do you feel like there's so many
acupuncture points with similar functions well today i am going to look at the heart
channel and its nine acupuncture points and i'm gonna differentiate them to make it
easier for you to grasp and learn let's go hi i'm clara from acupro academy and i
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so we want to start with the meridian pathway and explaining the heart meridian first
of all it is a hand channel or a hand meridian i go back and forth that's how i
do it because english is not my language but the hand shao yin meridian because anything
that starts or finishes at the hand is a hand meridian shao yin obviously yin is a yin meridian
the heart is again meridian because it's a heart yin organ but shao means lesser or smaller so the
too shall yield meridian the hand is the heart and the foot is the kidney they both have the
least amount of chi and the least amount of blood what does that mean in clinical practice it means
that if there's any heart or tcm kidney issues it takes a lot more treatments to get to the core of
the problem because heart is related to the mind which obviously when there's emotional trauma
or emotional long-standing emotional issue it affects our heart mind or the root of who we are
the genes that we are our aging system the kidneys that's also hard and it takes a long time so
because they have the least amount of qi and blood doesn't mean they don't work it just means we have
to be more consistent and explain to patients that it take a little bit more time to see results with
those two meridians or specifically when heart and kidneys and tcm are affected make sense okay so
the shao yin hand meridian is activated between 11 am and 1 pm so kind of lunch time right midday
because the heart is the fire organ is the one that is at the height of summer and noon and
the highest uh hottest time of the day in summer with the sun being at the highest of course not
today you guys can't see but it's pouring rain in vancouver right now so we have no sun hope you can
see me because i'm using the light from my window anyway i digress all the time so at noon around
lunchtime this is when we want to protect the heart so in clinical practice when people tell me
they eat really fast at their desk and they don't have time to go for lunch and they overwork i know
their heart is being affected and then they have a lot of anxiety and they can't sleep because
they're not taking the time to kind of sit down chew their food and be calm at lunch time so you
don't want to have coffee or do any excitement or overworking at lunch we're supposed to come
and be nice to the heart so that gives us a clue in clinical practice now let's look at
the pathway when we look at the pathway of the heart channel if you remember the
previous channel which flows into the heart is the spleen and the spleen ends up in the
heart or there's a branch from the spleen that goes directly to connect with the heart channel
so the heart channel actually starts in the heart organ that's pretty rare for most meridians so
it starts in the heart organ and it will go down to meet the small intestine is counterpart yid
nyon related meridian because they have to connect then it's going to go this is an internal
branch by the way it's going to go up through the throat all the way to the
eyes and the reason is remember that the shun s-a-g-n the shun in tcm is the spirit the mind the
soul and where do you see the connection to that the eyes are the open windows to the soul right
so the eyes reflex into the shen into the mind we always say in tcm if someone has really really
been defeated you could see it in their eyes their mind or gender emotional trauma will show
in their eyes this is why the heart meridian has to connect to the eyes because it's the window of
the soul make sense okay and then it's gonna have a branch from the heart organ going through the
lungs and then coming out at heart one which is under your arm armpit sorry armpit so from heart
one now we're on the external branch the external branch is where all the points are located versus
the internal branch which is the connection of the points that we connect into the internal branch
that's how we connect the acupuncture needle so heart one is going to be under the armpit and
we're gonna go all along the channel it's gonna go on the medial aspect of your arm all the way down
to the pinky right and we're gonna have heart two on the arm on the medial aspect of it heart three
is going to be at the elbow and then four five six seven at the wrist area eight at the palm and
nine at the tip of the finger of the baby finger that's the heart channel and at the tip of the
baby finger this is where the channel connects to small intestine and small intestine one will
also be there so that's where they are connecting together as well all right let's look now at all
the points function location and clinical pearls and my experience in clinic let's do it let's look
first at the location of heart one two and three a quick reminder between the elbow crease
and the auxiliary the anterior axilla it is nine soon right your whole arm
from the elbow to the axilla is nine soon just a reminder so heart three is
located at the medial end of the elbow heart two is located three two and above heart
three um right at the edge of the biceps the medial edge of the bicep and then heart one is
located at the center of the axilla pretty simple let's look at the function now heart one is not an
easy point to needle just because of its location so usually the patient will be facing up so supine
and then the arm this way laying down on the table and that's the best way to needle it and keep
the arm above the head on the pillow that's the easiest way having said that it's not a point i
use a lot in clinical practice just because of its placement and where it is and there's other points
that do the same which is to promote circulation for cardiac or chest pain and it's used locally if
there's swelling or anything happening in the ribs or the arm pretty simple heart two is very similar
to heart oneness for chest and cardiovascular issues so it promotes blood circulation it can be
used for stress or for people that have headache and then you can put a cold compress and it feels
better so it does kind of clear heat as well but i think there's better point for that than this one
and i use it mostly locally if there's biceps pain heart three is the heart c point of the heart
so as all horsey point it does clear heat it is also useful of course all cardiovascular
chest pain kind of thing but mostly it's going to be great for manic depressive behavior but
especially for the manic stage and it can be used for internal wind specifically due to heat in
the blood which creates tremors like parkinson's but the root cause should be heat in the blood
that's always the best thing in tcm is looking for the root cause to figure out the best point
for your protocol let's now look at the locations of heart four to heart nine heart four five six
are going to be in relationship to heart seven heart seven is at the wrist crease as you can
see there on the radial side of the flexor carpi ulnaris which i'm going to be called fcu much
easier than say flexor carpi ulnaris every single time you're with me on this okay so we see heart
seven in relationship to height four is one and a half tune above heart seven one and a half soon is
two of the patient's fingers the first two fingers that's one and a half tune so you can use that to
help you and all those point four five six seven are all going to be on the radial side of the fcu
right so heart four is one and a half tune above heart five is one soon above heart six is half
it soon above makes sense and then heart seven of course at the wrist crease heart eight is located
between the fourth and fifth metacarpal bone on the palm and it is really found by forming a
fist and gently resting the baby finger where your baby finger lands that's literally where heart is
and as you can see heart nine is point one soon at the base of the corner of the nail
on the radial side of the baby finger let's look at their functions heart four
is used mostly to nourish blood and Yin deficiency of the heart it's the jing river
point and so it's great to use for people to have anxiety insomnia specifically due to blood
deficiency and or yin deficiency again always look for the root cause it can also be used for
sudden voice loss specifically due to stress heart five is the lower connecting point
from the heart to the small intestine and remember in tcm the small intestine separates
the clear from the turbid which relates to your urination right to the bladder and urination
so heart five actually in clinical practice i use a lot for interstitial cystitis it's really
good for cystitis because that's an inflammation of the ureter not an infection and so this is
a really good point in conjunction with other points like level five globalist 34 and other
related points but that's a really good point for cystitis that's the urinary tract connection of
the dual connecting point yes it is also used for chest issues and palpitation but also it
can be used for speech impairment so um the the heart opens into the tongue in
tcm right so when there is stuttering and when you're anxious and you stutter that is
a hard issue hard five is a really good point to be part of your protocol to help calm
the mind so the person stuttering is more calm and they're not plagued by it all the
time does that make sense awesome all right let's do the next one i love heart six and clinical
practice heart six is first of all the she cleft point of the heart and remember she cleft points
on the yin meridians are going to be looking at blood issue and on the young meridian at pain
issue but often they are related so obviously the heart is in charge of blood circulation so
heart six is going to improve blood circulation specifically when there is chest pain or angina
pectoris so heart six is one of the best point for chest pain that is distal of course when 17 and
other points that are local can be used as well pericardium six is also a really good point
because it's a commando point of the chest but heart six is the best point for cardiovascular
chest pain due to heart issue like angina pectoris so that's the first thing the second thing that i
love to use in clinical practice part six with is kidney seven kidney seven and heart six together
are the best combination for not night sweat sorry night sweat due to yin deficiency remember the
heart is connected to sweat in tcm foundation so hard sex and kidney seven for heartburn deficiency
creating night sweat this is the best combo and it can be used for nosebleed due to excess fire but
there are better points than that so i would focus mostly on the two first one that i mentioned the
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let's get back to what we're talking about today drum roll this is heart seven i think this is the
most common use hard point in clinical practice it is called men and sham means the spirit
the the the soul the spirit the mind and man means the gate the gate of the mind that's
the name of this point so we understand by the way this is the best point to help calm
the mind for anxiety for insomnia for anything that the mind just gets so busy this
is a really good calming point specifically for insomnia also it is the u.n source point
of the heart and you and source points go to the source the unqi right which means any
long-standing heart issue like lots of palpitation for many years or cardiovascular disease issue you
want to put heart seven because it is the source point the un source point it's also a shoe stream
point which means it's really good to help as well for poor memory we don't have a lot of points in
tcm that help with memory this is one of them so it's a fantastic point don't you love it heart
seven specifically you can combine it with its counterpart ear shenmen here shenmen in heart
seven that's double shenmen that's the best i love heart ate unfortunately being on the
palm it makes it a bit more difficult for people because you have to ask if they're okay
with it because a lot of more nerve sensitive area just like on the soul with
kidney kidney one give me five kidney one i'm not editing i'm just going
and running with it you know me easy peasy so heart ate on the palm it's not that bad to do i
think it's easier than kidney one but it's such a good point for people that have excess heart fire
what are the symptoms for excess heart failure generally lots of canker sores on the tongue not
in the mouth the mouth is more stomach but on the tongue that is a heart fire also for burning
painful urination that is a heart fire moving down to the small intestine if there's no infection
it's more inflammation again for cystitis you could combine this with heart five that would
work really well um it can be used for external genitalia burning like vulvodynia specifically
combined with liver five so for vulvodynia heart eight level five great combo it can be used for
hop bombs like people i feel really really hot in the palm and the hands all the time so it's
really for that excess fire in the heart right which obviously can affect competition anxiety
everything but it's really that excess heat that's the best point for it last but not least
is heart nine it's a little tricky just because there's not a lot of flesh on the baby fingers so
it's quite painful we prick to bleed and that can be quite painful this is a general point so it's
used usually for fainting for manic behavior fever kind of like aldine wall points in general but
i usually like to use pericardium nine because it's more on the flesh and less by the corner
of the nail so less painful and that wraps it up i like to recap everything quickly at the end
so you can differentiate all those nine points because all of them have palpitation and cardiac
chest pain as a function right or indication so let's look at differentiating them all heart
one is going to be more local heart to as well heart three on the other hand here can be used for
tremors right we said that so that's a little bit of a difference there heart four is usually used
for anxiety and insomnia due to heart yin or heart blood deficiency heart five is going to be your
lower connecting point to the small intestine so really good for cystitis or urinary tract
inflammation not infection heart six best point for night sweats specifically combined with kidney
seven it's also the sheet left point so really the best point for chest pain due to angina pectoris
or having a heart attack right obviously this is something we can use for prevention heart seven
best point to calm the mind for anxiety insomnia any emotion that's coming stress anything
calms the shen it's the shen man right heart eight is usually clearing fire for canker
sores in the mouth or burning genitalia that is to clear the fire and heart nine is a jingle point
so for all general point fever fainting and manic behavior and that was all the nine points of
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