#75 - Dr. Janette Kurban on Ancient Ear Acupuncture Points and Modern Practice, Part 1

[00:00:00] Hi guys, welcome to the FAKTR Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Riddle and I have to tell you.

[00:00:20] I am so excited about the training we are featuring today. Many of you may know that our

[00:00:24] parent company, Southeast Professional Education Group, has recently began offering acupuncture

[00:00:30] and dry needling courses. We currently have a 100-hour chiropractic acupuncture certification

[00:00:36] course, a dry needling level 1 and level 2 course, and have several other 200 level and 300

[00:00:42] level acupuncture courses in the works for the ACA's acupuncture diplomate program.

[00:00:47] I have honestly lost count of the number of healthcare providers I've spoken with

[00:00:51] that have said that adding needling to their practice has been an absolute game-changer.

[00:00:56] As a highly effective treatment for musculoskeletal pain and a variety of both acute and chronic

[00:01:02] conditions, in today's episode we unravel the complexity of a regular acupuncture, exploring

[00:01:08] the 12 master control points on the ear and how they correlate with everything from inflammation,

[00:01:14] allergies, hormone balancing and even pain management. We'll delve into the artful blend of

[00:01:20] traditional wisdom with cutting-edge applications, revealing how these ancient pearls can revitalize

[00:01:25] modern treatment protocols. Be sure to bookmark this episode, it's one you'll want to listen to more

[00:01:31] than once. Let's dive in.

[00:01:36] Thank you Jessica. I'm so excited welcome attendees. What an honor and delight really to be asked

[00:01:50] to present a short webinar. It'll be about possibly 40-45 minutes long today on master points

[00:01:59] in aricula therapy. When Jessica asked me if I'd like to present a webinar for her,

[00:02:06] I immediately of course love sharing the information that I've been given over the years.

[00:02:11] So a little bit of background, this will be aricula only. There are master points on the body

[00:02:16] for those of you in the audience who are certified in acupuncture or are thinking about learning

[00:02:23] acupuncture as a modality there, an extra modality to use on your patients in your office or

[00:02:29] your clients. There is an entire system and we'll go over a little bit of that here in a few slides

[00:02:36] that exist only in the ear. It's not new. It's very modern as far as the research but we know it's

[00:02:45] actually developed in ancient China. So it's not a new world thing, it's very old and these

[00:02:53] extraordinary points will be very easy for you to implement into your daily treatment plan

[00:03:01] for your patient or your client and without further ado just a little bit about me. I am a board

[00:03:07] certified American Chiropractic Association Diplomate. It is the only diplomat that's actually

[00:03:14] recognized not just nationally but worldwide as a chiropractic diplomat in acupuncture and of course

[00:03:22] here it lets you know a little bit about me and you can always peruse that later. But there I am

[00:03:28] and on with the show, the description I've put in here, you'll not only learn the aricula or master

[00:03:34] acupuncture points and why it might be a good idea to integrate them into your clinical protocols

[00:03:39] but we will cover how to integrate them, why to integrate them, why that will increase your

[00:03:46] patient's positive treatment outcomes and how you can do this on the next visit or even today

[00:03:53] especially if you're already certified and you've had a little bit of aricula therapy in the past

[00:03:58] but maybe feel like you need a little bit more or even if you've had none, the points are very

[00:04:04] very easy to find. A lot of times people think you have to have special instrumentation to find

[00:04:11] these points but they're not hard to find. Most of you are aware of the electrical stimulation

[00:04:16] devices, some of them are called pornier pluses. You don't really need those if you want to use

[00:04:24] electrical that's fantastic, that works even faster for the patient in breaking that pain

[00:04:30] modulation there in the body and the brain but you do not need electrical devices or current.

[00:04:37] You can use the really, really tiny, I use the very, very smallest needle I can find.

[00:04:43] It's for me it's been the serenetal and the size is the facial needle, it's just so tiny

[00:04:49] patients don't even feel it in the ear either. Otherwise if you use your average gauge needle,

[00:04:55] I'll keep your needle in the ear. Not only could there probably be a little bit of bleeding,

[00:05:00] there could be a lot more pain involved for the patient and that might not give them a reason

[00:05:08] to want to have you repeat that whereas with the electrical devices much at the time they're

[00:05:14] pain free. So that's a little bit of the course description. Here's a picture of 10 points so

[00:05:19] actually go through 12, there are two additional ones that will also cover at the end of the powerpoint

[00:05:24] presentation for everything for the upper limbs and any type of pain for the lower limbs.

[00:05:30] So a total of 12 but as you can see I will be starting up here at the, I will call it 12 o'clock.

[00:05:38] When I look at an ear and you'll hear me talk about the grid a lot of these points are on grids

[00:05:44] and they're parallel to each other or they're perpendicular to each other and that's just how

[00:05:49] how they are. It's almost like if you think of the ear as a hologram you've got all these grids

[00:05:54] and you've got deeper, deeper lines, deeper points, more surface points and just for the knowledge

[00:06:00] here you'll see these green triangles that you can observe here on the screen right now

[00:06:05] and then the little square blue, cobalt blue circles. We'll start with the allergy point.

[00:06:10] It has one of each so what that tells me and what that will tell you when you look at a slide

[00:06:15] and there's a key on a following slide too that you can allegend. The round cobalt just means

[00:06:21] this is the surface point on the ear. You don't need to look for it, it's not hidden,

[00:06:27] it's not underneath the ridge or behind the ear, posterior ear. It is right there at the,

[00:06:32] the allergy point actually is at the apex of the ear. The easiest way to find that is for you to take

[00:06:40] after you've observed the patient's ear. We haven't gone through any of the inspection or

[00:06:45] observation but you will, you can fold the ear just almost in half there and at that very tip

[00:06:52] where that crease is where you fold that will be the allergy point. Now there's a second allergy

[00:06:59] point and I do use that if the surface allergy point, the one that's in blue doesn't seem to be

[00:07:07] quite doing the job that I think it needs to be doing. Maybe on the second or third visit,

[00:07:12] I can add that little green triangle means it tells me in the reference material that that is

[00:07:19] underneath that ridge there. That's on the superior helix of the ear so you have to go in there with

[00:07:27] a pair of tweezers and find that or use your hand and look under there. It's underneath that

[00:07:34] little ridge and you can feel it right now in your own ear. There's just a little ridge there and

[00:07:37] it's right right at the apex but it's underneath that little ridge there at the superior helix.

[00:07:43] That's the allergy point. Then if we're going clockwise, for me it would be to the right here,

[00:07:48] sympathetic autonomic point. That's obviously hidden also. It's in that green triangle there

[00:07:55] between the superior helix and then we're headed down towards the what would be the helix root.

[00:08:02] So not quite midway, about 2.30 maybe 3 o'clock there. Then we have the zero point there at the

[00:08:09] root of the helix. Helix root in the ear. On around to the master oscillation, you have the

[00:08:15] tranquilizer point and we'll go through these pretty quickly into crin. The master cerebral,

[00:08:20] master sensorial, the thalamus point. Always look at the thalamus point is about 7 o'clock on the

[00:08:27] what we know will know to be here in a quick review the antitragus of the ear.

[00:08:32] The zero point, we covered that Shenmen. It's also known as divine gate. So just the name itself kind

[00:08:39] it tells us it's a pretty special point and we'll learn all about those here beginning now. But first

[00:08:46] all of you know the parts of the ear but it seems to be on the 100 hour exams anyway. We have a

[00:08:52] national 100 hour certification exam at least in our state that's required and then the national

[00:08:58] board occupant review is also required but this seems to be the group of questions that doctors

[00:09:06] miss the most. That students miss the most. The student doctors, the doctors, the PT's whoever

[00:09:13] MD's there's a lot of anatomy to the ear and here are the different areas for you to review and look

[00:09:20] back at when we talk about where each one is located. You've got I think there's 12 or 13 different

[00:09:26] areas where points can be located and there's probably even some more in another more posterially which

[00:09:33] we won't even cover today but there are several points on the posterior surface of the ear.

[00:09:39] But moving around along also know at least depending on your scope, I know here where we are

[00:09:47] in Texas. Our scope is limited, our rule of law here in Texas is limited to neuromuscular skeletal

[00:09:54] so we do cover a lot of muscular skeletal points today however if in your scope you can treat

[00:10:02] other conditions many of these points that we'll cover today and we'll be we'll cover all the

[00:10:08] musculoskeletal but you'll also see where they cover other conditions. So if you have a broader

[00:10:15] scope than we do here in Texas, great, wonderful you can cover many other conditions for your patients with

[00:10:23] ear acupuncture alone without even touching any other part of their bodies and of course people

[00:10:31] it seems like it's always a question from the chiropractors that are in the group anyway.

[00:10:38] You always adjust the patient first then you provide the therapies acupuncture is therapy modality

[00:10:45] and it is performed after the patient is adjusted so just in case you had that question but when

[00:10:51] you look at these musculoskeletal points here attendees you'll see points for every system in

[00:10:58] the body you have your lumbar spine, your cycle, your thoracic, you'll see cervical spine there,

[00:11:05] face, eyes, forehead, temples and while we're looking elbows, chest, wrist, hand and fingers, knees

[00:11:11] there toes at the very top almost at the apex. Beside it I put the little homunculus that you see in

[00:11:18] all the embryological books and the diagrams and the acupuncture books and if you look a lot

[00:11:25] a lot of times these musculoskeletal points correspond with the part of the body if it were an upside

[00:11:32] down or inverted fetus there in the ear and we know that it's nothing new again, irregular therapy is

[00:11:40] it's more modern now because we've proven how it works with all our modern technologies we're

[00:11:45] proving more and more how it works but it's very very very very ancient.

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[00:12:54] We'll start with allergy point but real quick before we move on to the points just a little bit

[00:12:59] of history. We know that the ancient Chinese did have a regular point so they did exist and

[00:13:06] that they are mentioned in the nashing and some of the oldest books on the planet that do describe

[00:13:12] acupuncture and list all the conditions that it can help but in 1957 really when it started in

[00:13:20] America Dr. Paul Nujay and many of you that are in acupuncture have heard of him. His son now

[00:13:27] carries on his legacy. He connected the somatotropic or the inverted fetus correspondences to the

[00:13:35] article or the ear to the ariculo part of the ear and when he did that it modern China just went

[00:13:44] kind of nuts about this because they thought well this is us and we haven't even discovered this

[00:13:48] and or maybe they had discovered it and just hadn't written about it but so the year a year later in

[00:13:52] 1958 modern China initiated a massive study and they did this study using Dr. Nujay's clinical

[00:14:01] effectiveness of this ariculo acupuncture and they found it to be incredibly confirming and

[00:14:08] successful and it just exploded at that time kept exploding so by the early 70s there were cases

[00:14:16] researched for many many different types of quote modern problems or conditions in humans and one

[00:14:23] of those was the detoxification of opiate withdrawals and they used it in the 70s actually beginning

[00:14:29] in about 1973 here in the United States there was a doctor an MD Michael Smith and he applied

[00:14:35] ariculo acupuncture to much of his clinical work where he helped addicts withdraw from opiates

[00:14:43] crack cocaine alcohol nicotine you name it any actually used double blind studies that began

[00:14:51] shortly after that all proving that these points work so many of you are familiar with NADA

[00:14:58] where the detoxification group now has the five points they use for addiction withdrawal

[00:15:03] in these addiction centers it's a business all in of itself so little bit on the history

[00:15:10] wanted to cover that and then we'll go to allergy point we've already said that it is at the apex

[00:15:16] of the ear and then underneath that little ridge there at the apex of the ear and the main thing

[00:15:21] too real quick before to remember and I didn't mention this on the slide on the master points

[00:15:26] that we are going over today they don't relate to any one specific anatomical organ but they do

[00:15:33] affect a broad range of physiological functions just as many other body points do also

[00:15:40] so in your allergy point it's used for anti any inflammation responses so you think oh well

[00:15:45] we can't treat allergies under our scope or I can't do that in my office legally well no you can

[00:15:51] because while you're treating that romantic arthritis or any inflammatory response guess what

[00:15:57] whether we like it or not it will address the energy in that human's body and those of you that

[00:16:03] are familiar with acupuncture understand this even better more than I can go into today it will

[00:16:08] address that imbalance in that body that's causing those allergies maybe to affect that patient or

[00:16:14] that human more than necessary or trigger that immune response in a contra indicating way for that

[00:16:20] patient to not be miserable with with the condition but it's also used for rheumatic arthritis toxicity

[00:16:28] it will also help if a patient's in anaphylactic shock not that we treat that but it could

[00:16:34] actually help that it excreats the metabolic waste it helps the body excrete metabolic waste

[00:16:40] so all of these things are going to help inflammation also so I put it in here I wanted to cover it

[00:16:45] because we treat inflammation every single day in our offices as chiropractors and of course

[00:16:52] that's a perspective I'm coming from but even as the physical therapist your patients have

[00:16:58] inflammation in their body it's a it's a biggie nowadays but it can also be used the slide tells us

[00:17:05] to relieve excess G and and it can also and I do this quite often I let the patient become part of

[00:17:13] the answer instead of me being the provider and me me me being the one that that quote heals them

[00:17:22] I let them know they're responsible for their own health care that's their body it's their point

[00:17:27] they can stimulate that point and one one really easy way on the allergy point is pinching it because

[00:17:32] it's so easy to find you just fold your ear and then pinch that where that crease is and not hard but

[00:17:38] just three or four times a day that allergies bother you can do a little pinch also we have press needles

[00:17:44] many of you are familiar with and also occupaches seeds beads that you can tape on that part of the

[00:17:51] ear and give that patient something to take home with them so they have that in their ear they can

[00:17:56] stimulate that two or three times a day by tapping and when you see them back in two or three days

[00:18:03] to replace that tape you can ask them how they've been doing with their own self-care and that puts

[00:18:08] them in charge of their health care and takes you out of the role of paternalistic all-doer when we

[00:18:14] know that really they're the ones that are going to be healing their own bodies that we don't do

[00:18:19] the healing the next point is the endocrine point so it balances the endocrine hormones and it

[00:18:27] can raise or lower glandular secretion will we know all right with a hyperthyroidism hypothyroidism

[00:18:33] diabetes let's just look at where that point is to that point the way I find that point is to

[00:18:39] me it's so easy just find that intertregid nautch there it's right there in the center if you

[00:18:45] look at the ear is a grid and you were saying okay allergy points probably at 12 o'clock you can

[00:18:51] really you can pretty much put the intertregid nautch at five or five thirty not quite six o'clock

[00:18:57] with a low biz so it's right there it's remember it's the little green triangle so you're gonna have

[00:19:03] it's down there in the little groove underneath the little rim are are full of the skin there

[00:19:09] and that's where you'll find the endocrine point one of the ten master points for perimenopause

[00:19:16] and that's for any of the perimenopause symptoms which could be cramping irregularity it also

[00:19:23] activates the pituitary gland but it again has an anti inflammatory and anti allergic effect so

[00:19:29] again it has an anti inflammatory effect on the entire body and promotes water metabolism so very

[00:19:36] very powerful point for not only intercondistorters but also inflammatory disorders so there's my

[00:19:43] anti inflammatory point for those of us who are supposedly only treating muscular skeletal here in the

[00:19:50] state of Texas anyway so next master cerebral let's look at where that's at again the blue

[00:19:57] circle tells us that it is on the surface so you don't have to look for it it's not hidden

[00:20:02] and really it is part of the lobe and how I find it is where the lobe meets the side of the head

[00:20:08] there the the chin the mandible and you go up not quite halfway up that lobe will be your master

[00:20:16] cerebral and if you think about that when you go back to the little slide that had the little upside

[00:20:21] down fetus the baby the inverted fetus that's right there at the head where the cerebrum is

[00:20:28] it does address the prefrontal lobe of the brain which we know affects decision-making

[00:20:34] of some and initiates conscious action among other things but it's used for nervous activity

[00:20:41] OCD fear worry neuroesthesia extreme fatigue or lack of concentration in this point also promotes

[00:20:48] deep sleep I don't know about you but it seems like for the last 15 or 20 years of my practice

[00:20:55] almost everyone now over 40 and it's beginning to be even younger than that has trouble sleeping

[00:21:01] when you ask them are you sleeping okay they say no I have insomnia they either can't get to sleep

[00:21:08] or they go to sleep and they wake up and they can't get back to sleep this is a wonderful point

[00:21:13] I've used it many many times and trained a patient how to use it or stuck that press needle on

[00:21:19] there or that bead or occupy wonderful wonderful point class for our attendees for promoting deep sleep

[00:21:27] so there's your master cerebral point next is master oscillation now we're going back up tour it

[00:21:35] actually it's on the tragus underneath the tragus so if you remember your anatomy that little

[00:21:43] groove there that kind of it looks like a little bud budding out there at the base of the

[00:21:48] or just below the helix root is the tragus and right underneath that rim is the master oscillation point

[00:21:57] it's really easy to find it balances the right and left sides of the cerebral hemispheres the brain

[00:22:03] used in all the learning disabilities ADD dyslexia are a patient who has a

[00:22:09] who is sensitive to react or reacts to medications and we all know which patients those are they

[00:22:14] seem to be allergic to air there is no matter if some one person in the room is going to have a

[00:22:18] reaction I know I have a couple of patients they're going to have a reaction that that would be a

[00:22:24] great point for them and then it we just kind of threw this in here I did when treating electrically you

[00:22:30] can use a frequency as high as 2.5 hertz on this point and again when you treat electrically we'll

[00:22:37] go over that real quick for those of you in the audience that might be using that

[00:22:43] those frequencies we want remember when the patient feels it when they say ouch it's too high and

[00:22:51] the reason they're feeling it is because it's not going deep the electricity is on the surface

[00:22:58] and it's just hanging around on the surface and electrifying that surface and they feel it what

[00:23:04] what you want them to be is just sub threshold so are not threshold you want them to be where

[00:23:11] they barely barely feel it so you might start low go up to where they feel it that's usually what

[00:23:16] I do I start rural low the last thing you want to do is shock their ear it's quite painful I've had

[00:23:21] it done and I accidentally when I was training back in 04 2004 had an associate doc was practicing on

[00:23:29] his ear and with a non-vote battery just one of the stem pro pluses had it a little high and

[00:23:35] he never let me ever it hurt him and he said no you're never going to do that to me again

[00:23:42] I felt terrible it was just a second a zap but it was so strong so I start I just start so low I

[00:23:48] start on the lowest setting of your device just learn you to device start on the lowest setting and

[00:23:53] slowly turn it up and so the first time before you get the baseline it may take you a minute

[00:23:59] it may take two minutes but usually not more than that to where they feel it so when they say they

[00:24:05] I tell them I want you to just close your eyes and focus on it and you might have to really think

[00:24:10] about feeling it it should be where you barely barely feel it that's when we know it's going deeper

[00:24:16] and that's what you want you want that frequency to be barely recognizable to the patient

[00:24:23] so your master oscillation great for any types of just balancing the left and right side of the

[00:24:28] brain I love to use it on stroke patients with post-thelemic pain syndrome which we can treat in

[00:24:34] Texas since it's a pain syndrome really balancing the left and right side of their brain so I

[00:24:39] use it quite a bit with all the stroke patients I've treated over the years next is your master

[00:24:45] sensorial and it controls the brain's cortex cerebral cortex parietal and occipital lobe it's not

[00:24:52] a neurological class today we're all doctors and you don't remember exactly what all that covers

[00:24:58] you can look that up but where is it located it'll reduce any unpleasant excessive sensation

[00:25:05] ringing in the ears which we see quite a bit as chiropractors and blurred vision now it isn't the

[00:25:10] lobe of the ear on the lobe of the ear again a blue circle on the surface easy to find how do I find

[00:25:16] that again it's almost halfway up the lobe so when you start really looking at ears you'll see

[00:25:22] huge lobes tiny little lobes I see grown men with little tiny ears the size of some six-year-olds

[00:25:30] so it depends on the ear they're all different but it's just about halfway up the center of that

[00:25:36] lobe so I would take the very middle of that lobe if I were to fold that lobe in half and go

[00:25:40] about halfway up where you have the inner tragic notch but it's just to the side of it's but it

[00:25:45] still looks to me like in much of the time on patients it's still at six o'clock just a halfway

[00:25:52] to the antitragus there up the ear so that's what you'd be treating there again peristhesia we see

[00:25:59] that quite a bit with many of our patients with radiculopathy and then ringing in the ears we see

[00:26:06] quite a bit too but any unpleasant or excessive sensation and I know you're probably thinking right now

[00:26:12] about patients you have that have those types of conditions that you could you could help in your

[00:26:17] office today point zero it's location very very easy to find I love it it's the helix root

[00:26:24] the helix which just comes all the way around the ear the rim of the ear is at the very root there

[00:26:30] right as it joins into the concha of the ear it brings the whole body into homeostasis

[00:26:38] balances energy hormones brain activity so so so important I use it it's almost an instinct now

[00:26:46] it just takes two to three seconds electrically to stimulate the ear five seconds at the most

[00:26:53] with an electrical pointer plus or whatever you're using there's so many good tools out now

[00:26:59] to use why not just go ahead and do the point zero to me the point zero just kind of resets the

[00:27:05] body's entire computer because remember those of you who've had the minimum class the one hundred

[00:27:10] hour class all Yen and Young organs either directly are indirectly begin and end in the ear

[00:27:20] again the ear is so so powerful so if you'll recall that in your 100 your first 100 hours

[00:27:28] all Yen and Young organs either either directly or indirectly begin and or end in the ear

[00:27:35] so this this brings the whole body into balance resets the whole bodies computer or clock

[00:27:41] whatever you want to call it balances or supports the action of all the other points you're using

[00:27:47] so why would you not reset the computer and use point zero on every patient it just takes three to

[00:27:53] five seconds why not do it I've had great success with it it controls the viscera organs through

[00:27:58] the peripheral nerve ganglia and promotes willpower so again point zero a love point zero I treat

[00:28:06] point zero on every single patient it's integrated actually in biologically by the vagus nerve and

[00:28:14] that's going back to first and second year in school but it's consistent with the location when

[00:28:19] you go back and look at the little homunculus of the cerebellum and it's also reactive and this is

[00:28:28] an on your slide but it's also reactive in many chronic degenerative conditions so another great

[00:28:34] reason for us treating muscular skeletal which I think most of us do the majority of another reason

[00:28:41] to just put this never forget this point it's a beautiful beautiful point to use to help your

[00:28:47] patient every single day takes about three to five seconds you'll pick two or three points for that

[00:28:54] for the patient you might only pick one or two master points and then a actual anatomical point

[00:28:59] the patients having trouble with and you say adjusted or treated the patient with all the other

[00:29:05] modalities and tips up your sleeve and magical things you have as a doctor or therapist and takes

[00:29:14] you an extra maybe 30 seconds to treat six or seven points so why wouldn't you do that at the

[00:29:21] end of the session or I know many practitioners who never stick needles and patients all they do

[00:29:28] is ear electrical oricula therapy and they get incredible results so that's your point zero but

[00:29:36] those are just three or four different ways you could actually use point zero or use your electrical

[00:29:42] stem if you use needles you don't have to leave the needles in for 20 minutes but if I do

[00:29:47] electrical needling or if I do non-electrical needling in the ear I usually will do one or two

[00:29:54] points max in the ear while I've needleed the other parts of the body I would be needling so I just

[00:30:00] take those out and then don't use electrical that day say and they stay in 15 to 20 minutes.

[00:30:06] Shen men Shen men tranquilizes the mind where is it okay well it's in an area called the

[00:30:13] scaffolded fossa or we you might see it written as triangular fossa and on this picture here you

[00:30:19] can kind of see it's shaded into where it's like a triangular shape flowing into the upper portion

[00:30:27] of the ear there a scaffolded it's a sailboat so scaffolded it's actually almost in the not quite

[00:30:35] center of the triangular fossa and that's Shen men if you look at Shen men and now I know you remember

[00:30:42] the allergy point there at the apex of the ear they are on a grid you almost have a perpendicular

[00:30:48] line there where you could come straight down some people have trouble finding Shen men that's

[00:30:53] divine gate also known as divine gate so if you are having trouble with that you could always

[00:30:59] fold that ear and find that allergy point and then right straight actually parallel with it

[00:31:05] you'll see Shen men or you'll be able to find it there in the little scaffolded fossa again

[00:31:10] everyone's ears are different and you just have to kind of go about their anatomy of their

[00:31:15] ear it actually alleviates stress pain so again musculoskeletal can treat use that tension anxiety

[00:31:23] depression insomnia there's another great point for insomnia reduces inflammatory diseases hypertension

[00:31:29] and also fevers but it is a key point in all your textbooks will let you know this I took a lot

[00:31:35] of this information out of Terry Olson's book on a regular therapy the manual which I know most

[00:31:41] of you are familiar with if you've ever had a course in a regular therapy or acupuncture

[00:31:45] it's a key point for alleviating pain so seems like just about all our patients come sad but true

[00:31:52] but who else to we can we can help their pain without prescription drugs

[00:31:57] or over-the-counter medications that also have side effects and this is a great point and you

[00:32:02] can teach them how to use it and again on this one it's used to use it in subacute chronic or

[00:32:09] painful inflammatory conditions and the reason why it's so important I'll just go a little deeper here

[00:32:14] in its relationship to inflammation it is a key point there along with spleen and we're not studying

[00:32:20] the organ points today but that's really why it's so special for any types of pain

[00:32:26] and you don't hear about that so much you hear it tranquilizes the mind it's called divine gate

[00:32:31] but it along with zero point are two points that if I don't do any other

[00:32:36] aricula therapy because I've say needle the body and you don't have hours and hours to spend

[00:32:42] with each patient but I do have five seconds I'll just hit shin men or treat shin men and our

[00:32:48] divine gate in zero point in their dominant ear don't even have to do it bilaterally but you can

[00:32:54] because we know there's crossover in the brain so many many schools teach to treat bilaterally

[00:32:59] because of that reason so there you go there's shin men

[00:33:13] that's it for today's episode be sure to tune in for part two of this two episode training series

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