Acupressure: Wellness at your fingertips

2015
Acupressure: Wellness at your fingertips
Key Sun, PhD, MSW, MA, & MPH
[email protected]
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The points on the head
1. Heavenly Pillar (headache, insomnia, old, slow thinking)
2. One hundred meeting point (headache, stuffy nose, cold)
3. Wind pool (headache, cold, insomnia)
4. Wind home (headache, rigid neck, sore throat, paralysis)
5. Touching the sky (headache, stuffy nose, fever)
6. Sound sleep (insomnia)
7. Four white (near-sightedness, headache)
Points on the hands and arms
8. Labor palace (heatstroke, heartache, female cramps)
9. Closing valley (fever, infection, sore throat, cough, insomnia)
10. inner pass (stomachache, heartburn, anxiety, insomnia), *finger gymnastics
11. toochache point
12. night water (to treat child night urination)
13. foot bottom point (to alleviate pains on the bottom of foot)
14. the big hill (chest pain, stomachache, heatstroke)
15. crooked pool (numbness, fever, sore throat, infections)
16. listing the missing (cough)
Points on the legs and feet
17. three mile point (physical weakness, stomachache, stomach ulcer)
18. bending the middle (waste or lower back pains)
19. joint of three Yins (physical weakness, impotence)
20. bubbling spring (insomnia, high blood pressure)
Points on the belly
21. heavenly pivot (constipation, enteritis)
22. sea of energy (constipation, diarrhea, relieves PMS)
Points on the back
23. Spleen point (stomachache, vomiting, diarrhea)
24. life gate (impotence, paralysis, waist pain, enhancing general body functions)
25. kidney point (any diseases involving the reproduction systems)
26. the big vertebra
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27. Perineum (HuiYin)(menoxenia, bed-wetting, emission)
28. A Shi (where the pain is, for example, a pain point in the back may indicate heart
problems)
BEFORE DOING ACUPRESSURE, YOU SHOULD KNOW...
1. How to locate an acupressure point?
Because the channels are the places where the energy flows, if the pressure is on
the right channel but slightly misses the right point, the effects on treatment remain the
same.
You will feel a special sore sensation that radiates to the surrounding areas when a
given point is pressed. You may feel some pain when pressing some points, but the pain
is much deeper than the common skin or muscle pains.
2. The measurement
To locate an acupressure point, you often need to remember how far it is from an
obvious part of your body (such as eyes, ankle bone, etc.). The width of your thumb
knuckle bone is one inch if you do self-acupressure. The width of your four fingers when
putting together are three inches (If you do acupressure on others, you should use their
fingers as the standard of measurement).
3. lfyou can only press on one side ofyour body ...
All the channels are symmetric (except Ren and Du channels) and whenever
possible, you should apply pressures to the points on both left and right sides of the body.
If you can only press on one side of the body, males (Yang) may select the left side and
females (Yin) may choose the right side to maximize the effects.
4. Be cautious when applying acupressure on children or pregnant women
Although acupressure will not produce any harm to the skin, some bruise may
appear if you press a point for too long. The bruise will disappear in two or three days but
DCFS may knock your door if your children have bruises on the arms. For pregnant
women, you should avoid pressing the joint of three yins, and any point on the belley.
5. How long do you need to apply pressure to a given point?
It usually takes about 3 to 20 minutes of pressure for the treatment to be effective.
It also depends upon how firm the pressure is. If you put a magnet instead of the finger
on a point, it can remain there for 12 hours or longer.
6. Be patient, it takes some time.
Acupressure is used as a supplementary treatment to the conventional remedies,
particularly if the patient has infectious disease. The effect of acupressure may be felt
right away for some but for others, it takes 12 hours to feel the difference.
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