Acupressure for Acidity Video Lecture | Understanding Accupressure and Different Body Points - Health & Fitness

hi I'm Hilary Talbott acupuncture
physician and clinical herbalist today
we will be discussing acupressure for
acidity
now acupressure for acidity could mean a
couple different things may be
systematically your ph balance is off or
perhaps it's as simple as just
experiencing some unwanted reflux or
heartburn so today we're going to
discuss a point that is good for the
symptomatic relief of heartburn and
reflux that point is called pc6 or
nagging it's a point that we often use
in Chinese medicine because of how
effective it is it often amplifies other
points that we use in the body but this
one is specific to nausea heartburn
motion sickness is for its effectiveness
to find this point you just locate it
between the two tendons on the inside of
the forearm and it's usually right after
the vein crosses about one or two finger
breaths down so on our model today it's
located right here and what you want to
do is do some light to moderate pressure
on this for about fifteen to thirty
seconds and probably about five to ten
times in order to get a good effect this
point is located on both wrists and can
be used on either one and I also
recommend putting one hand on the belly
while you're doing this and taking some
nice deep breaths and just kind of
picturing everything coming down and
what this point does anatomically is it
has a specific effect on the lower
esophageal sphincter so that's the
little flap that sits just above the
stomach and that is often sometimes a
little bit lacking in tonicity and it
allows the acid to come up and that's
how we experience it as heartburn or a
pain in the chest also a point that you
can do locally in that area is one
located where the strong ribs come
together at the sternum and the xiphoid
process and you're just going to use two
fingers on either side right in these
hollows and gently stroke down
and this would be good to actually
invigorate the tenacity of the le s to
prevent future heartburn so this is
something that you could do simply while
you're laying in bed at night even when
you're not experiencing it as a
preventative measure now there's lots of
different things that can trigger
acidity in the body and underlying
patterns that we would use to properly
prescribe herbs or give you certain
acupuncture points that would be
specific to you so if you haven't
already I encourage you to seek out your
local acupuncture physician and get a
diagnosis specific to you thanks so much
for watching