A friend said that he rubbed the "Qimen acupoint" and hiccuped all the time, only to know that the original "acupuncture point" has such a strong reaction to the body, no wonder it can be preserved for thousands of years! Only by experiencing it first-hand can you understand the value of Chinese medicine. Many friends have liver and gallbladder problems, even if there is no obvious liver stagnation and qi stagnation, as the age goes up, slowly there is always a little liver deficiency, and liver depression and liver deficiency is not a good thing. Is there any way to regulate liver depression and soothe liver qi? Today, I would like to recommend an acupuncture point to you, which is suitable for soothing the liver and relieving depression and nourishing liver qi. The Qimen acupoint is the recruitment point of the liver meridian, which has the effect of soothing the liver and purging fire, regulating qi and relieving depression. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if the liver qi rises too much and the wood fire is too strong, it is easy to be upset and irritable; If the rise of liver qi is blocked, and the discharge is not smooth, it will lead to sullenness and sighing. Massage in the period door acupoint, can make the liver wood drain appropriate, let us feel smooth and comfortable! "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" believes that this acupoint is the preferred acupoint for draining the liver and gallbladder, which has a good effect on regulating the liver, and is commonly used in clinical practice to treat hepatitis. Acupoint method: The acupoint is located in the chest and abdomen, sitting or lying down, and the acupoint is opened 4 inches next to the anterior midline, which is located in the 6th and 7th rib space. (On the side of the body, the midline of the axillary feels the rib at the lowest point of our costal arch, which is the 10th rib, and counts up to the 6th and 7th ribs, and follows the gap to the front until the nipple is vertically below the acupuncture point). Massage method: Use the finger soft method, use the index and middle two fingers of both hands into a sword finger or use the thumb alone to put it on both sides of the acupoints, the strength is appropriate to feel a slight soreness, press and knead for about 10-15 minutes. You can also use the pinching method, with both hands with the thumb and the index and middle fingers to pinch the muscles at the door acupoint, lift forward a little harder, and then relax and pinch again, about 10 minutes. It is necessary to pay attention to the force should not be too large to avoid pinching the skin. Kneading technique: 【Pressing Method】First rub the two flanks with the palm of your hand until it is slightly warm, and then use the finger surface of your thumb to focus on the Qimen acupoint, pressing from light to heavy until you feel soreness, numbness, swelling, pain, heat and wandering. 【Kneading Method】Use the finger surface of your thumb to press and knead on the acupoint of the period, continue for a few seconds, and gradually relax. Repeat the operation, alternating left and right, and press each acupoint for 3 ~ 5 minutes each time. 【Palm rubbing method】Rub the door point with the palm of the hand for 5 minutes. If someone knocks on the period gate acupoint and the Zhangmen point (also the liver meridian acupoint) under the period gate, the phenomenon of hiccups and exhaust will immediately appear. There are also people who press it, and immediately feel that their minds seem to be open-minded, very comfortable, the qi is smooth, not so blocked, before the liver qi has always had a faint, pressed under the feeling, not up a little swelling and uncomfortable, now dredged, this is the effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression. There are also people who don't feel anything at the door acupoint at that time, and they no longer have bloating, spitting acid, loose stools after a while, and even the stomach pain is better, and their appetite and digestion have been improved! Let's talk about the origin of the name of this issue. period, expectation, dating; Doors, portals for entry and exit. The name of the period gate means that the water and damp qi in the middle of the heavens are fed into the liver meridian. This acupoint is the uppermost acupoint of the liver meridian, and because the lower part of the Zhangmen acupoint has nothing to spread, this acupoint is in a state of emptiness of qi and blood substances. However, because this acupoint is located in the middle of the front midline and the side midline of the human body, it is neither yin nor yang, neither high nor low, so there is neither heat falling in this cold nor stopping in the water, so this acupoint is used as a liver meridian recruitment acupoint, although the qi and blood in the acupoint are empty, but it cannot recruit qi and blood substances, only to wait with expectations, hence the name of the period door. It has the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi, invigorating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and has a very good relieving effect on intercostal neuralgia, chest and flank fullness, vomiting, hiccups, acid swallowing, abdominal distension and other symptoms. As the recruitment acupoint on the liver meridian, the qi and blood of the liver meridian gather here, so the period gate acupoint is pressed and kneaded, which means that the foot syncope yin liver meridian is dredged, so that the various diseases on the liver meridian will naturally be solved. "Periodmen" means "opening and closing doors regularly", and it is in charge of women's menstruation. When the door is "opened", menstruation comes; When the door is "closed", menstruation is over. The Qimen acupoint is particularly important for women, and has a particularly great impact on women's menstruation, and people with dysmenorrhea can often press this acupoint. Many women will have swollen and painful breasts before menstruation, and as long as they press open or use the method of gua sha to open the door acupoint and open this "door", the breasts will not be swollen and painful. In the case of unimpeded qi and blood, the liver qi enters the chest cavity from the period gate acupoint, and then goes directly to the head, but if the period gate point is not opened, the liver qi will go up, resulting in breast pain. In clinical experience, the Qimen acupoint is also an effective acupuncture point for the treatment of nasal congestion and nasal ventilation. When the nose is congested, use the technique of Tai Chi scraping, which side is not ventilated first, and it is good to scrape it. It should be noted that the location of the gate point is on the chest, and you should pay attention to the technique when scraping, and do not scrape the nipple areola. For women, it is also important to be careful not to harm the breast tissue. After some people rub this acupuncture point, they find that the body has a strong reaction, only to know that there is a lot of stuffiness in the body, thinking that they have already seen it, and only after rubbing it do they know that the qi they have received in their past lives have left traces in the body.