I’m leaving on a 2,000 mile Road Trip in a few hours (4:00 a.m.) – out of cyberspace until the end of the week.

So it’s timely to write – actually, rewrite and expand – a blog entry about Lung Time.

Lung Time, according to the ancient Chinese Midnight-Noon Ebb-Flow Law, is from 3:00-5:00 a.m.

All over the world, many people know the optimum time to meditate is 4:00 a.m.

4:00 a.m is known as the “Hour of Nectar” in India.

4:00 a.m is the time of least oxygenation for the lung.

4:00 p.m. is the time of greatest oxygenation for the lung – during Bladder Time, 3:00-5:00 p.m., exactly 180 degrees (12 hours) across from Lung Time, 3:00-5:00 a.m.

3:00-5:00 a.m. is the absolute best time to meditate, to achieve the “breathless state,” the delta brain wave state of one to 4 cycles per second. [1]

If you get to the breathless delta state via disease, it’s diagnosed as asthma.

In the American Journal of Medicine’s Asthma: A Nocturnal Disease, Jul. 29, 1988, asthma’s relationship to timing in discussed in detail.

E.R. McFadden Jr., M.D., wrote …

“Typically, asthmatic patients awaken between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. with cough, wheezing and breathlessness and often cannot go back to sleep without using an aerosolized bronchodilator.”

William W. Busse, M.D., in the same A.M.A. reprint, assigned the lowest oxidative rate of lung function to 3:00-4:00 a.m. (compared to the Midnight-Noon Law’s 3:00-5:00 a.m.).

Dr. Busse assigned the highest oxidative rate of lung function to 3:00-4:00 p.m. – compared to the Midnight-Noon Law’s 3:00-5:00 p.m., or Urinary Bladder Time.

According to Emanuel Revici, M.D. …

the lungs are in their maximum anabolic phase between 3:00-5:00 a.m., and in their maximum catabolic phase between 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Russell G. Foster & Leon Kreitzman (Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, 2004) wrote …

“One of the standard tests for asthmatics is to measure airway function, which is usually higher in the afternoon than in the morning. So an early-morning appointment with the doctor may confirm the severity of the condition whereas the same person seeing the same doctor later in the day may well have a different result. Same person, same doctor, same disease – different time.”

The same 4:00 a.m. low-point of oxygen consumption beneficial to meditators can be a threat to those with sleep apnea.

A cup of coffee will prevent an asthma attack. [2]

The Lung Meridian represents “birth,” which is why asthmatics (asth-MA) are almost always “out of biological resonance” with their mothers.

It’s been known for decades by psychoanalysts that asthma is linked to a mother trauma. [3]

Getting up to meditate at Lung Time is itself beneficial to asthmatics if they drink a cup of Cobalamin Tonic hormone booster (coffee, cocoa, and maple syrup).

Hearing is most acute at 4:00 a.m., which is why meditators listening to the overtone ringing of the”sound current” (also called the “audible life stream”) prefer to meditate at Lung Time.

The Surat Shabd Yoga (Radha Soami) groups (over fifty groups) listen to the “sound current” while meditating.

So do those belonging to the American groups Eckankar and the Eureka Society.

Millions of people on Earth meditate listening to the “sound current” under many names, including the “sound of silence,” the “Shabd,” the “Anahata sacred sound current,”the”sacred sound of Avalokitesvara,” etc.

A healthy “on-time” person’s breath will be in their right nostril precisely at 3:00 a.m. Local Mean Time.

We don’t breathe out of both nostrils at the same time. Check for yourself.

If the breath switches from the left nostril to the right one too fast (say, 2:55 a.m.), one is susceptible to any of the “fast” dis-eases of the world (hypertension, hyperglycemia, etc.).

If the breath switches from the left nostril to the right one too slow (say, 3:05 a.m.), one is susceptible to any of the “slow” dis-eases of the world (hypotension, hypoglycemia, etc.).

There are only two dis-eases in the world …

(1) “too fast” syndromes, known as “Yang” dis-eases

(2) “too slow” syndromes, known as “Yin” dis-eases

You can easily switch from one nostril to the other atLung Timeby placing the right fist in the left armpit to “brake” ahead-of-time breathing or by placing the left fist in the right armpit to “accelerate” behind-time breathing.

Yogis know several ways to accomplish this switch.

I learned the armpit method from Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty), and a prone-on-the-side method with the nostril to be opened in topmost position from Lex Gillan, a Houston Yoga instructor.

Tibetans use a staff pressed into the armpit to keep the breath in one nostril for twelve-hour durations for purposes associated with special meditations.

Don Juan Matus, the shaman written about in the Carlos Castaneda series of books, recommended 4:00 a.m. for meditation because fewer people are awake at that time to interfere with one’s brain waves.

Humorously, modern chronobiology researchers label waking up at 3:00 a.m. a “sleep disorder.”

They’ve labeled it FASP, “familial advanced sleep phase syndrome.”

It seems that any Nebraska farmer who goes to bed early and wakes up at 3:00 a.m. to go to work is “sick.”

To be fair, some of these researchers define FASP as waking up between 1:00-3:00 a.m.

Waking up at the beginning of Liver Time really is a warning of internal clock dysfunction, at least till 2:30 a.m., which is a potent “bridge time” for meditators.

Other names for FASP are ASPS (advanced sleep phase syndrome) and ASPT (advanced sleep-phase type).

The human body is most acidic and anabolic at 4:00 a.m. during Lung Time.

Conversely, the body is most alkaline and catabolic at 4:00 p.m. during Bladder Time.

Many books tout the benefits of being alkaline, but the “life force” is actually in the acidic fraction of food.

The reason a cook puts the lid on a pot is to keep the volatile acids from escaping the food. The heavier alkaline minerals sink to the bottom of the pot.

Acids are the youth-promoting elixir of the body, but there’s a downside – they can promote the “disease of being too young” (cancer).

Those persuaded to switch to an alkaline diet after they get a cancerous tumor actually metastasize it by ulcerating the cancer cells.

The alkaline fraction can promote the “disease of being too old” (aging).

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[1] The delta brain wave state comes in two varieties: (1) the sitting,”non-action” type of delta, known inYoga scienceas sirvikalpa samadhi, and (2) the mobile, “action” type of delta known as nirvikalpa samadhi.

{2} I’ve used coffee for “jet-propelled meditation.” Both coffee’s caffeine and tea’s theophylline were once standard asthma “drugs.”

[3] The psychoanalytic journals of the 1930s and 1940s (appearing throughout thevolumes of Psychosomatic Medicine, The Psychosomatic Study of the Child, etc.) describe many examples of this asthma-mother psychosomatic link, as well as the writings of Flanders Dunbar, Franz Alexander, Karl Menninger, etc.

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