Showing posts with label acupuncture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acupuncture. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Acupuncture Ear Chart

Acupuncture charts are very common among chinese medicine practitioners, we all use them to locate points, and we all hang them in our clinics. (Aren't we?)
I have seen many acupuncture charts until today, and i noticed how different they are in their point location. They all agree about a certain area for certain points, but they definetly not pin-pointing the same location on all charts.
I have found just now a great acupuncture ear chart, with all the points i learned about and some more, divided nicely into different colors and shapes. Please have a look and tell me if you know of a better one online.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Chinese Medicine case study - Water in the Yang Ming


A Friend came to me last week, complaining about an open sore on the left side of his tongue. He has bitten his tongue a week before, and the wound was now infected, hot and a bit swollen. It was pretty painful.
I took his pulse and noticed that the pulses of both the Stomach and the Large-Intestine meridians were wiry and floating. I decided to use the cooling water energy to calm down the place, and to use the Yang Ming meridians to get the water to the right place.
I needled points st-44 and co-2, being both water points on the Yang Ming meridians, and added st-6 to direct the calming effect of the stomach meridian strait to the center of the wound.
My friend felt relieved almost immediatly, and the pulses of the Stomach and Large-Intestine meridians were now much softer and deeper. After 20 minutes he felt much better. I asked him to wash the place with salt water (1 teaspoon for 1 cup of water) and put leaves of Sage on the wound. After 3 days the wound was gone.