Local point - rib pain, inability to turn head, neck pain. Asthma, cough, wheezing, chest distention, hiccups. View ST 13 (Qi Door) 4 cun lateral to the AML at the lower border of the clavicle.Tong Ren/Tam Healing System: Main point to open the circulation of the common carotid artery. Neck pain - pain, inability to turn neck. Local point - sore/swollen throat - counterflow qi, cough, hiccups, reflux. View ST 11 (Qi Abode) At the superior border of the clavicle between the sternal and clavicular heads of the sternocleidomastoideus muscle.Sore throat, counterflow qi (vomiting), coughing, hiccups. Regulation of Blood Pressure - lowering high blood pressure. View ST 9 (Man's Prognosis) Level with the tip of the Adam's Apple on the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoideus muscle (where the pulse of … In ancient times the ST Qi was assessed by palpating the pulse here and at ST 42.Opens the chest and circulation in the breasts - breast pain, insufficient lactation. Descends qi - chest oppression, shortness of breath, cough, hiccup, running piglet disorder. View SP 18 (Celestial Ravine) 6 cun lateral to the anterior midline in the 4th inter-costal space.Pain, hiccups, vomiting, harmonizes stomach.įertility issues involving stagnation in the lower warmer. Local Point for abdominal and intestinal issues. View KD 18 (Stone Pass) 3 cun above CV 8.While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Within TCM, "hiccups" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: stomach cold, stomach fire, and/or stomach qi deficiency. the "cause(s)".įor non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "hiccups" - i.e. We conclude that neural mechanisms responsible for hiccups are strongly influenced by sleep state and that hiccups disrupt sleep onset but not established sleep.It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "hiccups" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Hiccups themselves were not responsible for any arousals or awakenings. Sleep efficiency was poor because of long waking periods, and there were deficiencies of both SWS and REMS. Sleep latency was increased from 8 +/- 16.3 minutes when hiccups were absent to 16.35 +/- 19.9 minutes when it was present. For the whole group, mean frequency decreased significantly from wakefulness to sleep onset or stage I (22.3 +/- 12.2). Frequency of hiccups within a bout slowed progressively from wakefulness through the stages of SWS to REMS. Of all 21 bouts of hiccups that were observed to stop, 10/21 did so during an apnea or hypopnea. There was a significant tendency for hiccups to disappear at sleep onset and REMS onset. The incidence of new bouts of hiccups and the likelihood of hiccups being present were both highest in wakefulness and became progressively lower through stages I-IV of slow wave sleep (SWS) to rapid eye movement sleep (REMS). To explore the effect of sleep on hiccups, we studied eight patients aged 20-81 years, all males with chronic hiccups lasting 7 days to 7 years, by means of overnight polysomnography.
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