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SP 2 🧡 Yin-Spring

📍 Location
Distal and inferior to the 1st metatarsophalangeal joint, in the depression at the junction of the red and white skin

✨ TCM Actions & Uses
• Great point for febrile diseases with NO sweating
• Helps digestive issues such as abdominal distension, gastric pain, constipation, and diarrhea
• Harmonizes the Stomach, tonifies the Spleen, and clears Heat

🧠 Clinical Pearl
As the Ying-Spring point of the Spleen channel, SP 2 is especially useful when Heat affects digestion or when an exterior pathogen causes fever without sweating.

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Saturday Quiz Yourself 💫 A patient has been coming for 6 weeks with no improvement. They have a thick, greasy yellow tongue coat, a slippery rapid pulse, fatigue, and loose stools. You've been tonifying Spleen Qi the whole time. What is the MOST likely reason treatments aren't working?

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🌪️ Dizziness & Vertigo in TCM

📚 Definition
• Dizziness → loss of balance, often occurring when standing up or moving, usually lasting a few seconds
• Vertigo → more severe sensation where the room feels like it’s spinning, even while lying down; may last minutes or hours

🏥 Common Western Conditions Associated
• Anxiety
• Motion sickness
• Alcohol intoxication
• Anemia
• Ear infections
• High blood pressure
• Multiple sclerosis
• Ménière’s disease
• Epilepsy

🧠 TCM Perspective
Dizziness and vertigo are often linked to:
• Liver Yang Rising
• Internal Wind
• Phlegm misting the mind
• Blood deficiency
• Kidney deficiency

👂 Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture Options
• Liver
• Liver Yang
• Shen Men
• Sympathetic

✨ Treatment focuses on restoring balance, calming Wind, resolving Phlegm, and anchoring Yang.

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Happy Summer, rock stars! ☀️

Summer belongs to the Heart in Chinese medicine, and supporting the Heart goes far beyond emotions alone. For this episode, I found it fitting to talk about TCM nutrition for common Heart patterns, sharing practical food recommendations to help nourish the Shen, regulate emotions, and better support your patients.

Through personal stories, clinical insights, and easy-to-apply nutrition principles, you’ll learn how food therapy can become a powerful extension of your treatments.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• The Heart’s connection to Summer, Yang energy, joy, and the Shen in TCM
• Simple nutrition strategies for Heart Yin, Qi, and Blood Deficiency, plus Heart Fire patterns
• Which foods help calm the mind, nourish blood, tonify qi, and clear heat/phlegm
• Core TCM nutrition principles like eating seasonally, locally, and mindfully

If you want practical food therapy tools to better support emotional health, sleep, energy, and Heart-related patterns, this episode is packed with clinical pearls you can use right away. 💜

🍉 Learn how to transition in to Summer from the TCM perspective: acuproacademy.com/128-heart-health-summer/?utm_sou…

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Let’s differentiate acupuncture points that have similar functions 👇✨
Ever get confused between KD 3 and KD 6? 🤔

These two Kidney points BOTH nourish Kidney Yin… but they each have their own personality and clinical strengths.

💧 KD 3, Tai Xi
The SOURCE point of the Kidney channel.

This is your go-to point for:
✔️ Kidney Yin deficiency
✔️ Kidney Yang deficiency
✔️ Low back pain
✔️ Fatigue
✔️ Tinnitus
✔️ Weak knees
✔️ Chronic deficiency conditions

KD 3 is deeper and more foundational.
It tonifies the Kidney system overall and helps rebuild the body’s core energy.

I often think of KD 3 as:
🔋 “Recharge the battery”

🌙 KD 6, Zhao Hai
The opening point of the Yin Qiao Mai.

This point is AMAZING for:
✔️ Night sweats
✔️ Dry throat
✔️ Insomnia
✔️ Menopausal symptoms
✔️ Anxiety with Yin deficiency
✔️ Dryness symptoms
✔️ Issues involving the throat and chest

KD 6 has a more fluid, nourishing, calming quality.
It strongly nourishes Yin and moistens dryness.

I often think of KD 6 as:
💦 “Add moisture and calm the spirit”

✨ Quick clinical pearl:
KD 3 = stronger for foundational Kidney deficiency
KD 6 = stronger for Yin deficiency with dryness, insomnia, or throat symptoms

And honestly?
Using them TOGETHER can be magic for deep Kidney Yin deficiency patterns 🔥

🎥 Watch my video on “How to Differentiate Similar 9 AcuPoints”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VbH...

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Saturday Quiz Yourself 💫 You needle ST36 (Zu San Li) with the intention to tonify. Which needling technique is CORRECT according to classical tonification principles?
🎥 Watch my video on Sedating versus Tonifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4S2s...

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🦴 Osteoporosis in TCM

Osteoporosis is a progressive loss of bone density leading to skeletal weakness and increased fracture risk. It affects women more commonly after menopause, but after age 60, both men and women are at risk.

🌿 Common Causes:
- Genetics
- Weak musculature
- Smoking

Acid-forming dietary habits:
🍷 Alcohol
🥤 Sodas
☕ Excess caffeine

⚠️ Common Symptoms:
- Bone and muscle pain (especially in the back)
- Weakness or fragility
- Vertebral compression fractures
- Postural changes such as kyphosis or lordosis

💡 Some patients may have no pain at all until a fracture occurs.

🌱 TCM Perspective:
Osteoporosis is often linked to Kidney Essence deficiency, especially post-menopause, when Jing naturally declines. Weak Kidney Qi fails to nourish the bones and marrow adequately.

🎯 Treatment Options:
👂 Ear acupuncture points: Cervical, Thoracic & Lumbar
✨ Clinical focus: Nourish Kidney Essence, strengthen bones, improve circulation, and support posture and mobility long-term.

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👉
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🦶 BL 61 — Subservient Visitor

📍 Location
Below BL 60, lateral to the calcaneus, at the junction where the skin color changes

✨ TCM Actions & Uses
• Soothes the sinews locally
• Great for heel pain & plantar fasciitis
• Helps with weakness and atrophy of the lower leg

🧠 Clinical Pearl
A simple but effective local point when pain and tightness settle into the heel and Achilles region.

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Saturday Quiz Yourself 💫 Which of the following point combinations BEST addresses both the Root (Ben) and Branch (Biao) in a patient with acute lower back pain due to an underlying Kidney Yang Deficiency? Check out my AcuExams Made Easy PDF with over 400 questions + explanations + video links to revise your knowledge: www.acuproacademy.ca/acuexams-made-easy-pdf

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In Chinese Medicine, Qi is energy but also vibration. This means your words aren’t just "air", they are energetic frequencies that resonate through every cell in your body.

When we engage in "bad mouthing," we are emitting a low-frequency vibration that acts like a physical toxin to our internal health.

1️⃣ The Frequency of the Heart ❤️

The Heart houses the Shen (Spirit) and opens into the Tongue. In TCM, the tongue is the "sprout" of the Heart. When we speak with malice, we create a chaotic vibration that creates "Heat" in the Heart. This agitates the Shen, leading to restlessness, anxiety, and even palpitations. To speak with kindness is to harmonize your own internal frequency.

2️⃣ Words as "Knotting" Qi 🪵

Negative speech often stems from frustration, causing the Liver Qi to stagnate. Low-vibration words literally "knot" the flow of energy. You don't just feel "cranky"—you might feel physical tension in the neck, chest oppression, or that "plum pit" sensation in the throat. Your words are physically stopping your flow.

3️⃣ Digesting the Energy 🥣

Gossip and brooding over others' faults "knots" the Spleen Qi. This slows down the "Transformation and Transportation" of energy. When we circulate toxic vibrations, our "digestive" capacity, both for food and emotions, becomes heavy and sluggish.

☯️ The TCM Takeaway:

Every word you speak is an internal treatment. You are either "needling" yourself with stagnant, sharp energy or nourishing yourself with smooth, harmonious flow. Protecting your speech is a vital form of Yang Sheng (Nourishing Life).

Reflection for today: Your words have power. Is your speech nourishing your Qi, or depleting it?

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