How To Relieve Menstrual Cramps With Acupressure

Don’t suffer through one more bout of period pain. Instead, try this trick from the ancient Chinese healing art acupressure.

Warning: If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

Step 1: Find the sweet spot

Find the acupressure spot SP-6, called the Sanyinjiao point. Located four finger widths above your inner ankle bone, just behind the shinbone, it helps relax the cervix, according to Chinese medicine.

Tip: If you feel pain when you press down, you’re on the wrong spot.

Step 2: Press it with your thumb

Take your thumb and press on the point for six seconds, then release it for two seconds. Keep this up for five minutes.

Step 3: Switch feet
Switch to the other leg and repeat.

Step 4: Repeat
Repeat once more on each leg.

Tip: This acupressure move can also help new mothers deal with the cramps they experience for several days after giving birth.

Step 5: Feel good
Feel good knowing you have a powerful new weapon against menstrual cramps.

Note: In one study, 87 percent of participants who tried acupressure to relieve their menstrual cramps said they found it helpful.

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How To Relieve Nausea With Acupressure

Stop that horrible sensation with a form of traditional Chinese medicine known as acupressure.

Warning: If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

Step 1: Press near your wrist

Take one of your thumbs and press it on the inside of the opposite wrist, between the two large tendons, about three-quarters of an inch below the point where your inner wrist meets your hand. This targets acupressure point PC 6, also known as Nei Guan, which affects nausea.

Tip: You can also press this point to relieve motion sickness.

Step 2: Keep the pressure on

Keep the pressure on for about a minute, and then move your thumb up to where your wrist meets your palm and press for another few seconds.

Step 3: Get a band
Find wristbands that press on the anti-nausea pressure point online or in some pharmacies. It’s a hands-free way of achieving the same results.

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How To Stop a Cough With Acupressure

The next time you’re hacking up a lung, try stopping it with the ancient Chinese healing art acupressure.

If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

Step 1: Press beneath your collarbone

Using the index and middle fingers on each hand, press the two spots located on either side of the notch at the base of the throat, in the hollow just below the collarbone. This strengthens the respiratory system. Keep the pressure up for one to three minutes with this exercise and the following ones.

Step 2: Reach behind you

Reach behind you to press the acupressure points known as the Vital Diaphragm, located about an inch below the highest point of each shoulder blade, toward the center of your back.

Tip: Have someone else press points on your back if you can’t reach.

Step 3: Tilt your head down

Tilt your head down and, using the first two fingers on each hand, put pressure on the points a bit above and on either side of the vertabra that protrudes at the top of the spine when your head is leaning forward. This manipulates the point known as Ding Chuan, which relieves wheezing.

Step 4: Relieve a dry cough

For a dry cough, try pressing the point called Heaven Rushing Out: It’s located in the large hollow at the base of your throat, below your Adam’s apple, if you’re a man.

Note: Chronic coughing that is the result of emotional problems is called psychogenic coughing, and mostly occurs in children.

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How To Cure a Headache With Acupressure

Instead of reaching for a pain pill, massage away a headache using acupressure, the traditional Chinese curative technique of applying pressure to certain points of the body.

If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

Step 1: Press your temples

Using your index and middle fingers, apply pressure to the muscles by your temples – an area that holds a lot of tension. Keep up the pressure on this point, and the following ones, for one to two minutes.

Tip: Pinpoint the correct spot by clenching and unclenching your jaw and feeling for throbbing.

Step 2: Move to your ears

Move on to your ears: Using your thumbs, massage the area underneath the large bones behind your ears, using a circular motion. This corresponds to GB-20, an acupressure point that can relieve many kinds of headaches.

Step 3: Press between the eyes

Pinch the skin on the bridge of your nose, between your eyebrows – an area known as the “Third Eye” point – and press it upward.

Step 4: Try your hand

Finish up by squeezing the fleshy web of skin on the back of your hand between your thumb and index finger with the thumb and index finger of the other hand. This connects to the acupressure point LI-4; massaging it is particularly effective on sinus headaches. Do both hands.

Step 5: Congratulate yourself

Congratulate yourself for getting rid of your headache without the aid of modern medicine.

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How To Relieve a Stuffy Nose With Acupressure

Got a cold? Breathe easier with a move from the ancient Chinese medicinal technique, acupressure.

Note:

If you feel pain when using acupressure, stop immediately. Pregnant women should not use acupressure.

Step 1: Press under your cheekbone

Using your index fingers, press the areas at the bottom of your cheekbones, directly below your pupils. Called the Facial Beauty points, they are also believed to be an effective location for toning facial muscles.

Step 2: Keep the pressure on

Place strong pressure on the points and hold it for 30 seconds to a minute.

Tip: To make it more effective, press up toward your eyes as well as in toward your jaw.

Step 3: Repeat

Repeat several times a day.

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