If the Heart is the Emperor who governs the realm, the Kidneys are the ancestral treasury and waterways that sustain the entire kingdom from below.
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To many raised in the Western medical tradition, Chinese medicine can seem like a blend of poetic metaphors, vague energies, and mystical ideas. But that perception says more about the lens we’re looking through than the subject itself.
In Chinese medicine and Taoist philosophy, the Heart is the Emperor—the sovereign who rules the kingdom of body and mind.
Jing-well points are a group of acupuncture points located at the tips of the fingers and toes, where there is little flesh. The qi at these points is considered to be shallow and narrow, yet dynamic—pouring forth like a spring or well.