Ancient China has given us a great deal by way of medicine and acupuncture, which has similarities with acupressure, is one of them. Both these techniques use the energy paths in the body to make health possible by stimulating the flow of energy. When a person is healthy, energy (Chi or Qi) is free flowing through the meridians whereas when one is ill or injured, there is no free flow of this energy as it gets blocked. Along the body's exterior surface, there is a total of three hundred and sixty five different points of acupuncture scattered around, all of these points follow fourteen main meridian paths.
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