Let's open that chest!

Achievements:
I am always amazed at how instantaneously people feel this one point working, called Pericardium 6. It's near the inner wrist, and as the translated textbooks say, "It opens the chest". I know it's indicated for many things: asthma, nausea, depression, and others heart/chest conditions. But I wrote off the term, "opens the chest" as some poetic catch-all phrase that the Chinese came up with thousands of years ago...and we should worry more about modern or medical terms that are associated with it.
But everytime I use it on someone with a history of asthma, they ask RIGHT AFTER I insert it, "What was THAT point?" I tell them "P6, why?" "Because I just felt my chest open!"
So there you have it. It literally 'opens the chest'. But even crazier...I used it on my patient suffering from depression, and I know he enjoys the treatments and feels better after each one. But one week I switched out that point for one that is more for anxiety, and he noticed. "Why didn't you do the wrist point? That one always helps me sleep on the treatment table."
Next week he said he wanted no more of the anxiety points, just the P6 and other ones I always use. We talked about how depression is called that because there is a feeling of pressure coming down on the body. Posture sinks down, heads can't look upwards...the chest needs opening I guess, to feel better!

Disappointments:
None this week.

Struggles:
We can't just throw herbs at our friends and family who complain about a symptom out loud. They truly have to ask us for help. The herbs we give them just sit in a cabinet and rot, if they have never taken herbs before. They cannot comprehend, despite my efforts to educate them, that they aren't like vitamins. They are medicine that will cure them in a matter of minutes or hours. (For acute conditions)
It is nice to quit worrying about all those people who post, "I have a fever!" on facebook. If they aren't asking me for help, I can just ignore it. I have let them know I can do acupuncture and herbs any time they are sick or in pain, though.