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30/07/2026

Find your centre. 🤍

Your vagus nerve’s “secret button”… well, sort of.

CV12 (Zhōngwǎn / 中脘) is one of my favourite acupuncture points for supporting digestion and helping people reconnect with their centre.

📍 You’ll find it halfway between the bottom of your breastbone and your belly button.

✨ At home, gently massage the area in slow circles for 30–60 seconds while taking slow, relaxed breaths.

🌿 In Traditional Chinese Medicine, CV12 is the Front-Mu point of the Stomach and an influential point of the Fu organs. It’s traditionally used to harmonise digestion, support the smooth movement of Qi, and calm the middle.

I also think of it as the place where we “stomach” life.

Stress, worry and overwhelm don’t just live in our minds—they often show up in our bodies too.

🧠 Modern research continues to explore the gut–brain axis and the important role of the vagus nerve in communication between the brain and digestive system. While CV12 isn’t literally a “vagus nerve button,” it’s a beautiful way to think about the close relationship between digestion, breathing and nervous system regulation.

When we slow our breathing, soften our abdomen and bring gentle awareness to this area, we’re supporting one of the body’s most important communication pathways.

Sometimes finding your centre starts exactly where you feel it most.

Not medical advice 🤗 Dr Taralee Reynolds (⚡️AKA Tully) | Acupuncture + Hypnotherapy

26/07/2026

Little nervous systems need help winding down too 🌙

KD1 (Yongquan / 涌泉) is one of my favourite points to use with children (and adults) when we’re working on grounding, settling and bedtime regulation.

📍 How to find it:

On the sole of the foot, approximately one-third of the way down from the toes, in the little depression that appears when the foot is flexed.

✨ At home:

Use your thumb to gently massage KD1 for 30–60 seconds on each foot.

You can make it part of the bedtime routine - pyjamas, book, little foot massage, bed. Nothing complicated.

🌿 In Chinese medicine, KD1 is the first point of the Kidney channel and one of our classic grounding points.

It’s traditionally used when there’s too much activity “up top” - a busy mind, restlessness, agitation or difficulty settling - to help anchor and draw that energy downward.

🧠 And the anatomy here is fascinating.

A 2024 anatomical study (PMID: 38674181) explored the structures underlying KD1, including its relationship with the plantar nerves and muscle spindles involved in sensory feedback.

It gives us an interesting neuroanatomical perspective on a point Chinese medicine has traditionally used for grounding and settling the system.

Importantly, this study wasn’t investigating children’s sleep or demonstrating that KD1 treats sleep problems. Rather, it helps us understand some of the sensory and neurological structures we’re stimulating when we work with this point.

And for kids, I love combining the point with some of the simplest regulation tools we have:

✨ gentle touch
✨ connection
✨ predictable bedtime rhythms
✨ slow, calm breathing
✨ feeling safe enough to settle

Sometimes bedtime doesn’t need another battle.

Sometimes we start at the feet. 👣🌙

Not medical advice 🤗 Dr Taralee Reynolds (⚡️AKA Tully) | Acupuncture + Hypnotherapy

23/07/2026

Lower back pain?

Try this. 👇

One of my favourite acupuncture points that you can also try as acupressure at home is BL40 (Weizhong / 委中).

📍You’ll find it in the centre of the crease behind your knee.

✨ If your back feels tight or stiff:

• Massage the point for 30–60 seconds.
• Then gently bend forward to stretch your back.
• You can even use a tennis ball for deeper pressure if that feels comfortable.

For centuries, BL40 has been one of the key distal points used in Chinese medicine to support low back pain and stiffness.

🧠 Interestingly, a 2025 randomised controlled trial used infrared thermal imaging and found that acupuncture at BL40 increased skin temperature in the lumbar region, suggesting a measurable effect on lumbar microcirculation. PMID: 39863500

As always, lower back pain has many possible causes, so think of this as one tool to add to your toolkit - not a replacement for an individual assessment.

⚠️ Seek medical assessment if your back pain follows significant trauma, is associated with leg weakness, numbness around the groin, changes to bladder or bowel control, fever, unexplained weight loss, or is severe or persistent.

Not medical advice 🤗 Dr Taralee Reynolds (⚡️AKA Tully) | Acupuncture + Hypnotherapy

16/07/2026

Constipated? 💩

Here’s what I’d do as a TCM Doctor.

✨ SJ6 acupressure
✨ Start your morning with ROOM TEMP OR WARM water (bonus points if you add a pinch of Celtic sea salt!)
✨ Move your body - even a 10-minute walk or 10 star jumps count

SJ6 (Zhigou) is one of my favourite acupuncture points to include when someone is struggling with sluggish bowels.

📍 How to find it:

Turn your palm down. SJ6 is on the back of the forearm, about three finger widths above the wrist crease, between the radius and ulna.

✨ How to use it:

Massage firmly for 30–60 seconds on each arm.

🌿 In Traditional Chinese Medicine, constipation isn’t just about the bowel.

It can reflect patterns such as Heat drying the intestines, Qi stagnation, or insufficient fluids to keep things moving.

The aim is to understand why the bowel has slowed down - not just to force it to work harder.

SJ6 is traditionally used to promote the movement of Qi through the San Jiao (Triple Burner) system and is one of the classic points used to support bowel motility.

🧠 From a modern perspective, healthy bowel function relies on coordinated muscle contractions, hydration, fibre, movement, and communication between the gut and the nervous system.

Stress can slow the digestive tract.
So can dehydration.
So can changes in routine, medications, pregnancy, and not responding to the urge to go.

✨ Acupressure isn’t a replacement for the foundations.

Support your body with:

✔️ adequate hydration
✔️ enough fibre (if appropriate for you)
✔️ regular movement
✔️ responding when you feel the urge to open your bowels

Your gut likes rhythm.

Sometimes it just needs a little help finding it again.

⚠️ If constipation is severe, persistent, associated with significant pain, vomiting, blood in the stool, unexplained weight loss, or a change in bowel habits that concerns you, please seek medical assessment.

Not medical advice 💩

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