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acupoints

In all diseases, whether physiological or psychological, tender points appear in specific locations on the scalp and disappear when the disease is gone. In some cases, these points are painful in themselves

As an example, we note when frontal head pain appears, the patient feels pain in the area of ​​contact between the skull and the neck bones. There are other cases in which the points are soft only when pressed... and it hurts when pressure is applied to them... and the pain goes away when the pressure is lifted... as is the case, for example, in the acupoints above the knees.... There are also cases A third does not show any tenderness in the points, no matter how much we press on them... Therefore, only an acupuncturist can determine such points.

When the specialist searches for acupoints, he will find, in the simplest cases, a small knot, such as the one we find behind the neck, in the shoulder, or the lumbar region (Fig. 7), or he will find a group of tense fibers between the hard or particularly stiff muscle groups. And other times, he finds areas that are slightly swollen or have a changed color, and in the most difficult cases, acupoints can only be found with accurate anatomical knowledge of the desired location. It is worth noting that the designation of acupoints by electrical measurements did not prove reliable and can always be resorted to... because despite the existence of known properties, other points share those properties. It is noted that the pain of the acupoints, which are tender when pressed or when sick, their freshness disappears with the disappearance of the causative illness, and this shows the existence of close relationships between the disease and the physical and mental manifestations, and between the tenderness of the acupoints.

And in one of the simple examination methods for acupuncture, the patient is examined from the soles of his feet to the top of his head in search of affected acupoints, which themselves indicate the type of ailments and diseases. The examination point called the bile gland with a specific number (9), for example, affects diseases of the yellow gland... so it is soft when there is a disease in the gland... and the point called bladder with a number