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  2. Acupressure - Wikipedia

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    Acupuncture point LI-4 (Hegu), known in Chinese as 合谷 (hégǔ) Acupressure is an alternative medicine technique often used in conjunction with acupuncture or reflexology. It is based on the concept of life energy , which purportedly flows through "meridians" in the body.

  3. List of acupuncture points - Wikipedia

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    The only [verification needed] ambiguity with this unique systemized method is on the urinary bladder meridian, where the outer line of 14 points found on the back near the spine are inserted in one of two ways; following the last point of the inner line along the spine (會陽) and resuming with the point found in the crease of the buttocks ...

  4. Acupuncture - Wikipedia

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    It is not certain when specific acupuncture points were introduced, but the autobiography of Bian Que from around 400–500 BC references inserting needles at designated areas. [28] Bian Que believed there was a single acupuncture point at the top of one's skull that he called the point "of the hundred meetings."

  5. Meridian (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    There are about 400 acupuncture points (not counting bilateral points twice) most of which are situated along the major 20 pathways (i.e. 12 primary and eight extraordinary channels). However, by the second Century AD, 649 acupuncture points were recognized in China (reckoned by counting bilateral points twice).

  6. Pressure point - Wikipedia

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    Accounts of pressure-point fighting appeared in Chinese Wuxia fiction novels and became known by the name of Dim Mak, or "Death Touch", in western popular culture in the 1960s. While it is undisputed that there are sensitive points on the human body where even comparatively weak pressure may induce significant pain or serious injury, the ...

  7. Nei guan - Wikipedia

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    Nei guan (P6, Chinese: 内关) is an acupoint, a point of the skin that is stimulated with various techniques in the practice of acupuncture.It is located on the anterior forearm, two cun above to the wrist crease, between the tendons of palmaris longus and flexor carpi radialis muscles, along the pericardium meridian.

  8. Myofascial trigger point - Wikipedia

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    In a June 2000 review, Chang-Zern Hong correlates the MTrP "tender points" to acupunctural "ah shi" ("Oh Yes!") points, and the "local twitch response" to acupuncture's "de qi" ("needle sensation"), [27] based on a 1977 paper by Melzack et al. [28] Peter Dorsher comments on a strong correlation between the locations of trigger points and ...

  9. Hégǔ L.I. 4 - Wikipedia

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    HéGŭ L.I. 4 or simply Hegu (Chinese: 合谷; Wade–Giles: Hoku; lit. 'Enclosed valley', Korean: hap gok 합곡, Japanese: gō koku, Vietnamese: hợp cốc) is the fourth acupuncture point on the large intestine meridian (Hand Yang Ming) in traditional Chinese medicine.

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