The Chinese Medicine Holomap

My introduction to astrology came through my father when I was teenager. He worked at home, so it was quite common that when I returned from school I went straight to the kitchen and made a sandwich from his latest grocery pillage; turkey with lingonberries and mayonnaise spread on a sourdough roll with a bottle of I.B.C. root beer to wash it down. Then I would saunter into the living room and pull up a TV tray to get down to business.

Often, we would discuss some subject that he had been reading about, the book always laying on the armrest of his lazy boy. He was a Metal Dragon that would spend his days searching, whether flying around the country in his Econoline van to visit fellow book dealers, reading AbeBooks for online treasures, or laying on his horde in our basement, preparing his catalogs for universities. When I would enter his resting domain (our living room), tales of the pharaoh’s pyramids or encounters with the occult were the backdrop for our father and son discussions. Surely, it was enough to keep the Water Boar (that’s me) hungry for the search of his own treasures.

Electromagnetic Jewels

The sun, the moon and all the other planets create tidal effects in the Earth’s magnetosphere (the outer reaches of the atmosphere), affecting the flow of charged particles and causing fluctuations in the geomagnetic field at the Earth’s surface. These magnetic fluctuations are many thousands of times stronger than human neuromagnetic fields, which permeate our brains and extend beyond our skin, and hold significant inflence on us. Experiments have shown that people’s subjective states are reflected in their neuromagnetic field — e.g., alpha rhythms.

The Earth’s magnetic field changes regularly, thereby affecting the human neuromagnetic fields in the cerebellum resulting in similar personality traits for those developing at similar times and in similar locations on Earth. A complex magnetic field not only establishes the pattern of the human brain at birth, but continues to regulate and control it through life. The human central nervous system is a superb receptor of electro-magnetic waves, the finest in nature. The ten million cells in our brains form a myriad of possible circuits through which electricity can channel.

Bazi — Chinese Astrology

Bazi is a Chinese term that means eight (ba) characters or words (zi). Colloquially it refers to the Pillars of Destiny that are believed to characterize a person’s path through life, based on considering the Year, Month, Day, and Hour of their birth. The Year Pillar represents the general characteristics that you may expect to share with the cohort of people who are born in the same year. The Month Pillar represents your archetypal inner qualities, especially as these express a deeper, wiser or older self. It may also indicate characteristics that become more apparent in your later years. The Day Pillar is generally the most significant. It indicates your everyday personality — the socialized version of yourself that you normally express and that other people experience and respond to. It may also suggest characteristics that become clearer in your adult years, or when you are at your prime. The Hour Pillar represents your natural, spontaneous, untutored self. Perhaps you usually keep this self private, holding back from expressing its qualities because they might appear childish or otherwise unacceptable. When under stress, or at times of crisis, you may find that your natural self tends to burst out uncomfortably. Alternatively, when you are fully relaxed, or in the company of children, it may express itself through play or creative activity.

The ancient Chinese astrologers were mapping how our brain responds to the changes in the earth’s magnetic field. The earth’s magnetic field is influenced by the tides in the gases of the sun which create sunspots. The solar system’s planets orbit the sun because of its strong gravitational pull which along with the planets themselves exert further influence upon earth’s magnetic field. The gravitational pull of the moon pulls on the earth’s oceans creating the high and low tidal cycle. Quite a lot of pulling in the universe.

The planet’s rotations occur in repeatable cycles of sixty years. That means that every zodiac sign will appear as one of the Five Elements in that time. Zodiac signs and Elements are ancient code words that help us chart the flow of the electromagnetic fields around us and how they influence our growth and behavior. So much for superstitious mumbo jumbo!

The holomap is a chart that aligns the 28 remedies in the Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas? family around the cosmological holomap of the Chinese organ networks that Heiner Fruehauf so often teaches about and has spent over 25 years researching. This chart is primarily to show, at one glance, where the constitutional home of each remedy is. The chart includes a short description of how the remedy functions with regard to Chinese medical physiology.

Heiner Fruehauf’s Holomap uses the Chinese astrological animal signs and links them to Chinese medicine herbal formulas that he’s learned over his thirty year career, close associations with the Fire Spirit School, and numerous other senior practitioners that he’s trained with in China. Each sign is represented on the body clock which is a representation of where the?Qi?is strongest at any two hour interval. For example, 11pm-1am is the?Rat’s?time when the?Qi?is strongest in the?Pericardium. A useful herbal formula for the?Rat?would be?Ease Pearls.

All ancient systems of knowledge transmitted their data in the multi-dimensional vehicle of symbol and myth. Since modern modes of intellectual training tend to not be familiar anymore with the process of reading and extracting concrete meaning from symbolic modes of transmission, much of the diagnostic and clinical intricacies of Chinese medicine are unavailable to practitioners today.

Much study and much practice is required when you enter the temple of classical Chinese medicine!