This year marks the 9th annual May Day Celebration. This event began in Portland, Oregon with Working Class Acupuncture and the Community Acupuncture Network. Across the Country and globally as well people will rest in reclining chairs alongside their friends, family and community and receive acupuncture treatments for free. May Day is a celebration of International Worker's Day as well as a great excuse to give acupuncture a try if you've always wondered what it was all about. Neighborhood Acupuncture Place will be offering free treatments May 1st from 9:00a-4:00p and an appointment is necessary to ensure we will have space to treat as many people as we can. Newbies and existing patients are of course welcome to participate. The morning appointment are already filling fast so make sure to schedule your appointment today! Give us a call 815.893.9825
Below is a brief explanation of community acupuncture as well as the acu-points that will be used on May 1st and what some of their functions are. If you have any questions please feel free to call or email info@clnap.com
Community Acupuncture for the May Day Celebration
Community Acupuncture is how people receive treatment traditionally in Asia, with several people resting at the same time. Much the same way one’s endurance, focus, and peace can intensify when doing yoga in a class setting, acupuncture done in a group can enhance the effects of treatment. In a group, your body can relax deeper and take advantage of the collective intention to harmonize the body. Acupuncture honors the body’s innate wisdom to heal and balance itself (homeostasis). Acupuncture assists in regulating the circulation of qi (chee) and blood so that all body systems are nourished and able to function most optimally. When one part of the body becomes unbalanced all other parts are affected. Acupuncture helps start a chain reaction of balance in the body and can cause positive side effects like improved quality of sleep, energy, mood, and immune function in addition to resolving your main issue. Scientifically, no one knows exactly why or how acupuncture works, we only know that for thousands of years it has. Acupuncture is more effective when done as a course of treatment.
Today you are receiving an acupuncture treatment using Miriam Lee’s “5 Essential Point Prescription.” Lee developed this point prescription for its simplicity and effectiveness in order to be able to efficiently treat 18 patients per hour with great success. The great physicians of the Jin dynasty included these points in your pharmacopoeia and called them heavenly star points. Below is a brief description of these acu point functions and uses. Acupuncture points run along channels or meridians that correspond to 14 organ systems of the body. In Chinese each acu point has a symbolic name either for where it is located or what its function is. In English acu points are simplified as numbers on the organ channel it is located on. There are 365 main acupuncture points on the body, one for each day of the year and over 3000 extra points.
Miriam Lee’s 5 Essential Point Prescription
** Hegu (joining valley) large intestine 4 (li4): is part of a pair of points called the “4 gates” thought to open up circulation of the whole body. LI4 regulates immune function, adjusts sweating (excessive or deficient), regulates the face, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears as well as alleviates pain especially headaches and toothaches. LI4 can also be used to induce labor.
** Quchi (pool at the crook) Large Intestine 11 (LI11): regulates body temperature especially in cases of excessive heat, regulates qi and blood and alleviates pain. Assists the function of LI4.
** Lieque (broken sequence) Lung 7 (LU7): releases exterior to clear a cold, promotes lung function, pacifies phlegm, benefits the head and nape of the neck, opens and regulates the conception vessel, regulates water passages (swelling) and alleviates pain.
** Sanyinjiao (three 3 intersection) Spleen 6 (SP6): this is an intersection point of three yin organs: spleen, kidneys and liver. Sp6 tonifies the spleen and stomach system which in turn improves the digestion/metabolism/elimination of food and energy, resolves dampness (heaviness in the body, pain), regulates menstruation, induces labor, regulates urination and the genitals, calms the spirit, invigorates the blood and alleviates pain.
** Zusanli (leg 3 mile) Stomach 36 (ST36): called three mile because soldiers would stimulate this point by burning an herb called moxa over it when marching to give them endurance to walk 3 more miles. St36 harmonizes the stomach and fortifies the spleen, resolves dampness, tonifies qi and nourishes blood, clears heat, calms the spirit, alleviates pain and can also be used to restore consciousness from fainting.
Sarah Zender LAc
Neighborhood Acupuncture Place (NAP)
230 Florence St
Crystal Lake IL 60014
815.893.9825
www.clnap.com
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