rubyloo
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Hi all!
so i'm back, as promised, to share my experiences of my first acu session. my practitioner took a detailed history of my health esp. centered around my cycles and so on - i took print outs of my charts for her too - she said my pulse was good and my tongue was also a good colour. however, my kidney energy is majorly depleated, my blood needs strengthening and i need to learn to encourage and foster Ying energy during the first half of my cycle e.g. try and avoid very stressful situations, not to push myself too hard, rest when i need it and generally let my body take the lead! this will not be easy as i tend to push myself pretty hard most of the time and don't take time out for pampering or stuff like that. anyway, she is going to get me a list of foods that will help strengthen my blood.
on to the acu itself!
she put a needle between my eyes, one on the back of both hands in the fleshy bit between the thumb and first finger, one each over my ovaries, one each on the inside of my lower legs and one each in the tops of my feet. each one created a really strong tugging feeling as they were inserted which surprised me! in fact the hand and feet ones were almost but not quite painful. apparently this is the Qui energy grabbing onto the needles! she checked my pulse a number of times - the needles were left in for 20mins. at the end she did an 'in out' needle in either ankle aimed at the kidney energy. i floated out of the clinic and straight home to bed where i slept like a baby for about three hours. i'm still feeling completely spaced out but in a very relaxed, good kind of way.
anyway, i'm seeing her again in a fortnight and very excited about it all!
so i'm back, as promised, to share my experiences of my first acu session. my practitioner took a detailed history of my health esp. centered around my cycles and so on - i took print outs of my charts for her too - she said my pulse was good and my tongue was also a good colour. however, my kidney energy is majorly depleated, my blood needs strengthening and i need to learn to encourage and foster Ying energy during the first half of my cycle e.g. try and avoid very stressful situations, not to push myself too hard, rest when i need it and generally let my body take the lead! this will not be easy as i tend to push myself pretty hard most of the time and don't take time out for pampering or stuff like that. anyway, she is going to get me a list of foods that will help strengthen my blood.
on to the acu itself!
she put a needle between my eyes, one on the back of both hands in the fleshy bit between the thumb and first finger, one each over my ovaries, one each on the inside of my lower legs and one each in the tops of my feet. each one created a really strong tugging feeling as they were inserted which surprised me! in fact the hand and feet ones were almost but not quite painful. apparently this is the Qui energy grabbing onto the needles! she checked my pulse a number of times - the needles were left in for 20mins. at the end she did an 'in out' needle in either ankle aimed at the kidney energy. i floated out of the clinic and straight home to bed where i slept like a baby for about three hours. i'm still feeling completely spaced out but in a very relaxed, good kind of way.
anyway, i'm seeing her again in a fortnight and very excited about it all!
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Speaking of wheat grass, when I told my acupuncturist today that I had a hard time stomaching it because of the texture she said oh no, the herbs are like that too! I told her I can get anything down in the name of ttc, but I think I definitely want to try fresh wheat grass, that would eliminate the grit. Are you growing your own or buying it at the store fresh?
has just landed in full flow so least I have my confusion solved....No cramps so far, usually popping the Nurofen at this stage...thanks to TCM...I would definitely say so
with my ramblings x
! AF arrived today but the actual flow seems different. I actually hadn't really thought about it until a poster on another thread pointed it out to me. The blood seems much fresher (if that makes sense) and has the same metallic smell that a nosebleed does, so to me that's a good sign and means the blood must be pretty fresh. I'm also noticing fewer clots (not that I ever had anything terrible, but they were noticeable). It's still early in my cycle (officially decided to call this cd 1 because yesterday was really just spotting), but usually day 1 and 2 are my heaviest and have the most clots. Just curious if anyone else had noticed this lovely side effect.
