Tui Na Meridians

Video Transcript

"SARAH HAUER: Hi. I'm Sarah Hauer. SIG HAUER: And I'm Sig Hauer, and we're professional practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. SARAH HAUER: We're here on behalf of Expert Village. SIG HAUER: And welcome to our video. SARAH HAUER: ...an added dimension, not just the tendino-muscular benefit, but I'm massaging the Bladder Meridian and there are points on the Bladder Meridian that correspond to the organs. So we're getting a deep internal balancing and tonification as well, so acupuncture works if you know the points and their corresponding energetics and their organ corresponding--correspondences as well. Acupuncture and acupressure can definitely go to a deeper level than tendino-muscular. SIG HAUER: The point Sarah is referring to are called the "back shu" points. There are back shu points for the 12 major organs that we have connected to the 12 meridians but in this case, all 12 organs are located on that Bladder Meridian as you go down the back and, again, that is a direct connection from the point to the organ. And by manipulating it with our hands, with our fingers, we can affect some things with the organ that way. The needles, obviously, go a little deeper with that and the needles stay in longer, typically 20 to 45 minutes per session, but this is a followup. It's probably a good way to call this as icing on the cake for the patient. SARAH HAUER: Which just feels good. SIG HAUER: And it's very therapeutic and it feels good. There are other liniments that we use. As I said, the Po Sum On is the liniment that we tend to use the most because it is very good at relaxing the muscles. There's another liniment that we commonly use called Zheng Gu Shui. That tends to penetrate more into the bone, and when we see there's a connection between the muscle and the bone, where the tendon and the ligaments are also involved, and the bone maybe even be inflamed a little bit itself, quite often we'll put a little bit of the Zheng Gu Shui on first, allow that to penetrate and then followup with some of the Po Sum On. It's the combination we use very frequently."