Where Are Maternity Acupressure Points?
“So a loved one is pregnant, and you want to help with a few acupressure points. Hi, my name is Mark Brinson, doctor of oriental medicine, physical medicine, and human performance specialist. During pregnancy, there’s a lot of discomforts that can happen, and I want to give you a couple of the common points that can be used to help alleviate that. One of the main things that happens is nausea, and there are two points used in combination that can help with that significantly. One is located two finger widths from the wrists in between the tendons called Pericardium 6. Stimulating this point can help to significantly reduce nausea. As much so, in fact, that there’s a little button sewn inside every Navy dive suit that stimulates this point to prevent things like seasickness or motion sickness. You also notice that if you ever pick up a band — a seasickness band — at a boating store, it’s stimulating this particular point, which helps to prevent that as well. Now, what you can do, thou
