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NOTES

31 Essential Questions Chapter 29.

1 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9.

32 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 19.

2 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 7.

33 Essential Questions Chapter 61.

3 Essential Questions Chapter 63.

34 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 2.

4 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9 and Essential Questions Chapter 70.

35 Essential Questions Chapter 61.

5 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 21.

36 Essential Questions Chapter 61.

6 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.

37 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 2.

7 Essential Questions Chapter 47.

38 Essential Questions Chapter 61.

8 Essential Questions Chapter 61.

39 Essential Questions Chapter 74.

9 The Heart & Essence of Dan-xis Methods of Treatment, A

Translation of Zhu Dan-xis Dan Xi Zhi Fa Xin Yao, Blue
Poppy Press, p. 315.

40 Quoted in Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Foreign

Languages Press, Beijing.

10 Ibid.
11 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 2.
12 The Ode to Elucidate Mysteries says that Dabao SP-21
dominates the upper region, Tianshu ST-25 the middle
region, and Diji SP-8 the lower region.
13 Quoted in Grasping the Wind, by Andrew Ellis, Nigel
Wiseman and Ken Boss, Paradigm Publications, 1989, page
79.
14 Many classical texts ascribe these two names to the point
Qixue KID-13. The Supplement to the Thousand Ducat
Formulas, however, is quite clear that the point is Shuidao
ST-28, referring to the points located 2 cun either side of
Guanyuan REN-4.
15 Essential Questions Chapter 62.
16 Essential Questions Chapter 61.
17 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
18 Essential Questions Chapter 61.
19 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 78.
20 Ma Dan-yang was the originator of the Song of the Eleven
Heavenly Star Points. They first appeared in print in the 12th
century CE Classic of the Jade Dragon. Xu Feng included
this text in his work Complete Collection of Acupuncture and
Moxibustion and added a twelfth point, Taichong LIV-3.
21 Classic of Difficulties 68th Difficulty.
22 Spiritual Pivot Chapters 4 and 44 respectively.
23 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 19.
24 Classic of Categories.
25 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 56.
26 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 60.
27 Essential Questions Chapter 18.
28 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
29 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 78.
30 i. Heart taxation: principally involving damage to Heart
blood, ii. Spleen taxation: overeating or excessive worry and
pensiveness injure the Spleen qi, iii. Lung taxation: depletion
of Lung qi or yin iv. Kidney taxation: damage to Kidney qi
from excessive sex, v. Liver taxation: injury to Liver qi by
mental excitement with such signs as unclear vision, pain of
the chest and hypochondrium, flaccid muscles and tendons
and difficulty of movement.

41 Classic of Difficulties 68th Difficulty.

42 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9.