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Pakmei knows his stuff, we have both been trained in pretty much the same styles of TCM, but at different colleges.
The 7 internal and external dragons treatment does not follow normal treatment principles in terms of tonifying shen or balancing the hun etc. It is a standard stand alone treatment for heavy conditions, and is normally just refered to as treatments for posession.
One set is done on the front of the body and the other 7 on the back of the body depending whether its internal or external dragons you're doing.
The realse of the dragons traditionally was meant to ultimate devour the malign spirits habitating in the body.
Of course nowadays they term the treatment for obsessive/posessive complaints ranging from long term drug absuse, to s3xual abuse, and mind controlling abuse such as heavy occult practice etc.
Outside of that naturally one can use general spirit points to unblock the shen, balance the hun etc.
The hun is a usual one for say heavy drug use as it helps to re-align the hun (or astral body) which when out alingment one gets subtle energy absorption which can result in in extreme vivd dreams, hearing voices, seeing things, halucinations etc which nowadays gets classified under mental illness.
The Po is considered by some to be responsible for what are claimed to be ghosts that haunt places, it is part of the spirit that is nostalgic, its the spirit of the lungs, and as the Lungs are part of the Metal elemnt its easy to understand under 5 element theory why being "stuck in the past" , "clinging on to the past" "not being able to move on" etc applies to the lung spirit.
The Shen is what ascends and passes over as it were as it is the most essential part of the spirit. Lonnie Jarret's "Nourishing destiny" is an excellent book to get a greater depth about Chinese thought on the spirits and their associated organs from a TCM perpsective.
Literautre on 7 dragons methodology and practice is extremely rare to find.
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