Acupoint Medicine - Lao Gong

Nomenclature:

English name/meaning: Palace of Toil
Chinese name: Lao Gong
Chinese pinyin: 劳宫

Location:

The acupoint is at the tip of your middle finger touches your palm when you make a fist.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Benefits:

• Clears Heat from the Pericardium and Heart

• Revives consciousness

• Calms the spirit

• Harmonizes the Stomach

• Clears heat and dampness heat

• Cools Blood

Scientific Benefits:

• Relieves anxiety

• Eliminates inflammation

• Induces labour

• Treats insomnia

• Clears fungus infection of hand and foot

• Treats epilepsy and mental disorder

Spirituality Fact:

This acupoint is linked to the Pericardium which is the Heart Protector which relates to how energetically opened our Heart is.

When we are feeling exhausted by life and its toils, we can use this acupoint to help us feel less weary and daunted.

This point also helps us ease into healthy relationship with ourselves and with others. That is also the reason why this point can be activated anytime somebody caringly holds our hand and lets us know that we are not alone in this world.

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