Fwd: Kidney Yang

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acupuncture, antoine_garth@e... wrote:

 

Hello,

 

I'm looking for a good point combination to tonify kidney yang and

build kidney qi, especially for moxibustion.

 

Also, I'm a very experienced astrologer, tarot reader and numerologist

in San Francisco looking for an Acupuncturist interested in trading.

 

Thanks in advance,

Antoin

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Kidney 7, Bladder 23, GV 4, CV 4

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I've been trying to memorize the basic 365 acupuncture points.

 

I almost know them all and can locate them on myself, but I want to know their exact locations, particularly what muscle groups they are located on.

 

I want to be able to quickly and easily locate any acupuncture point on my body and anyone elses.

 

What are the best books that show this?

 

Also, does anyone have any pictures they can send me that show this?

 

 

Lee Lieske

 

http://www.lieske.com/5e.htm

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>Kidney 7, Bladder 23, GV 4, CV 4

 

Thanks. These are very good points for Kidney Yang Deficiency. (Voice of

experience here.)

 

In my case, just acupressure, massage, and putting a heating pad over these

points helped a lot.

 

I'm wondering about something. In my case, they not only helped with the

Kidney Yang Deficiency, some of them - especially B23 - helped in getting

rid of some very severe headaches that were triggered by Wind Cold invading

the Bladder and Small Intestine meridians.

 

Protective Qi protects the body against Exterior Pernicious Evils like Wind

and Cold. Protective (Wei) Qi Deficiency can arise from Lung and Spleen

imbalance, but it also can arise from longterm Kidney Yang Deficiency.

Sometime ago we had a discussion on here about occipital (in the back of the

head) headaches, and how one set of points for these headaches don't always

work. Various people posted various points to use for occipital headaches in

cases where the usual ones don't work.

 

One of my concerns in TCM is being able to predict with even greater

accuracy exactly when something is or is not going to work. TCM already is

able to predict with fairly high accuracy exactly when something will or

will not work. Like a lot of people involved with TCM, I want to be able to

predict even better. I want to understand even more.

 

Another area which fascinates me is how Interior conditions will make a

person more vulnerable to Exterior Pernicious Evils. We saw this a few days

ago in the discussion on harmonizing the Protective (Wei) Qi and the

Nutritive (Ying) Qi. It seems to me that chronic untreated Interior

conditions may play an even larger role in chronic susceptibility to

Exterior conditions than previously stressed.

 

The most common Root of headaches in the back of the head and headaches that

begin in the back of the head is invasion of of the Bladder (and Small

Intestine - the TaiYang meridians). The second most common cause is

problems in the Gall Bladder merdian. (It runs through the back of the

neck.) Each person who took part in the occipital headache discussion

mentioned different Bladder points they use to treat these headaches. My

suggestion included B23.

 

What if the particular points that will work in a particular case are very

much influenced by co-existing Interior problems in addition to the invasion

of the Bladder and/or Gall Bladder? In my particular case, B23 had to be

used to get rid of the headaches because I was vulnerable to Exterior Wind

Cold because I was so Kidney Yang Deficient. The usual points for occipital

headaches or headaches that begin in the back of the head did not work in my

case because of the underlying Kidney Yang Deficiency. Like trying to bail

a rowboat with a big hole in it. I had to repair the hole while bailing,

and B23 did this.

 

Perhaps occipital headaches with a co-factor of Spleen Deficiency decreasing

Protective Qi are going to need Bladder acupoints which also help the Spleen

and/or a point like Stomach 36 which strengthens the Spleen in order to

knock the headache out and reduce the tendency to these headaches. And so

on. When the standard sets of points don't work or don't work as well as

they should, consider Interior conditions and chose points accordingly.

This is another advantage of knowing TCM when doing acupuncture or

acupressure.

 

When I first discovered the use of B23 for getting rid of a headache on the

left side (these started out as headaches in the back of the head that

progressed to migraines), I didn't know I was working B23. I didn't know

anything about TCM or acupressure at the time. That was still a few years

in the future. I discovered it by accident when to my great delight when I

was using a heating pad to keep some muscles from knotting up, when I put

the heating pad over my waist and lower back area, not only did it feel

good to the muscles, the headache on the left side that had been building

since that morning instantly went away. I'd never had that happen before,

but I had been putting the heating pad over my head and neck for headaches

before then. That took several hours to knock out one of those headaches,

but that was a big improvement over just getting a shot in ER. Putting the

heating pad over the lower back knocked the left-sided headaches out in

seconds! (It took a second heating pad over the shoulder blades area to get

rid of the ones on the right side, and it took longer than a few seconds

until I discovered after I learned about acupressure to also work Small

Intestine 3.)

 

The heating pad was a large one, so it was covering not only both B23's but

GV4 as well. Later on when I did start to learn TCM I discovered holding or

massaging GV (Governor Vessel) 4 as well as B (Bladder) 23 helped me a lot.

So did CV (Conception Vessel) 4 and K (Kidney) 7 as well as some other

points.

 

There is a caution with GV 4 that if Yin Deficiency also exists to be very

careful about working it with acupuncture and/or moxa.

 

For readers who are wondering how I knew years later that this point was

B23, in my case the point would get sore. I didn't have to put pressure on

it for it to feel sore, it was like a small area of very noticable pain that

nagged at me. As many times over the years as the B23 area got sore (and

continues to get sore when I overdo), there's no forgetting it. Kidney 1 in

the soles of my feet also get sore like this prior to my having problems

with infections flaring up. Pain or unsual sensations in the area of an

acupoint or along the course of a meridian not only can be diagnostic, it

also can enable one to take preventative measures. For example, some

migraine sufferers will experience one hand becoming colder than the other

prior to a migraine attack. When questioned, many of them also reveal that

the primary area of coldness is along the upper outer edge of the hand.

Most of them don't know that this is the course of the Small Intestine

meridian, but they've learned that if they will heat up the hand either by

putting a glove on or rubbing it or soaking it in warm water, they can

prevent the migraine. And these are the migraines sufferers who often will

tell you that their headaches are weather-related.

 

Victoria

 

 

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