An acupuncturist explains how five-element theory treats migraines by targeting Gallbladder 34 and Heart 8 points. Migraines are excess heat rising from the heart; the Wood element (Gallbladder and Liver) is the mother of Fire, so imbalances in Wood affect the fire and cause head heat. Stimulating these points cools the rising heat.
When you look at that, that bone, when you go to the bottom of your, uh, or at the bottom of your knee, you know, you can feel there a little kind of a tiny bone on the outside of your knee. And this is for both sides, guys. With acupuncture, you have all those meridians that are on both sides except for the, the Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel, which is basically coming from the tip of your your nose going all the way down and then come up above your spine. That's just each one meridian, but all the other meridians, you have them on both sides. And it doesn't necessarily matter which side you put it on. So for the migraines, what they have found that the Gallbladder 34 and then the Heart 8, which is basically right there. It is when you have your pink here, it's, it's kind of like this. There's that hole here, or you can, you can put it here as well. I would put the carnosine because the carnosine deals with the heart. And since this is the heart meridian, the heart meridian, the reason why we're choosing heart meridian for migraines as well is because it— migraines means that there's fire in the head and it's heat. So heat rises. And so apparently in acupuncture, the way we you look at it, there must be heat that is rising from the heart and, and it's getting too much. And the gallbladder, which is in— which is an element before— because, um, not to confuse you, but in acupuncture we have 5 elements. We have a fire element, an earth, a metal, a water— excuse me— and a wood element. Gallbladder and liver are from the wood element. They are for the fire element. So if you get a circle— fire, earth, lung, water, wood, and fire again— then wood is actually considered the chow, the mother of the fire. So if wood is not working correctly, if there's not enough wood, you can't burn fire. But if there's, if there's too much wood, then the fire gets too hot. So you're trying to cool that fire down.
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