Tongue is a Switch of the Circuit

The circuit may be closed when the tongue end of the Functional

Channel is raised to contact the palate terminus of the Governor.

Thus, during practice, we must keep the tongue in contact with the

palate. Placing the tongue against the palate has a calming effect

for those who practice the Warm Current Method. It also generates

saliva, which is regarded as the water of life in Taoist practice.

Saliva is said to be the chief lubricant of all bodily functioning. In the

Taoist view the soft palate is regarded as a direct link to the pituitary

gland.

As a man grows older he suffers increasingly from an imbalance

of Yin (female) and Yang (male) energies in the body. As these

disharmonies multiply, the bodily organs begin to suffer from the

receipt of too much or too little energy. How different is the vital

power of the infant! He grows nearly an ounce a day. This

represents an astounding accomplishment in the assimilation of

energy by the material body. The baby's body can do this heroic

job of cell building because its routes of energy are thoroughly open

and the flow of power is, consequently, very strong.

The Governor Channel controls the Yang organs of the body.

These are the lungs, spleen, heart, kidneys, circulation-sex, and

liver. The Functional Channel controls the Yin organs, which are

the colon, stomach, small intestine, bladder, triple warmer, and

gall bladder. The tissues are Yang in tendency and the blood is Yin.