The 13 Ghost Points were compiled by the Tang Dynasty Daoist practitioner Sun Si Miao to treat severe psychiatric disorders that were believed to be caused by demonic possession. The points are organized into 3 sets of 3 points and a final set of 4 points, with each set representing a deeper level of pathology. The points are used to treat symptoms such as depression, lack of will, uncontrolled crying or laughing, inability to digest food, respiratory failure, and total possession of the body by the believed demonic entity. Chinese medicine views these internal demons as interchangeable with real external entities.
The 13 Ghost Points were compiled by the Tang Dynasty Daoist practitioner Sun Si Miao to treat severe psychiatric disorders that were believed to be caused by demonic possession. The points are organized into 3 sets of 3 points and a final set of 4 points, with each set representing a deeper level of pathology. The points are used to treat symptoms such as depression, lack of will, uncontrolled crying or laughing, inability to digest food, respiratory failure, and total possession of the body by the believed demonic entity. Chinese medicine views these internal demons as interchangeable with real external entities.
The 13 Ghost Points were compiled by the Tang Dynasty Daoist practitioner Sun Si Miao to treat severe psychiatric disorders that were believed to be caused by demonic possession. The points are organized into 3 sets of 3 points and a final set of 4 points, with each set representing a deeper level of pathology. The points are used to treat symptoms such as depression, lack of will, uncontrolled crying or laughing, inability to digest food, respiratory failure, and total possession of the body by the believed demonic entity. Chinese medicine views these internal demons as interchangeable with real external entities.
The 13 Ghost Points were compiled by the Tang Dynasty Daoist practitioner Sun Si Miao to treat severe psychiatric disorders that were believed to be caused by demonic possession. The points are organized into 3 sets of 3 points and a final set of 4 points, with each set representing a deeper level of pathology. The points are used to treat symptoms such as depression, lack of will, uncontrolled crying or laughing, inability to digest food, respiratory failure, and total possession of the body by the believed demonic entity. Chinese medicine views these internal demons as interchangeable with real external entities.
The 13 Ghost Points were compiled from the Tang Dynasty Daoist practitioner Sun Si Miao to treat demonic possession of what we would now diagnose as severe psychiatric disorders. The dilemma western culture posits: is it a real entity or an internal demon that exists only in the patient's mind? This has no meaning in Chinese Medicine. These conditions are considered interchangeable; the only difference is in the point of view.
The Ghost points are used in 3 sets of 3 points, and a 4th set of 4 points, with each successive set representing a deeper level of pathology.
• Du26 Ren Zhong/Person's Middle, aka Gui Ke Ting/Ghost Guest Room, Gui Gong/Ghost palace. Located between the nose (Heaven & breath) and the mouth (Earth & food). It opens the diaphragm and affects Zong Qi or Ancestral Qi.
• Lu11 Shao Shang,/Lesser Shang or Lesser Metal Note aka Gui Xin/Ghost Trust. Hearing sounds, voice changes. Jing Well pt, Wood pt.
• Sp1 Yin Bai/Hidden White aka Gui Lei/Ghost Fortress. Ghost takes control of legs. Obsessive behaviors, loss of appetite. Jing Well pt, Wood pt.
• P7 Da Ling/Great Mound aka Gui Xin/Ghost Heart. Earth pt on Fire channel, Shu stream & Yuan source pt. Cold Phlegm turns Hot causing insomnia, loss of Will, manic depressive symptoms, uncontrollable crying.
• UB62 Shen Mai/Extending Vessel aka Gui Lu/Ghost Path. Confluent pt of Yang Qiao Mai. Wind seizures. Ghost moves your legs in its chosen direction.
• Du24 Shen Ting/Spirit Courtyard aka Gui Zhen/Ghost Pillow. Excessive sleeping, suicidal nightmares, sleep walking. Can't verbalize what they know. 3rd Trinity: Possession, wasting of the body, occluded Blood.
• St6 Jia Che/Jaw's Vehicle aka Gui Chuang/Ghost Bed. Unable to bite, chew or process food. Can no longer ascend Pure Yang and descend Turbid Yin. Liquid food only. Invalid, bed- ridden.
• Ren24 Cheng Jiang/Contain Fluids aka Gui Shi/Ghost Market. Ghost has taken over body, shopping for new friends.
• P8 Lao Gong/Palace of Taxation & Wasting aka Gui Cu/Ghost Cave. Likes darkness, sips cold drinks, likes cold foods. Can't digest, vomits, undigested food in stools. Crying or laughing for long periods. Fire pt. on Fire channel, but Fire is exhausted. Ying Spring pt.
4th Grouping: Copious Phlegm discharge
1. Du23 Shang Xiang/Upper Star (connects to Heaven & Polaris) aka Gui Tang/Ghost Hall, Gui Gong/Ghost Palace. Treats labored breathing, wasting & thirsting, shortness of breath, loss of smell & other senses. Ghost is trying to take over one's Shen. Bumps into things, bleeding through orifices.
2. Ren1 Hui Yin/Yin Meeting aka Gui Cang/Ghost Treasure. Preparing to buy the victim or host. Choking on mucous, near respiratory failure. Phlegm mists the Mind. Person is moving toward comatose state.
3. LI11 Qu Chi/Pool at the Bend aka Gui Tui/Ghost Leg, Gui Chen/Ghost Minister. Treats: Angina, emotionally caused Heart attack (due to emotional trauma), loss of sensory orifices functioning, Exuberant Yang dizziness, and Shen Disturbance. He sea and Earth pt.
4. Yin Tang/Esoteric Hall, Extra pt aka Ni Wan/Mud Pill. Point of Enlightenment, connects to Pineal gland, Hallway of Shen, looking within. Treats Wind to Head & Calms Shen. Entity has totally taken over. Extreme emaciation, shortness of breath, manic depressive symptoms.
Note that some traditions use alternative names. Jeffrey Yuen's tradition uses the above points. Some others substitute Du16 Feng Fu/Wind Palace aka Gui Zhen/Ghost Pillow for Du24 in the 2nd Trinity and an extra point named Hai Quan/Sea's Spring, located under the tongue, in place of Yin Tang in the final grouping.