1. The Anatomy of Alchemy
Batson’s Plexus and the NeiJingTu
Connections between sexuality & consciousness
Thomas McCombs DO
He Feng Dao Shi
Year of the Wood Horse 4712

2. References
• “Nei Jing Tu- A Daoist Diagram of the Inner Circulation of
Man”, David Teh-yu Wang; Journal of the Walter Arts Gallery,
Vol 49/50, 1991/1992, pgs 141 – 158
• “The Function of the Vertebral Veins and their Role in the
Spread of Metastasis”, Oscar V. Batson, MD; Arch Surg
112:138-149, 1940
• P’u Ming’s “OXHERDING PICTURES & VERSES”, translated by
Red Pine, Red Bowl Publications, 1983 & 1987
• “Apprenticeship of the Soul” by Sonjan, Fana Press, 2011

3. Gratitudes
• Share K. Lew; Hua Ching Ni; Mantak Jia;
• Ken Cohen, Mark Johnson
• Frank Willard, PhD, Stephan Hagopian, DO,
Rebecca Guisti, DO, Hirsch Diamant, PhD
• Netter, Moore, Pernkopf; Anatomic illustrators

4. NeiJingTu
“Inner Classic Map”
• “Canonical diagram of the
Inner landscape”
• Stele dated 1886 in White
Cloud Temple, Beijing; Center
of the Complete Reality Sect
and the Dragon’s Gate Sect
• Lu Dong Pin, Patriarch of
Completely Real Daoism and
Zhi Dao Guan, composed
many terms & poetic
references used in NeiJingTu

5. Not the only Inner Map

6. Anatomy & Metaphor

7. Anatomic Correlates
• Cranium, mouth & eyes
• Throat & heart
• Viscera (kidney, spleen, lung,
liver & gall bladder)
• Pelvic floor & genitals
• Spinal channel (shown as a
mountain path) collecting
from them all, flowing uphill
into the cranium

8. “9 Peaks Mountain”
(Home to Shi Wang Mu)
• Eyes, mouth & saliva
collection
• Many intra-cranial fluid
channels
• Duo Mo & Ren Mo
Qi channels/meridians
• Curled Tongue “Blue-eyed
Foreign Monk supports heaven
with his arms”
• Pituitary “Old Man’s eyebrow
reach down to the ground”
(facing anterior)
• Pineal “Mud Pill Magic altar”
(venting superior)

9. Heart & Viscera
• Ox Boy & Weaving Girl, separate
yet adjacent
• Heart (accurately) suspended
from throat, Ox Boy traces the
Northern Dipper stars, touching
ZiWei, North Star & patron of
astrology
• Weaving Girl sits next to the Five
Viscera, her ribbon ascends (from
breast level) to the spinal channel
• other versions show them more
explicitly receiving saliva; draining
from the mouth (Pool), through
the throat (Pagoda), to the heart
& viscera

10. Genitals & Pelvic Floor
• “Correct Dan Tian”
• Clitoris/Penis depicted as “Iron
Bull tills the ground”
• Gonads seen as a boy & girl
working the “Yin & Yang
Mysterious Water Wheel”
• “North Sea water flows in
reverse”
• “Again and again, step by step
we turn the great pumps to
make the Water rise to the
East”
• “Even in a lake of ten thousand
fathoms, we should penetrate
to the bottom, where a sweet
spring flows upwards to the
top of the South mountains”

11. Inner Circulation

12. Micro-cosmic Orbit

13. Micro-cosmic Orbit
• Sexual energy is
• Collected in the low pelvis
• Lifted up the spinal
column
• Enters (or washes over
top of) cranium
• Collects as saliva
• Flows down front of torso
to the pelvis
• Cycles repeatedly

14. Inner Circulation
• Sexual energy (liquid) being
collected from the pelvic floor
• Pumping action reverses the normal
flow of this liquid
• Liquid ascends a spinal channel,
travelling through several gates
• Liquid enters the cranium and
bathes/feeds structures within it
• Saliva collects and is swallowed
• This NeiJingTu has the saliva
collection flowing down the throat
to the heart & Ox Boy, from there to
the viscera & Weaving Girl, from
there to the pelvic floor

15. Northern Dipper Alchemy
note the inverted/mirror-image Dipper….Why?

16. The Ox-Boy sees the Dipper from the
Other Side of The Sky: Heaven

17. Anatomic Correlates & Questions
• What physical channels connect
the sex organs & brain?
• What physical pumps exist to
“reverse the flow”?
• How does this fluid enter the
cranium?
• What intra-cranial structures
interact with it?
• What Nei Dan exercises exist that
stoke this flow?
• Is there an anatomic/metabolic
circuit corresponding to this
symbolic spinal/salivary
alchemical circuit?

18. Blood Vessels of the body
• Arteries (RED) carry
blood away from the
heart
• Veins (BLUE) return
blood to the heart

19. Schematic of Circulation
• Venous BLUE blood
enters the right heart
• Blood is sent to the
lungs, where is is
oxygenated (Turns from
BLUE to RED)
• RED blood is pumped
from the heart to the
body
• BLUE blood is collected
and returned to the
heart by the veins

20. Vein have Valves
• Valves permit only
one-way blood flow
• Valves permit blood to
return to the heart in
increments
• Blood is squeezed
towards the heart by
muscle contraction
• Blood is kept from
back-flowing (away
from the heart) by the
valves

21. Veins in the foot & foreleg
• Some veins are just
under the skin
• Some veins are in
deep muscle
• All these peripheral
veins have valves
(white dots)

22. What veins are missing?
• Pulmonary veins
drain the lungs (to
heart)
• Portal vein drains the
GI tract (to liver)
• Venous Sinuses drain
the brain (to jugulars)
• Batson’s Plexus drains
the pelvis, breasts and
spine (to jugulars)

23. Batson’s Plexus
• Veins draining the vertebrae
• Veins surrounding the spinal
cord
• Veins connecting into the
braincase
• Veins accepting blood from
the genitals & breasts
• Veins sharing drainage of
pelvic & thoracic organs with
the central venous (vena cava)
system
• Blood in pelvic & thoracic
organs can drain into both
systems

24. Para-vertebral veins of Batson’s Plexus

25. Batson’s Plexus
• Many inputs from
genital organs
• Some input from
shoulders & pelvis
• Not shown: breasts
draining (along ribs) into
Batson’s Plexus
• Batson was looking for
how cancers spread
from breast, lung and
prostate into the spine

26. Genital blood can drain into either central
venous system, or Batson’s plexus
• prostatic venous
plexus collects blood
from prostrate gland,
seminal vesicles &
bladder
• Blood can drain into
the central venous
system (Internal iliac
Vein to Vena Cava), or
into the spinal veins

27. Blood in the lower GI has options:
• Drain into the portal
system, going on to
the liver
• Drain into the central
system from Iliac
vein to vena cava
• Drain into Batson’s
Plexus

28. Batson’s Plexus
• These veins are valve-less,
unlike extremities
• Open to flow in all
directions
• Draining venous blood from
breasts & genitalia, not
gonads (testes & ovaries
have separate blood supply)
• Flowing superiorly into the
cranium
• Mixing with blood draining
from brain, pituitary &
pineal
• Draining into the jugular
vein, out to the right heart

29. Pelvic Floor
LOCATE: Uterus, Fallopian tubes & ovaries, sacral and sympathetic nerves.
Ovarian blood is supplied from the aorta, draining into the vena cava.
Uterus, clitoris & Fallopian tubes also drain blood into Batson’s Venous Plexus.

30. The Veins that drain The Brain

32. Batson’s vertebral
veins mixing with
cranial veins.
Batson’s Plexus rises into
the skull, running along
the floor of the cranium as
the Basilar Plexus
Basilar plexus drains the
brainstem with its cranial
nerve nuclei (including
salivary nuclei which tell
saliva glands to secrete)

33. View of the under-brain, looking up
• Batson’s Plexus entering
the skull
• Ascending the anterior
brainstem, where cranial
nerve nuclei abound
• Communicating with
Cavernous Sinus draining
the Pituitary gland
• Note the posterior portion
of the plexus, heading
deeper in to drain the
Pineal gland

34. Brainstem & Cranial Nerves
• Note the same
view: under-
brain, looking
up
• Cranial nerves
operate the
eyes, nose,
taste, hearing,
and more
• Cranial Nerves
VII, VIII, & IX
salivate

35. Spinal veins flow into the skull only
when upright!
• One would think that
blood in Batson’s Plexus
would mix most easily
with cranial blood when
recumbent
• Batson’s Plexus opens
when upright, only
allowing mixing of
spinal and brain blood
when vertical
• Adepts must be upright
(seated/standing) to do
Internal Alchemy with
Batson’s Plexus

36. Left: Jugular vein draining brain solo when lying on side
Right: Jugular & spinal blood mixing when standing

37. McCombs Posits:
• NeJingTu is describing the mixing
of genital venous blood with
cranial venous drainage
• Genital venous blood carries
secretions with potent chemicals
• Mixing genital blood with blood
draining the Pineal & Pituitary
would expose these glands to
these secretions
• NeiDan techniques deliberately
enhance genital venous drainage
into Batson’s Plexus, from there
upwards into the cranium, from
there back into the abdomen as
saliva

38. Spermine & Spermidine
• Polyamines first found in sperm,
sputum and neural tissue
• Promote DNA synthesis, gene
expression, cell migration,
proliferation & differentiation
• Promote longevity across species
• Promote female fertility, hair growth,
pancreas health, tissue regeneration
• Anti-oxidant & free-radical scavenger
in cell nucleus
• Higher blood levels in centenarians
• Ultimately derived from amino acids:
L-Arginine and Methionine
• Supplement with L-Arginine & SAM-e

39. Micro-cosmic Orbit FLUIDS:
• Genital Venous blood
• Directed into Batson’s Plexus
• Washes & mixes with venous
blood up the spinal column
• Enters the cranium through
Foramen Magnum
• Interacts with cranial contents
• Promoting glandular (Pituitary,
Pineal, Salivary) activity
• Saliva is collected & swallowed
• Saliva is mixed with pelvic jing to
enter the channels again
• One Molecule of Spermidine
could cycle around this circuit,
over & over & over again….
• “active glands”

40. Pelvic floor
“North Sea Water Flow in Reverse” “Yin & Yang Mysterious Water Wheel” “Again & Again, step
by step, we continuously turn the great pumps to make the Water rise to The East”.
• What muscles would
work to “reverse” the
venous drainage of
the pelvic floor?
• How could NeiDan
push venous blood
into spinal drainage
channels?
• “make the Water Rise
to The East?”

41. NeiDan to augment NeiJingTu
• Contract the Pelvic Floor
Kegel/Hai Gung/Anal Lift
• Curl the Tongue on the
Sweet Spot
• “Pinch/Swallow”
• “Arms Cross”
• “Daoist prayer”
• “North Sea Water Flows in
Reverse”
• “The Blue-eyed foreign monk
holds the heavens”
• “To irrigate my own field, I
depend on the Fountain of the
Upper Valley”
• ”To cultivate it, I depend on the
Earth of the Middle Palace”
• “The Great Pumps make Water
Rise to the East”

42. North Sea Water Flows in Reverse
“HaiGong”, or “Kegel”: Pelvic floor muscular contraction
• Locate: coccyx, pubes, ischial
tuberosities (sit-bones), urethra,
anus, gluteus
• When the pelvic floor contracts, the
anus lifts and the lumbars flatten
• NOT the butt-cheeks (gluteus), but
deep in-between them
• HaiGong will pull the coccyx
anterior, lengthening & flexing the
lower spine
• HaiGong elongates Batson’s Plexus
as all pelvic organs lift, draining
their blood into venous channels

43. “The Blue-eyed foreign monk holds up the sky”
• Curl/retroflex the
tongue
• Reach the under-tip to
the top/center of the
palate
• A sweet taste will
activate as you hit the
spot
• Collect the sweet
saliva

44. “The Great Pumps make the Water Rise to the East”: “Daoist Prayer”
Sitting with legs straight & together, thumb & index touch pads while
resting on the knees. Start with breath empty. Poodle optional.

45. Begin with the breath empty, palms pressing together
at the Lower Dan Tian

46. Inhale continues as the hands scoop down the
legs, and circle back to LDT

47. Breath is held at full inhale, the eyes looking down the middle fingers

48. Exhale out the open mouth as the palms float to rest on the knees

49. Of all mysterious structures within the skull…

50. The pineal “Third eye” represents
evolution’s earlier (First eye!)
approach to photoreception
• Still a third-eye in ancient
vertebrates
• Well vascularized &
innervated
• Not within the “blood-
brain barrier”
• Collects “brain-sand”
throughout life
• The size of grain of rice
• Secretes melatonin when
the lights fall
• Abundant secretion of
melatonin in children
• Secretes less melatonin to
permit puberty
• Postulated to secrete
hallucinogen DMT
• “The principal seat of the
soul” R. Descartes

51. Brain Sand in the Pineal
• Collects throughout life
• More in dementia
• CaPO4, CaCO3
Mg PO3, NH3PO4
• Fluoride harmful to
pineal
• Fluoride damage
reduced by fish-liver oils
and Vitamin K

52. Stargate
by Sonjan (Chris McCombs)
• What if I told you there is a stargate hidden in
the crown of your head? A portal between
worlds, the gateway to “The Kingdom”, closer
than your own nose? Would you be interested
in such a journey?
• The corridor lies between the pineal gland and
the crown of your head.
• It is so unknown in the west, there isn’t even a
name for it in English.

53. Stargate, continued
• But it is there, waiting for you to become
interested in the adventure. The Ancients
called it the Brahmarandra Nadi: The Stairway
to Heaven.
• It moves between your individuality and your
non-local self. Open it and you are flooded
with light. It is your birthright to travel this
road any time you want.
• The only cost: “Check your ego at the door”.

54. Sonjan
“I consider this
to be the most
advanced
approach to the
deeper levels of
God Realization
on the planet
today”

55. Lu DongPin
“The Iron Ox plows the field where coins of gold are sown
The Boy engraves the stone, stringing up coins
A grain of rice contains the world
Cook the Mountains & Rivers in a two-sheng (small) cauldron
The White-headed Old Man’s eyebrows hang to the Earth
The Blue-eyed foreign monk supports the heavens with his arms
Understand this Mystery; outside this mystery, there is no other
mystery”

56. “In one grain of rice, the World is contained” Lu Dong Pin