HT-1 Jiquan - Utmost Source

This point concerns the Supreme Controller, the emperor or god within us. The inner god exists only through the outer God; rather than being two separate things, the two are one and must stay in communication. Utmost Source connects the body and the Heavens; it is like a hotline to God, the Emperor, and it gives tranquility and has the power to revitalize, resurrect and replenish. The person must have Fire in their own body, mind and spirit for everything else to function. The Fire element is what lets a person feel at one with others and with the divine; when that sense of unity is lost, this point restores it.

• Worsley's First Aid uses for this point also include heart failure and fainting.
• Being where the Heart meridian enters, and its first point that can take a needle, Utmost Source is for Worsley a drawing from the deepest well there is: the Supreme Controller's own link with the spirit of the Fire Element.

Location: Deep in the armpit, in a small hollow over the axillary artery. With the arm half abducted, feel for the artery pulse; tracing the medial edge of biceps upward into the axilla leads to the point.
Needle depth: 5 fen
Moxa: 5 cones

• When the Supreme Controller's connection is lost and you begin to see chaos, agitation, uncertainty, and the other Officials growing unruly and panic stricken
• When the patient feels isolated, lonely and unloved, unable to love, doesn't know which way to turn, feels no compassion, warmth or joy, and is struggling hard to survive
• When someone is having trouble reaching a sense of who they are; it opens up a gate within them and brings a lot of energy and attention
• When the spirit is so cut off that the Heart is cut off: the person has lost the connection with Source, or God within, and their heart isn't in it anymore
• When a person is on the edge of the grave looking in, and it looks good; they just want to crawl in under the covers and go away
• When something terrible happens, the person can't deal with it anymore and is cut off from their Heart and can't feel it; this reconnects the person with their heart
• After a shock or trauma has gotten through the Heart's defenses and the connection with the source within and without is broken, so the person feels alone, spiritually cut off, uninspired, fearful, empty and severed from life
• When the spirit is drowning: first aid for body, mind and spirit
• For tremendous pain in the heart, even at a spiritual level (sedate)
• For exposing who they really are, the core of the core
• When a person needs to rest back into the knowledge that the Supreme Controller is once more on the throne, reconnected in love, control and harmony
• When a person feels hatred toward themselves or others and cannot reach out
• After a possession has been cleared, to put the ruler back on the throne and return control to the Heart
• When the Supreme Controller has collapsed and HT-7 Spirit Gate is not enough: this point reaches the very essence of the Heart, for heart collapse on the spirit level

• SP-21 to HT-1, Spleen to Heart Entry/Exit block: for when the spirit is cut off from the heart. They long to be cared for but find it hard to take that into their heart; there is much crying and emotional loss of control, and no nourishment, however much, satisfies the heart

• Entry point, in the armpit
• Use only in times of sickness, when the person is overtaxed or overworked. At times we use this point as a resurrection point, but the person has to be ready for it
• First aid point for drowning and heart attack
• Very powerful point. When the Heart and Small Intestine pulses are very low, it brings immediate harmony and peace
• Can also be used with an upper Kidney point when treating a CV/GV block
• The Utmost is the best and most revered spring; the name means the most respected spring, not the one highest up in the body
• One of the few points (with the upper chest Kidney points, the outer Bladder line, Ren and Du) that can be added to treatment on any CF; the other Heart points are kept for a Fire CF
• We are not running on our own Qi: this point connects the person with the Source itself, their Ultimate Source and Self
• A deep well reaching back to the source: Fire in its purest form, straight from where it springs
• The name carries the sense of Qi at its peak, at its most abundant and intense
• Good to moxa: the warmth drives energy strongly down the meridian
• As the entry of the Heart, the first meridian, it can be seen as the first point in the whole circulation of Qi through the twelve meridians, which is why this source is given the title of utmost respect
• Just as the polestar is the center of the universe, the sun the center of the solar system and the Emperor the center of the nation, the Heart is the center of a person's being. This point lines the Heart up with these universal centers so the person can be fed from the primal source