Pressure points/accupuncture techniques.?!
Question: Pressure points/accupuncture techniques..?
I know of two 'accupuncture' based techniques in releiving pain. These are:
Digging your fingernail into the base of your ring finger in order to provide an hours worth of relief from a sore throat.
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Massaging the muscle between your thumb and first finger to rid yourself of minor headaches.
I've tried these and they work well. I would like to learn some more techniques that don't actually require stabbing needles into myself. Any suggestions.?Health Question & Answer
Digging your fingernail into the base of your ring finger in order to provide an hours worth of relief from a sore throat.
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Massaging the muscle between your thumb and first finger to rid yourself of minor headaches.
I've tried these and they work well. I would like to learn some more techniques that don't actually require stabbing needles into myself. Any suggestions.?Health Question & Answer
Answers:
You're best bet would be to look into a book like accupressure for dummies and some other books but if you really want to get into it see if there's a school of acupuncture in your area that you could get an intro course at.
Suggested reading:
Acupressure's Potent Points: a Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments
The Acupressure AtlasHealth Question & Answer
Suggested reading:
Acupressure's Potent Points: a Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments
The Acupressure AtlasHealth Question & Answer
You can also try hitting your thumb with a hammer and forget about that nagging toothache for a while. The principal is the same.
Acupuncture/acupressure has no basis in science, anatomy and no convincing evidence it does much of anything. At best, it may be helpful for temporary relief of minor pain, but not because it blocks/unblocks your chi. (Look up the counter-irritant theory and the gate control theory of pain)Health Question & Answer
Acupuncture/acupressure has no basis in science, anatomy and no convincing evidence it does much of anything. At best, it may be helpful for temporary relief of minor pain, but not because it blocks/unblocks your chi. (Look up the counter-irritant theory and the gate control theory of pain)Health Question & Answer
You can't just use a one point fits all for the most part. It depends on what is going on elsewhere in your body. You can look into learning acupressure or some form of it like Jin Shin Do.
I had some amazing experiences with Jin Shin Do and also acupuncture. Acupuncture is a 3 year course of advanced study so you won't be just stabbing needles into yourself without training and in fact you hardly feel a needle when done right.
I use acupuncture to get rid of sinus infections, deal with female issues, back pain, and any kind of strains and sprains and many other thingsHealth Question & Answer
I had some amazing experiences with Jin Shin Do and also acupuncture. Acupuncture is a 3 year course of advanced study so you won't be just stabbing needles into yourself without training and in fact you hardly feel a needle when done right.
I use acupuncture to get rid of sinus infections, deal with female issues, back pain, and any kind of strains and sprains and many other thingsHealth Question & Answer
press into the bone above the tear ducts at the inner corner of your eyes for sinus, eyestrain and headache pain.
hold your arm in front of you as if it's in a sling, palm toward your belly, thumb up. at about 3 finger-widths from the elbow crease, you will fnd a hollow in the muscle at the border of the yang (darker, tougher, hairier) skin and the yin ( paler, thinner, smoother) skin. this point will probably hurt, but it's great for painful overuse of the hand and wrist.
on the yin forearm, three finger-widths up from the wrist crease, in between the tendons (about 10% of people only have one wide tendon; go toward the pinky side). This is great for all kinds of nausea: morning sickness, carsickness, from chemotherapy, etc.Health Question & Answer