Labor Promotion

Health Issues/Symptoms Connections

"Labor Promotion" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for labor promotion.

Content Related to Labor Promotion

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "labor promotion" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "labor promotion" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Some acupuncture points are considered "empirically" related to a specific condition or diagnostic pattern. While this would rarely, if ever, dictate the entire composition of a treatment, the following point should be considered, possibly even more so within the context of acupressure:

  • View UB 32 (Second Bone Hole)

        On the sacrum medial and inferior to the PSIS, level with the 2nd PSF.

        UB 31, UB 32, UB 33 & UB 34 together form the "Eight Liao" points and are all useful for local low back a/or sacrum problems and most genital and urinary related disorders. Of these this point, UB 32, is most often used clinically.  Sc…

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