t is a mystery for so many people i feel it all around me tcm is my home when you reach the g with all your needles it's like a victory and the pain is gone in the treatment room i can feel its power makes the patient bloom helps her recover whoa okay you guys please don't leave please don't leave welcome welcome welcome back to my channel if it is your first time here i am so happy i'm clara and i create transmedicine and acupuncture content for practitioners and students making it easy to grasp and fun to learn if you're watching the replay please don't leave i sing i know i can't sing but for the people that are watching the replay below this video in the description the time stamps are there for you so you can bypass the next few minutes when i connect with all the people and the tcm rockstars that showed up on this live today so that's for the replay for the people watching check out when we start for everybody else let's see who is here hi guys hi claire how are you glad to s listen to your wonderful lecture yay i love it so happy you guys are here just want to make sure that you guys are actually the live is going yes it is just doubly check that you guys can hear me and you heard my singing and everything is good and we are all together here so oh let me make that smaller so we don't panic in there thank you thank you chris hello and alma hello and sudah thank you very much for being here you guys say hello tell me where you are from we are going to talk about the connecting point today don't be shy i love to connect with you you know that's the whole point i'm doing this live is so i can connect with everybody it's super beautiful there in vancouver canada today it's sunny i don't know if you could see the mountains behind me but it is super sunny that's why i'm in purple frame and in blue shirt because it's a happy day because it's summer in here up here anyway so um so i would love for you guys to tell me where you here we go patricia from puerto rico i love it now we're starting to get in yes please tell me where you are coming from because it's always amazing to see that tcm has no boundaries and we are all connecting through the love of chinese medicine right so we got whales in the house my husband's family is from wales we got holland the netherlands in the house uh we've got india in the house and new york city i love it we always get a lot of people from holland which i love i don't know if you guys watch the euro cup because i'm a very big soccer fan which we call football in europe and i'm so sorry but france who was the world champion last time last world cup did not even made it to the quarterfinals so uh i was very disappointed holland didn't do well neither so i'm very very sorry for you guys but congratulations to the italian people for winning the euro cup we've got colorado in the house yay i love that too that we've got people in north america and people in india i'm really really sorry i know it's late for you guys it's probably one o'clock in the morning so ah thank you thank you for being here i'm so so honored that you're staying up and uh for for this so hello from london angelica from london assumes london england so the uk in the house texas in the house and oh bell italia so italia who won the euro cup congratulations forza italia uh we've got people from hungary but living in holland i love how you guys moved i moved from france to canada so i think this is so cool we've got uk quite a few people from uk l.a in the house los angeles same time zone as me so super mom it's great that we can be here together and of course oh we got jahil desjardin in montreal we're going to speak french this whole thing is going to be in french no no no don't go away from me i think that would be really funny so thank you guys for being here i really appreciate that and wills coming all the way from nigeria i love that we have every continent in this house we've got asia we've got africa we've got america and we've got europe we're just missing australia but i think it's a little bit really early in australia this morning as well for a lot of people so this is fantastic you guys i love love love to see where everybody is from windsor but michaela is originally from slovakia and below milan is from czech republic which is exactly next door to slovakia so this is kind of cool you guys even though you know michaela is in windsor so it's like we got eastern europe in the house as well so thank you thank you guys for being here let's start it up i totally want to connect ask questions i'm going to try i'm all by myself here this is i do everything okay i don't know if you guys know but all my content i create everything i do live i'm the producer i do everything right this is just me at acupure academy a lot of time people say hey team there's no team it's just me but i love love chinese medicine and i'm passionate about helping everybody understand it better so they can help the patient and the ripple effect is so so incredible so this is why i do what i do in case you guys wanted to know if there was a team behind this so let's start it up again thank you all for coming today so we are going to talk about the luo connecting point so this is really interesting because in clinical practice the lower points are very very very useful so it's quite important to to see how we can use them before we start looking because what we're going to do today is we're going to look at all the 16 neural connecting points and how we use them in clinical practice right you guys knew that's what we're going to talk about but before we do i want to talk about the layers of the meridians and that's something we don't talk often about but it's important to understand all the layers of the meridians okay so let me switch to my ipad and so you guys can see me i'm here i'm here here so when it comes to the meridians the layer of the meridians so we have many meridians channels throughout the body and they go from deep or the deepest to all the way to the surface which would be on our skin so let's look at the meridians layers and what's their purpose because that's going to help us understand the lower connecting point as well so let's start with i got i love your passion in chinese medicine i love chinese medicine supermom yay i'm so happy to hear that i'm with you so if we look at the layers of the meridian the deepest meridian are the 12 main meridians or channels whatever you want to call them that's different words in english you know this translation and the eighth extra vessels okay so those are the deepest meridian or channel in the body the 12 regular meridian and the eight extra vessels okay how do you like my guy like my guy that's george thank you he's helping me today because george is always here to help me anyway we have to have fun right i'm all about the fun because this is going to be fun so the 12 regular maine meridians which are the yin and yang meridians like the long the large intestine the stomach the spleen etc etc are the deepest with the eight extra vessel the eight extra vessel like the dude the ven the chong the dye etc all those vessels so the 12 meridian main meridian carry tree and blood that's their main function to carry chi and to carry blood the eight extra vessels function is to carry essence right and that's how we connect to essence in order to protect our essence or jing or kidney essence it's to access them through the eight vessels okay so those are the deepest meridian next layer we're gonna start going a little bit more we have the 12 divergence okay here we go then we have the 15 collato then we have the 12 muscular region i'm running out of space on my board you guys and then we have the 12 dermatome or subcutaneous or dermatome sorry dermatomes which is a superficial layers which is basically our skin right so those are all the layers of the the whole meridian layers so obviously we understand that the 12 dermatomes are the most surface and what they do is they correspond to the same area of the 12 regular meridians and they address anything on the skin so let's look at the dermatome of let's say because you could see it of the large intestine right so the large intestine goes on the lateral posterior side of the forearm on the extensors here right and it goes to large intestine 11 12 etc so the large intestine meridian itself goes right through here the dermatome is basically the band that's all around the large intestine and on the skin surface so if someone comes in and they have let's say some skin issue let's say psoriasis or eczema and it's right on this area here right this is the dermatome of the large intestine it tells us to look deeper into what's going on with the large intestine meridian junk foorgan and a whole energetic being so it helped us found clues what happened on the skin reflects what's going on inside right so every main meridian has a dermatome that's corresponding on the outside this is internal deep deep deep this is external on the surface that makes sense okay the muscular regions are the layers a little bit below right so they are corresponding to the same thing so if we talked about the extensors right your extensors here which um allow your your hand to extend your extensors are going to be the muscular regions of your large intestine because that's the area of the large intestine right we have eight nine ten that are actually really good for the extensors when their copper tunnel syndrome or forearm pain so the 12 muscular regions if someone has a lot of you know if you right now take your arm and start pressing around your extensors and you're like oh it's tender right here then let's look at what's going on with the large intestine because the muscular region is affected does that make sense so the 12 muscular regions are more surface not as much as the derm at home but they correspond again to the 12 main meridian and give us clues of what's going on yes okay so we've got the two in the middle the 12 divergence and then the 15 collaterals so today we're going to talk about all the collaterals and the connecting points that the collateral use so the 12 divergent what are those so again there's 12 so as many as the main meridian they diverge diverging means they kind of have a fork you guys this is live the train by my house is passing by it's going to be really loud and it's going to horn itself so be prepared and for people watching the replay i'm not going to take that out so anyway the train is passing by whatever when you're live so the 12 diversion they diverge from the main meridian and their function is to connect um the external and internal part of the body can you hear the train yeah to connect the internal and external part of the body and extend the pathway of the 12 main meridian so if you have a main meridian again i'll take the large intestine because we can see it here if you have the large intestine we have a divergent that diverge from the shoulder that diverge from the main large intestine and extend its pathway to cover more area so divergence are the same they are covering an extensive path all around the main meridian pathway that makes sense hopefully i explained that properly okay now the 15 collateral so the 15 collateral is the one we're going to talk about today there are no 12. you see how it's like 12 12 12 they all correspond to the main meridian but these ones often it's called the 15 collateral what's very interesting is in a lot of books we're going to see 16 collaterals but some books will say there are 15 collaterals so what i love about chinese medicine is that um there's different school of thoughts for many part of tcm and just like if you remember uh the uh you know warm disease versus cold disease like the sean hanlon versus my chinese pronunciation don't quote me on that but the sixth stage versus the four levels right some school of thoughts was thinking that all disease come from cold invasion and some thought all disease comes from heat invasion so they have different school of thoughts we have to apply it in clinical practice so 16 or 15 i'm going to talk about all 16 and then if you've been taught 15 then just you know a lot of school of thought will say there's 16 and not 15. so i would start 15 i learned later on that there are school thoughts of 16 so i like to share both views and you guys can utilize it the way you think is best does that make sense okay let me just make sure i'm not missing comments or questions because if you have questions so far i just want to make sure i don't so i always like to look at my comment sections okay so the collateral themself the 15 or the collateral themselves is what we're going to talk about today their function is to reinforce the internal and external related meridian so first of all they reinforce the yin yang connection meridian meaning the large intestine will reinforce the lung and the lung will reinforce the large intestine so that's their first function remember how we said this here carry chi and blood this carries essence this is an extension of the main meridian pathway so that they're extended on she and blood the collaterals carry yin chi so yin as in nutritive chi they carry nutritive chi that is or that is one of the function because they are trying to buffer the space between the external part which is the muscular and dermatome layer and the internal part with all the deeper meridian layers that's their function to con to really connect the external with the internal right it's really balancing that so because of that physically they help expel pathogens from the internal pushing it out to the external and then emotionally they help expel repressed long-standing emotions that we haven't dealt with that we carry and not we're not able to expel so a lot of time when you use some of the lubul collateral or lower connecting point you're going to trigger sometimes for people to cry or let those emotions out so they are very good at expelling because they're balancing the internal versus the external does that make sense hopefully so that's the function of the 15 or 16 depending which book you read collateral and the lower connecting points is where the point that is connected from the main meridians to the opposite right it's a very short collateral you know how those meridian and vessels have length right they all go from one area to the area right you know your long meridian ends up at the thumb starts in the chest etc actually it starts inside in the middle gel it goes down to the large intestine comes back through the lung to the throat and then comes out at long one and then finish it along 11. so that's the pathway of the meridian right the long meridian well the long collateral is very short it starts at long seven and it finishes at the index that's very short so most lower points are going to be either at the ankle area or the hand wrist area they are going to be lower limb or obviously upper limb but at the lower part right so ankle and wrist area and they're very short but they connect and really reinforce the yin yang externally internally related meridian hopefully i explain that properly uh okay so someone says we can say that the divergence explains why we use points near a point of the meridian for example a natural point large intestine sorry if it's written like that no i totally get that patricia yes absolutely the diversions are great because if there are points next to the the main points that we know then the divergence are going to reinforce that so it's a great way of explaining this i love that you explain that um that way someone says divergence are like small arteries they could be um considered that way if you see it in the western perspective yes and we've got belgium and poland in the house so the luau points are collaterals yes okay so chris let's explain that good question chris asked the lower points are collateral so collaterals are the pathway just like meridians or pathway the lower points is where the collateral starts okay so long seven is a lower connecting point it's a lower point the long collateral starts at long seven okay so it means that the lower point is where the collateral starts that makes sense yes okay so the collateral is the pathway the lower point is the point that the pathway starts from yes okay cool awesome so that was my uh good and quick introduction to uh dive differentiating the layers of the meridian so we can understand where the collaterals are what's their purpose and why we use those lull connecting point i always like to explain the why because it makes it a little bit easier right that makes it easier for everybody okay so uh thank you clara i mean to write it as a question i'm glad it was good explanation no worries when we are all typing and you're on your phone or whatever it's not that easy i totally get it it's all good patricia it's all good um okay so let me switch this sudah said it's very clear thank you i much appreciate you guys oh my god there is someone that is cool guy i love the name cool guys from curriculum i love it so cool guy is literally 10 minutes drive from where i am so it's a sunny day where you are in coquitlam my friend that is awesome i love to see someone local i never see anybody local so thank you for joining so the luau connecting points we understand what they are now let's look at them right let's really look at what they are we're going to look at them in pairs and how we can um you know connect them in the way of clinical practice by the way if you're liking this right now give me lots of likes lots of love because i am so happy you guys showed up today i'm always great that you know when you come on the live you never know if anybody's going to show up you're like am i going to be all alone and there's going to be quick cats so i hope not so i'm so happy you guys came from all around the world again i always really really appreciate that okay so let's look at the 16 i've got them all in the little in the little you know graphics which can be found you know on my website acupunctureacademy.com it can be found on my book as well which i have all the acupuncture points so the source points to connect level of chi lethal says um yes we are yes different levels of tree the yinchi the weighty uh the the blood and the um regular chi right we have four layers so yes i would agree to that yeah absolutely okay so let's start with long seven and i'm going to go through this one enlarged intestine 6. see how they're both on the wrist they're very close to each other and actually what's really funny about long 7 is that long 7 is a point that's actually located when you think about it on the large intestine meridian how about that so it is the lower point it connects the lung to the large intestine and it is actually located on the large intestine region not on the long region right like long nine long eight but then seven is out of the way it's more closer or in line with large intestine five interesting right so that makes it very to me that makes it the perfect low point because it is connected on it it is located on its related meridians so suda said i would like to buy a hard copy of your book clara i know the the printing company ships to most countries in the world they don't ship in india i'm really really sorry i know some people in india have bought the pdf and have printed it locally i know some people have done that and it looked amazing the way they printed it and i'm okay with that so as long as it's just for you and not for everybody else so there's that option i know it's not that easy because it doesn't go everywhere unfortunately so long seven is the lower point that connects to the large intestine right and large intestine six is the lower point that connects to the lung so pairing them as you can see they're both on the wrist now when you need all those you don't have to needle both on bilaterally on both sides you could do long 7 on one side large intestine six on the opposite side that way you don't have to overdo with too many needles works really well when you pair points that can really complement each other okay so large intestine 6 and long 7 why would we combine them right both of them are great to expel pathogen because remember the lower collaterals have tendency to expel pathogens so if someone has an allergic reaction to whatever the environment food whatever and they start to have a lot of swelling and sometimes the swelling can be obviously very um emerging an emergency and we have to go to hospital because we can't believe the throat is shutting down that's a different story emergency is number one right but if someone is starting to have a bit of an allergic reaction and they're starting their face starts to swell i had a patient one time your ear was swelling maybe your wrist your hand your fingers turns to swell when you have an allergic reaction but you're not hospital bound right this is not an emergency large intestine 6 will decrease the water or the swelling the excess dampness that's accumulating and long seven will expel the pathogen so between the two of them they work really well for a cute allergic reaction that creates swelling that affects the skin because that's the relationship right it's on the skin it's the external level does that make sense okay good so that's easy pretty simple for those let's look at the next two which i absolutely love which is spleen 4 and stomach 40 okay so spleen 4 and stomach 40 which stomach 40 is a little bit higher on the leg usually most collaterals are going to be short this is a bit of a longer collateral um it actually has a collateral that goes from stomach 40 so those two points together spleen 4 and stomach 40 are going to complement each other very well two ways so splint 4 luo connecting point and stomach 40 first in balancing the digestive system specifically when there is blood sugar imbalances so for people that have tendency to have diabetes type 2 those two points together works really well they work really well in balancing the whole digestive system specifically when they're spikes of blood sugar of course it's super important super important to address the eating and change the eating habit and try to heal the gut but in the meantime it's really good i use that combination a lot during pregnancy to keep the levels of the blood sugar really good specifically for women that had history of gestational diabetes in previous pregnancy it works super well so i love to use them for that christmas the second purpose that we can use those two is to calm the mind remember we talk about the collateral a great to expel pathogen but also to release emotions right so stomach 40 and spleen 4 stomach 40 is one of the best point for anxiety and spleen 4 is related to the chong vessel which is the sea of blood vessel right because it is a chong conference point so it's really good when someone feels really overwhelmed and is getting anxious so stomach 40 with spleen 4 together is great for people that have been anxious for a long time for many years to anxiety they'll say oh i've had anxiety all my life i get tools to manage it the best i can but i i have anxiety since i cannot remember since being a child right so that's what we want to use them if someone has had anxiety for a long time those two pairs very good in releasing the emotional aspect that is connected to the anxiety does that make sense okay good okay i get some thumbs up i love it so it's pretty simple right but it's very powerful in clinical practice i see that all the time let's look at the next pair so this is an interesting pair heart five and small intestine seven okay heart five and small intestine seven i'll start with heart five as well what i love about or what i think is interesting is sometimes it's hard to connect the two the heart and the small intestine their connection is a little bit tougher to understand right because the heart is all about the mind and the emotions while the small intestine is more about separating the clear from the turbid it's in charge of fluid and and separating the fluid and sending the turbine to the bladder and re-utilizing the clear so where's the connection there well the connection is twofold it's emotional with the physical and it is separating the um good from the bad or the right from the wrong right emotionally when we can't see right from wrong because we're clouded or turbid mind right separating the clear mind from the turbine mine and we don't see the right from wrong those two points are great to balance that so um so chris says if i'm using acupressure should i push both on one leg or separate um if you're doing acupressure you could do if you're using both points you could just do one point on stomach 40 on the left leg or the right leg and then spin four on the left leg you don't have to do them both if you're doing both points one on each side is enough so yeah for sure ah engay said i love it yay that's awesome uh and supermom says i love her books they are so easy and fun to learn from oh thank you thank you thank you loving loving loving that's the goal that's my goal is to really try to make it simple so people can really utilize the knowledge right so heart five and small intestine sorry small intestine seven here we go if i can do this okay are going to be useful one for physical and mental remember that's the connection if there are or there is cystitis right interstitial cystitis which is an inflammation of the urethra which often is misdiagnosed with um bladder infection or utis and eventually after a few times they realize oh it was not utis it's cystitis which sucks because then the person has taken a lot of antibiotics and depleted do immune systems so that kind of is not fun but having said that um if it is cystitis those two points together small intestine 7 and heart 5 work really well for cystitis because and i will say in my 18 years of practice i've seen this over and over and over with women specifically women that have had chronic cystitis yes diet is super important but the number one is those people have had long standing emotion issues anxiety and insomnia most cystitis patients have had anxiety and insomnia which relates to the heart right see how heart five is used for stuttering and speech issue this is for people that can't voice what they want to say they've stuck their emotions down and they're not voicing their emotions right and so that's a really good point to release those emotions that have been stuck for a while and address the small intestine 7 for the issue that is the excess heat that is creating showing in cystitis does that makes sense so those two points are great when there is physical aspect that is chronic inflammation but that is coming from an emotional long-standing emotional issue so i like to use them for that that perspective i know i went on a tangent there but um i think it's really important to understand that by the way if you have patients with cystitis it's really important that they uh when they eat a really healthy diet that they avoid food high in oxalate okay food that are high in oxalate like spinach like potatoes um are going to make it worse even though spinach is good for you it's probably not going to work very well for people that have cystitis we need to bring that food down that inflammation down then it can reintroduce the food but acupuncture works really well for the mind aspect of cystitis makes sense oh my god i got a i got a lot of a lot of comments here so i just wanted to share um i'm going to put that up before we come back so you guys get to see this sorry uh would acupressure require more firmness for penetration than acupuncture needles yeah i get that question a lot right acupressure is great um specifically for um kids because kids are very young in nature yin and yam young in nature and so they react really well to acupressure that's why trina massage on kids works really well for the older we are it takes a lot more work um with acupressure the sicker we are it takes a lot more work unfortunately uh with acupressure it does you know require a lot of work from the practitioner or from yourself if you're doing acupressure like you know wherever it is acupuncture works much faster because it goes deeper it actually sends signal to the brain when we trigger the minute nerve to release whatever we were trying to do right decrease inflammation puts the patients in a parasympathetic state so yes acupuncture guts gets it more deeper but in the meantime if all we have access to is acupressure it's still very useful for sure stomach 4d and screen 4 would it be good for obesity issue obesity that's another thing a lot of you and a lot of people have asked me to create a course on obesity because everybody is really interested in how we lose weight using acupuncture it is a big course because the the root cause of having excess weight is many so you could use spleen 4 and stomach 40 to balance the digestive system and help when there's diabetes or digestive system issue however we still need to look for the root cause of obesity is it genetic is it emotional right because if we don't address the emotion spiritual emotional and physical aspect the weight loss is not going to be sustainable right so it's a big it's a big subject so hopefully that answers your question touch upon cystitis so i did touch about about cystitis and i think uh like i said it's it's a very very common uh disorder with women um and like i said oxalate is a big no no food high in oxalate and if you're not sure how to spell oxalate it's o x o l a t e i think oh my god i'm french you're asking me to spell things uh what little point used for kidney in deficiency and dampness besides heart five and spleen six so screen six is not a lower point heart five is if there's kidney in deficiency and dampness it's a completely different hola i really love your question but it's a very different perspective it is hard to treat kidney deficiency and dampness it's very because they're opposite so it's not that easy but you have to address the dampness with spleen nine uh you can address the the kidney deficiency with kidney three kidney 6 spin 6 you know it depends on what the the issue is but yes that would be a little bit different so sorry i won't answer that right away have you experienced mixing crystal therapy with the lower point wow no i don't know crystal so i've had the question about crystals and um magnets and i've never learned magnets and although i love crystals i mean have you seen my hands it's like turquoise jade i have like you know i love i have rocks all over my house i mean you guys i have rocks all over my house i love crystals i love rocks uh and so um sorry my phone my phone just rang so i love that but i don't know how to use them in conjunction with low points so i would love to learn that so patricia we should do a live where you explain that to i use crystal for the lower point that would be fantastical i would love that uh thank you for explaining oxalate thank you for spelling oxalate much appreciated i love that that's awesome you guys are so helpful i love it okay so let's go back since uh we're moving along okay so now we'll get to kidney four being the lower connecting point and sorry i'm just uh i'm pushing this a little bit too much and bladder 58 so kidney 4 and bladder 58 are both lower connecting point again those little collateral that are super super small right so kidney 4 and blood of 58 so of course the kidney and the bladder have a relationship where they reinforce each other specifically when it comes to eliminate water and you know the diuretic effect of water so kidney foreign blood 58 are going to be very useful when there is kidney stone pain it is not going to help in you know getting rid of the kidney stones you still have to pass those but kidney 4 and bladder 58 together when there's a lot of pain in the kidneys due to that radiates due to kidney stone those are a great way to put them together for that perspective that's the physical aspect when it comes to the emotional aspect which is really interesting is looking at phobias you know the kidney and bladder are related to fear in chinese medicine and kidney four is a really good point for phobia so you may have a phobia spider but there's not many spiders around you okay no big deal but what about if you have agoraphobia you don't like to be around people or you have phobia of small space and you can't take an elevator or you have germ phobia which right now would be hypen and sorry heightened and be so so so difficult to deal with because of what we've been going on in the last year and a half so when there are phobias kidney 4 and bladder 58 are great to connect because phobias usually are long-standing they've been there for a long time so to release that phobia this is a really good combination good okay see how we can tear through this ah okay so sudah says in future do you come up with the class on obesity it would be good uh to learn the root cause emotionally physically etc yes thank you i i know i'm trying to do as much as i can you guys i still have a full practice i own the wellness center i teach at a college and i do all this online things so i have to slowly incorporate things and i can't do it all but i little by little we add and uh we share more content right so i love your jewelry this is why i asked that's funny okay so let's continue with this and we have done kidney 4 and bladder 58. oh robert says oh i love when there is longer question you guys so hold on i'm going to put this up so you can read it i will start not to need on a lower point if its channel is full due to invasion of an external pathogen as that would open the passage to the pear meridian i gather you don't agree with that oh this is good see robert i love how there's different school of thoughts this is what i love about tcm right so i wasn't taught that at all but you know it doesn't mean one is right one is wrong this is what i love about it um in my perspective this is the whole point of the luo channel is to expel pathogen is to open up uh and if it's full then it can move better uh but you know if you were taught not to and then you'd rather not always follow your intuition what feels right right that's what i always say so thank you i really appreciate you sharing that with me with us because i love to have different perspective pc6 and sanjiao 5 you guys come on pc6 look at me doing this and seno five you've got to love central five and pc6 okay so here's the connection between the two which i absolutely love right the connection between the two is pc6 first of all they're right opposite they're the only newer connecting point that are actually you could put a needle through and come out right pc6 come out to central five or sanjar five come up to pc6 i wouldn't do that but what i'm saying is that they are exactly opposite so they're very much hidden young opposite they have a relationship one's in the back one is in the front okay one's in the front one's in the back for a reason pc6 is a commando point of the chest sanjiao 5 is going to follow the sanjar meridian when it goes to the shoulder right right and to the back and up and then it goes up to the head to the neck and the head sorry so what's interesting about central 5 and pc6 is the middle of the chest front pc6 back center 5. this is a really good combination when people have a lot of tension and tightness either or together so in the chest and in the middle of the scapula at t5 area right between the two scapula at t5 t6 t4 all that area of the chest in the back this is the best combination when there is people that have a lot of anxiety insomnia and they're really tight they're like oh i have this spin between my shoulder blade that's just driving me nuts that is sanjar 5 that's going to release that with pc6 because it comes from anxiety so when there's anxiety and ixamia with a lot of tension in the chest or between the shoulder blade at t5 area this is the best combination again it's physical and emotional and you release both of those makes sense sudha said yes we do understand inspire or inspire of you taking more effort to teach us thank you a lot love you love you sudan no problem no worries i always want people to know that you know i if i could i would do this all the time and and uh that would be fun for everybody okay so sanjiao 5 pc6 great combination and if you've had i bet like show of hands like give me a lot of love if you've had patients that have tightness or that knot between the shoulder blades and have a lot of anxiety and chest tightness and back where they're like oh that works really well so uh yeah works very well those two together okay let's look at liver five i love liver five not as a lower connecting point per se but i love liver five when there is a bladder infection after intercourse that often occurs with a lot of patients or external genitalia outbreaks it works so well it's such a great you know what liver5 is to me it's dandelion dandelion tea or dandelion root which is herbs right pouvonian in chinese dandelion is really great for the same purpose so i always like to look at herbs and acupuncture points and their similarities so for me in my head liver five is the connection to dandelion that's their connection so that's how i see it so so liver five and if i can press here gallbladder 37. i think garlic 37 is underutilized don't you think i think that gallbladder 37 is under your life so goal number 37 is really good for night blindness you know um i've used on a lot of patients that will say i don't very i don't see well at night i don't like to drive at night because i don't see as well as during the day like blurred vision it's really good for eye issues right at its perspective well liver 5 is more for external genitalia issue and you know why because the collateral liver five starts where the collateral of the liver starts right so remember the collateral is a pathway it starts at level five where does it go it goes up and wraps around the external genitalia that's why it's really good for any issue in that area it's not interesting right so when you look at the collateral pathway it will really tell you what's going on and how to utilize it so when it comes to gallbladder 37 and liver 5 they are you know liver and gallbladder are really good to move cheat because that's their connection they try to relax us put us in a state of relaxation so we can go i feel good not like oh i'm so persultant right so we want to make sure that we are relaxed so those two points are great when there is a lot of tension in the breast area specifically so breast tenderness for women at pms or if there is a lot of fibrocystic breast right if there's a lot of fibrocystic breast those two together work quite well specifically when people are stressed and the breast tenderness is increased at pms when there's a lot of stress or the fibrocystic breast the the cyst and the breasts are getting increased with the amount of stress this is a very good combination for that uh marlene says this is important for me yay so that's good right so we can do those points on the lower leg and the opposite side which kind of works really well right the opposite side on the leg one on the lateral one on the medial good okay you guys let's continue the last ones are the do and when collateral or lure connecting point collateral so we have rent 15 and do one right i have done do one on many patients it works really well specifically for hemorrhoids and um i've had patients breaking their sick the coccyx it's really good for coccyx pain and constipation et cetera et cetera but having said that when 15 uh using rent 15 and do one which are opposite yield young meridian right are going to be really good to for prevention it's a prevention of hyperlap sorry i can't even say the word epileptic attack so do one and when 15 are great for epilepsy patients that to try to prevent attacks so to really balance the whole spine because remember this is essence right men and you are connected to essence we said in the layers the vessel the eight extra vessel carry essence so when there's epilepsy usually essence is affected right so what we want to do is do those two points to balance and try to balance the spine the brain the whole essence perspective when it comes to epileptic attack so it's a preventative measure which works quite well and i've had um i don't do a lot of epilepty epilepsy patients but i have a friend of mine who does a lot more of that and she used that combination a lot more so it's really cool to see because i don't have a lot of experience with it personally in my practice but i know someone who does so i think it's really really cool um so patricia said it would be an honor i recently started a crystal to my treatment after acupuncture and physical therapy i am beginning but in the beginning i just beginning but i get better would love to share with you i would love to learn i'm always really interested in learning so will you have english subtitle esther said uh yeah because of my french accent uh once this goes live well this is live when this goes for the replay youtube actually goes and puts translation in english which is kind of cool and they understand my french accent more and more and more so usually it's quite well translated uh is there a particular way to needle do one for its function yeah when it comes to do one i know a lot of people are scared uh but when i needle do one i go like directly perpendicular like point three to point five tune perpendicular it's not very deep it's quite shallow and it works quite well uh supermom says ah oops sorry guys i'm making this bigger crystal a great idea i am using energy medicine scanning with biofeedback resonance through electrical frequencies this is so cool you guys everybody's doing so many amazing things you guys are blowing my mind this is fantastic i love it okay so we did do one and when 15. what's interesting is remember the 16 luo connecting points so we got two to go and the next two what's interesting about those i want to talk about those is the next two let me see this the next two are all about the spin and stomach the major lower connecting point of the spleen and the major lower connecting point of the stomach so they have regular lower connecting point plus two major ones that are spleen and stomach because free and stomach are the earth element and they are at the center of everything they are actually at the center of our being when you think about it between our head and our toes our digestive system is at the center of our health and it is at the center of our body the gut brain connection is not a myth we are connected through our gut to our brain our thinking our thought it's really important to eat a really good diet for the body to be full of energy okay so we said we have 15 or 16. in some books you will obviously all books are going to talk about the major dual point of the spleen but some books may also talk about the major rule point of the stomach okay so let's look at those two points oh but before we do this by the way you guys uh i know we've been having fun and connecting but if you've never bought this book which some people have mentioned this is where all that you've seen today all the graphic i've used today are located they are in the pdf which is right here or the hard copy which is right here uh you can found the link below in the description or on my website acupunctureacademy.com actually i am revamping my website to make it easier and more colorful so i'm doing this right now as well so but yes this book is been so rewarding because so many people have come back and said that this really make a great impact in helping them understand memorize utilize all the acupuncture points so this has been a really really really rewarding for me because it took a long time to make there's 365 points in the body and i have over 800 page on the pdf which is put onto the book so it's quite it was quite a feat to make but i'm so so proud of it and i really appreciate everybody that has purchased it and invested in it and told me that it was very useful so so thank you for that you guys and by the way if you haven't seen my second book which should have been my first book this is all on chinese medicine diagnosis and i think we forget you know people will ask what point do i use for this or for that we always need to do a tcm diagnosis and follow that diagnosis and i wanted to make a book that makes it easy to understand tcm diagnosis so that's why i have this book as well and uh right now at this stage i'm um making a tcm treatment book so i'm working on that too lots of things uh oh patricia thank you very much i love this those books are not just a buy they are an investment thank you thank you i really appreciate that that made my day super mom is going yeah because you've already said you love it uh patricia they sure are super mom's like yep great looking book thank you congratulations i really appreciate that it was a lot of work but it was so worth it because it helps so many students and practitioners so and people that just love to want to learn about tcm and so it's really cool okay marlene said i love the books yeah thank you [Music] so let's finish off with the two major duo collateral points so the first one is spleen21 so spleen 21 remember when we talked about the layers so i'm going to go back to the layers and then we'll go back to speed 21. when we talked about the layers we said that the collateral over here right we go from the deep to the surface to the skin and the next region is the 12 muscular regions so the spleen 21 is actually and you know where it's located right it's on the sixth or seventh intercostal space in the midline on the lateral side depending which one is more tender so spleen 21 is the connection of all the collateral or the inside because remember collateral will connect the external and internal to the next layer the surface layer which is the muscular region and the reason i'm repeating this is because spleen 21 is the best point when there is muscular chronic muscular pain like fibromyalgia this is why when there is fibromyalgia you can do trigger points and put points or you know acupressure or acupuncture point in all the area where the pain is but you have to do spring 21 because it acts like a spider web of all the muscular region it wraps around all the muscular region and affects all the muscular regions so if there is really chronic muscle aches and pain you have to do spin 21 it wouldn't work if it was acute but it's very good for chronic so even people have arthritis you know it's in the joints but it affects the muscle around the arthritis you want to put spleen 21 as well so that's a really really good point to add to the protocol when it comes to fibromyalgia i love speed21 for that perspective so ah okay and then there is the sixteenth one or uh the last one depending on who you're talking to so the major luau connecting point of the stomach so see how i put when 17 and stomach 18. so this collateral again is very short all collaterals are very short so this collateral goes and starts at rent 17 and finishes at stomach 18. so it's a very short on both side of course but it's a very short collateral as you can see it's right on the chest area right this collateral starts at 17 in the stomach 18 so it's really connecting the heart and the lung the heart and the lung right the heart and the lung all the upper jaw the gathering tree or the zhonji zed o n is where our heart and lung chi is allowing us to breathe deeply and exhale right when we take a big deep breath and we exhale co2 a lot of things happen the heart is involved right with all the capillaries the oxygen goes through the blood and the veins and then we exhale co2 it's all intricate together and we don't even think we take a big deep breath we exhale and it's like magic but it involves two upper jaw organs that are fantastic in allowing us to breathe better to feel relaxed in the chest so if when do we use the stomach major luo collateral which again is not just one point it's two points on this one it's very different it's ran 17 towards stomach 18. so what we want to do is we want to do both points needle both the first one and the last one when there is a lot of shortness of breath with palpitation and chest pain right so for people that have lung and heart tissue it works really well to open the chest and allow both to connect does that make sense so that's what we will use those two for woohoo okay to look at that so we went through all the luau connecting point i went pretty fast but i wanted to you know really look at the way we we use them in clinical practice because i love the lure connecting point in the collateral and i wanted to do the layers because i think that's also really important to understand how the meridian layers work so we can connect them when we use them in clinical practice as well i hope you guys had really a lot of fun with this because i did i really appreciate everybody coming in by the way tons more on my website um i know people ask me all the time hey do you have a protocol for high blood pressure it's on my website do you have anything for headaches it's on my website so take the time to go on the resource page because all this is there tcm foundation diagnosis videos acupuncture protocol uh treatment nutrition like it's all there courses i have also courses free one and paid one so you can really utilize the resource and i keep adding an id by the way um i also added last week i think practice management that was very popular to explain to patients your diagnosis how to explain your treatment plan how to communicate with your patients that was very popular video as well it's on my website it's also on my youtube channel so uh make sure that you check that out if you haven't yet i again want to put the comments up because i know everybody is still here and okay so we got which point of the stomach did you mention with spleen 21 so i did not spin 21 is by itself it's the low connect collateral or lower connecting point of the spleen the major lower connecting point of the spin it's by itself like all of them but when 17 connects to stomach 18 that is the major stomach lure collateral so that's a bit of a different one i know it makes it quite different right when 17 stomach 18 of heart failure or heart attack uh not heart failure or heart attack more chest pain with difficulty and breathing like more anxiety releasing again it's more emotional it's for anxiety release so a lot of emotion that have been stuck for a long time in the chest and so that's how we release it right you explain those lower point combinations so well oh thank you lenore i really appreciate that thank you very much you guys that was awesome we did it in an hour which was good and straight to the point like i like to do it straight to the point i am uh so happy you showed up i really wanted to thank everyone for coming today if you need more you know where to go lots of stuff on my website connect with me i'm on instagram i'm on facebook i'm on youtube as you know uh but also i just joined tick tock by the way uh this is a platform i don't understand yet so i'm just trying different things it's very weird i'm on pinterest now i just went and check out pinterest why not because why not so you know i like to kind of try 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