Acupuncture Treatment Demo for Stress Management and Stress Relief Therapy

New videos every day. Stress is a really common problem in today's society. I think we all have times that we feel stressed out and there's a lot of different things you can do to help with your stress. Something that works for a lot of people is acupuncture and stress can affect your body in a lot of different ways. It can make you feel tired, it can make you have headaches, it can affect your digestion and your sleep and acupuncture can help address a lot of those issues. My name is Christina Tolley and I am a licensed acupuncturist here in Austin, Texas and I am going to demonstrate a few acupuncture points that are helpful with stress and they are points that while you couldn't do acupuncture at home you could massage the points or have your spouse or a friend massage them for you. I always start when I'm doing acupuncture by washing my hands and then we use something called clean needle technique. So I have a cotton ball and I will swab the points with alcohol just to clean them off since the needles do penetrate the skin that makes sure that bacteria that are hanging out on the surface kind of clean away and use a different. I'm going to swab between your eyebrows so keep your eyes closed the alcohol can burn it gets in your eyes. Now I'm going to start with a point between her eyebrows that point is called yin tang. It's one of my favorite acupuncture points. It's a very relaxing point and I'm going to go ahead and needle it and then I'll talk about it a little bit. I'm going to touch your face. Is that okay? So I'll go ahead and needle all the points and then talk about them that way Vanessa can relax a little bit and I'm going to needle a point called large intestine four next and this point is a very common acupuncture point. A lot of people know this point as the headache point. It has a lot of uses. I'm going to do a point on Vanessa's foot. This point is called liver three and I'm going to do the points on both sides. For the most part if I'm doing acupuncture points for more of a functional reason because of their properties I'll do them bilaterally. If I'm doing something for pain like if Vanessa had back pain on the right side I might only needle on the right side but since these are more for their functionality I'll do them on both sides and this one is large intestine four again. Is that okay Vanessa? Okay good. So the point on Vanessa's forehead is called yin tang. It means hall of impression in Chinese and it's where the theoretical third eye would be so it kind of helps open up the mind but also it has a calming effect. I remember the very first time I had that point needled and I just totally relaxed which was amazing in acupuncture school which was very stressful and I like to start on that point with almost every patient that I have just because it's such a calming point. Large intestine four if you want to find that point to massage on yourself maybe I can it's kind of at the highest point of this muscle and if you there's a bone right here the midpoint of that bone so right about here kind of close your fist it's at that high point and that's large intestine four that point is good for stress it's good for headaches it's good for allergies it has a lot of applications and you can some people will just kind of pinch it if they're having a headache it's a great point that you can use on yourself of course doing acupuncture can help penetrate a little deeper and then liver three is another very commonly used acupuncture point it's kind of in a hollow it's between the first and the second toe if you kind of just feel down there's a little hollow and it's usually tender on women especially in Chinese medicine the liver is thought to sort of control the blood and so women who menstruate tend to have more blood issues at least in the way Chinese medicine looks at things and so the liver is often out of balance in women and liver three is a really good point for helping to bring the liver back into balance it helps do something they talk about spreading the qi the qi is kind of the life energy that we have and it's supposed to flow in a certain way through our bodies and when it gets interrupted when the flow gets interrupted that's when problems start to happen and on this point can kind of help smooth that flow of qi out it kind of calms the liver down and helps smooth the qi it's interesting because these points together liver three and large intestine four are known as the four gates and they're located on the same place basically on the hand and the foot so they're both between the first and the second digit and kind of about the same distance in and together as the four gates they really help to spread the qi and kind of calm things so all together I really like this treatment for stress because it's very balanced and elegant there's a point on the head and then there's a point on each hand and on each foot so it's a very balanced treatment as far as the location of the needles and again these are great points that you could stimulate at home and that would help you feel more relaxed if you're feeling stressed and if you have the opportunity to try acupuncture I am sure that these points would help you as well with an acupuncturist my name is Chrissy Natoli and if you want more information about my practice my website is www.chrissyslittlehealingspace.com and thank you so much for watching the video and if you wouldn't mind you can give it a thumbs up you could comment or you could subscribe thank you so much if you liked this video we have hundreds of more alternative videos ranging from sexual health to psychology to mind control so if you liked it go ahead and click on me to enter the Psyche Truth Channel