When I was attending a Chinese university to study traditional Chinese medicine 23 years ago, Feng Shui was part of the study program. We needed to study Feng Shui as diligently as other subjects.

Chinese medicine is a true holistic medicine based on prevention. The goal is to maintain a high level of health spiritually, mentally and physically. These three levels of vibration are inter-related which means they cannot be dissociated or treated separately and one action, one level will have a reaction on another level.

For spiritual health one can use meditation, prayer or contact with a superior level of consciousness.

For mental health one can use the right way of thinking, and activation of the memory by study or mental exercises.

For physical health one can use

• right food
• right exercises
• right breathing
• right environment

Feng Shui works on all of these three levels but the easiest to understand and control is the physical level of vibration, which of course will affect the two other levels, mental and spiritual.

The comment most often made by the occupant of a dwelling after a Feng Shui adjustment is "We are happier, life is easier, it is magic and I do not understand but it is amazing how different I feel."

For thousands of years the Chinese people have mastered the art of vibration. The word for vital vibration or vital forces is chi. The ultimate goal is to have spiritual, mental and physical balance of energy as indicated by the symbol of yin/yang.

Some years ago one of my patients complained of a severe headache at night which quickly vanished after leaving her bed. After administering a full check-up I was not able to find the cause of the headache. Certainly, it is possible with acupuncture to treat a symptom but the goal of traditional Chinese medicine is to find the cause, treat it and clear the symptom.

Physically, the patient was in good health: she was a vegetarian with a well balanced diet including supplements, vitamins and mineral salts. She exercised one hour every other day (aerobic and stretching).

Mentally, she was happy, she had a creative job, with a minimum of stress and a comfortable family life.

Spiritually she practiced meditation every morning and belonged to a group of friends with a high level of spirituality.

I found nothing wrong on this third level thus I needed to check her environment: Feng Shui. I took an afternoon and went to check her home for feng shui problems or other environmental stresses.

She was working at home in a nice room in a good feng shui situation and the five elements were present and balanced in the room.

• Fire element: large fireplace
• Health element: the floor was in clay
• Metal element: long black metallic candelabra
• Water element: a fountain in the money comer of the room, and
• Wood element: a beautiful tree, healthy green plants.

Now I needed to see her bedroom. The room was large, clear, well ventilated and the bed was in a good feng shui position. The bathroom door was always closed. No telephone nor electrical outlet was near the bed.

And here on the bed table was the problem: a heavy metallic sculpture of Don Quixote with a long metallic spear directed at the head of the bed just on the place where the patient slept. The sculpture was the base of the lamp used by my patient every night.

My patient was born in 1955; Chien sign; metal element.

For me the presence of this big metallic mass especially during the night (when we are the most sensitive) was the cause of the headache. The distance between the metallic mass and the place where she slept was less than three feet. This is a typical case of element imbalance with too much metal.

My first idea was to find a balance with a water element or earth element to cancel the overly strong vibration of the metal element. But the volume of the metal was too big to be balanced harmoniously.

I asked my patient to move the sculpture to another room. The answer was "NO! I paid $7,000 for this beautiful sculpture and I will not remove the piece of art from my bedroom."

By her intense reaction I knew that I had touched the problem; it was a classic addiction to the cause of the illness. The drug addict has the same reaction of dependence to the source of the problem. In this case I never try to argue with a client and I left her home with the hope that she would realize the potential benefits later.

One week later my patient called me in my office, she apologized for her reaction and told me that one day after my visit she removed the metal object to another room and since she has been free of the headache.

An imbalance of elements in a room or house not corrected by a feng shui practitioner can have a pathological effect on the occupants of the building.


About the author:

Dr. Guy Ferru...

• Doctor in Traditional Chinese Medicine (6 years study in Chinese university including the study of feng shui)
• Nutritionist
• Feng shui practitioner. (25 years of experience)
• Bau-Biology practitioner (specialist in detection of harmful electromagnetic fields)
• Dowser (geodesic stress detection)
• Author of articles on feng shui, Bau-Biology, geology and yoga therapy. Author of a book on the right way of living (nutrition, breathing, environment)

Telephone: (770) 521-2317, Fax: (770) 521-1437
E-mail: guyferru@aol.com

Also of Interest:

• More articles at the Feng Shui Directory.
• Inner Circle Article by Dr. Ferru (Password required).