So a loved one is pregnant, and you want to help with a few acupressure points. Hi, my name is Mark Brinson, doctor of oriental medicine, physical medicine, and human performance specialist. During pregnancy, there's a lot of discomforts that can happen, and I want to give you a couple of the common points that can be used to help alleviate that. One of the main things that happens is nausea, and there are two points used in combination that can help with that significantly. One is located two finger widths from the wrists in between the tendons called Pericardium 6. Stimulating this point can help to significantly reduce nausea. As much so, in fact, that there's a little button sewn inside every Navy dive suit that stimulates this point to prevent things like seasickness or motion sickness. You also notice that if you ever pick up a band -- a seasickness band -- at a boating store, it's stimulating this particular point, which helps to prevent that as well. Now, what you can do, though, at home, is you can use this in combination with a point that stimulates the immune and digestive systems and in combination with Pericardium 6 really helps to significantly increase nausea even more. And that's called Stomach 36. Stomach 36, or Zusanli, is located just underneath the patella or kneecap about two to three finger widths -- there's a bump there. That bump is called your tibial tuberosity. Just to the outside of the leg, there's a little muscle that's there called anterior tibialis, and in that muscle, you'll feel like a little divot, okay? So down to the bump, and just lateral about one finger width, you'll feel a little divot called Stomach 36. When Pericardium 6 and Stomach 36 are used in combination with one another, they really can significantly increase the immune system or boost the immune system, digestive system, and they can decrease nausea. So that could be a good acupressure routine for you for the pregnant woman. My name is Mark Brinson, doctor of oriental medicine, physical medicine, and human performance specialist, wishing you a happy, healthy, and balanced pregnancy.
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