Video: Acupuncture for Asthma: Gate of the Winged

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The gate of the winged acupuncture point for treating asthma is located on the second thoracic vertebrae. Learn more about using the gate of the winged acupuncture point to treat asthma with tips from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in this free video on asthma treatments.

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Video Transcript

Now we first showed a point called a dentua which at seventh cervical vetebra, point 5 next to the vertebra and when a patient bends next to their head at the highest point, that is the C7 the cervical seven and then the next point is called gate of the winged. We think asthma is associated with external wings invading our lungs and causing the lungs to go upwards instead of going downwards and that causes asthma so this gate of the winged is the second thoracic vertebra. You first locate the highest point and that is cervical 7 and then one two vertebra down and then 1.5 next to the mid-line of the back, that is the gate of the winged and we use this point to treat acute or chronic asthma so basically we can insert needles obliquely with a 4 or 5 point insertion and so we can do insertion like this and using different manipulation to treat either acute or chronic asthma.

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Acupuncture for Asthma: Gate of the Winged

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