Truth Jing City

Truth Calkins studied with the
legendary Ron Teeguarden at

Dragon Herbs for four years
before moving to Erewhon
Natural Foods Market in Los
Angeles, where he developed
recipes using his broad
knowledge and experience with
healing herbs to create the
Tonic Bar and its magical menu
of healing elixirs.
Being raised by naturopathic parents on a farm in northern
California gave Truth a head start in the natural health industry. His
upbringing came to bear strongly on his personal journey to heal
himself of the underlying causes of chronic fatigue using self-study,
herbs and diet. He has worked with the Body Ecology Diet (BED)
system for ten years and uses his extensive experience of its
protocols and their effects to help countless people navigate their
own healing journeys.
Truth is constantly researching and championing healing foods and
the people who work to bring them to market. He does private
consultations for people at the Tonic Bar at Erewhon and in the
greater Los Angeles area, where he continues to follow his passion.
Copyright 2011 Truth Calkins and New Horizon Health, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Truth Calkins:
Jing City
From a live presentation given at

The Longevity Now Conference
Costa Mesa, California
April 2011
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Today I'm going to talk about Chinese tonic

herbs, the Three Treasures, and the superior
ultimate treasure Jing. I have been working
with the herbs, going through my own journey
for the last 11 years. I started with ginseng.
Everybody has heard of ginseng. I just knew that
I needed more energy, and that something was
not quite right. I believed in plant medicine from my upbringing, so
I kept scouring the internet. I spent all my spare time researching.
I couldn't find anything that says ginseng does this one thing. That's
because its an adaptogen. It increases longevity. It helps you
improve mental vitality and builds energy. It builds health. It makes
you stronger. It builds muscle. It strengthens your spleen and your
lungs. It helps your immune system. And it's a tonic. There are so
many aspects to it that its hard to know exactly what ginseng does.
But it all sounded good, so I started on a journey of buying different
types of ginseng.
I started with a red Korean ginseng paste that due to my state
actually over-stimulated me, and then I would crash afterwards. So
I kept reading, learning the difference between yin and yang, and
sort of went with different products. I ended up going all the way to
wild ginseng, buying seed stock and rootlets, transplanting it, and
trying to grow it. But then, through research, I found out there
were actually twenty to fifty other herbs within this same class of
supertonic herbs that all work in these extraordinary ways.
I was falling in love with ginseng the more I read about it, because it
just seemed like a gift from God that can do everything for your
health if you can respect it, and know how to use it, and get the
real thing.
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Before that, as a westerner, I always believed that an herb was

from the garden like comfrey or rosemary. That it had some
nutritive properties. That you eat it here and there, but that's it. Or
that there are some really strong cleansing herbs once in a while
for certain issues. But that's kind of like using a drug, isnt it? You
only take it when you have to take it, and it can have side effects.
The Chinese tonic herbs are different. When I'm at work and I tell
somebody new about tonic herbs, they're like, "That sounds great.
But why do you take them all the time? Doesn't your body get tired
of them? Don't you get sick of it? Isn't it just something you do
once in a while?" That's when I have to explain the Three Treasures
system of Chinese tonic herbs.
Three Treasures
The herbs that most people think of the ones that you have to
stop taking there are thousands of those. Those are in the first
class of herbs, called inferior herbs, because they are used to treat
disease after you get ill. That is inferior health care to the Taoists,
the original Chinese that started
the system.
Then there is a middle class of
herbs comprised of a couple
hundred herbs that are part
remedial, part tonic. If you have a
certain imbalance, you can take
these over a fairly long period of
time; but eventually you try to get
yourself off of them so that you can
just stay with the tonics.
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Then there is a top class of herbs. There are about fifty. Of those,
there are about twenty that we would call supertonics that are the
top of the top. Those herbs are called superior herbs, better taken
earlier on in life, starting when you are healthy. Take them all the
time, and you will build radiant health, superior health and then
you never get sick in the first place. That is why they are called
superior herbs or tonic herbs because they tonify your body.
For an herb to be a tonic herb is it has to nourish one, if not more,
of the Three Treasures. The Three Treasures is a profound
philosophical system that runs through all of the Chinese healing
arts. Some people know this stuff that I am talking about. I am just
giving a little lay down, because some people don't know, and I
really want this to be clear before I talk about Jing.
The Three Treasures are three energies that the Chinese believe
make up your entire life. The Jing is the essence, the primal
essence, and that is the energy that is inherited ancestrally through
your mothers and father's lines. Their genes change based on the
life experiences they go through and what they adapt to, and what
they eat, and what they think, and how long they live, and on and
on. That is passed on. It goes into the fetal cells from the sperm and
the ova into your body.
You have original Jing which is stored in the lower lumbar. That
feeds the whole body. That genetically determines how long you
are going to live, how strong you are going to be, when you are
going to go into menopause, when you are going to get gray hair,
when you are going to lose bone density, how long your offspring
will live, how much will and drive and courage you will have, and
how strong and young and vital your body is. It will determine
everything about your makeup your brain, your psychological
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outlook on life, whether you have more courage or more fear, and
how you adapt to stress. It's fundamental one of the most
important things about our physical existence that we have to
respect and understand how to use. So, the Jing is the first
treasure.
The second treasure is Qi, which is immediate energy, vitality. That
is the active energy we use on a daily basis. As soon as we are out
of the womb and we are operating on our own energy, we release a
little bit of Jing to function; then the spleen and lungs act upon the
air we breathe and the food we eat to make Qi that goes to the
meridians to animate the body.
The Shen is the third treasure.
That is the spirit that comes from
the heart up. That's the light of
our being. We have a lovely
picture of a candle here. The
candle analogy is used in the
Three Treasures system.
If you look at a candle, the wax
the substance is the Jing. If
you took energy and retracted it
and condensed it into a form
that was stored and very potent
that's Jing. It's so potent that
you can release it when you
want. The body will release Jing on demand into any organ it needs
to if something is off-balance, or if it goes into a stress response, or
if it goes through extreme trauma. It's that Jing that gets you
through. Learning how to preserve it, and learning how to build it
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up is a key in longevity arts in the Chinese system. So the wax and

the wick would be the substance, or Jing, of the candle.
The active function of the candle is the flame. That's the heat.
Thats the Qi. The brighter the flame, the more it burns. It
eventually consumes the whole candle. So your Jing is like that
substance. If you have a bigger, stronger candle it's going to last
longer; and if you have a better wick you can have a brighter flame,
or Qi. But the purpose of the candle is the light that it emits and
that's the Shen.
Superior Ultimate Treasure
So that's the Three Treasures system. Now, in the Gate of Life
School the real longevity masters of Taoist arts the Jing is
called the superior ultimate treasure. It is the foundation; because
without the Jing, you really can't go anywhere. Everything is
released from that. In today's world, where we have all these
exciting technologies, we are getting closer and closer to longevity,
and maybe immortality. Understanding this art form which is so
ancient and sort of lost to us the philosophy of how to build and
not lose Jing is so precious.
For me to not have been an acupuncturist or brought up in a
Chinese hermitage like Ron Teeguarden's teacher, Sun Jin Park,
was and to have learned this, and to be able to apply it to my life
is an amazing gift. I am so lucky to be in a workplace like the tonic
bar in Erewhon and meet people who live in today's world.
People know the most important thing is their body and their life,
and they are trying to do the best they can; but they have stress
and get burnt out. Or, they were doing fine, living a life, and
everything was going great but all of a sudden, something is
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changing. At a certain age range, they are starting to peter out.

They took their Jing energy for granted, and now it is starting to
disappear. So it's really neat to learn, in today's world, how to use
Jing herbs aggressively.
When I use the word, aggressively, it's because the Chinese
approach, back in the day, was more conservative using small
amounts of herbs over a long period of time for a cumulative effect.
When you boil your first Jing herb and you drink it, you feel
something sink very deep into your core, into the kidneys; it
replenishes something that was missing in the root of your being.
The kidneys are the root of your being. You may be calm when it's
working; then, when it wears off you feel like something has been
put back in. Intuitively, you want that again. So you try it, again and
again.
Thats how to
start the process
of growing back
your body from
the root, and it
starts to affect
everything from
the kidneys up
affecting
the
bones, and the
marrow, and the
joints, and the
brain, and your endocrine glands, and your hormones, and your
blood, and your reproductive function, and your brain, and your
hair.
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And then it starts to affect the fourth treasure, if there was one:
your will. It affects your Shen, because now you don't have fear.
You are not in a preservation or survival state to try to deal with
life. You have an abundance of excess energy, eventually and
then it gets exciting. You can go out into life and you can use this
energy to bounce back if you hit some resistance or contrast. To be
able to do that in today's world, where chronic fatigue is as
common as headaches, is rare.
I started using Jing herbs at higher doses and I started mixing them
more and more. A lot of the people who have been following the
work that David Wolfe and Longevity Now are doing have heard
about these Jing herbs, to some degree, because I helped to bring
these hot-water-extracted cooked herbs to a larger raw food
audience that wasn't really interested in them before. I think it
probably all started at Erewhon about seven or eight years ago,
when I convinced David (after three hours) to buy a bottle of hotwater-extracted reishi.
I started taking the Jing herbs and mixing them up, more and more
and more. About six months ago, I wanted to take it a little further.
I got a new version of shilajit. I didn't think it was important to put
shilajit in hot tea. I just thought, Its a superfood mix it in stuff.
What I did next was I took all my best Jing herbs at the highest
dose. I have gone around the different deer antlers; I've gone
around the different schizandras; tried deer placenta straight in the
mouth; I've tried it in a hot tea. Finally, I struck on a recipe with a
pretty good dose of all the main gentle yin and yang kidney tonics
the best extracts that need to be done in alcohol tinctures or
liquids and then a very special extra substance (if you are not a
vegan, that is): the deer placenta.
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I add the right oils that I think are very helpful for the endocrine
system. Keeping with what I call BED (Body Ecology Diet), I also add
stevia (no sugar), and a little bit of some creamer; and a filler agent
like Dandy Blend, to help smooth out and suspend the whole drink
and make it taste really good. I came upon a recipe that was really
strong. I call it Jing City.
Jing City Tea
Heres an example of the power of this recipe. About two weeks
ago, a lady came to the tonic bar. She was in her mid-thirties, six
months into chronic fatigue, just really burnt out. She heard about
me, came to the store, wanted me to make her a drink, and waited.
I knew the Jing City tea this new recipe was going to be
perfect for her. I made the full dose, which a lot of people can
handle. There might be a little bit of cleansing for some people that
are new, but these herbs aren't about cleansing; they are really
about building and nourishing.
She
probably
only needed a
half dose she
could only drink
half the tea. She
drank it slowly,
and she got
really calm. She
said she didn't
want to move,
and she didn't even want to think. She sat in the chair for about 45
minutes; because when the herbs come in, it stops you leaking Jing.
That's the first thing that happens.
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Now to do this, these herbs have to be in a hot tea. They have to be

blended on high for about a minute or two so they cook, so the
energy explodes and they all blend together and we end up with
a product that is stronger than it was when all the herbs were
separate. We want to drink this on an empty stomach so that it hits
the receptors and gets into all the channels and the meridians.
When they drink this, people get very, very calm. They get into the
moment. Strictly speaking, even thinking leaks Jing. It takes mental
power from the kidneys. Like she said, "I don't even want to think."
She sat there, and then after about 20 minutes the blood flow
started to come up to her face, and the skin was all soft and kind of
glowing, and the lines disappeared. She was just still, high, and
relaxed and totally in the moment. This is what I call the yin
face, or the download. To take a great quote from Ron
Teeguarden, he says,
"This is when the tonic
herbs take your kidneys
and plug them into the
cosmos."
It's energy, free energy
that you can't get back in
any other way. It's
coming back into your
being. All you know is
that you are mellow, and
you're high, and then
there are little waves of
serotonin that make you feel good and kind of goofy but you are
still totally relaxed, like you can't use the energy. It's like taking
your adrenal glands out and putting them into a battery recharger.
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You can feel the energy coming in, but you can't use it yet because
it's still coming. Then, when it wears off in about 45 minutes for
most people you are all of a sudden completely replenished.
When the Jing is replenished, it feels like the morning you wake up
after a good night-long deep sleep. Its as if you got all your power
back.
Anyway, that lady went home, cleaned her whole apartment, slept,
had amazing dreams, woke up and felt amazing. Later she told me,
"I think I only need that one drink, because for two weeks straight
my chronic fatigue was completely gone." That was great to hear.
Some people need it every other day. She drank the other half the
next morning. So that's an example of what these herbs can do.
There is a time in our lives when we start getting depleted and
don't know how to get the energy back. Or maybe we are at our
peak, but outputting at such a high level that we can feel we are
pushing it a little too far. It's okay to get tired once in a while, but
you never want to tap too deep, to get exhausted because thats
burning up your prenatal Jing, and that's shortening your life span.
That's aging your body. That's changing your genes in a
disadvantaged way.
When you know how to take a tea like this and put it together for
yourself, this is like a human battery recharge tonic. You have to
feel it, to experience it. I've been making this drink a lot, and have
been hearing some great testimonials from people. I am very
excited to be seeing the results.
Putting It All Together
I'm going to make Jing City tea here. We've got enough liquid to
make four one Vita-Mix pitcher. I have taken all the herbs the
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Ho Shou Wu, the cordyceps, the eucommia, the cistanche, and the
rehmannia from a few different sources, the best places I could
find from my experience working with the herbs, and I have added
a little bit of bupleurum and dragon bone instead of pearl. When I
make it at the bar sometimes I use pearl, but the pearl is really hard
to get the quality grade I want. The dragon bone works as a
grounding supplement, to kind of anchor the Jing because it's a
lot of Jing herbs at once, and sometimes the energy rises pretty
fast.
There was a Dragon Herbs store inside Golden Bridge yoga studio.
Gurmukh, the famous yoga teacher there, has been taking Ron
Teeguarden's herbs for a long time. She said the reason why she
wanted the store and why she takes the herbs, and why she
wants her yoga students to take them is because these herbs
have the kundalini energy. They go to the core where that energy
is, and then the kundalini starts coming up.
This is life force, or the ojas. The source of prana is so deep. You
can't get this from food. You can try all kinds of diets. Maybe some
primal foods start building up some of this energy because they
have a lot of yin some of the raw animal foods but it's really
something you can't get in another food group. This is like a fifth
food group that doesn't exist in the normal system. We westerners
don't know anything about this. To us, it's all just theory. And if
someone tells us about these things, were like, "You're crazy.
That's too good to be true. Herbs can't do that." But the Taoists
studied these sacred substances for a long time, and they felt what
they did.
Coming out of chronic fatigue, I opened that door through
research. I just thought I needed energy. But I realized I needed
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more. I needed to restore, to rebuild, and to replenish my deep

reserves of Jing, yin and yang. I needed to build that up and to lock
it in to stop it leaking.
It takes a while to build it up if you have been depleted for a long
time. You need to build the blood, have a Qi-cultivating lifestyle,
and
then
stabilize
and
develop
the
Shen which
is where the
reishi and the
wild
ginseng
come in. The
dragon bone
and the pearl
are beginning to stop the stress. The stress is a leak. When you take
enough yin Jing herbs the dragon bone in here is a Shen
stabilizer that stops the stress. It grounds the person. Because
there are so many herbs coming in, sometimes the heat starts to
rise pretty fast.
You want to ground it and let it consolidate and get in there. The
schizandra helps lock it in because it's astringent. And then all the
Jing herbs start working. I put a half dose option on here, along
with a full-dose recipe, because this is plenty strong. Some people
are a little cleaner and they are ready, so their body soaks it up fast.
They are not as sensitive; they go right into a full dose.
These days, people don't have a lot of free time. They don't have
time to sit down and do kidney Qigong and meditate for 20 years to
learn how to really master this stuff. Those people need to take
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six tablespoons of this and put it in hot gynostemma tea with a

teaspoon of coconut oil, ghee and pumpkin oil; six squirts of deer
antler essence, Three Sisters schizandra and Dew Drops (wild red
asparagus root); and throw in six capsules of placenta then blend
that for two minutes hot, and drink it on an empty stomach.
Drink it slowly, but let it get in. And don't drink or eat anything cold
for an hour, because you are cultivating Qi and you don't want to
dissipate it or deplete it. I wouldn't even have a cold shower, really.
You are going to get a little warm and you are going to feel it. You
are going to feel the download.
Sit and just be. Meditate for about 15 minutes. It's still kind of there
for an hour and then it wears off. Then boom, it's like rocket fuel.
That stuff can take you to the moon. Its like you can go all day. You
can have a double job, and you won't burn out. You won't age. You
can give out a lot of energy, and you can do a lot.
The other recommended add-on herb is Chinese mountain ant. If
you want to take it all the way, put in two to four squirts of Chinese
mountain ant extract from Dragon Herbs. What reminded me of
that is, if James Bond had a secret weapon and nobody knew about
it, it might be like this recipe, in that the internal code at Dragon
Herbs they have a code on every product is 007 for ant.
When I first took ant, I read the label. I decided to take 6 to 12
squirts a day, but not take any other herbs and go for a month or
so and see what ant is about. The ant is so powerful. It builds back
energy, where you feel like you are suddenly too good for your old
life, looking at everything in a different way.
You want to go back and conquer your dream. You just see it and
feel it. You don't have to say it. You don't have to express anything.
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It's just there, and all of a

sudden, you are looking
at everything differently.
It's like that movie
Limitless, you know, as
soon as they took the pill.
Boom, youre opened up,
and you see all the
possibilities.
That's what starts to
happen when you have
the best diet, and you detox, and you've got the perfect
supplement program down, and you have the perfect sleep setup.
Then you've got this as a secret weapon the power drink, the
ultimate Jing tonic; and your consciousness is there. You are like a
god in a four-layer bio-body suit, ready to play reality.
Dressing up the Jing
So, I don't even waste that much time anymore. Usually, when I
have got an important person, or a good friend, or someone else
that just walks in, I'll ask, "How are you feeling? What do you
want?" Now I just say, "Okay, Jing City." Boom, I just go right to it. I
mean, I could piddle around. I could make this, I could make that
and some people want that. They want to go slow, and I allow
them. But this is, to me, the culmination. If I had known this in the
beginning instead of spending 10 years trying to learn everything
about herbs I guess the process is there for a reason.
So we've got those main Jing herbs. I would have never learned to
make drinks taste good if it wasn't for years of standing behind the
bar in the matrix, with a thousand people a day coming through a
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supermarket. It's like Vons, but it's healthier; and I've got to make
drinks taste goodso I started using chocolate.
Chocolate tastes good, but it stimulates a lot of people. That leaks
Jing so I don't want to stimulate. It also releases serotonin. I
want a serotonic; I want something that restores serotonin,
because that's your yin. So the Dandy Blend started getting
popular. One of the girls at the tonic bar started using it in the
drinks. It tastes really great. It's gluten-free, with a tiny bit of carbs,
but no stimulant. It has a little bit of dandelion. It's good for the
liver. It's mostly roasted barley, rye, a little bit of a grain. That
suspends the herbs, keeps it smooth with the oil so there is no
head on the drink. It's not all frothy, with all the herbs settling into
the bottom like mud.
So we have a suspended, smooth drink with a little Dandy Blend, a
little RenewPro and our New Chapter raw whey protein, with a
little bit of polypeptides and a little bit of immunoglobulins left in
there. It's like a Qi form of colostrum, kind of but more
affordable. You could use colostrum, but you are probably going to
kill the growth factors in it because of the heat.
I put in a little RenewPro to cream it, smooth it out. That has a little
bit of protein. And just a dash of Miracle Salt or an ionic trace
mineral supplement to add the minerals. At Erewhon, we have
never had a certified organic stevia in 10 years. I got the first one I
could get in here, which is great. It's just a little bit to bring the
sweetness up.
The key new ingredient for me is the shilajit. I used to think shilajit
was to put into cold superfoods. But the first time I got the dark,
strong shilajit, the high-mountain Tibetan stuff it's really black
and potent I put a half teaspoon of that into the hot tea with the
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herbs, then blended it on high to cook it and get the mix. When I
drink it, I realize that shilajit is a potentiator.
When they make really good ginseng, they always use a
potentiator, they use a harmonizer, they use a catalyst some
jujube date or a little licorice or a spleen tonic to help the spleen
work a little bit better. Shilajit is a full-blown amplifier. It doubles to
quadruples the potency of all those Jing herbs if it's hot in the tea
and they are mixed together. You cook them together. You blend it
on high for a minute or two until there is smoke coming off like
it's hotter than it was before you made the tea.
That cooking alchemizes all of the ingredients the oils, the Dandy
Blend, the RenewPro, the sweeteners and the herbs. And you end
up with a final product that is like something you get at Starbucks,
like a strong coffee espresso: smooth, nice, light taste, no sugar, no
gluten, and really good fats that actually have some hormonal
intention. The zinc and the other trace minerals in the pumpkin
seed oil are amazing for the prostate and the ovaries.
Now we add ghee. This is true
Ayurvedic ghee, Ancient Organics.
This is from Ayurvedic herbalism; this
is like God. This is like the essence of
life. They put a teaspoon in every
infant's mouth when it is first born.
And it's refined down to have more
of the conjugative linoleic acid. It's
good for detoxing, and it helps with
certain cholesterols. Read about it;
it's an amazing food. And then a little
bit of coconut oil, which we all love.
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Now you have this drink that tastes like Starbucks, but we are
talking Jingbucks. This is a whole other stratosphere. I can bring
someone in fresh off the street who is depleted and they might
not even know they are depleted. They just want something that
tastes good. And this tastes good. But what they start feeling is
beyond any experience they have ever had; because it stops them
from stressing, and it brings them into the now. Their blood starts
flowing and circulating, and their serotonin and their yin comes
back; and when it's done recharging they've got their core back,
something they haven't felt for years.
It's amazing, but you can do it all the time. And the good news is:
the longer you do it, it builds. It's cumulative. The Taoists are all
about not leaking Jing
changing, refining the
DNA, building Jing, eating
these substances all the
time so that your great
grandchildren will live
longer. You're modifying
the human race, but
you're
empowering
yourself for your creation.
Understanding Dosages and Ingredients
So we make it taste good, we make it smooth, we make it BED, we
make it hot and we drink it on empty. You've just got to find out
how sensitive you are, whether you go full dose or half dose. You
may have great Jing and just do it once a week or you may be
someone who needs it every other day in the beginning.
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We start with gynostemma tea. A perfect cup is 12 ounces, a cup

and a half, for making one of these teas. You need a little room for
the oils so you can come out with an even cup so I'd say
10 ounces of boiling water over one Spring Dragon Longevity Tea
bag. Let that steep for a few minutes, swish it around. Pour the
gynostemma tea into your Vita-Mix or your blender. You can use
any blender, but a strong blender like a Vita-Mix is nice because
you can really cook this as you mix it.
Next, the Jing City mix has got all your dry ingredient powders. This
is the small bag. This makes four drinks at full dose. Plus, you need
your add-ons. If you can't afford the add-ons, just get this, because
it's still so good. Just put in a little oil to suspend it. It will work
without the oil too, but if you use a little bit of oil, it will smooth it
out and make it really nice. If you only pick one oil, use just a little
bit of coconut oil although the ghee and the pumpkin are
probably more medicinal for the tonic.
This makes four full Jing Citys, or eight half-doses. Just one of these
tonics (with all the add-ons in it) is $40 at Erewhon for a full dose. If
I cut it down to half dose, the tincture is $30. You don't need to do
it every day; it's so strong. The most I do it is every other day. So
this bag can last 16 days for someone who is doing it every other
day at half-dose or eight days for someone who is doing it fulldose. In a few weeks, Longevity Warehouse will have more of
these. We will also have big bags, which is really the way to go. Get
the big bags.
Ill talk a bit about each herb. Rehmannia is called the kidney zone
food. This is gentle, it's fast, and you feel it right away. In some
ways, I like it better than Ho Shou Wu. Ho Shou Wu is revered as
the most rejuvenating and anti-aging herb long-term
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rejuvenating gray hair, quadrupling a man's sperm count in a

month, and extending life. Ho Shou Wu is so potent. But the
rehmannia is fast.
You can feel when you are burning out your adrenals. You'll actually
get sore with lower back pain. At such a time you could bend over
to pick up something in a garage
and completely blow out a disk
and be in serious trouble
because the cavity of Jing that
supports your core is so weak
that you are susceptible, fragile.
For adrenals, you can cook the
rehmannia by itself. Jing Herbs
has rehmannia little pancakes,
super cheap and you can snap
those into four pieces and put
one in a cup and a half of water
and boil that for 15 minutes. It's a black, smooth, nice-tasting
liquid. That was one of the first Jing herbs I tried. You'll feel it go
right in to the core and start to replenish the kidneys. It's great for
the bone marrow, it's great for the endocrine glands, for regulating,
and it's great for building blood.
Ho Shou Wu is up there with lycium as one of the premier
rejuvenating yin herbs. There are yin kidney tonics and there are
yang tonics. One is responsible for water; one is responsible for fire.
The interplay of the yin and the yang together that opposing
energy that is the root of life for the way the kidneys work. You
need to regulate and build both, and that is why this recipe is
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strong yin and strong yang. A little yin stabilizing calms and helps
you replenish so that you get that download.
Eucommia is another good gentle yin and yang tonic more yang
than yin. It's a rubber tree. You can stretch it. You can see the
stretchy fibers. That goes right to the ligaments and tendons, and
builds the joints. All the martial artists would take it to help joints.
Like rehmannia, it also helps to regulate the endocrine glands and
the hormones.
And then we've got cistanche. I wouldn't have discovered cistanche
if I wasn't so into Jing herbs. I noticed early on that most of the
Chinese herbalists like to formulate things. They'll sell a few
supertonic herbs straight, like reishi, because it's so good; it's a
complete tonic by itself. Or
sometimes schizandra,
or
lyceum, or deer antler, or
cordyceps; but not many
others. When you go further
down the list of Jing herbs and
you get to an herb like
cistanche, they never sell it
straight. As I read each one, I
thought, I've tried this one,
I've tried this one, I've added
this one, and I love this
philosophy of Jing "but how
can I go further?"
They never do this one, cistanche, separately. But I wanted it
separate, so I asked someone to get it for me by the kilo. The first
time I had cistanche straight, I put a teaspoon of it in a tea. It tastes
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really good. The next day, I felt the increase in sex hormones. It's
used in all the sexual classics. It's a powerful sex hormone and
libido tonic. It's also a yin and yang Jing tonic that is great for the
large intestine and the kidneys, and it builds blood. I felt the yin
when I first drank it. I felt the calming, like Ho Shou Wu or
rehmannia. And I felt the kidney and the warmth a little bit in
there. Then I noticed the potent libido effect, so I realized, "Okay,
that's why they use small amounts when they mix it." So you have
to be careful.
Just keep taking it mixed with the other herbs, because we're
looking for the long-term building effects. We're looking for the
quick download recharge. We want the inner power that these
things provide. I would have never gotten to experiment with
isolated Jing herbs if I had not been curious enough to try to dissect
them.
And I never would have never done that if I had spent thousands of
dollars to go through four years at acupuncture school, learning to
use the herbs the way they do. If I had, I would probably be
tiptoeing around these herbs, thinking, "This is too yang, this is too
extreme, this is too strong, you're going to hurt somebody's
kidneys." I came to it from a different point of view and I feel
blessed because I feel like I'm getting amazing results that are
very pertinent for people who want to know how to replenish this
kind of energy quickly, safely and deeply.
Adding the Tinctures
Now we are going to go through our tinctures, the Jing herb addons that we are using in this drink, starting with deer antler. I have
moved around with different deer antlers, and I get some
customers that are a little confused with some of the new high-tech
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growth factor extracts, like what Daniel Vitalis has at Surthrival, so I

just want to clarify this.
The new growth factor scientific extracts that are extracted more
and more and more, separate the mucilage and the fats from the
tip, and they throw that away. They are doing it raw, so that the
growth factors are
100 percent intact.
That's an amazing
supplement to take
straight under the
tongue. Never mix
that in something
like
this
drink,
though, because you'll ruin the supplement. It's not going to work.
It has extra saponins and growth factors that can feed stem cells
and can help heal scar tissue. It can help with hormones to a certain
degree. It's very yang.
You've got to be careful not to take too much. Some people can get
very stimulated, or they could lose sleep. Find the amount you can
tolerate. That's growth factor therapy. That's different from the
Chinese perspective of what deer antler does as a full body extract
tonic.
So you want to use a deer antler that works great with the other
herbs as part of the alchemy. Six squirts 6 x 4 = 24 is about a
fourth of the bottle, so I know I can just pour that in, like so. This is
the strongest deer antler I have used as a full body Chinese tonic
cooked with the herbs, because it also has the lycium in it, which is
the top. And it has the Ho Shou Wu extract.
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Next, Ill add schizandra. If you take it every day, schizandra is one
of the best herbs long-term. It builds all Three Treasures. Ive tried
a lot of different extracts. Some companies have changed over
time. I love the extracts that George is doing at Jing Herbs. They are
very thick, very concentrated, and really strong. This schizandra has
lycium (the goji berry) with some longan added. So same thing,
six squirts per drink. It should be about 24 squirts for four doses.
And then Dew Drops. This is an amazing herb. I think Ron got
separated from his teacher in the early '70s after a few years
because they were in an argument over whether or not people
could fly by consuming wild red asparagus root like, literally fly.
And Ron said to his teacher, "No, you mean people could fly
metaphorically. They could go out of their body or they could
meditate," and Master Park
said, "No, no. They would chew
on the roots for long periods of
time. They would do this for
years. They would fast. They
would do baghua martial arts,
they would cultivate their Qi,
and they would meditate. They
would get buoyant. They would
walk up hills and they wouldn't
feel gravity. They would be
light."
If you do the Five Rites of Rejuvenation enough, its almost like
there is an invisible pogo stick at the base of the spine that is lifting
you up, and when you walk there is a lightness, there is an airiness,
there is a buoyancy. You can hike up hills and you don't feel your
gravity quite the same. It's as if your cells are spinning faster and
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you are levitating just a little bit. And then you get to the point
where you can jump a little further; and then you start to get to the
point where, like in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you can run
and fly.
And Master Sung Jin Park said they could fly. So it was, I don't
know, early '70s when they were flying to the East together
because Sung Jin Park was going to take Ron there to the hermitage
in the mountain in Korea where he came from, and let him meet
the people who could fly. But there was a war going on, and at the
stopover Ron was separated from him because he was American.
They sent him back, and that was the end of that story. But I think
there could be some truth in it.
So we are going to put in the Dew Drops, wild red asparagus root.
This is yin and cooling, and it promotes fluids, moisture. The Taoists
were all about not leaking excessive fluids: incontinence, loss of the
semen, over-sweating, getting dehydrated, and diarrhea
anything that makes you lose the fluids that we have in abundance
when we are young. A woman who is going through Jing depletion
and menopause at the same time, and who is really stressed out
gets dry hot. She doesn't have those fluids.
Once you start building the Jing back and getting the core, you start
changing your intracellular hydration. If you are drinking better
water it helps. If you start getting the toxins out, that helps. If you
start putting some of the fluids in, like the extracellular matrix that
is probably in the mucilage of deer antler tip it's hyaluronan, true
bioavailable hyaluronic acid it puts the fluids back. When you
look at the structure of the tissue of a 16-year-old person, it's thick
and pliable and tight. Its plump, beautiful healthy tissue. This is a
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perfect example of Jing. And this is what starts growing back

your fluids, your yin.
So if someone is extra dry, extra hot, more yin, then more
moistening, cooling herbs like the Dew Drops is great, especially at
night. This is one of the first herbs I did that took my sleep to a
whole other level. I would do 6 to 15 big droppers in a little bit of
warm water before bed. It's so yin, it calms you right down, and it
lifts the heart. It's a Shen herb, because it's wild. This is 80 to
90 percent wild red asparagus root and a little bit of American
ginseng, and a couple of other cooling herbs. Ron is the only person
I know who gets this.
If you're really tired, make a Jing City and see if you can go rest or
nap somewhere. Even if you don't really fall asleep, just sit down
for 45 minutes or an hour and
get as close to falling asleep as
you can. It actually feels like
you're sleeping, and the herbs
are just downloading.
You'll feel when it's done
it's time to get up. Then
stretch, get going. Find a place
to do the Five Tibetan Rites
and work those chakras. With
the Jing City in the meridians,
the Rites are going to be a lot
stronger. You are going to get
flushed in your face because
of the kundalini and the Jing working together and the energy
coming up.
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Then make a second Jing City. That's exactly what I did this
morning, because I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. It works like
nobody's business. You're calm and you're strong and you're there.
To know how to cultivate that kind of inner power, that is an art
form. For some people, it's live fast, die young. They are born with
some Jing and they just take it for granted and burn it out. They are
only 30, or they are 40, or they are 50, whatever that is still so
young. I mean, you want to be able to live to 200 if you want to
even start getting spiritual. That's what the masters are saying.
Most people burn out too fast. When you learn the arts of
cultivating life force like this, you've got something that nobody
else has. You don't have to be a raw deadhead, or a yogi, or a
spiritual person, or a Buddhist to get into this stuff. You could be a
totally regular, normal person. You can be a Wall Street matrix Jing
slinger. You could just have a blender in a corner and boom, just go.
You can have a place at work to make one in the afternoon if you
want to. It's rocket fuel.
In Gratitude
This is a good moment to give thanks to some of my teachers,
because I wouldn't know this stuff if it wasn't for Ron. I studied
online, and then I got one of Rons old books, his first book that
came out in the '80s. That's like finding the Holy Grail. Imagine if
there were only 500 copies of the Bible ever printed, and you found
one at a used book store. It was pretty amazing.
I got into buying a few bulk herbs when I found Teeguarden Herbal
Emporium. My car broke down and I had to walk for miles at night.
I remember feeling really bummed out. I was struggling with my
BED ups and downs, the early years this was 2001 or so and
then I stopped to put the gas can down. I'm resting and I turn
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around and I look at a window of a storefront that's in the dark.

And I see this giant ginseng root and these mushrooms, reishi
mushrooms, and I thought, "What is this?"
I'm on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles at 10 o'clock at night. I
couldn't believe it. I'm looking around the whole store, and the
whole place looks like a Taoist hermitage. There is all of this
beautiful furniture, and it's all dark wood and this old Taoist master
is carved out of a 500-year-old tree in the window. I came back the
very next morning. I walked in there and I didn't even say a word.
They were looking at me like, "Are you a student?" I just looked at
everything and took it in. I got a catalog, and I went home and I
read and memorized it. I thought, "Okay, how much money do I
have? What am I going to buy first?" I looked at a product line,
bought a few bulk herbs, and then went home and took them.
Traditional herbalists are a little conservative. When you go to a
place like Dragon Herbs and you meet an herbalist for the first
time, they tell you swallow the pills with your other herbs in a
packaged program, taking one or two a day. They'll talk to you, and
they love to get intricate and formulated. And it's helps, yes. It's a
slow, long-term thing. Some people are sensitive and they do really
notice a difference. That's good. The herbs are helping them. But a
lot of people are more depleted, so they are not going to be that
sensitive. They wont really notice a difference.
And it costs a lot, the program; then you've got to comply. Rule
number one is compliance. Ron used to always say, "If you don't
take the herbs they are not going to do you any good." But people
forget, and they don't take them. They don't know if it's making
that much of a difference, so when they run out of herbs they are
like, "Gosh. That cost $300, and I'm out now. Should I go back and
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get it? Nah, I'll just skip it." They don't really know how good this
stuff is, because they don't take it right.
I give thanks to people like George Lamoureux, because I would talk
to him over and over again when he worked for Teeguarden Herbal
Emporium; and Roger Drummer who worked beside him. He was
an amazing man and a practitioner of these arts. When I went on to
Dragon Herbs, the same thing happened. Rehmannia Dean Thomas
helped me get to the next level there. Without Ron and then these
other people subsequently, I would have never been led to this
stuff.
Now I'm over my chronic fatigue. I have new goals. I'm moving on
with my life. But I have learned something. You dont have to go on
a pilgrimage to China and find some Taoist monk by accident in a
cave and live with him for 10 years and they don't like Americans
very much, anyway. They don't want to tell you this stuff. They
think we have no respect for this kind of thing. This is so sacred and
deep.
Ron healed his own chronic fatigue with Shou Wu Chi just this
cheap formula from Chinatown. He had been in bed with chronic
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fatigue and burnout from study and sex and overwork and
everything that everybody did in the late '60s, I guess. He had low
Jing to begin with. Nothing could get him out of bed, so his
roommate got him a bottle of Shou Wu Chi. He drank the whole
thing in a couple days instead of doing the recommended one
teaspoon in a hot cup of water. He could feel the life force coming
back, and he was up and out of bed and saying, "What is this?" He
bought a case, and kept slugging it down.
He quit med school and moved to California. He went to the Tao
Healing Arts Center in Santa Monica, looking for how to get these
herbs going when he found an ad for a very rare form of Qigong.
Master Sung Jin Park was I don't know maybe in his late
teens. He was young, and he was sent from a Taoist hermitage cave
to America to teach ten people about Taoism. Kind of an initiation
for manhood. And he didn't like it; he couldn't find anybody that
would listen, so he put out an ad for an ancient form of Qigong that
most people had only read about.
Ron answered the ad, and there was one other guy there. Then a
Korean kid walks in and says, "Head on floor, back against wall,"
walks out, starts smoking a cigarette. So Ron is upside down like
this, and his neck is cracking. The other guy gets down, swears, and
walks out. The Korean kid walks in and says to Ron, "Okay, you're
the one. I'm going to teach you, and you are going to teach ten
people about Taoism." And then Ron had to drive him everywhere
and do his laundry. Just to learn one herb.
You know, I had to get really sick. My soul had to make a big change
in my life, and I had to come to terms with what really matters to
me. That meant letting go of a lot of things. I had to pray and, from
a very truthful place, really want divine guidance. Something above
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me. You have to be humble. Something bigger than you has to

guide you; because this is not a commercial product. Our society is
based on commodity. You are not going to find this at Vons.
Now, thanks to this conference, it's getting easier. I mean, people
who have no background in herbalism can come here. They can
learn about this and take it home. They could have been going
through Jing deficiency stuff for half their life and Jing herbs can
change their lives, just like that.
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Jing City Rejuvenation

So about six tablespoons of pumpkin oil and we are ready to cook
this. We are going to have to blend this for about two minutes,
maybe three minutes. The full dose is strong. Some people may not
need the whole full dose they can drink half of it. They could
leave it out of the fridge for a day, because the oils are preserving it
and the herbs are cooked. They could stir it up and then re-blend it
on high for a minute or two until it gets hot, or heat it on a stove
preferably not in a metal pot, but you can. You want to drink it
warm, on an empty stomach.
It helps if you cultivate some reverence for the history behind these
herbs, for how special they are, and for knowing how to take them;
but you don't have to. You can just make a drink, and you are going
to learn from it. There is a difference between conjecture and
experience between reading about it, touching it, thinking about
it, and just a little bit of prep work, making it, and feeling it. We
know what we can do with technology. We can plug things in and
recharge them and keep them going. If the car breaks down we can
overhaul it, we can change the engine. But your body is an amazing
biological organism.
Experience says it all. You don't have to know anything about
Chinese tonic herbs, you don't have to read the philosophy about
Jing, and you don't have to buy bulk herbs. You could just drink one
of these for the first time in your life, and the experience will teach
you. You will feel it, and you will know what it does. You will know
that is something that you've never had, and it does something that
nothing else you know of can do, and that nobody really talks
about. And it's a gift. It's a real gift.
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On the label, there is a recipe for the half Jing City. Just use
three tablespoons in hot water or gynostemma tea. You don't have
to use the oil, but it really helps suspend it. I think it helps the
release if you use a little bit of one of the healing oils, or all three.
Then there is a recipe for the full Jing City, which is six tablespoons
in hot water or tea with the oils. The full Jing City Max is what I like.
That's with the add-ons, including the deer placenta.
Deer placenta is a little expensive. If you are depleted, you can take
four to six capsules of this blended up with some other hot Jing
herbs to potentiate it all. When you drink it, you can smell the musk
from the deer placenta a little bit when it comes off. It adds a nice,
slightly salty taste. Placenta is what nourishes new life. It is a deep,
profound, powerful substance.
This
is
10-to-1
concentrated
New
Zealand deer placenta.
The ranchers have
very special farms out
in the country. It's a
pretty
high-end
business. They love
the deer; they take
really good care of
them. They are free to roam, and they come back with their flock
on their own. They are safe from predators and they are fenced,
but they are out in beautiful places and are fed well, and cared for
and loved. The ranchers clip the tips off the horn once a year when
the fork happens. It's an annual rhythm. That deer antler tip grows
back. The tip grows out from the heading, releasing the stem cells.
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It's the only mammal that can regenerate. The difference between
healing and regeneration is big. We all know that if we sever our
nerves, our spinal cord, we can't regenerate that. Most probably,
we wouldnt be able walk. Or if we lose a chunk of muscle, the skin
heals over but the muscle doesn't grow back. If we damage our
heart from cardiovascular problems we get scar tissue, but heart
cells can't grow back.
If you hurt your liver, you could chop out three-quarters of it and
grow the whole thing back pretty fast, because you have organspecific stem cells that are helping that. Or the intestinal crypt in
your gut you can grow that back quickly. Thats regeneration, the
definition being the reactivation of developmental processes to
restore missing or damaged tissue to its original state with its
original functionality instead of having an operation and putting
a metal thing in your knee or a fake thing. That's actually growing
back the original tissue, like you had when you were 16 years of
age. That's real regeneration, and that's where we're going. That's
more exciting. Stem cells can help with that.
There are some animals, like the salamander, whose arm can be
clipped off; and every single time, it will grow the whole thing back
perfectly because it's got those organ-specific stem cells. But the
only mammal we know that does this, the closest animal to us, is
the deer. And the Chinese knew it 4,000 years ago.
And then theres the placenta. When people have been through
extreme trauma and shock, like war victims who have been
tortured for weeks in a camp and are ready to die from total fear,
paranoia, exhaustion, or trauma; that is when to bring out large
doses of straight placenta because it can bring back the life
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force. They are so Jing-depleted. Their prenatal Jing is hanging on a

thread, and it's pretty scary.
You know, when you go through nine months of pregnancy and
childbirth, you use a lot of Jing, depending on your age. If you are
closer to middle
age it's really like
you are using
your life to make
another. You have
got to know how to
prepare
before
that, to build this
Jing. Now you can
do it safely without
losing yourself; and
then you can utilize
the placenta and
put it back.
Audience member:
What about for
children?
TC: I think the half
dose straight, with
just a little bit of oil
would be great.
Test it out on them. It's safe. It's gentle. They are just foods. And I
think the sooner you start, the better. You know, you can change
your genes over time. The Taoists really believe that over a lifetime,
based on the choices we make, the thoughts we have, the foods we
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eat, what we go through, and what we learn, our genes change and
it changes our makeup.
When you start using these herbs on such a deep level because
the DNA is part of the Jing you will find many correlations with
Jing and telomeres. For example, after you get to a certain point
when it's hard to build the Jing back. That last repetition of DNA
that stops your chromosome from unraveling and your genes from
turning off, and stops you getting cancer and dying that's your
prenatal Jing. You don't want to go there. You want to build up
reserves of postnatal Jing. You can burn in the postnatal, but you
can also build it back up, and you can add excess. That's life
extension.
But yeah, I think it's gentle enough for kids. Even a low dose of
some of these tinctures, like Dew Drops, is safe for kids. The Three
Sisters is pretty safe; but the deer antler is pretty powerful. This is
nature's answer to steroids, so I would just do low doses for kids.
When they start growing, they could start doing a little more. If
someone starts taking those herbs at that age, you are going to
have an anabolic biomachine, like a recon marine.
Going to the other end of the spectrum, as a postmenopausal
woman you have to know how to regulate yin and yang. You have
to take much more cooling herbs. You have to regulate the
hormones gently, bring in the bupleurum and peony formula. There
are lifestyle diets and certain oils and minerals that can help with
the hormones getting younger.
If you are not going to take bioidenticals hormones; if you are not
going to do something outside your body; if you want to do it
endogenously again, as you once did, you have to go slowly and
carefully. When the hormones start getting more balanced, you can
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add in some yang herbs and it won't give you a hot flash, it won't
stimulate you because the body is behaving more like that of a
premenopausal woman, or younger.
And then sometimes, depending on how many years since they
stopped menstruating, I have seen women get their cycles back
whether they think that's good or not. Every two years after
menopause, most women's hormones are diving by 90 percent. If
you use Jing herbs and reverse that, that is not going to happen to
you. You are going to be more like the women at Hunza Valley in
the 1960s, when Bernard Jensen went there. At 90, some were still
having babies, and didn't look a day over 40.
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prevent any disease. If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or
have a medical condition, consult your physician before using this advice.
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Truth Calkins studied with the

legendary Ron Teeguarden at

From a live presentation given at

Today I'm going to talk about Chinese tonic

Before that, as a westerner, I always believed that an herb was

up is a key in longevity arts in the Chinese system. So the wax and

changing. At a certain age range, they are starting to peter out.

Now to do this, these herbs have to be in a hot tea. They have to be

more. I needed to restore, to rebuild, and to replenish my deep

six tablespoons of this and put it in hot gynostemma tea with a

It's just there, and all of a

We start with gynostemma tea. A perfect cup is 12 ounces, a cup

rejuvenating gray hair, quadrupling a man's sperm count in a

growth factor extracts, like what Daniel Vitalis has at Surthrival, so I

perfect example of Jing. And this is what starts growing back

around and I look at a window of a storefront that's in the dark.

me. You have to be humble. Something bigger than you has to

Jing City Rejuvenation

force. They are so Jing-depleted. Their prenatal Jing is hanging on a

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