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Who created yin yang hand techniques?
A
Professor Huang Shengyuan
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Q
How much do you have to back up by in:
Sparrow Pecking
A
2/3
3
Q
How much do you have to back up by in:
Intermittent Stimulation
A
1/2
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Q
How much do you have to back up by in:
Needle Retaining with vibration
A
1//3
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Q
What is the indication for:
Sparrow Pecking
A
Reduce Excess Yang
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Q
What is the indication for:
Intermittent Stimulation
A
Reduce Excess Yin
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Q
What is the indication for:
Needle Retaining with vibration
A
Tonify Yang Deficiency
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Q
What is the indication for:
Simple Needle Retaining
A
Yin deficiency or both yin yang deficiency
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Q
Big movements generate _____
Small Movements generate ______
A
Yang
Yin
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Q
Steps for Sparrow-Pecking
A
- reduce excess yang: heavy pull light push 7x 120/min for 3 rounds
- BACK UP BY 2/3
- big movement
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Steps for Intermittent Stimulation
A
- reduce excess yin
- Insert and retain needle for three minutes before preforming
- back up by ½,
- thrust/lift 9 times, retain needle for 3 minutes, repeat again until patient is sweating or tight feeling disappears
- dredges the meridians by expelling yin evil and recovering yang
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Steps for Needle Retaining with Vibration
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- tonify yang deficiency
- retain needle for 1 minute then back up 1/3
- vibrate with lift thurst rotating 9x9
- repeat every 3-5 minutes x3 times (81x3=243)
- warm sensation appears
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Q
Who is QOP
A
Acupuncture Man or fisherman, lives 700,000 years ago in Xian China
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Q
Yang
A
Motion, extremes
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Q
Yin
A
Still, Beginnings
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Q
Oblique
A
15-90 degrees
Officially 45
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Q
Transverse
A
15 degrees
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Q
Book and Chapter of the complete book of acupuncture and moxibustion
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Going Dynasty book
The verse of the golden needle
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6 Types of complicated hand techniques
A
- Setting fire to the mountain
- Heavenly cooling
- Yin within yang
- Yang within yin
- Dragon fight tiger
- Phenox and Turtle
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Setting Fire on the Mountain
Instructions
A
- Exhale push to heaven with finger press
- Rotate forward heavy push 9 yang
- Push to person and repeat in person and earth
- W/draw to heaven, pause, remove needle fast and close point
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Setting Fire on the Mountain
Indications
A
- Boost meridian Qi
- Tonify
- Bring Qi from shallow to deep
- Pain Syndromes
- Used for chronic cold and yangqi deficiency, warm yangqi
- Windstroke, paralysis, cold damp bi, cold syndromes, impotence, hernia
- Stop this technique as soon as warm sensation appears, if no change after 3 rounds, retain needle for 15 minutes
- Don’t use with thicker muscle, chest, back, head, face, neck or wher there is big blood vessels
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Heavenly Cooling Directions
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- Inhale to earth with stretching
- 6 yin heavy pull backward rotating
- repeat in person and heaven
- Withdraw during exhale and leave hole open
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Heavenly Cooling Indications
A
- Excess flaming evil or minister fire
- Wind stroke, Bi syndrome, summer heat, high fever, delirium
- Caution on thicker muscle, chest, back, head, face, neck or by big blood vessle
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Red Pheonix Spread the Wings
Directions
A
- Insert to earth, pull to heaven, thurst to person
- In person push pull and rotate and release fingers after each three rotations like phoenix opening wing
- Right rotation with lifting during inhale, left rotating thurst during exhale
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Red Pheonix Spread Wings
Indication
* Boost qi sensation
* Reducing
* Pain syndromes
* Must grab qi at heaven first
* Perform flying at person
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Blue dragon wag its tail
Directions
* Insert needle grab qi then pull back to heaven
* Put tip of needle toward illness and release the needle
* Grab the handle and shake the needle left to right or forward to backwards (wagging of a tail, like the rutter of a boat)
* Next Shake back or forth 9 or 27 times
* Withdraw needle slow and cover hole
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Blue Dragon Wag its Tail Indications
* Promotes movement of qi
* Tonify and warming
* Opens blockage of qi and blood
* Indicated for masses, crofula, adenoma of thyroid, bi and pain syndromes caused by qi/bood and meridian stagnation
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Which two animals Tonify
Dragon and Turtle
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Which two animals reduce
Tiger and Pheonix
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Vibrating Techniques
Tonifying
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What does the nan jing say about Tonifcation and reduction
* tonification is light reduce is heavy
* tonify take qi from shall (wei) and tonify yin (deep) gentle and slow
* Reduce: take qi from yin (puncture deep) and bring it to wei (shallow) stronger and heavier
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What does the Bu Zhong Xie Qing Shuo Say about Tonifcation and Reduction
* tonification is heavier
* reducing is lighter
* both can be both, result depends on practitioners focus and intention w/ patient acceptance
* Scholar was yang jizhou
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Discrepancy between circulation of Qi in the 14 meridians in the the 5 elementary points
5 element
o describes a relationship to the universe
o Qi and bld follow the mvt of the 5 elements in nature, for the 5 elements are seen in everything. The water must flow from the well, to the spring, to the stream, to the river, and to the sea. It follows the path of nature.
o Blood flows in both meridians
o 5 elements explains how the blood gets back to the heart, consolidated in the centre.
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iscrepancy between circulation of Qi in the 14 meridians in the the 5 elementary points
14 meridians
o describes micro circulation
| o Circulation of Qi corresponds to the time which is paired with the organs and the meridians.
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Reduction
o
Reduce: use the round, connect to heaven and move evil out, stronger/heavier movement
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Tonify
Use the square, connect to earth, quieter/slower movement
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Advantages of Free Hand Technique
- Energy contact (sensitive)
- Flexible Needling
- Natural Feeling
- Faciliate Techniques developing
- Easily Deqi
- Easy Angling
- Good on Scalp Points
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Disadvntages of free hand technique
- More Difficult to operate
- Need more care of doing clean needle
- Need to learn and practice how to avoid pain
- A challenge to be more sanitary
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Advantages of Tube insertion
- Easy to use(operate)
| - Easy to keep Clean
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Disadvantages of Tube Insertion
- Squeeze points easily
- Much less energetic feeling (contact)
- Less Felicity
- No help to develop needling techniques
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List the points Contraindicated in pregnancy
* Li 4-Hegu
* Sp 6- sanyinjiao
* Bl67
* GB 21
* St 12- que pen
* Lv 3: helps with delivery
* CV18 Lower abdomen
* Bl31-34 Lower back
* CV 5: cauase infertility in young women
* Don’t needle abdominal points deeply
* Don’t do heavy reducing at acupoints of lumbar and back area
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Function of needle retention is what?
Used for cases with yin deficiency or both yin yang deficiency
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What did the teacher say about the stamping technique
Single standing, 5 layers to work on at the same depth, anchor, drive in needle we go by 3 layers, then we come back its 2 layer only heavena nd earth, preform yin 6 to make fire, 3 time yin, 2 time out more tonifying less reduce, more yang less yin, yin hiding within the yang.
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Steps for Ziwu stamping
. Insert the needle during patient’s exhale & grab Qi in Heaven, then
B. Perform 3 in & 2 out (called 1 round), repeat it for three round, totally counted as 9 in & 6 out, it means
C. Divide the point in to three level during goes in (pushing, tonification); tow level during goes out (pulling, reducing); totally five level & partly overlapped
D. Perform 9 x 9 = 81 times heaver push (lighter pull) & forwards rotating at each level during goes in (3 levels), moving in always during patient’s exhale
E. Perform 8 x 8 = 64 times heaver pull (light push) & backwards rotating at each level during goes out (2 levels), moving out always during patient’s exhale
F. Total times (movements) for perform push-pull & forwards-backwards rotating is
(81 x 3 + 64 x 2) x 3 = 371 x 3 = 1113 times
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Properties of points for needling and moxa
- Needling: descending inward moving
| - Moxa: ascending and outward movement
Acu-Moxa Points 4
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