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内经图”解决的秘诀是关和窍。背后闯三关过九到窍为暗中之窍。一旦气串动到这些部位时，就要注 意了.
The secret of "Internal Channel Diagram" is the "pass (GUAN)" and the "aperture (QIAO)". Rush go through the three passes and the nine apertures along the back, the apertures are the secret apertures. Once the Qi moving into these areas, you should pay attention.

三关为尾闾关、夹脊关、玉枕关。
Three passes are WEI-LU, JIA-JI, YU-ZHEN

尾闾关在脊背的尽头之处，有七个骨节，七个穴位。们练的就是这七个穴位的通道，其内关通内肾， 一男一女。内 肾为藏精孵卵之地。上行一条髓道，髓道过去叫河车、黄河，也叫漕渓，上通到泥丸，此阳气上升之 路。直到第七 节与内肾相对之处，谓之夹脊关。
WEI-LU is in the end of spine, there are 7 bone joints, 7 points. We practice the channel along this seven points, its internal relations through the internal kidney for man and a woman. The internal kidney is the place for the sperm storage and egg hatchery. There is a "marrow road" going upstream, it was called "River Vehicle" "Yellow River" or " Shadow Brook" , it goes up to the "NI-WAN". This is the road for YANG up, and to the 7th joint, which is in the back of the internal kidney, the point is named as "JIA-JI".

一旦气到夹脊关，一旦气在两肾中间停留不动，这时要用急火烧。要看看时辰，什么时候要吸长，什 么时候要呼短 ，什么时候腹腔要往里去，要进风，要想办法鼓风，现在叫巽风。
Once the QI gets into JIA-JI, once the QI stay in the middle of two kidneys, then use the emergency fire to burn. Have to check the time points, then decide when the breathing in longer or breathing out shorter, decide when the abdomen goes in. It need to let the wind in, finding ways to blast the wind, now known as QUN wind (巽风).

夹脊关再往上，上到脑后灵风之穴，就到玉枕关。
Going up from JIA-JI to the Ling wind point on to the back of the head, and then reach to the YU-ZHEN pass (jade pillow pass).

炼丹的第一个过程就是将这三关把握住。把握住三关后，才能通过三关到泥九，再往下降，变玉液还丹为金液还丹 .
The first process of alchemy is to control these three passes. Only after controlling the three passes, you are able to pass through the 3 passes and reach to the NI-WAN (mud pill) , and then further down, and change the "Yu-Ye-Huan-Dan (jade liquid return pill)" to "Jin-Ye-Huan-Dan (golden liquid return pill) " .