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Acupuncture for Asthma: Heart 8

The heart eight acupuncture point is often used to treat asthma symptoms of heart palpitation. Learn more about using the heart eight 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

If the asthma with the symptoms of palpitation or aversion to heat, meaning even at a room temperature, this person cannot tolerate, just feels so warm and also they feel hot in a palm or the bottom of the feet, that means they have energy blockage in different channels produce this extra heat. And the heat could keep over the immune system balance. In that situation, especially with the warm palm, we can choose heart 8. So when you let the patient make a fist and where the small finger landed, between two, the metatarsal bone, fifth and fourth, where the small finger landed is the point called heart 8. And this point help the asthma condition and also it stop the itchy especially with the warm palm. So when we treat, use this point, we can perpendicularly insert needles and using dispersing method to relieve the heat to stop itchy.

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Acupuncture for Asthma: Heart 8

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