Old Town Acupuncture

15/02/2026

👉 In TCM, the Liver is like a Project Manager. It’s responsible for the smooth flow of everything in your body.

- The Smooth Operator: It keeps your energy (Qi) moving so you don’t feel stuck.
- The Storage Unit: It stores your blood and sends it where it’s needed.
- The Eyes & Nails: It’s the reason you can see clearly and have strong, healthy nails.

1- Common TCM Pattern: "The Stress Ball" or Liver Qi Stagnation. This is what happens when life gets overwhelming and your energy stops moving.
How it feels: Irritable, bloated, and like you need to take a deep sigh every 5 minutes. Wiry pulse.

2- Common TCM Pattern: "The Empty Tank" or Liver Blood Deficiency. This is when the body is too depleted to nourish itself.
How it feels: Dry eyes, brittle nails, dizzy spells, or "pins and needles" in your limbs.
A very pale tongue and a thin, weak pulse.

3- Common TCM Pattern: "The Pressure Cooker" or Liver Fire. When stress sits for too long, it turns into heat.
How it feels: Explosive anger, red face, bloodshot eyes, and a bitter taste in your mouth. A bright red tongue with a yellow coat.

🧐 The Top 3 Points to Know
- Liver 3: the best acupuncture point to move Liver Qi especially combined with Li 4.
- Liver 8: The best point to nourish Blood combined with ST 36 and Sp 6.
- Liver 2: The best point to calm down anger.

Acupuncture ROCKS!

13/02/2026

YANGLINGQUAN GB-34
Yang Mound Spring
He-Sea and Earth point of the Gall Bladder channel
Hui-meeting point of Sinews
Ma Dan-yang Heavenly Star point

LOCATON
Below the lateral aspect of the knee, in the tender depression approximately 1 cun anterior and inferior to the head of the fibula.

ACTIONS
Benefits the sinews and joints
Activates the channel and alleviates pain
Spreads Liver qi and benefits the lateral costal region
Clears Liver and Gall Bladder damp-heat
Harmonises shaoyang

INDICATIONS
• Disorders of the sinews, contraction of the sinews, contraction and pain of the calf muscles in sudden turmoil disorder, contraction of the sinews of the foot, stiffness and tightness of the muscles and joints, numbness, hemiplegia, stiffness of the neck and shoulders, pain of the elbow, atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of the lower limb, swelling, pain and redness of the knee, cold painful obstruction of the hip and knee, sciatica, numbness and pain of the thigh and knee, coldness and pallor of the feet, leg qi.
• Diseases of the Gall Bladder, fullness and pain of the lateral costal region, frequent sighing, fear of people as if about to be apprehended, constipation, enuresis, epilepsy.
• Bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, vomiting, jaun-dice, chills and fever, malaria, swelling of the face and head, hypertension.

03/02/2026

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TAICHONG LIV-3
Great Rushing
Shu-Stream, Yuan-Source and Earth point of the Liver channel
Ma Dan-yang Heavenly Star point

LOCATION
On the dorsum of the foot, in the hollow distal to the junction of the first and second metatarsal bones.

ACTIONS
Spreads Liver qi
Subdues Liver yang and extinguishes wind
Nourishes Liver blood and Liver yin
Clears the head and eyes
Regulates menstruation
Regulates the lower jiao

INDICATIONS
• Headache, dizziness, numbness of the head, opistho-tonos, contraction of the sinews of the hands and feet, epilepsy, childhood fright wind, deviation of the mouth, tetany, hypertension.
• Distention and pain of the lateral costal region, inability to catch the breath all day long, sighing. swelling of the axilla, pain of the Liver and Heart, Heart pain with a wiry pulse, distention of the Heart, breast pain, epigastric or abdominal pain, perium-bilical pain, pain and fullness of the hypogastrium, shan disorder, sudden shan disorder in children, swollen testicles, retracted testicles, unilateral sagging of the testicle, pain of the ge****ls.
• Insomnia, easily fearful.
• Blurred vision, cloudy vision, redness, swelling and pain of the eyes.
• Cracked lips, swelling of the lips, distention of the throat, pain of the throat, dry throat with desire to drink, internal heat with thirst, low grade fever, death-like green complexion.
• Amenorrhoea,
irregular menstruation, incessant
uterine bleeding, uterine prolapse, ceaseless and profuse sweating after childbirth, insufficient lactation.
• Enuresis, difficult urination, retention of urine, painful urinary dysfunction, the five types of painful urinary dysfunction, deficiency-taxation oedema.
• Jaundice, vomiting, vomiting blood, nausea, consti-pation, difficult defecation, borborygmus, diarrhoea containing undigested food, diarrhoea with thin stools, bloody diarrhoea and dysenteric disorder, blood in the stools.
• Emaciation, insufficiency of essence (semen) in men, seminal emission, insufficiency of qi.
• Lumbar pain radiating to the lower abdomen, lumbar pain, pain of the inner and outer knee, pain of the lower leg, flaccidity and weakness of the legs, inability to walk, cold sensation in the knees and feet, cold feet, pain of the inner malleolus, swelling of the el-bow, contraction of the five fingers.

05/07/2025

Totally relaxing and uplifting. Facial acupuncture face lift and wrinkle smoothing . Followed by Qi facial massage

04/11/2024

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