Thank you for the follow-up. It brings me to one more question though.
I know chakras aren't a part of the TCM framework, so I'm asking more for your personal opinion. Does empowering the chakras have any direct effect on the TCM structures? As in, does it help replenish anything else besides qi and does it help expel pathogenic factors? For example, would solar plexus chakra work help gallbladder deficiency, heart chakra work heart excess/deficiency?
Would starting the full chakra meditation daily improve someone's health and correct the TCM disease patter, if he didn't work with the chakras daily, until now? (over a longer period of time)
I'm asking because the chakras are said to influence one's health in a major way by both HPS Pythia and HP Zevios Metathronos, so I'm intrigued to find out, how health improvement via chakra healing happens. Does it somehow bypass the TCM patterns causing disease or does it only help in a way of providing a lot of qi, so the body can deal with the problem better?
Chakras are located at major concentration points of the medical channels of the body.
The truth of the matter is that the meridians or nadis are one and the same however certain areas on the surface of the body are delineated for ease of reference for function.
All of the meridians come from the one sushummna or central channel or penetrating vessel, Chong mai.
From here there is a branch to the male and female channels, governing and conception, Ren and Du Mai.
The Ren and Du disperse into the extraordinary channels, Yin Wei, Yang Wei and Yin Qiao, Yang Qiao.
The Girdling vessel or Dai Mai links all of the vertical ascending channels (which is all of the extraordinary channels) by virtue of its path around the hips.
This means that all of the 8 channels from which all other channels arise (12 organ channels) are actually 1 which leaves 13 channels total.
The sub branches, connecting branches and internal pathways along with the collaterals (very small fine channels that cover the entire body inside and out) make up the 144,000 Nadis of the body.
The internal pathways amass at the chakras and this is where spiritual energy enters the channels to affect the body.
So yes, meditation directly acts on the TCM structures.
The minor energy circulation of the front and back chakras of the body is in contrast to the great circulation whereby the energy is moved around along the pathways of the meridians on the surface of the body.
It's ill advised to attempt this without knowing the paths of the channels well as it is easy to get lost but the general path starts at the chest and goes to the fingers, then along the back of the arm to the neck and face, then down the back of the body (with the exception of the stomach channel) to the feet and up the inside of the leg and abdomen to the chest to enter the next channel.
One cycle will pass through four channels and will cross the body under the nose when the large intestine channel is followed on the second cycle.