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Summary: Grounding energy is necessary because several needles are put into the face. Learn how grounding energy is done in acupuncture with tips from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in this free acupuncture video.
"The next step we want to ground energy because we are going to put so many needles on the face, so the energy kind of going up a lot. We need to balance this upward energy flow. So we want to first start with the feet point. And generally, most feet point relax the body. But the most commonly use one is the Kidney 6 which is located .5 inch below this bone called Medial Malleoulus. So that has a depress, depression underneath this bone tip. And this point we can use to strengthen the kidney essence and that will provide more nutrition on to our skin, moisturize our skin. So we perpendicularly insert needles and that will first ground energy, second help then to raise the skin. And this point can also be combine with the hand point."