Acupoint Medicine - Ba Feng
Nomenclature:
English name/meaning: Eight Winds
Chinese name: Ba Feng
Chinese pinyin: 八风
Location:
Eight points on the dorsum of the foot, in the depression on the webs between the toes, proximal to the margins of the webs.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Benefits:
Scientific Benefits:
Treats beri beri
Treats toe pain, redness, swelling of the dorsum of the foot
Alleviates anxiety
Regulates menstruation
Spirituality Fact:
Ba Feng are found under the group of extra points, meaning that they do not lie on the traditional acupuncture meridian lines.
The extra acupuncture points are those that do not belong to any major or extra energy channels.
As the name suggests, acupuncturing these points can clear the major pathogenic factor of Wind according to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory. As such, all illnesses with symptoms related to Wind such as tremors, dizziness, vertigo, numbness, pain that moves from one part to another, itchiness can be treated with Ba Feng.
Psychosis and mental health problems related to anxiety, maniac, hallucinations which have the characteristics of Wind can also be treated by stimulating Ba Feng with the right technique.
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