The Extraordinary Meridians and the treatment of "difficult" disease

Rani Ayal

Rani Ayal will be giving three full day seminars about the Qi Jing Ba Mai in Katowice during 2012:

11/3/2012- The interaction of Shen and Jing

Spiritual, mental and physical development from birth to death

17/6/2012- From Heaven to Earth

The creation of life and treating Infertility

12/2012- When rains pour down from Heaven

Pathogenesis and treatment of autoimmune disease and chronic hormonal imbalance

The seminars will include body and pulse diagnosis techniques that are unique to the eight extraordinary meridians, point energetics, internal pathways and connections between meridians, and clinical examples for the use of specific treatment protocols.

Rani Ayal has been practicing and teaching Chinese Medicine for over twenty years.  Initially trained in Japan in Shiatsu and Meridian style Acupuncture, he returned to Israel to complete his studies in TCM acupuncture and herbal therapy.  Rani then continued training in Classical Chinese Medicine, Five Elements and Stems and Branches, under Master Acupuncturist Joan Duveen.

Former head of Acupuncture at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv and chairman of the Israeli  TCM association, Rani maintains a full time clinic for children and adults, often treating over 120 patients a week, and lectures frequently in Israel and abroad.

"There are 360 points of Acupuncture in the body. 66 points on the limbs are most important. Of these – 8 points are supreme above all"

Nei Jing, Ling Shu ch. 1

The human body consists of 12 main meridians and 15 connecting meridians through which Qi and Blood flow throughout life.

But beneath the surface flow the Qi Jing Ba Mai, or the 8 extraordinary meridians, which constitute that most elusive source of life itself: the constant interaction of "Shen" and "Jing" - from the moment of conception until the last breath of life.

The Extraordinary Meridians control the creation of life from the meeting of sperm and egg, throughout the 9 months of pregnancy until birth;

They regulate physical, mental and spiritual growth, through the system known as the 7/8 year phases of Women and Men, during life;

And they protect the body during times of abrupt and unforeseen changes, or illnesses, that cannot be dealt with through the regular Meridian network, as is written in the Nan Jing ch. 27:

"The sages of antiquity constructed ditches and reservoirs and they kept the waterways open in order to be prepared for any extraordinary situation. When rains poured down from heaven, the ditches and the reservoirs became filled. In times like that, when the rain floods rushed wildly, even the sages could not make plans again. Hence, they had to be prepared in advance…

Here (in the Human body), when the network vessels (the Main and Connecting Meridians) are filled to overflowing, the surplus Qi is diverted to the Extraordinary Meridians… Thus the person is saved from certain death."

The person can, indeed, be "saved from certain death", but at the consequences of the disease remain hidden within the extraordinary meridians, creating deep and chronic imbalance in his or her basic energetic structure. In this paragraph the Nan Jing is actually describing the pathogenesis of auto-immune diseases and chronic hormonal imbalances- diseases that occur when the body cannot deal with unforeseen conditions and the only way to survive is to divert the disease to this deep/ inner level, the level of the extraordinary meridians.