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274/1 Moo 7, LuangNua, DoiSaket, Chiang Mai 50220, Thailand

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The Wu Lou, A Traditional Feng Shui Health Cure for

your Home or Workplace.
The Wu lou as it is known in Chinese, is a dried gourd, commonly
called a bottle gourd, pilgrim gourd or calabash in the rest of the
world. The wu lou has a double round shape, and it should be
painted in a metal colour, or left its natural gold colour, but
polished, having been left to dry out. It should also have a hole
drilled in it, either at the top or on the side as shown. Our locally
grown Tao Garden wu lou are very stur
sturdy,
dy, with outside skin much
stronger than their European cousins; and they are painted gold.

It is well known in many cultures, and often associated with health.

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If eaten as a vegetable, there are many health

health-improving
improving claims for
its properties, but it is the whole, dried gourd we use in feng shui.
Ancient Chinese art often depicts paintings of it being carried,
mainly by medicine men; it was used to transport potions or just
drinks. One of the 8 immortals, Li Tieh Kuai carries one. They can
be found made
de out of ceramics or metal too.
The ancient Hawaiians used large calabashes with the wu lou shape
as a percussion instrument. The largest ones, considered sacred,
were known as the Sacred Ipu. It was, and still is, part of a dancers
rite to learn how to condition their ipu from the plant itself as well
as making other instruments and costumes from nature like those
grass hula skirts in common imagery.
Taoists believe that it allows communication between heaven and
earth, from the theory that its shape is like the trigram Tui (Dui in
pinyin), one yin line on top of 2 yang lines. It represents the West,
Autumn, soft metal and it is considered a cure for amongst other
things, some of the negative health energy of the trigram kun, the
black earth star 2 in feng shui. It has been used by Taoist monks to
take bad or sickness energy or spirits away from a room, as it
absorbs them through the hole or mouth. So we can see them as
curative or preventative of health and relationship issues.
Tao Garden has been making some with a special mouth lips and
lipstick to further illustrate that the trigam tui represents the
youngest daughter, the lake, joy, pleasure and its representative
organ is the mouth.

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So what do you do with it?

As a feng shui placement cure, during 2014, place it in the East
Section of your home or workplace. In 2015, dust it well then place
it in the South East. In 2016 from February the 4th the energies
we are countering fly to the middle of the space, home etc. However
it is generally
rally difficult to place objects in the middle of a house or
room;
m; we can also place the wu lou in the bedroom, lounge, or the
areas where relationships and health are most relevant. From
February 4th 2017, we ca
can then re-dust
dust them and put one in the

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North West part of the home

home.
These are annual cures common to all buildings. If you have a flying
star feng shui energy chart of your home, then the wu lou may be
placed where there is a 2 mountain star, or a 2 time star, or 2 water
star.
Place them equally by your bed, or in the room where a sick person
lives, or where you spend most of your time.
There are also monthly moving energies in feng shui and the
monthly 2 sickness energy (or star) will visit every part of your
building at some point - once every nine months. There are also
daily energies so the black 2 star will visit every sector at some
point, although daily energies are not as strong as annual or the
buildings flying star chart energies.
You can have as many Wu lou as you like in your home to help get
rid of bad energy, they have no detrimental effect on you and they
make attractive, unusual ornaments.
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