There are the acupressure points for relieving Headaches and Migraines. Working on these points can help you get better quicker. You do not have to use all of these points. Using just one or two of them whenever you have a free hand can be effective.
Points (A) — Third Eye Poin
Location: Directly between the eyebrows, in the indentation where the bridge of the nose meets the forehead. Benefits: This point balances the pituitary gland, and relieves hay fever, headaches, indigestion, ulcer pain, and eyestrain.
Points (B) — Drilling Bamboo
Location: In the indentations on either side of where the bridge of the nose meets the ridge of the eyebrows. Benefits: Relieves eye pain, headaches, hay fever, eye fatigue, and sinus pain.
Points (C) — Facial Beauty
Location: At the bottom of the cheekbone, below the pupil. Benefits: Relieves eye fatigue and pressure, nasal and head congestion, eyestrain, and toothaches.
Points (D) — Wind Mansion
Location: In the center of the back of the head in a large hollow under the base of the skull. Benefits: Relieves pain in the eyes, ears, nose, and throat, as well as mental problems, headaches, vertigo, and stiff necks.
Points (E) — Gates of Consciousness
Location: Below the base of the skull, in the hollow between the two vertical neck muscles. Benefits: Relieves arthritis, headaches (including migraines), dizziness, stiff neck, neck pain, neuromotor coordination problems, eyestrain, and irritability .
Points (F)– Heavenly Pillar
Location: One-half inch below the base of the skull, on the ropy muscles one-half inch outward from the spine. Benefits: Relieves stress, burnout, exhaustion, insomnia, heaviness in the head, eyestrain, stiff necks, and sore throats.
Points (G) — oining the Valley
Caution: This point is forbidden for pregnant women because its stimulation can cause premature contractions in the uterus.
Location: In the webbing between the thumb and index finger, at the highest spot of the muscle that protrudes when the thumb and index finger are brought close together. Benefits: Relieves frontal headaches, toothaches, shoulder pain, and labor pain.
Points (H) — Bigger Rushing
Location: On the top of the foot, in the valley between the big toe and second toe. Benefits: Relieves foot cramps, headaches, eye fatigue, hangovers, allergies, and arthritis.
Points (I) — Above Tears
Location: On the top of the foot, one inch above the webbing of the fourth and fifth toes in the groove between the bones. Benefits: Relieves hip pain, shoulder tension, arthritic pains that move all over the body, headaches, sideaches, water retention, and sciatica.
It’s important to drink plenty of warm water after the massage, to help clear away toxic substances in our body.
Caution: If you have a serious illness, or life-threatening illness such as heart disease, or cancer, please consult with your physician before practicing Acupressure.
