A Guide To Acupressure

Acupressure is a subcategory of Tui Na and what you're doing is you're working with specific points within meridians which are very similar to acupunture points and stimulating them with Tui Na techniques. So, what we need to do is find a Tui Na acupressure point and then apply a technique to it. A very common acupunture point to work with would be large intestine four, which most people know is a common headache point of working with releasing headaches and things like that.

So if you want to find it, it's between the index finger and the thumb. It's the web margin here, and it's the soft fleshy bit that's here, too. So, we're going to apply a bit of acupressure, we can work with a variety of techniques.

So if someone has a very, very, strong, full headache, then what we can do is we can use a nipping technique, a smaller version of the nafa. Nafa is where we take big bits of skin, release. Here we're working on a small scale.

So instead of a Tui Na with a large area, with the acupressure, we're working with a small area. So we're working with just a nipping technique and we want to wait until the area goes red. If we're not really sure of what's going on with the person, we can use for a neutral technique.

So, a neutral technique would use ro fa where we work into the point itself. The point itself should feel like a depression. It should feel slightly empty and when you work you will make circles.

If you want to work very deeply with the points, you can work with a technique call gen fa where you press into the points and you vibrate. Not so appropriate for this point, large intestine four, because it's a very superficial point for releasing the exterior of the body. And this is a guide to acupressure. .