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Acupuncture, It's About the Points

Tiny, hairlike needles are inserted at various points in the body to allow the blood to move to impact different conditions.  

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How Does Acupuncture Work?

Acupuncture is retraining the way your internal body is working to improve the function and healing capacity of your organs, nerves and muscle tissue.  There are 2 main ways this occurs:

1.  It improves blood flow to speed up your body's healing process (blood nourishes damaged tissue for repair)

2.  It retrains the way your nerves conduct electricity to reactivate healing signals to specific areas of your body

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Let's Get to the Point - The Acupuncture Point


"While there are multiple acupuncture locations on the body, most acupuncturists still look to the traditionally identified points. The acupuncture points are mapped to 14 main meridian channels. In Chinese medicine, a meridian channel is also known as a Jing Iou through which Qi (vital life energy) Xue (blood), Jinye (body fluids), Jing (essence) and Shen (spirit) flow. One meridian channel relates to each of the 12 inner organs. The two additional channels relate to “extraordinary vessels” – the interior of the spine (governing vessel) and another along the midline of the abdomen (conception vessel).

Meridians are like a network and can be compared to the circulatory system in Western medicine, however, meridians are not visible, but rather energetic. Each of the 14 meridian channels has a specific number, and acupuncture points meanings. Those include:   

Lung (1); Large intestine (20); Stomach (45); Spleen (21); Heart (9); Small intestine (19); Bladder (67); Kidney (27); Pericardium (9); Triple energizer, an organ recognized in Chinese medicine, but not Western medicine (23); Gallbladder (44); Liver (14); Governing Vessel (28, also known as the sea of yang); and Conception Vessel (24, also known as the sea of yin).

Each acupuncture point can treat a multiple list of disorders."

*text courtesy of Won Institute of Graduate Studies

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*photo from Merckling Family Chiropractic 

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