Helen,
Here’s my take on things. Some others have disagreed, but IMHO they do so on theoretical grounds rather than experiential ones.
Cancer is congested energy. When I’m scanning, the area of a malignant tumor hurts my hand – it feels like hundreds of needle-pricks. Pulling energy _out_ from the region of the tumor and then sending it out of the patient’s body seemed to help. An alternative is to send energy in to clear out congested energy from between the cells in the area. Either way, the idea is to reduce the congestion of energy in the affected area. I sometimes also tried to send energy into the healthy part of the affected organ to strengthen the healthy tissues there.
As for the smell you mentioned, there isn’t enough info. in the description to say anything definite. But when I worked on my father during his time with pancreatic cancer, I sometimes noticed a sickly-sweet sort of smell around him at the beginning of some visits. (Later on a pancreatic cancer message board, I was told the smell would have been caused by an accumulation of ketones.) After I worked on him, the smell disappeared, but it would sometimes reappear by the time I returned 2 or 3 months later.
Sending energy into the bone marrow and thymus gland to boost the immune system might also help.
Also, one of the most helpful results of energy work for Dad was alleviating side-effects of chemotherapy. E.g., cells of the digestive tract are fast-growing and so tend to be hit hard by chemo; sending yin energy (which is “water”-based and flows from the ground up) into Dad’s stomach got rid of his gas pains.
As for the kidneys – yes, they’re very important in TCM and qigong. They’re regarded as the storehouse for the body’s “original energy,” which is depleted if food, air, sleep, etc. don’t provide enough energy to maintain the body’s health. The kidneys (and adrenals) in TCM are thought to regulate the reproductive system and large parts of the endocrine system.
I hope this helps.
Bruce
