Acupressure points have a high electrical conductivity at the surface of the skin. These points conduct and channel healing energy.  The Chinese call this healing energy Qi or Chi. The Japaneses call the healing energy Ki. The most potent healing energy work uses acupressure points. In Traditional Chinese Medicine there are 12 meridians that are the body's healing energy pathways. The meridian lines are where vital energy can become blocked. Acupressure can relieve tension, numbness or pain, and harmonize all functions of the body.

Introduction to Chinese Herbal Medicine

Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) use herbs derived from plant, animal, and mineral substances. Plant derived herbs are the most common, such as ginseng and ginger. Minerals and animal parts such as oyster shells, deer antlers and bear gall bladder are also used in China.

Herbs have four basic qualities and properties: nature, taste, affinity, and primary action.
An herb's nature is described as cooling or heating, moistening, relaxing or energizing. The herb's taste is categorized by five tastes. These are sour, bitter, sweet, bland, spicy, and salty.  Affinity is the connection the herb has to a particular organ network. Primary action refers to the effect of an herb to move, restrain, expel or strengthen.