About Navel Therapy the Belly Button

The NAVEL BELLY BUTTON

The Navel, or bellybutton, is called "Shenque" in the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the navel is the origin of the all internal organs, controlling all the veins of Qi in the body.

A fetus lives and grows by getting oxygen and nutrients from the blood of the mother through the umbilical cord. When the baby is born, the doctor cuts the umbilical cord connecting the mother and the baby. A scar is left after the scab of the cut falls off. That forms the navel.

Why select the navel as the point of absorption?

Most people tend to regard the navel as an ornamental part of the body, unaware of its functions.

As a matter of fact, modern anatomy shows that the navel is the thinnest part of the abdominal wall, deep under which are omenta and small intestines containing massive nerves and vessels.

Since there is no fatty tissue under the navel, this area is more sensitive to external stimuli. Therefore, drug substances can be most easily absorbed through the navel skin. Stimulating the acupuncture point of Shenque will connect all veins of Qi of the body thoroughly.

This directly helps the specific treatments of illnesses. Therefore, the navel can be regarded as the origin of all channels and collaterals.

It is connected to the Twelve Channels (or the Regular Channels) and the internal organs as well. Some believe; therefore, it is the root of life.

In navel therapy, appropriate medicines are selected according to the theory of TCM with regard to the symptoms and body conditions. The medicines are made into powder, cream or tablet and applied to the navel in order to cure specific diseases. In some cases, heat is also applied.

The technology of external Jingluo navel therapy

The concept of Jingluo (the channels and collaterals of the body) originated from ancient China 2000 years ago. Modern studies on Jingluo started approximately in the 1950s.

What is Jingluo?

Jingluo refers to two aspects: Channels and collaterals. Channels are vertical conduits and collaterals are branches of the channels. Acupuncture points are spots located throughout the Jingluo system. The numerous acupuncture points join together to become lines (Jingluo). Jingluo are the pathways through which Qi and blood circulate. In addition, Jingluo also transports nutrients to body tissues, connects internal organs, communicates between the internal and superficial organs, balances Yin and Yang, determines life and death and transmits illness and pathogens.

What are acupuncture points?

Acupuncture points are the points on the body surface where the Qi of internal organs reaches. Imagine Jingluo are bus routes, then the acupuncture points are bus stops on the routes.

The knowledge of acupuncture points was gained and accumulated gradually through thousands of years of battles in fighting against diseases. In the early ages, when people accidentally hit or punctured certain parts of the body, they were surprised to find a previously existing illness or pain disappear.

Later, when they had the same illness or symptoms, they consciously massage these parts to mitigate pain or cure illnesses. After a long time of repetitive exploration, people located and named the positions of these points.

That is how people discovered and made use of acupuncture points. After centuries of work in organization and classification, medical experts have connected the seemingly individual acupuncture points scattered on the surface of the body by lines based on their respective medical functions, which has become today's Jingluo system.

Therefore, acupuncture points belong to different lines of the Jingluo system, which is in turn subordinate to internal organs. Together, they form an inseparable relationship among acupuncture points, Jingluo and internal organs.

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