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🎈 Abdominal Bloating in TCM

Abdominal bloating is one of the most common complaints in clinic. In TCM, it’s called Fu Zhang and refers to distension and fullness around the navel—without pain, but often uncomfortable or chronic.

🌀 Common TCM Causes:
🥢 Poor diet (cold/raw foods, overeating, irregular eating)
🧠 Emotions—especially worry and overthinking, which weaken the Spleen

🧪 Western equivalents include:
IBS, chronic gastritis, ulcers, colitis, eating disorders, PMS, gallstones, hepatitis, pancreatitis, and even anxiety/depression.

🧭 Treatment Tips:
🎯 Ear Acupuncture: ST, SP, Abdomen zones
🥗 Diet therapy plays a HUGE role—always tailor it to your patient's pattern (Cold-Damp? SP Qi Deficiency? LV Qi stagnation?)

💡 Whether it’s Spleen Qi not transforming, or Damp obstructing the MJ, identifying the root is key.

🌱 If you enjoy easy-to-digest visuals like this, check out my “Chinese Medicine Treatments Made Easy” PDF or hard copy—an illustrated guide to over 160 common syndromes
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💥 GB 5 & GB 6 — Temporal Migraine Duo

📍 Locations

GB 5 - Within the hairline, midway along the curve connecting ST 8 → GB 7

GB 6 - Within the hairline, at the junction of the lower ¼ and upper ¾ of the curve connecting ST 8 → GB 7

✨ TCM Actions & Uses
• Move GB Qi along the channel
• Excellent for migraines & temporal headaches
• Reduce cheek swelling
• Expel Wind for tinnitus and infantile convulsions

🧠 Clinical Pearl
When headaches are temporal, one-sided, or GB-patterned, this combo is 🔥 for restoring flow and calming Wind.

🤕 Did you know I have a 90-minute masterclass all on treating Headaches and Migraines with TCM? Join today, and get 1.5 CEUs! acupro-academy.mykajabi.com/headaches-and-migraine…

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Saturday Quiz Yourself 💫 What Acupuncture point is located 5 cun above the lateral malleolus anterior to the tibia border. It is a LUO connecting point that help with vision such as poor night vision, blurred vision and eye pain. Here' my playlist of all points functions and locations: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

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👃 The Nose in TCM: A Diagnostic Goldmine

According to 5 Element Theory, the Lung opens into the nose, making it a crucial area for evaluating respiratory and Wei Qi function.

But there’s so much more to observe!

🗺️ Facial Zones in Diagnosis:

Bridge of the nose → reflects the Liver
Tip of the nose → reflects the Spleen

🎨 Color Clues to Watch For:

🟢 Green/blue tip → Cold in the Spleen (often with abdominal pain)
💛 Yellow tip → Damp-Heat in the Spleen

⚪ Pale tip → Blood Deficiency
🔴 Red tip → Lung Heat

🟢 Greenish bridge → Liver Qi stagnation
⚫ Greyish bridge → Liver Blood stasis

🔥 Red bridge → Liver Fire

💧 Nasal Discharge Patterns:

💧 Clear & watery → Cold pattern
🟡 Thick yellow → Heat pattern

👩‍⚕️ These subtle facial cues are powerful tools when combined with tongue and pulse diagnosis!

🌱 If you enjoyed my graphics and these clinical gems, check out my illustrated guide to TCM Foundations & Diagnosis.

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In Chinese medicine, Springtime is known as Liver time🌸

Do you want to better support your patients who are dealing with Liver pattern issues? Well, a big component is Nutrition.

In this episode, I discuss all things Liver. Get tools, recipes, and recommendations to elevate your practice and your patients' nutrition, while addressing those all-too-common Liver patterns. Let's go!

Key points covered in this episode:

💚TCM Nutrition and its relation to the 4 most common TCM Liver Patterns: Liver Qi Stagnation, Liver Yang Rising, Liver Yin Deficiency & Liver Blood Deficiency

💚Food recommendations (and even a recipe!) for each Liver pattern

💚The Importance of Tailoring TCM Nutrition to Individual Patients

🎁 BONUS: Address symptoms, emotions, and nutrition recommendations for harmonizing all five-year organ patterns with my FREE TCM Nutrition Guide:

👉 acuproacademy.com/114-liver-health/?utm_source=pod…

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Last chance to SAVE! Only $167 until March 10th, 11:55 pm (PST)
Save $80 - that’s 30% off. After that, the price will goes up to $247

If you’ve been avoiding the ear…It’s your time
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Most acupuncturists underuse the ear. Not because it doesn’t work.
Because we were never taught it properly, or at all!
Meanwhile…The ear is the fastest way to access the central nervous system.

This course gives you a clear, step-by-step system to start using the 25 most essential ear points, how to palpate and assess the ear to find active points, and treat conditions like stress, pain, cravings, sleep issues, digestion, and more, using needles, ASPs, or ear seeds.

✔ 7 Recorded modules - Lifetime access
✔ 4.5 CE hours
✔ 7-day money-back guarantee

I’ve also included these 3 Bonuses:
🎁 Patient Printable Aftercare Handouts Guide 
🎁 BONUS 2: Communication Script PDF 
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"I absolutely LOVE learning from Clara. These courses are informative and make learning fun. Thank you for this great course."  

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Saturday Quiz Yourself 💫 What EAR point's function is: Restores balance and homeostasis when patients say they feel “off”. It is a reset button. 👉 If you want to learn Auricular Therapy fast, my new online course is here: www.acuproacademy.ca/auricular-therapy-made-easy-o…

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🔥 Irritability in TCM

Irritability in Chinese medicine ranges from mild impatience to explosive anger or rage. It’s more than a personality trait — it reflects internal imbalance.

🌿 Common Causes (TCM Perspective):

- Alcohol consumption
- Drug use or medication side effects
- Chronic illness
-Kidney Essence deficiency (failing to anchor Yang)
- Often associated with Liver Qi stagnation or Liver Heat
- When Liver Qi becomes constrained, it transforms into Heat — leading to mood swings, frustration, and anger.

🎯 Treatment Options:

👂 Ear acupuncture points: Shen Men, HT & LV

💡 Clinical focus:
Soothe the Liver, calm the Shen, and anchor Yang — especially in patients with chronic stress or long-term depletion.

🌱If you enjoyed my graphics, check out my 'Chinese Medicine Treatments Made Easy" PDF or hard copy (An illustrated guide to treatments for over 160 common syndromes) here:

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🥑 In TCM, the Gallbladder is not "just" a small sac that stores bile: it is a key organ for courage, mental clarity, and decision-making.
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In Chinese Medicine, it belongs to the Wood element, paired with the Liver (as its Zang-Fu partner), and supports the smooth flow of Qi throughout the body.

It stores and excretes bile, which aids digestion, but it also influences the flexibility of the tendons, muscles, and connective tissues.

There is a common saying: "The Liver plans, the Gallbladder decides." It is closely linked to courage, judgment, and the capacity to make a "cut" or final decision.

When its energy (GB Qi) is balanced, we feel determined, bold, and capable of moving forward after a physical or emotional shock.

🧐 Signs of Imbalance:


- Emotionally: Indecision, procrastination, timidity, irritability, resentment, or explosive anger.

- Physically: A bitter taste in the mouth, lateral headaches (temporal), dizziness, digestive disturbances, and tension in the hypochondriac region (flanks) or the upper back.

⏰ The Organ Clock:

The Gallbladder is at its peak activity between 11 PM and 1 AM. This is the ideal window for the body (and Mind) to "digest" the events of the day.
Frequent waking during these hours can point toward a Wood element disharmony, especially if the person is ruminating or doubting their life choices.
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👉 In my clinical practice and when teaching TCM, I love working with this Fu organ when my patients tell me: "I can't seem to make a decision" or "I feel stuck in my life."
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What about you? Do you recognize yourself more in the courageous, "go-getter" side of your Gallbladder... or its indecisive side? Let me know in the comments, and save this post to revisit during your next bout of insomnia between 11 PM and 1 AM! 😉


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Most acupuncturists underuse the ear. Not because it doesn’t work.
Because we were never taught it properly, or at all!

Meanwhile…The ear is the fastest way to access the nervous system.

👂That’s why, by popular demand, I created Auricular Therapy Made Easy Online Course.

This course gives you a clear, step-by-step system to start using the 25 most essential ear points, how to palpate and assess the ear to find active points, and treat conditions like stress, pain, cravings, sleep issues, digestion, and more, using needles, ASPs, or ear seeds.

✔ 7 Recorded modules - Lifetime access
✔ 4.5 CE hours
✔ 7 day money back guarantee

I’ve also included these 3 Bonuses:
🎁 Patient Printable Aftercare Handouts Guide 
🎁 BONUS 2: Communication Script PDF 
🎁 BONUS 3: Cheat Sheet Infographic 

"I absolutely LOVE learning from Clara. These courses are informative and make learning fun. Thank you for this great course."  

🥳 Only $167 until March 10th, Save $80 - that’s 30% off. 

If you’ve been avoiding the ear…It’s your time
👉Join me inside: www.acuproacademy.ca/auricular-therapy-made-easy-o…

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