Video: Acupuncture for Asthma: Du Meridian

Depression symptoms from asthma are often treated with the acupuncture point called du meridian. Learn more about using the du meridian acupuncture point to treat asthma with tips from a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in this free video on asthma treatments.

Video Transcript

So if the asthma is also connected with emotional problems. And patients get depressed and also have the tightness of the chest. Difficult to breathe. Or even, specifically they have the pain along the side of the ribs. We call the hypochondriac area. And in this situation, we can choose the liver point. And so on the back. This is the mid-line of the back. It's called the Du Meridian. And then we, we draw another line along the scapular border. And between this line, we draw a line in the middle. So that's the line, have a lot of points, there. And this liver point is called the bladder 18. It's located at 9th thoracic level. So you first locate the seventh thoracic vertebrae and then you go two vertebrae down. And then you locate a point on the line between the mid-line and the scapular line. And that's the bladder 18. And we can insert needles obliquely with the forty five degrees angle. And go to 0.8 inches.

Acupuncture for Asthma: Du Meridian

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