3 common acupressure points everyone should know

certain acupuncture points have been prized through history for the specific effects they have on certain conditions there are famous doctors for example one named madang who had these Heavenly star points and these were sort of his quintessential points used most commonly for certain kinds of conditions they've been now remembered for hundreds to thousands of years because this one physician said these points are incredible but a lot of these acupuncture points can be used for acupressure as well and in particular there are three that I would recommend on a day-to-day basis because they're very very effective acutely for scenarios that otherwise many acupuncture points done via acupressure won't necessarily have a strong effect so in this video let's talk about three acupressure points that have a significant effect on three specific kinds of conditions that I see every single day hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master of the day so let's jump in now the very first acupuncture or acupressure point that I recommend is a point called six which is called chii or CA of chi now this point is typically something I recommend for bloating so you can use this point whether you've eaten too much after a meal whether it's just the collective accumulation of overeating over days where now you're noticing a lot of GI fullness discomfort or even gas pain this point is something that is very very effective for moving that gas pain around the intestines I've also seen some women occasionally use it for menstrual pain although for menstrual pain I'd say you're better just better off just using using a warming or a heating pad so for this point chihi what we do here is basically put maybe about 3 or four fingers width below your belly button the exact location doesn't have to be very precise for this but what you do here is take two fingers they're called like sword fingers or you could make little beaks with your hands and you're basically just rhythmically tapping you know a few inches below your belly button for a lot of people the bloating underneath the belly button is gas production related or just constipation so by actually rhythmic tapping here you are actually I mean on a physical level you're manually stimulating the peristalsis of the intestines what I recommend is just basically tapping here rhythmically tap tap tap tap and just doing that for 5 minutes generally people will say you'll hear almost like a gurgling sort of sound and after that you'll often feel much much better one of those things that you wouldn't think works but actually is really really effective now the second point is called Ren 17 or shanong this is for anxiety and just general KN so in particular for anxiety this point is in the center of the chest you located it basically between the nipple line level on a horizontal level with nipples the center of the chest in the the sternum area there this point is used for lots of different issues but for this case for acupressure we're going to be stimulating it by putting Palm over palm and rubbing rhythmically over the chest itself basically a frequency or Cadence of 1 1,002 1,003 1,004 1,00 you can rub rhythmically 5 minutes to the right and then 5 minutes counterclockwise very very effective for calming that somatic sensation of anxiety or restlessness that you often have when you're feeling anxious or a little bit too revved up during the day so this point shanong literally just means center of the chest look a lot of people coming in with anxiety they will often say that you know I feel tightness in the chest so this is a very self soothing kind of Sensation that you can do now so far we've talked about points for bloating points for anxiety there are dozens and hundreds of other conditions obviously and if you're wondering and curious where those conditions are coming from what organ what physiological pathway what root cause I've taken the time to put together a brand new free root cause quiz it's the first link below this video you can also go to Dr Alex hind.com SL quiz and this quiz goes through probably a 100 common symptoms what orgon network they're associated with from traditional Chinese medicine and then we've taken a lot of time to actually put together some links to other videos that I've shot on specific conditions whether it's heart palpitations or food allergies or anxiety so download the quiz take it it's really helpful to figure out where symptoms are coming from and from there at that point you can look at the other videos that will help you really get into targeted information to heal now let's jump into Point number three point number three is called kidney one yongren right bubbling spring now yongen often is a point used for insomnia and any sensation of upward surging anxiety can be one of them as well you know in the context of our modern day world where everyone appears to have insomnia everyone appears to have anxiety this is one of the most commonly used points for acupressure itself needling it's not very comfortable but this point is very soothing and I think for most people if they get a foot massage the part of their foot where it feels the best is this actual acupuncture point so let's look at kidney one Yung Tren we'll talk about how to stimulate it now for this point Yong Tren basically the way you find it is you could think of it as being in the top 1/3 of your foot just behind the balls of the feet so if you slide your thumb up the middle of the foot behind the balls of the feet that little first bump you feel and this little tender spot often is a very soothing sensation to massage it rhythmically so this point is called bubbling spring and in traditional Chinese medicine this is sort of where the Kidney Channel comes out of the body and appears basically on the foot this is the origination point where it basically bubbles up out of the foot and basically the channel is more of an external channel that we can stimulate with acupressure or acupuncture the way that I'd recommend stimulating this point is just basically rhythmically massaging it again to like a 1 1,002 1,003 1,000 sort of tempo and by rubbing it with this sort of tempo it's supposed to function as like a kind of grounding rod so even in China you know to this day there's a kind of folk practice of using these hot foot baths to fall asleep it's basically said it brings the chi down brings the chi down to your feet and when people can't sleep there's too much chi in the head so basically you know stimulating this point through a rhythmic maybe 5 to 10 minutes on each side it is really effective for people who have anxiety or lots of restlessness surrounding sleep and lots of insomnia so it can be one of those things that really makes a big difference in how you feel and it's just very soothing in general for the nervous system so those are three really effective acupuncture points that you can do acupressure on we've talked about floating talked about anxiety and we've talked about insomnia again there are more points that you can utilize uh we have a lot of related videos on this topic as well but again don't forget if you want to work with me privately one-on-one in my clinic in Los Angeles or virtually via tele medicine I work with a limited number of new patients every single month and you can go to Dr Alex hind.com Clinic to learn more or there's information the phone number for the clinic the email in the description of this video down below and then don't forget you guys I have another related video on acupressure techniques you can do at home right up here