THE ESSENTIAL ACUPU

ACUPUNC
NCT
TURIST
URIST
GUIDE TO HEAD AND
 NECK PAIN
PAIN
Effectively treat Migraines, cluster, tension and
hormonal headaches. Also covered TMJ, jaw, Sinus,
ear, eye, lips and nose problems and Much Much More!

Brad Whisnant
(LAc, DAOM)
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Forward
Chapter 1: BIO
Chapter 2: Headaches
Chapter 3: Headaches Simplified
Chapter 4: What are these Jing Jin meridians?
Chapter 5: Basic Images and Channel Relationships
Chapter 6: Cheat Sheet: You Will Never Need More
Chapter 7: Neck Pain
Chapter 8: Headache? - Why Not Tung Points?
Chapter 9: Just a Random Day in the Clinic
Chapter 10: Headache Case Studies & Examples
Chapter 11: Headache: Q and A
Chapter 12: Headache Conclusion and Next Steps
 Acknowledgments

 I’m forever grateful to Richard Tan and Wei Chi Young without both of them,
none of this; my clinic, these books, my experiences, the volunteer camps, 100’s
of patients a week? None of it would be possible without them. So thank you. I 
am forever in your debt.

We must always remember all the other great practitioners as well. David 
wells, Chuan Min Wang, Robert Chu, Henry McCann, Ted Zombalas, Susan
 Johnson, Dr. James Maher, Bob Doane, Cole Magbanwa, Miriam Lee, Palden
Carson and so many others! Their skills and teachings have all influenced me
in way or another and I am grateful and thank for all of them.

 In this book you will see and feel a part of them all. What I share are my
 personal experiences inspired by these great teachers who have come before
me. I can only share because they have all shared with me

To my Family who have helped, supported and put up with all my long nights
and early mornings.

 Brad Whisnant 
 This Headache e-book is the 7th book in the series of Master Tung-style,
 Balance/Distal Acupuncture by Dr. Brad Whisnant. Due to its rapid and 
redictable results, this style of acupuncture is becoming more widely known and 
racticed.

 Dr. Whisnant’s publications have been a real disruptor and game changer to the
industry. Until recently there were very few non-point location books on the
ractical application of Tung-style acupuncture. Textbooks were dry schematics
of point location with the myriad clinical indications that the point treats.
ndications were diseases that one will never see in a first world private practice
 such as: TB, Cholera, Dysentery. If you were lucky to find a decent textbook,
 some of the texts are known to contain well-known errata or some errors were
 strategically placed so that you would have attend a seminar to get the
corrections.

“It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of 
 failure.” 

- Bill Gates

 Distal acupuncture makes it ridiculously easy to take the pain away. Often you
read about the home runs, the unicorn and rainbow stories of how the patient 
was cured by the Grandmaster with 3 needles in one visit. But how often do you
hear about the ones who did NOT get better? You rarely hear stories about the
ollow-up, how long was the carryover, what changed after the first visit, what 
happened visit to visit and how was it handled? Did the patient not return
because they ACTUALLY got better or was it ASSUMED they were better because
they had a weak practitioner who was unable to persuade the patient to come in
more than once and they just NEVER came back?

You learn more from your failures than your successes. What I love about Brad’s
books is he talks about the good and the bad. Famous points that he found didn’t 
work so great as touted, better applications of points, cases that went well and 
cases where the patient wasn’t responding and how he adapted visit to visit.
reference experiences and treat many patients. Brad and I did it by volunteering 
abroad and building high volume practices. If that isn’t an option for you, then
reading his books are a way to harness his experiences of what did and did not 
work in real world clinical cases. This book gives you a window to compress time
and virtually shadow someone who consistently sees 120 patient visits a week,
week after week without having to apprentice for peanuts “painting the fence” or 
having to take time off from your clinic.
 “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” 

-Albert Einstein

 Brad writes “Bread and Butter” books. Which is to say, every day Western
lifestyle conditions that 80% of your patients will come in with that are paying 
the bills and building your practice. He has a gift for taking the overly
complicated and being able to distill and teach it making it tangible with real 
life cases into something practical that you can use Monday morning in private
ractice. He is able to make it look effortless and show you that it’s easy to
reproduce those results on your own patients.

 f you internalize the concepts in this book, you should have no problem building 
a successful practice and being able to help the patients that other Neurologists,
 Ds, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, and Physical Therapists in your area have
not.

 Bio:

 Dr. Will Zuhira is a Chiropractic Physician who uses functional medicine, brain-
based neuromodulation and distal, Tung-style acupuncture for difficult to treat 
chronic conditions. For the past 10 years, he runs a busy private practice near 
Chicago, Illinois and has been a Medical Volunteer healing patients with
acupuncture in Ecuador and Nepal. He is the author of “Peripheral Neuropathy:
What to do when the medications don’t work” and also mentors licensed 
acupuncturists on how to treat niche chronic conditions and how to build 
 successful profitable practices working only four days a week.
of fisherman/farmers/blue collar workers. No acupuncture center had ever been in
the town.

Dr Whisnant attributes his success because of the results in the clinic and that is
attributed to Master Tung and Dr Tan method.

A quote from Dr Whisnant to sum it up in a few sentences?

“I'm just Brad. I have no magic needle, no golden touch; I have no privileged
information or powerful potions. If I can do it, anybody can! Step by step, needle-
 by-needle, and patient-by-patient. We learn. All this information is available to
everybody. There are no secrets! The secrets we gain are thru treating patients.”

“You just nee d to PRACTICE and CRITICALLY think. WHY??

 If you are ready to have amazing results, instant results, results today, on all 
 patients, all the time, no matter what? Then read on!” 
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 4
What are these Jing Jin meridians?
 he Chinese use the term "Jing Luo" which means, channels, conduit,
T meridian, etc. According to acupuncture theory, these are the invisible
channels through which Qi circulates throughout the body. The acupuncture
 points, or holes, as the Chinese term “Xue” is more aptly translated, are the
locations where the Qi of the channels rises close to the surface of the body. There
are 12 main meridians, six of which are Yin and six are Yang and numerous minor 
ones, which form a network of channels throughout the body.

I first learned of the Dao of Chinese medicine in 2007 when Bob Doane introduced
the book to me while I was at his clinic. He had told me to read the Dao of Chinese
medicine by Kendall and that it would change my practice. It did! Reading the Dao
of Chinese medicine unlocked all the secrets of the Tung method. The Dao o
Chinese medicine led me to the “Jing Jin” by Legge and both of those books led me
 back to the Ling Shu where it all comes from. Looking at those 3 books and the
applying them back to the mystery of the Tung method, it all made sense. I would be
remiss though if I didn’t thank Bob Doane for telling me to read the Dao of Chinese
Medicine. Bob has not only helped me but 1000’s of others in our field o
medicine. Bob has been a leader in our industry and I’m thankful for what he has
shared with us all.

In acupuncture, each meridian is related to, and named after, an organ or function,
the main ones are: The Lung, Kidney, Gallbladder, Stomach, Spleen, Heart, Small
Intestine, Large Intestine, Gall Bladder, Urinary Bladder, San Jiao (three heater)
and Pericardium (heart protector/ or circulation sex meridian.)

There are also eight extraordinary channels in acupuncture that are considered
reservoirs supplying Qi and blood to the twelve regular channels. These are
 believed to have a strong connection to the kidney.

The Jing Jin meridians are a “network of secondary meridians that form part of the
meridian system in Chinese medicine.” This is from David Legge’s book, Jing Jin:
Acupuncture Treatment of the Muscular System using the Meridian Sinews. These
channels can be thought of as another system, much like the “sinew,”
“extraordinary,” and “internal” channels. One reason we can see immediately why
the “Jing Jin” channels might  be so useful for pain is that “Jin” means sinew, and/or 
muscle and even includes the theory/concept of tendons. Just the name “Jing Jin”
implies it must do something for muscles, ligaments, tendons, and sinews.

In David Legge’s book, he states that the history of the Jing Jin meridians was first
mentioned in Ling Shu in Chapter 13. He states that this part of the Ling Shu (and it
does, I have read the chapters he mentions) discuss their pathways. I think one
communication of this theory was written, and not graphical, and thus leads to
different interpretations. Though they are different to some degree, many people,
myself included, find many similarities between the “muscle tendino channels,” the
“Jing Jin” and the “sinew channels.”

There is not much else written about the Jing Jin meridians, but I think that is
normal. In most of the ancient texts of Chinese Medicine less than 15% is actually
devoted to acupuncture, per se.

If we look classically at how we are advised to use the Jing Jin it is quite different
than I am suggesting; such as the quick insertion and withdrawal of a hot needle. I
like the Jing Jin/muscle tendino channels for the muscles that they control and areas
that they can influence in treating painful disorders.

There is mention in the Nan Jing/Ling Shu Chapter 9 of “distribution vessels, whic
constitutes a comprehensive discussion on the distribution vessels superficial and
deep pathways.” In Donald Kendall’s book,  Dao of Chinese Medicine, Kendall
states “the Chinese vascular system are organ-related blood vessels in the
neurovascular system are critical to nutrients, defensive substances, substance o
vitality, and oxygen from vital air to all the internal organs, glands, muscular tissue,
tendons, bones, the brain, neural tissue, sensory system, and skin, and transport
metabolic waste products for disposal, including carbon dioxide out to the lungs for 
exhalation.” These pathways as Kendall and Legge state from the “classics” help
give us detailed information about what and why these pathways are and why they
are so important for treating many issues, in particular for the relevance of this
 book on pain.

Theoretically, why are the Jing Jin so wonderful at treating pain? Jin refers to
wood, and or the liver. The liver controls the tendons, sinews and infers muscles.
Some translations of Jin even mean “film” much like the fascia covering the
muscles.

Legge states that this is the “secret” strength of the “Jin,” that it helps so much wit
the fascia, and connective tissue.

For many of us who treat pain, we know that from a western standpoint, the fascia,
and connective tissues are of utmost importance in treating muscle pain. Agai
Legge points this out in his book  Jing Jin. Even Maciocia says that the Jing Jin
could be just treated as “channel-like muscles.” You can even think of why the Jing
Jin meridians are similar to “muscle trains. Consider how one muscle connects to
and becomes the other muscle, for example.

In the “west” we like to think of each muscle as distinctly different from the others.
The idea that another “channel” and/or “vessel” does exist and exerts a strong
effect on the muscles is the idea to be grasped. One should continue further by
reading “ Jing Jin” by David Legge and The Dao of Chinese Medicine by Donald
Kendall.

So how does all this affect our treatment and headaches? In TCM we think that GB,
SI, TW, LI, ST, BL all run through the face. While I no doubt agree on this, I would
also suggest that the Jing Jin or muscle tendino channels run through the face/head
and are better channels at treating pain vs the TCM channels.

Take for example the “front of the head.” We are taught in school that is the “Yang
Ming headache.” But the frontalis muscles are NOT controlled or fed by the Yang
Ming, instead it is controlled/fed by the Foot Shao Yang, the GB. If you treat the GB
you will have much better success with your frontal headaches, assuming it is the
frontalis muscle.

Why in TCM is LI 4 considered the Master of the Face? Is it empirical? It just is? I
would say no! The LI treats the ST. The ST controls most of (90%) of the face via
the Jing Jin relationship. The other 10% is the LI. The LI also fixes itself. So the LI
fixes the ST and fixes the LI. LI 4 is at the level of the eyes. One can see using the
image of the hand and the LI channel will have a great effect of the face.

We are told that the side of the head is the Foot Shao Yang, the GB. The Jing Ji
agree with this, but it also says that the TW and the SI control muscles on the side
of the head. The GB covers the large area on the temporal side, the TW controls a
area above the ear and SI controls the small ear muscles just above the helix. The
next time you treat a “Shao Yang headache” it will behoove you to realize that the
headache on the temporal side of the head is much more than just the GB. It is the
GB, the TW and the SI.

 Now you can see why HT 3 or HT 8 are so powerful at treating temporal

headaches. The image of HT 3 and HT 8 is at eye level and the HT not only fixes
the GB but also fixes the SI. The only channel we have not fixed is the TW. The HT
does NOT treat the TW. What if we choose HT 3 or HT 8 and the headaches is still
there? It is not that we chose the wrong point or wrong channel; it is that we have
chosen or treated all the channels. We have not treated the TW. We need a
additional channel. Such as the PC, GB, KD, these all treat the TW. It’s not enough
to know what you know; you must know what you don’t know. That will elevate
your treatments.

You can use the TCM channels and the systems of balance and or Tung points and
ust hope for the best. Yes, that does work. But, if you want a better, more consistent
outcome, then you need to see, realize, understand and treat the Jing meridians.
decide on your own, which ones work best. But for me, those are the 3
relationships that I prefer.

If you don’t want to think about balancing this or that, or picking this image or that
image; you can just look at my “cheat sheet.” It is what I have been using for years,
on every patient and every day for all issues in the head and face. I would like to
give you options and the theory behind so you do not feel enslaved.

By only knowing points, we become enslaved. But understanding WHY we choose

or pick points and we are freed from the shackles of “points.”

A cook follows the cookbook, enslaved by the recipe, but a chef? Now, a chef ca
make your shoes taste good! And why? Because a chef understands how to create!
A chef understands flavors, textures, ingredients, cooking times, etc. A chef can take
anything and make it tasty. A cook can only do what they are told. A cook can only
follow. A chef can lead. This is what I hope for you.

I want you all to become your own chefs. You will first be a cook as your wor 
through this material and continue as a cook as you first treat. But then with just a
little experience? You can create! You will see for yourselves what works the best,
and you will be on your way! Soon enough, you will be able to take any patient and
create a wonderful medical dish.

I hope you enjoy my clinical notes I have jotted down. They are just one way to
create a recipe
reci pe of medical
medical success.
CHAPTER 5
Basic Images and Channel
Relationships
 here are a million images. By theory any body part can be an image, so, yes;
T any point anywhere can be an image of something. But clinically? We know
that there are certainly better   images than others. Again, I have a full book 
dedicated to images, called, “ Mastering Tung Acupuncture.”

This book is not about delving into 300 pages of theory, images and channel
relationships but rather having a simple understanding of some very complex ideas.

As I always say, we may not know exactly why gravity works, but that’s okay. If we
drop a brick, we know it will fall. We DO NOT need to poke and pray, we needle
and see the results. Below are some of the most used images and channels in the
day to day clinic.

A word about “images.” I know we all like to say, “Just 1-2-3,” and I do agree, it is
great. We like to say, “This image is correct, your image is incorrect. I am right they
are wrong.” Here is the secret: The images don’t make your points work. The
 points ALREADY WORK! The points work with or without our understanding o
“images.” We use images to help understand, mentally, why a point works or does
not.

Let’s not forget as well every system of acupuncture uses “images”. There is scalp,
hand, abdominal, ear, TCM (yes TCM does), Master Tung, Balance Method, I
Ching method, and others such as reflexology. Imaging is part of all of them. They
all vary a bit here or there but nobody, as they say, has corned the market o
images.

My wife does not know acupuncture, but if she does acupuncture on HT 3 she will
fix a GB headache on the opposite side. How could she? She does not understand
images or channels; she doesn’t even get “1-2-3.” The point just works! We use
images, channel relationships and catchy phrases so we, as humans, can try to
understand the beautiful healing that takes place.

The awareness of images may guide you in your choice of points but do not be
enslaved by them. They are meant as a guide, not as definitive law.

This first images below are of how the foot treats the head and below you will see
the hand treats the head. What is important is to be aware that the ankle (KD 3, BL
60) is the neck, C7/T1. The web margins of the toes and fingers are the eyes; the
tips of the fingers or tips of the toes are the top of the head. We can see why we
know LV 1 gets the vertex, HT 8 gets the eyes, and LI 5 treats neck pain at C7.
The next image, which I use a lot, is the whole face on the whole arm or whole leg.
Here you can see the elbow/knee is the eyes. The hip/shoulder is the chin/forehead
and what if we reverse it? The foot/hand is the chin or forehead. We can put the full
face on half the leg or half the arm. You can see why here LI 11 is great to use for 
headaches on the face, or BL 40 fixes neck aches and posterior headache on the BL
or KD.

Here is an image that shows arms and legs and how they match to the head. It is
easy to see why all of these points that treat the head are based on so many images.

Here is another image how the body lays on the scalp line. Here we use the DU line
to fix the DU line.
CHAPTER 6
Cheat Sheet: You Will Never Need
More
 elow is a list based off the Jing Jin/muscle tendino images that I use day i
B and day out for the last 7 years when it comes to treating the head and neck.
I have kept it to TCM point locations so you don’t have to learn any new
 points. I have included Tung points when the location is the same at a TCM points.
Such as 88.25 is the same location as TCM GB 31. You should and will have
instant success in over 90% of all headache patients, every day, no matter what.
That’s how effective the distal system is. It’s not me, it’s the system. Reproducible,
repeatable, and dependable.

The strategy you will see is one of expanding my treatment area; such as I treat
more than I spot. I prefer to think of acupuncture much more like bloodletting. I
that, in bloodletting you go to the points but you bleed an area. The same holds true
for acupuncture. Sure there is a “point,” I guess, but really we are needling a
entire area. So if somebody has an issue at the eyes, a good image could be the
elbow. Instead of putting one needle in and trying for a miracle, which I try to do
every time, just insert 1 needle where the acupuncture point is, for instance HT 3 to
fix a GB headache. Now put in HT 3, and one more needle at HT 3.125 and one
more at HT 3.375 (I made those point numbers up.) The point is to think in terms o
an AREA not a point! Your patients will love you for it and you will love yoursel
for all the success you are having.

You will see me overlapping my treatments. This means using more than  just one
image. For example, the eyes can be imaged at the web margin of the foot, or the
hand. We can also image the eyes at the knees or elbows. Don’t use just one image,
use more than one! Again, your treatment outcomes will rise dramatically. Such as
ST 43 can (be?) the eyes, it is a great image and so can ST 36. Use both! See there
you are using 2 images. You imaged the foot and the knee. That’s huge for clinical
success

The last thing you will see is me being redundant. This means using more than one
channel to balance the diseased channel. An example would be top of the head
 pain. We would say the LV controls the top of the head. So how do we balance the
LV? We can balance the LV with the PC, LI, LV, SI, GB. (There are more, but 5
ways is enough.) Don’t just use ONE channel to fix the Liver. Using more than one
channel to fix the Liver. That is being redundant.

We can all be Dr. Jesus next year, that’s fine, but this Monday when you go back to
your clinic? You need to run your clinic, pay the bills, treat patients and be
realistic. I always try to use as few as needles as possible, but my goal is to help
the patient. That means what exactly? I am not bound by a dogmatic view of “so
Front of the head and tighter to the eyes, just above eyebrows, is the ST.

PC 8, PC 3, PC 3.125, PC 3.25 ES, but preferably OS

ST 41-42-43, ST 34-35-36 SS

LI 3-4-5, LI 10-11 OS

SP 2-3, and KD 2 (Tung points 66.10-11-12) AMAZING for frontal headache

controlled by the ST, ES, but preferably OS

Example: L side headache. R side, SP 2-3, KD 2 with L side ST 41-42-43, 35-

36

Front of the head on the DU line at Yin Tang.

Ren 10-11-12

DU 16-17-18

Example: either do Ren 10-11-12 or do DU 22-23-24

Eyes issues can be GB, but almost always ST.

HT 3, HT 8 ES

LV 3, LV 8 ES

ST 43, ST 36-37 (77.08 and 77.09 Tung points just are as close to tibia as
 possible, amazing for eye headache pain)

GB 41-42, GB 34

Example: both eyes hurt, they hurt the same, pick one, or guess which is worst.
L side eye is the worst. Right side LV 3, LV 8 Left side “eyes of knee” ST 35-
36-37

If between the eyes at BL 2, Yin Tang area: (closer to BL 2)

Target the Bladder channel. This one time I don’t follow the Jing Jin/ Muscle
tendino relationships.
 LU 5, LU 10

SI 2, 3, 8

BL 63-64-65-66, 40

Example: inner canthus pain at BL1-2 area. R side is worse. R side BL 63-64-
65-66. Left side LU10, LU5 with Left side, SI 2 and SI 3

Nose problems, ST

LI 2-3-4-5, LI 10-11 OS

PC 3, PC 3.25 (all-time favorite), PC 8 (decent) ES, preferably OS

ST 42-43-44, ST 35, ST 36, eyes of the knee, ES, preferably SS

SP 2-3-4, SP 9, 8 OS

Example: nose is all plugged up. Bilateral PC 3-PC 3.25, bilateral LI 4 and
LI10,

 bilateral ST44-43

Tongue problems, the HT opens to the tongue, fix the heart.

SP 7-SP 7.25, SP 8 ES, preferably OS

Any other channel that balances the HT such as KD, GB, SI, but I have found
the SP (clock neighbors with the HT) to be the best.

Example: SP 7, SP 7.5, SP 8 either side

Chin problems, ST and little bit of the LI. Mostly ST

You can go by “channel” but here one of the best clinically is to just needle the
 palm of the hand. The chin images the palm of the hand. The whole face on the arm.
The forehead is the shoulder, eyes are elbow and the chin is the palm. It’s very
effective.

Lower Jaw is ST and Upper jaw is LI

Lower jaw/teeth pain-

ST 40, ST43 (SS) SP 3 SP 7 (OS)

PC 4 and PC 5 (SS) LI 3 and LI 4 (OS)

Upper Jaw pain/upper teeth pain

LI 3, LI 4 (SS) LU 6, LU 10 (OS)

KD 2 KD 8, KD 8.5 (SS) ST 40, ST 43 (OS)

Some amazing Tung points for Teeth pain are 77.23-23. (Look them up, Great,
GREAT points)

SINUS PROBLEMS

Frontal sinus (BL 2 area across top of eyebrow over to TW 23 area)

(controlled by the ST and some LI)

LU 4-5, LU 10, ES

PC 3, PC 3.25 ES

ST 36-37-38, 43-42 ES

SP 9-8-7, SP 3, ES

LI 2-3-4, LI 10-11 ES

Maxillary (in your upper cheek, just below eyes) (controlled by ST, and some LI)

PC 3.25, PC 3.5, PC 4 ES
LU 4, LU 5, LU 5.5, LU 10 ES

ST 36, ST 37, ST 38, ST 43 ES

SP 3, SP 7-9 ES

LI 2, LI 3, LI 4, LI 8, LI 9, LI 10, ES

LV 3, LV 4, LV 6, LV 7, LV 8,

Pain around the Ear.

Very close to the ears is controlled by SI, wider about 2-3 cun away from the ear is
their patients all get better. It is rather amazing.

I have chosen to keep this simple, TCM points used with The Balanced Method as
referenced through the Jing Jin meridians. This is, simply put, “The Balance
Method on Steroids.” It is astounding that we are lucky enough that Dr. Tan shared
it with all of us. It is our duty and honor to the take The Balance Method and add to
it. And continue to tweak it, advance it, modify and elevate it. I hope this boo
achieves that goal. And I hope that Dr. Tan is looking down on all of us and would
 be proud that we have taken The Balance Method to the next level. For the past
3,000 years Chinese Medicine has never been static. Chinese medicine has always
 been DYNAMIC, always growing, shifting and changing. It is through change that
we grow. We are never static. Either we are living and expanding or we are
contracting and dying. I hope this expansion of The Balance Method finds you all
well. We must always grow and expand. Improvise, overcome and adapt.

Dr Tan expanded the boundaries of what we all thought was possible and if we do
not continue to push and expand then we do not honor him and his vision.

Master Tung has over 700 points. I would suggest that my Top points over the last 6
years and 65,000 treatments are as follows:

San Cha San- Amazing at opening a stuffy face, nose, eyes, it treats most of the
face, head, and neck.

11.07-8-9, 11.16, 11.17, 11.20-21  just to name a few on the hands, wonderful for 
many different reason, etiologies and pathologies.

22.04-5- We could write a full book on just these points, amazing, and best for 
acute 22.04. And 22.05 is best for chronic type headaches. 22.05 is a top 10 of all
Tung points.

55.06- In the brain reaction zone, unreal for brain swelling, injury, trauma etc.

66.05 with ST 44- An unbeatable combo for the face, jaw, eyes pain, unreal and
clinically it is great for Tai Yang area extra TCM point.

66.02-3 towards 55.02 (KD 1) - My go to points.

66.05+ST44 Great points for Tai yang TCM extra point ear, and just general
headaches

66.06-7-  Again in between channels of the ST and GB, very effective for the head.

66.08-09- Amazing GB points for the head.

66.10-11-12 (basically SP 3-4 and KD 2)- Some of the best points for the forehead
extra TCM point Tai Yang. It will not fix Ying Tang extra points (that’s the DU) and
it will not clear the frontalis muscle, that is the GB.

77.01-2-3-   Are best for headaches that come from neck pain. What kind of nec
 pain? BL, KD and SI pain is cleared by these points but not TW and GB. And know
the points more than just channel and image. The reaction area is the brain. All your 
 patients with traumatic brain injury? Wonderful points.

77.05-6-7 Some of your best Tung points for headaches, pretty much any headache
 but best for trauma, stagnation, stress, lack of blood flow, obstruction, blockage

77.08-09-10 (basically ST 36-37-38)-  Since most of the face is ST and LI any

 points that are on the Hand or Foot Yang Ming are very powerful for the head.
Great, great, great points; some of my favorite and most used points. 77.08 is a top
10 of all Tung points.

77.22-23 -Because it gets both the Yang Ming and Shao Yang and it treats the teeth.

88.01-2-3 If they have a headache due to their heart, hypotension.

88.12-13-14  (NOT INDICATED FOR HEADACHE via the Tung system) But I
will tell you these points are on the liver channel, they treat fatigue: the liver,
 blood: the liver, stress: the liver, the “Jin; muscles tendon ligament,” the liver.
These points are REMARKABLE for modern day patients with headaches. This is
taking points and understanding them and applying to the modern day clinic.
Incredible points!

88.17-18-19 Due to lung issues, breathing, asthma, constriction of the lungs

88.20-21-22-25-   Amazing point, probably some of the best points you will ever 
use. The upper thigh is very powerful for treating the head. 88.25 is a top point for 
stress, and pain. A whole book could be just written about 88.25. These points are
amazing for jaw pain, eye pain, and that GB 20 pain that comes up over the head
and rests in the eyes. 88.25 is top 10 of all Tung points.

1010.01-5-6-8 Great headaches points in particular if they have stress.

The 4 “tou points” Amazing for head pain! Unreal!

11.09, 11.16, 11.17, 11.27, 44.06, 55.01, 77.13-14, 77.18, 77.27, 1010.09-10-11,
bleed the ear back and apex, Fan Hou Jie.

I would suggest that Tung points are more specific and in my opinio
therapeutically better but they are a bit more complicated. This is why I have
included some general notes and if one is so inclined please continue your 
 be used or applied. Remember the Balance method and Master Tung are similar 
yes, they both use distal points. But how their diagnosis is completely different. So
 be careful how you use Tung points in a Balance method way.
 needles). This is a “text book” case of a GB headache.

5. This person had large/inflamed arteries (known as large arteritis)

among other things. Sleep, hormones, GB issues, stress, fatigue,
digestion, aches and pain, breathing, SOB. Most of her headache was
around
around the TCM TaiTai Yang area.
are a. SP
S P 9 (ashi
(as hi)) opp
o pposit
ositee side and same
same side
ST 43-44 fixed this wonderfully.

6. He has horm
hormone
one issues,
issues , slee
sle e p, fatigue
fatigue , and back pain.
pain. He does not
report headaches.

7. He hurts
hurts eve
e verywh
rywhee re, most
mostly
ly left sid
s idee , inclu
includi
ding
ng his
his neck and head. His
His
headaches are at the base of his skull. This is treated nicely with
opposite side, LI 3, Lou Zhen (TCM extra point), So Jing Dian (Dr Tan
point), TW 3, and SI 3. All his pain is resolving, yesterday he hurt
everywhere and after his treatment all we had left was his left heel. I
thought that was a success.

8. Stress,
Stre ss, slee
sle e p, Ep
Epste
ste in Barr Virus,
irus, gastro issues,
issues , no
no he
he adache
adache s to re
re port
port
of.

9. Chemical
Chemical toxicity
tox icity from living
living next to
t o a chemical
chemical plant,
plant, I don’t
don’t know
k now
what
what is not wrong with this person. These headaches are more difficult
because they are NOT from the head. To fix these headaches I treat
her liver and spleen. When her spleen and liver are functioning better
her inflammatory response goes down and her headaches go away. LV
3, LV 5, LV 8 same side as liver, (right side) and SP 3, SP 8, SP 10 on
same side as Spleen (left side). These always reduce her headaches.
We are down from 10 out of 10, 5-7 days a week to a 5 out of 10 on the
VAS pain scale and 2 days a week.

10. MS patient,
atie nt, she does
oe s not report
report headache
headache .

11. Ripped
Ripped rotator cuff and weight loss. He does not report
report
headache.

12. She has a multitud

ultitudee of issues,
issues , one is headaches, and they
are both caused by neck tension and hormones. There are points that
fix both her hormones and her neck/stress/tension. By treating her KD
vessel, KD 1, KD 2 and KD 10 we both treat her “TCM kidney” (that’s
the adrenal system, no magic here) and her headaches.

(The KD fixes the BL, BL controls most of the posterior neck and head.)
These types of headaches can be a bit confusing because, again, her 
will
wil l fix all that.
that.

13. Fatty liver

live r and GB issues,
issue s, e lbow
lbow pain,
pain, and wrist
wrist pain.
pain. No
headaches to report.

14. Headaches are main and only only issue. Headaches are
idiopathic in nature. I always remember Dr. Tan using 12 Magical for
headaches all over, no reason, no cause; just the whole body is screwed
up. She was originally 2 times a week for 2 weeks, she was crying
when she first came in. Now we are treating 1 time every 3 weeks, and
will soon be to 1 time every month, and then, hopefully, 1 time every
season. She is not on herbs and doing great. I rotate a 12 Magical
around depending on what she is feeling that day. I usually look like
one hand Yin Jing We
We lls, othe
ot herr hand
hand Yang Shu
S hu St
Stre
reams,
ams, next
ne xt leg
le g Yin
Yin SP
6, LV 5, KD 7, then other leg GB 34, ST 36, BL 40. Then her next
treatment will be foot Yin Jing Wells, SP 1, LV 1, KD 1, over to other
leg GB 43, BL 65, ST 43, arm PC 6, HT 5, LU 7, other arm LI 11 (or
10), TW 10, SI 8. Those two 12 magical treatments seem to work 
great. (For more info on 12 Magical see Dr. Tan’s 12 Magical book.)

15. 85-ye
85- year
ar-old
-old with a br
broke
okenn back, we are 80% impr
improve
ovedd in 23
treatments. Tough, tough, tough case. But she will walk again. It is
unrea
un reall what acupuncture
acupuncture can do.

16. recove
recov e ring
ring addict
addict to dr
drugs,
ugs, no headaches.

17. He br
broke
oke his
his wrist,
wrist, has bee
beenn a patient for 3 years,
ye ars, no issues
to report anymore. All things are fixed except the new issue of broken
wrist. He never had headaches, just other areas of pain. He now just
comes in for weekly stress reduction/maintenance.

18. She is 15 year

ye ar-olds
-olds with allergies.
allergies . She only
only gets
ge ts headache
headache s
when she has sinus congestion from her allergies. The ST control most
of the face in particular the lips, nose, and eyes, where her sinuses are.
If we target the ST and the LI (mostly the ST) it is easy to fix. PC 3,
PC 3.25 and ashi PC 3 area (PC clears the ST and the LI, via system
7.) The eyes of knees (ST 35 area) are great for eye of the face. The
one hand is PC the other hand is LI 2-3-4-5-6, works great. One leg is
the “eyes of knee” and the other leg ST 43-44, ST 36-37-38. Will open
her sinuses right up.

19. Exhau
Exhaustion
stion,, stress,
stress , had a stroke year
ye arss ago, get
ge t he adach
adachee s
off and on. LI 3, (the LI fixes the LI and ST), HT 8 (HT fix the SI, GB,
very nice not only for exhaustion but also her headaches.

20. Traumat
raumatic
ic br
brain
ain injury,
injury, PTSD and war vet.ve t. His pain is
always inside
inside and top of his
his head,
he ad, the most
os t Yang, so
s o I will ne
ne e dle
dle the
most Yin, KD 1 and Dr. Tan brain zone, which is also overlapping Tung
point 55.06 and the foot reflexology brain zone. BL 62-63-64-65 are
very good for people that feel like their brain are wrapped with a
towel around them. This patient frequently feels pressure around his
head. Also on this patient, just like Dr. Tan had taught me, do one hand
Yin Jing We
We lls, (HT 9,
9 , PC 9,9 , LU 11) and other
othe r hand
hand all Yang Shu
Streams (LI 3, TW 3, and SI 3). Those channels clear all channels in
the head (minus the DU) and clear most of the head image. The bottom
of the foot will always clear the DU.

21. He just come

come s for e nergy me dicin
dicinee , which
which is really
frustrating to me because I don’t do that. He sees a reiki person who
tells him where his energy is stuck then comes to see me. Hey, what
can I say; he knows I don’t think like that, but yet he comes in. I’ll
treat the guy, I don’t think it helps him, but I am here to serve the
patient, not have the patient follow my beliefs. I honestly don’t even
know what I am treating him for.

22. He has thumb

thumb pain from a bad nec
neck,
k, no headaches
headache s to
report.

23. She doesn’t slee

sle e p and wakes
wake s up with headache
headache s and neck 
pain. Here is where most of your headaches will come from, this upper
neck, and back issues. Because of how Americans work, and their
constant use of phones, head is always down, looking at computers, an
old, bad pillow, lumpy old bed, crazy stress driving, bad relationships,
horrible food choices, lack of exercise, poor meditation or religious
habits, they will have neck, back, and head pains. This is classic case of 
 just relieving
relieving th
t he stress and
and secon
se conddly treating the head. Her
He r comp
complain
laint
is usually her eyes and forehead. HT 8 is great for the eyes (HT and
GB), Anything that treats the GB is great because the forehead is
controlled
controlle d by
by the
t he GB
G B not the
t he Yang Ming.
Ming. The Frontalis
Frontalis musc
muscle
le of the
forehead are ruled by the GB. Fix the GB and the forehead will be
better. Usually adding in LV 3 and LV 8 if needed SI 2-3 and SI 10 all
focus on the GB. ThThisis usually
usually clears
clea rs her HA.

24. Balance
Balance and vertigo
ve rtigo issues,
issues , no headache
headache s.

25. Tinni
Tinnitus,
tus, allergies fatigu
fat iguee weight gain pain,
pain, stress
st ress and
 26. Shoulder pain, weight loss, fatigue, energy, hormones, and
urination issues. At times he gets headaches, GB 31 is a very famous
Master Tung points, even Dr. Tan would remark about how much he
liked using GB 31 for headache problems. I would suggest the upper
legs are parts of the body we don’t use a lot in distal acupuncture, and
are amazing for therapeutic value.

27. Depression, weight gain, no motivation, no headaches to

report.

So on just one random day, a mix mash of patients, and you can see how headaches
show up in the clinic. Is this how it always is? Yes, and no. Sometimes I have a lot
more headache patients and at other times, I won’t have any. I do think it is
important to know how to integrate treatment of headaches into your overall
treatment.

A couple of ideas: Many times the headache is secondary to other issues so a 12

magical approach is used. Or, the headache comes and goes depending on other 
factors so you may not know at the time of treatment if you are/are not successful.

Acupuncturists always seem to be so stressed about, “How do I treat a headache i

it is not there when the patient comes in.” I just treat like it is there. The
acupuncturists are always concerned then, “Well, how do I know if I fixed it.” It’s
easy!

You just ask, “I know you don’t have a headache now, but how many do you get a
month?” Okay, let’s treat for a month and then we will see how many or how many
less the patient gets.

It’s really that simple. Just treat it like it’s there, treat more than what you think it is,
“They say, ‘I get headache around my cycle, mostly around my eyes.’” Okay, focus
on the eye and  treat all the parts around the eyes. Expand your treatment area. Treat
for a full cycle then reflect back. All of this becomes easy once we start treating
more than one time with one needle.
Opposite side, SI 3, SI 3.5 SI 4 SI 5 (this clears the neck and BL channel), SI 8
(im
(i mages eyes and
a nd treats BL).

Opposite side LI 3, LI 3.5, LI 4, LI 4.5, LI 5 (this clears the neck and KD channel),
LI 10-11 (images eyes and clears ST eyes).

Same side BL 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 (this clears neck and BL channel) BL 40
(im
(i mages eyes and
a nd treats BL).

Same side GB 40, 41, 42, 43 (this clears the neck at GB channel) GB 34 (images o
eyes and clear GB in eyes).

Opposite
Oppos ite side
s ide LV 2, 3, LV
LV 8. (This clear
cl earss the LV
LV, his stress
str ess,, it
i t clear
cle arss the LI in face
via LV fixes LI and images the eyes).

This is a very basic treatment; quick, easy, very effective and it works like a charm
for this patient. I do not suspect any problems with his treatment.

Patient #2

I treat him for a lot of things but he came in with a headache, frontal and temporal
right side, with sinus pressure.

For his treatment, since it was acute and I see him every 2 weeks for general
maintenance, I didn’t set up a treatment plan, I will see when he comes back how he
is doing.

Left side, HT 3 and PC 3. These 3 points treat the temporal image and frontal
image. The HT clears the SI and GB. The PC clears the TW.

The PC 3 will also clear the sinuses. PC fixes the ST. The ST runs thru all the
sinuses.

Same side I chose SI 2- 3 TW 2-3 and GB 42-43. All these were System 6, same
channel, same side. The SI clears the SI, the TW clears the TW and GB clears the
GB. The images of these points is the upper part of the forehead and the occiput
area.

He left the clinic with zero headache.

Patient #3

She gets hormonal headaches; she is currently not having a headache. I treated her 
her Adrenal system, heart, lung, liver, spleen etc. All 12 vessels need to be treated.

Right hand, PC 9, HT 9, LU 11

Left hand, LI 3, SI 3, TW 3

Right leg GB 39, ST 40 BL 58

Left leg KD 10, LV 8, SP 9

You can see we have treated all her channels, root and branch of her dysfunction,
and multiple
multiple images,
images, with
wi th multiple
multiple channels
channels to treat
tre at all channels
channels in
i n her
her head.

It has been 2 weeks now since I saw her and she reported only 1 day of a headache
instead of 5 days of where she is in a dark room and cannot do anything due to her 
headaches. She will improve with more treatment and herbs.

Patient #4

She had pain inside her head and pain that runs up to the top of her head. She works
a lot, and when she drives home (her nightly commute is about 1 hour) her head is
killing her. She gets 1-2 of these types per week over the last 4 years. Quitting her 
ob is not an option. She is coming in at night because her head is currently hurting.
(I tell many patients, just call
cal l when it hurts
hurts and
a nd will
wil l treat you right
right then.)
then.)

She came in, all I did was bilateral LV 1 (images Vertex), LV 2, LV 2.5, LV 3, LV
3.5 bilaterally to clear the LV and the LV clears the LI and SI in her head. Within 1
minute her head pain was from 8 out of 10, to a 0 out of 10. I will treat her 8 more
times over the next 4 weeks, give her some meditations and then see her 1 time a
month for 3 months.

Patient #5

He has pain in the ST 2-4-5 along with pain at LI 20 area. It seems for questioning
and taking his pulse he has a sinus infection and or sinus pressure. This is his first
treatment and we are doing 4 treatments over the next 10 days to see how he
responds. Currently his pain/pressure is a stuffy 7 out of 10.

His stuffy nose is mostly on the right, but bilateral. Left side is less

Right side ST 35-36-37-38-39-40, ST clears ST and the LI, the image clears the
eyes down to the jaw line

Right side LI 8-9-10-11, the LI clears the LI and ST, this images from the eyes
down to the jaw line.
was a 3 out of 10.

I inserted PC 3-4-5-6 on the opposite to clear the ST. PC clears the ST and to some
extent even the LI (System 7- yes, there are more than 6 Systems of Balance).

With the insertion of PC his headache completely vanished.

I continue with SP 3, 4 and KD 2 (there are Tung points 66.10-11-12) they are
indicated for “frontal headache.” You can see why now. The image of the foot is the
frontal face. The SP clear the ST and KD clears the LI. There are additional
theories such as the treating the SP we will treat all damp, phlegm issues.
Obviously this patient has that. KD 2 will lower the heat/fire/inflammation;
obviously
obvi ously this
this patient has damp swell
sw elling
ing with inflamm
inflammation (heat).

He left
l eft my
my clinic feeling
feeli ng the
the best
be st he has felt in
i n years
years..

These are just 5 patients I had last week out of 103. It shows some very easy,
effective, common instant branch and root treatments. I expect all of them to do just
fine.

You can see in my treatments; I treat more than the area the patient tells me. I treat
more channels that just the channel involved. I use more than just 1 image or 
channel.
channel. And even after the
the patient
pa tient reports
repor ts feeling
feel ing better,
better, I sti
I  still 
ll  treat
 treat them more, this
is to make
make sure the problem
probl em goes
goes away
awa y, and stays away
aw ay as much
much as it i t can.

This last week I was busy and had 3 patients I just treated in my lobby!

One patient had shorts on and his thighs were exposed. This was great because he
had a headache from his TMJ issues. I find the TMJ though controlled by the LI and
ST still needs some GB to fix it. This must because the GB treats tendon and it’s so
closely related to the LV the wood. Regardless, clinically when I see TMJ, I need
to treat the GB.

The LI controls the small TMJ muscles.

I inserted GB 31-32-33-34 on the same side as his pain. This didn’t do much. I the
did the same points on the opposite side of his pain and 80% of his jaw pai
disappeared along with the HA. (Again, I hypothesized his headache was from his
aw).

I then inserted LI bilaterally at LI 4 and LI 4.5 (Ling Gu is Master Tung point.) This
LI bilaterally would be sure to treat both the LI and ST same side and opposite
side. LI 4 and LI 4.5 both image the eyes, mouth and TMJ area. The LI will clear 
the LI mouth small muscles and the ST mouth big muscles.
and additional treatment.

Another patient had horrible pain at the base of her neck, the whole way across. It
was late and my rooms were all full, she didn’t want to wait. She hurt at TW 16,
BL 10, GB 20, all the way across the base of neck. I chose Dr. Tan’s quick and dirty
treatment for this; just pick “all the knuckles on the hands and or the feet.” Since the
 pain was bilateral, and neither side was more or less, I just chose the right hand
and left foot. I inserted a needle into each knuckle of the hand, “LI 3, Lou Zhen, So
Jing Dian, TW 3 and SI 3,” with her foot, “LV 2, ST 44, put a needle in between 3
and 4th  toe. There are Tung points there but no TCM points or channels. GB 44 and
BL 65 with Ren 24. (ren will clear the DU, and ren 24 images base of neck on the
DU).

With those needles in she was able to rest on my lobby couch with zero pain and
95% ROM back in her neck.

I don’t make it habit of treating patients in my lobby, I try not to. But at times it is
 busy, people hurt and I don’t want to turn them away. I was happy with their 
outcomes.

My 3rd patient has a stressful day, poor sleep, probably a dislike for their marriage
and a general low-grade depression. Her headache was at the TCM extra point Tai
Yang bilaterally. I did bilateral SP 9 and bilateral ST 43.

SP 9 images the eyes, the SP fixes TW. That is the location of TW 21. I’d also say
via the Jing Jin the area is controlled by the stomach. The SP fixes the ST. See
either theory? It’s still good.

ST 43 is an extra point called Men Jin in the Tung system. It is super famous for 
getting the Tai Yang area. In Tung acupuncture they say, “Well, of course, the Me
Jin point, 66.05 just has a special point its special indication is that it gets Tai Yang
area TCM extra point.” But NOW, as we expand our understanding of additional
theories we can see why! System 6, ST fixes the ST. The ST controls via the Jing
Jin that area of the face.

The patient was instantly pain free. And for those reading this thinking, “Wait, yo
ust treated her branch, what about the root?” Did I? SP 9 is the earth and it controls
the water, the kidney. Most of this patient’s depression, stress, and pain are from
her hormones. The hormones are the kidney and the adrenal system. The Earth will
control and stop the leakage of her hormones. We can tonify by stopping the
enviable destruction of her hormones. We can slow the natural degradation that we
all are controlled. By slowing her entropy, by tonifying her hormones, we will treat
the branch (her headache) and her root (her hormones.)
 CHAPTER 11

Headache: Q and A
CHAPTER 12
Headache Conclusion and Next Steps
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