Li Zhigang (Professor, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine) Acupoint name: Wind pool effect: dispelling wind and cold, clearing the head. Adaptation: stroke, dizziness, cold, stuffy nose, red eyes and swelling, mouth and eyes askew, headache, tinnitus, neck pain, hypertension, etc. Usage: * * * *, unlimited times, 5 minutes each time; Moxibustion with moxa sticks lasts for 15 ~ 20 minutes at each point. I met such a patient in the clinic. Mr Liu is a vocational training lecturer. Because of his work, he often needs to give training lectures all over the country, and catching a cold is a common occurrence for him. Due to taking cold medicine for a long time, Mr. Liu's body gradually stopped "catching a cold" on cold medicine. So Mr. Liu is anxious to find me, hoping that I can treat his cold quickly, because he has a very important training meeting in three days. To treat a cold quickly, it is natural to take the big point for treating a cold: Fengchi point. Besides Fengchi point, I also need to select some compatible points suitable for Mr. Liu's condition. After the consultation, I learned that Mr. Liu had no runny nose, thick yellow sputum, yellow urine and dry stool. I judged that Teacher Liu's cold belongs to wind-heat type, so I chose Dazhui, Lieque, Hegu, Waiguan, Quchi and Chise for moxibustion. After a series of acupuncture, I not only told Mr. Liu to continue to receive treatment in the next two days, but also taught him a secret recipe for treating a cold. I will introduce this little secret recipe later and sell it here first. In this way, three days later, Mr. Liu's cold symptoms have been greatly alleviated, his spirit has been sufficient, and his sputum situation has also improved. There is nothing wrong with giving a speech on stage. Since then, Miss Liu has also called me. He told me that pressing Fengchi point and the secret recipe I taught him to treat colds were very effective. He often treats himself like this when he is on a business trip abroad. Fengchi point is a "moat" to protect our health, and it has many uses. Why is Fengchi point a moat for human health? Let's look at the meaning of "wind pool" first. A pool is a place to store water. In ancient times, it specifically referred to the moat outside the city, which had the function of resisting foreign invasion. The ancients often said that "only the wind can reach the top of the mountain". Literally, it is not difficult to understand that "Fengchi point" is a "moat" at the top of the human body (that is, the head). In traditional Chinese medicine, we often use Fengchi point to dispel wind and relieve pain, and treat dizziness and headache caused by cold. This is also very consistent with the literal meaning of "Fengchi point". Li Zhigang (Professor, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine) Acupoint name: Wind pool effect: dispelling wind and cold, clearing the head. Adaptation: stroke, dizziness, cold, stuffy nose, red eyes and swelling, mouth and eyes askew, headache, tinnitus, neck pain, hypertension, etc. Usage: * * * *, unlimited times, 5 minutes each time; Moxibustion with moxa sticks lasts for 15 ~ 20 minutes at each point. I met such a patient in the clinic. Mr Liu is a vocational training lecturer. Because of his work, he often needs to give training lectures all over the country, and catching a cold is a common occurrence for him. Due to taking cold medicine for a long time, Mr. Liu's body gradually stopped "catching a cold" on cold medicine. So Mr. Liu is anxious to find me, hoping that I can treat his cold quickly, because he has a very important training meeting in three days. To treat a cold quickly, it is natural to take the big point for treating a cold: Fengchi point. Besides Fengchi point, I also need to select some compatible points suitable for Mr. Liu's condition. After the consultation, I learned that Mr. Liu had no runny nose, thick yellow sputum, yellow urine and dry stool. I judged that Teacher Liu's cold belongs to wind-heat type, so I chose Dazhui, Lieque, Hegu, Waiguan, Quchi and Chise for moxibustion. After a series of acupuncture, I not only told Mr. Liu to continue to receive treatment in the next two days, but also taught him a secret recipe for treating a cold. I will introduce this little secret recipe later and sell it here first. In this way, three days later, Mr. Liu's cold symptoms have been greatly alleviated, his spirit has been sufficient, and his sputum situation has also improved. There is nothing wrong with giving a speech on stage. Since then, Miss Liu has also called me. He told me that pressing Fengchi point and the secret recipe I taught him to treat colds were very effective. He often treats himself like this when he is on a business trip abroad. Fengchi point is a "moat" to protect our health, and it has many uses. Why is Fengchi point a moat for human health? Let's look at the meaning of "wind pool" first. A pool is a place to store water. In ancient times, it specifically referred to the moat outside the city, which had the function of resisting foreign invasion. The ancients often said that "only the wind can reach the top of the mountain". Literally, it is not difficult to understand that "Fengchi point" is a "moat" at the top of the human body (that is, the head). In traditional Chinese medicine, we often use Fengchi point to dispel wind and relieve pain, and treat dizziness and headache caused by cold. This is also very consistent with the literal meaning of "Fengchi point". There is also a saying in Chinese medicine: "Wind pools and wind houses can be found, and typhoid diseases can be eliminated at one time." This shows that Fengchi point is still an important point for expelling and treating cold. So I often tell people around me that Fengchi point is a universal point for treating colds, and both wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds can be used. How to treat a cold with Fengchi point? Under normal circumstances, in the early stage of a cold, find Fengchi point and press it hard with your fingertips for 2 ~ 3 minutes, 2 ~ 3 times a day, which can relieve the symptoms of a cold. In addition, we can stick garlic slices on Fengchi point to treat colds: peel fresh garlic slices and cut them into 3 mm thin slices, then wipe the left and right Fengchi points with medical cotton cloth and apply vaseline, then stick garlic slices on the points, then wrap them with gauze and fix them, take them off after 3 hours, and stick them 1 time every day. Generally, a cold can be cured in 3 ~ 5 days. After a few people stick garlic slices, the skin of Fengchi point may blister. Don't worry, don't deal with it, it will be fine after a while. This is the secret I taught Mr. Liu. It is said that wherever Mr. Liu goes on business, he always takes garlic with him for a rainy day. Mastered the method of garlic slices to treat colds, and naturally found the location of Fengchi point. Fengchi point is located in the nape, under the occipital bone, flush with Fengfu point, and the depression between sternocleidomastoid muscle and the upper end of trapezius muscle. You use your thumb and forefinger to push down from both sides of the occipital tuberosity and push it to the depression of the lower edge of the occipital bone and press it hard. If you feel sore and numb, it means you have found the acupuncture point. Fengchi point is a health-care point for the whole family to treat colds. However, the function of Fengchi point does not stop there. In daily diagnosis and treatment, we also use Fengchi point to treat stroke. Here I tell you the knowledge of 1, that is, all acupoints with the word "wind", such as Fengchi, Fengfu, Shi Feng and Yifeng, can treat stroke in a broad sense. This "wind" is divided into external wind and internal wind. External wind is a stroke caused by exogenous pathogens, such as a cold and fever, while internal wind is a stroke caused by internal factors, such as convulsion, coma, numbness and spasm. Generally speaking, the stroke we are talking about is internal wind, such as spasm and numbness. Middle-aged men, the elderly and post-stroke patients who often need family socializing can use Fengchi point with other acupoints to prevent and treat stroke. It is recorded in The Analects of Confucius: "The wind pool silently cures stroke, and the teeth are clenched, so the soup can't enter. Not enough hands and feet, Zusanli is the master. According to the records in the book, we know that people have long realized the importance of Fengchi point in treating stroke. In the view of Chinese medicine, all diseases are caused by wind, and external wind invades the human body, resulting in imbalance of yin and yang and disorder of qi and blood. In addition, excitement and fatigue lead to a surge in liver fire, wind and fire fanning each other, and qi and blood rushing up, causing a stroke. To treat this kind of stroke, it is necessary to wake up, enlighten the mind, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, dispel wind and activate collaterals, and calm the liver and subdue yang, calm the wind and resolve phlegm, so as to fundamentally treat "stroke". Fengchi point is the head point of gallbladder meridian, which has the effect of treating internal and external wind. At the same time, it interacts with the liver and gallbladder, and acupuncture can also play the role of calming the liver and calming the wind, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. This is the purpose of our prevention and treatment of stroke. Middle-aged people who smoke too much, often socialize and stay up late should especially use Fengchi point to keep healthy and prevent stroke, while the elderly and stroke patients can often rub Fengchi point. So, how to make Fengchi point serve us? In China, Fengchi point can be used as the main point to prevent and treat stroke with Baihui, Renzhong, Xuan Shi and Zusanli. This article is taken from the first volume of Home Acupoint Nursing/Li Zhigang (Professor of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine)/Yu Wenchuang's four articles.