6 years clean: rebooting as the best remedy

Hi guys! Everybody may now find the latest compilation of the translation in a PDF file, the link to the PDF is posted at the beginning of the 1st page in this thread. I will be updating the compilation every 5 chapters, so at chapter 5, 10, 15 and so on.

I would also like to add a word of caution, and that is to not rely too much on the translations for the purpose of diagnosing your own illness. The reason is very simple; I am not a TCM practitioner and there may be errors in the translation, furthermore, I believe that the original author Soaring Eagle is a layman himself. As a layman, the interpretation of the ancient TCM texts will not be 100% correct, when translated, additional accuracy is lost. So please keep this in mind when reading and comparing the symptoms and the descriptions with your own state of health.

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Season 14 [Soaring Eagle experience: black eye ring and eye bags, grey hair, hemorrhoids and rhinitis issues in detail]

Lately while browsing the rebooting forums I’ve discovered an interesting phenomenon, that the understanding of many brothers has cleared risen, this is evident from answering the questions. In reality, as these brothers studies they “grow in understanding”, in the game Go, when the players skill increase it is called “grow in qi” (Translator’s note: qi = game, not to be confused with the energy qi), in reboot this can be called “grow in understanding”. When understanding has been raised then the determination will also naturally increase. Through the constant study of rebooting articles and health cultivation, the level of awareness will clearly exceed that of a rebooting rookie. By ever persisting and increasing one’s understanding, remaining clean forever is not far away.

What we cultivate in rebooting is the level of our determination, when the determination has risen then rebooting will be successful. The thing we need to be aware of is when we don’t study and when we let our guard down, else we will not be successful in our reboot.

The biggest issue that rookies have is the existence of misconceptions, all forms of doubts and hesitation must be overcome. Through raising questions can doubts be erased, by doing so we are able to solidify our belief, otherwise the unresolved questions will impede our rebooting progress. For example, when many people run into withdrawal symptoms, their first thought is the harmfulness of self-restraint, thinking that such restraint will give rise to problems. If we have not properly understood this issue then relapse will happen easily. There are many other misconceptions in thought and they must receive correction. To reboot one must recondition the thoughts, or else we cannot be successful in rebooting.

Below we will enter the main topic.

Black eye ring and eye bags are two problems that I have experienced. The eye bags started to appear when I was 19 years old while black eye rings already showed up during middle school. Because that I loved to exercise, the black eye rings were not that serious. According to my careful observation and experience, among those people who love to exercise, the issue of the black eye rings would occur relatively infrequently, even when they should appear, by actively exercising and taking care to be well rested, the problem will subside very quickly. But for

those who do not love to exercise stays up and sits for long sessions, the black eye rings would be quite stubborn. The way of exercising that I recommend should ideally be done outdoors and under the sun. TCM believes, sunbathing will warm up the yang energy of the body, it is an indispensable component in health cultivation. Sunbathing allows the body to gain vitamin D and increase the resistance of the body and preventing all sorts of illnesses.

There is skill involved in sunbathing, it is appropriate to open up both palms (Laogong acupuncture point) towards the sun when it is rising during the morning, breathe deeply, in this way we are able to nurture the heart and the lungs. When the sun is overhead during noon time, especially during the winter noons, this is the most precious time for sunbathing, it’s appropriate to remove the hat and allow the sun qi to be absorbed by the crown of the head (Baihui acupuncture point), in this way the heart and the brain is nurtured. Afterwards, lower the head and allow the sunshine to be absorbed in the back of the neck (Fengchi acupuncture point), Fengchi point is the source point in the body’s defense against external negative qi.

Of course, one needs to take care of the degree in sunbathing, to not overdo it. 1h per day is enough, don’t sit all day in front of the computer screen, this is very unfavorable to the recovery of the body. It’s good to increase contact with nature, increase sunbathing and exercise.

In TCM, black eye rings arise mostly due to deficient kidney qi, inadequacy in essence and qi, impeded arteries and veins and the loss of nutrients to the eyes. Therefore, to recovery from black eye rings, one needs to pay attention to health cultivation, active exercising, in this way the black eye rings will recover relatively quickly.

I remember that I had masturbated quite frequently in the summer holiday following my national higher education entrance exam, when I looked at myself in the mirror after the holiday I saw eye bags! Once eye bags start to appear, a person would look several years older, this gives out a decadent look which lacked vitality. Although I didn’t know much about health cultivation at the time, I knew that exercise would help my body to recover, therefore I would often go for a slow jog and run for 20 laps during each session at a very slow pace. After jogging for 20 days and then looking into the mirror, the eye bags have disappeared, the quality of the skin improved a lot and the improvement in complexion was apparent. However, my determination was low at the time, I was still in the brute force and blind stage, so not long afterward I started to masturbate again,

when I again looked into the mirror, the eye bags returned again. And so I was quite troubled during those years and battled against eye bags for a long time, but I was still unable to solve the problem, this is because I was still masturbating. Originally, I made the eye bags vanish due to great efforts made in exercising and resting well, but as soon as I let down my guard, eye bags would return and not only that, my facial complexion would become a lot worse, like expired fruit, the feeling of being all dried up and decaying. At the time I had looked into eye bag removing surgical procedures, there is external cut and internal cut. It also came to my understanding that the procedures will not help you to remove the eye bags completely, there will be a chance of relapse, if you continue to masturbate, eye bags will return.

The emergence of eye bags is largely due to the lungs’ diminishing ability to dry up water, the inferior function of the lungs, the block of Chengqi and Sibai acupoints. TCM believes: kidney is the gate of the stomach. (Translator’s note: in a healthy person, when we intake water it is passed onto the kidneys from the stomach, as if through a doorway. When the kidneys are sick, that the doorway does not function properly, the result is swollenness in various areas of the body). [Suwen] states: “Kidney is the gate of the stomach, when the gate is is malfunctioning, it induces the accumulation of water, swollenness in the skin. Patient suffering from edema, due to the accumulation of water” Kidneys are not only the gates of the stomach but also stores the essences of the five viscera and the six bowels. Masturbation causes the weakening of the kidneys, once that happens, the whole body is prone to run into issues. The issue of eye bags is but one of the expressions from weakened kidneys, although eye bags are located above the stomach meridian, located at the Chengqi acupoint, the root cause is still the kidneys. When the kidneys are weakened, the function of the internal organs becomes disorderly.

Now that I have completely cut off PMO and sexual fantasization, the issue of eye bags is nowhere to be seen, although not completely level, it is in level with a person in my age. With the onset of eye bags, the prerequisite for recovery is to abstain from masturbation and fantasization completely, else the recovery will be very difficult.

The issue of grey hair will be discussed below.

I have also been troubled by greying, although it was not a genetic condition. During my youth I had masturbated frequently, though I did manage to take good care of my rest and nutrition, there were grey hairs but not that many. Afterwards, I masturbated but also stayed up at night, my eating habits were irregular, sometimes having only one meal per day, not long afterward, many grey hairs sprouted up. I had several dussins of grey hair on every side of the head, in addition, the vast amount of hair was falling out, over 100 strands of hair daily. At the time I almost capitulated, I knew that it was self-inflicted karma and cannot blame anybody else, I could only blame it on my own indulgences.

Factors which induces grey hair:

1. Psychological factors, stress, sad feelings, anxiety, fright etc will all cause premature greying. It is the belief of modern medicine that negative psychological factors will cause spasms in the blood vessels responsible for providing nutrients to the hair, this causes a decline in the function with the pigment cells around the hairballs and follicles, which in turn affects the formation and transportation of the melanin particles.

2. Experimental evidence on nutritional imbalance has shown that if black lab rats are denied folic acid, pantothenic acid and vitamins in their diet, their hair would turn into a greyish color. In addition, the color of the hair pigment particles is related to its metal content. The black hair pigment particles contain copper, cobalt and iron elements, if some of these elements is missing then the appearance of grey hair will become likely. Moreover, Grey hair will also appear under the condition of the lack of proteins and serious malnutrition.

3. Sufferers of chronic illnesses, some people suffer from autonomic nervous disorders, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, internal secretion obstacles etc, the emergence of grey hair will also be present. This is because the illnesses have damaged or disrupted the follicles, the growth and maturation of the hairball color pigment cells, causing them to lose the ability to secrete black color pigments and hindering the formation of melanin particles.

4. Inheritable factor, premature greying is also affected by prenatal factors to a certain degree, where premature greying has previously occurred with parents or in the family tree.

5. Evil life habits and staying up, long sitting, sexual indulgence, all of these habits injures the kidney qi, TCM: The splendor of the hair is rooted in the kidneys. People with these evil habits will encounter grey hair with more ease.

My hair has now recovered, after rebooting for half a year, I can see that the root of the new hair is black. I’m very attentive about health cultivation, this has been a beneficial factor in my recovery. Many people reboot without cultivating the health, recovery will be relatively more difficult. I have also eaten black colored food but have not taken them intentionally, included is black sesame, black beans, black mushrooms which I ate often. My rebooting process was very thorough, combined with health cultivation, this is the root cause of my recovery. On the psychological level, I didn’t pressure myself too much, I managed my mood very well and didn’t have many negative emotions, no anger, no complaining, no jealousy, each day went by in a state of calmness. Many brothers will become agitated and easily angered, this is very normal because kidney qi is not abundant, the emotional expression of being easily irritated and angered will take place. And so it’s important to properly manage the mood, keeping one’s emotions stable. Negative emotions are like earthquakes and have very adverse impacts on the body and mind, the harm of which cannot be underestimated and is very negative for the recovery of the body. I remember that my neighbor next door was a boy that was a couple years older than I, he had premature greying, it was not inherited, he ate well, but the family was not in harmony, the parents would often quarrel which caused him a large amount of pressure. To constantly live under the shadow of domestic violence is, in fact, a greying inducing psychological factor, when the family is not harmonious, the psychological pressure will be big.

The principle of recovering from greying is very simple but is hard to do, it is through doing things the opposite way! Put a stop to the greying inducing factors, thoroughly reboot, learn about health cultivation, through this the issue of greying will gradually recover. There is a process involved, you must increase and deepen your understanding of health cultivation in order to increase the chances of recovery. Otherwise, rebooting with health cultivation is far from enough. I have mentioned about the specific ways to cultivate the health in chapter 12, everybody can go and have a look.

The problem of hemorrhoids will be discussed below:

Hemorrhoids are also a very common problem, as the saying goes, 9 out of 10 men will encounter hemorrhoids! There is another saying: out of 10 women 10 will have hemorrhoids. The chances for women to catch hemorrhoids is also very high, this is because women have special physiological periods and are more prone to suffer injuries in both blood and qi, combined with long sitting, hemorrhoids will come knocking on the door. I had my first hemorrhoids at around the age of 20, at the time I masturbated frequently. During a period of time when I was sitting on a sagging sofa, after a while I would feel something below, that’s when I had caught hemorrhoids. The hospital determined the hemorrhoids to be internal, by applying the subscribed medicine the hemorrhoids would subside, but the root of the issue will remain. Hemorrhoids brought much trouble to my life, I was unable to eat cold or spicy food, so at the time I took extra care when eating instant noodles, spicy food would induce the return of the hemorrhoids, stools tended to contain traces of blood. Afterwards, when I studied TCM I understood, masturbation would induce a deficiency in the qi, when your qi is abundant there will be no issues when sitting on the sofa because qi pushes the blood around. Sitting on a sofa while having adequate qi will not cause stasis in the qi and blood, but once qi is deficient and you sit on the sofa then it will cause the qi and blood stasis, hemorrhoids will easily emerge.

The anatomical cause of hemorrhoids: When a person is standing or sitting, the rectum is situated at the bottom. Due to heavy exertion and restriction in the internal organs, the backward flow of blood through the veins becomes blocked.

As of now, my hemorrhoids have completely healed, I did not expect it to go according to my plan. The recovery process for my hemorrhoids was very peculiar, at first I thought that hemorrhoids will not heal without an operation. Of course, hemorrhoids might relapse following the operation, because, from a medical perspective, hemorrhoids arise due to obstructions of blood reflux in the veins, therefore, operations will only help to eliminate the hemorrhoids but cannot guarantee the recovery of the obstruction issue.

I remember 2 years ago I started to soak my feet with traditional Chinese medicine, I used mugwort leaves purchased from Taobao. At the time I read from Dan GuiMin’s blog on curing hemorrhoid from its root by using moxibustion. The method was to sit on a hollowed out chair, using moxibustion to smoke hemorrhoid from the below, after approximately a week, the hemorrhoid core would fall off and the hemorrhoid is cured. Naturally, this process is a bit painful, not everybody is able to withstand it. After seeing it I didn’t dare to try it, so I used mugworts to soak my feet, unexpectedly, after 3 days of treatment I felt that the hemorrhoid was turning outward and becoming bigger, that’s when I knew that the warming and activating the meridian function of the mugwort leaves were working. It was very painful when the hemorrhoid was turning outwards and could not sit down, sitting down was painful, I could only sit at an angle. At that time I already started with moxibustion treatment, of course, I didn’t dare to apply moxibustion directly on the hemorrhoids. I applied moxibustion on the Shenque acupoint, it is also the navel point, after soaking my feet for 3 days hemorrhoid turned outwards, on the 4th day I applied moxibustion on my navel for 40 minutes, I felt that the hemorrhoid was about to break, I immediately pulled the anus inwards and hemorrhoid indeed broke, the core fell out. After that incident my hemorrhoid has healed complete without further relapses.

Those brothers that are suffering from hemorrhoid may try my method, naturally, there are many ways to treat hemorrhoids. I have only shared my own experience with everyone which I hope to be of help.

Lastly let’s talk about the issue of rhinitis.

I have a hypersensitive constitution and suffer from allergic rhinitis. When I sneeze I sometimes sneeze a dozen times in a row. I remember that my nose was not very healthy ever since childhood, although I didn’t masturbate at the time, due to inadequate prenatal conditions I would easily catch a cold due to exogenic cold, and so I often catch cold as a child and later I got asthma. However, the rhinitis I had back then was not that serious. When entering puberty I masturbated frequently, rhinitis suddenly becomes more serious, throughout the entire year my nose would be stuff, it was very painful. I tried many curing methods with no avail, afterward, I underwent an operation to remove the inferior nasal conchae which did alleviate my symptoms a lot, but it was still not good enough, whenever there was a change of season I would run into issues.

At the time I was in a state of ignorance and was totally unaware of that masturbation was exacerbating my symptoms, after studying TCM I understood, TCM: essence deficiency, nasosinusitis. When there is an essence deficiency, it would induce rhinitis, because kidneys govern inhalation while the lungs mainly govern exhalation. If those with a weak constitution masturbate, rhinitis would become more serious, because a weak constitution emphasizes the point that the body is unable to handle further depletions. Everybody has different constitutions, some people are born with a naturally strong constitution if a level of depletion is not reached there will be no symptoms. But for me I have a weak constitution, symptoms would appear with the slightest depletion. I remember a brother once mentioned that he had a naturally strong constitution and would not feel cold even leaving arms exposed during winter, afterward due to frequent masturbation he has injured the kidney yang, the four limbs would feel cold even during the summer, the kidney yang has become deficient. If you masturbate for a year a two the body will not have problems, but if you keep going and have injured your body to a certain extent, then symptoms would surely appear. Some people love to exercise and have well-ordered schedules, in those cases symptoms would be mild. But no matter how strong the body is, after 40 years of age the body will start to decline, by then many latent illnesses will all erupt at once, this is all caused by overindulgence in youth. When we are young our yang qi is abundant and so we will not notice anything, as we age, many issues would become more apparent.

I still have rhinitis to this day, but compared to before it is a big improvement, previously I would feel bad every day and now I very seldom feel bad. Moreover, I have learned moxibustion, when the nose is feeling uncomfortable, by applying moxibustion on the Hegu and Zusanli acupoints, the obstructions would clear up very quickly. In reality, many people suffer from aggravated rhinitis as a result of masturbation. In my vicinity several friends have it. My cousin didn’t have rhinitis before, but then he learned how to masturbate, a few years later he also had rhinitis. Masturbation induces kidney qi deficiency, the resistance of the body would vastly decrease when an inner deficiency is present, outer evil would enter more easily, in this way the chances of catching many illnesses is increased. Therefore, one must cut out masturbation and cultivate the kidney qi. Else many illnesses will come knocking! Remember this at all cost.

 

Hi Rhotkochapel, I too, feel the best results when I'm home alone and meditating. In my daily working environment, I'm exposed to many young people of the opposite sex, out of those colleagues I have contact with a handful of them. Sexual thoughts do come up occasionally, what I do is to mentally affirm that I'm on the path of cultivation, no evil shall dissuade me, no thoughts shall sway me. Thoughts often show up uninvited, we cannot stop them from arising but we can stop the propagation of further thoughts.

 

Thanks for your encouragement t-jam. My own progress is a far cry from what Soaring Eagle has achieved. Longest reboot on hard mode has been 1 year, followed by 6 months, and then a couple times for 2-3 months each, at the moment I'm on day 15. I share a number of symptoms that many people are already familiar with, such as delayed ejaculation, greying, insomnia and even acne from time to time. Recovering has been a very gradual process for me (7 years since hitting rock bottom) and it wouldn't have been possible without an unflinching spiritual belief. To this day I'm still recovering and paying my debt of karma as the days go by. Lots of people here are doing a fantastic job and are serving as role-models in different ways. As someone in possession of few talents and merits, it's an honor to be fighting alongside you all.

 

I'm sorry but this is beyond my field of knowledge, hope you get well soon.

 

Season 15 [Soaring Eagle experience: the issue of soft legs, secretion of oil, tension disorder and scrotum dampness]

The phenomenon of soft legs is very common among brothers. It is a common sight in the forums to see brothers relating to soft legs that are lacking in strength. In TCM this is easy to explain, because kidneys govern the bones, also that the kidney meridian starts from the Yongquan acupoint at the bottom of the legs and continues upwards. Therefore, following masturbation or even nocturnal emission, the phenomenon of soft legs easily occur. This phenomenon has also been verified in TCM, masturbation induces porosity in the bones and a decrease in bone density. TCM also mentions the waist houses the kidneys, the kidneys runs through the knees. A common symptom of kidney deficiency is soreness in the waist and knees, many brothers suffer from waist pains. Many people would experience lots of pain when bending their waist. This, in reality, is the typical expression of inadequate kidney essence, a signal from the body to not indulge any further.

I masturbated frequently during middle and high school, when playing basketball I would often sprain my ankle. Many times when it happened there was no body contact involved. After having masturbated I would always feel weakness in the legs, my footing not being firm. But I didn’t know it was caused by masturbation and I didn’t know about medical principles. Now that I have studied TCM theory I came to understand the underlying reasons.

These days I’m watching NBA and happened to see Roosevelt from the Buffalo Bulls injure his knees, the situation was that the overlapping ligament of the left knees was torn, the next season is forfeited. Roosevelt’s injury was very peculiar, no body contact took place, he was holding the ball and made a forward leap, the knee was injured. Seeing such an injury, I dare to say that the night before the match, Roosevelt either had a nocturnal emission or was indulging, combined with the accumulation of wear and fatigue from the frequent matches, this strange kind of injury then happened. To this day I still remember a scene from Stallone’s Rocky 1, Rocky’s coach told him to not touch women, touching women makes one’s legs weak and would affect the performance during a match. In competitive sports it is taboo to touch women before a match, touching women weakens the legs and makes one unable to properly perform many movements, injuries also occur more easily. I have seen the boxing king Tyson’s documentary, when commenting about his loss versus Douglas in Japan, Tyson said that he lost the match due to his indulgences and entered the match in a bad physical state, the consequence is easy to imagine; defeated by a vastly inferior Douglas.

Following masturbation or nocturnal emission, one must take care to rest well, abstain from heavy exercises in order to avoid injuries.

Below we will discuss the oil secretion issue.

Many brothers experience the secretion of oil following masturbation, this is because masturbation causes hormonal imbalance and so the secretion of oil will occur. Of course, it is not only limited to the secretion of oil, some brothers experience dryness in the skin. Hormonal imbalance can be grouped into 2 categories, in the first category, there is the secretion of oil, in the second category we have dryness of the skin. In summary, there are more cases of oil secretions, this has to do with the different constitutions of our bodies.

There 2 categories of oil secretion:

1. Secretion of oil from the face
2. Secretion of oil from the scalp

Oil secretion in the face easily lead to acne and pimples, furthermore, the acne that is caused by masturbation is often very stubborn and belongs to the stubborn form of acne, it is very difficult to recover from if one does not cut out masturbation. When the face is always oily, it will also affect the looks of a person. When the scalp is secreting oil it will easily lead to seborrheic alopecia, sufferers often have thin and soft hair, sometimes it is also accompanied by scalp dermatitis symptoms. I have specifically talked about the issue of hair loss in an earlier chapter. Normally, mild to medium degree of hair loss is relatively easy to recover from, heavy hair loss is relatively more difficult to recover from, there is a saying that “accumulation is hard to retrace”, those that have the financial means can try hair implantation. After quitting masturbation, I clearly noticed a decline in the oiliness of the skin, the same goes for the scalp, this is a sign that the hormonal imbalance has been corrected. Therefore, in order to reduce the secretion of oil, one must cut out masturbation, do not only expend effort on surface issues, make adjustments from the root of the issue. Some brothers would ask, could one use oil removing products? My answer is, one certainly can, but rebooting must be emphasized, otherwise one is only treating the symptoms and not the cause. Only through persistent rebooting can the hormonal imbalance return to normal, otherwise, all the product in the world can only ease the issue but not cure it.

Let’s continue towards the issue of tension disorder.

Tension disorder can be categorized as:

1. Urinating obstacles.
2. Obstacles during sex.

Many brothers have provided the feedback: being unable to urinate when other people are around, returned to normal when nobody is around. Other brothers have reported that when it comes sex, there are problems with erection, this kind of nervousness obstacles is, in reality, an expression of weakened kidney qi, when the kidney qi has been damaged to a certain degree then this kind of phenomenon will appear. I have experienced these two phenomena myself, normally after a period of rebooting while actively exercising, rhythmic lifestyle habits, abundant kidney qi, nervousness obstacles will diminish substantially and even self-heal. Therefore, those brothers with this kind of conditions should not fret too much, reboot and accumulate the kidney qi and recovery is possible.

Lastly, let’s talk about the issue of scrotum dampness.

This is also a very common problem, the majority of brothers will have experienced this phenomenon. With scrotum dampness one feels uncomfortable, it is a disturbing annoyance. Scrotum dampness points to scrotum erosion, moist, itching that are due to deficiencies in the spleen, allergy to medicines, deficiency in vitamins, fungus breeding among other factors, it is mostly a male-specific skin disease. Scrotum dampness is the typical clinical expression of chronic prostatitis, it is often caused by disorders in the autonomic nerves as a result of chronic prostatitis. As one recovers from prostatitis, scrotum dampness will appear intermittently until it disappears. Scrotum dampness is one of the typical symptoms of chronic prostatitis which is related to frequent long sittings, working in a hot environment and varicocele. If you are suffering from prostatitis, then your scrotum dampness is related to prostatitis.

Previously I have had scrotum dampness with even the appearance of eczema, it is extremely uncomfortable, always damp like water and with the scrotum hanging loose. Normally, those with prostatitis will all have scrotum dampness. Naturally, if you have scrotum dampness, you can go check if you also have prostatitis. After I have cut out masturbation, exercised actively, took care of my rest, accumulated enough kidney qi, scrotum dampness slowly disappeared, the scrotum was also pulled upwards, prostatitis was healed. Therefore, those brothers that have encountered scrotum dampness, the best way would be to keep rebooting, by doing so there will be the hope of solving this trouble.