affect our health, and how to utilize them for our health
• The functions of the organs
• The paths of the BDs and BDs’ branches
• The logic behind Ascetic Saahm’s formulas
• The fundamental rules of KOSA including Master Kim’s
• The definitions of deficiency, excessiveness, hotness and coldness
and how to utilize the heart rate
• The methods to foster or subdue acupuncture points by soothing,
pinching, tapping, and using magnets, and the pros & cons of these
methods

Please keep in mind that the effective width and depth of the BDs
and BDs’ branches could be up to an inch.

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6.37 Intercostal Neuralgia
Treating intercostal neuralgia is very similar to treating injuries.
The organs whose BDs pass the problematic area would be, from
center to side, the stomach, liver, spleen, and gallbladder.
Let’s assume that it is located close to LR14 (
Figure 2-40 Leg Absolute YIN Liver BD, Page 123) and there are no
bones involved.

The following treatment could be considered.

Table 6-62 Treating Intercostal Neuralgiaby by utilizing quenching the

liver
Foster WATER Subdue FIRE
No. Organs Remark
Points Points
Muscle, Tendon, Leg
1 Liver LR8 LR2
Absolute YIN
2 Stomach ST44 ST41 Leg YANG Brightness
3 Spleen SP9 SP2 Leg Greater YIN
4 Pericardium PC3 PC8 Arm Absolute YIN
5 Large Intestine LI2 LI5 Arm YANG Brightness
6 Lung LU5 LU10 Arm Greater YIN
Points at No. 1 are to quench the liver because the problematic area is
located on the Liver BD’s path and the liver is in charge of muscle and
tendon.
Points at No. 2 and No. 3 have been added because their BDs pass
closely by the problematic area.
Points from No. 4 through No. 6 have been added to utilize pairing,
but unless the problem is very severe, these could be omitted.

In general, subduing FIRE points would be sufficient and the

improvement that is acquired by fostering WATER points usually takes
more time.

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6.38 Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS or Spastic colon)
The following are abstracts from Wikipedia xlv.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, or spastic colon) is a diagnosis of
exclusion. It is a functional bowel disorder characterized by chronic
abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits in
the absence of any detectable organic cause. In some cases, the
symptoms are relieved by bowel movements. Diarrhea or constipation
may predominate, or they may alternate. IBS may begin after an
infection (post-infectious, IBS-PI), a stressful life event, or onset of
maturity without any other medical indicators.

With a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, or a normal heart

rate of 61 thru 79 beats a minute, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1,
fostering the large intestine would be the best approach and its points
would be as follows.

Table 6-63 Treating IBS by fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
The Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except ST41 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41, which is the FIRE point of the stomach, has been
added to quench the stomach related concerns.

For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, a KOSA
acupuncturist should be sought.

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6.39 Kidney Stone (Urinary Stone)
Utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs would be
the most appropriate remedy as follows.

Table 6-64 Treating Kidney Stone by utilizing quenching the kidney

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2 Leg Lesser YIN
2 Heart HT3 HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
3 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
4 Liver LR8 LR2 Leg Absolute YIN
5 Pericardium PC3 PC8 Arm Absolute YIN
Points of No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching the kidney.
The bladder points have been added because it is the YANG
WATER organ while the kidney is the YIN WATER organ, and they
are physically connected.
Points of the liver have been added because the Liver is in charge of
the genitals and muscles, and has a BD that passes the problematic area
where the kidney stone might be located.
The pericardium points have been added because it is paired with the
liver. Unless the problem is very severe, this could be omitted.

In general, fostering WATER points from No.3 to No.6 can be

omitted because the improvement acquired by fostering WATER points
usually takes a longer time than subduing FIRE points.

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6.40 Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
Because this disease begins from the skin, treatment would be based
on fostering or quenching the large intestine.

Quenching the large intestine would be done as shown below. This

treatment would be best for patients with a hot heart rate of 80 or more
beats a minute but could also be applied to those with a normal heart
rate from 61 thru 79 beats a minute.

Table 6-65 Treating Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 -
2 Large Intestine LI2 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Kidney KI10 KI2
5 Liver LR8 LR2
6 Lung LU5 LU10
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the large intestine.
Other points have been added because the kidney and liver are in
charge of detoxification and the lung includes the respiratory tract.
Depending on the symptoms, the addition of fostering WATER
points and subduing FIRE points of the responsible organs is required.
This would have to include the organs related to the BDs’ paths
including branches passing the problematic area. In this case, adding
fostering WATER points and subduing FIRE points of paired organs
would make the treatment more aggressive.
Also, the addition of subduing BL60, the FIRE point of the bladder
and fostering SI2, the WATER point of the small intestine to the above
treatment would make it even more aggressive.
For effects on the eyes, please refer to the section, 6.26 Glaucoma
(Page 249).

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 Fostering the large intestine for people with normal heart rates of 61
thru 79 beats a minute can be done as follows.

Table 6-66 Treating Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) by utilizing fostering

the large intestine
No. Organs Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 -
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Kidney - KI2
5 Liver - LR2
6 Lung - LU10
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the large intestine, and other points have been
added because the kidney and liver are in charge of detoxification and
the lung includes the respiratory tract.
As described in the previous page, depending on symptoms, the
addition of subduing FIRE points is required and this would have to
include the organs which have BDs’ paths including branches passing
the problematic area. In this case, adding subduing FIRE points of
paired organs would make the treatment more aggressive.
For eyes symptoms, please refer to the section, 6.26 Glaucoma (Page
249).

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6.41 Leukorrhea
For women with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute,
quenching the responsible organs would be the best treatment, but this
could also be applied to those with a normal heart rate from 61 through
79 beats a minute.

Quenching the liver would be done as follows.

Table 6-67 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing quenching the liver

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Heart - HT8
3 Liver LR8 LR2
4 Bladder - BL60
5 Small Intestine - SI5
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the liver and KI2, BL60 and SI5 are to make the
treatment more aggressive.

Fostering the liver with a normal heart rate from 61 thru 80 beats a
minute would be done as follows.

Table 6-68 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing fostering the liver

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Liver LR8 LR4
3 Lung - LU8
4 Bladder BL66 -
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the liver, and fostering BL66 has been added
because the bladder is physically connected to the genitals.
Since this fosters the WATER points of the WATER organs, the
kidney and bladder, it would act as quenching as well.
Because there are many people with a deficient lung, you might want
to omit subduing LU8.

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 Fostering the heart for those with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats
a minute would be done as follows.

Table 6-69 Treating Leukorrhea by utilizing fostering the heart

No. Organs Foster WOOD Points Subdue WATER Points
1 Liver LR1 -
2 Heart HT9 HT3
3 Kidney - KI10
4 Bladder - BL66
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the heart, and subduing BL66 has been added to
make this treatment more aggressive.
Because the kidney is in charge of energy, subduing KI10, which is
the WATER point of the WATER organ (kidney), it might not be a
good idea.
Also, quenching water points might result in heating, and this might
be the effect exactly required to treat the problems due to a cold heart
rate. However, as mentioned so many times already in this book, since
most modern health problems are due to hotness, inflammation,
infection, etc., you can try this, but if you don’t see an improvement in
a week, or if the symptoms get worse, you shall immediately stop this
and consult with a KOSA acupuncturist.

SP6 is the point where the three leg Yin BDs: Leg Lesser YIN
kidney, Leg Absolute YIN liver and Leg Greater YIN spleen are
crossing. Fostering this SP6 point occasionally helps the three leg YIN
organs stabilize and balance, and this can be added to all the above
approaches.

In general, quenching or heating organ(s) is more aggressive than

fostering or subduing organ(s) and would better be utilized as per the
heart rate and the progress of the symptoms. However, regulating the
temperature can still be used for those with normal heart rate.
Similarly, fostering or subduing organ(s) can still be used for patients
with either hot or cold heart rates.

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6.42 Lou Gehrig's disease (Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis; ALS)
The following are the abstracts from Wikipedia xlvi.
SOD1
The cause of ALS is not known, though an important step toward
determining the cause came in 1993 when scientists discovered that
mutations in the gene that produces the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase
(SOD1) enzyme were associated with some cases (approximately 20%)
of familial ALS. This enzyme is a powerful antioxidant that protects the
body from damage caused by superoxide, a toxic free radical
generated in the mitochondria. Free radicals are highly reactive
molecules produced by cells during normal metabolism again largely
by the mitochondria.
Free radicals can accumulate and cause damage to both
mitochondrial and nuclear DNA and proteins within cells. To date, over
110 different mutations in SOD1 have been linked with the disease,
some of which have a very long clinical course (e.g. H46R), while others,
such as A4V, being exceptionally aggressive. Evidence suggests that
failure of defenses against oxidative stress up-regulates programmed
cell death (apoptosis), among many other possible consequences.
Although it is not yet clear how the SOD1 gene mutation leads to
motor neuron degeneration, researchers have theorized that an
accumulation of free radicals may result from the faulty functioning of
this gene. Current research, however, indicates that motor neuron
death is not likely a result of lost or compromised dismutase activity,
suggesting mutant SOD1 induces toxicity in some other way (a gain of
function).

I think, no matter what the cause of ALS is, mutated genes always
have a chance to return to the un-mutated state. There is a lot of
information about ALS and the chemicals that are suspected as causes.
So, you should look back over your daily life environment, and if there
is anything suspicious, you should avoid it immediately. Using only
olive oil, only vegetables, and only organic food would be the first
thing you might want to do.
Because ALS’ most important symptom cannot be discussed without
talking about muscle, of which the liver is in charge, manipulating the
liver would be the best approach for KOSA.

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 For people with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute,
quenching the responsible organs as follows would be appropriate.

Table 6-70 Treating ALS by utilizing quenching the liver

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2 Spine
2 Liver LR8 LR2 Muscle
3 Heart - HT8 -
4 Bladder - BL60 Bone, Spine
5 Stomach - ST41 Flesh, Digestion
Large
6 - LI5 Bowel movement
Intestine
7 Lung - LU10 Respiratory system
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for subduing KI2 are to
complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the liver. Quenching
other points including KI2 are to make the treatment more aggressive.
You can add quenching the FIRE points of other organs as necessary
considering the organs’ functions and the paths of the BDs and their
branches.

Fostering the liver for people with a normal heart rate from 61 to 79
beats a minute is done as follows.

Table 6-71 Treating ALS by utilizing fostering the liver

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Liver LR8 LR4
3 Lung - LU8
4 Bladder BL66 BL67
5 Stomach ST44 ST45
6 Large Intestine LI2 LI1
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the liver. The rest of the points have been added
to treat other organs that might be related to ALS.
However, because there are many people with a deficient lung and
large intestine, you might want to omit subduing LU8 and LI1. You can
add fostering the WATER points of other organs as necessary
considering the organs’ functions and their BDs and branches’ paths.

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 Fostering the heart for people with a cold heart rate of 60 or less
beats a minute is done as follows.

Table 6-72 Treating ALS by utilizing fostering the heart

No. Organs Foster WOOD Points Subdue WATER Points
1 Liver LR1 -
2 Heart HT9 HT8
3 Kidney - KI10
4 Bladder - BL66
5 Stomach ST43 ST44
6 Large Intestine LI3 LI2
7 Lung LU11 LU5
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the heart.
The rest of the points have been added to treat other organs that
might be related to ALS, and they could be omitted depending on the
symptoms.
Subduing the WATER points of organs is pretty much the same as
heating the organs. Because there are many people with hot organs, you
might want to omit subduing the WATER points of the organs.
Also, because the kidney is in charge of energy, subduing KI10
might not be a good idea. Thus, in general, this approach would not be
recommended, and you might want to consult with a KOSA
acupuncturist.

The treatments shown in the Table 6-70 Treating ALS by utilizing

quenching the liver (Page 282) and Table 6-71 Treating ALS by
utilizing fostering the liver (Page 282) are to inform readers that KOSA
provides many variations available to treat diseases and/or pains. In fact,
in this section, utilizing pairing relationships between organs in order to
make the treatment more powerful has not been described, as I assume
the readers should have already remembered it.
Although most of the treatment used in this book is fostering and/or
quenching organ(s), and subduing organ(s) is not used frequently,
actually, subduing organ(s) has benefits as well.
For example, in order to foster the lung, Fostering the lung,
Subduing the liver, and Fostering the kidney are all available choices.
Please refer to sections 4.1.4 Fostering Lung (Page156), 4.1.5 Fostering
Kidney (Page 157) and 4.2.1 Subduing Liver (Page 166).
In order to best utilize KOSA, the logic behind its theory should be
remembered and utilized at all times.

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6.43 Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE)
Because SLE most often harms the heart, joints, skin, lung, blood
vessels, liver, kidney, and nervous system, we will discuss how to treat
all of these simultaneously.

Utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs in charge of

symptoms, as follows, would be the best for people with a hot heart rate
of 80 or more beats a minute.

Table 6-73 Treating Lupus by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 YIN FIRE
YIN WATER, Bone,
2 Kidney KI10 KI2
Detoxification
Small
3 SI2 SI5 YANG FIRE
Intestine
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 YANG WATER
5 Lung LU5 LU10 Respiratory System
Large
6 LI2 LI5 Skin
Intestine
7 Stomach ST44 ST41 Digestion, Flesh
Detoxification, Muscle,
8 Liver LR8 LR2
Stores Blood
9 Spleen SP9 SP2 Generates Blood
Points at No. 1 and No. 2 and No. 3 and No. 4 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the heart & kidney and the
small intestine & bladder, respectively.
If the skin is the only problem, just using the points at No. 3, No. 4,
No. 6 and No. 8 would be good enough.
If there are problems with the respiratory system and the skin,
quenching the lung (the YIN METAL organ), is added to quenching the
YIN organs of the heart and kidney.
Quenching the spleen and liver should be added always because the
spleen and liver are in charge of creating blood and detoxification,
respectively.

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 If there is a problem with the joints at the thumb where the Lung BD
passes, quenching the lung by fostering its WATER point (LU5) and
subduing its FIRE point (LU10) would have to be added in addition to
quenching the kidney, to take care of the bones. The reason is that
although the kidney is in charge of the bones, the lung might not be
healthy enough to take care of problems on its BD paths. Additionally,
quenching the spleen (utilizing pairing with the lung) would be even
better.

Although the previous treatment would still be applicable for those

with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute, fostering the
lung and/or large intestine would be preferable, because people are
mostly found to have a deficient lung and/or large intestine.

Table 6-74 Treating Lupus by utilizing fostering METAL organs

Foster EARTH Subdue FIRE
No. Organ Remark
Points Points
1 Spleen SP3 SP2 Creating Blood
2 Lung LU9 LU10 Respiratory System
3 Heart - HT8 YIN FIRE
4 Stomach ST36 ST41 Digestion
5 Large Intestine LI11 LI5 Skin
6 Small Intestine - SI5 YANG FIRE
Detoxification, Muscle,
7 Liver - LR2
Stores Blood
YIN WATER, Bone,
8 Kidney - KI2
Detoxification
9 Bladder - BL60 YANG WATER
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for SP2 and from No. 4
through No. 6 except for ST41 are to complete Saahm’s formula #1,
fostering the lung and large intestine, respectively.
Either one or both of these can be used simultaneously as necessary.
SP2 and ST41 are added to make this treatment more aggressive and
these could be omitted.
Points from No. 7 through No. 9 could be omitted depending on the
symptoms. Subduing other organs’ FIRE points to treat other
symptoms could be added to the above table.

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 Patients with a cold heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute would
rarely be seen and they would better consult with a KOSA
acupuncturist.

No matter how excellent KOSA is, in order to successfully cope with

lupus and other diseases, which conventional medicine has declared to
be incurable, the following are the most imperative key parameters.
• Exercise adequately but never too much.
• Pay attention to every single bit of information might represent
your health condition and keep record of them, for example, food,
drinks, urination, bowel movement, heart rate, etc.
• Try to be a vegetarian.
• Try to stick to organic food and drinks.
• Avoid all industrialized food and drinks.
• Use olive oil, natural sea salt and brown sugar.
• Avoid dairy products.
• Look back to those days right before your health got bad, and pick
three to five different kinds of your most favorite foods that time
and avoid them.
• Find out what chemicals and pollutants, even including toothpaste,
you have been exposed to and avoid them.
• Keep an eye on the heart rate and keep a record of it. Use the heart
rate and all the above information to find what is good or bad for
you.
• Be smart. The other people might be more knowledgeable than you
are. Nevertheless, it does not necessarily mean that they are always
smarter than you are. Bear in mind that nobody knows about
yourself better than you do.

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6.44 Mastitis
Because mastitis is an inflammation of the breast tissue, and the
problem is located on the path of the Stomach BD, we just have to
quench the stomach.

Utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the stomach as

follows would be best for those with a hot heart rate of 80 or more
beats a minute.

Table 6-75 Treating Mastitis by quenching the stomach

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 -
2 Stomach ST44 ST41
3 Small Intestine - SI5

Although the above treatment would still be applicable for those with
a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute, fostering the large
intestine as follows would be preferred for those with a normal heart
rate because many people have a deficient large intestine and,
additionally, the stomach and large intestine are paired organs.

Table 6-76 Treating Mastitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
ST41 is to make this treatment more aggressive because it is to treat
mastitis on the stomach BD path.

Patients with a cold heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute would

better consult with a KOSA acupuncturist.

The above treatments can be applied to breast cancer too. If the

problematic area is too wide or large for the Stomach BD to cover it,
subduing SP2, KI2, PC8, and/or LR2 should be added to cover their
BDs’ paths.

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6.45 Meniere's Disease (Aural Vertigo)
Treating this disease starts from finding the organs in charge of the
ears and hearing, while considering the paths of the BDs and functions
of the organs.
BDs close to the ear are: the Small intestine, Triple energizer, and
Gallbladder. The organ related to hearing is the kidney.

Just quenching organs will be described here because finding which

organs are deficient, normal or excessive is not easy for readers and in
general, the symptoms involved are due to hotness. For a hot heart rate
of 80 or more beats a minute, quenching would be the best treatment,
and even for those with a normal heart rate of from 61 through 79,
quenching would still be effective.

Table 6-77 Treating Meniere’s disease by quenching organs

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
2 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
3 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Kidney KI10 KI2
Points from No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the small intestine, triple energizer and
gallbladder.
Even if the kidney’s being deficient or hot is the cause of this disease,
this treatment would probably still work because the YIN organ paired
with the small intestine is the heart, and quenching the small intestine
would cause the heart to be quenched as well.

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6.46 Migraine
In the chapter, Author’s Foreword (Page 1), I described a case where
pinching a lady’s FIRE point of the gallbladder BD eliminated her
severe migraine almost immediately.
The BDs of the Governor and the Bladder are in charge of the
centerline of the body. The Triple Energizer BD is in charge of the area
surrounding the ear. The Gallbladder is in charge of the area between
the BDs of the Bladder and Triple energizer. The Stomach and Liver
have BDs and branches on the forehead, respectively.
We need to know where the migraine is located exactly, even though
migraine is usually located on the Gallbladder BD. The following table
is the formula to treat migraine at the areas of the Gallbladder and
Bladder, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3.

Table 6-78 Treating Migraine by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER points Subdue FIRE points
1 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
2 Bladder BL66 BL60
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Stomach ST44 ST41
5 Kidney KI10 KI2
6 Liver LR8 LR2
7 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
The points at No. 4 and No. 5 are for migraine at the forehead and
centerline, respectively.
The points at No. 6 have been added because the Liver has a branch
passing the head.
The points at No. 7 have been added because the Arm Lesser YANG
Triple Energizer BD is paired with the Leg Lesser YANG Gallbladder
BD and passes the side of head.

The Governor BD is connected to the Kidney BD’s branch. This is

an example of why understanding and utilizing the BDs’ branches are
important.

You can quit treatment as soon as the migraine disappears. However,

if you keep doing it for another day or two, it might prevent the
migraine from recurring.

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6.47 Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
The following are the abstracts from Wikipedia xlvii.
Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated
sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an inflammatory disease
in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and
spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as
well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms. Disease onset usually
occurs in young adults, and it is more common in women. It has a
prevalence that ranges between 1 and 75 per 50,000. MS was first
described in 1868 by Jean-Martin Charcot.
MS affects the ability of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to
communicate with each other. Nerve cells communicate by sending
electrical signals called action potentials down long fibers called axons,
which are wrapped in an insulating substance called myelin. In MS, the
body's own immune system attacks and damages the myelin. When
myelin is lost, the axons can no longer effectively conduct signals. The
name multiple sclerosis refers to scars (scleroses—better known as
plaques or lesions) particularly in the white matter of the brain and
spinal cord, which is mainly composed of myelin.
Although much is known about the mechanisms involved in the
disease process, the cause remains unknown. Theories include genetics
or infections. Different environmental risk factors have also been found.
Almost any neurological symptom can appear with the disease, and
often progresses to physical and cognitive disability. MS takes several
forms, with new symptoms occurring either in discrete attacks
(relapsing forms) or slowly accumulating over time (progressive forms).
Between attacks, symptoms may go away completely, but permanent
neurological problems often occur, especially as the disease advances.
There is no known cure for multiple sclerosis. Treatments attempt to
return function after an attack, prevent new attacks, and prevent
disability. MS medications can have adverse effects or be poorly
tolerated, and many patients pursue alternative treatments, despite
the lack of supporting scientific study. The prognosis is difficult to
predict; it depends on the subtype of the disease, the individual
patient's disease characteristics, the initial symptoms and the degree
of disability the person experiences as time advances. Life expectancy
of patients is 5 to 10 years lower than that of the unaffected
population.

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 The most significant symptom of this condition is due to the
inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, and frequently affects eyes
and vision. As the name includes the word, “MULTIPLE”, the
treatment would have to be like performing a symphony.

Since the main issue is inflammation, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s

formula #3 to quench multiple organs would be the best approach.
Once the problems is settled, utilizing fostering the large intestine
could replace quenching.

Since it is obvious that the main symptom is inflammation, either of

the above treatments can be used for those with a hot or normal heart
rate.
For a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, a KOSA
acupuncturist would have to be sought.

Table 6-79 Treating Multiple Sclerosis by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 YIN FIRE, Eyes
YIN WATER, Bone, Spinal
2 Kidney KI10 KI2
cords, Urination
Small YANG FIRE,
3 SI2 SI5
Intestine Bowel movement
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 YANG WATER, Urination
Large Bowel movement,
5 LI2 LI5
Intestine stool, skin
6 Stomach ST44 ST41 Digestion, Flesh
Detoxification,
7 Liver LR8 LR2
Eye, Muscle, Urination
8 Spleen SP9 SP2 Generates Blood
Points at No. 1 and No. 2 and No. 3 and No. 4 are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the heart & kidney and the
small intestine & bladder, respectively.
The other points in the table could be understood from the
information in the Remark column.
When you consider the functions and the paths of the BDs and BD
branches of the organs in the above table, you would find that this
would probably cover most of the issues.

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 If other symptoms are not mentioned here, you would have to find
the BDs in charge of them by functions and paths, and quench them by
fostering the WATER points and subduing the FIRE points.
Utilizing the pairing relationships between BDs would make the
treatment more efficient.

Table 6-80 Treating Multiple Sclerosis by utilizing fostering the large

intestine
Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
EARTH Points FIRE Points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41 Digestion, Flesh
Large
2 LI11 LI5 Bowel movement, Skin
Intestine
Small YANG FIRE,
3 - SI5
Intestine Bowel movement
4 Heart - HT8 YIN FIRE, Eyes
Detoxification,
5 Liver - LR2
Eye, Muscle, Urination
YIN WATER, Bone,
6 Kidney - KI2
Spinal cords, Urination
7 Bladder - BL60 YANG WATER, Urination
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 except for ST41 are to complete
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing ST41 (FIRE point of stomach) is to make this treatment
more aggressive and this could be omitted when you don’t have any
symptoms related to the stomach (this includes the paths of the
stomach’s BD and branches).
As described in quenching organs in this section, subduing the FIRE
points of organs in charge of the symptoms by functions and paths of
the BDs and branches should be added accordingly.

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6.48 Mumps
Organs in charge of BDs that pass the face and the possible
problematic areas would be the Large intestine, Stomach, Heart, Small
intestine, Triple energizer, Gallbladder, and Liver.
If it is in an early stage, or with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a
minute, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3 of quenching organs
would be better than Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 of fostering organs.

Table 6-81 Treating Mumps by quenching organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 -
2 Kidney KI10 KI2 Detoxification
Small
3 SI2 SI5 -
Intestine
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
Large
5 LI2 LI5 Skin, BD and branch
Intestine
Digestion, Flesh,
6 Stomach ST44 ST41
BD and branch
Detoxification, Muscle
7 Liver LR8 LR2
and branch
Triple
8 TE2 TE6 BD and branch
Energizer
9 Gallbladder GB43 GB38 BD and branch
Points at No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the FIRE organs of the heart and small intestine
and fostering the WATER organs of the kidney and bladder.
The rest of the points are explained in the column of Remarks.

Even though orchitis, mastitis and/or oophoritis can be involved in

mumps, they would be covered by the above treatment because the
Kidney, Liver, and Bladder are in charge of the genitals and have BDs
that pass them.

For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,

the above quenching could still be used. However, if you are concerned
that it might be too aggressive, you can use utilize Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 as follows.

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 As usual, which organ(s) needs to be fostered is a question. When
you think about the area of the problem, you could easily find that the
area is right on the path of the Stomach BD.
There are two methods to foster the stomach, which are fostering the
stomach directly, and fostering the large intestine.
Fostering stomach directly includes fostering the FIRE point of the
YANG FIRE organ, which is the small intestine, but as this would heat
up the organs, it cannot be used.
Fostering the large intestine includes fostering the EARTH points
and subduing the FIRE points of organs. Many people have a deficient
lung and/or large intestine. Mumps includes inflammation, which
requires quenching organs. The Stomach BDs have paths on the
problematic area. Considering these conditions, fostering the large
intestine as follows would be an excellent choice.

Table 6-82 Treating Mumps by utilizing fostering the large intestine

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
EARTH points FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 - BD
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5 BD
3 Small Intestine - SI5 BD
4 Triple Energizer - TE6 BD
5 Gallbladder - GB38 Branch
6 Kidney - KI2 Detoxification
7 Liver - LR2 Detoxification
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
Subduing the FIRE points of the Triple energizer and Gallbladder at
No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, is required because they have BDs’
branches that pass the problematic area.
Quenching the kidney and liver at No. 6 and 7 has been added for
detoxification.

For those with a cold heart rate with 60 or less beats a minute,
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #4, heating organs, is supposed to be used but
because the symptom involves inflammation, heating the organs would
not be a good idea. Thus, fostering the large intestine would still be a
good approach. However, for the best treatment, a KOSA acupuncturist
needs to be sought.

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6.49 Mutism
The following are the abstracts from Wikipedia xlviii.

Causes
Those who are physically mute may have problems with the parts of
the human body required for speech (the throat, vocal cords, lung,
mouth, or tongue, etc.). Being mute is sometimes associated with
deafness as people who have been unable to hear from birth may not
be able to use articulate speech. A person can be born mute, or
become mute later in life as a result of accidents or exposure to certain
chemicals.

Variations
Selective mutism is a DSM-IV diagnosis that refers to an anxiety
disorder in which people are unable to speak in situations causing
social anxiety, but are fluent in speech in more comfortable situations.
Akinetic mutism is inability to speak (mutism) and move (akinesia). It
is the result of severe frontal lobe injury in which the pattern of
inhibitory control is one of increasing passivity and gradually
decreasing speech and motion.

So far, there has not been enough data that KOSA can be of help to
treat mutism. However, let me tell you Master Kim’s two successful
experiments in the Republic of Korea and I would like to say “Never
give up because KOSA can give you a chance”.

A 45 years old woman lost her speaking ability all of a sudden after
dealing with a family issue. She had seen a physician for a month with
no effects. Although she could not speak, she could eat and drink. Her
heart rate was 82 beats a minute, which indicates hotness. Master Kim
asked her to try to speak and he found that her mouth and lips were
moving just fine but the air was not coming out. He thought her left
frontal lobe had caused a problem and gave her treatment as follows.

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Table 6-83 A case of Treating Mutism by quenching organs
No. Organs Foster WATER Point Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 -
2 Heart - HT8
3 Bladder - BL60
4 Gallbladder - GB38
After the first treatment the heart rate went down from 82 beats a
minute to 70, which is normal and her head ache was gone.
With the second treatment, all pains including chest pain went away.
With the fifth treatment, she could speak.
Points from No. 1 to No. 3 were to utilize Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching organs but it was modified.
Subduing GB38 is to quench the Gallbladder because its BD passes
the frontal lobe and headache area. The other points were used to
stimulate the frontal lobe even more.

A three years old girl could not bite and she could only swallow
liquid food. She had never laughed, smiled, or spoken. Because she was
not respondive to calling her from behind, other people suspected that
she was deaf. She could barely walk for seven feet, by making a big
effort.
Because she was so young, Master Kim subdued only one point,
ST41, which is the FIRE point of the stomach. After a month of
treatments, she could bite and eat regular food and respond to calling
her from behind, which gave her parents peace of mind. She began to
smile. She was able to call her mother, “Mommy” for the first time at
age 3.

Let’s talk about a fact that those who are physically mute may have
problems with the parts of the human body required for speech (the
throat, vocal cords, lung, mouth, or tongue, etc.). I will describe all the
possible approaches.

If the heart rate indicates hotness with 80 or more beats a minute,

Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs as follows would be
good.

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Table 6-84 Treating Mutism by quenching organs
Foster Subdue
No. Organ WATER FIRE Remark
Points Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8 Throat, Tongue
Throat, Vocal Cords,
2 Kidney KI10 KI2
Epiglottis, & Trachea
Small
3 SI2 SI5 -
Intestine
4 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
Throat, Vocal Cords,
5 Lung LU5 LU10
Epiglottis, & Trachea, Lung
Large
6 LI2 LI5 Mouth
Intestine
Throat, Vocal Cords, Epiglottis,
7 Stomach ST44 ST41
Esophagus, & Flesh
8 Spleen SP9 SP2 Tongue, Flesh
9 Liver LR8 LR2 Vocal Cords (Muscle), Mouth
Points at No. 1 through No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #3, quenching the FIRE organs of the heart and small intestine
and fostering the WATER organs of the kidney and bladder.
Other points have been added because they have functions and BDs
that have paths on the problematic area, but some of them can be
omitted depending on the causes.

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 For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,
the previous quenching treatment could still be used. However, if you
are concerned that it might be too aggressive, you can utilize Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1. Once again, fostering the lung and/or large
intestine is recommended as follows.

Table 6-85 Treating Mutism by utilizing fostering METAL organs

Foster Subdue
No. Organ EARTH FIRE Remark
points points
1 Spleen SP3 SP2 Tongue, Flesh
Throat, Vocal Cords,
2 Lung LU9 LU10
Epiglottis, & Trachea
3 Heart - HT8 Throat
Throat, Vocal Cords,
4 Stomach ST36 ST41
Epiglottis, Esophagus, & Flesh
Large
5 LI11 LI5 Mouth
Intestine
Small
6 - SI5 -
Intestine
Throat, Vocal Cords,
7 Kidney - KI2
Epiglottis, & Trachea
8 Liver - LR2 Vocal Cords (Muscle), Mouth
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 and No. 4 through No. 6 are to
complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the lung and large
intestine, respectively. SP2 and ST41 are added as per the remarks.
Quenching (or subduing the FIRE points) of the kidney and liver at
No. 7 and No. 8, respectively, could be added or omitted as necessary
considering their functions and BDs’ paths.

For those with the indication of coldness with a heart rate of 60 or

less beats a minute, the above Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering
the lung and/or large intestine might still be able to be used. However,
for the best treatment, a KOSA acupuncturist needs to be sought.

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 Now, let’s talk about selective mutism that refers to an anxiety
disorder in which people are unable to speak in situations causing
social anxiety, but are fluent in speech in more comfortable situations.

While you call a person daring, bold, dauntless or stout-hearted or

say he/she has guts in English, Korean people say that he/she has a
great liver or gallbladder.

Anyway, this kind of problem is due to anxiety and the following

would be the suggested treatments.
Those with hotness (a heart rate of 81 or more beats a minute)
should utilize Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs as below.

Table 6-86 Treating Mutism by quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8
2 Kidney KI10 KI2
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Liver LR8 LR2
6 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
7 Pericardium PC3 PC8
8 Stomach ST44 ST41
9 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
Points from No. 1 to No. 4 are to quench the heart, kidney, small
intestine, and bladder, and these would be used when other YIN and
YANG organs need to be quenched.
Quenching the liver and gallbladder has been added to make them
healthy.
One thing noteworthy is that bladder, gallbladder, and kidney have
BDs and branches which pass through the brain.
Quenching the pericardium at No. 7 has been added because if it
wraps the heart too tight, it would also result in anxiety.
Points at No. 8 and No. 9 have been added because their BDs and
branches pass along the head.

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 For those with normal heart rate (from 61 to 79 beats a minute),
quenching as mentioned earlier in Table 6-86 Treating Mutism by
quenching organs (Page 299) could still be used. However, if you are
concerned that it might be too aggressive, utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 would be appropriate. Once again, fostering the lung and/or
large intestine is recommended as below.

Table 6-87 Treating Mutism by utilizing fostering METAL organs

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Spleen SP3 SP2
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Stomach ST36 ST41
5 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
6 Small Intestine - SI5
7 Liver - LR2
8 Gallbladder - GB38
9 Kidney - KI2
10 Pericardium - PC8
11 Triple Energizer - TE6
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 and No. 4 through No. 6 are to
complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the lung and large
intestine, respectively. The two of them can be used simultaneously, or
either one could be used alone, because the lung and large intestine are
the YIN and YANG organs of METAL, respectively, and they might be
able to help each other.
Quenching (or subduing FIRE points) of the liver, gallbladder,
kidney, pericardium, and triple energizer from No. 7 through No. 11
could be added or omitted as necessary.

Those with a cold heart rate (60 or fewer beats a minute), might be
able to be helped by fostering the lung or large intestine as above.
However, seeing a KOSA acupuncturist would be recommended.

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 Treatment of akinetic mutism due to severe frontal lobe injury would
have to be done by manipulating organs which have BDs that pass the
frontal lobe.

If the heart rate indicates hotness with 80 or more beats a minute,

Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs as follows would be
used.

Table 6-88 Treating Akinetic Mutism by utilizing quenching organs

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8
2 Kidney KI10 KI2
3 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Stomach ST44 ST41
6 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
7 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
8 Liver LR8 LR2
Points at No. 1 thru No. 4 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3, quenching the FIRE organs of the heart and small intestine and the
WATER organs of the kidney and bladder.
Other points have been added because they have functions and BDs
which have paths on the problematic area and some of them can be
omitted depending on the causes.

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 For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,
quenching shown in the earlier Table 6-88 Treating Akinetic Mutism
by utilizing quenching organs (Page 301) could still be used. However,
if you are concerned that it might be too aggressive, utilizing Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1 would be appropriate. Once again, fostering the
lung and/or large intestine is recommended as follows.

Table 6-89 Treating Akinetic Mutism by utilizing fostering the METAL

organs
No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Spleen SP3 -
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Stomach ST36 ST41
5 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
6 Small Intestine - SI5
7 Bladder - BL60
8 Kidney - KI2
9 Triple Energizer - TE6
10 Gallbladder - GB38
11 Liver - LR2
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 and No. 4 through No. 6 are to
complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the lung and large
intestine, respectively.
Quenching (or subduing FIRE points) of organs from No. 7 through
No. 11 including the stomach have been added because they have BDs
and BDs’ branches that pass through the brain.

For those with the indication of coldness, with a heart rate 60 or less
beats a minute, the above Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the
lung and/or large intestine might still be able to be used. However, for
the best treatment, a KOSA acupuncturist needs to be sought.

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6.50 Osteoporosis
The kidney is in charge of the bones. Thus, making the kidney
healthy would be able to take care of this disease if one's diet is
balanced and appropriate.

For those with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, utilizing
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3 to quench the kidney as follows would be
appropriate.

Table 6-90 Treating Osteoporosis by quenching the kidney

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Heart HT3 HT8
2 Kidney KI10 KI2

For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,

utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 to foster the kidney as follows
would be appropriate.

Table 6-91 Treating Osteoporosis by fostering the kidney

No. Organs Foster METAL Points Subdue EARTH Points
1 Lung LU8 -
2 Kidney KI7 KI3
3 Spleen - SP3
If you suspect you might have problems related to the spleen or
digestive system, you should probably omit subduing SP3, which is the
EARTH point of the YIN EARTH organ. Also, for diabetes subduing
SP3 should be omitted.

If pain is involved (whether it is due to osteoporosis or not), the

addition of quenching other organs, considering their functions and the
paths of their BDs and branches, should be added to the above
treatment or the previous one (Table 6-90 Treating Osteoporosis by
quenching the kidney, Page 303) would make the treatment much more
effective. Please refer to the next section, 6.51 Pain (Page 304).

For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute, the
above treatment utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 would also work.
However, a KOSA acupuncturist would be a better option for treatment.

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6.51 Pain
The following are the abstracts from Wikipedia xlix.
Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated
with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such
damage." It is the feeling common to such experiences as stubbing a
toe, burning a finger, putting iodine on a cut, and bumping the "funny
bone".
Pain motivates us to withdraw from potentially damaging situations,
protect a damaged body part while it heals, and avoid those situations
in the future. Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is
removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists despite
removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and
sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus,
damage or disease.
There are theories with regards to Specificity, Pattern, Gate control,
Dimensions, Evolutionary and behavioral role, and Thresholds.
There are three different types of management of Medication,
Psychological and Alternative medicine.
In that alternative medicine part, it is described that pain is the most
common reason for people to use complementary and alternative
medicine. An analysis of the 13 highest quality studies of pain
treatment with acupuncture, published in January 2009 in the British
Medical Journal, concluded there is little difference in the effect of real,
sham and no acupuncture.

Those researchers might have thought that they were studying the
highest quality acupuncture methods, but I totally disagree with them in
this regard. The acupuncture they used for the studies were probably
not the highest quality acupuncture.
If they knew KOSA, I believe the result of their research would have
come out differently.

Pain is there to protect us and to inform the owner of the body to do

something to heal the damage or make the organs healthy.
Ignoring pain by taking pain relievers might let you forget about or
not feel the pain. The responsible organ(s) might recover after taking a
pain killer, as the body fights the diseases and/or disorders and wins.
But ignoring the cause of the pain might hurt your organs more and
more every single day because you would not be motivated to change
your diet, lifestyle, environment of working or living, etc. For example,
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pain from your spinal disc asks you not to move anymore, because
moving further would damage it even more severely. Taking pain
relievers might make you feel that your symptom has improved, but
because of this feeling that the symptom has weakened, you can and
importantly, will move further than before. This would overstrain and
damage the disc even worse. The other bad thing about taking pain
killers is that pain relievers can disturb your organs and self-healing
system, not to mention that most medicines have unwanted side-effects.

KOSA treats most (if not all) pain as hotness, which has to be
quenched. Please refer to the section, 6.36 (Page 271) as well.
If you feel discomfort or pain when it is cold rather than in a warm or
normal environment, treatment might have to be heating rather than
quenching though.
If you feel coldness at a specific area, it might have been caused by
too much heat dissipation because it is really too hot. For this case,
quenching would have to be chosen rather than heating.

Organs have their own BDs, BDs’ branches, functions, and paired
organs. Once these parameters are considered, and quenching the
organs utilizing the BDs, BDs’ branches, functions, and paired organs,
not only will the pain would go away, but also the relevant organs
would be successfully treated and other health problems and/or
concerns would be taken care of at the same time.
.
Pain described in this section includes most cases of aching, asthenia,
cancer, cramps, infection, inflammation, itching, ineffectualness,
numbness, paralysis, spasm, swelling, tumor, and all other
uncomfortable feeling in the body, whether they are acute, chronic, dull,
or combined, and whether they involve blood vessel, bone, capillary
vessel, flesh, muscle, skin, tendon, tissue, or a combination , and
whether they are due to bruises, burns, cuts, injury, organ malfunctions,
pinching, or any combination of these.

As long as the following points are remembered and utilized

according to the rules, it won’t be difficult to cope with severe pain.
• YIN YANG and FIVE ELEMENTS theory
• The functions of the organs
• The logical background of Ascetic Saahm’s formulas
• The paths of the BDs and BDs’ branches
• The relationships between the organs
• The rules of treatment according to the heart rate

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 A few examples illustrating how to deal with pain follow.

6.51.1 Heartburn or stomach ache

Quenching the stomach by subduing the FIRE point of the stomach,

ST41 would take care of this problem. Adding fostering the WATER
point of the stomach, ST44 would be even more helpful.

6.51.2 Inflammation of the esophagus due to a stuck fishbone

The pain and inflammation could be treated by using the points

described above (also good foresophagus cancer), which is subduing
the FIRE point of the stomach, ST41 on the left and right side, for men
and women, respectively. Swallowing bread would help remove the
stuck fishbone.

6.51.3 Perforation of Gastric and Gastric Ulcer

This also could be treated by subduing ST41 only. However, it would,

in general, be better to use fostering the large intestine and subduing
ST41 simultaneously.

6.51.4 Pain at the Sole of the Foot

Although there is only one acupuncture point, KI1, on the sole of the
foot, there could be various treatments including the following.

Table 6-92 Treating Pain at the sole of the foot

Foster Subdue
No. Organs Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2 Leg Lesser YIN
2 Heart HT3 HT8 Arm Lesser YIN
3 Large Intestine - LI5 Skin
4 Stomach - ST41 Flesh
5 Liver - LR2 Tendon or Muscle
All of the above could be combined and/or omitted depending on the
need, and how aggressive you would like to make the treatment.

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6.51.5 Cramps or Menstrual pain

Because the liver is in charge of the reproductive organs and genitals,

subduing the FIRE point LR2 would work. Fostering SP6 would also
help because at that point, the three Leg YIN organs’ BDs (spleen,
kidney, and liver) interconnect, and fostering it might help balance
these three organs.
Fostering the WATER point of the liver, LR8 would help even more.
Unless treating other symptoms at the same time, such as right knee
pain, treatment should be applied to the right side because the treatment
is for women.

6.51.6 Pain at the spine

Whether it is from spondylitis, spinal curvature (scoliosis), or spinal

caries, and whether it is due to infection, inflammation, injuries, or
tumors, it is located at the spine, which is passed by the Governor BD.
The Kidney is in charge of the bones and has a branch that
interconnects with the Governor BD. Although other YANG BDs also
interconnect with the Governor BD, manipulating the kidney would
enable one to take care of these problems. What I mean by taking care
of the problem includes responses like bringing a deformed disc back to
normal, of which there is a good chance. I am emphasizing that our
bodies’ self-healing system is that strong.
The first point you would probably be able to think of by now is
subduing the FIRE point of the kidney, KI2. The second one would be
fostering the WATER point of the kidney, KI10.
If the heart rate indicates normal or hotness with 61 or more beats a
minute, subduing the FIRE point of the heart, HT8 and/or fostering the
WATER point of the heart, HT3 would strengthen the above treatment.
Governor BD passes right on the spine and has two important points,
GV1 and GV14. GV1 is the beginning point of the Governor BD.
GV14 is the point where all three Arm YANG BDs (Large intestine,
Small intestine, and Triple energizer) interconnect. I have told people
who had pain in the spine to pinch those two points, and they informed
me it was very effective. If you would not like to do it on GV1, you
could omit it.
When all the above does not work, the addition of quenching the
liver and bladder by subduing LR2 and BL60, respectively, to the
above suggestions would help.

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6.51.7 Low back pain

Low back pain one inch or more away from the spine might still be
caused by a problem with the spine. In this case, the earlier treatment
would be a good one. If this does not work and the pain is located
across the BDs of the bladder and gallbladder, the following treatment
would have to be applied. If the low back pain involves the spine,
subduing GV1 and/or GV14 would also have to be considered.

Table 6-93 Treating Low back pain

Foster Subdue
No. Organs WATER FIRE Remark
Points Points
Pain at BD
1 Bladder BL66 BL60
Leg Greater YANG
Pain at BD
2 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
Leg Lesser YANG
Small Pain at Bladder BD and
3 SI2 SI5
Intestine Arm Greater YANG
Triple Pain at Gallbladder BD
4 TE2 TE6
Energizer Arm Lesser YANG
5 Liver LR8 LR2 Muscle, Tendon
6 Stomach ST44 ST41 Flesh
Large
7 LI2 LI5 Skin or Tissue
Intestine
Points other than those in No. 1 and 2 could be added as necessary.
The skeleton is sustained by muscle, of which the liver is in charge.
Unless the pain is located all across the waist, the treatment should
be applied to the healthier side. If the pain is located all across the waist
and both sides’ pains are equal, treatment would be better applied to the
left and right side for men and women, respectively.

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6.51.8 Pain on radius of arm

Even if the radius has been cracked, KOSA treatment would lessen
the pain effectively, and help it heal earlier than expected. Because
there are four BDs which pass the radius closely, quenching those
responsible organs would be as follows.

Table 6-94 Treating Pain on the radius of the arm

Foster Subdue
No. Organs WATER FIRE Remark
Points Points
Large
1 LI2 LI5 Arm YANG Brightness
Intestine
2 Lung LU5 LU10 Arm Greater YIN
Triple
3 TE2 TE6 Arm Lesser YANG
Energizer
4 Pericardium PC3 PC8 Arm Absolute YIN
5 Kidney KI10 KI2 Bone
6 Stomach ST44 ST41 Leg YANG Brightness
7 Spleen SP9 SP2 Leg Greater YIN
8 Gallbladder GB43 GB38 Leg Lesser YANG
9 Liver LR8 LR2 Leg Absolute YIN
Points from No. 1 through No. 4 are to quench the organs which pass
the radius and the points at No. 5 are to quench the kidney, which is in
charge of bone. In order to make the treatment more aggressive, by
utilizing BDs’ pairing, points from No. 6 through No. 9 has been added.
However, subduing the FIRE points from No. 1 thru No. 4 would
generally be an almost perfect treatment.

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6.51.9 Toothache (Odontalgia)

A toothache could also be treated by KOSA successfully. However,

it takes some time (up to a few weeks depending on the degree of
severity).
I had a few times of toothaches bad enough to have a tooth moving in
my gums. I taped a couple of magnets on the FIRE points of the
stomach and large intestine, ST41 and LI5, respectively, to quench
them. Two days later, at the worst, the pain went away, the tooth did
not move at all, and I could bite, chew, and grind.
I should have treated myself before I had a toothache, and it could
have been prevented from happening.

The following table describes which organs have BDs and BDs’
branches passing the mouth.

Table 6-95 Treating Toothache by quenching organs

Fostering WATER Subduing FIRE
No. Organs Remark
Points Points
Large Arm YANG Brightness
1 LI2 LI5
Intestine BD
Leg YANG Brightness
2 Stomach ST44 ST41
BD
YIN of stomach
3 Spleen SP9 SP2
Flesh, BD
Small BD
4 SI2 SI5
Intestine Arm Greater YANG
Triple BD’s branch
5 TE2 TE6
Energizer Arm Lesser YANG
BD’s branch
6 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
Leg Lesser YANG
7 Liver LR8 LR2 BD’s branch
8 Bladder BL66 BL60 Leg Greater YANG
Because a toothache usually requires intensive treatment, utilizing as
many organs as possible would be better. Although organs whose BDs
and BDs’ branches do not have paths on the problematic area could be
omitted, you could utilize BDs’ pairing and add quenching the paired
organs.

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 As a conclusion for treating pain, the following rules are applied.
• Subdue the FIRE point and foster the WATER point of the organs
which have paths and branches that pass the problematic area.
Fostering the WATER points could be omitted.
• Subdue the FIRE point and foster the WATER point of the organs,
which are paired with the above organs. Fostering the WATER
points could be omitted.
• Subdue the FIRE point and foster the WATER point of the organs,
which have functions related to the problem, like liver for muscle
and tendon, large intestine for skin, kidney for bone, and so on.
Fostering the WATER points could be omitted.

Because understanding and utilizing the following information is

very important, I would like to emphasize it, and have duplicated it
from the first part of this section,

Pain, as described in this section, includes most of what we call ache,

asthenia, cancer, cramps, infection, inflammation, itching,
ineffectualness, numbness, paralysis, spasm, swelling, tumor, and all
other uncomfortable feelings of the body, whether they are acute,
chronic, dull, or some combination, and whether it is blood vessel, bone,
capillary vessel, flesh, muscle, skin, tendon, tissue, or some
combination , and whether it is due to a bruise, burn, cut, injury, organ
dysfunction, pinching, or some combination.

As long as the following items are remembered and utilized

according to the rules, it won’t be difficult to cope with severe pain.
• YIN YANG and FIVE ELEMENTS theory
• Functions of the organs
• Logical background of Ascetic Saahm’s formulas
• Paths of BDs and BDs’ branches
• Relationships between organs
• Rules of treatment considering the heart rate

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6.52 Prostatitis
The bladder, kidney, and liver are the organs directly related to this
disease.

For a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, utilizing Ascetic

Saahm’s formula #3, quenching organs would be employed as follows.

Table 6-96 Treating Prostatitis by utilizing quenching the bladder

Foster Subdue
No. Organ Remark
WATER Points FIRE Points
1 Bladder BL66 BL60 -
2 Small Intestine SI2 SI5 -
3 Kidney KI10 KI2 Leg Lesser Yin
4 Liver LR8 LR2 -
5 Heart HT3 HT8 Arm Lesser Yin
The Points from No. 1 through No. 2 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the bladder.
The other point at No. 3 and No. 4 are for quenching organs which
have functions related to this disease, and BDs which have paths by the
problematic area
Points at No. 5 have been added because with No. 3 and No. 5 they
can complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the kidney and
heart, and at the same time, they are paired BDs. The addition of these
would make the treatment more aggressive. Nevertheless, these could
be omitted.

For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,

the previous treatment could still be used.
However, to utilize Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1 instead, there would
be three approaches possible: fostering the bladder, gallbladder or large
intestine as follows.

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 Fostering the bladder

Table 6-97 Treating Prostatitis by fostering the bladder

No. Organ Foster METAL Points Subdue EARTH Points
1 Large Intestine LI1 -
2 Bladder BL67 BL40
3 Stomach - ST36
4 Kidney KI7 KI3
5 Liver LR4 LR3
Points at No.1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the bladder.
Points at No. 4 are to foster the kidney.
Fostering the bladder consists of fostering the METAL points and
subduing the EARTH points, and those with digestion problems due to
stomach deficiency may want to omit subduing the EARTH point of
the stomach, ST36.
Points at No. 5 have been added because the liver has a BD which
passes the problematic area. However, this won’t do any good because
it fosters LR4, which subdues the liver and subdues LR3, which is the
EARTH point, and the liver’s WOOD element subdues the EARTH
element. Thus, this whole treatment would not be adequate to treat
Prostatitis.

Fostering the gallbladder

Table 6-98 Treating Prostatitis by fostering the gallbladder

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue METAL Points
1 Bladder BL66 -
2 Gallbladder GB43 GB44
3 Large Intestine - LI1
4 Kidney KI10 KI7
5 Liver LR8 LR4
Points from No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the gallbladder. Those with problems related to
large intestine deficiency may want to omit subduing the METAL point
of the large intestine, LI1.
Although points at No. 4 and No. 5 are included, the points at No. 4
won’t do much good because its points of WATER and METAL are
fostered and subdued, respectively. Thus, subduing KI7 can be omitted.

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 Fostering the large intestine

Table 6-99 Treating Prostatitis by utilizing fostering the large intestine

No. Organ Foster EARTH points Subdue FIRE points
1 Stomach ST36 ST41
2 Large Intestine LI11 LI5
3 Small Intestine - SI5
4 Bladder - BL60
5 Kidney - KI2
6 Liver - LR2
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 (except ST41) are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the large intestine.
The other points are to quench the bladder, kidney and liver.
If I was asked to choose one out of the previous three fostering
protocols to treat prostatitis, I would definitely recommend fostering
the large intestine, because many people have a deficient and hot large
intestine, and with it, prostatitis can successfully be treated at the same
time.

For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute, a KOSA
acupuncturist would better be sought.

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6.53 Rhinitis
In oriental medicine, the nose is the door of the lung. Thus, making
the lung healthy would treat the rhinitis successfully.
Organs with BDs and BDs’ branches that pass the nose are the large
intestine, stomach, small intestine, and bladder.

For those with a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, utilizing
Ascetic Saahm’ formula #3, quenching the lung would be used as
follows.

Table 6-100 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing quenching the lung

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Lung LU5 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Large Intestine - LI5
5 Stomach - ST41
Points at No. 1 through No. 3, except for KI2, are to complete
Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the lung.
Subduing KI2, the FIRE point of the kidney has been added to help
quench the Governor BD because the Kidney BD has a branch
connected to the Governor BD, which passes the centerline of the nose.
Also, the kidney is in charge of bones.
The other points, LI5 and ST41 has been added because their BDs
and BDs’ branches pass the nose.
You could add fostering the WATER points of these organs for
better results.

For those with a normal heart rate of from 61 to 79 beats a minute,

utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formula #1, fostering the lung as follows
would be appropriate.

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Table 6-101 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing fostering the lung
No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Spleen SP3 -
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Large Intestine - LI5
5 Stomach - ST41
6 Bladder - BL60
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering the lung. For the rest of the points, please refer to
the previous description in quenching the lung.

For those with a cold heart rate of 60 or fewer beats a minute,

utilizing Ascetic Saahm’ formula #4, heating the lung would be
appropriate as follows. If the symptom gets worse or the symptom
occurs when the ambient temperature is low in general, regardless of
the heart rate, heating the lung would work better than the previous two
approaches.

Table 6-102 Treating Rhinitis by utilizing heating the lung

No. Organ Foster FIRE Points Subdue WATER Points
1 Kidney - KI10
2 Lung LU10 LU5
3 Heart HT8 -
4 Large Intestine - LI2
5 Stomach - ST44
6 Bladder - BL66
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #4, heating the lung. The rest of the points have been added
because their BDs and BDs’ branches pass the nose. However, usually
points from No. 1 to No. 3 would work just fine, and heating the large
intestine, stomach and bladder might have to be omitted because many
people have them already in a hot rather than cold condition.
In order to heat an organ, subduing the WATER point works better
than fostering the FIRE point.

Although treatments have been classified based on the heart rate, this
would help you make an accurate decision.

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6.54 Sinusitis
For a hot heart rate of 80 or more beats a minute, the treatment below
would be used.

Table 6-103 Treating Sinusitis by utilizing quenching the lung

No. Organ Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Lung LU5 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Large Intestine - LI5
5 Stomach - ST41
6 Bladder - BL60
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 except for KI2 are to complete Ascetic
Saahm’s formula #3, quenching the lung. Subduing KI2, the FIRE
point of the kidney has been added to help quench the Governor BD,
because the Kidney BD has a branch connected to the Governor BD,
which passes the centerline of the nose, and the kidney is in charge of
bone.
The rest of the points, LI5, ST41, and BL60 have been added
because their BDs and BDs’ branches pass the nose.

The following treatment is for those with a normal heart rate of 61

through 79 beats a minute.

Table 6-104 Treating Sinusitis by utilizing fostering the lung

No. Organ Foster EARTH Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Spleen SP3 -
2 Lung LU9 LU10
3 Heart - HT8
4 Large Intestine - LI5
5 Stomach - ST41
6 Kidney - KI2
7 Bladder - BL60
Points at No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1, fostering thw lung. For the rest of the points, please refer to
the description for quenching the lung.
Other symptoms related to the large intestine, stomach, kidney,
and/or bladder also would get better with this treatment.

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6.55 Tinnitus & Difficulty in Hearing
A few years ago, I was having dinner with a coworker of mine in a
restaurant and he told me he had difficulty in hearing. Because I always
carry magnets with me, I taped a magnet on his left KI2, which was to
subdue the FIRE point of the kidney. The next morning, he told me an
interesting story.
As soon as he woke up, he turned the TV on, and found the volume
was too high. He realized his hearing had gotten better. When he turned
that TV off the night before, he had set the volume high enough to hear
as usual, but with his better hearing, it was now too loud for him.

As described in the section, 6.45 Meniere's Disease (Aural Vertigo)

(Page 288), treating this condition starts from finding the organs and
their BDs related to the ear (or hearing).
Bonghan Ducts close to the ear are the Small intestine, Triple
energizer and Gallbladder. The organ related to hearing is the kidney,
by function.
Quenching organs only will be described here because finding which
organs are deficient, normal or excessive is not easy for readers, and in
general, this symptom is mainly due to hotness. If the heart rate is 80 or
more beats a minute, quenching would be the best treatment and even
though it is between 60 and 80, quenching would still be effective.

Table 6-105 Treating Tinnitus & Difficulty in Hearing

No. Organs Foster WATER Points Subdue FIRE Points
1 Small Intestine SI2 SI5
2 Triple Energizer TE2 TE6
3 Gallbladder GB43 GB38
4 Bladder BL66 BL60
5 Kidney KI10 KI2
Points at No. 1 and No. 4 complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula #3,
quenching the small intestine and bladder.
In order to complete quenching the kidney and heart, quenching the
heart by fostering HT3 and subduing HT8 should have been added, but
it is not included because the heart is paired with the kidney as Lesser
YIN, and the small intestine (YANG FIRE organ) is already quenched.

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 You could start with quenching the kidney only, because many
people have a deficient and/or hot kidney, and one of the kidney’s
functions is to take care of the ear or hearing.

There are four organs related to tinnitus as following. This has been
clinically found so far.
• Kidney: The shrill chirrup of a cicada, Thin and weak, or High
pitch tone, and requires treatment for a long period of time
• Bladder: Noise like in an airplane
• Triple Energizer: a Flames’ noise, Sound of a heart beat, or an
echo
• Small intestine: Unclear hearing
• Gallbladder: Sound of a steel ball's rolling on a tray with head
movement

Utilizing the table for difficulty in hearing would work for treating
tinnitus.

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6.56 Urinary Retention (Incontinence) and Urinary
Tract Infection
Organs related to this disease are the kidney, bladder, and
reproductive organs.

Whether the heart rate is hot or normal as long as it is more than 60

beat a minute, quenching the kidney as follows would be appropriate.

Table 6-106 Treating Urinary Retention (Incontinence) by utilizing

quenching the kidney
No. Organs Foster WATER points Subdue FIRE points
1 Kidney KI10 KI2
2 Heart HT3 HT8
3 Liver - LR2
4 Bladder - BL60
Points of No. 1 and No. 2 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s formula
#3 to quench the kidney. Points of No. 3 and No. 4 have been added
because the liver is in charge of the genital organs and the bladder is
the YANG organ of the kidney and is also involved in urination.

When the heart rate is 60 beats or fewer in a minute, the method

would probably have to be changed to fostering the kidney as below.

Table 6-107 Treating Urinary Retention (Incontinence) by utilizing

fostering the kidney
No. Organs Foster METAL points Subdue EARTH points
1 Lung LU8 -
2 Kidney KI7 KI3
3 Spleen - SP3
4 Liver - LR3
5 Bladder BL67 BL40
Points of No. 1 through No. 3 are to complete Ascetic Saahm’s
formula #1 for fostering the kidney. However, SP3 could be omitted
because people with a healthy spleen are rarely seen, and subduing the
spleen might not be a good idea. LR3 could be omitted as well, because,
in general, the liver is in a condition of excessiveness and hotness.
Both points of the bladder could be used because people usually have
a deficient bladder.
People with a cold heart rate of 60 or less beats a minute would better
consult with a KOSA acupuncturist.
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7 Conclusion

Environment

A woman and a man I know of have Parkinson’s disease and Lou

Gehrig's disease (ALS), respectively, and they used to run a business, a
laundry and a flower shop, which used chemicals a lot.
Please do some research to find out what environmental parameters
might harm you at your work and home.
Even though the chemicals are claimed to be safe, it might not be so.
The following are some examples.
• It took 10 years for DDT to be banned, long after its safety was
questioned. For more than 20 years, DDT manufacturers did not
care about safety but only profit.
• It took a few decades for the solvent used in hair spray, which
causes destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer. CFC
(chlorofluorocarbon - also commonly known by the DuPont trade
name Freon) to be phased out by the Montreal Protocol because it
contributes to ozone depletion.
• In the narration of the movie, Food Inc., the chemical company
Monsanto is mentioned. They produced DDT, Agent Orange in
Vietnam, and then they developed a product called "Roundup."
We started hearing rumblings about genetically-engineered
soybeans that could resist the application of Roundup. When
Roundup was sprayed over it, it killed every weed out there except
for this "Roundup Ready" soybean. Although Roundup has been
banned in various countries, it is still being sold in America. Let’s
assume that the genetically engineered (or modified) soybeans are
safe. But, would farming companies use just enough to kill the
weeds? They would use Roundup more than required to make sure
it works. Would the soybeans be washed and cleaned enough to be
safe? Can they indeed make the soybeans clean and safe enough?

Most medicines or drugs have side effects, and using them always
involves compromising with side effects. In addition to that, the way
they work is based on the theory that they should always be used more
in a greater quantity than is necessary, and the extra might harm you.

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 I happened to be told by a KOSA member about a gentleman who
was born in the United Kingdom. When he was sixteen years old, he
had a stomach ache. His physician gave him a prescription. Taking pills
took care of stomach ache and since the incident; he began to have a
very annoying skin disease. When they met, he had had the skin
problem for 38 years. His symptom did not even have a name. What
would be the treatment for him? Yes, it was utilizing fostering the large
intestine with subduing the FIRE points of organs which have BDs and
BDs’ branches that pass the problematic area, including the kidney and
liver for detoxification. About ten minutes later, his skin color started to
change, enough for the people there to notice that the areas were getting
better. Unfortunately, that was the first and last treatment by KOSA.
Three years later, he was found to have bladder cancer and died soon
after the cancer was found. I believe that he would never have had
bladder cancer if he had continuously taken KOSA treatment, not to
mention the benefit for his skin disease.

There are so many articles out there saying they are safe as long as
the amount used, consumed or absorbed is less than a certain value. Do
they ever do research based on the fact that all chemicals and toxins can
be combined?
When you are young and healthy, you might feel safe just because
you don’t have noticeable symptoms, since your body is tolerant of
those maximum safe limits. But, if you think you have health concerns,
you might want to avoid even toothpaste, which has been mentioned in
the sections, 1.5.5 Five Elements – Manifestation (Page 28) and 6.43
Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus or SLE) (Page 284).

Natural

Venom of snakes and scorpions are poisonous and they are natural.
Thus, being natural does not necessarily mean something is safe.
It is my opinion that if a raw material is chemically processed, like
vegetable oils from corn and soy beans, it is not natural anymore.

Milk

Please do research about the pros and cons of cows milk.

The following are articles you might want to review.
• The Journal of the American College of Nutrition l by M. A.
Atkinson and T. M. Ellis li.
• Dr. Sarah Myhill’s web site lii about cow’s milk allergy.

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 Salt

As described in the first part of this book, salt is associated with the
WATER element, and is supposed to help the large intestine and/or
lung in addition to the WATER organs, the kidney and bladder. Most
of the salt you find in restaurants and supermarkets is chemically
processed and has very little other minerals. I am wondering if the
chemical used to process salt would has been totally removed from the
salt products you get.

Food

Hippocrates (460 - 377 B.C.) said "Let thy food be thy medicine."

As described in the first part of this book, beef, milk, and dairy
products are associated with the EARTH element and heat up our
organs. They might be excellent food for the world's poor, but they
would harm people who already have health problems due to diseases
caused by hotness.

Years ago, in a bookstore, I met a Buddhist nun who had lots of acne
on her face. I could not help but ask her if she had a problem with her
bowel movements. She was much surprised by my question and she
answered “How did you know it?”

I have described many times in this book that when you have skin
disease you’d better avoid the food with EARTH characteristics. In
addition to that, you might want to avoid all meat and be a vegetarian
for awhile until your skin problems stabilize or are healed by a
recovered large intestine.
Just being vegetarian alone would hardly be sufficient to take care of
skin problems. I don’t know if you know that most Buddhist monks
and nuns are vegetarians. Even though she was a vegetarian, she still
had severe acne and problem with her bowel movements. Nevertheless,
if you have health concerns, becoming a vegetarian would help you
greatly.
No matter how good KOSA or any medicine is, unless you change
your diet, your skin problem would not go away easily.

As a conclusion, please be aware of the importance of food. It can

heal your health problems and, at the same time, it can harm you too.

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 Water

The kidneys have a limited capacity, and drinking too much water
could lower the kidneys’ effectiveness. Drink a glass of water with an
empty stomach, and monitor any heart rate changes. Drinking liquids
too much could overwork your organs, especially the stomach. Try not
to consume any liquids for 30 minutes right before a meal, during the
meal and for 2 hours after the meal. It will give much less of a burden
to your stomach and, sometimes, you could even lose weight this way.
Try to consume liquids only when you are thirsty. Please remember
that feeling thirsty might be just because of your habitual drinking, and
your body might not be in need of water.

Physical therapy

As far as I know, kinetic energy changes to thermal energy. Moving

body parts for physical therapy will eventually make the moved area’s
temperature rise, and a higher temperature might improve the
transportation of blood, nutrition, oxygen, etc. In the short term, the
physical therapy might help. However, considering the fact that arthritis
would not exist without generating heat, lowering the temperature at an
arthritic area would be the key point in long term treatment. I think I
have mentioned that most pain involves hotness, and pain is meant to
warn us that more movement would make our body worse. Thus, even
though you do not feel the hotness in an arthritic area, trying not to
move the problematic area too much while getting KOSA treatment
would be a better choice.

Family History

When you visit your doctor’s office, you are required to describe
your family history.

Doctor Mintz’s blog liii reads; first, the number of patients with
diabetes in the United States has increased. The study quotes 14
million diabetics in 2000 which increased to 19 million in 2007.
Thomas Smith’s web site liv reads; Diabetes, which had a per capita
incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the century, had by 1933, zoomed
1,000% to become a disease faced by many doctors. This disease was
destined to go on to affect half of our population and to incapacitate
almost 20% by the 1990's.

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 Wikipedia lv describes diabetes; for at least 20 years, diabetes rates
in North America have been increasing substantially. In 2010 nearly 26
million people had diabetes in the United States alone, and of those, 7
million people remained undiagnosed.

26 million (diabetes in 2010) divided by 311,002,141 (according to

US Census Bureau on 03/17/2011) makes 8.36%. The rate was
0.0028% in 1933.
It seems that diabetics are increasing faster than non-diabetics.

Although I am not totally denying the theories of family history and

genetics, if those theories were true and always operated as described, I
question why children do not always look like their parents.
I think that in many cases, someone’s health has been affected by his
or her parent’s culture, habit of diet, and/or living environment.
Please be conscious of your everyday life and try to find what might
have harmed you.

You are absolutely normal.

Nowadays, I find more and more people, even young people in their
forties who are awakened by their bladders, because they cannot hold
their urine. When they complain about it, they are usually told, “You
are absolutely normal and there are lots of people your age with similar
issues.”
‘Normal’ is described in the dictionary as ‘conforming to the
standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural’. It
does not mean ‘median’ or ‘average’.
OK. You might be normal (in the sense of average), but I can
definitely tell you that you are not healthy. Being normal does not
satisfy the requirements for being healthy.

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 The following would be the minimum requirements to be told by
KOSA that you are healthy.

• Stools are thick, short, and with a golden color.

• Bowel movement is at least once a day
• Do not have to wake up to go to the bathroom.
• No pain and/or no physical difficulties in ordinary activities.
• Can smell enough to stimulate your appetite.
• Can taste food and eat an average amount and variety of food.
• Feel thirst and hunger.
• Have good hearing and vision, with no need of instrumental help.
• Tolerant of stress.
• Sleep eight hours daily, and fall asleep easily, with barely any
dreaming.

Conclusion

You might be wondering why there are so many cases utilizing

fostering the large intestine. The reason is that we, in general, have
been abusing our large intestine by consuming too much meat, food
with EARTH characteristics, etc. Please check your health conditions
as mentioned above, and if you find you have to do something for your
health, refer to the section, 1.5 YIN YANG and Five Elements (Page
23) and read it thoroughly.

In general, quenching or heating organs is more aggressive than

fostering or subduing organs, and would best be utilized as per the heart
rate. Regulating the temperature of an organ can still be used for
patients with a normal heart rate.
In the contrary, fostering or subduing an organ can still be used for
patients with a heart rate indicative of hotness or coldness.
Regulating the temperature of an organ gives the organ a chance to
make itself healthy from deficiency or excessiveness. Also, making an
organ healthy from deficiency or excessiveness gives that organ the
power to regulate its temperature properly.
A healthy organ, recovering from deficiency or excessiveness, can
usually control its temperature. But, an organ that has recovered from a
temperature problem may not necessarily recover from deficiency or
excessiveness.

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 Although using needles would be more effective than the methods
explained in this book, these methods given here would still help you
greatly.

If you notice new symptom(s) during treatment or the symptom gets

worse, your diagnosis and/or treatment might not be correct, and
treatment should be stopped immediately, and a consultation with
KOSA members or other healthcare providers is recommended.

If you have a new pain location after the old location’s pain went
away or diminished, it would be understood as follows: the treatment
worked because the old location’s pain was so bad that new location’s
pain could not be felt at the same time.

Other diseases not described in this book could also be treated

successfully by utilizing Ascetic Saahm’s formulas, BDs, BDs’
branches and organs’ functions.

Please measure your heart rate with an empty stomach frequently and
periodically (if you are getting treatment, compare the logs before and
after the treatment) and keep a record of it so that you know your own
health condition.

Please refer to my web site, http://saahm.net, and share your precious

feedback with others in the forum not only to help us but also to help
other people. Let’s work together to help ourselves and others.
Also, you can find KOSA acupuncturists close to your location when
you need them.
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 Index of Disease and Pain
Abdomen ............................. 66
Abdomen pain...................... 56
Abdominal distention 118, 124,
128
Abdominal distention and pain
.............................. 94, 100
Abdominal distention or pain
...................................... 76
Abdominal pain 62, 128, 254,
275
Abdominal pain or distention
...................................... 68
Abscess in nose .................. 130
Ache ....... 1, 259, 296, 305, 311
Aches ................................. 271
Aching arm, back, and/or
shoulder ........................ 62
Aching of scapular joint ....... 87
Aching of the shoulder joint ....
94
Aching or paralysis of the knee
joint and leg .................. 68
Acid reflux ......................... 254
Acid regurgitation .............. 118
Acne ....... 10, 38, 193, 195, 323
Acute and chronic gastritis or
gastro-enteritis .............. 68
Acute epididymitis or
intestinal obstruction..... 68
ADD/ADHD ...................... 239
Adhesive capsulitis ................ 7
Akinetic mutism. 295, 301, 302
Allergy ....... 196, 197, 198, 199
ALS ...... 26, 281, 282, 283, 321
Amenorrhea 68, 128, 200, 201,
202
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
.............................. 26, 281
Anemia................................. 94
Anger ................... 31, 142, 224
Angina pectoris............ 80, 106
Angry........................... 31, 201
Annoyance ......................... 224
Anorexia ...... 68, 100, 130, 258
Anosmia ........................ 10, 25
Antrum .............................. 254
Anus ........ 24, 25, 60, 128, 130
Anxiety 128, 130, 246, 295,
299
Aphasia ................ 80, 112, 128
Apoplexy ..... 62, 106, 118, 130
Apoplexy of the flaccid type,
.................................... 128
Appendicitis..... 62, 68, 76, 203
Appetite 32, 230, 258, 270, 326
arm 10, 56
Arrhythmia ........................ 106
Arthritis 2, 10, 27, 204, 205,
206, 207, 252, 324
Arthritis of mandible ........... 62
Arthritis of shoulder or the
knee joint ...................... 68
Arthritis of the elbow, wrist
and finger joints ............ 87
Arthritis of the knee joint .. 118
Arthritis of the mandible joint
.................................... 118
Ascariasis ............................ 76
Ascariasis of the bile duct.... 62
Aspirin ............................... 267
Asthenia ..................... 305, 311
Asthma 10, 54, 68, 87, 94, 100,
118, 128, 130, 208, 210,
214
Atopic dermatitis ................. 10
Atopy ................... 62, 196, 240
Aural vertigo.............. 288, 318
Bacillary dysentery .............. 68
Back injury .......................... 37
Back pain ..................... 94, 130
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Back pain during menstruation
...................................... 94
Bedsore ................................ 38
Beef ................ 40, 41, 236, 323
Behçet's disease.................. 211
Belching ............. 100, 254, 270
Bell’s palsy .......................... 10
Biceps .................... 56, 59, 108
Bi-Digital O-Ring Test ........ 38
Big toe .................... 67, 74, 252
Biliary tract ........................ 213
Bladder cancer ..... 10, 217, 322
Bleeding ............... 25, 100, 272
Bleeding nose ....................... 10
Bloating...................... 270, 275
Blood 15, 26, 36, 74, 76, 122,
148, 197, 200, 211, 212,
215, 221, 230, 248, 260,
261, 262, 263, 268, 284,
285, 291, 311, 324
Blood glucose level ............ 236
Blood pressure 260, 261, 262,
263
Blood sugar level ........... 35, 36
Blood vessel ....... 211, 260, 305
Blood vessels 26, 27, 32, 80,
230, 261, 284
Blurring of vision ................. 94
Bone 26, 27, 32, 37, 101, 179,
204, 207, 247, 271, 272,
274, 282, 285, 291, 292,
303, 304, 305, 307, 309,
311, 315, 317
Borborygmi .......................... 62
Borborygmus 68, 76, 94, 100,
118, 128
Bowel movement 247, 248,
282, 291, 292, 326
Brain 92, 221, 241, 246, 290,
291, 299, 302
Breast ........................... 28, 287
330
Breast cancer 28, 42, 216, 217,
287
breath ................................. 263
Bronchitis 10, 68, 87, 94, 100,
128, 130, 208, 214
Bronchospasm ................... 214
Bruise......................... 305, 311
Buerger’s disease ................. 11
Buerger's disease ....... 211, 215
Burn ........................... 305, 311
Cancer 40, 46, 216, 217, 254,
305, 311, 322
Cancer of the esophagus ...... 68
Capillary vessel ......... 305, 311
Car sick ................................ 62
Carpal tunnel syndrome .... 218,
219, 220
Cerebrovascular accident .. 221,
222, 223
Cheek ..................... 66, 80, 110
Chest and back pain ..... 68, 130
Chest pain .......... 118, 124, 296
Chicken ...................... 196, 236
Chin ..................................... 66
Cholecystitis .. 87, 94, 118, 213
Cholesterol ................... 42, 267
Chorea ................................. 62
Chronic hemorrhagic diseases
...................................... 94
Chronic pelvic inflammation68
Chronic skin infection of the
hand ............................ 106
Chylous urine............. 224, 225
Chyluria ..................... 224, 225
Clench .................................. 34
Clenching fist..................... 222
Cloudiness of cornea ......... 112
Cognitive dysfunction........ 246
Cold ............28, 34, 62, 94,
112, 118, 130, 226, 230,
280
Color .............................. 24, 38
Color blindness .................... 24
Coma .............. 54, 62, 100, 106
Common cold with fever ..... 62
Conjunctivitis ....... 68, 112, 232
Constipation 40, 62, 68, 76, 94,
100, 112, 118, 233, 275
Constriction ....................... 214
Convulsions in children and
infants ......................... 124
Convulsions in young children
.................................... 130
Coronary artery disease ..... 267
Coronaviruses .................... 226
Coryza ................................ 226
Costal and back pain .......... 118
Costal neuralgia ................... 68
Cough3 4, 45, 54, 62, 68, 76,
94, 100, 106, 128, 130,
226, 230, 231
Cramp ................ 305, 307, 311
Crying .................................. 33
Cut 2, 24, 56, 267, 271, 272,
304, 305, 311
Cystitis 68, 94, 100, 118, 234,
235
Deafness... 62, 87, 94, 112, 118
Deafness and mutism ......... 130
Deficient lactation68, 76, 80,
87
Deficient lactation in mothers
...................................... 68
Depression 32, 34, 38, 70, 101,
142, 246
Detoxification 195, 198, 199,
211, 234, 235, 243, 244,
245, 247, 248, 256, 257,
277, 278, 284, 285, 291,
292, 293, 294, 322
Diabetes 35, 36, 100, 236, 237,
267, 303, 324, 325
Diarrhea 68, 94, 100, 124, 128,
130, 233, 239, 258, 259,
275
Diarrhea or loose stool......... 76
Difficult labor ...................... 94
Difficulty in hearing .......... 318
Difficulty in opening mouth
.................................... 118
Digestion 244, 247, 248, 282,
284, 285, 291, 292, 293
Diseases of the digestive tract
...................................... 68
Disorder of shoulder joint and
its surrounding soft tissue
...................................... 62
Disorder of the cubital joint
and its surrounding soft
tissue ............................. 62
Disorder of the cubital joint
and the shoulder joint and
its surrounding soft tissue
...................................... 80
Disorder of the ilio-sacral joint
...................................... 94
Disorder of the joints of ankle
and/or femoral and their
surrounding soft tissue.. 94
Disorders of knee joint and its
surrounding soft tissue or
the malleolus joint and its
surrounding soft tissue.. 68
Disorders of the ankle joint
and the surrounding tissue
and the hip joint and its
surrounding soft tissue 118
Disorders of the elbow joint,
shoulder joint, wrist joint
and their surrounding soft
tissues ......................... 112
Disorders of the genital system
.................................... 100
331
Disorders of the knee joint and
its surrounding soft tissue
.................................... 124
Disorders of the shoulder joint
and its surrounding soft
tissue ............................. 87
Disorders of the wrist joint and
its surrounding soft tissue
.................................... 106
Distention and pain in the
chest and hypochondriac
region ............................ 68
Dizziness ............................ 124
Dizziness and vertigo68, 94,
118, 130
Dream-disturbed sleeping ...68,
76, 94
Dry eyes ....................... 30, 232
Duodenal ............................ 254
Dysentery ................. 68, 76, 94
Dyslexia ..................... 238, 239
Dyspepsia ....... 76, 94, 128, 130
Dyspepsia in children and
infants ........................... 62
Dyspnea ........... 54, 68, 76, 130
Dysuresis............................ 128
Dysuria ......................... 76, 100
Dysuria and other urogenital
diseases ......................... 94
Ears.................24, 25, 110, 116
Eczema ................. 62, 130, 240
Eczema of the scrotum ....... 124
Edema ........ 62, 68, 76, 94, 128
Elbow ................................... 80
Embolic stroke ................... 221
Emotion.......................... 31, 33
Endocarditis ......................... 94
Endometritis ... 76, 94, 118, 128
Enteritis .......... 76, 94, 128, 130
Enuresis....................68, 76, 94,
100, 124, 128, 241, 242
Epiglottis .................... 297, 298
332
Epilepsy.................................
54, 68, 87, 94, 100, 106,
112, 118, 124, 128, 130
Epiphora .............................. 30
Epistaxis...............................54,
62, 68, 94, 118, 130
Erectile dysfunction ... 267, 268
Esophagus .. 216, 255, 297, 306
Esophagus cancer.........10, 216,
217, 254, 306
Excess salivation................ 128
Excessive sputum .......... 62, 68
Eye 291, 292
Eye diseases...........68, 87, 94,
112, 118, 124, 130
Eyes...24, 36, 80, 110, 116,
232, 250, 251, 277, 278,
291, 292
Face......28, 80, 195, 244, 245,
293, 323
Facial paralysis...54, 62, 87, 94,
112, 118, 128, 130, 244
Facial paralysis or swelling . 68
Facial swelling ........... 118, 130
Failing eyesight ................... 87
Falling of hair ...................... 94
Fatigue ....... 230, 231, 243, 246
Fear31, 32, 142
Febrile diseases.......62, 68, 87,
106, 112, 130
Feeling full earlier than normal
when eating................. 270
Femoral neuralgia .............. 124
Fever....54, 62, 76, 94, 112,
185, 226, 258
Fibromyalgia...... 246, 247, 248
Finger. 4, 37, 38, 219, 222, 252
Fist......................................222
Flattened face..................... 222
Flatulence .......................... 254
Flesh.......26, 27, 62, 215, 256,
271, 282, 284, 291, 292,
 293, 297, 298, 305, 306,
308, 311
Flu... ..................... 62, 227, 228
Flu shot .............................. 229
Flu virus ............................. 228
FM......................................246
FMS ................................... 246
Forehead .............. 92, 116, 289
Fracture .............................. 273
Freckles ................................ 62
Frequency of urination ......... 76
Fright ..................... 31, 32, 142
Frontal headache ................ 118
Frozen shoulder ............... 7, 10
Fullness in chest ................. 106
Fullness of chest .... 54, 94, 128
Functional uterine
bleeding.........76, 100, 118
Gall stones ......................... 213
Gastralgia........68, 76, 94, 100,
106, 118, 128, 130
Gastric acidity .................... 118
Gastric and abdominal pain . 68
Gastric cancer .................... 254
Gastric neurosis ................... 68
Gastric or duodenal ulcer ..... 68
Gastric pain .......................... 94
Gastric ulcer . 94, 128, 254, 306
gastritis............................... 254
Gastritis .............................. 128
Gastroesophageal reflux
disease ........................ 254
Gastroptosis ........... 68, 94, 128
General aching ..................... 76
General malaise ................. 118
General weakness ................ 94
Genital.......211, 212, 224, 234,
241, 248, 268, 276, 279,
320
Genital Area ....................... 248
Genitals..........24, 25, 200, 234,
293, 307
GERD ................................ 254
Gingivitis ............................. 68
Glaucoma....118, 249, 250,
251, 277
Glossitis ............................... 62
Gout ........................... 252, 253
Grief ...................... 31, 32, 142
Groaning .............................. 33
Guillain–Barré syndrome . 226,
229
Gums ............................. 60, 62
Hair.. .................. 26, 27, 28, 29
Hairline ................................ 66
Halitosis ............................. 130
Hand .................... 34, 219, 222
Hansen's disease ........ 277, 278
Happiness ...................... 31, 32
Headache.....6, 54, 62, 87, 112,
124, 130, 230, 231, 243,
258, 259, 296
Headache (frontal, on sides,
occipital, and/or vertical)
...................................... 94
Headache or migraine around
forehead ........................ 68
Hearing..........24, 25, 288, 318,
319, 326
Heartburn ... 188, 191, 270, 306
Heat stroke ........... 94, 106, 130
Heel ................................... 252
Helicobacter pylori .... 254, 255
Hematuria ............................ 94
Hemiplegia ...... 62, 68, 76, 118
Hemoptysis .................. 54, 100
Hemorrhoids ........ 94, 128, 256
Hemorrhoids with bleeding 130
Hepatitis.......94, 118, 124, 258,
259
Hepatomegaly ...................... 94
Hernia......68, 76, 94, 100, 124,
128
Hiccough ..................... 94, 100
333
Hiccup .......................... 68, 106
Hiccups ...................... 118, 128
High blood pressure ............. 38
Hoarse voice ........................ 80
Hyperacidity................... 28, 56
Hyperhydrosis ...................... 62
Hypertension...62, 68, 118,
124, 260, 261, 262, 263,
267
Hyperthyroidism.118, 264, 265
Hypohidrosis Leucoma ........ 62
Hypohydrosis ....................... 76
Hypothyroidism ................. 266
Hysteria ........ 80, 100, 106, 130
IBS......................................275
Ibuprofen............................ 267
Impaired hearing .................. 25
Impairment of arm motion . 112
Impotence......76, 94, 100, 124,
128, 130, 267, 268, 269
Incontinence ....................... 320
Incontinence or retention of
urine ............................ 128
Indigestion ................... 28, 270
Ineffectualness ........... 305, 311
Infantile convulsion ........... 100
Infantile convulsions ............ 94
Infantile regurgitation ........ 128
Infection1....40, 179, 254, 270,
271, 275, 280, 305, 311
Infection of urogenital system
.................................... 124
Infections ... 254, 258, 290, 307
Inflammation1.....79, 180, 211,
216, 234, 237, 254, 258,
270, 280, 287, 291, 294,
305, 306, 307, 311
Inflammation of the axillary
lymph nodes ................ 118
Inflammation of the inguinal
lymphonodus ................ 76
334
Inflammation of the pelvic
organs ......................... 124
Injury.....271, 272, 274, 295,
301, 305, 307, 311
Insomnia....38, 76, 80, 94, 106,
124, 130
Intercostal neuralgia......68, 94,
100, 118, 274
Intestinal paralysis ............... 76
Intestinal parasitosis ............ 76
Intracerebral hemorrhage ... 221
Irregular female menstruation
.................................... 118
Irregular menstruation...76, 94,
100, 124, 128, 130
Itching ................ 150, 305, 311
Jaundice ....... 94, 100, 130, 258
Jaundice, Lacrimation .......... 94
Joint ........... 204, 252, 284, 285
Joint ache ................... 258, 259
Joint stiffness ..................... 246
Kidney failure ...................... 87
Kidney stone .............. 252, 276
Kimchi ................. 39, 254, 255
Knee........2, 10, 11, 66, 74,
204, 206, 207, 252, 253,
271, 307
Knee arthritis ..................... 142
Knee pain ........................... 100
Lacrimation.......................... 68
Languor................................ 22
Laugh ....................... 31, 32, 33
Learning disability ..... 238, 239
Leg pain ............................... 94
Leprosy ...................... 277, 278
Lesions of the soft tissue of the
back .............................. 94
Leucoma .............................. 94
Leukorrhea ... 94, 128, 279, 280
Lie...........................35, 37, 142
Lips. 24, 25, 28, 62, 66, 74, 295
Liver cancer ....................... 217
Liver diseases....................... 94
Loss of appetite .................. 231
Lou Gehrig's disease....26, 281,
321
Low back pain.................... 308
Lower abdomen ................... 74
Lower abdominal pain ....... 100
Lumbago.76, 87, 100, 124, 130
Lumbago and back pain ..... 130
Lumbago and leg pain ....... 118
Lung cancer ....................... 217
Lupus ................. 284, 285, 322
Lymph nodes ..................... 106
Malaise............................... 258
Malaria ... 87, 94, 106, 112, 130
Malposition of fetus ............. 94
mandible .............................. 66
Mandible arthritis................. 68
Mania ................................. 100
Marrow .......................... 26, 27
Mastitis.62, 68, 76, 87, 94, 100,
106, 118, 124, 287, 293
Melancholy ........................ 142
Meniere’s disease....... 288, 318
Meniere's syndrome ........... 100
Menorrhagia ... 68, 76, 124, 128
Menstrual pain ............. 56, 307
Mental disorder ...... 68, 76, 100
Mental disorders .. 87, 128, 130
Middle-ear infection ............ 10
Migraine....2, 6, 7, 17, 56, 180,
192, 289
Migraine on sides ............... 118
Milk ............. 40, 236, 322, 323
Motor impairment of upper
extremities .................. 118
Mouth....24, 25, 211, 212, 248,
296, 297, 298
MS......................290, 291, 292
Multiple sclerosis......290, 291,
292
Mumps ....................... 293, 294
Muscle....31, 214, 222, 241,
244, 245, 246, 247, 256,
258, 259, 271, 274, 276,
281, 282, 284, 285, 291,
292, 293, 297, 298, 305,
306, 308, 311
Muscle aches ............. 230, 231
Mutism......295, 296, 297, 298,
299
Myopia .................. 68, 94, 100
Nails .................................... 28
Nasal congestion........ 230, 231
Nasal obstruction...62, 94, 118,
130
Nasopharyngitis ................. 226
Nausea.......6, 7, 254, 258, 259,
270
Nausea and vomiting ... 68, 100
Neck ............................ 60, 216
Nephritis .......... 10, 68, 94, 100
Neurasthenia..........80, 94, 100,
106, 118, 128, 130
Neurodermatitis ................... 62
Neurodermatitis of lateral
aspect of thigh ............ 118
Neurosis ............................. 130
Neurotic nausea and vomiting
...................................... 94
Night blindness .................. 118
Night sweating ....... 80, 87, 100
No sense of smell .......... 10, 25
Nocturnal emission 76, 94, 100
Nose ......................... 24, 25, 30
NSAID ............................... 267
Numbness .. 246, 271, 305, 311
Numbness and aching of upper
extremities .................... 87
Numbness and chilliness of the
leg and knee .................. 76
Numbness of elbow and arm
..................................... .94
Numbness of hand and arm . 80
335
Numbness of the Fingers ..... 87
Occipital headache ............... 87
Odontalgia .......................... 310
Oophoritis .......................... 293
Ophthalmalgia ........ 68, 94, 118
Optic atrophy ....................... 68
Orchitis .. 76, 94, 100, 118, 293
Osteoarthritis ...... 204, 206, 207
Osteoporosis....................... 303
Otitis media ................ 112, 118
Overwork ................... 224, 324
Ozena ................................... 25
Pain..2, 6, 24, 37, 38, 45, 47,
69, 76, 80, 87, 94, 100,
106, 112, 118, 124, 128,
130, 139, 140, 150, 187,
190, 193, 201, 202, 208,
222, 232, 246, 270, 271,
272, 273, 283, 296, 303,
304, 305, 306, 307, 308,
309, 310, 311, 324, 326,
327
Pain and constriction of
shoulder joint ................ 87
Pain and distention of chest,
costal and hypochondriac
region ............................ 76
Pain and motor impairment of
elbow and arm............... 54
Pain and paralysis of the upper
extremities .................... 62
Pain and restricted movement
of elbow and arm .......... 62
Pain and swelling of cheek and
submaxillary region .... 118
Pain and swelling of dorsum of
foot ................................ 68
Pain and swelling of elbow and
arm ................................ 54
Pain and swelling of lips and
cheek ............................. 68
336
Pain and swelling of the ankle
region ............................ 94
Pain and swelling of the gum
.................................... 130
Pain and swelling of the
scapular joint .............. 112
Pain and swelling of the testis
.................................... 100
Pain and swelling of the throat
.................................... 128
Pain and swelling of throat and
pharynx ......................... 62
Pain and weakness of the arm
...................................... 87
Pain in ankle joint, axilla, back,
foot, knee joint, lateral
aspect of leg, legs, lower
abdomen, lower
extremities, lumbar region
and shoulder ............... 118
Pain in arm and the cardiac
region ............................ 80
Pain in arm, back, hand, neck
and shoulder ............... 112
Pain in cardiac region and the
penis ........................... 128
Pain in chest and costal region
.................................... 100
Pain in chest, the medial aspect
of upper arm, the shoulder,
the back, the wrist and/or
hand .............................. 54
Pain in the ankle joint .......... 76
Pain in the back ................... 87
Pain in the back, heel, leg,
shoulder, sole, spinal
column and the lumbo-
sacral region ................. 94
Pain in the back, the chest, the
hypochondriac region and
in the medial aspect of
arm.............................. 106
Pain in the costal and
hypochondriac regions,
joints and in the shoulder
and arm ......................... 80
Pain in the costal region, the
hypochondriac region, the
joints of lower extremities,
the knee joint, the leg, the
lower abdomen, the
medial aspect of thigh,
and the penis ............... 124
Pain in the forearm, and in the
upper extremities and arm
and in wrist and hand .... 62
Pain in the sacrolumbar region
.................................... 130
Pain or paralysis of lower
extremities .................... 68
Pain reliever 267, 268, 304,
305
Pain, constriction and
numbness in the elbow
and arm, ........................ 62
Painful heel ........................ 100
Palpitation ............ 80, 106, 128
Palsy ...................... 31, 34, 218
Panic disorder ...................... 62
Paralysis . 26, 68, 245, 305, 311
Paralysis and numbness or
pain of lower extremities
...................................... 94
Paralysis of diaphragm muscle
and lateral aspect of lower
extremities .................... 94
Paralysis of lower extremities
.................... 100, 118, 124
Paralysis of the abdominis ... 68
Paralysis of upper extremities
.......................... 62, 80, 87
Paralysis of upper extremities
or hands ...................... 112
Parkinson’s disease 11, 26, 321
Parkinsonism ............... 80, 106
Parkinson's disease ............ 218
Parotitis.................. 62, 68, 112
Pelvic inflammation........... 128
Pelvis ......................... 201, 202
Pensiveness .................. 32, 142
Peptic ulcers ...................... 254
Perforation of gastric ......... 306
Pericarditis ........................... 94
Peritonitis .................... 62, 128
Persistent cough ................. 130
Pertussis ............. 208, 210, 214
Pharyngitis ........... 62, 118, 128
Phonophobia .......................... 6
Photophobia ........................... 6
Pinch .......................... 305, 311
Pleuritis....10, 68, 94, 100, 106,
118, 124, 128
Pneumonia ..................... 62, 94
Podagra .............................. 252
Poor eyesight ..................... 130
Poor memory ..................... 130
Pork ................. 39, 40, 41, 236
Postpartum abdominal pain.
.................................... 100
Postpartum pain ................. 128
Posttraumatic stress disorder
.................................... 246
Prolapse of rectum ....... 94, 130
Prolapse of the uterus ........100,
124, 128
Prolapse of uterus ................ 68
Prostate cancer ............. 42, 217
Prostatitis ................... 312, 314
Pruritus ................................ 10
Pruritus of skin .................... 94
Pulmonary tuberculosis ... ...10,
54, 94, 128
Radioactivity Exposure, ...... 62
Radius of arm .................... 309
Redness and swelling of ear
.................................... 112
337
Redness and swelling of eye ....
94, 124
Redness and swelling of
fingers and back of hand
...................................... 62
Regurgitation ..................... 254
Respiratory ......................... 282
Respiratory failure ............... 54
Respiratory system 196, 198,
199, 209, 226, 284, 285
Respiratory tract ......... 277, 278
Retention of urine....68, 76, 94,
124
Rheumatic disorder ............ 204
Rheumatism ................. 68, 204
Rheumatoid arthritis... 204, 207
Rhinitis...........56, 62, 94, 118,
130, 315, 316
Rhinoviruses ...................... 226
Rigidity and stiffness of neck
............................ 112, 118
Rigidity or stiffness of neck . 87
Rigor .................................... 10
Ringing noise ................. 25, 26
Rosacea .............................. 130
Runny nose......1, 30, 179, 226,
230, 231
Sacral neuralgia.................... 94
Sadness .................. 31, 32, 224
Saliva ............................. 30, 31
Salivation ..................... 68, 118
Salt................................39, 323
Schizophrenia........68, 94, 106,
130
Sciatica ................... 62, 94, 118
Scoliosis ............................. 307
Sea sick ................................ 62
Seeing .................... 35, 36, 142
Selective mutism ................ 295
Sense .................................... 24
Shingles................................ 62
Shock ......................... 100, 130
338
Shortness of breath .............. 54
Shoulder......................... 56, 60
Shoulder and back pain........ 62
Shouting ............................... 33
Shudder .......................... 32, 34
Sighing................................. 33
Simple thyroid goitre ........... 62
Sinews ................................. 26
Singing................................. 33
Sinus infection ..................... 25
Sinusitis . 1, 10, 25, 62, 94, 317
Sit...................................35, 37
Sitting ................................ 142
Skin......2, 4, 26, 27, 37, 41, 62,
193, 196, 198, 199, 200,
215, 222, 230, 243, 244,
271, 272, 277, 284, 285,
291, 292, 293, 305, 306,
308, 311
Skin cancer ........................ 217
Skin disease ... 38, 41, 322, 323
SLE 284, 322
Sleep disturbance ............... 246
Slenomegalia, Spermatorrhea
.................................... 124
Smell ...................... 24, 39, 326
Smoking ............................. 267
Sneeze .................................. 34
Snivel ................................... 30
Sole of the foot .......... 102, 306
Sore throat........54, 62, 68, 87,
100, 112, 226, 230, 231
Sorrow ........................... 31, 32
Spasm ........................ 305, 311
Spasm of masseter muscle ... 69
Spasm of the gastrocnemius..
...................... 94, 100, 118
Spasm of the rectus abdominis
...................................... 68
Spastic colon ...................... 275
Spermatid ............................. 76
Spermatorrhea.........69, 76, 94,
100, 128, 130
Spinal caries ....................... 307
Spinal cord ... 98, 290, 291, 292
Spinal curvature ........... 32, 307
Spinal disc.......................... 305
Spine....32, 60, 80, 92, 98, 116,
201, 202, 307, 308
Spirits ................................... 33
Splenomegaly ...................... 94
Spondylitis ......................... 307
Sprain of the lumbar region . 94
Stand .............................. 35, 37
Standing ....................... 37, 142
Stiff neck........................ 54, 69
Stiffness and pain in the neck
.................................... 130
Stiffness and rigidity of neck
...................................... 94
Stiffness of the spinal column
.................................... 130
Stiffness of tongue ............... 80
Stomach...........25, 68, 76, 199,
215, 221, 238, 244, 245,
254, 261, 271, 327
Stomach ache.........1, 192, 254,
306, 322
Stomach cancer .......... 217, 255
Stomach lining ................... 254
Stomatitis ..................... 62, 106
Stool ..................... 60, 233, 291
Stress .............. 31, 32, 246, 326
Stroke ................. 221, 222, 223
Swallow ............. 247, 248, 306
Sweat ................................... 30
Swell .......................... 305, 311
Swelling and pain of the gum
.................................... 118
Swelling of cheek .............. 118
Swelling of the gum ........... 128
Swelling of the neck and
submaxillary region ...... 87
Swine flu ................... 226, 229
Syndrome .......................... 218
Systemic hypoperfusion .... 221
Systemic lupus erythematosus
............................ 284, 322
Tachycardia ....................... 106
Taste .............................. 24, 39
Tears ............................ 30, 232
teeth ..................................... 62
Tendon.....26, 31, 59, 222, 241,
247, 252, 256, 271, 274,
305, 306, 308, 311
Tension .............................. 224
Testitis ................................. 69
Thermal burns...................... 69
Thigh ............................. 66, 74
Thoracalgia....76, 94, 100, 118,
128
Thoraco-costal pain ........... 112
Throat....54, 66, 295, 296, 297,
298
Throat cancer ....................... 10
Thromboangiitis obliterans 215
Thrombotic stroke ............. 221
Tingling ............................. 246
Tingling and numbness of
upper extremities .......... 62
Tinnitus......25, 62, 87, 94, 112,
118, 318, 319
Tissue....26, 35, 246, 250, 252,
258, 271, 287, 304, 305,
308, 311
Tongue.....24, 74, 98, 295, 296,
297, 298
Tongue cancer ..................... 24
Tonsillitis........54, 62, 69, 87,
100, 118
Toothache........62, 69, 87, 100,
112, 118, 128, 130, 310
Tophi ................................. 252
Trachea ...................... 297, 298
Tremor ................................. 62
339
Tremor of forearm ............... 80
Trigeminal neuralgia.......62,
69, 87
Trismus .............................. 112
Tuberculosis of cervical lymph
nodes ............................. 62
Tuberculosis of vomiting ... 106
Tumor..........24, 216, 217, 305,
307, 311
Twitching of eyelids ............ 69
Ulnar neuralgia .................... 80
Umbilical pain...................... 76
Upper abdomen .................. 270
Upper abdominal fullness .. 270
Urate nephropathy.............. 252
Urethritis .................... 124, 128
Urethritis, Uterine bleeding.
.................................... 124
Uric acid............................. 252
Urinary retention ................ 320
Urinary stone...................... 276
Urinary tract infection ........ 320
Urination ............ 247, 291, 292
Urogenital diseases ........ 69, 94
Urticaria ................. 76, 94, 240
340
Uterine bleeding ................ 128
Uterine cancer ...................... 10
Vaccine .............. 226, 227, 229
Venous thrombosis ............ 221
Vertical headache .............. 118
Vertigo ............................... 130
Vhinopharyngitis ............... 226
Virus .......... 208, 226, 229, 258
Vision .. 24, 249, 251, 291, 326
Vitiligo ................................. 62
Vocal cords........295, 296, 297,
298
Vomiting......6, 76, 87, 94, 112,
118, 128, 130, 243, 254,
258, 259
Walk .................................... 35
Walking ....... 2, 25, 35, 36, 142
Weakness of limbs ............... 76
Weight loss .......................... 38
Whimpering ......................... 33
Whooping cough 208, 210, 214
Worry................................. 142
Wrinkles ............................ 222
Wrist ...................... 56, 80, 252
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