A personal experience with dynamic points

The second event is as follows:

In the 1980's, the author had a personal health experience concerning dynamic points. At that time, he often contracted chronic rhinitis and upper respiratory infections that would gradually worsen with repeated contraction of colds. These conditions were treated with drugs, but the results were just passable, and his symptoms of running nose, phlegmy coughs, and even oppression and pain in the chest continued without relief.

In the spring of 1983, during a bout of severe cold symptoms that were not relieved by drugs, the author decided to try a method of stimulating acupoints. To this end, he brought down Wang Zhi-zhong’s Song dynasty acupuncture and moxibustion text Zhen Jiu Zi Sheng Jing from his shelf, and, using the method of pressing acupoints described within, found a pressure-sensitive point just beside zhongfu (LU-1) on his left chest. After applying finger pressure to this sensitive point for a minute or so, the pain in his chest was relieved considerably. He continued this treatment for another three days, applying pressure once every 5-6 hours. As the painful points disappeared, so did his symptoms, and he recovered completely around the tenth day.

When winter arrived, he again suffered from an upper respiratory infection, and although this time he did not have chest pain, nor was zhongfu sensitized, he was able to find a sensitive spot in the rib-space above the right nipple, just to the inside of yingchuang (ST-16). After applying finger-pressure to this spot three times, the sensitized area moved to next rib-space up, to the outside of kufang (ST-14). After about a week of applying pressure to this point, he completely recovered from the infection.

The following spring, during a surprise attach of an even more severe cold, multiple sensitive points appeared under the left nipple near yuanye (GB-22). After trying acupressure on these points twice without effect, he decided the amount and strength of stimulation was to blame, and applied strong pressure for 1.5 minutes to each point, repeating the treatment every 4 hours. After three applications of this treatment his symptoms began to lessen, and he recovered from the disease after days.

After this, he would perform the same treatment every time he got a cold, and used it as early prevention as well, each time getting fast results. In this way, his several-decade-long history of chronic bronchitis improved year by year, and very rarely contracted colds.

Through this personal experience, he realized that finger pressure of dynamic points was the same as needling, and that both could be used to fight infections. He also be came aware of the dynamic nature of these sensitive points, in that even with the same patient and the same disease, the points, far from being fixed in one place, would be constantly changing and moving during the course of the disease.