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Hi, my name is Doctor Kim Makoi, I'm a holistic chiropractor from San Francisco and this is
how to use an Oriental trigger points chart. Most of the Oriental trigger point body works
charts are actually points demonstrating points along various meridians in the body. So if
you're using a chart, usually the points will be labeled and there's usually an area where
you can refer to which area of the body the point is supposed to stimulate or help support
or which symptoms that may be relieved using these points. And then the way to use the
points - there's lots of different ways to address that. An acupuncturist of course would
tend to put needles into the points. At home the most common way to stimulate the points
is to just use some manual pressure, just holding onto the points for a good thirty
to sixty seconds, sometimes even longer if you're having severe symptoms. Also another
approach is to tape a little grain of rice to the points and push on that periodically
through the day and that little rice grain will sometimes help to keep the points stimulated
even when you're not pushing it. Some people also like to use a little laser pointer and
just shine a little bit of a laser light on it. Of course if you're using a laser be very
careful keeping it away from the eyes, but basically that's how you use a Chinese medicine
acupressure or meridian point chart.