Chinese and Indian cultures meet

In Acupuncture, the organs are categorized as Yin and Yang.

1) Yin organs' channels start or end at Wood element. (Wood - Energy Out)

Yang organs' channels start or end at Metal element. (Metal - Energy In).

2) Yin organs' channels start or end around the chest region.

Yang organs' channels start or end in head region.

If we combine these two, Metal is related to head and Wood is related to the chest.

 Let us come to Hindu Gods, mainly Shiva's family and Mahavishnu.

Shiva, Parvathi and Lord Karthikeya have metal instruments in their hands. It represents energy in and out through head.

In dhashavathar, we can note that all the human forms have a wooden instrument in their hand.(vamana - a wooden umbrella, Parashurama - axe, Rama - dhanush, Balrama - plough (kalappai), Krishna - Flute). It represents energy in and out through heart.

We have seen before that Shiva represents head (metal) and Vishnu represents heart (wood). Somehow they are matching here in form of their instruments.

More pictures with these instruments.

With this wood and metal thought, we can go to the other extreme. The places where the evils are removed, we can see a nail being pierced in a tree. The bad energy is sucked by the small metal piece, pierced and sent into the tree. The energy gets absorbed by the tree and sent to the cosmos.

Somewhere spirituality and the science of acupuncture are meeting.

JaiGurudev!