From All illness has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems - how what Master Yan shares compares to Esogetic Medicine
- Alahnnaa Campbell
- 4 days ago
- 10 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Master Yan sent us this:
"Depression, Joint Pain, Yellow Skin, Poor Sleep — Actually One Problem
You go to the hospital but they can't find anything. Yet the problem is real and present.
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1. Do You Have These Problems?
Joint pain, especially in the tendons and bones — ache here, hurt there.
Frequent leg cramps, and varicose veins becoming more noticeable.
Yellow skin, no glow, no matter how much you care for it.
Severe hair loss, hair quality getting worse.
Can't sleep well at night, tossing and turning, finally falling asleep only to wake up again.
Low mood, don't want to do anything, don't want to talk, shut yourself in the room.
Floaters (eye floaters), black dots floating in front of your eyes, blurred vision, dry eyes, red veins.
Always sighing, feeling like you can only breathe comfortably after a long exhale.
Dull pain or bloating on both sides of the ribs, feeling of fullness in the chest and flanks.
Numbness in hands and feet, poor sensation in fingertips and toes.
Brittle nails, many vertical ridges, easy to break.
Bitter taste in the mouth when waking up.
Can't control your temper, exploding over small things.
Or the opposite: no interest in anything, feeling numb overall.
Recurring migraines, and tinnitus developing.
Frequent constipation or diarrhea, bloating, poor appetite, indigestion.
Red tongue edges, teeth marks on the tongue edges.
Women: irregular periods, scanty dark flow, or amenorrhea; breast lumps, severe premenstrual breast pain.
Dizziness and headaches, feeling drowsy and fatigued throughout the day, lacking energy.
If you have two or more of these problems, you go to the hospital, and they'll likely tell you "nothing serious."
But you're genuinely uncomfortable.
Why? Because the root of these problems, the instruments at the hospital simply can't see.
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2. All These Symptoms Are Liver Problems
These seemingly unrelated symptoms actually share one root cause: liver stagnation.
In TCM, the liver has several core functions, and each dysfunction corresponds to a group of symptoms:
Liver governs the tendons — All tendons and joints throughout the body rely on liver blood for nourishment. Insufficient liver blood fails to nourish the tendons, leading to joint pain, sore bones, numb hands and feet, brittle nails, leg cramps, and varicose veins.
Liver opens into the eyes — The eyes are the liver's window. Sufficient liver blood keeps vision clear. When liver blood is insufficient, floaters, blurred vision, dry eyes, and red veins appear.
Liver stores blood — During the day, the liver distributes blood throughout the body; at night, blood returns to the liver. When the liver fails to store blood, blood can't return, causing poor sleep and easy fatigue. For women, irregular periods, scanty dark flow, and amenorrhea also stem from the liver not storing blood. Hair is the surplus of blood — when liver blood is insufficient, hair falls out and hair quality deteriorates.
Liver governs smooth qi flow — The smooth flow of qi depends entirely on the liver. Liver qi stagnation makes you not want to talk, shut yourself away, sigh constantly, feel chest and flank fullness. Rebellious liver qi makes you irritable and unable to control your temper. When qi is completely stuck, you feel numb and have no interest in anything.
Liver meridian runs through the flanks — The liver meridian passes through both rib sides; when liver qi stagnates, the rib areas experience dull pain and distension.
Liver meridian passes through the breasts — Liver qi stagnation leads to breast lumps, premenstrual pain, and amenorrhea.
Liver wood overwhelms spleen earth — When the liver malfunctions, the spleen and stomach follow, causing poor appetite, indigestion, frequent constipation or diarrhea, and bloating.
Liver and gallbladder are paired — Liver qi stagnation generating heat allows gallbladder bile to rise, producing bitter morning taste. Intense liver fire causes red tongue edges with teeth marks.
Liver yang rising — Stagnant liver qi transforming into fire disturbs the upper orifices, triggering recurring migraines and tinnitus.
Liver blood fails to nourish the face and head — Liver blood deficiency manifests as sallow complexion, dizziness, headaches, drowsiness, and lack of energy.
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Therefore:
Joint pain, numb hands and feet, brittle nails, leg cramps, varicose veins → liver blood failing to nourish tendons
Blurred vision, floaters, dry eyes, red veins → liver blood failing to nourish the eyes
Poor sleep, easy fatigue → liver failing to store blood
Not wanting to talk, shutting yourself away, sighing, chest and flank fullness → liver qi stagnation
Irritability → liver qi rebellion
Numbness and loss of interest → qi mechanism completely blocked
Rib pain and distension → liver meridian blockage
Breast lumps, premenstrual pain, amenorrhea → liver meridian stagnation
Yellow complexion, dizziness, headaches, drowsiness, no energy → liver blood failing to nourish the head and face
Bitter taste, red tongue edges, teeth marks → liver-gallbladder fire excess
Poor appetite, constipation or diarrhea, bloating → liver wood overwhelming spleen earth
Migraines, tinnitus → liver yang rising
Hair loss, deteriorating hair quality → liver blood failing to nourish hair
Menstrual irregularities, scanty dark flow, amenorrhea → liver failing to store blood
One root cause (liver stagnation) — over twenty directions of manifestation.
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3. Why Is Liver Blood Insufficient?
Liver blood deficiency doesn't arise in isolation; it has two upstream causes:
First: Kidney yin deficiency.
TCM says "water generates wood" — kidney belongs to water, liver to wood. Kidney water nourishes liver wood, just like enough water for the flowers to grow before the tree thrives.
Kidney yin is the fundamental yin of the entire body. When kidney yin is insufficient, liver yin is also insufficient. When liver yin is insufficient, liver blood becomes deficient.
Second: Dan tian cold.
Cold blocks the lower dan tian, preventing qi from flowing up and down. Liver qi wants to rise upward but can't move. Liver blood wants to reach the head and eyes but can't go up.
It's like a river — when the downstream is blocked, water from upstream simply cannot flow through.
Therefore, the complete causal chain of liver blood deficiency is:
Kidney yin deficiency → liver yin deficiency → liver blood deficiency → over twenty symptoms appearing simultaneously
Plus dan tian cold → qi mechanism stagnation → worsening all symptoms.
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4. How to Adjust?
Since the root causes are kidney yin deficiency, dan tian cold, and liver blood deficiency, adjustment requires doing three things together:
First: Nourish yin and tonify kidney.
Kidney yin is the root — only when kidney water is sufficient can it generate liver wood. This solves the problem at its source.
Second: Clear dan tian cold.
Once cold in the lower dan tian is cleared, the qi mechanism passages open. Only then can liver qi rise upward and liver blood reach where it needs to go.
Third: Adjust the liver.
When liver cold is expelled, liver qi flows smoothly, and liver blood becomes abundant.
Tendons receive nourishment → joints stop aching
Eyes receive blood flow → vision recovers
Liver can store blood properly → sleep improves
Liver qi becomes smooth → person becomes willing to talk
All three actions together — not just one.
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5. Dan Tian Adjusts the Root; Five Zang Organs Adjust the Symptoms
Someone asks: Is adjusting dan tian alone sufficient?
No.
Dan tian is the root. Adjusting dan tian can stop the source from creating new problems. But symptoms have already manifested — the five zang organs have already been affected. Only adjusting dan tian would make symptom relief very slow, and patients can't wait that long.
Therefore, dan tian and five zang organs must be adjusted together:
Dan tian adjusts the root — eliminates the source, solves the problem at its origin
Five zang organs adjust symptoms — rapidly eliminates problems that have already appeared
First the root, then the manifestation — simultaneously.
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6. Stop Fixating on a Single Symptom
Depression goes to psychiatry — they prescribe nerve-suppressing medication. Joint pain goes to orthopedics — they prescribe pain relievers. Poor sleep gets sleeping pills. Yellow complexion gets skincare products. Hair loss gets hair growth products. Bitter taste gets gallbladder examination. Migraines get neurology. Menstrual irregularities get gynecology. Breast lumps get surgery.
One root cause problem gets divided into ten departments, taking ten different medications — and in the end, none are resolved.
Because you're treating the leaves, not the root.
Liver stagnation is the root. Kidney yin deficiency is the root's root. Dan tian cold is the stone blocking the root.
When you adjust the root, the leaves naturally turn green again.
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Follow 任经堂, focused on dan tian adjustment."
The old RestoreChi model described eight steps to all illness:
Deficiency lets in
Cold lets in
Dampness
Coagulation sets into
Stasis creates a
Blockage which becomes a
Tumor which becomes
Cancer
I guess that makes kidney yin deficiency and dan tian cold (from what Master Yan shared above) steps one and two.
Esogetic Medicine suggests a different root
Esogetic Medicine incorporates a lot of TCM so it agrees with Master Yan's passage above that: treating isolated symptoms is ineffective. There is one root. Find it and address it, and the branches begin to resolve on their own.
Where they differ is in how deep the root goes.
TCM locates the root in the physical-energetic body — liver stagnation, kidney yin deficiency, dan tian cold. Master Yan has also said that what will cause cancer to return are negative emotions, see: -> https://www.yourlifeplan.ca/post/restorechi-stage-4-cancer-warning-signs and blood that is more yin than yang. Even so, all of these are addressable using RestoreChi and the impact can be felt. A big part of RestoreChi is to restore yang fire, but in a balanced way.
From an Esogetic perspective, the root is not an organ state. It is information, a blocked or distorted individual program — often originating in the prenatal period, at birth, or in early childhood — that has been creating downstream disturbance ever since. Specifically, because of coping with shock and dissociation, there’s insufficient hormones to pump out garbage, which leads to a collection of garbage that doesn’t get processed, so it turns to cancer.
The causal chain in Esogetic Medicine runs:
Information can’t pass through → Energy gets distorted → Body starts to break down
What shows up in the joints, the eyes, the liver, the skin — these are consequences. The effect is in the emotional and energetic patterns. The cause is in the information layer, where the original program wasn’t able to download into the body to be carried forward.
This is why Esogetic Medicine seeks to reconnect us with our unique Life Plan and open the information barriers so it can flow through our life and our personality (or unwillingness to engage with conflict) doesn’t shut it down.
In Esogetics, the dan tian would be the gut/feeling brain, or maybe Yesod, where we store the film of everything that happened to us in life. Esogetic Medicine also talks about the solar plexus (upper abdomen or Tepheret) being the area that registers all stress and tension and what prevents the flow of information between the three brains (head, heart, and gut).
A Kirlian photo shows the degree to which a person is in the flow between rigidity, reaction, and insufficient resources
The principle underlying Esogetic Medicine is simple:
Everything that flows is healthy. Everything that does not flow is sick.
In every photo there is something we can do. Either we help the person move whatever is reacting inside their body out — giving it somewhere to go. Or we give them resources so they can be present and cope with what is going on. Or we shake up their rigidity so they can begin to react again. The photo tells us which is needed.
For those who want the clinical detail: liver stagnation in Esogetic Medicine shows up primarily in the right big toe (liver parenchyme) and the right hand (Beta quadrant). When this quadrant is missing or more stressed than others, the background may be rooted in liver stagnation. Spleen dampness shows up primarily in the left big toe, and the left foot (Delta quadrant). Heart fire and small intestine insufficiency shows up in the little fingers. While kidney insufficiency shows up in the little toes, the bottom of the middle fingers, and the left hand (Alpha quadrant). I mention this because Kevin (Master Yan's lead local student) often asks me to look at people's Kirlian photo to see where they need to place the specialty speakers - belly button, left then right kidney, liver, spleen, or heart. For more on the role of the spleen in the ability to engage in exercise, see: -> Instead of Starving Yourself — A More Loving Approach to Perimenopause, Hormones, and Weight
If you look at the Kirlian map on the Physical Health Page, you may notice that when the right hand and left foot are significantly altered, this points to the father axis. The right foot (Theta quadrant, lung/large intestine) is not mentioned in Master Yan’s theory above (only disturbed relaxed awake brain kidney/alpha, no mention of disrupted ability to resolve conflict through dreams lungs/theta), so disruption of the mother axis doesn’t seem to be fully represented in Master Yan’s theory.
A Kirlian photo that looks the same over multiple sessions is the body saying repeatedly: this is what I need. (In my case, my body needs me to know that I am overweight, that I do want to have alcohol again if I had it for the past 2 days, and my husband’s brain and body are noticeably being impacted by too much stress, even though knowing this causes me stress because then I have to do something about it to take responsibility for what happens if I don't, this comes up for me to help me go deeper, and see that what I truly need to heal is that my dad calling my mom was because she took us away from him, he only pointed out fat in me because he was concerned, everything happening now is because something in our early childhood still needs to be healed).
There’s a balance — between addressing what the photo is asking for and addressing what is going on in the person's life. Both matter. And ultimately the client decides. Are they getting better? Are they interested in learning more? People stay as long as it is helpful and they come back when they realize that it was.
A permanently perfect Kirlian — what Esogetic Medicine calls the Harmony Phase — is unrealistic
Life is defined by constant movement between challenge and resolution. Peter Mandel (founder of Esogetic Medicine) noted that a "life without polarity and conflict is impossible, challenges provide the dynamism needed for forward motion".
What a moment of harmony feels like:
According to case studies, harmony feels like a sense of becoming wide, feeling like the head is finally free, emotional lightness, deep peace, coming home, bliss.
The goal of therapy is give the person enough of a taste of that state that they understand what they are working toward, by moving the system from rigidity, reaction, or insufficiency back to flow.
What Esogetic Medicine is actually trying to do
Through carefully selected treatment, Esogetic Medicine sends impulses into the body, which help organize chaotic patterns in the subconscious, allowing the body to initiate its own self-healing.
The point is to help the person find themselves — to understand the why behind their suffering — so they can return to their intended life path.
Peter Mandel called this Religio: to remember oneself. To be liberated from the chains of the past — the trauma, the conditioning, the stationary conflicts — so that life can be lived in awareness, joy, and forward motion.
The Kirlian photo is not a diagnosis (because it can see things up to 6 months before they become physical), it is a direction of what is needed and why.
For those who want to learn more, Part 2 to this article is available here: Cancer and Hormonal Conditions — Diet May Be Important, but Resolving Childhood Conflict Is Key
If you want to explore this further
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