Video: Acupuncture for Stress Relief

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Acupuncturists sometimes use a method called the four gates in order to help alleviate stress. Learn more about acupuncture and how it can help you from our medical expert in this free video.

Video Transcript

So in this segment, we're going to work on distressing him a little bit. So, most acupuncture treatments are actually relaxing in their own right, but sometimes we need to do a specific treatment to distress people when work or life tries to get the better of them. So there's some basic points that we'd like to do, this one is one of my personal favorites because it is so relaxing. I can even do that one on myself. And then we're going to do what's called the four gates. So, as usual we're going to use our filiform needles and this is actually one of our smallest ones that we use on the forehead. And we just barely have to insert it. That one is actually good for sinus problems as well. So these points on the hands will be used in combination with the points on the feet that we will do here in just a moment. And that's what makes up our four gates. That point's also good for frontal or temporal headaches that you can actually use acupressure on that point, as well as any kind of pain on the front of the face to include tooth pain. This is actually a point called large intestine fords on the large intestine meridian. And then we're going to do liver three, which are the points here on the foot. These are the points that make up the four gates, and the last one. So, once we get these points in, we allow him to sit quietly in the room for about twenty minutes, and hopefully he'll feel relaxed during that process. So these are the most standard basic points that we can use for stress and relaxation.

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