When you are hungry, you want to never be like that again. This is a common emotion - why should you repeat this? Feeling sick, tired, dizzy, thirsty - may vomit and suffer terrible headaches - enough to make anyone promise to get rid of the world. Knowing your limits helps to drink, but sometimes you can't expect to be hungry. Then you are! This article will explain how acupuncture and Chinese medicine [TCM] can help you solve your pain and even reduce your hangover dilemma.
In TCM, alcohol is inherently moist and hot [note that some of the words here will be capitalized to distinguish them from their scientifically defined counterparts]. Damp-Heat has a profound effect on our body: moisture can slow things down, make parts of the body feel heavy and crowded, and heat can consume your energy and fluids. Together they cause painful obstruction and destroy the natural flow of energy in the body. A small amount of alcohol can be tolerated because your body can withstand and recover from toxic characteristics, but large amounts of alcohol can have catastrophic systemic effects.
When you drink, it enters your stomach and is digested by your spleen and stomach organs. Therefore, the nutrients that can be obtained therefrom are processed, and the remaining elements are discharged as waste. But because of the moist and moist nature of the wine, when you drink too much, your ability to handle the volatility is destroyed. When this happens, Damp-Heat still exists and something can happen:
1. Blocking in your stomach, blocking the natural downward flow of energy in front of your body. Blockage can cause energy to rise, making you feel sick, snoring, and even causing you to vomit.
Because the heat likes to rise, and the damp likes to sink, you can drag the other one in the direction it likes. For example, Heat can make Dampness up, giving you a dull, agitated headache, making your head look heavy and feeling that it might even fall! Or conversely, moisture can drag down the heat, giving you diarrhea or at least unpleasant feces, leaving an uncomfortable burning sensation.
3. Damage to your spleen, turning nutrition into usable energy and body fluids in TCM can make you feel very tired because you can't get the energy you need.
Heat will dry your body fluids and make you feel thirsty.
As the heat rises, the humidity will make you feel dizzy, even irritated and cranky.
How can acupuncture and Chinese medicine help? Well, just like anything in Chinese medicine, the right pulse diagnosis chooses the right herbs and determines how best to treat you. This is the right combination. Therefore, receiving treatment from a registered Chinese medicine practitioner is the best way to ensure that you receive the right course of treatment. Having said that, there are some stock points and herbs, and the right basic treatment can help a lot. Please note that you may still need to take a nap after treatment, because like all holistic drugs, TCM can help your body heal itself.
One commonly used acupoint that helps the abdominal obstruction is PC6 and SP4, which are often used together. PC6 is a very calm spot that promotes a smoother energy flow, while SP4 is a healthy point that helps relieve the body's moisture and enhances your spleen's ability to perform its basic functions. PC6 is the width of the two thumbs of the crease formed by the wrist and is located on the palm side of the forearm. The SP4 is located inside the arch of the foot below the proximal end of your second metatarsal.
Another common hangover point is LI4 and LR3. LI4 is the large intestine between the thumb and forefinger. The mesenteric meridian extends from the tip of the index finger to the head and is connected to the meridian of the stomach. It is a powerful point to open the body passage. Therefore, it can help treat headaches and may also have some digestive discomfort that you may feel. The LR3 is located at the top of the foot between the first and second metatarsals and can also open the passage of the body [LI4 and LR3 together are referred to as "four doors"]. This liver point helps to alleviate the energy flow throughout the body and can also help solve the damp heat.
In terms of herbal medicine, some commonly used hangover recipes include Gehua Jiecheng Powder and Lianbao Drink. The first one contains herbs such as pueraria, ginseng and tangerine peel, which together help to eliminate obstruction of the digestive system, relieve headaches and enhance energy. Lianbao drink directly uses Ding-Heat in the rhizome, magnolia bark and calamus in your system.
It is a good idea to seek the correct diagnosis of a Chinese medicine practitioner again, because taking the wrong medicine or using the wrong acupuncture points to treat your personal pattern may make you feel worse. When you are in a hangover, this is not an option!
Orignal From: Curing A Hangover With Acupuncture
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