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How I Treat Migraines

  • August 24, 2022
  • Posted by: Dr. Martha Lucas
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Migraine Treatment

Dr. Lucas shares how she treats migraine headaches in her practice. This time, she will discuss migraines caused by deficiency.

As you know, my specialty is pulse diagnosis so it is quite possible that every treatment is different because the patient’s pulses should be different or basically the treatments aren’t working or holding. The sign that your treatment plan is working is a change in the pulses!

Migraines are very often caused by deficiency – the head area (blood vessels etc.) aren’t getting proper oxygen and blood support and that can cause migraine and other headache types. The pulses may feel empty at the upper jiao positions. The Bao Mai or Dai Mai may be blocked which would contribute to the top and bottom of the body not being connected energetically.

Treatment plan in these cases:

A. Your goal is to get oxygen and blood flow up to the head. How to do that? If the pulse positions aren’t connected, which would impede flow, then use some Luo points. Start to feel the organ systems communicate with each other. Can you feel the Kidney pulse flow into the Spleen/Stomach and into the Liver/Gb on the other side? This means that lower and middle jiao are communicating. Then, can you feel Spleen/Stomach flow into Lung/LI and Liver/Gb flow into Heart/SI? Then it means that the upper jiaos are getting energetic support.

B: Your goals is the same, to get oxygen and blood flow to the head but the start of the treatment is different because you can feel that the Dai Mai is blocked and/or the Bao Mai is blocked. Open the Dai Mai (Gb41, SJ5) and Bao Mai (Gb34, Sp21) and then proceed to use other points to open up flow between lower, middle, and upper jiaos.

COURSES: Be a little more knowledgeable every time you enter your treatment rooms. Learn more about Dr. Lucas’s Pulse Diagnosis and Balancing System, the most common sense system available, here, register for private training here, or contact her at DrMLucas@Acupuncturewoman.com.

NEW online course: How to use the Luo points to treat emotions. Learn the meaning of each luo point with regard to emotions so you can more effectively help your patients move through emotional distress.

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Author:drmartha

Dr. Lucas is uniquely qualified in the field of Chinese Medicine because she holds a Ph.D. in Research Psychology a well as her certification and licensing to practice Traditional Chinese Medicine. Lucas has more than 20 years of teaching and speaking experience and is described as "a dynamic speaker who keeps her classes engaged and who can explain complex information in an understandable form." She is internationally known for teaching and training Practitioners the Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture System. As well as teaching Cosmetic Acupuncture, she teaches practitioners how to properly take care of their patients’ skin using My Zen Skin Care products. Her other course offerings include the Pulse Diagnosis and Biofeedback Internship where practitioners study under her mentorship to learn to be better, more effective diagnosticians. Her private practice is based in Denver and in Littleton Colorado where she specializes in internal medicine: diagnosis and treatment of serious chronic illness and, of course, Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture. Dr. Lucas has been interviewed about Cosmetic Acupuncture and skin care by many publications including The NewYork Times and USA Today and is the author of several books: Pulse Diagnosis: Beyond Slippery and Wiry, Cosmetic Acupuncture Works! Your guide to Cosmetic Acupuncture for anti-aging, The My Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture workbook included with course registration, and You don’t need Botox (out of print). Her latest book projects are Sex Sucks: What we can do about it, and for children, The Skeleton in a Tutu gets Acupuncture.