This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 is From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 2 is Cancer and Hormonal Conditions — Diet May Be Important, but Resolving Childhood Conflict Is Key. The grandparent article Parenting and Grandparenting Relationships Amongst the Major TCM Organ Pairs runs alongside this series as a personal clinical companion. The man with the fan I met someone recently who was wearing fan necklace. I asked about it

This is Part 2 of a series. If it is of interest to you, you can start with Part 1: From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 3 can be found here: Just Because Not Everyone Is Ready to Hear It Doesn't Mean It Isn't True — What I Couldn't Say to the Man with the Fan What Master Yan's framework (Part 1) helps us understand about cancer and sugar Master Yan's framework maps well onto what many people with systemic hormonal conditions

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. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ha

This article is intended to provide a more detailed explanation of what You Have A Life Plan brought to the 2026 Fun Fair. If you were there, welcome back. If you weren't, let me catch you up. Here’s the cover to the booklet that You Have A Life Plan brought to the 2026 Fun Fair: Here are the photos that were in the booklet (with a bit more information about what each photo represents) The stress from attending public school before readiness caused my middle child's left ey

This article has been on hold for a while, I was just waiting for the right pieces to come together. A couple days ago I started watching Eli Stone on Disney+ Canada. I find it interesting how so many people are interested in seeing that everything is connected, we see what we need to see when we need to see it, in order to find our life path, and heal our unresolved wounds. And unfortunately, like Eli Stone, I seem to experience learning through pain, in order to know how to

Who this article is for If your child toe-walks, struggles with transitions, scans every room for signs of danger or safety, holds deep grudges against certain people, can be demanding and have extreme separation anxiety, demands the same limited comfort foods foods, has minimal patience, hits their head or scratches their face when overwhelmed, and cannot tolerate unpredictable people who do not respect their limits — this article is for you. These are the signs our youngest

Two years ago (April, 2024), shortly after getting my Kirlian camera, I took my son to see Master Yan with his 7th kirlian photo: How I would read this photo now differs from what I knew then. Now I can see that his mental health and self-care were not in place, he was coping by dissociating, and he didn't have sufficient hormonal regulation to pump garbage out of his body, and sleep might be a challenge. If he were an adult, and not my child, I would have started trying to r

There is a scene in a medical drama where a surgeon says: "I'm a surgeon. I don't do prevention." That's the difference between what mainstream medicine offers and what I do. But like a surgeon, I also assess risk before choosing a path forward. Why I can't always start with physical healing When someone comes to me with serious physical symptoms — cancer relapse, serious systemic illness, debilitating accident — my first question is not "what is wrong with the body?" It is "

I know better. And still, after giving in to one ice cream and two crazy breads, I'm awake before 3am with my right arm still in pain, my vision blurring as my arm heals (better when I go outside than when I sit too long at my computer/screens), and my liver doing exactly what the TCM clock says it would be doing at this hour — trying to clean up. This article is about what happens when we self-sabotage, what the body does in response, and what the TCM clock teaches us about

I almost skipped writing this article, but I was drawn to circle back because it is important. What the uterus carries The uterus is not just a reproductive organ. It is the first environment. What it contains — the mother's unresolved conflicts, her accumulated toxins, her hormonal state, her sense of safety in the world — has an impact on her developing fetus. A woman's first born tends to carry the bulk of what she has taken up until the baby's birth. This is not blame. It

Pain is the body's way of telling us that chill is stuck inside our body and is looking for a way to escape. Chill causes bracing. Bracing prevents rest, sleep, and recovery. Over time, people develop deep creases in their face or body — from years of holding tension they did not know how to release. The body molds itself around what it is trying to silence and keep away from the heart. What determines whether chill resolves or compounds is almost never the chill itself. It i

Most people think of diabetes as a blood sugar problem. RestoreChi and TCM see it differently — and the difference matters because, by the time blood sugar shows up in a test, the body has already been compensating for a long time. A distribution problem, not a blood sugar problem The liver converts carbohydrates to glucose. The small intestine absorbs nutrients. The spleen distributes what has been absorbed — sending white and red blood cells, calcium, and nutrients to where

The warning signs were there for years before the diagnosis. This is what happened when RestoreChi was part of the treatment, what made survival possible beyond a prognosis of months, and why addressing the emotional root matters more than most people are willing to accept.

This article is part of an archive series tracing the historic evolution of Master Yan's RestoreChi Specialty Tracks (older articles are not being updated, they serve only as a reference): May 14th, 2022 → Early chill/dampness release, kidney/spleen/liver function, and increase yang tracks (Shifting Perspectives on Detox to Support Embodiment) May 19th, 2022 → Stem track (It's all detox: Remove the sludge from the bottom or pour the lighter stuff out from the top) March 3rd,

I fell asleep treating sciatica directly. It helped a little but didn't clear. When I moved support to my left kidney instead, the pain finally released by morning. The loudest symptom isn't always the root — and perimenopause is one of the times that matters most.

Healing isn't always linear — and not everyone needs the same approach or pace. A clear overview of the four ways to work together, what each one is best for, and how to choose a starting point that fits where you actually are.

This video shows the many uses for the old RestoreChi Water Card, but when it came to taking a bath, those who carry a lot of “dampness” (congestion, heaviness, recurring inflammation) needed to use 2-4 cards at a time, and feeling better often came at the cost of severe detox symptoms (nausea, dizziness, sweating it out). You would also often see sticky thick yellow discharge on the walls of the bath after draining the water, and you would need to charge your shampoo with th

Good things can also contribute to allostatic load. A personal reflection on reaching a stress score of 466 — well beyond the threshold for a major health event — entirely from positive changes, and what that teaches about the nature of healing and recovery. Also a guide on how to use Tarot/Oracle cards to access your subconscious. The Recovery Spiral.

Below are my summaries for the following talks: https://themystictree.ca/event/integrating-energy-medicine-to-reversing-back-pain-with-an...

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