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Hi there,

 

many years ago I had a similar patient or exactly the

same really. I tried many different appraoches and

finally someone told me: but that when the yang energy

starts flowing thruogh the bladdermeridian.

I couldn't find the theory but just tried it with

succes. Of course there's maybe more points needed to

treat the rest of your patients condition but with

mine the waking up at 3am stopped when I needled bl 1

jingming on both sides.

 

greetings Rob Jansen

 

 

 

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3am is the beginning of the tiger hour. Horse and dog year people could benefit

from treatments in this hour. Monkey and rat,dragon year births..beware?

 

jdicanio wrote:All,

I have a client who wakes up at around 3am in the morning every day. Any

thoughts on which meridian would cause this or what would be behind it?

 

Looking forward to your response.

Judy

 

 

 

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acupuncture , jdicanio@a... wrote:

> All,

> I have a client who wakes up at around 3am in the morning every day.

Any

> thoughts on which meridian would cause this or what would be behind

it?

>

> Looking forward to your response.

> Judy

>

Without any other info, There are acupuncture techniques I would try.

Both are based on the chinese clock. As you know 3-5am is the time of

the lung. Sometimes if the energy leaving the liver is blocked from

entering the lung this can cause waking up at this time. You can do

entry/exit treatment, Liver 14/lung 1. Check if lung 1 is very sore

this can comfirm that this treatment might help.

 

There is another very elegant technique called " shigo " in

japanese(midnight/noon needling).This is where you use points opposite

the chinese clock to treat syptoms at a particular time. Since the

insomnia is happening at 3am, the opposite would be urinary Bladder.

So you would traditionally use the luo point on the bladder, although

other points will work. I would search for a very sore point on

bladder channel below the knee or treat luo point. This technique is

usually done with a gold needle, but have seen it work with a

stainless. Personally I would use 5-7 cones of direct moxa(1/2 rice

size) on the point.

Also, if you treat them at 3pm(opposite clock) often you get better

results!

Without any D+D this is what comes to mind.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Michael

 

PS. If you are in an area with daylight savings time, all chinese

clock treatments must be ajusted for this.

So, 3am is actually 2am!!!(spring foward) Which puts it right in the

middle of liver time, so opposite liver is Small intestine. So a point

on small Intestine might actually

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> jdicanio wrote:All,

> I have a client who wakes up at around 3am in the morning every day. Any

> thoughts on which meridian would cause this or what would be behind it?

 

Has anyone mentioned Liver or Lung? I do see a correlation to

the opposite side of the clock in the B someone else mentioned- so

that makes some sense- but the active meridians at 3am are Liver

and Lung- specifically, that's when the qi moves from the Liv merid

to the Lung merid- so you could do an exit-entry treatment- use

the exit pt of the Liver (1-3am) which is Liv14 and the entry pt of the

Lung (3-5am), Lung 1. Not sure about technique- if you're daring,

you could try threading from Lv14 to Lu1, or just needling both, even

putting a press tack in each when you're done- I'd do it bilaterally.

 

Of course, I'd also look for Liv heat (Liv2 & 3), and consider other

calm shen pts like P5 or 7, etc.

 

B

 

 

 

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