Acupuncture for Migraines: Tui Na One-Finger Pushing Technique

Video Transcript

"This next technique is a combination of both massage with a little bit of chi gong added to it. So there is a little bit of energy work within this. It's called one finger pushing and so there's two ways that we can do it. We can either double the fingers up like this or what I like to do is wrap the index finger around the middle finger to give myself a little bit more strength to the push. This is the way that we often do acupressure in Chinese Medicine. So we look for specific acupressure points and we are able to then use some techniques by focusing our energy and dropping our tongue from the roof of our mouths down to the floor of our mouth as we focus our energy down through our hand and into the point. And often times the practitioner will feel a warming in his hand as he hits the various acupuncture points. A lot of times a massage therapist will also use this for what we know as trigger points. Which are areas that can release a large area of muscles on an individual. So we can use this technique to help Jackie a little bit with her migraines. And that's one finger pushing."