Starting up on Monday with a full schedule again. Long posts of notes and interesting facts are also coming back.
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Congrats to everyone who finished up this semester. Three weeks from today we start up again. Even though we'll probably have double to studying next semester, at least we have all gotten into the groove of how to study and how to organize our stuff! :)
Enjoy the holidays!
Check back in at the blog over the next couple weeks for cools link and/or articles of interest.
-Leah
Reasons for not getting Qi:
- wrong point
- improper depth
- some patients just won't get Qi
Ways to Gather Qi:
- Twisting
- Lift and Thrust
Supplemental Ways:
- Pressing
-Absorbing
-Tapping
-Vibrating/Trembling
-Waving
-Flying
-Scraping
-Sparrow Pecking
Tonification and dispersion-types of needle manipulation
Tonification
-Used for deficiency
-Eg. Asthma
-Helps to strengthen body’s defenses and build a weakened system
Dispurtion
-Used for excess
-Eg. Phlegm
-Eliminates pathogenic factors and helps to harmonize an overactive system. Also expels heat and stops spasms.
5 Methods
1. Lifting and Thrusting- get needle in to desired depth, find qi
- to tonify: life needle slowly, and insert forcefully
- to disperse: lift rapidly, insert slowly
2. Twisting and Thrusting- amplitude, speed, direction
- to tonify: gentle amplitude, slowly, clockwise emphasis
- to disperse: strong , fast, counterclockwise emphasis
3. Opening or closing hole
- to tonify: close hole after removing needle
- to disperse: leave hole open after removing needle
4. Direction of needle (channel)
- To tonify- go with the channel
- To disperse- go against the channel
5. Breathing
- to tonify – insert on exhale, remove on inhale
- to disperse- insert on inhale, remove on exhale
Even Method- no tonifying or dispersing
