Blood Sugar Regulation and Diabetes

Acupressure: Scientific Evidence

Can pressing, massaging, or tapping your body (acupressure) influence or stimulate the healing and regulation of your body and blood sugar?  Science says it is so.

Electron Physician Aug 2018.  Conclusion: Self-acupressure as a complementary alternative medicine significantly reduced Fasting Blood Sugar and increased insulin levels in type 2 diabetic patients. (1)

These are the points used in the study.  If you can touch yourself and improve your body function and need less medicine, well, you’d have to give it a shot, right?  These points have been passed along for 3000 years, so they must do something, right?

ST-36 Leg Three Mile:  It is said that this point can be used to treat all diseases.  Ancient warriors would stimulate this point on long hikes, when exhausted, to go three more miles.  Stomach is part of the Earth Element, which provides for all.  In the body, Earth represents the Spleen, Stomach, and Pancreas, whose overlying function is to deliver nourishment, glucose and oxygen, to every cell in the body.  This point energizes and improves that process.  I once had a Type 1 Diabetic drop 50 points after just 2 minutes of massage on the left and then the right.  Even more impressive…

Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies Ap 2017.  Results: Acupressure at St-36, 1-3 times per week for 30 minutes reduced average fasting blood sugar from 351 to 113 after 10 weeks, while the control group (no acupressure) increased from 261 to 287. (2)

I don’t have the patience to massage myself for 30 minutes, but I do use the Rebuilder, which is a nerve healing electronic device marketed for neuropathy.  Just stick on the pads, any TENS unit pads will work, and watch a movie!  It comes with a few pads and retails for 240 (at the time I posted this blog).  The healing frequency is worth it if you can afford to, but another option is a TENS unit for 35.  That version includes EMS, which I think of as a muscle relaxer, while the TENS is for nerve pain.  But both work for stimulating Acu-points.  Obviously you can massage for 30 minutes for free!

SP-6 Three Yin Intersection: Another wide-use point that is a primary point in the treatment of many digestive, gynecological, sexual. urinary and emotional disorders.  It is also used for feeling depressed, low, not good enough, where the person wants to run away and can’t hold anything down, including a job or food.  “I can’t take it anymore.”  This point gets your head straight.  The energy of encouragement.  Earth is the provider of nourishment. The Stomach churns and digests, and the Spleen transports.  As such, this point invigorates circulation and delivery of glucose to all the cells.

Zhonggua Zhen Jiu Jun 2020.  Results: Compared with the control group, the fasting blood glucose was significantly decreased and the insulin content was significantly increased in the Acu group after treatment of SP-6 and ST-36, in animal models. (3)

Yes, it works on animals and humans.  I even have a “healing a horse” story!  And acupressure has side benefits, not side effects.

Zhonggua Zhen Jiu May 2020. Results: SP-6 significantly increased quality of sleep in patients with insomnia.  GV-20 and HT-7 were also used. (4)

Chin J Integr Med Jan 2020. Conclusion: The Acu group(SP-6, BL-20, BL-23) showed significant improvement on the regulation of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance in Type 2 Diabetic rats. (5)

LV-3 Great Surge:  The Liver, belonging to the Wood Element, is associated with the season of Spring. The powers of Spring include birth, growth, regeneration, vision, activity, forward movement, upward direction, vitality, optimism and hope.  LV-3 is the Earth point on the Liver meridian, so it brings nourishment to the Liver so it can do its job more effectively, sorting out the toxicity from the value, inside and out.

Blood sugar support, detox support, and relief from PMS, anxiety and depression.  Side Benefits!

Complement Ther Med Ap 2017.  Conclusion: Performing the simple acupressure protocol at LV-3 and LI-4 is an effective method to decrease the severity of PMS symptoms, anxiety and depression, and to improve the Quality Of Life. (6).

KI-3 Great Ravine: In Chinese medicine, the Kidney is the storehouse of the richest and most concentrated ancestral energy, inherited and passed through generations, as well as the controller of the waterways. In this ravine, the Water, which had entered at KI 1, was warmed to the perfect temperature at KI 2, now picks up speed and “streams” throughout the body, mind, and spirit.

“Great” to the Chinese meant relating to matters of the spirit. Therefore, this water is not ordinary, but metaphorically spiritual. It has the capacity to wash away the pollution of the mind and cleanse those things that would cloud and compromise the clear perception and brilliance of spirit. As the Earth point of the meridian, it brings the qualities of nourishment and the security of a full harvest – gifts of the Earth element – to the fearful Water imbalanced patient who perceives little or nothing in his/her reserves on which to draw.”  –Neil Gumenick LAC

I refer to Water energy as flexible and accommodating, but never putting up with less.  Using that flexibility to find your way, like Water, and Accept Nothing Less than your Heart Desire!  And never apologizing, because the feminine yin energy includes everyones needs!

Acupressure really works.  Proven to significantly improve chronic fatigue and stroke!

Zhonggua Zhen Jiu Feb 2019.  Conclusion: Acu therapy (KI-3, SP-6, GV-20, BL-20, BL-23, GB-20) relieves the fatigue symptoms and improves the sleep quality in the patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. (7)

Zhonggua Zhen Jiu Nov 2018: Results: Early Acu intervention (KI-3, SP-6, CX-6, LI-4, GV-20) on stroke patients can not only promote the recovery of neurological function, but also reduce the morbidity of post-stroke depression effectively. (8)

Exp Aging Res 2020.  Conclusion: The results support that acupressure therapy can be an effective, safe, and inexpensive method to improve the dynamic balance and maintain maximum autonomy of the elderly. (9)

Evidence Based Comp Alt Med 2016.  Results: Acupressure on LV-3 acupoint lowered Blood Pressure in hypertensive patients and may be included in the nursing care plan for hypertension. (10)

Four acu-points.

The ones pictured, of course!  Do the Left then Right.  Just the first Acu-point lowered a small group of diabetic patients average blood sugar from 351 to 113.  That’s almost Ideal!!   Add True Blood Sugar Control, God and Nature’s Medicine, which has many double blind studies supporting it’s significant improvement of Blood Sugar Regulation, so you have two healing resources to get over this hurdle.  Even one of my professors described Diabetes as turning the Titanic.  Lol.  This makes it a whole bunch easier when you do proven safe and effective self care!

Sometimes I massage points for a count of 10, and sometimes I hook up the Rebuilder and write a blog, or watch a movie.  Other times I really focus attention on the feel of it for as long as I feel.  I try to feel what it is doing in my body.  Nourishing.  Detoxifying.  Finding a way to move forward toward my inspired vision.  Nurturing Care.  Healthy Boundaries.  Loving and Caring for Yourself and Others.

My Heart Desire if for the feminine to be given Partnership of this Culture.  Equality.  A culture built on Feminine Values.  Nobody Left Behind.  The Greater Good.  Make Love, not War.

Did you know!?  In Eastern Medicine, they describe the effects of Marijuana as tonifying and energizing all the Yin (Feminine) organs?  And that explains those crazy hippies.  Lol.  (I like kind people whatever you call them, no offense intended)

-DrStone

Here’s Farm Girl touching herself in public.  That’s GV-20, the PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER Acu-point in the screen shot.  Science calls it self administered acupressure.  But she is clearly touching herself.  Watch to the end for the scene from the incredibles where Edna tells ElastiGirl to Pull herself together.  “Are you kidding me.  Go get what you want.  No more crying.”