“What are the acupuncture points for anxiety?”

li4, liv3, yintong, shenmen

DEPEND ILLNESS.

Each care and origin is different no general points to recommend.

acupuncture helps with anxiety. the points used vary depending on the reason for the anxiety

Yes!! And I know this from even first hand experience as a patient as well. Acupuncture can definitely help with anxiety.

I treat my patients for stress and anxieties for almost the same points with herbs and massage for example LI4&liv3 and combine with other points.

There are many points for anxiety depending on the type of anxiety.

That's not really how acupuncture works. Anxiety is a condition that falls into a number of different patterns in Chinese Medicine. Points are chosen to treat each person's individual pattern of disharmony. How does the anxiety present itself? Rumination, over-thinking, palpitations? When you are anxious do you feel it in your head, chest, diaphragm, abdomen? Is it accompanied by depression or panic attacks? What makes it better or worse? All these things and more help to define the pattern of imbalance and then points are chosen for that pattern.

Yvonne R. Farrell, DAOM, LAc

Good afternoon,

The acupuncture point for anxiety SP6, SP9, PC6, LI11.... The anxiety can be caused by 5 different diagnosis. Please talk to your acupuncture practitioner regarding that.

David

It is important for the patient to have a consultation with an acupuncturist before writing an acupuncture prescription.

Alexandre Hillairet, DAOM.

Acupuncture is not like western medicine. We look at the entire body, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects to determine the diagnosis and treatment plan. There is no one answer, this is why you need to go to a licensed acupuncturist for treatment.

Many possibilities
Here’s a few:
Shen men in the ear
Liv 3 and LI 4 together
Yin back shu points
GV4
HT 7

The acupuncture can help calm the mind and smooth the flow of the Qi or energy. Some scalp points and 4 gates are able to help.

Acupuncture is great for treating anxiety. It takes into account the entire person in all of their uniqueness. I would need to see and discuss with you the root cause of your symptoms to be able to recommend acupuncture points. For example, the symptom of “anxiety” may show up one way for one patient, and another way for a second patient, so I would not treat them the same. I would do the best points for that particular patient. Hope this helps.
You can find more information about acupuncture and anxiety at www.East2WestMedicine.com


Jean

Acupuncture works great for Anxiety. If you want to self treat, please buy the "nausea acupressure wrist bands" and wear it on the PC6 point. Its 3 fingers up from the wrist crease/bend. Good Luck

As a holistic treatment, acupuncture balances the body as a whole to treat imbalances that manifest with specific symptoms. For anxiety, there aren't specific individual points - it depends on the underlying energetic factors that lead to anxiety in your specific case. I can tell you that they would mostly be knees and elbows below, and perhaps in the pinna (shell area) of the ear.
I hope that helps!

Rebecca

There are several points that you can use to treat anxiety. I recommend you speak with your acupuncturist to find the points that are most appropriate and effective for how anxiety affects you.

It took me 3.3 years to learn the basics about this medicine. I can't teach it to you in an online blog. Find a professional. Our medicine doesn't work the way you think it does. We work on energy, so wherever your energy is blocked is the point, and I can't tell from this 2-sentence question. Find a fully-trained pro and they will teach you what works after they diagnose you.

The treatment of anxiety should start with clean heart fire and the human body has its own two clean heart fire medicine - lao gong point and zhong chong point. They are in palm and finger.

Unfortunately, there aren't a set of points for this ailment or that ailment. It depends on your own body and emotional state.

It depends on why, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the patient is experiencing anxiety.

As someone who practices Chinese medicine, I see these types of questions a lot. If a patient has never had acupuncture before and is a little nervous about the needles, it may be somewhat calming to be able to walk in to a first appointment with at least an approximate idea of where needles might go - I understand this.

The problem is acupuncture and Chinese medicine don't technically treat any western diagnosis/disease state. The Chinese system has its own diagnostic methods and ways of categorizing health issues. This system is based on a method of systematic correspondences which have been built up over literally thousands of years of repeated observations. On top of this, it's a system that functions more from the perspective of systems theory rather than the reductionism utilized by western biology and conventional medicine.

What that means is: someone who practices Chinese medicine (and understands what they're doing) is going to need the full presentation of your health, not just one small slice that may be causing a symptom. Often what is considered a single issue from the context of conventional medicine breaks out to several potential categories on the Chinese side, and the thing that discriminates one Chinese diagnosis from another, for your issue, could be a symptom that you or your MD don't think are related.

The language of acupuncture and acupuncture point function is directly tied to the language of Chinese diagnostics. In other words different diagnostic categories have different core treatments. Without knowing what diagnostic category your particular issue falls in to, I cannot tell you with any certainty what points might be effective in your case.

Think about it this way: if you slipped and fell hurting your hand/arm/wrist badly enough that function was impaired, would you expect a doctor/urgent care/ER to diagnose and treat it as a broken bone without taking an x-ray? If the answer to that question is 'no', then we shouldn't expect practitioners of Chinese medicine to provide acupuncture or herbal treatments without going through their diagnostic procedure.