Acupuncture and Tuina with Chi Street and Four Seas in Healing

TCM use Acupuncture and Tuina techniques to help the patients with “Chi” circulation in the channels and collaterals and to open up the blood circulation. This is a medical treatment method that helps normalize the patient’s metabolism. On the principle of “pain means obstruction and no pain means good circulation”, various techniques are used to stimulate the patient’s various points. After a period of interaction, the passive exercise performed on the patient will gradually become an active exercise and thereby achieving the purpose of changing the body from the state of unhealthiness to healthiness.

“Acupuncture” therapy dredges the channels and collaterals by needling on points. This helps regulate qi and blood, nurse the functions of internal organs, support the healthy energy to eliminate evils through “needle” and thereby achieve prevention and treatment of illness. In terms of modern medicine, acupuncture treatment can regulate the function of nervous system and thereby achieve the suppression of pain and enhance body movement.

“Tuina” therapy helps preventing illness through generation of “soreness, numbness, swollenness, pain, coolness, hotness” feelings. Tuina therapy uses hand or other limbs to massage points, channels and collaterals to help creating vital energies. These vital energies then travel along the channels and collaterals in an orderly fashion to provide effective stimulation, and then are converted into factors that help preventing and treating illness and thereby achieve an equilibrium of Yin and Yang, and regulate the Blood and Qi, dispel Wind and remove Dampness, warm Channels to dispel Cold, invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and reduce swelling and ease pain.

“CHI STREET” IS A PATHWAY THAT CHI PASSES THROUGH. IT INCLUDES FOUR PATHS:
I. Head Chi Street where Chi congregates at the brain;
II. Chest Chi Street where Chi congregates at the lungs in the chest and at UB13 point;
III. Abdomen Chi Street where Chi congregates at UB18, 20,23, and the Chong Channel;
IV. Leg Chi Street where Chi congregates at UB57 point and the upper and lower anklebone.
(Moreover, the three yang channels of the extremities travel to the Head Chi Street, the three yin channels of the hands travel to the Chest Chi Street, and the three yin channels of the feet travel to the Abdomen Chi Street.)
“Four Seas” refers to the coming together of Chi from twelve regular channels like the water on the rivers. The final place of gathering is called “SEAS” WHICH INCLUDE THE

FOLLOWING FOUR SEAS:
I. Brain is called the “Sea of Medulla”. Located on top of its key point is Du20 and on the bottom is Du16.
II. Ren17 is called the “Sea of Chi(Qi)”. Located behind its key point is Du14 and before it is ST9.
III. Stomach is called the sea of food and nutrients. On top of its key point is ST30 and below it is ST36.
IV. Chong Channel is the sea of Chi and blood of twelve regular channels and is also called the sea of Qi and Blood of five viscera(5 Zang) and six bowels(6 Fu). On top of its key point is Li 8, 9, center is UB11 and below it is ST37, 39.
The “Four Seas” dominate the circulation of Chi and blood in the human body.
(Moreover: The circulation of channels Chi reaches as high as the upper Jiao, that is the chest and also the Ren 17 to generate the sea of Chi. In the middle, the circulation of channels Chi reaches the central Jiao, also called the Upper abdomen or Stomach to generate the sea of nutrients. The circulation of channels Chi reaches as low as the lower Jiao, also called the Lower abdomen or the Chong Channel to generate the sea of Chi and blood of twelve regular channels and the original Chi between the kidneys.)

Clinical Application: Through the use of tonify or sedate (Bu-Xie) technique to treat, Acupuncture or Tuina the key points of “Chi Street” and “Four Seas” can unblock the channels and collaterals, clear Chi and blood, and this has a special effect on patients who suffer from apoplexy and partial paralysis and local or whole body Qi and Blood blocked. The method is as follows:
1. For head apoplexy and paralysis or Qi and Blood blocked, needling or tuina on the patient’s Du20, 16 and GB20.
2. For chest apoplexy and paralysis or Qi and Blood blocked, needling or tuina the patient’s Ren17, 14, ST9 and UB13.
3. For abdomen apoplexy and paralysis or Qi and Blood blocked, needling or tuina on the patient’s ST36, ST30 and UB18, 20 and 23.
4. For lower abdomen and lower limbs apoplexy and paralysis or Qi and Blood blocked, Needling or Tuina on the patient’s Li 8, 9, UB11, Ren 4, 6, ST37 and 39 along with BL57, Kd 3, 6, UB 60, 62.
5. For full-body apoplexy and paralysis or Qi and Blood blocked, needling or tuina the various points of “Chi Street” and “Four Seas” points.