THE FIVE ELEMENT- The first encounter

While browsing through some books in a bookstore, I come across a book by Lilian Too “Flying Star Feng Shui”. As flying star Feng Shui deal with numbers, with my little knowledge in numerology. I bought the book. From the book, it talk about dividing the house into nine equal segment and assigning one of the five elements to each segment. I tested my understanding by placing the same pot of plants in different section of the house. I was amazed that at certain part of the house, the plants become more lively and vibrant while the same plants placed at another segment would cause the plants to wither.

The segment in Feng Shui that really caught my attention was the five elements that was placed into a nine square box. Each element is assigned a number and placed into the nine segment based on a formula. (Please refer to next page for the diagram of the flying star Fung Shui.) I was amazed that if we add up the number in the box vertically, horizontally or diagonally, it always add up to 15. (E.g. 4+3+8=15, 8+5+2=15, 2+7+6=15). All the numbers in the box are assigned an element,

1 =	water element
3&4 =	wood element
9 =	fire element
2, 5 & 8 =	earth element
6 & 7 =	metal element

 

I never master Feng Shui as my interest started shifting to iridology.

Little did I realized that this knowledge would one day become handy in my search for more knowledge in analyzing the iris. When I started combining the little Chinese medical knowledge that I had learned with iridology, I noticed that there is a section on five elements that also correspond with the sequence of the flying star Feng Shui.

Some of the iridologist that I come across had the intention to use this knowledge to sell their health products. After adopting some basic knowledge, they will start diagnosing their “patients” and prescribe health products. Some will try to frighten their “patients” telling them how serious their health is or even telling them that they are infected with cancer.

I was not satisfied with what I had learned in iridology and would like to know whether I could use traditional Chinese medical knowledge to combine with iridology. I began going through many Chinese medical book to strengthen my knowledge of health, foot and hand reflexology, pranic healing, reiki etc. All this alternative healings seems to flow back to one subject; flow of energy.

While reading through a book “Guarding the Three Treasure” by Daniel Reed, there was a section which describe the five elements and co-relate it with the body organs. This section stir up my interest because there is similarities with the five element as described by Lilian Too’s Flying star Feng Shui.

With this little information, I started to combine this two knowledge together and test whether it can be applied to body health. I started testing this new knowledge on my patients very cautiously by asking open ended questions. For instance I would try to figure the effect of the disharmony of an organ on other organs by following the flying star chart. It works!

I was very excited and I began applying on my patient the knowledge of five element through iridology and describing how the disharmony of an organ causes discomfort to his body which they confirm to be true. My patients were very impressed with the findings and some would suddenly realized the cause of the disharmony of the body organs and agreed to take note of the cause. Adopting this knowledge, I would be able to tell the patients which part of their body is not balance.