Acupuncture Points

Hey guys! How are you doing? I hope you´re doing well, for me this week has been kind of hard because I had a congress, and I was so busy, and next week would be harder because exams are starting, so I will be even busier, but anyways here I am, glad to write to you about the acupuncture points.

First of all I want to tell you what an acupuncture point is. An acupuncture point is a location in the body where the needle is inserting, and this point treats and different thing, I mean, each acupuncture point is use for a different problem.

Like I told you in the past post, the Chinese medicine is based in the energy of the ying, yang so the acupuncture points are insert in a certain points to relief the tension, and this system is called the meridian system. The Chinese medicine uses a measurement called cun, and is this measurement the one that locates each one of the points.

“Points tend to be located where peripheral nerves enter a muscle, the midpoint of the muscle, or at the enthuses where the muscle joins with the bone.^[6] Location by palpation for tenderness is also a common way of locating acupoints. Points may also be located by feeling for subtle differences in temperature on the skin surface or over the skin surface, as well as changes in the tension or "stickiness" of the skin and tissue.” (Wikipedia)

I am going to present you a picture of all the acupuncture points in the body, so you can know each one of them.

Well guys thank you so much for your attention and I hope you enjoy my post and have a great weekend!

Bibliography

Wikipedia. Acupunture points. 29 de September de 2011 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture_point>.