So you have interest in using the Acupuncture or Acupressure chart effectively. Hi, my name is Mark Brinson. I'm a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Physical Medicine and Human Performance Specialist. The Acupressure chart sometimes provide a lot of confusion in the actual location of where each point is. They're very, very specific within one, probably a razor head, about where you need to be and they're hard to find if you don't know exactly what system they're working on. When it says it's one inch up from the ankle in some of Acupressure book, they're not really talking about an inch. They don't even use the system of inch measurement in China. What they're talking about is a body inch or "cun", which is equal to about the width of a thumb, okay, or the thumb of the patient that you're working with. Now more than that, it's a proportional measurement. So I could just measure one thumb width up from the ankle, but also, the whole body is divided with into certain proportions such as, the lower leg being 16 cun, the lower arm being 12 cun. A good example of how this works is with the abdomen. Between the xiphoid process or the bony prominence that's just underneath the rib cage and your umbilicus or your belly button, this equals 8 cun. So if I were to take my thumb and measure 8 cun, or 8 thumb widths down, it probably would equal about that. But what if I already gain 30 lbs. in weight, abdominally. Then my umbilicus would be way over here and my xiphoid will be here. But the reason this is 8 cun is to make up for that proportionally. So all I would do to find a point, is right in the middle of this is 4 cun and the middle of that would 2 and the middle of that would be 1. So this makes the system work for everybody. As with almost everything in Eastern Medicine, it seems confusing at first, but it's really very practical and easy to understand . My name is Mark Brinson, wishing you a balance and accuracy in your life.
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