Hua Tuo was a famous Chinese physician from the Han or Later Han Dynasty.
He is credited with the discovery of narcosis and the art of abdominal openings;
Jiaji means paravertebral muscles.
Location of Huatojiaji
The Huatuojiaji designate the set of points 0.5 cun on each side of the median line and at all levels of all the dorsals and all the lumbars, i.e. 34 points.
Therapeutic functions and clinical indications of the Huatuojiaji
- The Huatuojiaji are worked for spinal pathologies, spinal joint pain ;
- Emergence of the nerves which exit approximately at this location of the spinal cord: paralysis and neuralgia;
- They allow regulate the organs 'zang fu' : visceral innervation.