client faintly nauseous after acupressure

[LuYengpo]

Hi,Are there any acupressure or acupuncture specialists who can advise me. I recently worked on a client that has chronic problems with insomnia. I did a bit of acupressure on a few Governing Vessel and Conception Vessel meridian points. Held points for approx. 3 min. with a moderate amount of pressure. I also used energetic work to stimulate the meridians while I did this.Client said he felt faintly nauseous when he got up. Is this normal? I checked on him today and he said he wasn't sure, but he thought he slept a bit better last night.I am looking to hear from people who have done acupressure work. Is nausea a common reaction? Is there something I should know on this?Thanks,Orca

 

[daryl dante]

yeah, it can be normal... I have never worked those points.  But as for the normal routines, I can't work on someone or have a Kata 2 done on me because I get very ill... yes I know I should ground myself but I still get nauseous.

 

[ArielMarriane]

Thanks for the note, Stacey.I am primarily an energy practitioner. I have lately been studying the TCM, and found some info for treating insomnia that involved the GV points in the head and lower neck. I decided to try these, along with doing the EM work.This client does have a lot of digestive issues. So it was interesting that he had the reaction of nausea, based on what you said.  Yet I did not do anything along the torso area at all. I only did a few points on the head and neck, and one on his upper arm.Thoughts? I am not super versed in acupressure work. Thanks so much!Orca

 

[covduo2]

client faintly nauseous after acupressure

Hi,The points I used were the following:GB12GV18GV19GV24LU3Thanks,Orca

 

[kayreo]

client faintly nauseous after acupressure

I had a similar experience with a client once, working in the head-neck area, and resulting in nausea. I got home, and I did some research: in a book, I found a list of more points and POSSIBLE symptoms (the symptoms don't happen every time and for everybody).In my case, the culprit was GV14. In the book there was mentioned also the "antidote": one of the Urinary Bladder points (interscapular region).I was a bit curious and decided to try it on myself: I did some rather intense stimulation of GV14. After few minutes, I got a tremendous nausea and malaise, difficult to describe. And as you might imagine, the "antidote point" was in a region very hard to reach by myself. So I had to endure for 30-40 minutes the results of my experiment.A symptom known to happen if head-neck region is overstimulated is dizziness (usually goes away fast). Or as "Breathe" said:  " not balancing top to bottom". My advice is to do very moderate stimulation on the first session(s) (and don't focus too much on one body region), if you feel your client is highly sensitive, tired or under stress (it was his first session, wasn't it?). Let his body adjust to the treatment. terry